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Draft Guide Preview: Leveraging Default Ranks

Terry McLaurin

Terry McLaurin

Junfu Han-USA TODAY Sports

It’s here beautiful people. We’re barreling into the first of 2020’s big fantasy football draft weekends!

At Rotoworld, our goal is to give you the tools to guide you towards winning a championship. As such, we’ll be providing you with a few looks into a variety of the tools available in our 2020 Rotoworld Fantasy Football Draft Guide from the Rotoworld Premium EDGE+ Roto package as we march closer and closer to the start of the regular season.

Complete with content aimed at providing the knowledge you need to make the perfect draft decisions in a variety of league formats — from projections, rankings, a start/sit tool and trade analyzer to exclusive expert columns — this year’s edition is the finest we’ve ever produced.

Today, we’re giving you a glimpse at the edge you can have over all of your league-mates who rely on the default rankings of your draft’s site of choice.

Check it out:

There are many small advantages we can create over our league-mates in fantasy football. One of the most overlooked is how to manipulate the default rankings or Average Draft Positions (ADPs) of the site you’re drafting on. After collecting the data for this column, it’s extremely clear that a player can be a value on one site and a reach on another solely because the people drafting on that site are anchoring towards the displayed order of players. Below, we highlight a few players that the Rotoworld staff has ranked way above the default rankings based on the most popular drafting sites.

Yahoo Target List

19. Clyde Edwards-Helaire

56. Terry McLaurin

65. Robert Woods (Rotoworld rank: 32nd)

82. Evan Engram (great value)

ESPN Target List

25. Joe Mixon

66. Terry McLaurin

71. D.J. Chark

108. J.K. Dobbins

NFL.com Target List

26. Miles Sanders

36. Kenyan Drake (smash button pick)

55. Clyde Edwards-Helaire (comically underpriced)

62. JuJu Smith-Schuster (great value)

CBS Target List

49. Allen Robinson (must draft)

56. A.J. Brown

66. Terry McLaurin (must draft)

75. D.J. Chark

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