Perfect Fantasy Football Draft: 2nd in a 12-Team Yahoo Half-PPR League
Picking from the very beginning of 2023 Yahoo fantasy football leagues gives you a leg-up on the back half of the picks because you’ll have your choice of a very strong consensus top-four option. Right off the bat, you’ll begin your lineup with someone you feel has the best shot at finishing as the overall No. 1 fantasy-scorer at their position, but it does come with a massive gap between your first and second selections.
Though you are —barring injury— guaranteed to have an absolute stud anchoring your team, most of the other teams will already have a draft strategy rolling before it comes back to your 23rd overall pick. Regardless, there’s nothing quite like the feeling of having a bona fide elite option you can depend on week after week.
In this article, I will walk through my favorite players in each round that should be available to me based on Yahoo ADP according to 4for4’s Multi-Site ADP and discuss my overall draft strategy from this spot.
More Perfect Drafts
- ESPN 12-Team PPR: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |12
- ESPN 10-Team PPR: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
- Yahoo 12-Team Half-PPR: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |12
- Yahoo 10-Team Half-PPR: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
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My Plan When Drafting 2nd in a 12-Team League
Roster Settings: 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 FLEX (WR/RB/TE), 1 Kicker, 1 DEF, seven bench spots
Our initial selection selection will have heavy implications on how we build out our roster for the rest of the draft. I like to build from an Achor-RB mindset, but if we start with a receiver, that will severely limit our opportunities to make our 23rd pick our “anchor” running back. And I will almost always take a wide receiver at No. 2 overall in half-PPR scoring, so we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
We may not need to go as heavily with an elite WR option right out of the gate, but I will still be looking for at least three wide receivers through the first six rounds of the draft.
Though we have to wait quite a while for our second selection, we will nearly be back-to-back in each round after that, so we won’t have to worry too much about targets being snatched away from us after we make our initial pick on each turn.
Continue reading for a breakdown of my favorite picks through Round 10 and a list of the best late-round targets at each position.
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