An Expert’s Cheat Sheet to Dominating Yahoo! Fantasy Football Drafts

Aug 23, 2024

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports

Summer draws to a close. The kids are back in school. The heat is beginning to subside. And the NFL regular season is right around the corner! It is fantasy football season, baby! The overabundance of various league settings and formats gives fantasy football managers the ability to tailor their fantasy football experience to their fancy. The industry offers everything from standard scoring, half-point-per-reception (half-PPR), and PPR formats with unique start-sit requirements.

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Fantasy football leagues on Yahoo! give managers a solid mix of free and paid offerings. Yahoo! is one of the few sites remaining to utilize half-PPR scoring. They also use rolling waivers, meaning managers have no limit to the number of players they can add and drop throughout the year, and two injured reserve spots, meaning managers can stash two injured players on their bench. Weekly starting roster requirements include one quarterback (QB), two running backs (RB), two wide receivers (WR), one tight end (TE), one defense/special teams (D/ST), one kicker (K), and one FLEX (RB/WR/TE) with six bench spots.

These settings and roster requirements influence the archetype of player to target in the draft in addition to generating unique places to exploit your opposition. Follow these four trends to dominate your fantasy football drafts on Yahoo!