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Working your way to the top of a Fantasy Football League is not easy. Just when fantasy sports life gets hard for you, these Top 25 Fantasy Football Cheat Sheets can give you all the tips and tweaks to help you get going.

FF Toolbox

FF Toolbox offers free customizable cheat sheets of top-ranked players, ranked separately in QBs, RBs, WRs, etc. There is also a top 200 overall ranking. Moreover, the rankings are always up-to-date, and can be customized according to your scoring system.

Football Diehards

Updated regularly, Football Diehards cheat sheets come in a web-based cheat sheet tool. All you have to do is to enter your e-mail address and receive the tweaks you have to know. Football Diehards has the cheat sheet for both the preseason and the regular season.

KFFL

KFFL has all the cheat sheets you would need to jumpstart your fantasy league, be it in combination scoring or PPR rankings. KFFL also allows you to customize your own rankings with the use of its Cheat Sheet Calculator.

Fantasy Draft Edge

Fantasy Draft Edge offers latest cheat sheets which are updated whenever needed. Its customizable cheat sheets even include individual defense players (IDP) and auction values. Or if you’re not too sure about the cheat sheets they offer, you may first want to check out their FREE, partial cheat sheets and see for yourself.

Fantasy Football Manifesto

Fantasy Football Manifesto offers both free and premium cheat sheets, with the latter more recently updated than the former. Nevertheless, FF Manifesto has received a lot of great testimonials from Fantasy Football owners which would want you to check its cheats yourself.

Draft Sharks

If you’re someone who wants to put premium on your Fantasy Football experience and can definitely play the price, Draft Sharks offers one of the greatest customizable cheat sheets, the one which they call the MVP Board.

Fantasy Football Realm

A Fantasy Football Realm account is all you need to gain access to its comprehensive cheat sheets, from Head to Head rankings, to Roto and Point Leagues. FF Realm also offers cheat sheets based on the default leagues.

ESPN

Completing you fantasy gaming experience is ESPN’s Cheat Sheet Central. ESPN offers an array of cheat sheets, including Positional and Top 100 cheat sheets.

Rotowire

Rotowire is also one of the sites which provide extensive cheat sheets upon subscription. All of its subscribers get the printable version of each cheat sheet, including the one on defensive players.

The Huddle

The Huddle offers a comprehensive cheat sheet through its application called myHuddle. It allows users to create and save your league scoring systems, which will then display the site’s cheat sheets and player stat projections calculated for your different leagues. Simply put, The Huddle provides online custom scoring and player tracking specifically for your Football Fantasy league.

NBC Sports

NBC Sports just know what to give – the names you need to know, the solid choices, the ones to avoid, and even the ones due for big years.

4for4

4for4 has everything you might need and want to jumpstart your league. It offers an array of classic cheat sheets as well as sortable projections.

Fantasy Football Cafe

Fantasy Football Cafe has the updated rankings which can help owners decide which players to pick and odd out.

Fantasy Sports Central

Fantasy Sports Central tallies weekly rankings and provides several cheat sheets (updated weekly) for free.

Fantasy Football Indepth

Members of Fantasy Football Indepth get to receive an all-in-one package which include cheat sheets and rankings customized for the fantasy league’s scoring system.

Fantasy Index

Subscribers of Fantasy Index get to receive Fantasy Index Cheat Updates which are customized and made ready by the time of your draft or auction.

Football Guys

Football Guys help Fantasy Football owners dominate their leagues by providing an updated cheat sheet list. With 160 cheat sheets, you can definitely make your way through the fantasy league.

Fantasy Football Draft

Serving Fantasy Football owners for 10 years now, Fantasy Football Draft gives free tools which include customizable cheat sheets, as well as weekly fantasy projections and strategy articles.

CBS Sports

CBS Sports Fantasy News offers a free College Fantasy Football downloadable draft kit which automatically includes cheat sheets, projections, and statistics.

Pro Fantasy Football

Pro Fantasy Football offers annual Fantasy Football cheat sheets, as well as mock drafts and player rankings.

Football Docs

Football Docs offers a comprehensive cheat sheet which includes overall composite rankings, player rankings, and even color tiers to provide owners an easy reference to indicate the players’ fantasy value. A brief portion (Top 10) of the cheat sheet is available for preview.

Fantasy Sharks

Fantasy Sharks provides a complete and simple cheat sheets for free. Its long list also includes the players’ auction values.

Fantasy Guru

Subscribers of Fantasy Guru get a Fantasy Football cheat sheets which include cheats for offensive skill, defensive team and IDP.

Fantasy Insights

Fantasy Insights offers accurate defensive and offensive depth charts to guide Fantasy Football owners which players get to play in the fantasy league.

Fantasy Football Nerd

Fantasy Football Nerd provides recent, printable draft rankings or cheat sheets for free.



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When you pick someone who you’re taking a reach on is considered a sleeper pick. Someone with whom is down further on the chart but you know something that nobody else does and you pick them out of character for their draft round.

The best example of a sleeper pick was Kurt Warner in 1999, he only started because the starting QB got hurt and was out for the season. If they picked him as a backup towards the end of the round it wasn’t to start him but still, someone picked him up and it paid off.

The idea of a sleeper pick is to pick someone who you think will have a break out year due to new circumstances and then you draft them a few rounds earlier then normal.

If you took Sidney Rice in 2009 because Brett Favre joined the team, that would’ve been a sleeper pick that turned out for you. I bet most folks got Sidney in round 6 or 7 which is a steal for what he did but if you came up higher for him then it was a move worth making.

Sleepers are drafted in the middle to late rounds of a draft, this is where you look at tendencies of teams and players and you choose accordingly. Again, I’ll go back to Brett Favre and we all know he loves Tight Ends so Visanthe Shiancoe was an obvious pick last year and it paid off.

Take a look at my sleeper picks for the 2010 season and make sure you grab a sleeper for yourself in the middle rounds because it’s not the top guys that you pick that win championships, it’s the middle to late round guys that keep giving you those 10+ points a week that do it for you.

INTRODUCTION

One of the big questions you need to ask when you’re invited to play Fantasy Football is what type of draft is it? Are you running the newer Auction Draft or are you running a Serpentine Draft or Snake Draft which is considered old school now?

Doing a Serpentine Draft or Snake Draft means that you start with owner #1 picking first and you go down the list until you get to the last owner and the last owner gets two picks as you go back up the order on your way to the #1 owner picking last in the second round.

BENEFITS

• slow paced, you get to relax with a beer and hang out chatting
• easy to scratch off players you wish you had
• simple and easy, even your grand pappy can play

DRAWBACKS

• slow paced, you get to relax with a beer and hang out chatting
• you don’t get a fair shot at elite players
• with a cheat sheet, even your grand pappy knows to draft Chris Johnson as a #1 RB (2010)

The biggest benefit is that this is a simple and easy way to play, there is some strategy for drafting when you pick players this way and you can read my post about how to pick players in a serpentine draft or snake draft.

HOW IT WORKS

• Typically the commissioner would pick players from a hat to determine the order in which owners will select players.
• If you look at the image above, the #1 pick will start off round #1 and they won’t pick again until the end of round #2
• It’s great to have the #1 pick when Emmit Smith or Brett Favre was in their prime but when those guys aren’t there, you miss out on a lot of players
• EX. 12 team league – round #1 begins and the #1 owner picks but then doesn’t pick until the end of round #2 which is pick #24
• I’ve seen it done where the owner picking #12 didn’t get the #13 pick and it when to owner #1 but I quickly removed myself from that league as doing a draft that way is completely unfair in my eyes.

STRATEGY

Serpentine drafts cause you to constantly change your draft strategy as you have to know the relative value of different players per position. Here’s a quick tip but you should read my post about how to pick players in a serpentine draft or snake draft for more draft strategy but I try to only pick starters, never draft sleeper picks early.

CONCLUSION

Serpentine drafts are real slow and boring, they can be spectator sports as you wait for people to pick and in the year 2010, they are or should be a thing of the past.

Auction drafts are much better and allow owners an opportunity to acquire any player and the ability to impact what team gets every player. The action is constant and completely engaging. Auction strategy is  improvisational as you get to take advantage of trends and either buck them or go with them to your advantage.