Let's Get It On

Tomorrow is the big day.

It’s not a wedding, a college entrance exam or the last final exam of the semester. Those things are behind me. It’s not even game day for me or one of the teams I root for. It’s not even the first pre-season game. Nope. It’s my first fantasy draft of the season.
 

I don’t really care if I win this league I’m drafting for tomorrow. I mean, sure, bragging rights are great, but this is a warm up draft. And yet I’m nervous.
 

I’m nervous because after all the ranking and analyzing I’ve done, I know who I want, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to get them. I have a general plan for the first three rounds, but that’s not going to cut it. I have work to do. And even that plan is general. If I have to draft, say, 4^th, I really have no idea who I’ll draft and part of me is still thinking about stud WR theory if I draft late.
 

So, here I sit in the Salt Lake City, Utah airport thinking about fantasy football. I have a plan to prepare, so I’m not that worried. I’m just anxious to get it started but I have no internet connection so I can’t download my rankings from e-mail and I can’t get the latest average draft positions.
 

Here’s my plan:
 

1)      final review of rankings. Did I bump everyone in New Orleans to account for the Shockey effect? Where do I slot Kevin Boss in New York? How comfortable am I really with Matt Forte? Am I missing any late round prospects? Should I take one last glance through my magazines to see if there’s any gems they found I overlooked?

2)      Review last year’s lessons learned. I wrote them in this blog for just this occasion. I’ll repost them for you too.

3)      Study the average draft positions. One of the things that has me feeling a little ungrounded right now is I haven’t spent a ton of time comparing my rankings to the magazines’ and websites, let alone the ADPs. I have no real idea who I can steal a couple rounds late or who I have to snag early if I want them. That will change tonight.

4)      Slot my targets based on ADP. I may want Andre Johnson, but I don’t think I want to have to take him at the top of the second to get him, for example.

 
Then I might take part in a couple of mock drafts online. I’m not sure the value of those considering people are all trying theories and few of them are drafting the way they’d actually draft when it counted. Heck, half of ‘em sign up and either don’t participate or bail out in the fourth round. Still, it’ll get me comfortable with pulling the trigger on my picks and eliminating second guessing.

I can’t even post this now. See when you see it, you know I made it to Anchorage, AK.

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