Draft Day Tips

So you have your cheat sheets, your game plan, and your favorite players lined up in the Que., you are all ready to go.  However when the draft is over you look over your roster and it is not at all what you expected, you went in with a plan and now you have a team, a team with no direction (kind of like the Yankees.)  But how did this happen?  How could your fail safe draft day strategy go wrong?  Ill tell you how in this simple guide to draft day do's and dont's.

Do: go in to the draft with a strategy.  Not only have a strategy, but stick with it from the first pick to the last pick of the draft.

Dont: Lose sight of your goal.  If your goal is to draft an even keeled team, then do so, dont change strategies mid way through the draft.  

Do: Know all of your leagues rules before beginning the draft.  Know which rules you can use to your advantage.

Dont: wait till the last minute to sign in and see if the draft software works on your computer.  Arrive at least 30 minutes before and test the draft software.  Also take this time to become aquatinted with the draft software being used.

Do: Stay for the whole draft.  Not only stay, but in between your picks use the time to figure out your next move, and then your back up plan if someone else makes your pick.

Dont: get caught up in position runs.  Just because someone has started to go for all the top tier closers, dont take the next best thing just because you dont want to get caught without a first tier player at the closer position.  

Its great to come to draft day with a plan, the hardest part is sticking to your strategy.  You came up with that strategy for a reason, stick to it.