The fantasy soccer season begins Thursday, Sept. 9, when the Dallas Cowboys tackle the defending Tremendous Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Whether or not you play in an informal re-draft league or a extra critical deep dynasty format, a standard or a modified scoring format, together with your family and friends or together with your co-workers, we all know that no two leagues are alike.
With that in thoughts, this can function a one-stop store for all of our greatest materials to make sure you make the perfect fantasy soccer picks you’ll be able to in each draft you are in: rankings and cheat sheets for PPR and non-PPR, mock drafts for varied league sorts, sleepers and busts for this season and loads of useful info and ideas from our knowledgeable crew of fantasy soccer analysts.
Whether or not you might have been doing this for years or are a fantasy first-timer, we’ve all the things you could assist you draft a fantastic crew and begin the season with a shot at a championship.
Under you may discover all of our greatest content material as we lead as much as the beginning of the NFL season!
Fantasy soccer cheat sheets, mock drafts, projections
Cheat Sheet
Get all of our greatest fantasy intel, compiled on a printable cheat sheet to convey with you to your fantasy soccer drafts.
Cheat Sheet Central
A set of downloadable, printable cheat sheets for the 2021 fantasy soccer season, together with PPR, non-PPR, superflex and dynasty/keeper leagues. Good to your drafts.
Mock drafts
10-team, PPR (5/18) | 10-team, 1/2 PPR (6/24) | 10-team, PPR (7/20)
12-team, PPR (7/30) | 12-team, non-PPR (8/6) | 10-team, 1/2-PPR (8/13)
10-team, 2-QB (8/20)
2021 projections
Mike Clay’s projected output for gamers at each fantasy place, sortable by particular class.
Depth charts: Offense | Protection
Positional Rankings
These rankings signify the consensus amongst our fantasy soccer analysts for the 2021 season. Every analyst maintains their private rating for the highest 25 quarterbacks, 50 working backs, 50 wire receivers, 25 tight ends, 25 kickers and 25 protection/particular groups items. The gamers are then ranked by the typical of these rankings. Every place will also be sorted by any particular person analyst’s rankings.
Eric Karabell’s tiered rankings (PPR): Operating backs | Huge receivers
Total Rankings
Matthew Berry: PPR Prime 200
Mike Clay: The 192 gamers who needs to be drafted
Tristan H. Cockcroft: Prime 200 | Superflex/2-QB Prime 200
Dynasty rankings
Clay’s prime 240
Clay’s prime 80 rookies
IDP rankings and content material
Clay, Cockcroft and McCormick: Prime 50 DLs, LBs and DBs
IDP breakouts and sleepers for 2021
Defensive gamers able to take a giant step and those that may present stunning worth.
Customized greenback worth generator
Enter your league’s scoring system and roster necessities to generate values to your fantasy soccer public sale. Customized Greenback Worth Generator
Fantasy soccer recommendation and technique
Finest picks from every draft slot
Tristan H. Cockcroft helps you prepare to your draft — no matter whenever you choose — by planning forward for Rounds 1 and a pair of.
Mike Clay’s Final Draft Board
Issues by no means go as deliberate in drafts, however Mike lists his superb picks in every spherical this 12 months and his total draft technique.
Draft-Day Manifesto: 7 habits of extremely efficient drafters
Matthew Berry highlights the commonest traits of profitable fantasy managers on draft day.
Mike Clay’s Fantasy Soccer Playbook: The right way to draft and play like an knowledgeable
Whether or not you are new to fantasy or a seasoned vet who performs in a dynasty league, there’s one thing right here for you.
Through which leagues is a zero-RB technique most viable?
You hear speak of taking this method, however how profitable are those that make use of it?
Why D/ST has become the mandatory final pick in fantasy football drafts
For years, most fantasy veterans have strongly really useful spending your remaining choose on a kicker. What has modified to counsel a special method?
Lists and perception
Eric Karabell’s ‘Do Draft’ checklist
Eric lists gamers who’re being undervalued in drafts and, thus, preserve winding up on his rosters.
Eric Karabell’s ‘Do Not Draft’ checklist
That is all about worth. Eric highlights gamers being drafted method too quickly.
Love/Hate for 2021
It is Matthew Berry’s must-read column of the preseason, highlighting his most undervalued and overvalued gamers in drafts.
Subject’s Fantasy Favorites for 2021
They are not essentially extremely ranked nor are they sleepers. Simply gamers Subject Yates needs on as lots of his fantasy groups as potential.
Van Jefferson, Sam Darnold amongst deep fantasy soccer sleepers for 2021
Tristan H. Cockcroft lists his favourite off-the-radar choices for deeper leagues this season.
NFL Nation coaching camp mailbag
Nobody is extra locked in on all 32 groups than our NFL Nation reporters. Get the newest information and camp perception.
Sleepers, busts, breakouts for 2021
Our analysts’ picks to overachieve, underachieve and emerge.
Preseason weekend wrap: Rookie QB ranks, Lindsay, Gaskin, and extra
Eric Karabell supplies his preliminary learn on the rookies, in addition to early utilization tendencies in backfields across the league.
Mike Clay’s TD regression alert for 2021
Gamers who will rating extra TDs | Gamers who will rating fewer TDs
2021 variations of final 12 months’s breakouts
Mike Clay compares this 12 months’s prime candidates to interrupt out to those that did it in 2020.
Preseason Shadow Report: WR upgrades and downgrades
Mike Clay highlights the best and hardest schedules for WRs this season.
Breaking down probably the most contentious backfield battles
Matt Bowen breaks down the backfields with probably the most competitors for touches.
Backup RB rankings
Mike Clay ranks the highest backups who may flourish if alternative presents itself.
Prime 10 veteran broad receivers on new groups in 2021
Matt Bowen explains which wideouts in new locations will profit from new schemes.
Rating the perfect 3-WR teams for fantasy soccer in 2021
Mike Clay breaks down which fantasy wideouts to improve or downgrade, primarily based on frequency of groups’ 3-wide units.
Eric Karabell’s divisional storylines to look at
AFC East | AFC North | AFC South | AFC West
NFC East | NFC North | NFC South | NFC West
Particular person participant evaluation
Roundtable: Various ranges of confidence in Saquon Barkley
A mix of NFL reporters and fantasy analysts give their expectations on the Giants’ RB in his return to motion.
Is Kyle Pitts the exception to the ‘Do not draft rookie TEs’ rule?
Tristan H. Cockcroft delves into how historical past has handled rookie TEs and find out how to worth the Falcons rookie.
Is Jalen Hurts the subsequent to make use of his legs to complete as a top-10 QB?
Hurts confirmed flashes as a rookie. Eric Karabell takes a more in-depth have a look at Philadelphia’s versatile quarterback.
Will Ezekiel Elliott bounce again from his disappointing 2020?
Matt Bowen explains whether or not there may be cause for optimism for the Cowboys’ star.
Is Logan Thomas a one-hit surprise or a legit TE1?
Mike Clay explains whether or not Thomas can match his spectacular manufacturing from final season.
How Julio Jones commerce impacts Titans and Falcons
Mike Clay pores over the ramifications of Jones transferring to the Titans.
Ought to we be involved about regression for Josh Allen in 2021?
Tristan H. Cockcroft particulars what to anticipate from the Payments’ quarterback after a breakout 2020.
The brand new actuality for Odell Beckham Jr.’s fantasy worth
What can fantasy managers anticipate from OBJ in 2021? Matt Bowen digs in.
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