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1. How To Do A Fantasy Draft
2. Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft
3. Fantasy Money System

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Last week I gave you some tips on the eight annoying things you shouldn’t do in fantasy football league.

Included in that piece were a number of great links from my very smart and talented co-workers (Charles Curtis, Steven Ruiz, and Henry McKenna) who have been producing fantastic fantasy football content all month and who will be here to help you all season long.

They are good football guys who do lots of research and put lots of thought into their work.

Now let me break down my way of going about a fantasy football draft, which I mastered last year and will try to replicate every year going forward because it led me to championship and 600 bucks.

My method has very little to do with research and very much to do with drinking relatively heavily at a bar, as well as picking a really old kicker because you used to like yelling his name many years ago when watching games with your buddies.

And yes, I know I told you last week to never tell anyone about your fantasy football team. But I’m not really going to tell you about my championship-winning team from last season. I’m going to tell how I got that team.

Here goes.

I live in Los Angeles but was back in Boston, where I was raised, last Aug./Sept. to see friends, Pearl Jam at Fenway Park, blah blah blah. On Labor Day evening my buddy Jake and I went to a bar in downtown Boston because it was nine-ish million degrees outside, the bar had AC, freezing cold IPAs, and a burger I still think about to this very day.

About an hour or so in I remembered I had my annual fantasy draft. I got the wifi from the bartender, fired up my ESPN app (everyone in my league is scattered around the country), got into the draft room, and was ready for whatever was to come.

I did no prior research leading up to this, I had no notes, no magazines, no printouts, no nothing. But I did have a few IPAs and a ton of confidence (thanks partly to those IPAs), which is really all you need in this situation.

You don’t want to go into your draft with too much going on inside your head. Don’t worry about who’s the backup running back in Denver. Or who the third wide receiver is in Seattle. Or if Antonio Gates is still in the league.

None of that matters when you’re in a zen-like mindset such as this one. You don’t go to the picks. The picks go to you.

The draft began and I had the third pick (because I stunk the previous year, it happens) in my 10-team, one-keeper (Antonio Brown) league. This was perfect because I was able to make my pick (I went with Julio Jones because let’s get nuts and have two star receivers and worry about RBs some other time!), then put my phone in my pocket for a bit, chat with my buddy, enjoy a beverage, and have a few laughs with the bartender and waitstaff.

After a while I’d check my phone to see if my next pick was coming up. I’d then look at the list of best available guys remaining, pick a big name, put my phone down and go back to enjoying life at the bar.

I found this generally carefree method teed me up to make some really good, strategic picks. I don’t know how the bar didn’t lose its mind when I took Kenyan Drake in the fourth round. Or when I didn’t hesitate to take Doug Baldwin in the fifth round. Or when I calmly snatched up Delanie Walker in the eighth round.

I was as hot as the temperatures outside. OK, maybe not with Walker, who played in just one game due to injury, but whatever. I’d make that pick 100 times out of 100. It was a good pick!

I found that flying free like this – having your phone in your pocket and not watching who was being drafted – also killed any anxieties you felt while watching guys you wanted to pick get drafted before you had the chance.

The only real concern I had midway through the draft was if I could get a few extra napkins to wipe the ketchup off my face before I had to reach down and get my phone back out. You don’t want to make picks with ketchup all over your face. Have some class.

I’ll admit things got a little tricky toward the end when I’d had a few more IPAs and was looking at a bunch of random guys to fill out my bench – Robert Woods in Round 9 was a phenomenal pick, Tevin Coleman in Round 10 was OK, and Ty Montgomery in Round 13 was a waste (I honestly thought he was the starter in Green Bay and that I had pulled a fast one on my league. I was wrong). But that adds to the fun! See a name you know? Pick him up! Live life!

Finally I took a defense with my second-to-last pick (don’t be a fool and take one earlier than this) and Adam Vinatieri with my last pick because my buddy Jake and I liked to yell Vinnnnnnaaaaattttiiiieerrrriiiiiii during Pats games in the early 2000s and this gave us a moment at the bar to high five and reminisce about the good ol’ days when we were young, carefree, and our backs didn’t hurt.

How To Do A Fantasy Draft

And there you have it. My draft was done, my team went on to win the $600 title (thanks to many great waiver-wire pick ups), and we celebrated with some incredible wings and a few more IPAs.

Here’s how my team looked on draft night:

Here’s how it looked on championship Sunday:

I honestly had no clue who my other buddies in the league drafted on draft night and didn’t care – this draft wasn’t about them. This draft was about me having fun and not taking things too seriously.

Which you can do, too, on draft night. Especially if you want to win a bunch of money.

But also, you should check out the work of my coworkers. They know what they’re doing. I really just got lucky.

Wednesday’s big winner: Aaron Rodgers.

The Green Bay Packers star had the QBs dress up as characters from “Happy Gilmore” for the team’s welcoming luncheon and man did Rodgers nail his costume. This was perfect.

Quick Hits: Johnny Manziel not wanted in Dallas… Shaq takes a shot a Dwight Howard… Rafael Nadal is a great friend… and more!

Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft

– Sounds like Johnny Manziel won’t even have a chance to play for Dallas’ XFL team this year.

– Shaq squashed any talk of a beef with Kobe Bryant by taking a shot at Dwight Howard. Poor Dwite.

– Rafael Nadal is an amazing friend to have. Just ask Andy Murray.

Fantasy Money System

– LeBron James worked out in his new Nikes, which haven’t been released yet.

– Get ready for college football action by watching this season’s first episode of “Before the Snap,” our weekly college football show hosted by two big-time college football fans – Evan Thorpe and Michelle Martinelli.

(Follow me on Twitter at @anezbitt. It might change your life. Just don’t tell me about your fantasy team.)