But IR spots are extra roster spots and you need to maximize your use of every roster spot you have access to.Įven if you don't have a player who is IR-eligible (or even an IR slot to use), I still love to pick up players just before kickoff. If nothing happens during the weekend, then so be it, you can waive your lottery ticket and try again. Do this before kickoff, when lineups lock. It's just about having another lottery ticket. I would be lying if I said I thought Mitchell would rocket up in value the way he did over the course of Sunday, but fantasy is often about grabbing lottery tickets and hoping your number comes up.Īssuming you have at least one IR spot, every single time one of your players goes on IR, you need to use that spot and grab someone else, even if you don't need him. ET on Sundays), I moved Sermon into the IR spot, creating a roster space, and grabbed Mitchell. So, as soon as that happened (usually around 11:30 a.m.
When Trey Sermon was ruled out last Sunday, he immediately became eligible for the IR slot. This is how I was able to get Elijah Mitchell in a few leagues. With that in mind, here are my favorite fantasy life hacks, tips and tricks, helpful hints and the like, in no particular order.Īggressive use of the IR spot. So anything that provides an edge, not matter how small, is time well spent. But fantasy football is a game of inches, of decimal points, of razor-thin margins, where making the playoffs often comes down to one game, one player, one point. Not all of them will work in every league obviously it depends on your league rules and settings. Many of these are habitual tactics I use in my leagues, and then I got a few from my followers on The Fantasy Life App. Small things, none of them earth-shattering, none of them that single-handedly will make you win your league, but a bunch of moves that can each give a small edge and that combined together over the course of a season can put more odds in your favor of winning it all. So I thought about it more and figured there were probably a lot of little tricks - or fantasy hacks if you will - that people might not be aware of. It was then I realized that in every single one of my leagues - those not so deep that he'd not been drafted - there were a lot of people doing one little trick that clearly, people in 99.3% of ESPN leagues were not doing.
I have him in some of those leagues, but he is rostered in every single league.įield: I hear you, but he's available in 99.3% of ESPN leagues. Me: I'm in 15 leagues, and he's literally not available in any of them. On last Tuesday's episode of the Fantasy Focus 06010 podcast, Field Yates was running through his free-agent finds for the week and we started, of course, with Elijah Mitchell.
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