Now you can find player ranks just about anywhere. From Yahoo, to ESPN, to Sportsline, to the NFL, everyone seems to have their top 100 players to draft list out already. Those list will change over the next couple of months with training camps just opening up over the last week… but even now, there is a serious shortage of keeper draft lists out there.
I used to buy fantasy football magazines every year, and they were always out dated by training camp… they also never had good keeper draft lists or strategies, and I pretty much gave up on them. Now everyone has a list, but still good keep draft lists are very hard to find. Unless you what to pay for one or make your own, you are kinda out of luck.
And don’t think that you can use a regular fantasy football cheat sheet to draft for a keeper leagues.. I mean, I guess you can, but you’ll be at a big disadvantage, kinda like using a standard cheat sheet for a league that changes the whole scoring structure.
Anyway, the most notable change in keeper leagues happens with the first draft pick. Ladainian Tomlinson is the number one pick on everyone re-draft league board this year, but he shouldn’t be number 1 for a keeper. LT is 29 years old, and if you have the number pick in this years draft, you want a guy who could put up big numbers from at least 3 years… and that is why you should take Adrian Peterson, who is only 23. Sure he isn’t as proven as LT, but he could make a huge impact on your team not only this year, but in 2009, 2010, etc as well. Running backs hit a wall at 30, so LT is probably the best guy for this year, but not for the future…
BTW, if you can trade LT for Peterson now, I would do it.
