Early 2026 Fantasy Football Mock Draft for Best Ball Contests

For those who haven't played it yet, fantasy football "best ball" leagues follow a different scoring format than normal redraft leagues. Rather than setting lineups before each week's games start, that work is done for you. Instead, your lineup is set after the fact to the highest possible scoring group of players. While it still […]

2026 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: Two-Round, 12-Team, PPR Rankings

This part of the NFL season is much less active for fantasy managers who prefer only playing in redraft leagues. Though it will be nice to take a break from the stress of managing a fantasy league and not knowing how your team will fare down the road, it's also fun to look at what […]

5 Fantasy Football Strategies To Help You Win NFL Playoff Leagues

If you won a fantasy football title in the regular season and are looking for more hardware -- or if you want redemption after a bad year -- the fantasy football season isn't over just yet! You can add to the excitement of the NFL playoffs by assembling a brand new fantasy football team(s) of […]

FFPC Playoff Challenge - Fantasy Football Lineup Strategies for 2026 Playoff Leagues

Hopefully, you are fresh off a fantasy football championship in traditional leagues. If so, you might as well keep competing in the playoffs! If you weren't so lucky this season, it's time to dust yourself off and take another chance with FFPC NFL Playoff lineups. The FFPC (Fantasy Football Players Championship) has established itself as […]

Running Backs To Avoid in Fantasy Football: 3 Overvalued Draft Picks

The league's best running backs often carry both their real teams and their fantasy football teams on their backs. Even RBs drafted in the third, fourth, and fifth rounds frequently become must-starts and provide fantastic utility to their fantasy managers. But some don't. There are plenty of reasons for an RB to disappoint. It's a […]

Fantasy Football Quarterback Draft Strategy: Should You Draft a QB Early in 2025?

The quarterback position is easily the highest-scoring position of all in fantasy football in normal standard and PPR leagues. The scoring rules allow for massive production from QBs, especially those with rushing upside, that sometimes can even double as a passing scorer and a low-end running back bound into one player. For example, Washington Commanders […]

2025 Fantasy Football Dynasty Startup Strategy - Draft Guide, Roster Builds, Trade Tips

Tackling a new dynasty fantasy football league is a difficult challenge, even for experienced fantasy football managers who have played the game for years or decades. With 12 or more people all competing for prize money, as in most leagues, things naturally aren't a cakewalk. The startup draft is the single most important event that […]

Fantasy Football Superflex Draft Guide, Tips, Strategy (2025)

If you've only played in normal leagues, with typical rosters and scoring settings -- namely, single-quarterback, four-point passing touchdown leagues -- you might have fun branching off into a superflex league. These leagues have an extra spot in the starting lineup that can be filled by a quarterback, running back, wide receiver, or tight end. […]

100 Funny Fantasy Football Team Names - The Best Names for 2025

It’s almost here, RotoBallers! The 2025 NFL season will begin in mere days on September 4. By now your drafts may be done, your lineup may be set, and it may just be a waiting game until Thursday’s NFL Kickoff Game. It might feel like there is nothing left to do to prep for the […]

Best Guillotine League Strategy: Draft Guide, Fantasy Football Roster Tips (2025)

In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, who once said that the easiest part of any coach’s job is the cuts, Guillotine Leagues are all about who got cut and who didn’t.  Each week, the lowest-scoring team is eliminated, their roster purged onto the waiver wire, and their top players partitioned onto other teams. As […]

One-Man Fantasy Football Mock Draft (Eight Rounds): 12 Teams, PPR Scoring

In fantasy football, the PPR (points-per-reception) draft is a strategic minefield. This article details a unique experience: a one-man draft where I personally selected players for each of the 12 teams in the league. This isn't a simple list of overall player rankings. Instead, I approached this as a genuine simulation, making decisions from each […]

The Fantasy Football Running Back Handcuff Hedge - Mastering The Art of RB Handcuffs (2025)

It's been almost seven years since I last wrote this article, and my philosophy on the fantasy football running back "handcuff hedge" has only strengthened since then. We have learned over time that the running back position is, without question, the most volatile in fantasy football. This understanding is based on the percentage of injuries […]

2025 Fantasy Football Draft Guide: Where To Target Each Position

One of the great things about fantasy football is that every year is different, and if you simply deploy the same strategy and approach to your drafts every season, you're probably not going to give yourself the best chance to win every year. Everyone has their favorite way to approach drafts, and there are multiple […]

Fantasy Football Sleepers to Target At Every Position - Corbin Young's Drafting Backward Strategy (2025)

In fantasy baseball, one strategy involves drafting backward or building your draft from the back. So what does that mean? Essentially, it's an attempt to find players who could provide similar production. Our goal is to find players with similar skills to those of a player who is selected earlier in drafts. Name value, recent successes […]

The 8 Biggest Mistakes Fantasy Football Players Make: Kasey's Expert Advice and Analysis (2025)

What makes fantasy football so much fun is the lessons you learn as you play. Sure, you can do all the research and suffer from carpal tunnel from all the mock drafts you've participated in, but nothing compares to "learning on the job". Every season, we deal with our fair share of "never again" moments. […]

Identifying Wide Receiver Fantasy Football Breakouts: Build-A-Breakout Workshop

Welcome back for this next installation of my RotoBaller breakout series — it's been a blast, and I'm learning a bunch while we're at it. By now, we're three workshop visits deep and on the verge of fantasy glory—no stopping what cannot be stopped. In case you've missed it, we're spending August at the Build-A-Breakout […]

Fun Ways To Determine Your Fantasy Football League's Draft Order

The most wonderful time of the year has arrived! No, not Christmas. It's fantasy football draft season! The time to hang out with loved ones as you draft the team that is going to decimate each and every other one in your league. The time to trash talk your opponents and make them feel worthless. […]

How To Win Fantasy Football Guillotine Leagues: Rules, Strategy, Draft Targets

The most recent data that's available tells us more than 30 million people play fantasy football on an annual basis. Most of them play on popular fantasy platforms like ESPN, Yahoo, CBS, or Sleeper. But with that many people playing and so much time and energy invested in the hobby, there are bound to be […]

The Best Fantasy Football Team Names - 50 Funny Team Names for 2025

Football season is creeping up on us, and before we know it, we'll all be knee deep in fantasy drafts. Having a good team name is arguably more important than drafting a winning team when it comes to fantasy football. You can go any way that you desire with your team name, but some of […]

NFL Survivor League Picks - Expert Strategies To Win Your Knockout Pool (2025)

The start of the 2025 NFL regular season is less than a month away, and the fervor that football enthusiasts are feeling for the upcoming season is growing by the day. At RotoBaller, we continue to develop our tools and content to help you win your fantasy football leagues of all formats. One way to […]

Scott Engel's Fantasy Football Draft Review: Scott Fish Bowl 15 Picks and Analysis (2025)

My 2025 draft recently concluded in the legendary Scott Fish Bowl, the largest and most notable tournament in the fantasy football industry. The competition includes over 400 leagues and nearly 5,000 teams. This year, the theme was divisions named after favorite sports teams, so I competed in a 12-team league in the Seattle Seahawks division, […]

Best Ball Fantasy Football Mock Draft - RotoBaller Staff Strategies, Roster Construction, Sleepers, Value Picks

You've probably heard your favorite fantasy football analyst say it: "I'd only draft that guy in Best Ball". What does that mean, really? When someone says they'd only take a player in Best Ball, they're usually referring to players who are prone to spike weeks. That's one of the biggest reasons Best Ball can be […]

Fantasy Football All-Bench RB Strategy: Round Out Your Draft With These Backup Running Backs (2025)

Every year, I write about the merits of an #AllBenchRB strategy during the season. It is a strategy employed in fantasy football leagues that can lead to success for fantasy players if implemented correctly. Then I had an epiphany when @RealTalkRaph said to me, “Brett, your All-Bench RB strategy would work for the draft!” Mind […]

Fantasy Football Best Ball Cheat Sheet – Tiered Rankings, Sleepers & Strategy (2025)

Getting the best stacks in best ball is one of the easiest ways to make your team as competitive as possible. Every year, specific quarterback and receiver combinations produce multiple massive boom games that propel best ball teams to glory. Additionally, examining each team's schedule and identifying the teams they face can also give you […]

The RB Dead Zone In Fantasy Football: What Is It And Do You Need To Avoid It?

The running back dead zone examines players going in the early to middle rounds at the position. We'll use Rounds 4 through 8 as arbitrary markers for running backs going in Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) leagues. However, these running backs have been pushed up the draft board, and they might be riskier than anticipated. The […]

Is the Fantasy Football Late-Round QB Strategy Still Viable in 2025?

Now that the calendar has flipped to July, it is time to start locking in on the 2025 fantasy football season. Over the next few months, fantasy managers will pore through endless amounts of information through articles and podcasts. Some of that information will be more focused on individual players. However, the real value lies […]

Fantasy Football Mock Draft for 2025: (12 Teams, Single-QB) - Round 1

The first round is the best part of fantasy drafts. These are the players who are going to lead your team throughout the year and could carry you to a potential fantasy championship. However, that doesn't mean these early-round players can't bust in fantasy football. Just look at Christian McCaffrey, Tyreek Hill, and Breece Hall […]

Is the Zero RB Strategy Viable in 2025? Expert Fantasy Football Draft Analysis

The Zero RB draft strategy in fantasy football, in which fantasy managers prioritize drafting multiple wide receivers before selecting a single running back in their drafts, has been very popular in recent years. It's regularly touted as the best strategy to build league-winning teams. This isn't some stroke of genius, though. It's obvious that when […]

Scott Fish Bowl 15 Fantasy Football Draft Strategy Guide: Expert Tips and Advice

With the first selection of the 2025 Scott Fish Bowl, the Texas State Fighting Armadillos select Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter. Perhaps 1.01 for Hunter is a bit of a stretch, but it’s not ridiculous. Dick Steele said it best, “Crazy is walking down the street with half a cantaloupe on your head, muttering, […]