Hacking the draft room: Exploiting the ESPN and Yahoo fantasy football rankings to optimize your wide receiver… – The Athletic

Have you ever eaten food out of a dented can? It doesnt taste dented honest! It tastes like undented food! (I could go for an undented sandwich right now.)

Theres just something about that dent that turns people off. It is tough to stack dented cans, and a sharp dent might allow bacteria in or what I call, flavor! but still, people should see theres value in DCF (dented can food)!

This article series is meant to point out some dented-can discounted players available on some sites, while also sharing a handful of players on that site who might be overpriced.

Were finding garage-sale priced players who are worth more on other fantasy draft sites, so you can squeeze the best value out of your draft picks.

We already did this ADP hack with quarterbacks and running backs, and well hit tight ends later this week.

How it works: FantasyPros posts an Average ADP on their site, which is a combined average of the ADP on several fantasy draft sites, including ESPN, Yahoo! and My Fantasy League. Since most ADPs on those sites are influenced by the prepopulated rankings from that site (and every site ranks differently with different experts), then those ADPs are skewed, compared to other sites. We compare the ADP on those major sites with the Average ADP on FantasyPros to find good and bad values, helping you know when you need to wait or hurry to take a certain player.

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Hacking the draft room: Exploiting the ESPN and Yahoo fantasy football rankings to optimize your wide receiver... - The Athletic