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Sean Allen, Special to ESPN.comSep 24, 2024, 11:00 AM ET
CloseSean Allen is a fantasy analyst for ESPN.com. He was the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hockey Writer of the Year. You can tweet him @seanard.
You made your last draft pick easily enough, confident in your pick.
As you see the picks start to snake away from you toward the turn from the third to fourth round, you start to load a couple of players into your queue that you expect will still be there when it comes back to your pick. After all, no one else is quite as high on that one sleeper as you are, and your backup pick is a solid veteran that others might overlook. Why would they take him now? There are more tempting options on the board.
The picks continue as the draft comes back your way. Just three more until it’s your turn.
Dammit! Someone took your sleeper.
That’s OK – the unheralded vet will do. You like him as a contributor to your team. Just one more pick and he’s yours.
“You are on the clock!”
… Wait. Why is your queue empty? Did you accidentally click something wrong?
Oh no. They took your veteran right before your pick!
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The rankings you see here will be different from the rankings you see inside the ESPN Fantasy Hockey game, as those are the official ESPN fantasy hockey rankings, not my personal ranks. I use my own projections that are fueled in part by the player’s…
Source link : https://www.espn.com/fantasy/hockey/story/_/id/41407394/espn-nhl-fantasy-hockey-draft-strategy-forward-tiers-wingers-centers
Author : Sean Allen
Publish date : 2024-09-24 16:25:23
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