The fantasy football season is over. We have played for titles or sat back and watched our team starring Jennings, AJ, McFadden, Starks, and even Johnny Knox all miss the playoffs for a sad, sad loss (OK, maybe I’m still a little bitter). But now it is time for the actual NFL playoffs and with them, some new fantasy games. I personally enjoy the week to week fun at Draft Street, and there is a free league with a $1,000 Grand Prize at FFChamps.com. But my favorite always ends up being the fantasy game over at NFL.com.
 
It has been duplicated and I find something similar on multiple sites, so what better to write about than a little strategy for such a popular fantasy game? The basic premise of the game is that you select players for your fantasy roster and each round that you keep a player from the previous round, that player’s point total is doubled. Keep them for the next round and they are doubled again. So if you pick a player in round one and they make it all the way to the Super Bowl, you could have an 8x multiplier for the title game.
 
There is debate, even within my own mind, as to what strategy would work best for this set-up. NFL.com allows you to select players who aren’t playing in the wild-card round, with the benefit being that you will get a 2x multiplier by using them in round two. So if you picked only players from the Packers and Patriots and those two teams played for the SB, you’d be sitting pretty. The problem is that you end up with 0 points in the first round and are playing catch-up the whole off-season.
 
The second option is to start some top tier guys that you think may do well in round one but end up losing, with the intent then to start those Packers and Patriot players in round two. This method isn’t half bad, but you have to go into it knowing that the best you can do is have a 4x multiplier in the title game.
 
The final method is to pick all of your players from two teams who are playing in the wild-card games and hope they both make the Super Bowl. This is a high-risk, high-reward strategy. If, for example, you grabbed players from the three seeds (Saints and Texans) and they both made the Super Bowl, you’d be get 8x multipliers and would certainly finish at or near the top.
 
I personally would rule out the second option. It allows you to do well, but not great. Someone will get lucky. Someone will use strategy one or three and have 8x multipliers in the title game, something you won’t be able to keep up with. So which one is best? One or three?
 
Clearly you can score the most points with the third method; but it requires your two teams to possibly combine for four road wins to make it to the title game. So this year I am going against the flow and starting an entire roster of Packers and Ravens players. This was my pre-season SB pick and I am sticking with it. A line-up of Rodgers, Nelson, Jennings, Rice, Starks, Finley, and Baltimore’s kicker and defense will score me zero points in the first round. But if they do make the title game as I think they will, I will be getting 8x their score in that game while many other teams may be get 1x or at best 2x multipliers for their games.
 
If you are looking for help on a line-up, pick your strategy and check out my suggestions:
 
Strategy one: Rodgers, Jennings, Nelson, Rice, Starks, Finley, Balt K, Balt Def.
OR: Brady, Welker, Nelson, Starks, BGE, Gronk, Packers K, Packers Def
 
Strategy two: Brees, Megatron, White, Foster, Turner, Graham, Saints K, Pitt def
 
You score a ton in week 1 with the intent of them moving to players from the two teams you expect to make the title game.
 
Strategy three: Brees, Colston, AJ, Foster, Sproles, Graham, either K, Houston Def.
 
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