Draft Day Organization

Be ready when your draft arrives. Finalize your cheatsheet the night before the draft, or on draft day if you have the time. Bring a writing utensil, your cheatsheet and a draft tracker to the event. Even if someone else is keeping track of the picks, you need to as well.

Organize your draft tracker vertically by position and horizontally by team (in draft order). Three spots for QB, five for RB and WR, two for TE and Defense, one for K. When a pick is made, mark off the player on your cheatsheet and transfer the name into the first available slot on the tracker. This does a couple of things. First, you keep track of the players that have been picked. Second, since the teams are in draft order you can see at a glance what the teams in front and behind you need to still pick.

For example, assume that you have a serpentine draft. You are fourth pick in the first round. It is now round four. You have two RB and one WR. Teams one through three each have one QB. The best player left on your sheet is a QB. Do you draft him?

No. You can see that the teams following you already have QB's on your tracker. It is very unlikely that they will take a QB in the next 6 picks. You can use this knowledge to look elsewhere and squeeze more value from your QB pick. Take a 2nd WR, or whatever you think is the next most valuable. With your 5th pick you can still get your QB but you've beaten teams one through three to a good player at a position of need.

So remember; writing utensil, cheatsheet, draft tracker.