As we begin the main drafting season for the 2024 NFL Best Ball season, it's important to understand what strategies have displayed tournament winning upside on prior slates. While many items displayed here will be descriptive in nature, the past does have the ability to show paths and tendencies of the market.   Tournament Breakdown […]

One of the most important lessons I have learned over the recent years is simply how important it is to be humble in our process over the course of the draft season. When I'm creating that very first set of rankings and my very first thoughts on the drafts for the year, it is so […]

The 2023 Drafters Early Best Ball Championship launched on February 13, 2023, which was the Monday after the Super Bowl. I am preparing for it to launch around the same time here in 2024. Let's start with the basic information about the tournament, then dive into how this contest was drafted in 2023, while weaving […]

One of my favorite parts of the Best Ball calendar flipping over is learning some things you can only learn by drafting teams. I spend a ton of time researching, analyzing and putting together rankings, strategy, and everything in between as soon as the new tournaments drop. But no matter how much work you put […]

Each year the Best Ball slate on Underdog Fantasy begins with The Big Board, their main pre-NFL draft contest. Players and coaching situations change, however our opponents are truly the sickest of the sickos out there as they are drafting Best Ball teams for the chance to win a tournament almost a year later. This […]

Market Inefficiencies   When Underdog drops the Big Board, they pre-load ADP from some internal system or ranking. To be frank, that ADP is awful. But, luckily for us, people simply cannot help but be influenced by the ADP during their drafts. Maybe even more than anything else in the Big Board, this is our […]