2022 Fantasy Football Core Picks

Fantasy Football is as much a strategy game as it is a prediction game. But we ultimately have to make player selections in our drafts, and it’s important to evaluate every player selection based on the site that you are drafting them on. The below is culmination of our best fantasy football picks for 2022 based on the Average Draft Position (ADP), scoring, lineup settings, and other rules for each Best Ball site.

In order to make our list of Core Picks, you need to meet a few different variables that are important for fantasy football drafters.

ADP

Probably the most important aspect of determining which players are the top fantasy football draft picks on each Best Ball site is their ADP. Players do not get selected in the same spot or even same round on every site, so players who may be overpriced on certain sites may end up as great picks on other sites.

Scoring Format

Each best ball site (and fantasy football league) has their own specific scoring system. Because of that, certain players fit better into certain scoring systems. Alternatively, some players are bad fits for other scoring systems. Some sites have full point per reception scoring, some have half point per reception and others even have 1.5 point per reception scoring for tight ends only. Those nuances are very important to consider when determining our core picks.

Tournament Format

We are mostly focused on Best Ball tournaments (like Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters) here, and not only do these platforms have different scoring, but they also have different tournament formats. The two main types of formats are cumulative vs. playoff, and it’s important to understand how different players fit into the different aspect of these formats.

*Core Picks for 2022 coming Tuesday June 14th*