It's that time of year. Eat a balanced breakfast, watch your tape and sift through your tiers. Draft day is on the horizon and the best managers will feel prepared and adaptable thanks to comfort with their early-round cornerstones and late-round flag players.
Whether the league format is redraft or keeper, early decisions dictate later role prioritization. Here, we'll take a look at the strategy, and differences in strategy, for both.
First, a standard, 12-team redraft league's two-round mock draft, with general analysis of how those rounds should be approached. Subsequently, rankings of the top 20 keeper players, with analysis of how those dictate the outlook of dynasty managers.