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Fantasy football Draft-Day Manifesto: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Drafters

As you get ready for fantasy football 2021, be sure to get plenty of practice by using our Mock Draft Lobby.

In 1989, Stephen Covey, an educator, published a book titled "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People." It ended up selling more than 30 million copies, became the first nonfiction audiobook in U.S. publishing history to sell more than 1 million copies and is quoted and referenced often to this day.

Five years before that, a very young Matthew Berry had his very first fantasy football draft. And on that day, my very first commissioner, Don Smith, shook my hand and said, "Welcome to draft day.