Howard Bender of Fantasy Alarm joined me on the Sharp Angles Podcast to draft a Best Ball Mania 4 team at Underdog Fantasy.
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We drafted from the No. 2 spot.
Pick by Pick Breakdown of Best Ball Mania 4 Draft:
Round 1:
Ja'Marr Chase is an easy pick here. Howard actually has Chase slightly ahead of Justin Jefferson. I have them about even but typically take JJ at No. 1 because he rarely falls beyond it whereas Chase can be found at pick three or four.
Round 2:
Chris Olave is a clear tier break guy we only got because someone took Patrick Mahomes early to stack with Travis Kelce. He is a highly talented young wide receiver with upside.
Round 3:
We both wanted Rhamondre Stevenson to make it back to us and he did. Some people think he is being pushed up too much, but Howard does not agree. I think the whole third round is pretty flat, so someone is going to be pushed up.
Round 4:
We possibly would have taken Justin Fields, but with him gone both Howard and I like Drake London, who has a good floor due to his shorter route tree. If Atlanta can find a quarterback to get him the ball (Taylor Heinicke anyone?), he could give a top-10 WR performance.
Round 5:
No Fields, but we still came back with D.J. Moore, who has a Week 17 matchup against London. While the fantasy industry in general doesn’t like his ADP, it has been here all offseason, and I have come around with camp reports continuing to praise the Fields/Moore connection.
Round 6:
David Montgomery is a guy who the industry loves to hate, but as part of the one-two punch in Detroit, he could easily outscore Jahmyr Gibbs in half-PPR formats and gives us our second RB.
Round 7:
Darren Waller's ADP is finally moving up on Underdog, but only slightly compared to FFPC TE premium. He is still a value, offering the chance to lock up the Giants' No. 1 Receiver and valuable separation at a reduced price. Howard loves him.
Round 8:
Skyy Moore is a guy both Howard and I like a lot and seems locked in as a starter in Kansas City. We took him a little early, but it gives us great correlation with our first-round pick.
Round 9:
Deshaun Watson was the pick despite us not having either of his top two WRs, but we thought we could get either David Njoku or Donovan Peoples-Jones later. He gave us top upside at the QB position at a discount similar to Waller at TE.
Round 10:
De’Vone Achane is a guy whose tape I loved and thought despite his size was a guy who didn’t run small while having home run speed. Howard agreed and we took him as our third RB.
Round 11:
Needing more RBs before the ledge led us to take Tank Bigsby a bit early, but his ADP is rising so we both expected his value to be neutral soon. He is another upside RB. It is always good to have an RB named Tank in a half-PPR format!
Round 12:
I have low rostership on Derek Carr, but adding him as the second QB to go with Chris Olave was a no-brainer for both Howard and me.
Round 13:
We finally stacked Watson with Peoples-Jones, a big home run hitting WR. Taking him 15 picks ahead of ADP is fine to complete a stack this late.
Round 14:
We made up some of that value here with another addition to our New Orleans stack, adding Rashid Shaheed five picks after ADP. Both Howard and I are fans.
Round 15:
A sneaky addition to our Browns stack and our fifth and final RB, Jerome Ford was the pick. As the likely pass catching back, the talented Ford could really pay off.
Round 16:
We hadn’t correlated the Week 17 Browns/Jets game so added the former No. 5 pick in the draft Corey Davis. Without anyone we really liked, it was a good idea to go correlation to our main stack.
Round 17:
Hayden Hurst became our second TE and gives us a correlation with Bigsby. While lower on Hurst, Howard liked him and I think he is fine as a guy to mix in late, especially correlated. These sneaky late correlations could really pay off.
Round 18:
With again no player we really loved late, Cedric Tillman became the third weapon for Watson. While normally this might not be ideal the fact that we missed on the first two options for our QB, adding a third piece especially a rookie with upside made sense.
Takeaways:
Overall, I find the No. 2 spot tougher than later in Round 1. While you get the stud up top, you hit flat value areas at both the 2/3 and 5/6 turns.
This is a good team but is a little weak at QB and RB. There wasn’t a 17th- or 18th-round RB who deserved to go over the 8th and 9th WRs we selected.
Howard and I are hoping this team surprises a bit and we take down the $3 million dollar prize.
This is part of a best ball strategy series from expert best ball player Tod Burros.
