Lesson 1:  Use cheat sheets to organize and manage your draft.

1.       Cheat Sheet Development--Manipulate the cheat sheet rankings and move players around as you deem fit.

2.       Weighting the Experts--Some fantasy football managers will take several sites’ cheat sheets and average them to get a weighted sheet to start with before manipulation.  This is a good way to not rely too heavily on one expert’s views.

3.       Average Draft Positions--Whatever your strategy for manipulating cheat sheets is, use Average Draft Positions (ADP’s) combined with your cheat sheet to ensure that you are not taking a player too early in the draft.  Taking a player too early will put you in position to miss out on a more valuable player that you could have gotten in the “too early” slot when you could have gotten the player you chose in a later round.  For example, I think that Devin Hester (WR-Chicago) will be a top 20 wide receiver this year.  Based on my projections he would warrant a 6^th round pick however, his average draft position may be in the 8^th round or later.  Why would I take him in the 6^th round when I could get him in the 8^th?  By knowing where he is likely to go, I have better situational awareness of when I should take him.  Use Average Draft Positions!

4.       Cheat Sheet Aesthetics--Keep your cheat sheet to one or two pages.  This allows you to keep focus during the draft and to avoid shuffling papers when you should be concentrating. 

Lesson 2:  Use several sources of information.

1.       Know What Your Competition Knows--With the internet the way it is today, there are plenty of good sources to find what you need.  With that said, there are also plenty of good sources for your competition to find what they need.  The more versed you are and the more you know of what they know, the better equipped you are heading into battle.

2.       Using Magazines--With the economic situation of today, I am not a strong proponent of buying magazines.  For one, they often contain outdated information.  But on the other hand, if you travel or want something to ready while sitting at the breakfast table, then the magazines can provide entertainment and research benefit.  It is likely that your competition will read a few magazines. 

3.       Suggested Research--To see who's in the King's favorites, check out the links.

Lesson 3:  Take the best from the best and forget the rest.

1.       Learning from Mistakes--Let me share with you one of the things that I have learned about the successes in my life.  In taking a historical view on how I got successful in the first place at these things, I found it to be quite simple.  I learned from past mistakes.  Follow my guidance on drafting techniques and strategies as these are gained by making mistakes over the last 15 years and learning from them.

2.       Building from the Good--The other thing that has led me to success in fantasy football, is by taking the good information or good lessons that I have learned and building off of them.  Take what you feel to be good advice from the experts and build your own strategy from there.  Forget the rest!