Top 10 Tips for Building a Fantasy Football Team, According to Experts

You don’t have to be super focused on statistics if you don’t want to be. Instead, you can use existing rankings to help judge the strength of your choices.

“Don’t let the weeds of the stats bring you down,” Loza said. “You’re allowed to just root for the players that you’re excited about.”

So if there’s a player that’s amazing strategically, but isn’t someone you feel like rooting for every week, just don’t draft them — that’s the benefit of the league having such depth.

And with all those options, Loza encourages everyone to use the rankings available. “Me and my colleagues do not spend all of this time to make rankings so that you can’t use ’em,” she said.

So, if someone has caught your eye, check the rankings to ensure you draft them at an appropriate time.

“If you are someone who’s like, ‘Oh, I know Player X is a really good player and they’re fun and I’m into them,’ then look where they are on the rankings, like maybe they’re wide receiver 30 , and then see who else in that range is going and circle them,” Loza said. “Just be like, ‘OK, when we get to this general part of the draft, I’m going to get that guy.'”

This way, you won’t pass up on valuable talent in an effort to pick them.