The Most Important Decisions in Fantasy Football Drafts

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**Colm Kelly** (1:33)
The first RotoViz Overtime Listener League of 2026 That is what we were doing today. We were drafting in the FFPC best ball tournament, the Superflex format. It's myself, Colm Kelly. I'm joined by Shawn Siegele. We are drafting against 11 other members of the RotoViz community, Shawn. We have had these drafts over the years, and they are always super challenging for us because the listeners know the RotoViz rankings, the listeners know what we talk about, the listeners know who we want to target, the listeners know our strategies. Always interesting to see if they lean into that or if they pivot away from it. But something that tends to happen with Shawn in this format is we tend to end up with pretty unique teams because maybe some of the players that we're not in love with at their current ADPs get a little bit of a drift in this league and maybe we have to pick them up. So that is where we are going to look at all the challenges that go along with it. But the Superflex format, we absolutely love it, $35 entry, $100,000 to first place. So the goal, Shawn, is always to see who wins this league. Top two will advance and then how far they can go in the tournament.
The person or the two people who have advanced out of this in recent years, we've had some pretty good runs out of this particular league. So we'll see how the ADP shakes out. There should be some fun things to talk about, but we are three picks away picking from the 109 Shawn, what are you seeing as some of the challenges we may face today?

**Shawn Siegele** (3:01)
Yeah, it could be challenges. This actually opens up in a pretty fun way. One of the things that the roster constructors explorer tells you, and this is one of the things that I expect the listeners to, not necessarily to follow like the Bible, that's not the way that you should do it. As you just mentioned, there will be some opportunities here to put together teams that maybe you can't put together into the rooms. You also want to lean into that element as well. However, when we think about quarterbacks, superflex, those players go in early. We're just pulling it up here to give the exact numbers. Over the last two years, if you take your second QB, sometime within the first three rounds, the win rates are about 5.7%.
So, I mean, that's atrocious. The top two percentile teams, again, not representing nearly the percentage of highly ranked teams that they should. Waiting on QB is the way to play this, and yet there's also a potential that in this particular draft, we'll have a lot of people wait on QBs and you'll get a good price on a QB. If you can get a QB, even if the overall strategy has not been a winning one, A, it could flip back in that direction this year with some great health and scoring from early QBs and move away from it, from the perspective of if we don't get those breakout QBs later. So those two elements would sort of shift us back in the direction of the QB.
Colm, we are up here at nine and only two QBs have gone. So that's not particularly surprising both overall and in the specific room. Christian McCaffrey is still here. Drayton May and Jayden Daniels are still here. I kind of like Jonathan Taylor at this pick. Brock Bowers did go. What direction are you leading?