What's the optimal draft position in a snake draft?

First. There's a reason that alternate draft orders have been created in order to counter the advantage that the first couple of picks offer. Look up third round reversal, if you're unfamiliar.

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Also first 3 picks is almost always a curse. U draft wrong back and he is on IR half season

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This can happen anywhere on the draft board, and does every single year.

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You’re kind of leaving out an important part. Getting 1, 24, and 25

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Would rather have 12/13 than 1/24 any day of week. The 1s bust more than any other pick each yr.

I'm liking 3/4 or 7/8 in 12 team leagues this year.

10 team league, and I had 2nd pick. I chose #6. Not really interested in McCaffrey or Henry, and will have Cook, Mixon, Ekeler, Chubb or Najee at 6, then Chase, Diggs, Andrews, Davante at WR or Swift, Saquon and Aaron Jones at RB at Pick 14.

Every single time I’ve won a championship in my leagues (3 in the last 5 years) I’ve had a pick that’s 4-6. My worst teams have always been either in the first two picks or the last pick.


50% of that is random bad luck with injuries but part of that too was having to reach on guys I wanted that I knew wouldn’t make it back to me or just waiting for guys that weren’t as good. There’s a decent drop off between picks 15-18 and pick 24. You can probably throw the third overall pick into that loop as well. My deepest teams, even when I didn’t win, were picks right in the middle of the draft or picks right before the back end (7-8). That’s just my two cents

You can win from any position. It really doesn't matter. You just need to do mock drafts to figure out your strategy as to whether or not to go RB heavy early or grab an elite WR or TE.

This is something we actually track in one of my leagues. It's a 10 team PPR league and this will be our 21st season. Pick #8 has won 8 out of 20 seasons. And picks #6-10 have won 15 of the 20 seasons.

I would rather have 12/13 than 1/24/25

This is the 9th year of our league, I went back through the history to see which pick each winner was and every single one had a top 4 pick. A top 4 pick gives you a sure fire elite scorer unless they get hurt. The one year I won in 2018 I had gurley with the 1st pick and rode his 21 tds to a championship