Storyboard Draft(s)#8-Blind Squirrels

BY: MIKE JOHNSON (@mjohnson86)

In our Best Ball Plus training session from last week, I discussed several strategies that I believe are great for maximizing many of the concepts we have discussed throughout the summer, particularly once we get to this point in the draft cycle. The concept of “Blind Squirrel” drafting is essentially to forego worrying about one specific Positional Silo throughout the draft and then attacking it with quantity late in drafts with educated guesses to fill that “Silo” on a combination of players who fit the high-upside profile of a “league winner” and some who are likely to give you some usable/consistent production. This strategy allows you to build most of your roster in an extremely strong manner and positions your late-round picks to make the maximum impact on your roster if one or more of them “hit.” The drafts below are three different examples of this “Blind Squirrel” theory, the name of which comes from the saying “even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.” 

Draft #1 – “Blind Squirrel QB”