One of the most frequent questions I get about building bestball teams on Underdog Fantasy is, “What is your most ideal build?”
It’s a complicated question. This is because it depends on how you start each team. Also, it depends on how much ADP value you spend at certain positions. Therefore, I’m going to break down a couple different builds. I have paired these builds with some real examples of teams I have drafted.
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2-5-8-3:
This is probably my most common build. This is because when you have to start 3-4 wide receivers each week, you are going to want some depth at the position. It’s also a lot easier to find “points” at wide receiver than it is at running back in the 17th and 18th rounds of a draft.
This is because if you just look at it from a macro perspective, who’s *probably* going to score more points in 2024? Guys like Dameon Pierce, Dylan Laube and D’Onta Foreman? Or, Greg Dortch, Zay Jones and Tyler Boyd? I’m taking the latter.
For the rest of this build, I went three tight ends because I missed out on all of the elite guys. I felt that I needed three to feel good about that room. This is especially true because I drafted two quarterbacks within the first nine rounds. Lastly, a rule of thumb I like to follow is if I draft a RB in the first or second round, I’m finishing that room with no more than five RBs. I went RB in the first in the second round. Therefore, I didn’t take another one until pick 151.
3-5-8-2:
This is my second most popular build. It’s just the flip side of the 2-5-8-3. I got my two elite tight ends in Mark Andrews and Brock Bowers. Therefore, I felt like I was done at tight end after that. I drafted all my RBs between rounds 4 and 13. As a result, I felt good enough with five.
Lastly, I waited on QB because all of my highly drafted WRs like Adams, Hill, and Metcalf all have QBs that go in the middle-late rounds of drafts. Therefore, drafting three guys all after round 10 fit this build.
2-5-9-2:
Builds like this are super fun because you can sort of “steal” an extra RB or WR by going early QBs and TEs. I actually got really good value on Bowers in this draft. This allowed me to be done at tight end.
My QBs were both drafted before Round 12. Therefore, I felt good there. I drafted three RBs by round 8, so I felt fine with five guys in that room. This is why I decided to go with nine receivers. Wide receivers is the most important position on Underdog.
3-4-9-2:
This is a very obscure build. It’s something that I hardly draft, but I thought it would be fun to break down. I started the draft with four RBs in the first four rounds. If you start your draft with three RBs in the first three rounds, you should only be going four RBs total. As a result, this is a bit of an extreme example.
Obviously, your biggest concern after going with a “Hyper Fragile” RB build is hammering away at those WRs. All nine of my WRs on this team were drafted in a row between rounds 6 and 14.
This was because I also went Mark Andrews in round five. My QBs are absolute poverty, but everyone is still stacked up which helps me sleep better at night. Overall, if you are going to pull off a build like this, something I wouldn’t recommend, you better finish with at least nine WRs and possibly even 10.
