Fantasy football: 5 winning strategies to ace your draft for 2018

No. 4: Look at the Splits

There are two ways to go about doing this. First, you can look at any player’s weekly fantasy football point splits and see whether or not he’s contributing on a regular basis.

But I like to look at the actual on-field stats instead.

Let’s say you’re in a position to make Antonio Brown or Julio Jones your WR1. Either pick would be smart, and you’ll be reaping the point rewards all season long.

Yet if you’re like me, you can get frustrated with one of those players having down weeks spotted by the inevitable 200-yard performance that all but guarantees your fantasy team a win that week.

Jones had four 100-plus yard games in 2017, with his 251.9 standard ESPN fantasy points inflated by a massive 253-yard, two-touchdown game in Week 12 last year. But he also had five games in which he failed to crest 70 yards.

Brown, meanwhile, had four of those 70-yard-or-less games last season, but had eight 100-plus yard efforts as well.

If you’re trying to avoid the more-frequent down weeks and looking for consistency at the position, check out the splits. You’ll be glad you did.

Oh, and grab Brown over Jones if it comes down to that.