I‘ve mentioned before that even sports can be geeky.  One of the ways I geek out over sports is by playing fantasy sports.  You can think of it as a sports-based multiplayer online game…you draft a team (live or online) and then compete with other players by making trades and waiver moves.  It’s fun to see normally non-geeky people totally turn into huge geeks when it comes to their fantasy team.

So, with football season soon upon us, I figured I may as well post my top five fantasy football sleepers.  But first a strategy note: sleepers are only sleepers if they are drafted at the correct position in the draft.  A lot of people name a bunch of sleepers that actually have a high ADP (average draft position).  If everyone is drafting a player in a high slot anyway, I don’t see how that player is a sleeper.  Value is attained in a draft by selecting a player at a time in the draft where he will give far better statistics then the average player drafted in that slot.  That’s how I look at it anyway.  So I haven’t just picked five players I thought would do great…I picked five players that are being drafted too late.

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