Draft Slot Selection Analysis: Snake, 3RR and Banzai Analysis

If your league is a draft, and not an auction, one initial strategy question is what is the best draft slot? The other question is once you have a draft slot, what is a pick in each round worth?

That becomes a complex questions in leagues that don't use the traditional snake draft format (where the draft order is inverted each round). Some leagues are moving to third-round reversal (often called 3RR). In this format a regular snake draft has the third round "flipped" so that a 14-team league goes 1-12, 12-1, 12-1, 1-12,12-1 in the first five rounds and snakes like usual until the end of the draft. The 3RR format is one of the features of the National Fantasy Football Championships. I'm also in a league that uses a "Banzai" system in a 14-team league. In that format the league goes 1-14,14-1,14-1,14-1,1-14.



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