Make Your Lineup Tell A Story

Roster construction is as much art as it is skill.

It takes years of practice to hone the art from of constructing profitable lineups. Mistakes will be made, successes realized, and plenty of what-could-have-been thoughts about the rosters that were close to the top.

I’ve found that it is important to have your lineup tell a story.

You should operate with IF-then thinking. When you are plugging a player onto a roster, you should assume that they will put up a huge score because that is what is needed to win a tournament.

But go a step further and apply If-then thinking. If they go for a huge score, then who benefits from that and who suffers.

This is where correlation comes into play. Correlation is essential because it allows you to get multiple things right at once. You improve your chances of constructing a GPP-winning roster if you can apply the If-then thinking and correlate your lineups.

But you can also discover leverage with this thinking. Let’s say Russell Wilson, DK Metcalf, and Tyler Lockette are highly-owned. If they all fail, then Cris Carson sucked up all of the fantasy points on the ground.

By using this thinking you can discover leverage spots on the slate that jump you past a chunk of the field.

You are assuming that a player will have a big game when you put him on your roster. You discover sound correlation and leverage when your lineups tell a story about not only the game environment, but about the whole slate.