Will anybody be changing draft strategy for 2016?

I'll continue drafting the best players at my slot

Couldn't tell you the order I went in any leagues, the order of positions drafted is less important than what pick you have and that's pretty useless.

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I think I will be rolling WR-WR next year.

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Definitely the trend. I think it's about time to get rid of the 1 PPT PPR leagues and change to to .5 points. This past year 12 of the top 13 rb/wrs in a 1 point PPR league were WRs.

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Gonna go WR WR RB WR/RB QB

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This. Never won before in any of my leagues and this year went WR heavy and won all three. Consistent WR play this year and key waiver wire pickups is the winning combo. Hightower and David Johnson led me to a championship. Not the RBs I drafted, cough cough...DeMarco Murray.

Went WR WR RB this year and was happy with it. Tough year for first round RBs.

Went WR heavy this year, but had bad luck

Dez went down with injury and DT88 had Manning's fluff arm resulting in almost no TD's. Julio was good at first but Matty Ice sucks.

BTW this was a salary league that used actual salary cap numbers from the NFL.(DT88 was a keeper)

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RBs in general are not as easy to come by as they were this season and I see this year more as an outlier.

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I'm not sure injuries to RBs is an outlier.

Handcuffing I think is more important now IMO. I used not be very big on it because I was of the belief that if your stud goes down all you had was a guy getting carries , just a warm body. I now lean more towards RB is just a position of opportunity. You have a guy getting the work and you'll get good to serviceable production. Look at the RBs many of the championship squads were starting...Hightower, David Johnson, Char West, Allen. None, save David Johnson, would be considered exceptional talents, just guys getting the workload.

A RBs production is replaceable. Whereas, if I draft Julio and he goes down, picking up the Falcons WR2 isn't going to replace the hole in my roster. So basically, if you go RB early, you have to invest in the right handcuff late in the draft instead of buying up other lotto tickets.

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I'm not sure injuries to RBs is an outlier.

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Wasn't my point.

Top RBs were cheap and widely available this season. Injuries aside, Freeman and Woodhead were #1 and #3 finishers in PPR leagues and were low-valued targets in drafts. AP and Forte were probably the only Top 10 PPG qualifiers that went in the 1st round or $40+ in auctions. The waiver wire produced more serviceable starting RBs than in any year I can remember.

Using this year's data to decide to go WR-WR-WR next year is fools gold IMO. Especially considering that zero-RB is a contrarian strategy. It can work successfully when 2-4 of 12 teams are using it. When 8-10 of 12 decide to go that route AND expect RBs to appear like they did this year, I'm foreseeing a bunch of teams starving at RB.

I get the idea that WRs will dominate the first round next year. Grab Julio, AB, OBJ, Nuk and then build around your stud. But in most years serviceable WRs appear much more often than serviceable RBs.

And believe me, I went zero-RB or hybrid in about half of my leagues this year - I like to hedge my bets - with decent success. I know you had great success this year and know your stuff.

This is more for those thinking that because of this year of the "free RB" that de facto rolling out zero-RB next year will win them championships is foolish. FF is fluid.

I draft best available according to my cheat sheet. Caused me to go wr first three rounds this year. Ended up scoring most points in my league and winning the playoffs.

TE (Gronkowski)
WR (Jones or Beckham)
WR (Sanders, Cooks or Landry)
QB
RB
WR