We’ve covered the fundamentals of Draft Dominator, including customizing cheat sheets, creating realistic mock drafts, and running Salary Cap drafts. Now, it’s time to dive into some advanced features that highlight the app’s biggest strengths. These advanced features are part of why we feel confident enough to say that this is the only drafting app anyone would ever need.
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Exploiting Strength of Schedule
Banking on the strength of schedule as a fantasy drafting strategy deserves the usual caveat of “lots will change between now and Week 17.” But that doesn’t mean we should ignore it altogether. Looking for small edges wherever we can find them is how championships are won. The Draft Dominator is the perfect tool for exploiting those edges.
To see a player’s schedule, click or tap on their name from the Cheat Sheet and then select the schedule option. This will be a weekly chronological list and that player’s projected fantasy points. Green means he has a good matchup, red means a bad matchup, and black means he has a neutral matchup. While this doesn’t serve a huge purpose other than providing a quick overview of good and bad weeks, it could be a tiebreaker between players. But you don’t have to do this manually. The Dominator has an option to sort by complementary players.
Click or tap the blue asterisk, then hit the middle tab titled “Complementary Players”. It defaults to displaying quarterbacks, which you can change by hitting the player position at the top left. Here’s an example:
The team above has one running back and could use another high-upside option with the draft entering the late rounds. Notice the wording above the player list: “RB: showing best for your worst weeks.” The Dominator has selected and ranked the running backs with the best matchups when other players on the roster have a tough schedule. If you want to exploit the strength of your schedule, this view will help you do just that.
Another great way to build around the strength of the schedule is by adjusting the value of each week. Under the rankings icon, you’ll see an option called “Weekly Weights.” The Dominator defaults to weighing them all equally and will zero out any weeks that your league doesn’t play (most usually, Week 17). But you can manually adjust these or hit the Reaching Playoffs or Playoff Wins buttons. The former will max out each week until Week 14 or during your league’s playoffs. The latter will do the opposite, giving the playoff weeks the most value (typically the best process). After adjusting Weekly Weights, your Cheat Sheet will update the rankings to reflect your choices.