Tom Strachan | Tue, Aug 6th 2024, 7:06am EDT

Fantasy Football Mock Draft: FFPC (2024)

The beauty of the FantasyPros Draft Simulator is that you can mock draft again and again for any league settings. For this article, I copied in the settings used for the FantasyPros Championship on FFPC, a $350 redraft contest with $1m to first place. Andrew Erickson and I recently drafted in that contest and you can see how we did here.

FFPC scoring settings are different from many platforms, with their particular twist including a tight end premium of an extra 0.5 PPR points per catch to the position, on top of the regular one point per reception. This tends to be a more running back-hungry platform than some, so we need to take a balanced approach to the draft. For this draft, the Draft Simulator assigned us the 1.08.

Fantasy Football Mock Draft: FFPC

First Five Rounds

With the tight end premium scoring, it’s not unusual to see the top six tight ends go within the first three rounds. The running backs go noticeably earlier too, so we have to be considerate of that in our draft. By the time we make our first selection at the 1.08, Saquon Barkley has gone off the board, which is something you’d rarely see in best ball drafts this offseason, but redraft is a different game and often pushes the running backs back up the board. Amon-Ra St. Brown makes plenty of sense in this full PPR format, as he has a safe floor and a high ceiling combination that can be fantasy gold.

By our second pick, three more running backs went off the board, taking the count to seven so far. Going zero RB isn’t a terrible idea here, but Kyren Williams is available after Travis Etienne, and Williams was one of two running backs to average over 95 scrimmage yards per game, leading the position in touches per game at 21.5. Adding Williams here might look like a value if he maintains his workhorse role.

Jaylen Waddle is an easy click in the third round, betting on him to bounce back now that he’s healthy, and then adding Trey McBride in the fourth round is too good of an opportunity to pass up. McBride scored 14.8 PPR points in games with Kyler Murray last year, compared to 6.9 in games without. In the fifth round, we get the last of the truly elite quarterbacks in Lamar Jackson, who should be even more comfortable in this offense under Todd Monken for their second year together.

Rounds 6-10

Malik Nabers is undervalued on FFPC compared to Underdog and DraftKings, where he often goes in the third round. Here, we get Nabers in the sixth and add some rookie juice to our lineup. In Round 7 we have to consider running backs, as we’ve already reached a similar tier that we’d expect in Round 10 of best ball drafts. Javonte Williams is another year removed from his ACL injury and by all reports is performing well in training camp. Adding him as our running back two makes sense.

In Round 8, adding Diontae Johnson allows us to get our fourth receiver, and one who should be a volume hog at that, which is great for PPR leagues and helps provide some early season production as Nabers settles in. By the time Round 9 rolls around, running back has been gutted and Trey Benson is the best option, which might not be a particularly great pick considering the whispers out of training camp, but having a good mix of rookies is always nice and it’s worth the cost here.

Rounds 11-15

With only three running backs on our roster and the position primed to start drying up soon, adding Tyler Allgeier makes sense here. Allgeier is one of the best backup running backs in the NFL and he can play in all phases of the offense after averaging 1.9 yards per route run in 2023. Josh Downs is our fifth wide receiver as positive camp buzz has pushed him up draftboards; if it hadn’t have been for a Week 12, injury it’s possible Downs could have broken out over the last third of the season, averaging 6.6 targets per game prior to the injury.

In this tight end thirsty format, we need to make sure we’re adequately covered, so double-dipping on Pat Freiermuth and Cole Kmet makes sure we’re completely covered there. With four tight ends, if one of the later one hits, we can start them in the flex from time to time. In Round 15, we add another upside play in Audric Estime, who continues to impress in the Broncos’ camp.

Rounds 16-20

To round out our draft, we add a rookie wide receiver in Jermaine Burton, the Jets Defense, and Justin Tucker before grabbing a backup quarterback in Baker Mayfield and finishing with with Trey Sermon, who seems to have won the RB2 role in Indy.

Conclusions

These draft rooms are always quite varied because of the runs on tight ends, running backs, and the defensive and kicker positions, but this room fell to us quite nicely. We have studs at multiple positions as well as rookie upside and depth. This would be a solid team with which to leave the draft.

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