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There are auction drafts as well. You get a budget and have to outbid the other participants to acquire a player. Winners are always determined by the stats. You could draft Peyton Manning, but if he's sitting on the Colts bench, he's worthless. People bet money on it all the time. It's called a pay league. You pay an entry fee and get a prize if you win while the commish or a website gets a big profit.
Live drafts are in real-time and you have to select a player within a time limit. Autopick drafts are operated by a computer using your rankings. They often do a very poor job of choosing your team. Offline drafts are a catch-all term for any draft that the website doesn't operate.
If it is a non-auction, it is typical to reverse the order between rounds for fairness. In doing so, all picks even out and there are no real advantages, at least in theory. But the real advantages or disadvantages of a slot to pick are so slight you don't really need to worry because the great players are always able to pick a winner no matter what the circumstances.
The key to the game is knowing more than anybody else and putting it all together to have the best information. Anybody can use a magazine, but the successful ones research what's going on and use that to win. Winners always separate from the pack by picking a team of players that overachieve. A veteran team's likely to be competitive, but a young team has a chance of winning a league.
In fantasy football, it is important to be deep at RB. You can have an average starting QB and average WR, TE, K, and defense, but win a championship if you have 2 great RBs and having 3 or 4 great RBs ensures that you'll be able to deal them or keep them. Back in 2004 when McNabb had his great season. Thomas Jones for Donovan McNabb was a fair trade until Jones got hurt in midseason. Most people overvalue their QBs or just undervalue what having 2 successful RB is worth.
Almost Every starting QB in the league will be worth about 20 points every week under the default Yahoo scoring system, but a top RB is worth 20-30 points while a bad one might be worth 5. Even if your QB has a bad week and gets 14 points or so, you're still gaining on the guy who has a top QB.
