Oops, I meant to type "What your fantasy football drafting strategy says about you". My mistake. Anyway, since we are getting close to both real and fantasy football, here's an article by Mike Tanier over at the very best NFL site on the interwebs, Football Outsiders.
This one's the best, because it's so true (and I just love the name of it):
Strategy: RB-RB-TE (The Gates Guy)
Style: You are always the first guy to grab a tight end. You also pick a kicker around Round 8 and a defense in Round 9 or so, two healthy steps ahead of the curve. This year, it’s Antonio Gates, Stephen Gostkowski, and the Bears. Ten years ago, it was Shannon Sharpe, Jason Elam, and the Panthers. Your quarterbacks often stink and your top wide receiver for five years was O.J. McDuffie, but you are always strong where you think it counts: the peripherals.
Personality: You’re the guy who outsmarts the system, and you consider yourself a master of market inefficiencies. You dabbled as a day trader in the 1990s and a real estate speculator five years ago. You now own 20,000 shares of Boo.com and a $300,000 duplex in the Heroinville neighborhood of Addictowne, but that doesn’t dissuade you of your genius.
Other Traits: You like to collect curios and oddities. You prefer vinyl to iPods, and you’ll argue to the death that it’s better to have slightly improved equalization and stereo separation than the ability to walk down the street listening to music. You enjoy fads that involve over-complicating things that should be easy, like soap making. You still brew your own beer, even though it went out of style a decade ago, and your friends politely swill the latest batch of J.W. Wittenlover Select even though it tastes like a blend of Guinness, WD-40, and rotting grass.
As an aside, I am about 1/3 done with their annual book, and it's by far their best yet. Every team chapter's article is about team-building, which is a change from prior years (and much more similar to what the guys do with Baseball Prospectus.) I highly recommend it.
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