10 After Draft Tips

1. Set your week 1 line-up. Your league may have auto-filled your line-up, or they may all be sitting on the bench. Go through and plug in who you want to be starting for you week 1 so you have a better picture of where you stand.

2. Review your team, and if you haven't already, edit it from the generic name and logo.
Take a look at your roster, how does it project out where are your strength and weaknesses, is there an ugly bye week situation or averse injury situations? Also, make the team your own! Find a new logo and by now you have no excuse to not have a player driven team name. 50 Shades of Gronk anyone?

3. Review players available on the waiver-wire, submit waiver requests. 
You might not even have a waiver-wire to deal with after the draft after all everyone just had an equal opportunity to snap up those players at the draft. Regardless take a look at who went un-drafted. There's a chance someone slipped through the cracks or that a weakness on your roster might find a stop-gap or possible diamond in the rough.

4. Update your trading block if you're looking to make a few roster moves. 
It's a rare draft that goes exactly as you planned, additionally after reviewing your roster you may have noticed some weaknesses or strengths. Go ahead and fill out that trading block if your willing to make moves. It signals that you're receptive to offers and will start a dialog with like-minded teams. Even if you're happy with your roster, there's no reason not to put out a few feelers to see what offers come your way. If you're happy chances are there's someone not happy who might offer a bit too much for one of your gems.

5. Review your season schedule and note the Rivalry Weeks.
If you haven't already it's time to look at your schedule, who are you facing week 1 and then if you've got the time for it check it out in its entirety. Lots of things will change including whose team appears to be the best, but a few key things wont. When players have bye-weeks, and when they have juicy or rough fantasy match-ups. You'll also get a look at who you're playing twice this fantasy season.

6. Review your Rivals.
Those teams you're playing twice, it's time to mess with them. Who are their players, what are their strengths and weaknesses? What might they try to do? Having a better team than these individuals means you'll have a better chance at stacking wins especially towards the end of the season when it could be make or break for your season.

7. Trash talk your Rivals or the rest of the league.
There's much more to being a part of a league than just having a group of anonymous opponents to try and beat each week. To make those other managers feel more like true opponents you have to talk to them. Even if the only thing you have in common is being in the same league, use that! I'm one for trash talking, so trash talk their line-ups their drafts, their team logo and name! If you're too nice for that then do the opposite. These leagues should be like mini-communities, build them!

8. Boast about your roster and draft acumen.
Almost the opposite of point 7, but 7 should likely come before. After you've talked down (or up) everyone else's drafts, it's time to brag about your own. Let them all know how well you've done and they may be inclined to tell you differently. It's also a good way to get eyes on your team if you're interested in making trades. People actively trying to nitpick your roster will be more aware of who you have that they might want.

9. Start a smear campaign against players you're eventually going to target or are on your rival's rosters.
This plays into points 2 and 6. Down the line you're probably going to need to pick up or trade for some players, and like wise for your opponent. A smear campaign is to make certain players look unfavorable throughout the season. Talk about how old Frank Gore is, how pass focused Indy is, and how ugly that line is. Play up his bad weeks and down play his good weeks. The goal of this? Lowering their trade value. This hurts your rivals and could help you.

10. Sit back and hope your players don't get injured in the final week of the preseason. 
If you've drafted by now, then you have one more week of preseason football to watch. Hopefully you haven't already suffered a roster loss due to an injury, but you've got one more week to make it through. While fantasy football is definitely at the whim of injuries, you hate to see players lost in meaningless games, even fantasy wise!