Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens remind you to not interrupt your opponent if they’re making a mistake and to capitalize on it later. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

View more

Video Transcript

Give me your next don't for the people on draft day to not interrupt an opponent while they are making a mistake by far.

My least favorite draft habit that I, that I witness every year one of them is in like a live draft too.

And this is specific to salary cap drafts, right where we're, we're, we're, let's say a bidding war has broken out on a player.

Um, and this manager doesn't need that player or doesn't like that player doesn't want that player, whatever.

Um, they will start clowning the managers who are, who are involved in the bidding war, right?

So like it's ok, 21 22 23.

And um, fine, you don't like the player.

You don't think they're, you don't think they can deliver like 23 fake dollars worth of worth of value in fantasy.

That's fine.

How about you?

Just sit on that information for a minute and not try to stop the bidding while it's going on because maybe these guys will get to 35 maybe they'll get to 40 maybe they'll keep going.

Um, but I, there are some, there are some folks who can't wait to demonstrate how much they think they know and they, and they, and they have to interrupt that bidding process and they have to make fun of it and I swear it always, it always suppresses that the number that the, that, that player might go for.

Right.

Um, and there's just like, if you think somebody's making a mistake, like it, it's just fantasy football, it's not life and death.

You don't have to intervene.

You don't have to make fun of them just yet.

Or you can make fun of them, but just give it five minutes, just give it a few minutes, just, just let them get to whatever their, their actual max number is, um, bef before you lay into them.

Close