
Sign up to use the Fantasy Pros Playbook. Manage all your fantasy teams in every league in just one place. Therefore, put off your drop assessments until at least October if you can, unless an obvious situation arises where it can't be helped. Scrambling with the herd to get your discarded prospect back is not only awkward but counter-productive to building your team up stronger. It's tempting sometimes to declare your guy a bust early and dump "the bum" prematurely for a shiny object on the waiver wire. In most cases, your fantasy players are right in the mix. By October, you'll have a better idea of where offenses and defenses stand or where they are moving toward in both positive and negative directions. In-season adjustments for the NFL teams are in continual flux as coaches seek to hone what is working and revamp what is not. This is why you should avoid unloading your underperforming upside lower-tier players on impulse, barring injury, during September waivers. 2019 Fantasy Football Week 1 Preview Why should rough edges and imperfections of early season contests be treated any different? What would our player stats look like without September? But then, we still count the points from the first quarter of a football game before a shaky quarterback settles down or a defense gets its act together. Yet, we take all our statistics as an organic whole and blindly include September. There is some truth in this, and most of us do feel the season essentially starts in October. It is often said that September is an extension of the preseason - except that the games count.
