The Best Ball Triumvirate: Three Factors to Weigh in Best Ball Drafting

What do you need to weigh when on the clock in a best ball draft? We go through three key considerations to balance in your drafting.

Three is a magic number, oh yes it is (Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire)

What are the most important things to focus on in a Best Ball draft? Should you take your QB way earlier than you expect him to be drafted, because you have a receiver from the team? How many running backs or quarterbacks should you take? These questions and more can be quite challenging, and so we are going to lay out some of the things you need to think about when constructing your best ball roster.

PoolGenius subscribers who have used our Survivor Pool Picks have probably heard us talking about the Holy Trinity of survivor factors. You have to balance the win odds, the pick popularity, and the future value of each team when making survivor pool decisions. Sometimes, those factors can conflict, and you have to make a decision that is optimal for one factor, but not the other.

The same is true in Best Ball Drafts. What may be a good pick for one draft factor may be a poor one for another.

So in this article, we’ll introduce the Best Ball Triumvirate, what you need to balance as you draft your team. The three key considerations are:

• Position Allocation (Roster Construction)
• Player Evaluation and Rankings
• Stacking and Roster Correlation

Let’s go through how to think about each.