Istarted playing fantasy basketball when I was in grad school. My roommate and I used to prep for drafts like we were studying for the bar exam. I'm talking binging on "SportsCenter" and NBA preview shows. I'm talking printouts -- literal printouts! -- of fantasy basketball advice and cheat sheets. I'm even talking giant draft boards, with us sometimes working together and other times privately so one couldn't steal the other's sleepers and draft secrets.

We used to have a ball doing all that draft preparation, and preparation was a big key for why both of us were so good at fantasy basketball drafts. By the time the draft came along, we no longer needed the printouts, because we already knew which players we were looking for in each part of the draft.

When you come into the draft with

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