Yahoo autodraft pre-ranks...

[Triplec223]

So there's a pretty good chance that I won't be able to make my team's draft on Monday, so I'm going to pre-rank my players and hope the autodraft route works out. My question is to those of you who have customized your Yahoo pre-ranks before:

Does autodraft still take into consideration position needs when you rank guys? For example, if I rank Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers back-to-back, is autodraft going to pick both of those if they're available, regardless of whether or not I already have a QB?

And if I already have 2 WR and only 1 RB and have Dwayne Bowe ranked ahead of say Marion Barber, is it still going to draft Barber since I need another running back? I would rather have Bowe in that situation. It just gives me a headache thinking about it.

[Payne Dailey]

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[swyck]

So there's a pretty good chance that I won't be able to make my team's draft on Monday, so I'm going to pre-rank my players and hope the autodraft route works out. My question is to those of you who have customized your Yahoo pre-ranks before:

Does autodraft still take into consideration position needs when you rank guys? For example, if I rank Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers back-to-back, is autodraft going to pick both of those if they're available, regardless of whether or not I already have a QB?

And if I already have 2 WR and only 1 RB and have Dwayne Bowe ranked ahead of say Marion Barber, is it still going to draft Barber since I need another running back? I would rather have Bowe in that situation. It just gives me a headache thinking about it.

The linked post is good one to read if your doing this. To summarize your two questions:
A) It will fill out your roster first then move to the bench. So it will take Brees, but not Rodgers.
B) If you have a starting roster of 2WR and 2RB it will take Barber since WR starters are filled. If you have a starting roster of 3WR and 2RB it will take Bowe since both slots are available and Bowe is ranked higher. Flex is filled after the regular slots. What this means it you should create tiers of players within your rankings, e.g. RB1, WR1, RB2, WR2, QB1, RB3, TE1, etc.

It's very possible to get a good draft out of an autodraft as long as you do a decent job with ranking and ordering of tiers. Make sure you exclude people you don't want at any price and have your sleepers moved up a bit in their own tiers.