Best Ball Championship, teams are eligible to draft right up until the kickoff of Week 5!

The $250,000 WEEK 5 BEST BALL CHAMPIONSHIP

The Week 5 Best Ball Championship is a $250,000 season-long tournament that starts Week 5 of the NFL Season.

Here’s how it works: You draft anytime prior to Week 5 kick off on October 3rd. This will be your team for the 12 remaining Regular Season weeks, there is no re-draft at any point. The Draft will be 18 rounds with a 30-second pick clock. Entry fee is $33 and you are capped at 150 entries. The tournament is broken into 3 phases, the Regular Season, Playoffs, and Finals. The Regular Season will be 12 person contests running from Week 5 through Week 12.

Win your 12 person contest and advance to The Playoffs which will be a 3-week tournament of 12 person contests running through Weeks 13, 14, and 15. You must place in the top 3 to advance from each week of The Playoffs. Make it through all 3 weeks of the playoffs and advance to The Finals where 12 teams will face off Week 16 for the $50,000 top prize.

The “Scoring Roster” is the same as the preseason drafts as well: 1 QB • 2 RB • 3 WR • 1 TE • 1 FLEX. For those of you needing a little refresher on Best Ball Strategy, you can go back to our ULTIMATE Guide To Best Ball Drafting. Our strategy for this Best Ball Championship is going to be almost identical to our strategy for the pre-season Best Ball Championships.

Key Strategy Tenants For The Draft Week 5 Best Ball Championship

-Make sure to focus on creating QB/WR stacks as much as possible. This both increases your upside in the event that you land in the Championship round but also provides you with a number of spiked weeks along the way which gives you the max amount of points possible.

-Avoid hyper-fragile running backs who only get points in one way. This means both James White/Tarik Cohen types but also Derrick Henry/Sony Michel style running backs that have to score touchdowns to have any sort of fantasy value.If you followed the Hybrid Zero-RB framework that was laid out in our ULTIMATE Guide to Zero RB Drafting, then this should be very familiar to you. There is really only a handful of running backs having good-to-great fantasy football seasons while there is an utter plethora of wide receivers who are beating their preseason Average Draft Position. This has made the elite running backs even more valuable than they were in the preseason and has made it even more obvious that the right strategy is to be really stocking up on wide receivers and the good tight ends in the middle rounds.

-Despite the heroics of Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes and Dak Prescott, late-round quarterbacking remains the proper strategy. In fact, some of the variance has been taken out of the strategy  by the shortened time frame and the fact that a few of the shakier situations (New York in particular) have already shaken out so you can be building stacks in this tournament in way that you couldn’t in the preseason Best Ball Championship.

-In general, our best advice to you is pretty simple: continue to draft players who are going to offer great weekly ceilings, play in good offenses and trust the projections/rankings that we have worked meticulously to create.

–We have the ADP for the Week 5 DRAFT Best Ball Championship HERE! Being able to track that with our rankings and projections is going to provide you a massive leg up on the people you are drafting against, as the results of the drafts show that most people thus far are simply drafting on their gut reactions to what has happened in the first three weeks.

Top 100 Rest Of Season Rankings For The Draft Best Ball Championship

Name	Team	Position
Christian McCaffrey	CAR	RB
Ezekiel Elliott	DAL	RB
Dalvin Cook	MIN	RB
David Johnson	ARI	RB
Nick Chubb	CLE	RB
Alvin Kamara	NO	RB
Le'Veon Bell	NYJ	RB
DeAndre Hopkins	HOU	WR
Austin Ekeler	LAC	RB
Julio Jones	ATL	WR
Mike Evans	TB	WR
Travis Kelce	KC	TE
JuJu Smith-Schuster	PIT	WR
Davante Adams	GB	WR
Amari Cooper	DAL	WR
Leonard Fournette	JAC	RB
Mark Ingram	BAL	RB
Keenan Allen	LAC	WR
Odell Beckham Jr.	CLE	WR
James Conner	PIT	RB
Joe Mixon	CIN	RB
Sammy Watkins	KC	WR
Michael Thomas	NO	WR
D.J. Moore	CAR	WR
Patrick Mahomes	KC	QB
Phillip Lindsay	DEN	RB
Josh Jacobs	OAK	RB
Cooper Kupp	LAR	WR
Matt Breida	SF	RB
Lamar Jackson	BAL	QB
Brandin Cooks	LAR	WR
Saquon Barkley	NYG	RB
Chris Godwin	TB	WR
Julian Edelman	NE	WR
Robert Woods	LAR	WR
Calvin Ridley	ATL	WR
Kerryon Johnson	DET	RB
Derrick Henry	TEN	RB
George Kittle	SF	TE
Chris Carson	SEA	RB
Evan Engram	NYG	TE
Tyler Lockett	SEA	WR
Miles Sanders	PHI	RB
Adam Thielen	MIN	WR
Marlon Mack	IND	RB
LeSean McCoy	KC	RB
Zach Ertz	PHI	TE
Todd Gurley	LAR	RB
Aaron Jones	GB	RB
Devin Singletary	BUF	RB
Austin Hooper	ATL	TE
David Montgomery	CHI	RB
Dak Prescott	DAL	QB
Darren Waller	OAK	TE
Kenny Golladay	DET	WR
Damien Williams	KC	RB
Allen Robinson	CHI	WR
Royce Freeman	DEN	RB
Deshaun Watson	HOU	QB
Devonta Freeman	ATL	RB
James White	NE	RB
Sony Michel	NE	RB
Duke Johnson	HOU	RB
Wayne Gallman	NYG	RB
Marquise Brown	BAL	WR
Malcolm Brown	LAR	RB
Carlos Hyde	HOU	RB
Rashaad Penny	SEA	RB
Latavius Murray	NO	RB
T.Y. Hilton	IND	WR
Kyler Murray	ARI	QB
Josh Gordon	NE	WR
Matt Ryan	ATL	QB
Tyrell Williams	OAK	WR
Josh Allen	BUF	QB
Tony Pollard	DAL	RB
O.J. Howard	TB	TE
Melvin Gordon	LAC	RB
Stefon Diggs	MIN	WR
Kenyan Drake	MIA	RB
Mark Andrews	BAL	TE
Carson Wentz	PHI	QB
Russell Wilson	SEA	QB
D.J. Chark	JAC	WR
Tevin Coleman	SF	RB
Tyler Boyd	CIN	WR
Christian Kirk	ARI	WR
Raheem Mostert	SF	RB
Jaylen Samuels	PIT	RB
Vance McDonald	PIT	TE
Jameis Winston	TB	QB
Chase Edmonds	ARI	RB
Alshon Jeffery	PHI	WR
Aaron Rodgers	GB	QB
John Ross	CIN	WR
Will Fuller	HOU	WR
Mike Williams	LAC	WR
Mecole Hardman	KC	WR
Justice Hill	BAL	RB
Michael Gallup	DAL	WR

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