Regardless of whether you are playing for a cash prize or even just playing against your friends for fun, it can be difficult to figure out what to do when your fantasy football season gets to a place where it seems like you can do nothing but lose; after all, the common thought, as far as fantasy football goes, is that there is not a whole lot you can do after the draft to improve your team. But while you can certainly enjoy a great season as the result of a great draft, a bad draft does not necessarily have to spell disaster for your chances in the season, as long as you know what you can do in order to improve your team as the season goes along – turning around your bad fantasy football season and making your team competitive!

The waiver wire in your league will probably become bereft of serious talent as the season progresses, but that does not mean that there will be absolutely no one who you can pick up; there will always be players who are set to have huge second halves of the season, either because of injury to someone else on their team, or because of a new role for them on the team, so keep your eyes open for such players, always looking to make speculative adds on high-upside players.

You should also make an effort to “bye week stack” as you pick up players; you might not be able to field a great team in the middle of the season, but you can pay attention to the weeks when your opponent will get hit hard by the bye weeks, and you can make sure you have a full-strength team on these weeks, saving your own “bye week heavy” weeks for when you will be playing a full-strength opponent you would probably lose to anyway!

And of course, trades are one of the best ways to improve your team as the season progresses; look to sell high on players you feel are over-performing, and buy low on players you feel have not been playing up to their talent level!

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