The scoring rules in Scott Fish Bowl 16 are not standard PPR. Points come from places you do not always think about, and if you draft on autopilot with a redraft board you are giving up value in every round. After running our composite through hundreds of SFB mock drafts and pulling 400+ live drafts into the Tradyr live ADP, these are the edges I keep coming back to.
TEs get a full point per reception plus tight-end-specific bonuses. In practice a good pass-catching TE puts up wide-receiver points on wide-receiver volume. Yet the top 3-4 TEs still consistently go 12-18 picks later than the equivalent WR. If you can grab an elite TE at the 2/3 turn, you are getting WR2 output at a TE cost. That is a full round of value in a 20-round draft.
Watch the second TE tier too. Once the top 4 go, there is a hard drop. Guys ranked TE5-TE10 in composite terms often live in the 8th-11th round of SFB drafts. Take two in that stretch, start the higher of the two every week, and you have a positional advantage most leagues will not.
This is the single biggest scoring quirk to internalise. SFB pays a bonus for 40+ yard plays, and rushing 40+ yard plays are extremely rare. In 2025, there were only 8 rushing plays of 40+ yards across the entire NFL season. Receiving 40+ yard plays? 214. And the vast majority of those went to WRs.
Translated to draft strategy: your bonus-farming pool is receivers, not runners. Specifically:
Tradyr tags every player with a role archetype. RBs get labelled BELL COW / WORKHORSE / PASS-CATCHING RB / SATELLITE BACK / GOAL-LINE BACK. WRs get ALPHA / DEEP THREAT / SLOT / POSSESSION. TEs get RECEIVING TE / RED-ZONE TE / BLOCKING TE. For SFB, you want the receiving-heavy tags at every position. Use the archetype filter in the rankings and on any player profile.
SFB rewards QBs with a bonus but does not go full Superflex. Rushing yards for QBs are worth extra, which inflates rushing QBs and slightly deflates pure pocket passers. But because it is single-QB, and because the ceiling QB tier is deep this year, you can wait on QB and still land a top-8 finisher in rounds 8-10.
My rule: I will not draft a QB before pick 60. Every year I try and every year the QB2 tier catches up to the QB1 tier from a point-per-game standpoint. The opportunity cost of a round 4 QB is a round 4 WR you actually needed.
Because everyone else is drafting with a spreadsheet, and because the SFB scoring quirks are similar across all rank sets, positional runs happen. When 3 WRs go in a row in round 5, the 4th WR off the board is a discount. Recognise the run, do not chase it. If you needed WR and someone else took your target, pivot to RB/TE and come back to WR in the next tier.
Our SFB16 live ADP blends every real draft happening on Sleeper right now with our SFB-specific projection model. A single source ADP will lag reality by 2-3 days after any injury news. Composite ADP shifts within an hour. Use it as your reality check the day of your draft — see sfb.tradyr.app for the live board.
SFB16 has no kicker and no defense. That is 2 extra bench spots you get to spend on skill positions. Rough targets for a 20-round SFB draft:
Do not force this. If the board tells you an elite TE fell to round 4, take him and adjust. Structure is a guide, not a rule.
SFB is snake, not linear. Picks 1-3 get an elite anchor, picks 10-12 get a value stack across rounds 1 and 2. The pick most people undervalue is the middle. From picks 5-8 you get consistent access to the tier breaks and rarely have to reach. If you are drafting from the middle and feel like you are missing out, you are not.
Good luck. Draft the pass-catchers you like at the picks you think they are worth. That is 90 percent of it.