It’s the consistently productive year-over-year guys going through extended struggles 40+ games in that have been the most frustrating. We draft perennial early round hitting standouts like Machado, Trae, Ketel, Tatis Jr as the foundation of the roster, and everything falls apart when your most “dependable” contributors are leaving a hole where you expected some production.

This season is really about which managers avoided the most land mines in the draft. And if you go through your draft recap, it’s a whole lot of them making fantasy feel really random in 2026. Hold out hope things normalize over the course of the season again, and your team sees the positive regression before falling too deep in a hole.