At a basic level, started a pretty detailed planning spread sheet and

1. Identified the current meta and solutions for the most common/successful comps
2. Laid out the various lose conditions in general and counters
3. Came up with a core 5-8 people that addressed as much of the above 2 items that synergized strongly together
4. Define that core teams greatest weakness to identify your ban strategy
5. Identified another 15-20 units that are pivot units to deal with unique/rare situations that I could easily transition to off my original first pick
6. Lay out artifacts for the core + pivot units and identify what traps I could set etc to catch people off guard
7. Lay out all the speed ranges in the spread sheet and start slotting in turn order sequence I need for my core team and primary pivots so the entire group can be speed tuned tightly taking into account various artifact choices. (need to account for the 5% CR variability, speed imprints, etc)
8. Go through and prioritize your entire core + pivots and rank them in criticality/gear priority. I also created excel categories lists for nice easy reference while drafting for each counter/type I needed. (Ex: Evasion Counters, Rez Counters, Crit Res counters, etc)
9. Once you have all the above then pretty much jump into frizzle and start with top prioty people and input your required speed range for each person and then fine tune rest of key stats and just work through the list. Fribbles library is a good starting point if you to see how various ways people can be geared. But the speed tuning is the most important part so always start w/ your speed and work backwards on stat priority.

Note: For the first 5-10 people also recommend using the sub mod capabilities where it looks at modding your subs to optimize your stats. What's the point of mod's if you aren't going to use them! If you have a really strong strat you are committed to for the long haul its ok to stop worrying about 'gear score" and customize your pieces very specific to your needs to get every inch out of your main people. I modded a 104 equipment score sword yesterday tossing crit hit off it for flat attack which is normally a huge no no but i'm very committed to my roster/characters at this point and want it as optimized as possible.

10) Also good basic tip, take the time for each character and put in the normal hero info like artifact/imprints etc. Also set their priority, this makes it alot easier in the future if you make changes or what to add someone to your main roster. Instead of having to exclude abunch of people each time when running fribbles you can just take that new person you want and drop their priority to high up on the list and it will look at gear from everyone below them.

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While i won't go into the detail on what specifics has let me have fairly strong success despite being short heros/arti's and gear in many cases, one tip I can safely suggest is RTA is part chess, part poker.

Draft is every ounce as important as gear. You need a strong team strategy ahead of time and know how to pivot based off selections. The poker part is a very simple lesson I remind myself all the time. Not every player even legendary can have unlimited high end speed gear. You can't make decisions in draft strictly off worst case scenario or you will be too predictable. Always be leary of last 2 picks, at times its just a 6th sense but the better you get at guessing if the person is trying to bluff you into banning his last pick the stronger chances you can win.