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Your Strategy Guide To 2026 Guilloteenies

Happy Postseason, Guillotine Leaguers! We’ve all had a full week to relish in our regular season Guillotine Leagues™ championships, collecting first-place payouts and trash-talking your leaguemates. Now, we look ahead to postseason Guillotine League action and further domination over our friends, family members, coworkers and colleagues.

In this column, I, Jake Nagy, will be providing general strategy as we prepare for our Playoff Guilloteenie drafts. I’ll also provide an example draft based on my own Playoff Guilloteenie rankings, which can give you an idea of different team-building outcomes. Also, be sure to check out the latest CHOP Podcast, during which Brian Johnson & Matthew Freedman provide an excellent breakdown of the format and its strategies.

2026 Guilloteenie Strategy Nuggets

The first key thing to note about the Playoff Guilloteenie format is that there are no reserves. You’ll only draft a starting lineup of eight players as outlined above. For our regular-season winners, it’s possible that you won by hoarding all of the best players, even if that meant leaving them on your bench. That strategy won’t fly here, so don’t try any Bully Tight End or other similar strategies.

As such, only 40 players will be drafted in a standard five-team league. Unlike a standard regular-season Guillotine League, you won’t need to start Elic Ayomanor for the first six weeks of the season. You’re going to have good players on good teams throughout your roster.

Some readers may be familiar with other playoff fantasy formats, such as playoff best ball. The Playoff Guilloteenie requires the exact opposite mindset. For starters, you don’t need to worry about optimizing your roster with players who have the best chance to make the Super Bowl. Each week you survive, you will have an opportunity to improve your roster, scooping up the best players from the roster that just got cut and that will be playing the following week. However, this doesn’t mean you can turn two blind eyes to future matchups and the potential for players to advance; just one. I wouldn’t recommend filling your roster with a bunch of Panthers players. If you were planning on doing this, I think we’d better find you a new hobby.

If you read any of our in-season strategy columns or listened to the CHOP Podcast, you know that we at Fantasy Life are allergic to bye weeks. Taking an automatic zero in your lineup is as surefire a way to get chopped as any. Of course, in the playoffs, two teams will be on bye during Wild Card weekend: the Seahawks and Broncos. The primary advantage to drafting these players is that you won’t need to spend FAAB to acquire them for the Divisional Round and onward. However, I don’t believe that advantage is worth the guaranteed zero for any fantasy-relevant players on any of those two teams, save for one exception: Jaxon Smith-Njigba.

For position-specific advice, the only positional advantages to be found are at the quarterback and tight end positions. Remember, there are only five teams in a standard Playoff Guilloteenie, so only five quarterbacks and five tight ends need to be drafted. Over the 2026 season, Josh Allen scored over 40 more points than the next Playoff Guilloteenie quarterback, Drake Maye. Allen is the only quarterback who offers both the passing and rushing upside that makes him worth a high pick. If you don’t draft Allen, I’d recommend punting the position to the later rounds. This same mindset applies to George Kittle and the rest of the tight end position. Either spend that high pick on Kittle, or punt to the late rounds. If you’re playing in a Double Chop league, you can draft the next tier of quarterbacks and tight ends a little earlier.

Fantasy Football Season Is Not Over

Four rounds. Three chops. One champion. Guilloteenies are now live in the Guillotine Leagues™ lobby.

Around the Watercooler

The latest fantasy nuggets, silliness, and NFL gossip from our merry band of football nerds.

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📜 Lots of head coach openings … and GM, too.

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🏆 Christian McCaffrey, Trey McBride or Bijan Robinson for 2025 Fantasy MVP: Choose your fighter.

👀 Speaking of fantasy awards, we’re giving away a lot of them.

😤 NFL teams established the run this year … good Lord.

🏆️ Who deserves the NFL awards? Fun piece from Bill Barnwell.

💪 The Rams are getting help back. He’s a strong Guilloteenie pick.

🤔 Is your dynasty team stuck in the middle? Multiple ways to get out ASAP.

🥺 Getting sentimental over your fantasy team is OK.