ASK THE EXPERTS appears weekly from training camp through Super Bowl with answers to a new question being posted Thursday morning. How the guest experts responded when we asked them: Who should be the No. 1 pick in a playoff fantasy league?

ALAN SATTERLEE

I have been playing playoff fantasy football for about 15 years. Generally speaking, quarterbacks are the most important position (and kickers on teams that go to the Super Bowl are very important in this format) - as points are points. Also, generally speaking, go heavy on players on a bye in the wild card week as they are more likely to go to the Super Bowl and have three games. You can hit on a Green Bay or NY Giants team (2010/2011) that make it from the wild card week - but that is a bit of luck. All that said, I will be taking Russell Wilson at number one overall, followed by Tom Brady, then Peyton Manning and then Aaron Rodgers fourth as I view Wilson and the Seahawks most likely to make the Super Bowl and put up big points in the playoffs - again - and then locking in the other three quarterbacks with byes this year (and all are studs this year). They should be the iron clad locks for the first four picks if you ask me or you are not approaching this right. The top skill position player should be Demaryius Thomas and if I was gambling on a wild card player it would be Andrew Luck as I think he is a lock for two games and should deliver in the playoffs (like he did last year), and again quarterbacks will be the top scorers in the playoff format.

Satterlee is Co-Owner and Chief Editor/COO of FantasyFootballWarehouse.com. FFW features comprehensive profiles for all the major 2013 skill-position rookies, its Trading Spaces series, the team Deep Dives, the Speed Bump competition plus draft strategies, rankings, projections and more. FFW runs in tandem with its dynasty site DynastyFootballWarehouse.com.

IAN ALLAN

Scoring systems and formats vary. It’s like the wild west on these kind of things, with the big driver being the size of the competition. If you’re in a competition with thousands of entries, it makes sense to zig when others zag. If you can hit on maybe Baltimore and Dallas playing in the final game, it could pay off nicely. In a smaller competition (maybe 10-12), then you start looking at the merits of playing it with the safer Super Bowl choices, building around Seattle and New England. For me, if I’m holding the No. 1 pick, I’m looking at four guys. DeMarco Murray, Marshawn Lynch, Russell Wilson and Tom Brady. Murray might seem odd to some, but the probability of him playing three games (that is, making it to the NFC Championship) probably isn’t that different than the Seahawks or Patriots making it to the final game. In the last 14 years, 13 of the 28 No. 1 seeds have made it to the final game. And with Murray, there’s the added bonus that if the Cowboys get hot or get a few breaks, they might play in four games. Patriots and Seahawks are capped at three games.

Allan is the senior writer for Fantasy Football Index. He's been in that role since 1987, generating most of the player rankings and analysis for that publication. His work can be seen in Fantasy Football Index magazine, and also at www.fantasyindex.com.

SAM HENDRICKS

The highest scoring position is QB in most scoring formats so QB should be your first pick unless some other consideration trumps that (like TE 1.5 PPR, double points in the Super Bowl or only one player from each NFL team per roster). The first thing is to predict which teams will make it to the Super Bowl-i.e how many games each team plays. The more games they play-the more chances for fantasy points. Obviously the Super Bowl teams will play at least three games (perhaps four if they come from the first round) which is the most possible. I like to go with the favorites (#1 seeds) as they are most likely to make the big game. This years #5 and #6 seeds may have more of a chance of advancing though so weight their choices carefully. Ultimately I expect NE to face SEA. If this happens they get three games. Both Tom Brady and Russell Wilson are my top picks (in that order) with TE Rob Gronkowski a close third followed by Marshawn Lynch.

Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips and Fantasy Football Basics, all available at ExtraPointPress.com, at all major bookstores, and at Amazon and BN.com. He is a 20-plus year fantasy football veteran who regularly participates in the National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and finished 7th and 16th overall (out of 228 competitors) in the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC). Follow him at his web site, www.ffguidebook.com.

ANDY RICHARDSON

Like in a regular league, the scarcity of elite running backs makes those players awfully tempting with the top pick. There are 12 playoff teams, I see six that I am confident will play no more than two games, and I want the starting, featured back on one of those teams I think might play three games. Marshawn Lynch, DeMarco Murray, Eddie Lacy, C.J. Anderson; those are the guys I'm looking at for the top pick. I think I'd probably go with Lynch, as I think Seattle is going back to the Super Bowl.

Richardson has been a contributor and editor to the Fantasy Football Index magazine and www.fantasyindex.com since 2002. His responsibilities include team defense and IDP projections and various site features, and he has run the magazine's annual experts draft and auction leagues since their inception. He previews all the NFL games on Saturdays and writes a wrap-up column on Mondays during the NFL season.