Squish (272)
E-roc (127)
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Jeff (53)
Mal (53)
Tommy (53)
Ken (44)
Amir (40)
Wolf (30)
As I mentioned previously, last night was my first fantasy football draft of the year, as I traditionally sign up for a Public league as soon as Yahoo opens for sign-ups. Anyways, I just wanted to share the team I ended up with. You’ll notice this league has an interesting twist, as it’s a 12-team league with no Defense or Kicker, but with extra position players. I’ll add some analysis later this evening if I can, but just know that this draft was done with a beer, no cheat sheets and the primary purpose of giving people an idea of how the drafts might go this season…
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Sean 4:41 pm on 6/22/2010 Permalink |
WHAT? You drafted Roddy White over the REAL Brand Marshall? HOW?
Love Steve Smith being drafted immediately after… Steve Smith.
Brandon 4:01 pm on 6/23/2010 Permalink |
Hah, had to go with Roddy White due to quarterback concerns in Miami. I guess Chad Henne can throw the long ball, but that’s not always B. Marshall’s specialty.
However, now that the draft is over and I’m looking at the accumulated points for players in the league according to the scoring rules, it breaks down like this:
1. Quarterbacks – WAY above the rest of the players. Glad I got two solid starters and one decent one to play in the flex spot!
2. Receivers that return kicks – Return yardage is HUGE apparently. I just picked up Danny Amendola of the Rams, since he would have scored 130 points last year under these scoring rules, while Roddy White only had 129! Good thing I’m stocked on kick returners like Jacoby Jones, Darren Sproles, Amendola, and Brandon Tate (assuming he returns kicks for NE.)
3. Running backs and wide receivers not returning kicks
4. Tight ends
e-roc 4:16 pm on 6/23/2010 Permalink |
First of all, I love that it’s Fantasy Football season again.
Secondarily, nice draft! I probably would’ve gone after another RB instead of Alex Smith in the 10th round… It was interesting to see who were the Top 5 players off the board.. Our league is very QB-point heavy, so Brees arguably will go #1 overall.
Brandon 6:51 am on 6/25/2010 Permalink |
e-roc, this league is also VERY quarterback heavy, so I’m actually glad I grabbed Alex Smith before all of the half-way decent QB’s were gone. Just for comparison sake, last year, Smith would have had 232 points, while Chris Johnson would have only had 222! I didn’t realize it was this lopsided until after the draft, so I’m glad I got that third quarterback.
Don’t worry though, in our normal leagues with “normal” scoring, things might be a bit different
Amir 12:50 am on 7/01/2010 Permalink |
Shouldn’t you have drafted QB/QB since QB is so heavy and you start 2 of them?
Brandon 4:59 pm on 7/01/2010 Permalink |
In retrospect, maybe that would have been a good idea, but I think I ended up with decent enough options at the QB position along with my Chris Johnson pick. Not that excited to hear Roddy White’s name brought up in the recent Mike Vick drama, but I don’t think he’s being implicated of anything so it should be all good.
I do like some of the ideas behind this league. Having no kicker and no defense takes a bit of randomness out of the weekly match-ups. Also, having more QB/RB/WR/TE adds more variety between the top-tier players some teams have and the scrubs that other teams roll out. Maybe I can convince my real leagues to consider some of these options this year (hint, hint…Matt?)
Squish 9:02 pm on 7/04/2010 Permalink |
Nice to see you guys back in the game again! I’m currently in a tough spot in a keeper league and would appreciate some help. It’s a league where the starting spots are:
2QB
3WR
2 RB
1 TE
1W/R
1 K
1DEF
1DB
1DL
My problem is that the 3 QBs I ended the season with last year were Warner, Mcnabb, and Alex Smith. Not exactly the best keeper material lol. The big issue is that I have great keepers at a lot of other positions. I can keep five players.
ATM, the choices are these:
McNabb
Vincent Jackson
Andre Johnson
Roy Williams
DeAngelo Williams
Kevin Smith
Turner
Brent Celek
Owen Daniels
Jared Allen (DL)
It seems pretty simple at first glance but the league is setup so that the keepers you take are your first picks. If you take less of them, you get to pick while other guys are taking their keepers. In addition to the 5 regular keepers, you can choose to keep players from the rookie draft. I never use the rookie portion of the draft to grab rookies so I have none of those. Most teams have If I take only 4 keepers and leave Mcnabb out there, I would definitely be able to nab Ryan Matthews. Obviously I’d be way over stacked at RB but I would have a hell of a lot of trade bait to perhaps procure a few top level guys. In addition, most teams already have 2 good QBs and it’s likely I could draft McNabb later in the draft.
So what I’ve been thinking is:
1st – Turner (Keeper)
2nd – AJ (Keeper)
3rd – DW (Keeper)
4th – Vjax (Keeper) – (if he decides to play this year)
5th – Ryan Matthews/Any other good players not kept (Last season I got DeAngelo Williams in the 6th because I was the only team without a rookie keeper)
Any advice? Should I just play it safe and take McNabb?
Ken 10:09 am on 7/13/2010 Permalink |
Hey guys. Can’t wait for this season of FF football. I see Fitz went in the 2nd round for your draft. I was curious to see how far he’d drop without Warner in the picture. Seems like he still has value in most drafts
I’m joining a keeper league as an expansion team. Myself and two other players are given 3 keeper picks before the draft from the 3 rosters of players who won’t be in the league anymore. I traded my 4th round draft pick for S. Rice. So I have to pick two keepers. The draft snakes and I got my picks back to back
I’ll be picking Matt Shaub for sure, and then my other viable options are:
Brett Farve
Eli Manning
Ricky Williams
Ronnie Brown
Anquan Boldin
I’m a little torn on my 2nd pick. Keep in mind, minus the rookies, the top 10 RB are already locked up through the keeper system. So I’m leaning towards taking RIcky or Ronnie just to secure myself some sort of decent RB, but to me neither of those guys are actually 2nd or 3rd round material.
What do you guys think? Should I take the RB, say Ricky? Or should I lock up a very solid backup QB with Eli. Take a risk and grab farve to have two top QBs that I could leverage for a trade down the road. Boldin’s in there but I don’t see much of a point in making him a keeper pick.
Thanks
Mal 1:45 am on 7/30/2010 Permalink |
good to be back ffgb, and nice draft Brandon. My first question this year is- do you guys know of a way to practise a live draft? Any websites out there? So I guess a dummy draft
Brandon 10:42 am on 8/06/2010 Permalink |
Fleaflicker.com has a Mock Draft feature. Not sure it allows you to customize the league though, but it gives you a decent idea of how the rounds will work out.