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Fantasy BuckeyePlanet Fantasy Football - The Deuce

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I thought I had made a good backup QB pick with Matt Cassel... then I checked the bye week - same week as P. Rivers. I got Colt McCoy as a lottery ticket/no. 3 in the last round, which I didn't mind so much after seeing the WRs that were left. I would've had to hold my nose to pick any of the guys that were left.

There was a run on QBs early that I got in on with my 2nd round pick. I saw a clear top-5 and wanted to make sure I got one of them. Rivers was the only one of those five left by they time I got to pick again. In recent years, RBs have been emphasized heavily, to the extent where some RBs who only get about 8 touches a game are coming off the board before people have even filled their entire starting lineup. Meanwhile, QBs have been seen as mostly interchangeable. I've felt that QBs have been undervalued the last couple years, and going with a QB early has paid dividends with teams that score well week in and week out. Judging by this draft though, the pendulum may have begun to swing back in the other direction.

I was loathe to pick a TE as early as I did - gone are the days of Gonzalez, Gates and "everybody else". There is production across the league at that position. However, I'm a big believer in pairing up my starting QB with one of his top receiving targets, and with Rivers on board Gates became a reflexive pick. If you look on my bench you'll see that I'm backing him up with Marcedes Lewis, who I picked seven rounds later and had virtually identical numbers last season.

I waited until rounds 6-8 to get my WRs, and feel like I got great value with Colston, Maclin & Britt. It's always a risk if you wait that long at any one position, but I don't feel like I'm starting the season with a tremendous weakness at the position. It would have been nice to have a fourth guy there, but my QB snafu threw a wrench into that.
 
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Really happy with my team this go around:

QB: Roethlisberger, Orton

RB: M Turner, D Williams, J Best, M Lynch, CJ Spiller

WR: C Johnson, M Wallace, P Burress, AJ Green

TE: V Davis, B Watson

K: Janikowski

D: Jets Jets Jets

Pretty deep at the big positions, got some good RBs and didn't suffer at all at WR. I think Burress will get some TDs and I think either Spiller or Lynch can contribute, though theroetically I don't need to do much. My key pick was waiting as long as I did and getting BRoth.
 
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Bucknut24;1977566; said:
dont care what you guys think, I love my team, completely stacked at WR's, this league is a passing league, RB's aren't worth as much
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:huh:

Last year, 15 RBs produced more points in this league than the highest scoring WR.
 
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Bucknut24;1977566; said:
dont care what you guys think, I love my team, completely stacked at WR's, this league is a passing league, RB's aren't worth as much
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By Passing i believe you mean QBs are worth a lot, not the WRs. Without ppr, a QB is your main source of points, especially when their TDs are worth 6 just like everyone else. In a non-ppr league, RBs are still worth more than WRs.
 
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Bucknut24;1977862; said:
i guess maybe in this league, but in basically every league i've been in the past 3 years, WR's were your main players that got you the pts...

i played against someone last year who had 70 pts worth in his WRs
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Kenny Britt is a WR2 or WR3 that can be snagged mid draft. Lance Moore was at the end.

You can't get a proven fantasy starter at rb late in the draft. Sleepers yes, but not the equivalent of lance Moore. They come off the boards in rounds 4-7, depending on the format and size.
 
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Rolled the dice on Peyton Manning and came up snake eyes, so I grabbed Ryan Fitzpatrick off the FA list. Don't know if he can keep it up but talk about falling backasswards into something, so far anyway. :lol:
 
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wadc45;2004519; said:
Went into this week with the third most points in the league but 0-3. Not looking good this week either after putting up 122...
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Only up 122-118 and Max Powers still has Reggie Wayne to play. Not looking good. Looks like I will still have the third highest point total in the league but be 0-4.
 
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wadc45;2004655; said:
Only up 122-118 and Max Powers still has Reggie Wayne to play. Not looking good. Looks like I will still have the third highest point total in the league but be 0-4.
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That's why I went with straight points in the league that I run for my family. It feels like you're playing against everyone, every week, and it was really fun down the stretch last year. That's probably how I'll run every league that I commish in the future.

However, I can't really complain about my position in this league. I did absolutely zero research, came up with a flawed draft plan, and I'm now going to wallow in low-level mediocrity for the remainder of the season in all three of my leagues.
 
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Fantasy football sucks. I played for years and vowed never again a few years back. It took me a while to quit all of my leagues, though - I kept getting pulled back in.

I was the Commish of my main league back in the day. Had Tomlinson from his rookie year through the rest of the decade, had the best WR corps in my league, had a top defense every year, and always scored a ton of points. I had a three-year stretch where I set the season scoring record in my league in back-to-back-to-back years, and only made the playoffs once in those three years. And this was in a league that has been in existence since the late 80s, when the former Commish used to compile the stats from the box scores on a spreadsheet on Tuesdays and let us know who won that way.

So anyway, after years of frustration and losses due to stupid crazy flukes, I gave up. But I forgot about one league, this ESPN free league I'm in, and I didn't bail on it early enough this year to let them find someone, so I figured I'd do it one more year.

I completely half-assed the draft. I was 8th out of 12 teams, and I didn't do a lick of research prior to the draft. I used ESPN's rankings and I put a bunch of guys on my queue and let the computer autodraft for me.

I'm currently 3-1 (or will be as soon as the game is over tonight) and I'm in the top two in league scoring. I drafted a QB and a WR in my first two picks, ended up with three QBs (Rogers, Stafford and some schlub I can't remember), three place-kickers, two defenses and two TEs.

That's why fantasy football sucks. It is so completely, totally random that it's nearly impossible to win consistently. When a guy can completely punt the draft like I did and still win, that's a problem. In that league where I set all the scoring records, one of the years I had (again) a top-scoring team a buddy just quit on his team in mid-October. He didn't change his lineup from about the middle of October until the season ended.

He won the championship. And he had a mediocre team, too. He just lucked out that his opponents had bad games, and he kept winning. What fun is that?
 
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