OK, first let me make my annual request/suggestion: PLEASE don't just list your team. After the first 50 or 100 of those posts, they all run together and become worthless. If you want to share your roster, then also share your reasoning/strategy to make the post readable and informative. Even if I disagree with your strategy, it becomes food for thought that the roster alone doesn't.
FWIW, my strategy started with looking at last year's top 10 teams. The one thing they all seemed to have in common was 2 stud (top 5) RBs. ( Of course, that may be the effect of hindsight--last year my picks from the preseason top 5 RBs were Spiller and Richardson, which pretty much doomed me from the start.) After that, last year's winners were all over the place, from expensive QBs to cheap QBs, expensive TEs to quantity TEs, etc. That led me to believe the one important constant was stud RBs, so that's where I started. The "obvious" values to me were all Steelers and Panthers, and I originally loaded up with them. Of course, tehn I realized the reason they were all underpriced was because of the Week 12 byes. That's way too late in the contest to have that many guys missing, so I had to back off Ben, Blount, Cam, Cotchery, etc. Here's where I ended up (bye weeks in parenthesis):
QB - Colin Kaepernick - 14 (8)
QB - Jay Cutler - 12 (9)
With a big chunk of my payroll going to RB, and wanting to also go TE heavy, it didn't leave enough money for one of the Big 3 QBs. Every time I tried to squeeze one of them in, it seemed to weaken me too much elsewhere, so I went for 2 guys with top 5 potential who were cheaper. I started with Cutler and Ben, but the Week 12 issue made me switch to Kaep.
RB - LeSean McCoy - 34 (7)
RB - Matt Forte - 32 (9)
RB - Danny Woodhead - 13 (10)
RB - Andre Williams - 7 (8)
RB - Benny Cunningham - 3 (4)
As I said, 2 studs. Knowing I was taking Jimmy Graham meant Charles wasn't an option because of the matching bye week. Went back and forth between Forte/Woodhead and ADP/Fred Jackson combos, and eventually ended up this way. Had Blount for a long time despite the Week 12 issue, but the emergence of Cunningham, allowed me to switch to him and avoid that issue while saving a few dollars. 5 different bye weeks so 4 will be active each week, and all will be available to provide a flex score in Week 12 when my WRs are weakened.
WR - Dez Bryant - 27 (11)
WR - Antonio Brown - 22 (12)
WR - Kelvin Benjamin - 5 (12)
WR - Markus Wheaton - 5 (12)
WR - Malcom Floyd - 4 (10)
WR - John Brown - 3 (4)
WR - Jeremy Kerley - 3 (11)
WR - Mohamed Sanu - 3 (4)
I think WR is the best place to go for quantity--lots of $3-$9 guys who can put up occasional big weeks. Even with the Week 12 issue, I couldn't pass up Brown, Benjamin and Wheaton. With Bryant and Brown providing starter scores most weeks, occasional big weeks from the others should be all I need for byes/flex scores.
TE - Jimmy Graham - 30 (6)
TE - Heath Miller - 10 (12)
TE - Dwayne Allen - 8 (10)
Graham's just too valuable to pass on. I think Miller will have a huge year--last year when he was hurt to start the season, Cotchery became Ben's go to guy and got 10 TDs. This year I think he goes back to Heath. Of course, with the Week 12 bye again, I needed a 3rd guy. With Kelce having the same bye week as Graham, Allen was the clear choice. I suspect/hope most of my flex scoring will come from the TE position.
PK - Mike Nugent - 3 (4)
PK - Graham Gano - 3 (12)
PK - Blair Walsh - 3 (10)
TD - Tennessee Titans - 3 (9)
TD - Washington Redskins - 3 (10)
I've always been a 3k-3d guy, but couldn't squeeze out enough money for that this year. I figured if I had to give one up, I'd go with 2 Ds since they can't disappear because of an injury. Used Herman's ratings to take the best 3 kicker with different bye weeks and tried all kinds of combos for Ds on Draft Dominator looking for pairings that matched up schedule strength-wise.
Total value: 250
