barackdhouse
Footballguy
As I mentioned in the J Warren thread, in my big national redraft contests, 8 of 14 leagues* had a Warren owner that took a 0. I had him in only 1 league but managed to sub out for Harvey (that worked out well). Anyway it's kind of a big deal to take a 0 when you don't have to. It's one thing when a player starts and gets hurt on the third play like Xavier Worthy. Simply nothing you can do about that. But when the news comes out and you're asleep, well... God bless you. Here is the outlook coming up if any FF players here think this matters. Check out how many names are involved.
London 630 am kickoff Pacific time the next three Sundays in London and then a 2 week respite before 2 more Europe games. Newsflash.
MIN @ CLE
DEN @ NYJ
LAR @ JAX
ATL @ IND in Germany week 10
WAS @ MIA in Spain week 11
not sure who is a must start on CLE besides Judkins
Jefferson, Mason
Dobbins, Sutton, Nix, Fields, Wilson, Breece but I think Mims is a strong flex as well
Puka, Adams, Kyren, ETN
Bijan, Taylor, Pittman, Warren
Daniels, Deebo, Waddle, Achane
quite a few other realistic options during bye weeks, lot of TEs that aren't auto starts but worthy. Strange, Waller, Ertz, Pitts, M Taylor, Engram, Njoku and Fannin, Hockenson.
Others like Addison, Jeudy, B Thomas (can't believe I'm saying that), London, whoever emerges as the MIA #2 post Tyreek, Tillman and McLaurin easily guys that might be Questionable going into a Sunday morning kickoff.
Somewhere between decent and desperation RB plays for guys like me, Harvey, Ford, I Davis, Corum, Tuten, Allgeier, Bill, Gordon all worthy of possibly throwing in your lineup. and therefore worth taking a look at. Oh and Stafford, Tua, Indiana Jones, are easy starts the others less so.
ok so just saying those are 48 names that are *very* fantasy relevant with Europe kickoffs over 5 of the next 7 weeks.
*those national redraft leagues are $350 per and the regular season is only 12 weeks long. Only the top 4 get into the league playoffs and only the top 2 make it to the Big Dance so it is paramount that you perform as an owner at your very best. 1 seed goes to best record. 2 seed goes to most pts scored out of remaining teams. 3 seed goes to remaining best record, 4 seed to most pts scored out of remaining teams. So taking an L is huge even just taking the 0 is a big deal though because pts accumulated are huge. One L out of 12 matchups is 8.3% of your season in the negative direction (and +8.3 for your opponent). All because they didn't want to set an alarm and be awake for 15 minutes. Always could have gone back to sleep after but dang is it significant to be alert for these things.
last note as I said in the Warren thread, things happen ALL THE TIME in warmups. Player X might have been 100% all week and then slips in the shower, tweaks something in warmups, or gets robbed in a foreign country and sustain minor injuries or get arrested or who knows but I would NEVER rest easy on Saturday night thinking my lineups are fine. Coked out, drunk still, hungover I don't care. Only exception is being out of wifi or cell range. Like I sometimes am when I'm camping but the fall rains just came and that outdoor season is over now. Ok rant over but I just wanted to show a little of the scope of this.
London 630 am kickoff Pacific time the next three Sundays in London and then a 2 week respite before 2 more Europe games. Newsflash.
MIN @ CLE
DEN @ NYJ
LAR @ JAX
ATL @ IND in Germany week 10
WAS @ MIA in Spain week 11
not sure who is a must start on CLE besides Judkins
Jefferson, Mason
Dobbins, Sutton, Nix, Fields, Wilson, Breece but I think Mims is a strong flex as well
Puka, Adams, Kyren, ETN
Bijan, Taylor, Pittman, Warren
Daniels, Deebo, Waddle, Achane
quite a few other realistic options during bye weeks, lot of TEs that aren't auto starts but worthy. Strange, Waller, Ertz, Pitts, M Taylor, Engram, Njoku and Fannin, Hockenson.
Others like Addison, Jeudy, B Thomas (can't believe I'm saying that), London, whoever emerges as the MIA #2 post Tyreek, Tillman and McLaurin easily guys that might be Questionable going into a Sunday morning kickoff.
Somewhere between decent and desperation RB plays for guys like me, Harvey, Ford, I Davis, Corum, Tuten, Allgeier, Bill, Gordon all worthy of possibly throwing in your lineup. and therefore worth taking a look at. Oh and Stafford, Tua, Indiana Jones, are easy starts the others less so.
ok so just saying those are 48 names that are *very* fantasy relevant with Europe kickoffs over 5 of the next 7 weeks.
*those national redraft leagues are $350 per and the regular season is only 12 weeks long. Only the top 4 get into the league playoffs and only the top 2 make it to the Big Dance so it is paramount that you perform as an owner at your very best. 1 seed goes to best record. 2 seed goes to most pts scored out of remaining teams. 3 seed goes to remaining best record, 4 seed to most pts scored out of remaining teams. So taking an L is huge even just taking the 0 is a big deal though because pts accumulated are huge. One L out of 12 matchups is 8.3% of your season in the negative direction (and +8.3 for your opponent). All because they didn't want to set an alarm and be awake for 15 minutes. Always could have gone back to sleep after but dang is it significant to be alert for these things.
last note as I said in the Warren thread, things happen ALL THE TIME in warmups. Player X might have been 100% all week and then slips in the shower, tweaks something in warmups, or gets robbed in a foreign country and sustain minor injuries or get arrested or who knows but I would NEVER rest easy on Saturday night thinking my lineups are fine. Coked out, drunk still, hungover I don't care. Only exception is being out of wifi or cell range. Like I sometimes am when I'm camping but the fall rains just came and that outdoor season is over now. Ok rant over but I just wanted to show a little of the scope of this.
