Drafting out of the 5 hole in FFPC/FBGPC Tonight (1 Viewer)

[LHUCKS]

I like your draft but in the FFPC scoring format, I think it is a huge mistake to wait until Round 8 to draft your WR1. And then you drafted a rookie WR1. What WR did you pass on in Round 3 to take Bradshaw? I made the same mistake last year in my first FFPC draft. The value wasn't there so I kept waiting, but you can't wait 8 rounds.

You could hit the lottery with Randy Moss, but you will have trouble cracking into the top 3 teams without some free agent WR luck.

I think I may hit with some of the WRs I have now. I really like AJ Green in particular.Everybody has weaknesses in this league.

 

[baconisgood]

I drafted out of the 4 hole last night in the FPC and went a very different direction that LHUCKS so I thought it would be good to compare the results side by side. LHUCKS' team on the left, mine on the right

Starters

QB

Rivers - Rodgers

RB

Chris Johnson - Peterson

MJD - Fred Jackson

WR

Mike Williams (SEA) - Marshall

AJ Green - S. Holmes

TE

V Davis - J Finley

FLEX

Bradshaw - Santana Moss

Benson - AJ Green

Bench

Hines Ward Chris Cooley

Randy Moss B Jacobs

Malcom Floyd T Jone

James Jones D Bess

Danario Alexander D ward

Brent Celek S Ridley

Sam Bradford D Driver

QB- My advantage- by a decent margin

RB1- even

RB2- LHUCKS by a big margin but with risk

WR1- Me- by a big margin,

WR2- Me- even if Lhucks WR2 blows up- I have him as well as a flex large advantage

TE- Close- I give Finley more upside but has more risk. Prefer Finley/Cooley to VD/Celek- small advantage here.

Flex-

Bradshaw-Moss- bradshaw is the favorite but he only outproduced Moss in this format by a few points last year. Obviously a worse QB situation for Moss downgrades him buy his 2008-2009 numbers with Campbell (not a great QB) ~ 75/1,000/4 which is a big advantage for Bradshaw, but not ovewhelming.

Benson/Wells- AJ green/Chris Cooley. Not counting his rookie season Cooley averages 70/800/5- which is very close to Benson last season while having the upside of AJ Green to plug in. I would rather have Benson/Wells to plug into 2 starting spots but would rather have the AJ Green/Cooley combo for 1 spot.

 

[shnikies]

Why would you take Bradford in the 10th with Rivers on your roster? Waiver wire for Rivers bye. That pick was truly a waste.

 

[BassNBrew]

I like your draft but in the FFPC scoring format, I think it is a huge mistake to wait until Round 8 to draft your WR1. And then you drafted a rookie WR1. What WR did you pass on in Round 3 to take Bradshaw? I made the same mistake last year in my first FFPC draft. The value wasn't there so I kept waiting, but you can't wait 8 rounds.

You could hit the lottery with Randy Moss, but you will have trouble cracking into the top 3 teams without some free agent WR luck.

I think I may hit with some of the WRs I have now. I really like AJ Green in particular.Everybody has weaknesses in this league.

I think you'll be relying a lot on luck to advance. Sure your RB flexes like Benson will put up solid numbers, but they will be unspectacular. If you catch bad schedule matchups or an opponent with hot WRs in the flex spot you could easily be a top scoring team that misses the playoffs.Not sure how the draft went down, but I would think a TE flex (say Winslow) would out produce Benson.

 

[ffrookie]

My draft also out of 4:

QB Rodgers

QB McNabb

RB CJ2K

RB Deangelo Williams

RB Daniel Thomas

RB Ringer

RB Harrison

RB Goodson

WR VJax

WR Collie

WR Julio Jones

WR Evans

WR Burleson

WR Hixon

WR Sanders

TE Olsen

TE Kendricks

TE Boss

K Rackers

D Lions

 

[LHUCKS]

I like your draft but in the FFPC scoring format, I think it is a huge mistake to wait until Round 8 to draft your WR1. And then you drafted a rookie WR1. What WR did you pass on in Round 3 to take Bradshaw? I made the same mistake last year in my first FFPC draft. The value wasn't there so I kept waiting, but you can't wait 8 rounds.

You could hit the lottery with Randy Moss, but you will have trouble cracking into the top 3 teams without some free agent WR luck.

I think I may hit with some of the WRs I have now. I really like AJ Green in particular.Everybody has weaknesses in this league.

I think you'll be relying a lot on luck to advance. Sure your RB flexes like Benson will put up solid numbers, but they will be unspectacular. If you catch bad schedule matchups or an opponent with hot WRs in the flex spot you could easily be a top scoring team that misses the playoffs.Not sure how the draft went down, but I would think a TE flex (say Winslow) would out produce Benson.

we'll agree to disagree...remember, i have a three back rotation for the two flex spots...so I play matchups with Benson/Wells/Bradshaw...i'm very high on Wells.I'm also very high on AJ Green.

That being said, I should have drafted better in the middle rounds...could have done a lot better at WR...I wasn't as prepared as I should have been.

Right now I project my team to score the third most points in the league.

 

[LHUCKS]

Why would you take Bradford in the 10th with Rivers on your roster? Waiver wire for Rivers bye. That pick was truly a waste.

You need a backup QB and Bradford was great value per my projections...he and McCoy are my two big value plays at QB this year. People forget how many injuries there are in football.

 

[BassNBrew]

I like your draft but in the FFPC scoring format, I think it is a huge mistake to wait until Round 8 to draft your WR1. And then you drafted a rookie WR1. What WR did you pass on in Round 3 to take Bradshaw? I made the same mistake last year in my first FFPC draft. The value wasn't there so I kept waiting, but you can't wait 8 rounds.

You could hit the lottery with Randy Moss, but you will have trouble cracking into the top 3 teams without some free agent WR luck.

I think I may hit with some of the WRs I have now. I really like AJ Green in particular.Everybody has weaknesses in this league.

I think you'll be relying a lot on luck to advance. Sure your RB flexes like Benson will put up solid numbers, but they will be unspectacular. If you catch bad schedule matchups or an opponent with hot WRs in the flex spot you could easily be a top scoring team that misses the playoffs.Not sure how the draft went down, but I would think a TE flex (say Winslow) would out produce Benson.

we'll agree to disagree...remember, i have a three back rotation for the two flex spots...so I play matchups with Benson/Wells/Bradshaw...i'm very high on Wells.I'm also very high on AJ Green.

That being said, I should have drafted better in the middle rounds...could have done a lot better at WR...I wasn't as prepared as I should have been.

Right now I project my team to score the third most points in the league.

Benson in this format

2009 - 198

2010 - 219

Winslow in this format

2009 - 235

2010 - 203

Not sure how you feel about Winslow, but I expect 2011 to look more like 2009. I also like Winslow's schedule much better than Benson's.

 

[LHUCKS]

I like your draft but in the FFPC scoring format, I think it is a huge mistake to wait until Round 8 to draft your WR1. And then you drafted a rookie WR1. What WR did you pass on in Round 3 to take Bradshaw? I made the same mistake last year in my first FFPC draft. The value wasn't there so I kept waiting, but you can't wait 8 rounds.

You could hit the lottery with Randy Moss, but you will have trouble cracking into the top 3 teams without some free agent WR luck.

I think I may hit with some of the WRs I have now. I really like AJ Green in particular.Everybody has weaknesses in this league.

I think you'll be relying a lot on luck to advance. Sure your RB flexes like Benson will put up solid numbers, but they will be unspectacular. If you catch bad schedule matchups or an opponent with hot WRs in the flex spot you could easily be a top scoring team that misses the playoffs.Not sure how the draft went down, but I would think a TE flex (say Winslow) would out produce Benson.

we'll agree to disagree...remember, i have a three back rotation for the two flex spots...so I play matchups with Benson/Wells/Bradshaw...i'm very high on Wells.I'm also very high on AJ Green.

That being said, I should have drafted better in the middle rounds...could have done a lot better at WR...I wasn't as prepared as I should have been.

Right now I project my team to score the third most points in the league.

Benson in this format

2009 - 198

2010 - 219

Winslow in this format

2009 - 235

2010 - 203

Not sure how you feel about Winslow, but I expect 2011 to look more like 2009. I also like Winslow's schedule much better than Benson's.

I wont be starting Benson every week...just when he has good matchups.

 

[baconisgood]

Why would you take Bradford in the 10th with Rivers on your roster? Waiver wire for Rivers bye. That pick was truly a waste.

You need a backup QB and Bradford was great value per my projections...he and McCoy are my two big value plays at QB this year. People forget how many injuries there are in football.

Fantasy QBs aren't subject to the same risk that other positions are because 32 starters every week but only 12 started in a 12 team league. Even with backups there are 8-12 starting QBs on the WW any given week. Picking up a Jason Campbell, Chad Henne or Ryan Fitzpatrick will average you a dozen points a week while picking up a WW RB/WR will net you 2-3 points a week. In addition losing your QB creates a clear cut starting QB who is on the WW. Javon Ringer won't be on the WW for you to pick up if CJ goes down but Billy Volek WILL be there and backups can put up reasonable numbers in these scenarios (Kolb, Cassel, Kitna, Batch/Dixon, Thigpen, Grossman). Heck even Troy Smith averaged almost 13 pts a start last season. Having your QB miss 1-2 games is the least big deal in 1 QB leagues. Considering that you also had McCoy as a value pick a few rounds later that makes this pick worse.

 

[TheWick]

Why would you take Bradford in the 10th with Rivers on your roster? Waiver wire for Rivers bye. That pick was truly a waste.

You need a backup QB and Bradford was great value per my projections...he and McCoy are my two big value plays at QB this year. People forget how many injuries there are in football.

Fantasy QBs aren't subject to the same risk that other positions are because 32 starters every week but only 12 started in a 12 team league. Even with backups there are 8-12 starting QBs on the WW any given week. Picking up a Jason Campbell, Chad Henne or Ryan Fitzpatrick will average you a dozen points a week while picking up a WW RB/WR will net you 2-3 points a week. In addition losing your QB creates a clear cut starting QB who is on the WW. Javon Ringer won't be on the WW for you to pick up if CJ goes down but Billy Volek WILL be there and backups can put up reasonable numbers in these scenarios (Kolb, Cassel, Kitna, Batch/Dixon, Thigpen, Grossman). Heck even Troy Smith averaged almost 13 pts a start last season. Having your QB miss 1-2 games is the least big deal in 1 QB leagues. Considering that you also had McCoy as a value pick a few rounds later that makes this pick worse.

 

[Raskell5]

I think you're going to regret taking CJ over Charles.....