Dynasty TE #20 ranking (1 Viewer)

[Biabreakable]

These are consensus dynasty rankings for year 2007 standard FBGs scoring no PPR

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Also, please comment on your vote, and list any player that should be nominated for the next round.

I like the chatter going on so lets keep that going as we vote. Discussion about why you prefer one of these players compared to the others is useful to everyone involved and offers insight into how people in your leagues may view these players compared to others.

gheemony made a great point about one way to consider dynasty value for players in rankings by giving 50% value to 2007, 33% to 2008, and 17% to 2009. I know there are many ways to look at this and how hard it is to project for players even for one year. But I think it is significant enough that its worth mentioning. I am sure everyone has a different formula that they might use. But this one to me has some good balance and makes a lot of sense. And now has become a topic of discussion in this thread: http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...howtopic=296123 I welcome you all to read this and offer your perspectives on methods you use in determining where to rank players in dynasty leagues.

1. Antonio Gates 6/18/1980

2. Kellen Winslow 7/21/1983

3. Todd Heap 3/16/1980

4. Jeremy Shockey 8/18/1980

5. Alge Crumpler 12/23/1977

6. Ben Watson 12/18/1980

7. Tony Gonzalez 2/27/1976

8. Vernon Davis

9. Jason Witten 5/6/1982

10. Chris Cooley 7/11/1982

11. LJ Smith 5/13/1980

12. Heath Miller 10/22/1982

13. Randy McMichael 6/28/1979

14. Tony Scheffler 2/15/1983

15. Marcedes Lewis 5/19/1984

16. Owen Daniels 11/9/1982

17. Dallas Clark 6/12/1979

18. Jerramy Stevens 11/13/1979

19. Desmond Clark 4/20/1977

20. Alex Smith 5/22/1982

 

[wannabee]

I went with Graham with the expectation he will be elsewhere in 2007

 

[Biabreakable]

Who cares?

 

[jurb26]

Who cares?

Right on, so I'll touch on another subject... well still TEs. What in the world is up with the Watson love still? How does this guy get ranked ahead of Cooley and Witten who have both outperformed him and are younger?

 

[Biabreakable]

Who cares?

Right on, so I'll touch on another subject... well still TEs. What in the world is up with the Watson love still? How does this guy get ranked ahead of Cooley and Witten who have both outperformed him and are younger?

He is still Brady's best target? I hadn't thought about it that much honestly but I am wising up to peoples distaste for Watson. There is more to this than just him not meeting the high expectations people (including myself) had for him.

 

[jurb26]

He is still Brady's best target?

I'd say Caldwell might disagree with that.

 

[Biabreakable]

I was shruging when making that comment. Meaning that I am not sure why people are still so enamoured with Watson.. but this may be the reason?

Looking at the numbers. Hehe no reciever for the Patriots looks particularly special to me. Yet Brady is still great.

Just for arguments sake however lets look at Watsons performance this year.

He missed 3 games.

He averaged 3.769 catches/game and 13.1 yards/catch.

So if healthy all season that would prorate to 60 catches for 786 yards. Thats actualy very even with Caldwells 61 catches for 760 yards.

It is also pretty decent compared to all TEs this year. If he would not have missed those games and performed equal to his 13 game average Watson would have been the 5th best TE in terms of yardage.

He still would have been lower than this because of only scoring 3 TDs. Maybe he would have picked up an extra TD in those 3 games (69% chance based on the average).

People may also see some upside for him with Grahm leaving. Perhaps that will lead to an increase in his targets. Although the Patriots drafted replacements for Grahm allready last year so maybe not.

Watson did have 91 targets in 13 games. 7 targets a game for a TE is pretty good. That would prorate to 112 targets if he maintained that average and was healthy for 16 games. That would make him the 3 most targeted TE (barely Heap and Shockey has 115 each).

 

[jurb26]

I was shruging when making that comment. Meaning that I am not sure why people are still so enamoured with Watson.. but this may be the reason?Looking at the numbers. Hehe no reciever for the Patriots looks particularly special to me. Yet Brady is still great.Just for arguments sake however lets look at Watsons performance this year.He missed 3 games.He averaged 3.769 catches/game and 13.1 yards/catch.So if healthy all season that would prorate to 60 catches for 786 yards. Thats actualy very even with Caldwells 61 catches for 760 yards.It is also pretty decent compared to all TEs this year. If he would not have missed those games and performed equal to his 13 game average Watson would have been the 5th best TE in terms of yardage.He still would have been lower than this because of only scoring 3 TDs. Maybe he would have picked up an extra TD in those 3 games (69% chance based on the average).People may also see some upside for him with Grahm leaving. Perhaps that will lead to an increase in his targets. Although the Patriots drafted replacements for Grahm allready last year so maybe not.Watson did have 91 targets in 13 games. 7 targets a game for a TE is pretty good. That would prorate to 112 targets if he maintained that average and was healthy for 16 games. That would make him the 3 most targeted TE (barely Heap and Shockey has 115 each).

The targets is the thing to be most optimistic about IMO. However, NE had it's 2 best WR transfering over from other teams just this year in Caldwell/Gabriell as well as a rookie learning a to play in the NFL with Jackson. I would have to assume that all 3 of these players develop more into the NE passing game. That of course is if NE doesn't go after another WR in the draft of FA.