I am quite lucky to be alive in this contest (McAllister, Betts, Brees, etc.) I think the one things that saved me so far was avoiding the huge money players. Last year Larry Fitzgerald killed me. Houshmanzadeh is the only guy I spent big money on, and thankfully he is doing very well. Thanks to bargain players like Welker, Sammy Morris, Garrard, Demetrius Williams, I am alive.Now if I can just make it to week 9, I get Chris Henry back from suspension
You sure got a point there. $40 on Rudi Johnson and he hasn't done squat. $33 on Andre Johnson - great for two weeks, but he'll be out til week 11 - on what was diagnosed as a 3-5 week injury. $20 on Brees, surely he was going to be the value play of the contest, he finally showed up. Nonetheless, I've always felt that if my squad can survive through weeks 4, 5, and 6 it could do some damage. Well, I've made it past week 6, let's see what happens from here.
I have always subscribed to not paying big money on any one player, but I think big money in this game is the $60-$70 guy. No way am I dropping 1/3 of my cap on one guy. If he goes down I am done. I put $45 on Bush this year, which is easily my most expensive player, and I struggled with paying that much. Add him with AD and the two together are still cheaper than LT2, plus I have 2 decent chances to hit big in any given week. In normal fantasy leagues, where you must decide who is going to go off and when, its not very smart to pick a lot of "potential" players, but in this format you just need someone to post a number. By spreading your money across a pile of maybes, it always seems like someone steps up. So far my strategy of having decent quality at QB, RB, TE and D, while loading up on 11 marginal wr's has paid off well. Their consistency is horrid individually, but collectively they perform quite well. Week 8 seems to now be my tight point, as I have 5 byes to contend with that week. Fortunately, the only position with more than one missing slot is WR, and that is still only 2 of my lower expectation guys. Good luck to everyone still in this, hope to see you in the finals!