Keep Freeman, Coleman, or both - Auction Draft (1 Viewer)

[Hurler1]

12 team PPR keeper league, max keep three, $200 auction draft budget; start 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 Flex

This year's auction value if I keep these guys:  Freeman $30, Coleman $14

Suffice it to say I have no other realistic keeper options.  

I had Freeman as a keeper last year and grabbed Coleman as the handcuff.  Turns out they both had some great games last year, but often got stuck starting the wrong guy; e.g. start Freeman and Coleman has a huge day or vice versa, or I'd start both using one as my Flex I'd get middling results from both.  The net of it is, it's a pretty competitive league, in which I usually make the playoffs but I didn't last year trying to figure out how to maximize these two guys and I'm trying to avoid making the same mistake twice.  

According to FBG VBD app, Freeman is a great value at $30, and Coleman is probably priced about where he should be at $14 (not a great value, but not overpaying either).

My original thought was to keep Freeman and not Coleman, with the possibility of adding Coleman if I could get him during the auction at good value, which is maybe not very likely given the competition level of our league.

Lately I've been leaning toward keeping both, committing to Freeman as my RB1 and using Coleman as a Flex situationally.  This also gives me protection from a Freeman injury.  It's a strong handcuff, but is $14 too much to pay for a handcuff?  Freeman's recent trip to the concussion protocol has elevated this scenario in my mind.

The least desirable would seem to be to keep only Coleman, but I don't want to dismiss that out of hand. 

Please leave your thoughts, or answer my poll.

Thanks Friends.

 

[travdogg]

I'd keep both. Solid insurance, and you likely have a top-5 RB in there if either gets hurt. $45 isn't too much to pay for that.

I know you said your other options suck, but what are they? Seems hard to believe these could be your best options, if you had to choose who to start between them at times.

 

[Hurler1]

Thanks for the response travdogg.   As for other options, it's not that the players themselves are so bad, it's just that with the auction value escalators we have in place from year to year (e.g, RB or WR costs $12 more than previous year auction value) everybody else that I might consider ends up being overpriced.  

 

[wlwiles]

I'd keep Coleman as good insurance.  If Freeman were to tear an ACL or something in the preseason Coleman's price would jump up to $35-40ish.  To lock down the ATL backfield for $45 is very reasonable.

 

[Gally]

I am going to be the dissenting opinion.  Even though I am not opposed to keeping both and see the reasons behind it I would rather keep just Freeman.  Last year was a bit of a TD inflated season for Coleman with some huge plays.  I don't think that is something you can count on.  He is a nice handcuff but I would rather have the flexibility during the draft to go that direction if it was a value rather than get Coleman at what I would consider the high end of his price range. 

Save the money and keep the flexibility to go another direction of the auction dictates.  Keep Freeman and get Coleman back if the price is right.           

 

[iamkoza]

coleman is priced at about draft value... would greatly help seeing the other options even if you dont think there is value, perhaps others may see value