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My season has thus far been a success (or bust) because _____. (1 Viewer)

PsychoMan

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What do you attribute to your successful (or unsuccessful for that matter) season thus far?

For me, it has been the free agent/waiver wire pickups. I have picked up the following guys in my main league for *free*:

Rex Grossman, Maurice Morris, Greg Jennings, Marques Colston, Robbie Gould, San Diego DEF

Combined with an overall solid draft, my team is already looking like a contender for the championship. I'd like to hear what others have done to build their winning teams, or what mistakes they've made to start their season on the wrong foot.

 
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because: I was intrigued by Bush in a keeper setting and traded Peyton to get him, got Parker and traded him for driver, traded Driver for Kitna, drafted Culpepper, drafted Javon Walker and traded him for lee Evans who I dropped. traded Tiki for Addai and Housh and also listened to FBG ansd drafted Aaron Brooks and picked up and started Henry and Jennings in week one whne they scored 0 points total only to dump them for both of them to score in double digits the next week

you cant top (or do worse) than that

ps- I won last year and now 0-5

 
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Drafted Pennington, Carr, Jennings and Maurice Drew all for $1 after spending my wad on Ronnie Brown, Caddy, and Torry Holt.

 
Success: Traded away Rod Smith and Mike Bell to get Brian Westbrook and Drew Bennett before the season began. The guy was terrified of Westbrook's health, needed a receiver and was very high on Smith. *He* made this offer, not me :eek: .

Success: Picking up Gould off WW after week 1. Didn't have much to lose since Jano :X was my kicker.

Success: Bulger really coming on lately and the Rams' committment to throwing in the red zone.

 
Loved my draft and started Plummer with confidence only to get burned severely 2 weeks in a row to start the season, I have recovered nicely since thanks to Leftwich, Jennings, C Taylor, Jones-Drew and of all people WILKINS having quality seasons so far

:bag:

4-1

 
gferrell20 said:
What do you attribute to your successful (or unsuccessful for that matter) season thus far?For me, it has been the free agent/waiver wire pickups. I have picked up the following guys in my main league for *free*:Rex Grossman, Maurice Morris, Greg Jennings, Marques Colston, Robbie Gould, San Diego DEFCombined with an overall solid draft, my team is already looking like a contender for the championship. I'd like to hear what others have done to build their winning teams, or what mistakes they've made to start their season on the wrong foot.
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Im 2-3...and lucky to be there. First 3 picks in a PPR/Redraft:SAGatesR. Mossouch. was able to trade away Moss for Culpepper, then spun Culpepper and Cotchery for Brees.i got Driver in the 4th and Duece in the 7th, so wasnt all bad. not looking great long term though.
 
:bag: I suck because:

I put my eggs in the Cincy WR basket (CJ and Housh both starting with Driver AHEAD of Jennings and Berrian ).

I bought into Wali Lundy (No RB depth after Portis/Deshaun).

I've started the worse of Vick/Bledsoe each week.

Neither Michael Koenen nor Joe Nedney has been decent.

1-4 with really no hope.

 
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:bag: I suck because:I put my eggs in the Cincy WR basket (CJ and Housh both starting with Driver AHEAD of Jennings and Berrian ).I bought into Wali Lundy (No RB depth after Portis/Deshaun).I've started the worse of Vick/Bledsoe each week.Neither Michael Koenen nor Joe Nedney has been decent.1-4 with really no hope.
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trade some of that WR depth and upgrade a better RB2
 
...bust

LT, Brees, Owens, Heap, Dunn...all underperforming.

Oh...and my bench always far outscores whoever I start.

 
A bust because, for the first time I can remember, my strategy of loading up on a few big names and counting on my ability to find late-round gems hasn't resulted in any great value finds. A Bryant was OK, Williamson is a bust, Mike Bell is a bust (should have sold high), Rhodes hasn't been much, Rivers has been good but no more than that, etc.

Some of by "big names" haven't been very big (CJ, Gates) but that's to be expected sometimes. I usually have the depth to trade my way to a powehouse by this point, but it's not happening this year.

 
I am only 2-3 but very hopefull for the rest of the year because..

I didn't keep Lamont Jordan or Chris Chambers.

All my Major Byes are out of the way.

I think Tatum Bell and Tiki Barber will be a very good 1-2 punch the rest of the way.

Joey Galloways season will be "saved" by Gradskowski.

 
2-3 because Ronnie Brown, our very own Ben Watson, and what I thought would be a strong QB tandem to play matchups with (Delhome and Plummer) have all drastically underachieved. :thumbdown:

 
...has been mediocre because McGahee, SJax, and RWayne are allergic to the end zone. 2-3 but easily could be 4-1. Lost 2 by less than a TD.

 
Keeper league...success!

Why? B/c noone else in our league would give me anything of value for McNabb, so I just kept him :)

 
Because I put my faith in the Chambers, Mason, Mi Clayton, and Branch WR foursome would work out - it hasn't.

 
Gore's been very good to me and paid a lot of bills, but his schedule is about to get nasty so I'll need to scramble the next few weeks.

I've been pretty lucky with defense scoring so far this year. Not that anyone wants to hear the long version of that.

The first round for almost everyone has been a wasteland. Every fantasy season is weird in its own way, but 2006 has extra weirdness going for it.

 
Success: superior drafting ability

Success: picking Colston off waivers (yahoo, and yes, he's my starting TE.)

The only real failures I've had thus far are due to horrible lineup decisions and bye week management in my 2 preselect draft leagues.

 
Drafted august 11th and 17th. Both early in terms of fantasy drafts but

10 man keeper: Bust

Palmer and Chad Johnson

12 man redraft: Success?

1. depth

1. Was looking to be a bust with my top 3 picks being SA Fitz and Gates

 
Mcnabb in the fourth, Baltimore D in round 12 or so. Only have a 3-2 record, but I'm the points leader.

Also, my WRs are unbelievable. Holt, Driver, Coles, Glenn, and Jennings. You just can't beat that. My RB stable is thin, but I just play Rudi Johnson and 4 WRs and call it a day. It's been working out pretty well.

 
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McNabb in the 6th (too early said everyone) and passing on Caddy for McGahee in the second round helped to put me at 5-0 right now.

 
My season has gone well so far because I "reached" for Eli Manning in the early fifth round. I didnt like any of the other players on the board at the time so I took Eli because I felt he was primed for a breakout year. In a year when scoring seems to be down almost across the board, high-scoring QB's are golden.

Sometimes its good to throw away cheat-sheets, projections and "consesnus" rankings and simply pick the guy you like best. Sure, I took Eli before his ADP, and he may have even been around at the end of the sixth, but I felt strongly about the guy and wanted to make sure he was on my team. Thats part of what makes FF fun. :)

 
I targeted Gore, Jennings and Leftwich late in almost all my leagues and they has been performing nicely.

My worst team is 3-2 (Palmer is my starting QB with #85 my #1) and my best is 5-0.

 
I am 5th in our 12 team league in scoring, yet I am the only one who is 1-4. Everyone keeps having their career day against me. I have over 100 more points scored against me than the next closest person. Tough season so far.

 
Im sitting at 3-2 and tied for first in my division mainly because of timely trades. I really feel good about my chances with my starting line up.

QB - Hasslebeck (Traded for Roy Williams for him)

RB - Portis (2nd round pick)

RB - McGahee/Shaun Alexander (Traded Edge For Thomas Jones and Tory Holt then traded Tory Holt for McGahee and Andre Johnson) (Traded Thomas Jones and Derrick Mason for Shaun Alexander)

WR - Andre Johnson (See above where I traded Tory Holt for McGahee and Andre)

WR - Chris Chambers (holding on hope, drafted him)

WR - Terrell Owens (Traded DeShaun Foster and Greg Jennings for him) being hopeful here.

TE - Kellen Winslow (Mandatory TE in my league and hes a great one and 15th round pick)

K - Robbie Gould (Free Agent Pick Up)

D - Rotates on a weekly match-up basis Denver this week

I think I will continue to be successful this year. At least I hope so anyway.

 
success: ..the people in my league didn't compensate drafting for a PPR league. That, and somehow they let McNabb fall to the 6th, and Thomas Jones to the 11th round (in a 12 player draft)

Already won the point total 4 weeks out of 5 and am 5-0.

failure: drafted at the 10 spot in a non PPR and took Cadillac and Lamont Jordan. Still 3-2 in fourth place but sadly it's Eli Manning, Stover and the Bears defense keeping me in it.

 
3-2, with one of the best teams in the league (3rd in scoring, 1st in FBG total trade value):

Kept Brady, SJax, and Tiki.

Grabbed DJax and Driver with my first two picks.

Somehow turned Ben Watson into Gates.

Have a loaded bench through draft/trades/ww pickups including J.Jones, MB III, Rhodes, Tha Burner, Terry Glenn, and Cotchery.

Played the correct matchups with the D/ST.

Didn't draft a kicker or D/ST until the end of the draft (although the sucker who snagged CHI D/ST first is 5-0). In fact, packaged some late round picks to move up in a couple of rounds knowing that I could take whatever K and D/ST combo was left at the end.

 
Bust in a dynasty league (which I am relatively new at) because I was not willing to over pay a bit for the few pieces I needed. Instead I stuck to my guns on what I had for player values and it was a mistake. I needed to overpay for the couple of pieces I needed in this league.

Lesson learned for next season.

 
5-0 Points Leader overall. For some reason my conference drafted a lot of WR's early. I went RB in 1-3, Rudi Johnson, McGahee, Chester Taylor. Got Gates in th3 4th and DJax in the 5th. Somehow Carson Palmer was there in the 6th round!

Other WRs are Glenn, Randy Moss (just picked him up cause he got CUT) and Mason (who should start playing better), oh ya, my 4th RB is Addai (not bad for a bye week fill-in)

DT has platooned Denver and Jets with great success. Backup QA was A.Smith who just went nuts during Palmer's bye, now i just have to keep playing Palmer and not get sucked into starting Smith.

Picked up Gould with my last pick just for fun because he and I went to Penn State. Now he is my starter and Feely is riding the pine.

I've already knocked off all the big boys, I may not lose a game this year.

:boxing:

 
my season thus far has been a bust because of shaun alexander. I put most of my eggs in the WR basket because i figured alexander would be enough. Now, i still have a good team (see sig) but i could be 5-0 right now if alexander produced/was healthy. Im still ok, but i think my team has title potential if SA comes back strong.

 
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