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***Official Doug Martin Bandwagon*** (1 Viewer)

So what is his value in dynasty formats right now? I have had several people inquire about him, I have turned down the offers but I was wondering if I over valued him because he my player.
I still think he's a clear top 5-15 overall dynasty player. He's a young three down back in the mold of Rice, Lynch, and Forte. You can plug him into your RB1 spot for the next several years and know that he'll probably deliver. I'm worried about the Schiano mess and how that might limit his production, but his workload and versatility should guarantee that he remains a solid FF producer.

 
So what is his value in dynasty formats right now? I have had several people inquire about him, I have turned down the offers but I was wondering if I over valued him because he my player.
I still think he's a clear top 5-15 overall dynasty player. He's a young three down back in the mold of Rice, Lynch, and Forte. You can plug him into your RB1 spot for the next several years and know that he'll probably deliver. I'm worried about the Schiano mess and how that might limit his production, but his workload and versatility should guarantee that he remains a solid FF producer.
Thanks, that is where I had him ranked, I put him as the 5th best running back in dynasty. Behind McCoy, Richardson, Charles, Peterson. Then I had him ranked behind Graham, Gronk, Calvin, Dez, AJ Green, and Julio. When you receive as many offers as I did on him and they are much much lower than this you start to question if you are over valuing him because he is your player.

 
May move him in a 2 for 2 Andre Johnson/Martin for Marshall/D. McFadden. Trying to get some opinions in the assistant coach forum right now.

 
Any Martin trades in redraft going on? Would like to get a gauge of what I should expect value wise..
And now we have an ACF topic.

Lock.
People really need to relax on this stuff. We're in a specific players bandwagon thread, discussion of what people are seeing in their leagues involving trades are important. It establishes value to the player from a ton of various sources. He isn't saying "Should I trade Martin away for XYZ?". He's simply asking "What are other people seeing in their leagues for trades involving Martin, I'm looking to move him but not sure what to expect on his value now". Which is a 100% perfectly reasonable generalized fantasy discussion and in no way a ACF topic.

 
Any Martin trades in redraft going on? Would like to get a gauge of what I should expect value wise..
And now we have an ACF topic.

Lock.
People really need to relax on this stuff. We're in a specific players bandwagon thread, discussion of what people are seeing in their leagues involving trades are important. It establishes value to the player from a ton of various sources. He isn't saying "Should I trade Martin away for XYZ?". He's simply asking "What are other people seeing in their leagues for trades involving Martin, I'm looking to move him but not sure what to expect on his value now". Which is a 100% perfectly reasonable generalized fantasy discussion and in no way a ACF topic.
I still don't see how what some random poster received for Doug Martin from another random bozo in their random knucklehead league helps anyone else. There's an entire forum dedicated to valuing players in that manner, and that's why people get upset and call posters out for doing it in threads in the Shark Pool.

Every time someone does it here it gets read by countless people who all of a sudden think it's kosher to do it with their own players and their own league parameters, and now the forum is basically overrun with people disguising ACF questions and starting countless threads on so and so's "value going forward," etc.

 
Grahamburn said:
Khy said:
Keith Lewis said:
HurryUpSundays said:
Any Martin trades in redraft going on? Would like to get a gauge of what I should expect value wise..
And now we have an ACF topic.

Lock.
People really need to relax on this stuff. We're in a specific players bandwagon thread, discussion of what people are seeing in their leagues involving trades are important. It establishes value to the player from a ton of various sources. He isn't saying "Should I trade Martin away for XYZ?". He's simply asking "What are other people seeing in their leagues for trades involving Martin, I'm looking to move him but not sure what to expect on his value now". Which is a 100% perfectly reasonable generalized fantasy discussion and in no way a ACF topic.
I still don't see how what some random poster received for Doug Martin from another random bozo in their random knucklehead league helps anyone else. There's an entire forum dedicated to valuing players in that manner, and that's why people get upset and call posters out for doing it in threads in the Shark Pool.

Every time someone does it here it gets read by countless people who all of a sudden think it's kosher to do it with their own players and their own league parameters, and now the forum is basically overrun with people disguising ACF questions and starting countless threads on so and so's "value going forward," etc.
Not really.... While this is a thread dedicated to the Doug Martin Bandwagon and his NFL stats (or lack there of). A simple exploratory question to the "experienced" masses should be OK. Like my post above I simply showed what i was doing with him to give the value of the current player at his current time. Asking for what everyone is receiving for him is no worse than the THREAD dedicated tot he crazy offer for Julio in dynasty's after his injury. Now if someone jumps on and asks I'm offering X/Y for A/B what do you think, then we should reroute. But simply asking the value of a player based on his performances is kinda what this thread is for... I mean we were talking about when we were going to take him in the draft within the first couple of pages. :2cents:

 
Keith Lewis said:
HurryUpSundays said:
Any Martin trades in redraft going on? Would like to get a gauge of what I should expect value wise..
And now we have an ACF topic.

Lock.
Let's call a spade a spade. For as great as this website is, NO ONE GOES INTO THE ACF. I repeat, no one goes into the ACF.

Get over it.

 
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Grahamburn said:
Khy said:
Keith Lewis said:
HurryUpSundays said:
Any Martin trades in redraft going on? Would like to get a gauge of what I should expect value wise..
And now we have an ACF topic.

Lock.
People really need to relax on this stuff. We're in a specific players bandwagon thread, discussion of what people are seeing in their leagues involving trades are important. It establishes value to the player from a ton of various sources. He isn't saying "Should I trade Martin away for XYZ?". He's simply asking "What are other people seeing in their leagues for trades involving Martin, I'm looking to move him but not sure what to expect on his value now". Which is a 100% perfectly reasonable generalized fantasy discussion and in no way a ACF topic.
I still don't see how what some random poster received for Doug Martin from another random bozo in their random knucklehead league helps anyone else. There's an entire forum dedicated to valuing players in that manner, and that's why people get upset and call posters out for doing it in threads in the Shark Pool.

Every time someone does it here it gets read by countless people who all of a sudden think it's kosher to do it with their own players and their own league parameters, and now the forum is basically overrun with people disguising ACF questions and starting countless threads on so and so's "value going forward," etc.
Look... value going forward is value going forward. Any information is relevant information. You can chose to ignore it or chose to weigh it in your own decisions. The simple fact is, the posed question breaks none, zero, 00000000 rules of the Shark Pool. Here's the definition of both forums:

Shark Pool: The Shark Pool is reserved for sharing NFL talk and fantasy football strategy discussion.

The Assistant Coach Forum: This is the forum to look for answers to all of your who to start, trade advice, and rate my team questions.

I don't know about you but to me the question of "What are people seeing for Martin in trades right now?" is by pure definition "sharing fantasy football strategy'.

 
Yesterday I sent an offer of Doug Martin for Brandon Marshall in one of my less-important leagues. Haven't heard back yet.

(I'm loaded at RB, he's loaded at WR, Marshall is his WR2 behind Dez)

 
After tonight that's probably getting turned down. I've been trying to move Martin in redraft in a package deal for Foster, but it's tough sledding. I'm having to over pay most likely.

 
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Last night I was able to trade Martin, Stacey, and Amendola for T Rich, Marshall, & 49ers.

The other team was motivated to grab a long term keeper in Martin, I have plenty of Rbs, and had just lost Julio.

 
Last night I was able to trade Martin, Stacey, and Amendola for T Rich, Marshall, & 49ers.

The other team was motivated to grab a long term keeper in Martin, I have plenty of Rbs, and had just lost Julio.
Really solid trade for you in my opinion. I mean just looking at it I feel like you won 2/3 of this trade.

T Rich > Martin

Marshall > Amendola

Stacy > 49ers (at least I'd assume, he looked decent last week but who knows)

 
Biggest disappointment has been the inability of Carl Nicks to get healthy. He would be such a massive improvement in run blocking for DMart.

At this point we just have to hope Glennon can make opposing defenses respect the pass even minimally.

 
I believe this guy scored 50% of his points in two games last year, and I hope this week is one of those games for this season. He's done a whole lot of nothing so far for a RB1. FBGs refuses to make him a RB2 so we are all holding on to hope?

 
I believe this guy scored 50% of his points in two games last year, and I hope this week is one of those games for this season. He's done a whole lot of nothing so far for a RB1. FBGs refuses to make him a RB2 so we are all holding on to hope?
He had 29 percent of his points in those 2 weeks in ppr scoring. Starting week 6 though he was actually very consistent. He scored at least 15 points in every week except week 13 and 15. Very important weeks to be sure.

 
Last night I was able to trade Martin, Stacey, and Amendola for T Rich, Marshall, & 49ers.

The other team was motivated to grab a long term keeper in Martin, I have plenty of Rbs, and had just lost Julio.
Really solid trade for you in my opinion. I mean just looking at it I feel like you won 2/3 of this trade.

T Rich > Martin

Marshall > Amendola

Stacy > 49ers (at least I'd assume, he looked decent last week but who knows)
TRich is not better then Martin. You must be a Colts homer.

 
I believe this guy scored 50% of his points in two games last year, and I hope this week is one of those games for this season. He's done a whole lot of nothing so far for a RB1. FBGs refuses to make him a RB2 so we are all holding on to hope?
He had 29 percent of his points in those 2 weeks in ppr scoring. Starting week 6 though he was actually very consistent. He scored at least 15 points in every week except week 13 and 15. Very important weeks to be sure.
Good point.Through week 6 last year, Martin was #23 in PPR. Even ignoring his two big games he was the #3 RB from weeks 10-17.

He hasn't looked good yet outside of the Saints game but he is getting a ton of carries (on pace for 400) so if he gets going he should put up good numbers.

 
I believe this guy scored 50% of his points in two games last year, and I hope this week is one of those games for this season. He's done a whole lot of nothing so far for a RB1. FBGs refuses to make him a RB2 so we are all holding on to hope?
He had 29 percent of his points in those 2 weeks in ppr scoring. Starting week 6 though he was actually very consistent. He scored at least 15 points in every week except week 13 and 15. Very important weeks to be sure.
Good point.Through week 6 last year, Martin was #23 in PPR. Even ignoring his two big games he was the #3 RB from weeks 10-17.

He hasn't looked good yet outside of the Saints game but he is getting a ton of carries (on pace for 400) so if he gets going he should put up good numbers.
That is what I am hoping. Maybe he is a slow starter every year? Like Colston always seems to be.

 
I believe this guy scored 50% of his points in two games last year, and I hope this week is one of those games for this season. He's done a whole lot of nothing so far for a RB1. FBGs refuses to make him a RB2 so we are all holding on to hope?
Fortunately what you believe is so wrong as to be laughable.

If you take the top 10 RB's from last season and remove the two best games from each of them (which is stupid and arbitrary and bias), Martin goes from RB2 to RB8 in standard formats.

Last I checked RB8 is an RB1.

 
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Last night I was able to trade Martin, Stacey, and Amendola for T Rich, Marshall, & 49ers.

The other team was motivated to grab a long term keeper in Martin, I have plenty of Rbs, and had just lost Julio.
Really solid trade for you in my opinion. I mean just looking at it I feel like you won 2/3 of this trade.

T Rich > Martin

Marshall > Amendola

Stacy > 49ers (at least I'd assume, he looked decent last week but who knows)
TRich is not better then Martin. You must be a Colts homer.
Nope, Giants homer. And I do not own Martin or TRich in any leagues. I'm just being realistic. TRich is in a 20000000000x better situation than Martin right now. He'll see probably 3-4 times the amount of scoring opportunities and is in an offense that doesn't allow defenses to simply play 8 or 9 in the box every down. Martin will be lucky to finish as a mid level RB2 this season.

 
Any chance Atlanta look at covering V Jax more this week and it opens things up for Martin slightly ?

People were saying that the opposition would stack the box until Glennon proved he could throw. A couple of TDs for V Jackson at the weekend could possibly have done that to at least a small degree ?

 
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Any chance Atlanta look at covering V Jax more this week and it opens things up for Martin slightly ?

People were saying that the opposition would stack the box until Glennon proved he could throw. A couple of TDs for V Jackson at the weekend could possibly have done that to at least a small degree ?
I doubt it, the issue is teams have a track record of proven production from Martin. One good game for Glennon (not even that good) isn't going to all of a sudden open things up. If it's Week 10 and he's having games like he had last week consistently then we can talk about that. But otherwise, no not really.

 
Last night I was able to trade Martin, Stacey, and Amendola for T Rich, Marshall, & 49ers.

The other team was motivated to grab a long term keeper in Martin, I have plenty of Rbs, and had just lost Julio.
Really solid trade for you in my opinion. I mean just looking at it I feel like you won 2/3 of this trade.

T Rich > Martin

Marshall > Amendola

Stacy > 49ers (at least I'd assume, he looked decent last week but who knows)
TRich is not better then Martin. You must be a Colts homer.
Nope, Giants homer. And I do not own Martin or TRich in any leagues. I'm just being realistic. TRich is in a 20000000000x better situation than Martin right now. He'll see probably 3-4 times the amount of scoring opportunities and is in an offense that doesn't allow defenses to simply play 8 or 9 in the box every down. Martin will be lucky to finish as a mid level RB2 this season.
They are playing almost exactly the same right now. Martin leads the league in 1st down carries but is only averaging 3.2 YPC on 1st down.

 
431 YFS and 1 TD through 6 weeks (5 games) in 2012

468 YFS and 1 TD through 6 weeks (5 games) in 2013
 
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SportsTalkFlorida.com reports Bucs LG Carl Nicks (MRSA) is undergoing surgery Tuesday to "to clean out the infection in his toe."


Bleh looks like Nicks will be out for another year. So much for getting a stud run blocking guard this season.

 
He's playing okay. More good games than bad ones. Team just sucks.

His ppg numbers will go up because sooner or later he's going to score some TDs.

Redraft his season will go down as a mild-to-moderate disappointment. Dynasty he'll be fine.

 
I didn't realize Martin was dead last in his blocking rating. Statistically he's regressed from his rookie year. I don't watch him too often if at all, is it that bad?

 
i was offered in a ppr redraft league

alfred Morris, Kapernick, and Julius Thomas for Luck and Martin. I have Cameron at TE but can play Thomas at flex. I;m not sure what I'm going to do. I don't like giving up Luck.

 
I didn't realize Martin was dead last in his blocking rating. Statistically he's regressed from his rookie year. I don't watch him too often if at all, is it that bad?
Look at his game log. He had one bad game, one AWFUL game, and three solid outings of 4.2-5.0 YPC.

He hasn't been that bad. The team just isn't very good. The QB play has been bad and they haven't been scoring many points or nursing many leads.

In redraft, there's almost nowhere to go but up since he'll continue to get a huge workload and he's certainly going to find the end zone eventually.

In dynasty, he's still a top option. At worst a 24 year old version of Matt Forte or Marshawn Lynch.

 
Leonidas said:
431 YFS and 1 TD through 6 weeks (5 games) in 2012

468 YFS and 1 TD through 6 weeks (5 games) in 2013
That's all fine and dandy but your comparing apples to oranges here.

2013 Tampa Bay Bucs (Through 6 weeks): 0-5 Record. Points Scored: 64. Points Allowed: 101. Touchdowns Scored: 7

2012 Tampa Bay Bucs (Through 6 weeks): 2-3 Record. Points Scored: 120. Points Allowed: 101. Touchdowns Scored: 11

So yes, while Martin is indeed on pace from where he was last season. The team is most certainly NOT on that same pace. This is the difference maker here and what is going to make him a RB2 at best. The team has scored almost half the points they scored last season to this point. Which means Martin is seeing roughly half the scoring opportunities he saw last season to this point. If he only scored 1 TD to this point last season with the team scoring 120 points... then good lord that's terrifying for the RoY in 2013 with the team only scoring 64 points.

 
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I'm curious to know how many Doug Martin owners are rostering Mike James? Something I've been struggling with. I don't really want to burn the roster spot on James, but I do worry with the bye in the rearview mirror, if anything happens to Martin, the workload is there for the taking. I know Leonard is there, and Demps gets the odd catch, but it does seem like James would be the guy who would inherit most of the work. Any thoughts on this folks?

 
I'm curious to know how many Doug Martin owners are rostering Mike James? Something I've been struggling with. I don't really want to burn the roster spot on James, but I do worry with the bye in the rearview mirror, if anything happens to Martin, the workload is there for the taking. I know Leonard is there, and Demps gets the odd catch, but it does seem like James would be the guy who would inherit most of the work. Any thoughts on this folks?
If Doug Martin is averaging 12.5 points in PPR scoring a game. What would a combo of those 2 average? You can find better else where.

 
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431 YFS and 1 TD through 6 weeks (5 games) in 2012

468 YFS and 1 TD through 6 weeks (5 games) in 2013
That's all fine and dandy but your comparing apples to oranges here.

2013 Tampa Bay Bucs (Through 6 weeks): 0-5 Record. Points Scored: 64. Points Allowed: 101. Touchdowns Scored: 7

2012 Tampa Bay Bucs (Through 6 weeks): 2-3 Record. Points Scored: 120. Points Allowed: 101. Touchdowns Scored: 11

So yes, while Martin is indeed on pace from where he was last season. The team is most certainly NOT on that same pace. This is the difference maker here and what is going to make him a RB2 at best. The team has scored almost half the points they scored last season to this point. Which means Martin is seeing roughly half the scoring opportunities he saw last season to this point. If he only scored 1 TD to this point last season with the team scoring 120 points... then good lord that's terrifying for the RoY in 2013 with the team only scoring 64 points.
Despite the team doing poorly, Martin has scored more fantasy points through the first 5 games of this season than last season.

This...a useful floor...is why I took Martin. Sure, in hindsight, at this point in time, if I could go back, I'd take Charles instead. But I, and many others, perceived Martin as having one of the highest floors. I think the argument can be made that we have seen his floor...and he's still an every week starter in most formats.

Hopefully the QB switch...and Jackson getting over the rib injury...and maybe Williams getting back...can get the entire offense back on track.

 
Had enough of Martin. I've played him every week he's been available and last week I put him in for Vincent Jackson at the last minute. :-( . Decided to be aggressive and have dropped him for Bernard as RB2 with a third WR in flex.

If he blows up big then cool ill review it but the sub tennish scores in non ppr and complete lack of TDs has made me have had enough for now

 
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Had enough of Martin. I've played him every week he's been available and last week I put him in for Vincent Jackson at the last minute. :-( . Decided to be aggressive and have dropped him for Bernard as RB2 with a third WR in flex.

If he blows up big then cool ill review it but the sub tennish scores in non ppr and complete lack of TDs has made me have had enough for now
You dropped him? As in to the free agent pool? I get benching him but you sir might be insane.

 
Had enough of Martin. I've played him every week he's been available and last week I put him in for Vincent Jackson at the last minute. :-( . Decided to be aggressive and have dropped him for Bernard as RB2 with a third WR in flex.

If he blows up big then cool ill review it but the sub tennish scores in non ppr and complete lack of TDs has made me have had enough for now
You dropped him? As in to the free agent pool? I get benching him but you sir might be insane.
I think he doesn't understand which word to use. It sounds like he simply benched him in favor of Giovani at RB2, and a WR (like VJax) in the flex.

...of course, if he dropped him...insane is a very nice word to describe that.

 
I didn't realize Martin was dead last in his blocking rating. Statistically he's regressed from his rookie year. I don't watch him too often if at all, is it that bad?
I'm amazed this is even possible. I met him right after he was drafted and he's a beast of a man.

 
431 YFS and 1 TD through 6 weeks (5 games) in 2012

468 YFS and 1 TD through 6 weeks (5 games) in 2013
That's all fine and dandy but your comparing apples to oranges here.

2013 Tampa Bay Bucs (Through 6 weeks): 0-5 Record. Points Scored: 64. Points Allowed: 101. Touchdowns Scored: 7

2012 Tampa Bay Bucs (Through 6 weeks): 2-3 Record. Points Scored: 120. Points Allowed: 101. Touchdowns Scored: 11

So yes, while Martin is indeed on pace from where he was last season. The team is most certainly NOT on that same pace. This is the difference maker here and what is going to make him a RB2 at best. The team has scored almost half the points they scored last season to this point. Which means Martin is seeing roughly half the scoring opportunities he saw last season to this point. If he only scored 1 TD to this point last season with the team scoring 120 points... then good lord that's terrifying for the RoY in 2013 with the team only scoring 64 points.
Despite the team doing poorly, Martin has scored more fantasy points through the first 5 games of this season than last season.

This...a useful floor...is why I took Martin. Sure, in hindsight, at this point in time, if I could go back, I'd take Charles instead. But I, and many others, perceived Martin as having one of the highest floors. I think the argument can be made that we have seen his floor...and he's still an every week starter in most formats.

Hopefully the QB switch...and Jackson getting over the rib injury...and maybe Williams getting back...can get the entire offense back on track.
Yeah see, this is the disconnect. As I stated a ton on these boards in the early parts of redraft season (late June early July). I felt like Martin at best had a mid-RB2 floor. I felt like he had 3-4 RB1 games and the rest were RB2 games, one or two were much lower than RB2. And that was in PPR in non-ppr he had more like 2-3 RB1 games and 2-3 RB3-Flex games and the rest somewhere in between. I looked at this and said that his true value was likely the highest result of games. If he has 3 games of RB1 content, 2 games of RB3 content then he had 11 games of high RB2 to low RB2 value. And I look at that and said "Well 11 games of him looking like a RB. And only a few of him looking like an RB1 and a few of him looking like an RB3. Those games cancel each other out. He's probably an RB2 with RB1 upside".

I wasn't a huge fan of Martin last year, thought he was incredibly fluky in his performances. Maybe he has one or two of those games that save a week or two for your team. Me personally? I much, much, much preferred owning Arian Foster last season even though he finished under Martin in total points. I also knew I could plug him in every week and be getting 100 yards and a TD in more or less every week. This season I was fairly certain I'd much rather have Jamaal Charles. I figured Charles floor was about what Martin put up last season, with his ceiling being somewhere in the realm of on of the Top 5-10 fantasy RB seasons of all time. Right now he's on pace for his ceiling.

 
I didn't realize Martin was dead last in his blocking rating. Statistically he's regressed from his rookie year. I don't watch him too often if at all, is it that bad?
Look at his game log. He had one bad game, one AWFUL game, and three solid outings of 4.2-5.0 YPC.

He hasn't been that bad. The team just isn't very good. The QB play has been bad and they haven't been scoring many points or nursing many leads.

In redraft, there's almost nowhere to go but up since he'll continue to get a huge workload and he's certainly going to find the end zone eventually.

In dynasty, he's still a top option. At worst a 24 year old version of Matt Forte or Marshawn Lynch.
All three of those solid games were against below average rushing defenses - Saints - 30th in YPA allowed, Pats - 22nd in YPA, and Eagles - 19th in YPA.

 
I didn't realize Martin was dead last in his blocking rating. Statistically he's regressed from his rookie year. I don't watch him too often if at all, is it that bad?
Look at his game log. He had one bad game, one AWFUL game, and three solid outings of 4.2-5.0 YPC.

He hasn't been that bad. The team just isn't very good. The QB play has been bad and they haven't been scoring many points or nursing many leads.

In redraft, there's almost nowhere to go but up since he'll continue to get a huge workload and he's certainly going to find the end zone eventually.

In dynasty, he's still a top option. At worst a 24 year old version of Matt Forte or Marshawn Lynch.
All three of those solid games were against below average rushing defenses - Saints - 30th in YPA allowed, Pats - 22nd in YPA, and Eagles - 19th in YPA.
If you take last year's top 10 RB's and remove the two best games from every back, Doug Martin is then RB8.

RB8 is an RB1.

 
Oh yes, back on the topic of his floor...I think a mid RB2 floor is a very very good floor to have in a draft pick.

Just ask CJ Spiller and even Trent Richardson owners...and Calvin Johnson owners...if they would take Martin at his floor/his production so far this year.

 

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