Playoff Player Rankings - Standard League (1 Viewer)

[Goooals]

For some reason, I am seeing a lot less content this year on player rankings for playoff drafts (FBG's still has great content).  Maybe I am just spending less time than I have in years past.

Anyhow, I thought I would start a thread for those that are in standard scoring, draft any player, and play until they are out of the playoffs.  I am in a 10-Team, 10-round draft that begins tomorrow and thought it would be wise to get some ideas.  Obviously, stacking as many players from teams that you think will play the most games is the right strategy.

Any thought to the first round or two?  After Brady and Brees, it get's kind of tricky.

1. Brady 2. Brees, 3. 4.

 Thoughts?

 

[Tommy Collins]

I was searching for content last night. Here are a few links:

Sports Illustrated

CBS

Fantasy Pros

I did an 8 team auction last night. It's difficult to find playoff sites to do mock drafts at this time of year so I went in with very little prep. With a $300 budget some guys were insane (Le'Veon $146, Brady & Ben both over $125, AB over $100, etc).

I ended up with:

QB Alex Smith

RB Alvin Kamara

RB Rex Burkhead

WR Stefon Diggs

WR Tyreek Hill

WR Adam Thielen

Flex Ted Ginn Jr

Utility (Any position) Marcus Mariota

PK Wil Lutz

Def Pittsburgh

I'm not too thrilled with it, but the initial onslaught of players was crazy. Ben, Brady, LeVeon, AB, etc all went up for bid early on and I wasn't comfortable spending 1/3 to 1/2 of my budget on 1 player. I ended up getting Alex Smith for $50 when Brady and Ben went for over $125. So unless KC is a 1 and done, it's unlikely that Brady or Ben provide more than 2.5x the points that Alex does since they would only be playing 3 games at most compared to Alex most likely playing 2.

Burkhead was a guy that was thrown out there very late. I think people are a little scared off with him. But their offense hasn't been as good without him and Gilislee is banged up now after being a healthy scratch for most of the season. Martavis Bryant was another guy that lasted a while. He's got a high ceiling if AB has difficulty coming back from his injury. Likewise I was high on Smith-Schuster but he was far more expensive than I was comfortable with.

I think most teams felt the same way about what teams to target. Very few teams were willing to go after TEN, BUF, ATL players. CAR seemed to be a bit more in demand than the rest. Julio still went for a high amount of course because he has the superstar name. If you think some of these teams could make it to round 2 there is certainly value there and guys are likely to fall a bit. I think TEN is really the only team I'm giving no shot to advancing. I think BUF has the easiest matchup for underdogs, CAR/NO is a divisional game that could go CAR's way if they're clicking and ATL could get hot and playing a young LAR team. 

I like the playoff version of Fantasy much more because of all of the unknowns. You need to correctly predict the post-season AND get value at players of need on those teams. The only other time I played in a money post-season league was 1998 when I was 14 and played against my father and his co-workers (I won, thanks Ed McCaffrey).

 

[Goooals]

For picks 3, 4, and 5.  I can see picking QB's like like Case and Ben since they score lot's of points.  Or going with Gurley, Lewis, Kamara or Bell. 

 

[Tommy Collins]

For some reason, I am seeing a lot less content this year on player rankings for playoff drafts (FBG's still has great content).  Maybe I am just spending less time than I have in years past.

Anyhow, I thought I would start a thread for those that are in standard scoring, draft any player, and play until they are out of the playoffs.  I am in a 10-Team, 10-round draft that begins tomorrow and thought it would be wise to get some ideas.  Obviously, stacking as many players from teams that you think will play the most games is the right strategy.

Any thought to the first round or two?  After Brady and Brees, it get's kind of tricky.

1. Brady 2. Brees, 3. 4.

 Thoughts?

If you're talking no starting positions, just 10 guys at any position, QB would absolutely have huge value. I think you'll get 2 games out of Goff, 2 out of Keenum, 2 out of Alex Smith, 2 out of Ben. I think it's Patriots and Saints this year, maybe Vikings. If Patriots and Steelers both win divisional games then Pitt goes into NE and Ben isn't great on the road so I'm not as high on him as many are. I think I'd prefer Keenum over Ben as he has the potential to play 3 games. I don't think I could take Ben or Keenum over Kamara though. I think Saints are playing at least 3 games.