QB heavy league strategies? (1 Viewer)

[Scorehoard]

1 QB

1 RB

2 WR

1 TE

1 DEF/SPT

1 K

1 Flex (Any of the Above)

Strategy guides explain the natural drafting process but what if its a QB heavy league? How would your strategy differ than normal?

 

[a_troll00]

I play in a QB heavy league, and such a process can make for a very tricky draft. Your QB selection can very well make or break you, and the temptation is great to reach for Peyton Manning or Tom Brady right away. Although a poor QB choice is disastrous, your QB selection will still not win you the championship. The QB still needs a solid team around him.

By the way, is your league really only starting 1 RB and a flex? Anyways, this strategy is going with 2 starting RBs and a flex.

You're still going to need strong RBs to win. QBs can have stellar games, ho-hum games, and flat out awful games. WRs fall in the same boat. However, RBs are usually your workhorses week in and week out, you still need them. They will give you the consistency you need every week to pull out a win.

In a QB heavy league, Manning will go fast. Probably around picks 4-5. Brady will probably go top of the first round, or early second round... but still, get your RBs. If you picked early in the first, you will now have some decisions to make in the second round. Who's still available late in the second round? Was there a QB run in the second round with the top 5 QBs already gone, leaving prime RBs still available? Did everyone follow the strategy of picking RBs? If there's still a RB available that you really like, get him. You can use your early third pick on a top 5 QB if he's still available. If you pick mid to late in the first round, grab a RB in the first and second round and see what's available in the third.

Third round - is there still a top 5 QB available? (I'm going to rank the top 5 as Manning, Brady, Palmer, Brees, and Bulger in no particular order). If so, grab him now. If not, there is probably a top ranked WR available.

If the top QBs are already picked over, go the conventional strategy of stockpiling RBs and WRs. You can play the QBBC game. There will still be solid QBs to pick, such as Leinhart, Kitna, Rivers, Cutler, Lossman (I believe he can put up a solid season), etc.

 

[GregR_2]

...Strategy guides explain the natural drafting process but what if its a QB heavy league? How would your strategy differ than normal?

The great thing about FBGs is that while other sites teach people to draft by the Stud RB Theory, FBGs teaches people how to figure out where value exists in any league setup and how to draft.If the strategy guides you're talking about are good ones they should handle 2 QB leagues as well as any other setup.

 

[Pitch12]

Don't think too much about picking a QB. You can still find good ones at the end of the draft(i.e. Kitna last season)

 

[smackdaddies]

Subscribe to FG's and use the VBD to run your options to see the impact.

I play in a 10 team, start 2 QB, 6pt all TD league - you dont wait till round 8 or later to draft a qb - not unless you want to lose.

Interestingly enough - the big shift is usually about round 3/4 - thats when QB value really starts to change compared to a "normal" (whatever that means) league. First picks are still the top RB. In alot of drafts you can draft 2-3 qb say in the 6/7/8 round area - in a 2 qb leauge you start in the 3/4th rounds

Like always, its about your draft specifics - points, starteers, etc.

 

[Mystery Achiever]

Don't think too much about picking a QB. You can still find good ones at the end of the draft(i.e. Kitna last season)

i played in one of these last year. qb's flew off the board faster than i expected and i ended up with the 17th qb taken as my qb1 -- favre, who ended up as #10 in points, so not terrible; and i ended up with a great stable of rb's while everyone was grabbing qb's and made the playoffs. most people used the flex spot to play a qb; i used rb.

 

[Scorehoard]

My keepers... Peyton and SJax. These are others that are kept.

qb-Cutler, Hassleback, Palmer, Kitna, Leinart, Brees, Vick, A. Smith, Brady, Romo

rb- LT, LJ, Gore, Alexander, Maroney, Addai, Parker, R. Brown, Rudi, McGahee, Deuce, Bush

Basically in the second rd. 9 of 12 picks will be a WR. Following the 2nd the trends break until folks start getting Def. and K in the later rds.

The scoring system is ridiculously high i.e. passing, rushing, or receiving TD 26-50 is 10 pts. That's why the weight falls in the hands of the QB. 75+ yds. is 14 pts!!

I guess my own personal opinion is the amount of load carrying RBs is quickly dwindling which makes the QB even more valuable.

 

[Mystery Achiever]

I guess my own personal opinion is the amount of load carrying RBs is quickly dwindling which makes the QB even more valuable.

Actually, imo, that makes the load carrying RB more valuable! As I said, with everyone else grabbing three qb's, you can get a better shot at those rb's; in a 12 team league, I was able to draft: Jackson, Westbrook, Parker, Gore, M Barber ...though I ended up with Favre and McNair as QBs. As was said above, though,QBs do emerge later in the season. And there is a better chance of a QB on the wire emerging than RB, I would think.

 

[smackdaddies]

My keepers... Peyton and SJax. These are others that are kept. qb-Cutler, Hassleback, Palmer, Kitna, Leinart, Brees, Vick, A. Smith, Brady, Romorb- LT, LJ, Gore, Alexander, Maroney, Addai, Parker, R. Brown, Rudi, McGahee, Deuce, BushBasically in the second rd. 9 of 12 picks will be a WR. Following the 2nd the trends break until folks start getting Def. and K in the later rds. The scoring system is ridiculously high i.e. passing, rushing, or receiving TD 26-50 is 10 pts. That's why the weight falls in the hands of the QB. 75+ yds. is 14 pts!! I guess my own personal opinion is the amount of load carrying RBs is quickly dwindling which makes the QB even more valuable.

Thanks for giving the details on your league in your first post.If you have Peyton as a keeper, you dont need to draft a qb till late - real late. Look at his bye week and I am sure you can pick up someone to slot in that one week.

 

[simsarge]

Need to look at this again, later

 

[fishergm31]

My keepers... Peyton and SJax. These are others that are kept. qb-Cutler, Hassleback, Palmer, Kitna, Leinart, Brees, Vick, A. Smith, Brady, Romorb- LT, LJ, Gore, Alexander, Maroney, Addai, Parker, R. Brown, Rudi, McGahee, Deuce, BushBasically in the second rd. 9 of 12 picks will be a WR. Following the 2nd the trends break until folks start getting Def. and K in the later rds. The scoring system is ridiculously high i.e. passing, rushing, or receiving TD 26-50 is 10 pts. That's why the weight falls in the hands of the QB. 75+ yds. is 14 pts!! I guess my own personal opinion is the amount of load carrying RBs is quickly dwindling which makes the QB even more valuable.

Thanks for giving the details on your league in your first post.If you have Peyton as a keeper, you dont need to draft a qb till late - real late. Look at his bye week and I am sure you can pick up someone to slot in that one week.

If you can start a second QB as your FLEX, then you'll want to do more than just look at Peyton's bye week. It's going to come down to the value of the RB or QB (or even WR) that is available to you at the time of your pick. What are your scoring rules? Is it just length of TD that earns points? Or is there 1 pt for 20 pass yds / 10 rush yds? PPR?How many teams in the league? Your VBD gets trickier with the FLEX position, especially when it can include a QB. If the league is "QB heavy" as you mentioned, then using the FLEX for another high scoring QB can be a huge advantage. Since you have SJax and only need to start 1 RB, that 2nd RB isn't as important as in "Stud RB" leagues.