The biggest fantasy bust of 2014 is....... (1 Viewer)

[MaxThreshold]

Michael Floyd is being underrepresented in this thread.

Crabtree too

What? No ####### way. Crabtree has always been long on potential and short on execution guy. I may have to seriously question your ranking skills, because he's ALWAYS been mediocre at best so should never have been a surprise disappointment to anyone. He should be no higher than the 25 or 30 on anyone's WR ranking list.

My ranking skills? His consensus FBG ranking going into the season was wr 22 (as high as wr9)

He's currently ranked 36 in standard and 40 in ppr. Actually better than I would have guessed, but I'd say he still qualifies

I was joking about your skills.

My point was that Crabtree has always been a huge disappointment. How can he be a "bust" this year when the expectation was for him to disappoint again?

Whoever had him at WR9 was on some serious crack. No way. Not ever. He's a middle to low third-tier WR at best.

 

[LittlePhatty]

If we limit the question to guys who are actually on the field and playing, it's C. Patterson by a mile.

 

[Raiderfan32904]

Just now reading this thread. My vote if it's not already been menitoned is Reggie Bush.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Michael Floyd is being underrepresented in this thread.

Crabtree too

What? No ####### way. Crabtree has always been long on potential and short on execution guy. I may have to seriously question your ranking skills, because he's ALWAYS been mediocre at best so should never have been a surprise disappointment to anyone. He should be no higher than the 25 or 30 on anyone's WR ranking list.

My ranking skills? His consensus FBG ranking going into the season was wr 22 (as high as wr9)

He's currently ranked 36 in standard and 40 in ppr. Actually better than I would have guessed, but I'd say he still qualifies

I was joking about your skills.

My point was that Crabtree has always been a huge disappointment. How can he be a "bust" this year when the expectation was for him to disappoint again?

Whoever had him at WR9 was on some serious crack. No way. Not ever. He's a middle to low third-tier WR at best.

2012 called, it has a bone to pick with you.

2012 25 SFO WR 15 16 16 127 85 1105 13.0 9 49 5.3 69.1

 

[urbanhack]

If we limit the question to guys who are actually on the field and playing, it's C. Patterson by a mile.

This.

 

[Sabertooth]

If we limit the question to guys who are actually on the field and playing, it's C. Patterson by a mile.

This.

Did we ever get a consensus on whether it's pronuonced "Core-Darrell" or "Corder-ell?"

 

[Cyclones]

I think Corder - ell is MUCH cooler. Cor - Darrell is kind of lame. That would be like me renaming my kids Corspencer and Corava.

 

[Touchdown Syndrome]

If we limit the question to guys who are actually on the field and playing, it's C. Patterson by a mile.

This.

Did we ever get a consensus on whether it's pronuonced "Core-Darrell" or "Corder-ell?"

I believe the former is correct.

As far as biggest 2014 bust, I'll go with Gerhart. At least CP had a nice game in week one.

Gerhart has been a steamy turd from the start.

 

[MattFancy]

If we limit the question to guys who are actually on the field and playing, it's C. Patterson by a mile.

This.

Did we ever get a consensus on whether it's pronuonced "Core-Darrell" or "Corder-ell?"

I believe the former is correct.

As far as biggest 2014 bust, I'll go with Gerhart. At least CP had a nice game in week one.

Gerhart has been a steamy turd from the start.

Was looking back at the draft results in one of my leagues. I feel ashamed to have taken Gerhart in the 5th round.

 

[dickey moe]

Based on a guy I targeted heavily on my teams, I'm going with Percy Harvin. His dynasty value looks shot, too.

 

[TDorBust]

AP - I dont care if he is on the field or not or why he is not this year has been a bust for him.

Also to clarify from the leader in sports:

http://espn.go.com/fantasy/football/story/_/page/nfldk2k14staffsleepers/jay-cutler-tre-mason-montee-ball-prominently-mentioned

Bust: Player considered a sure starting option in ESPN standard leagues, according to ESPN Fantasy rankings, but will not live up to expectations and/or draft-day value.

There is no clarifying statement about being injured or suspended just that they don't live up to expectations.... /story

 

[LittlePhatty]

I don't care how many definitions you look up, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. That's fine.

But a suspended or injured player falls into the "duh" category. Of course they are a bust, they aren't playing. They are in the "duh" category because you know you won't be putting them in your lineup if they aren't on the field.

Busts that ARE playing are 10 times more frustrating because you will likely start them multiple weeks based on their "potential".

 

[mike11162]

To me it's Garcon. He's the only non-producer who doesn't have an injury or suspension to blame and who had a body of work to support taking him high. On most boards he was a top 12 WR. Guy led the NFL in catches in 2013. He also plays on a team with a bad defense that has to throw often. Yes, there have been injuries at QB, but DJax still produced many weeks with same QBs. Garcon has only one 100 yard game, his only game with at least 20 fantasy points in a PPR. Only three games with at least 5 catches, this from an alleged PPR monster that had at least 5 catches every game last year. 3 productive games out of 12, one coming on a fluky 75 yard TD catch late (where he still couldn't break 100 yards). He has 8 of 12 games with less than 10 points in a PPR, half of which he had fewer than 20 yards, and 2 with less than 10 yards. He's really not even getting targets, with only 3 games with more than 6 targets. He's to the point where you can't even take a shot on playing this guy, despite some good matchups, and he'd be an automatic cut if many of his owners hadn't invested so much in getting him in the first place.

You can make the case Patterson is at least as much of a bust, but he was drafted high more on potential than actual production. Garcon had a body of work already, a season and a half of high production with his current team, and moderate success with his former team. And with some juicy matchups he was still getting used in lineups late into the season. Patterson owners pretty much bailed by mid-season, but there were probably still a lot of people using this guy against teams like the Bucs and Colts whom he faced in 2 of his last 3 games. He totaled 27 yards in 3 games against arguably the three worst pass defenses on his schedule (Jags, Bucs, Colts). Would have been 39 yards in 4 games against bad defenses if he hadn't got the fluky 75 yarder against the Titans late.

 

[TDorBust]

I don't care how many definitions you look up, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. That's fine.

But a suspended or injured player falls into the "duh" category. Of course they are a bust, they aren't playing. They are in the "duh" category because you know you won't be putting them in your lineup if they aren't on the field.

Busts that ARE playing are 10 times more frustrating because you will likely start them multiple weeks based on their "potential".

So you picked Patterson as your bust but if you are talking about playing them weekly as needing to qualify as a bust were you really starting him after week 4? This seems pretty "DUH" to me to cut ties with Patterson in the starting line-up after 3 bad weeks. (even expert ratings starting in week 5 had him drop off the map as a WR2)

So you had 3 sub-par weeks out of 4 weeks you would have started him (guess what players like Dez, Lacy, Lynch have all have had 3 very sub-par weeks).... I guess I don't get the whole needed to play him to qualify as a bust.

If you wanted to talk about a bust who you play every week you could go with someone like McCoy who has had multiple games of being very subpar and hasn't been RB1-10 in over half the games this season. Its a lot harder to replace a RB1 than WR2 in my mind as well, so if I am going to have to pick someone like AP then I would have to go with McCoy at this point in the season.

This may help some identify other busts:

http://www.fftoday.com/tools/crank.php?Season=2014&Option=Season&PosID=20&MinGames=8&Teams=12&Starters=2&View=Percent&LeagueID=1

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

If we limit the question to guys who are actually on the field and playing, it's C. Patterson by a mile.

Agree