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WSL 2 Draft Thread (1 Viewer)

FM's team is fine, but no team in a 16-team survivor league drafting in January is anything close to a sure thing.
You got that right. This is crapshoot considering what we don't know. Bye weeks blinds alone can kill a team. I've even seen teams lose 4 players before the preseason. Definately takes a little luck to win WSL's.
Also known as the ACP curse. See "Jimmy Smith".
 
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Fitz, CJ, Jordan, McNabb...looks like you guys are playing for second place behind FM. If ADP holds from league 1, he'll be able to add another decent RB and good TE to go dormie.
Lamont Jordan as a RB1 and no RB2 until the 5th round or later?Donovan's been real durable too.gllll with that.
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No it's not. :D
:lmao: Tons of potential upside with your team. It's early but I would say it is much more likely geared toward scoring a ton of points versus surviving week in and week out. LJ will make or break you. But, you are correct that if the goal is only winning over 15 other owners rather than just putting in a good showing and finishing top 4, then you do have to take a LOT of chances. Yours have been really good so far as long as your WRs don't have bad weeks at the same time or god, forbid, end up with the same bye week. Nice work so far FM.
 
FM's team is fine, but no team in a 16-team survivor league drafting in January is anything close to a sure thing.
You got that right. This is crapshoot considering what we don't know. Bye weeks blinds alone can kill a team. I've even seen teams lose 4 players before the preseason. Definately takes a little luck to win WSL's.
Last year, I finished 6th in overall points out of two leagues (32 teams) and was 15 points out of 4th last year but was eliminated after week 3 because all four of my first four picks ended up having the same bye week (and one of them was a sorry son of a ##### who used to be one of the best WRs in the league until Mr. Bed and Breakfast came along). There is a ton of luck regarding the byes and you can either write off an early exit due to bad luck or try to make adjustments to your drafting strategy knowing that. Hopefully, I'll be doing that this year. Luck obviously still prevails much more so in the earlier drafts without question but that also makes it a lot of fun too.

 
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FM's team is fine, but no team in a 16-team survivor league drafting in January is anything close to a sure thing.
You got that right. This is crapshoot considering what we don't know. Bye weeks blinds alone can kill a team. I've even seen teams lose 4 players before the preseason. Definately takes a little luck to win WSL's.
Last year, I finished 6th in overall points out of two leagues (32 teams) and was 15 points out of 4th last year but was eliminated after week 3 because all four of my first four picks ended up having the same bye week (and one of them was a sorry son of a ##### who used to be one of the best WRs in the league until Mr. Bed and Breakfast came along). There is a ton of luck regarding the byes and you can either write off an early exit due to bad luck or try to make adjustments to your drafting strategy knowing that. Hopefully, I'll be doing that this year. Luck obviously still prevails much more so in the earlier drafts without question but that also makes it a lot of fun too.
I finished 4th overall scoring in WSL1 but went out early as well. I ended up with a QB issue because Collins didn't make it through week4 when Big Ben had a bye and Big Ben started very poorly. I got crushed week 5 with byes to my RB1 and 4 WR's.
 
Dunno how far it's going to make it today, but going into the weekend I'm likely computerless and will have to set up a few rounds of prepicks....(we are on the timer all weekend, right?) Anybody going to be around that wouldn't mind taking some picks? Heck--I might pull out from here early today since I'm in the middle of moving for the first time in 23 years. :lmao:

Really feels strange doing a draft this way since I'm usually one of the ones who lives onboard for these! :thumbup:

 
Dunno how far it's going to make it today, but going into the weekend I'm likely computerless and will have to set up a few rounds of prepicks....(we are on the timer all weekend, right?) Anybody going to be around that wouldn't mind taking some picks? Heck--I might pull out from here early today since I'm in the middle of moving for the first time in 23 years. :whistle: Really feels strange doing a draft this way since I'm usually one of the ones who lives onboard for these! :whistle:
I'll be around this weekend.
 
The three RBs at the top of my list just went in the 4 prior picks. I didn't really expect any of them to get back to me, but I could still hope. Enough complaining and back to the draft.

Julius Jones, RB DAL

PMing Jeff

 
was not expecting that RB run. I thought 1 of the 5 would definitely make it back.

I'm going to have to re-evaluate before sending a list.

 
4.15 Todd Heap
I am shocked. Not. :hey:
Excellent value for both of you at that position.
IF they stay healthy
Heap has made 37 straight starts and has played a full 16-game season in 4 of the past 5 years. Do you think he's a greater injury risk than any other player around the league?
This sounds vaguely familiar....Both TEs have injury histories, but they also play through a lot of them, and manage to play well, even at less than 100%. Shockey wears his emotions on his sleeve, and when he's hurt it shows too.

Heap and Shockey are key parts of their teams' attacks. If they are "OUT" they obviously do no good, but it takes alot to knock either one out.

Something tells me that we'll have another TE on our teams before we're done as well.

 
4.15 Todd Heap
I am shocked. Not. :confused:
Excellent value for both of you at that position.
IF they stay healthy
Heap has made 37 straight starts and has played a full 16-game season in 4 of the past 5 years. Do you think he's a greater injury risk than any other player around the league?
Heap, last two years I agree. Before that, start or not, the guy was hurt and had some cruddy games because he played hurt; much like Shockey did this past season.After a point, IMO, playing thru injuries becomes foolish.

Shockey's ankles are weak, I suppose. They're always hurt. No clue how else to explain it, but they are.

Regardless, their value is only excellent if they stay healthy, as I mentioned.

 
which fantasy players maintain their excellent value when injured? I'm guessing there aren't too many.

BTW, Heap has finished 4th, 3rd, 23rd (missed 10 games), 3rd, and 1st among fantasy TEs over the past 5 years.

are you saying he had a bunch of "cruddy games" that hurt his value when he finished as the #1 ranked fantasy TE in the league? when he finished 3rd?

the guy is a stud and extremely consistent from year to year. he's a very safe pick at TE, IMO. He's great value in this league getting him as the 5th TE off the board, and so far after the top 3 TEs.

 
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which fantasy players maintain their excellent value when injured? I'm guessing there aren't too many.BTW, Heap has finished 4th, 3rd, 23rd (missed 10 games), 3rd, and 1st among fantasy TEs over the past 5 years.are you saying he had a bunch of "cruddy games" that hurt his value when he finished as the #1 ranked fantasy TE in the league? when he finished 3rd?the guy is a stud and extremely consistent from year to year. he's a very safe pick at TE, IMO. He's great value in this league getting him as the 5th TE off the board, and so far after the top 3 TEs.
:excited: Even if it's Arod.
 
which fantasy players maintain their excellent value when injured? I'm guessing there aren't too many.BTW, Heap has finished 4th, 3rd, 23rd (missed 10 games), 3rd, and 1st among fantasy TEs over the past 5 years.are you saying he had a bunch of "cruddy games" that hurt his value when he finished as the #1 ranked fantasy TE in the league? when he finished 3rd?the guy is a stud and extremely consistent from year to year. he's a very safe pick at TE, IMO. He's great value in this league getting him as the 5th TE off the board, and so far after the top 3 TEs.
As if I said the Heap pick was a bad one.....I'll play along though.He's got 6 years in the league. He's missed 14 games, he has 17 games with 2 or less catches. Thats 31 of 96 or nearly a 3rd of his games that he wasn't any use to your FF team.
 
I'll play along though.He's got 6 years in the league. He's missed 14 games, he has 17 games with 2 or less catches. Thats 31 of 96 or nearly a 3rd of his games that he wasn't any use to your FF team.
you keep talking about him like he's an injury risk who is always playing hurt and having "cruddy games"he's played 16 games in 4 of the past 5 seasons. He's been a top-4 TE in 4 of the past 5 seasons.In 2006, he didn't have 1 single game with 2 or fewer catches.In 2005, he had 2 games with 2 or fewer catches (but he caught a TD in one of those)2004 was the year he missed 10 games to injury, but it wasn't season ending and he finished the year pretty strong (12 rec, 168 yards, 3 TDs in weeks 14-16)In 2003, he had 7 games with 2 or fewer receptions (only caught a TD in one of those)In 2002, he had 2 games with 2 or fewer receptions.So, 2004 he obviously was hurt by a serious injury. 2003 I guess your argument holds up a bit, but he still managed to finish as the #3 fantasy TE with Kyle Boller in his first year as a starter and Jamal Lewis rushing for 2000 yards.He's been about as consistent as you could possibly hope for over the past 2 seasons (75/73 receptions, 855/765 yards, 7/6 TDs) while playing in all 32 games plus a playoff game this year.Maybe it's time to stop holding 2003 against him when it looks more like the exception than the rule? He's really only had 1 "cruddy" game (fewer than 2 receptions with 0 TDs) in his last 36 games.
 
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Aaron Rudnicki said:
which fantasy players maintain their excellent value when injured? I'm guessing there aren't too many.BTW, Heap has finished 4th, 3rd, 23rd (missed 10 games), 3rd, and 1st among fantasy TEs over the past 5 years.are you saying he had a bunch of "cruddy games" that hurt his value when he finished as the #1 ranked fantasy TE in the league? when he finished 3rd?the guy is a stud and extremely consistent from year to year. he's a very safe pick at TE, IMO. He's great value in this league getting him as the 5th TE off the board, and so far after the top 3 TEs.
I don't question the value. I question the "very safe pick".At some point the injuries will catch up to him.The same can be said for Shockey. I think Heap is a slightly bigger risk.
 

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