Really? I completely understand the need to handcuff, but McFadden has a ton of potential and, with Jamarcus basically sucking, is going to be the focus of the offense. Sproles, you know what you get, and he’s a fine backup, but you’ll never start him unless LT is hurt. McFadden, however, could be huge this year. Granted it’s all potential, but I wouldn’t make that trade unless Orton were really important to me.
Yup. In addition, handcuffing isn’t nearly as important this year, as there are going to be so many RBBC situations that there will always be RB points on the bench to be had.
In what crazy universe are the odds of a Raiders draft pick working out better than 50%? 
How does yahoo do their projected rankings? I mean - if you actually sort their season projections by fantasy points scored and look at the projected points and projected rankings they often don’t match up.
For instance, using stock yahoo scoring league, based on the “projected” ranking, yahoo has these quarterbacks:
(Name - projection ranking overall - projected scoring)
Drew Brees - 15 - 292.10
Peyton Manning - 21 - 274.40
Tom Brady - 23 - 316.55
Tony Romo - 33 - 227.77
Kurt Warner - 35 - 289.04
Philip Rivers - 37 - 235.83
Aaron Rodgers - 38 - 295.82
I thought maybe there’s some room to adjust the numbers depending on the consistency, injury history, etc. of a player - so maybe if Peyton Manning and Matt Shaub were projected to have similar numbers, Manning would have the ranking edge because of his health and consistency. Fine.
But look at the example above. Aaron Rodgers is projected to score the 2nd most points of any QB, yet his projected ranking is 7th among quarterbacks. Kurt Warner is ahead of him, and it’s certainly not like Warner is less of an injury risk or something along those lines.
Is the “projected” ranking based on the big board of whoever runs their FF site? Is it based on average draft position somehow? What’s the deal?
Stafford’s been named the starter in Detroit. Does that destroy Megatron’s value?
The guy had 1300+ and 12 TDs with Orlovsky, Kitna and Culpepper throwing to him. He’ll be fine.
I did my pay leagues draft last night.
Its a 10-man, PPR, with optional TE league. I had 1st overall pick in a snake draft.
QB:
Tony Romo
David Garrard
RB:
Adrian Peterson
Darren McFadden
Reggie Bush
Ray Rice
Chester Taylor
WR:
Calvin Johnson
Greg Jennings
Chad OchoCinco
Brandon Marshall
Steve Breaston
Josh Morgan
DEF:
Philidelphia
San Francisco
K:
David Akers
Robbie Gould
We Start 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1RB/WR, 1 DEF, 1 K
We play all TD’s equal 6 points, so we had two QB’s taken in the first round. Before someone asks why I took two kickers and two defenses, every trade or pickup cost ten dollars, so it was a cost cutting move.
I definitely have the best WR corps of all the teams, but I’m worried about my RB’s if Peterson goes down.
I’m worried about your RB2 even if all of them stay healthy. Love your WRs, though, and your QBs are fine. Still, with a 3-RB league you should probably have gotten at least a second full-time starter.
Agreed. I’m not big at all on McFadden- see preceding pages for the reasoning- and I think you’d do well to package him and one of your wideouts for a top-flight rusher.
In what is effectively a 2-WR league you’re going to be leaving an awful lot of points on the bench every week. You could trade Ochocinco or Marshall without really harming your depth at all.
In PPR, I might even put Forte above AP. If the guy that has him has another very good #2 RB, then I’d think about packaging AP and McFadden together for those two.
Agreed on the running back situation. I’m planning on playing match-ups with my RB2 (if Rice becomes the starter like I think he will). If Marshall becomes productive I will package him for a more solid #2 RB. I hopefully got lucky with Marshall, as no one wanted to touch him, and he fell to me in the 7th round.
I would wait a year before assuming Forte will catch a lot of passes. Cutler can’t/won’t throw checkdowns; Denver RBs caught 19 passes between them last year.
Well, here’s the team I drafted last night. I have no real idea how this will go since I basically haven’t had time to look at anything (new baby in the house) and this league has some odd rules:
6 points for passing TDs
No PPR
High points for Defense
Starting: QB, RB, WR, TE, DEF, K, WR/RB, WR/RB, WR/TE
My team:
QB: P. Manning, M. Schaub
RB: A. Peterson, S. Jackson, J. Jones, T. Hightower, D. Ward, R. Williams
WR: Ochocinco, R. Williams, S. Moss, T. Ginn
TE: Gates
DEF: Pittsburgh
K: Elam
Critique this team. Our draft was last night; 10 team league with regular scoring. Price paid on right. I’m frankly thrilled - to me it looks like a deep, deep team with the only weakness being average RB starters:
QB Aaron Rodgers $24
RB Steve Slaton $35
RB Ryan Grant $24
RB/WR Marques Colston $20
WR Antonio Bryant $9
WR Larry Fitzgerald $46
TE Tony Gonzalez $17
D/ST Ravens D/ST $3
K Mason Crosby $1
BE Jamal Lewis $10
BE Cedric Benson $5
BE Donald Driver $2
BE Steve Smith NYG $1
BE Matt Hasselbeck $1
BE John Carlson $1
BE Julius Jones $1
What are the starting spots?
As shown on the left - 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, K, D/ST, and 1 RB/WR flex.
Oh, right, duh.
A little thin at RB - I’d like to see either a stud on top, or 2 2nd-tier and a 3rd tier starter. Jamal Lewis is broken down and you’d be better off spending that $10 on someone like McCoy. Very good value on Aaron Rodgers and Steve Slaton. Usually I wouldn’t use a draft slot on a backup TE, and instead grab some sleeper WR or RB.
Overall, I like it. Your approach looks somewhat similar to mine, except I didn’t have a big cost Fitzgerald type pick, and I’m a bit more stacked on cheaper high upside guys.
Is that a 12-team league? If so, holy shit.
10-team league.
Still, not bad. You could use some more wide receiver depth and your kicker sucks 
I would trade Derrick Ward for Beanie Wells if you can.