I was angry at work this morning. 
I also thought you had keepers for some reason. I wasn’t just grading down for RB2, though; I think Moore and Gresham Aren’t Good Enough.
I do find it weird that you like my team so much, though. I hate it, though a lot of that has to do with fear of CJ2YPC.
Well that certainly explains his power running style. He’s on a boar.
You graded down for Lacy? Thought it was just Moore at WR2.
Here are the RB2’s for all 14 teams in the league:
[ul][li]McFantom[/li][li]Miller[/li][li]Lacy[/li][li]Murray[/li][li]Bradshaw[/li][li]Vereen[/li][li]Matthews[/li][li]Law Firm[/li][li]Pierce[/li][li]Ivory[/li][li]Bush[/li][li]Wilson (or MJD or Ridley) [/li][li]Jackson (or Spiller)[/li][li]Mendenhall[/li][/ul]You don’t put Lacy in the top half of that group? He might be top 5, even with the Keepers skewing the top end.
Mendenhall is my #3 not #2. It’s not that he’s not in the top half of that group, though it’s close. It’s that he was drafted too high.
There’s stuff I like about this team, but more I don’t. Considering you don’t have cable and spotty internet access the issues aren’t really your fault, though; it’s mostly stuff like drafting Dwyer, who is on IR.
Foster is a good value at #5. He’s still the presumptive #2 fantasy player, a guy so good that people panicked because he only had 1600 YFS and 17 total touchdowns last year. Last year I got AP with the last pick in the first round because people were so terrified of his injury, and Foster’s injury is much less severe. You will be doing a lot of Sunday morning finger-crossing, though - and it will be even worse because Bradshaw is a walking questionable designation. You have essentially zero running back depth, and that’s bad.
Brady is going to be a stud like always, and since Peyton Manning was gone that’s a fine pick. I don’t understand why you got so spendy on a backup, though. The whole point about drafting PeyTom Branning is that you don’t really have to worry about a backup. That #7 pick could have been any number of flexy running backs.
Considering what you didn’t spend on RBs, your wideouts should really be a bit better. Smith and Wallace are really #2 options, and Boldin is a #4. Hopefully Sidney Rice or Markus Wheaton will pan out.
I think Gates is done. His foot injury will apparently never fully heal, and without the ability to get separation that made him so dominant he’s just a big guy. That wasn’t so bad when the Chargers had an offense that got in the red zone a lot, but they don’t anymore. Miller, on the other hand, could be superb trade bait by midseason. People seem to have forgotten that he was the #1 TE in fantasy until he got hurt (though he’s still a bit hurt). He was probably your best pick, in fact.
You overspent a bit for the Pittsburgh D. They’re old and they no longer play in an offensive wasteland division. Could have done worse, though.
You get a D. You’re just not strong at any position except QB, and you can only start one of those. I’d be trying to swing a deal with one, if I were you.
Omni’s draft is usually the one I wax lyrical about, only to watch his teams finish dead last. He’s like the anti-Dave. Not this time, though. There are just too many question marks on this team for me to really like it - and there’s enough upside for it to be competitive.
Charles is a stud, and a perfectly acceptable #4 pick. I want to complain about Murray going too high because of the injury risk, but I was hoping he’d fall to me a few picks later so I can’t complain much. D-Will… well, he’s finally going to get an appropriate number of carries, at least in the first half of the season, but it might be too late in his career to do anything with them. Plus Cam is still going to get the goal line carries. I think Ingram is a wasted pick. He’ll put up 500ish yards, but so will Pierre Thomas and he cost two rounds less. I don’t know anything about Knile Davis but I know people are raving about him and he’s your handcuff, so well done there.
I would be a little terrified if I had your quarterback situation. Vick could win you the league, but he could also be the guy that played last year. I wasn’t going to draft him without a competent backup, and… you don’t have one. Cutler didn’t even throw 20 TDs last year, and the points he does score are eaten by picks.
You’re always going to have shitty receivers because you draft lots of RBs, and this year is no exception. However, both your guys have top-10 upside. Hopkins has serious keeper potential but a sixth rounder is not that cheap. Better to pin your hopes on Stills.
I liked Olsen as a keeper, but based on the flow of the draft you probably could have had him in the following round. Eifert has keeper value but TEs usually take more than a year to figure out the league.
Overall, this is just a blah team. There just nothing to get excited about, which is weird because it wouldn’t be a shock if you had the #1 RB, the #1 QB, another top 10 RB and two top 10 WRs. C+.
I don’t really understand what you were doing in this draft. I get the first five picks, but after that it all went pear-shaped. Vereen has a chance to be a #2 RB, which means you should have drafted him as your third back at best. Not only did you not do that, you only drafted one other back, and that guy will be a goal line vulture at best.
Alright, fine, so you don’t care about RBs. That means you should be loaded elsewhere, and you’re just not. I mean, yay Manning, but your WRs are just good, and Finley is not special anymore. You could have had Kyle Rudolph or Jordan Cameron three rounds later. I also don’t understand why you took two kickers (especially one in the ninth round), or the Rams’ backup TE. Did you autodraft at the end or something?
Just about the only late pick I like is Brian Hartline, who for reasons I don’t understand is criminally undervalued this year. F (as in fucked).
So Bernard is your RB2? Ok - but that’s worse. Much as I am not a Mendenhall fan, at least he will be starting.
Lacey was drafted the only place I was likely to see him. I liked him better than everyone lese left on the board and didn’t want to be in the McFantom/Matthows realm of RB2 pain. The price I paid was a weak WR2. If you want to turn that inro a D grade then I think you may have some issues with consistency.
Just sayin’.
Name change: I’m now the Fightin’ Fig Things.
Shoulda gone with Figguts.
Not only did Varlos grab Manning one pick before I could (and I think it was an autopick) but 60 points for him in the first game against me? Boy, am I in for a bad season.
Has an autodrafted team ever won a league (on the SDMB)? Surely me and my easily distracted brethren are due.
Hmmmm - it’s just possible that Otto knew something that I didn’t. Is that why some people do research?
Round 1 Ray Rice. Less upside than Foster or Charles but also less risk. After HHH grabbed Martin (no, I don;t think Iwill gt ocer that, thank you very much) I decided to go safe at the top.
Round 2 Lacy. I understand why some folks don;t like him, but I watched him run kast year, and I watched him run in teh preseason, and after Murray went teh RB2 ranks were pretty well depleted. I was looking at McFadden, Matthews, and Miller after the turn, or one of a still deep set of WR1.5’s. Time will tell, fo rsure, but I am very happy with Lacy as my RB2 when I look across the league as a whole.
Round 3 After Welker went, my WR1 choice came down to Bowe or V Jax. I really like Bowe’s potential this year, but V Jax is more proven and the TB offense will push it downfield more than KC. I am happy with this pick, too.
Round 4 Romo. This is earlier than I had wanted to pick a QB, but teh run was on and after Romo things got very scary in my QB tiers. I had been targetting Richardson as a strong flex RB, but was mroe afraid of ending up with Eli or Vick as my starting QB, so I held my nose and grabbed Romo. I still think it was the smart pick in that slot, but I don’t really like it.
Round 5 Damn you HHH!!! First Martin and then Richardson? I hate picking right behind you. This was my first mistake of the draft. I had been watching Richardson since middle of Round 4 and was too set on RB3/flex. When he went, I looked at what was left on teh board and decided to take my pick in the Denver RBB3 lottery rather than grab a cear backup or risk what I see as a disastrous Jets backfield. I do think by Mid season Monte Ball will be the most reliable scorer out of that group, but I should have shifted to WR2 here and come back at RB later. I was really surprised how far some folks went without grabbing an RB2, so I kept expecting another mini run that never really materialized. By the time I picked again, Austin, Britt, Shorts, Hilton, Stevie Johnson were all off the board.
Round 6 Shocked by how fast WR corps was thinning out, I grabbed what seemes like teh safest bet for steady prodtion on teh board - Lance Moore. My plan was to come back on the turn and Grab Blackmon, who I expect to be a stud aftr his short suspension. I do think Moore will have a solid year again, though probably closer to 900 yds than 1,000 again. Felt better about that before teh Saints resurrected Robert Meacham to steal a few targets, though.
Round 7 My worst pick of the draft. Don’t misunderstand, I like Tavon Austin, but this was too early. My reach with Ball was a minor error, but it started an avalanche of risk/reward in my head. I knew I wanted to pool some risk/reward/keeper picks on young WR late in teh draft. But after grabbing Moore as WR2 I found myself reaching again and again for young WR with upside and return potential. I kind of liek each one individually, bu as a team I really needed another “sure points” option at WR. Gordon or even Givens would have been better picks here. Or I could have grabbed RB depth with Thomas, Moreno, or Bernard Pierce. Pierce probably would have been my best choice, since I have Rice. Austin isn;t a bad player, but this was a bad pick.
Round 8 Redman may only be a 2 week starter, and he is nothing special, but I also don’t trust LeVeon Bell to carry the full load once he is back. I’ll take that chance at a mediocre starting RB in round 8 of this league. Still happy with this pick.
Round 9 Cardarelle Patterson Young WR potential. I was probably a bit too blinded by that KR in preseason, but I do like his keeper potential. Happy with this pick in isolation, but compounding my bet on young WR this season is still risky.
Round 10 You know who was the 25th best RB in this league last year, above McFadden and Murray and Thomas and Matthews and Ingram and Moreno? Yeah, Danny Woodhead. He won’t carrry a team, but as a flex or situational starter he was pure value in round 10. Might save me if I am wrong on both Ball and Redman.
Round 11 Waited for TE and grabbed Gresham here. Limited upside, but I wasn’t hunting for keepers. He will be on the field more than Eifert and I just want a steady 4-6 points out of this position for now. Thougt about Sudfeld and Myers, but sice I was loading up so much risk at WR I decided to take steady and unexciting for TE. I mean did anyone look at the TE week-by-week for last year? After teh top tier it was a total crapshoot. Everyone seems to love Rudolph for his full year totals, but he was just as likely to thrw up a goose egg as to have a monster game.
Round 12 Backup QB with at least some upside potential for QB. Ranks were pretty thin by end of Round 12, but I like Tannehill with a full camp as starter reps, new WR target to stretch teh field, and a full year of reading defenses under his belt. Do I expect to start him twice this year - hell no. He’s a backup.
Round 13 I like Greg Little just a little. But he might get an early bounce with Gordon out. If that leads to greater confidence/coordination with Dalton then it will be nice. But this pick is just insurace for teh bottom falling out under all of my rookie WR’s. Little won’t break 1,000 this year, but he won’t drop under 600 either. Remember when we used to count on a young WR breaking through in year 3? Yeah - I don’t either.
Round 14 With insurance in place, I decide to gamble on yet another young WR. Of the entire group, Stephen Hill is most likely to be a complete bust. I really hate teh Jets offense this year. But I kept seeing good things written about Hill’s potential and with nobody knowing when Santonio Holmes will come back (or what he will look like when he does) I took teh long shot. If I flt better about my WR in total I would have grabbedMaclin to stash for next year. But since i am already banking so heavily on “future WR potential” I figured I would pass on the guaranteed 0 for this year. Hey - it’s round 14.
Round 15 Got a DEF who plays teh Jets in week 1. Check. Also a unit with shiny new acquisitions all through the secondary. Who knows, they might even be worth keepig around. But I;m only committing to week 1.
Round 15 Got a K. And he’s got a knickname and a strong leg. Bonus.
Keeper potential. Most of the WR’s, but could also ned up being none of them. Patterson, Austin, Hill in descending order. Monte Ball possibly in round 3 next year. Possibly Tannehill in 10.
I like this team, but don;t live it. My mistakes in Rounds 5 & 7 weakened what could otherwise have been a pretty solid foundation. I am strong in 4 out of 7 skill slots. No worse than average in Flex, and below average in WR2 and TE. TE was on purpose. After the top tier I really don;t value the position this year - too unpredictable week over week. WR2 will hurt unless one of teh young WR comes through for meby mid season.
Well that Roddy White thing came out if nowhere. Now I have to move up the Tates this week. Not looking good.
My team is going to score 90 points every week… And that’s not enough.
Sorry RNATB - I’m sitting my defense tonight. I don’t know exactly where that falls on the fantasy protocol spectrum, but I figure having starters on Monday is a mixed bag, and this is the upside of that - being able to sit players in the event of a lead.
If it makes you feel any better, I have White and Dez Bryant in my live-draft league. 
Rule proposal for next year. I would say if you draft a player, and they end the year on your roster, they should be still be keepable. My understanding is that if you ever drop them, you can’t keep them.
I think that rule induces too much roster freeze, you’re too afraid of dropping a guy you’re not sure about keeping, so there’s very little roster turnover. Maybe you guys like that, and that’s fine, I’m not saying I’m right, it’s a preference thing.
But I think it might be interesting to be able to cut a guy for a while and then re-add him later and still have him keeper eligible as long as you drafted him. I mean, if he’s valuable, anyone else can snatch him right up, or even do it for spite if they want, but if you manage to start the year with him on your roster and end it the same way, just let it be. Easier to enforce too.
Leads to too much end of season waiver fighting among losing teams. Im okay with saying you can keep players you re-add before a certain date, say the first week after the byes end (12?)
I don’t have a problem with it. In this league total points are an important tie breaker so it’s not like it’s a no brainer.
Not that it’s a grave injustice with my low score, but heading into last night’s game I had a 5 point lead with Kaepernick, Tate, and Dawson still to play, against only Andy Dalton. So I figured I was like 99% to win. And they scored nothing. Now Dalton just needs to score 10 points, can’t believe I’m going to lose this one.
