I thought it might be interesting to have a thread where people can post the results of their fantasy football drafts and get feedback on it.
Here’s a mock I just did on Yahoo! 14 team league with me in the 12th spot in a snake draft. Starts 2 RB, 3 WR, no flex.
Andre Johnson (Hou - WR)
Maurice Jones-Drew (Jac - RB)
LeGarrette Blount (TB - RB)
Jeremy Maclin (Phi - WR)
Mario Manningham (NYG - WR)
Mark Ingram (NO - RB)
Kevin Kolb (Ari - QB)
Ryan Williams (Ari - RB)
Braylon Edwards (SF - WR)
Danny Amendola (StL - WR)
C.J. Spiller (Buf - RB)
Robert Meachem (NO - WR)
Greg Olsen (Car - TE)
Atlanta (Atl - DEF)
Adam Vinatieri (Ind - K)
Overall, I like this team for a 14 team league. I was surprised to see Andre Johnson fall this far, but someone took Fitz and Vick, Rogers, and Brady were all taken as well.
Josh Freeman was available instead of Kolb, I think I may have been too much of a homer by reaching for Kolb.
This draft follows my usual strategy of ignoring TE until close to the end. During the Favre years, I used to grab Shiancoe, Pettigrew was my preferred choice, but he went a couple of picks before I could grab him.
Considering my “performance” in the Big League last year, you probably shouldn’t listen to me, but, while I like Kolb, I want another, better, QB than him. Even in a 14 team league. Trust me; a bad QB can ruin your whole day.
I really like Ingram and Williams, FWIW. And, living in HOU, I haven’t heard anything to make you doubt the performance of AJ this year. With Daniels coming back strong, he’ll be even better, if anything.
Here’s mine, in a std, snake, PPR league. I drafted last. 16-team (shits n’ giggles):
(16) Philip Rivers QB
(17) Darren McFadden RB
(48) Ryan Mathews RB
(49) Santonio Holmes WR
(80) Michael Crabtree WR
(81) Malcom Floyd WR
(112) Tony Moeaki TE
(113) Chicago DEF
(144) Ryan Torain RB
(145) Chris Cooley TE
(176) Colt McCoy QB
(177) Jacoby Jones WR
(208) Kansas City DEF
(209) Tashard Choice RB
(240) Ryan Longwell K
Comments are welcome. I dumped Jacoby Jones, FWIW, to go grab Jerome Harrison. (Who was a FA. What can I say; I guess I read Beef’s man crush posts one too many times.)
My first real draft of the season. Not a keeper league.
12 team league, 2QB, standard settings. I drafted 5th in a snake draft. The second QB spot is an Offensive Utility Player, so I could spot start a RB if I need to. I’ll be watching the waiver wires for QB’s as well as looking at trade offers. My draft strategy was to grab two of Stafford/Kolb/McCoy/Bradford. That didn’t work as both Kolb and McCoy went much earlier than I expected.
Ray Rice, Bal RB
Calvin Johnson, Det WR
Steven Jackson, StL RB
DeSean Jackson, Phi WR
BenJarvus Green-Ellis, NE RB
Beanie Wells, Ari RB
Matthew Stafford, Det QB
Mark Ingram, NO RB
Joseph Addai, Ind RB
Ryan Fitzpatrick, Buf QB
Braylon Edwards, SF WR
Brandon Pettigrew, Det TE
Donald Driver, GB WR
Matt Hasselbeck, Ten QB
Falcons D/ST D/ST
Sebastian Janikowski, Oak K
I just did my second draft (ever) today. Here are my two drafts.
League 1 (1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 flex (TE/RB/WR), 1 TE, 1 K, 1 defense, 6 bench) This league is customized and awards 1 point per reception. Penalties for INT’s, fumbles, giving up lots of yards, etc. are penalized a little higher than the standard foxsports rules.
1 LeSean McCoy Phi RB
2 Ray Rice Bal RB
3 Reggie Wayne Ind WR
4 Mike Wallace Pit WR
5 Matt Schaub Hou QB
6 DeSean Jackson Phi WR
7 Baltimore Bal D/ST
8 Jason Witten Dal TE
9 Matt Cassel KC QB
10 Santana Moss Was WR
11 Jahvid Best Det RB
12 Detroit Det D/ST
13 Roy Williams Chi WR
14 Mason Crosby GB K
15 Stephen Gostkowski NE K (since then, I dropped this guy for Dustin Keller TE NYJ)
Draft 2 (same lineup, standard foxsports.com public league rules)
1 Ray Rice Bal RB
2 Tom Brady NE QB
3 Ahmad Bradshaw NYG RB
4 Dwayne Bowe KC WR
5 BenJarvus Green-Ellis NE RB
6 Marques Colston NO WR
7 Anquan Boldin Bal WR
8 Joseph Addai Ind RB
9 Mark Sanchez NYJ QB
10 New York NYJ D/ST
11 Dustin Keller NYJ TE
12 New England NE D/ST
13 Deion Branch NE WR
14 Visanthe Shiancoe Min TE
15 Sebastian Janikowski Oak K
In both of these drafts, I was last to pick in the first round, first to pick in the second, last in third, first in fourth, etc. For a n00b, I feel pretty good about these.
I just did my second draft (ever) today. Here are my two drafts.
League 1 (1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 flex (TE/RB/WR), 1 TE, 1 K, 1 defense, 6 bench) This league is customized and awards 1 point per reception. Penalties for INT’s, fumbles, giving up lots of yards, etc. are penalized a little higher than the standard foxsports rules.
1 LeSean McCoy Phi RB
2 Ray Rice Bal RB
3 Reggie Wayne Ind WR
4 Mike Wallace Pit WR
5 Matt Schaub Hou QB
6 DeSean Jackson Phi WR
7 Baltimore Bal D/ST
8 Jason Witten Dal TE
9 Matt Cassel KC QB
10 Santana Moss Was WR
11 Jahvid Best Det RB
12 Detroit Det D/ST
13 Roy Williams Chi WR
14 Mason Crosby GB K
15 Stephen Gostkowski NE K (since then, I dropped this guy for Dustin Keller TE NYJ)
I have no idea if the Colts are playing games about Peyton Manning’s health. They’ve certainly done this in the past. But, I’m still nervous about Reggie Wayne. The Colts have yet to draft any quality backup or groom somebody for Manning who isn’t getting any younger and is coming off another surgery.
Ten team league, picking 7th in a snake draft. I feel kind of like I picked the fantasy football league champions for 2009.
Michael Turner, RB, ATL
Calvin Johnson, WR, DET
Steven Jackson, RB, STL
Peyton Manning, QB, IND (!)
Brandon Lloyd, WR, DEN
Felix Jones, RB, DAL
Knowshon Moreno, RB, DEN
AJ Green, WR, CIN
Sidney Rice, WR, SEA
New York Giants DT
Brandon Jacobs, RB, NYG
Jay Cutler, QB, CHI
Brandon Pettigrew, TE, DET
Jason Snelling, RB, ATL
Lee Evans, WR, BAL
Neil Rackers, K, HOU
Benjamin Watson, TE, CLE
What think?
I think getting Manning in the fourth round was good value - he may start slowly, but I have Cutler as a stopgap until Manning gets going and once he does, he’s definitely better than a fourth rounder.
But Turner and Jackson as my top two running backs is asking for injury/age-related trouble. I’ll also need to come up with a third back from the trio of Jones, Jacobs, and Moreno… which I guess is not such a bad situation.
Megatron I like, but I think I reached badly on Brandon Lloyd and I’m not sure any of the other WRs I got are all that good (though I do like Lee Evans as a late-round flier).
Pettigrew and Watson should be serviceable at TE; since I waited so long to go in that direction I guess I can’t complain.
In what I consider standard scoring, the QB usually puts up more points than a RB. In my league, the Offensive Utility Player (flex) can not be a QB. Is yours different? Can you start 2 QB’s? If so, I think waiting on a QB would be a mistake, but if not, you could do worse than Stafford and Fitzgerald.
I’m still torn on the QB position this year. I think there are 5 elite (Rodgers, Brady, Vick, Brees, and Manning (depending on the neck thing), and 2 extremely good (Rivers and Romo), options. I’d want to grab one of those 7 as my QB #1, rather than waiting and grabbing 2 guys I hope will develop. I’m not sure what was available in the 5th round, but I’d definitely grab a QB before Benjavis LawFirm.
Outside of the QB issue, I really like this draft, especially in a 12 team league. Rice and Megatron are studs, and SJax, DeSean are solid #2’s. I think BGE is a wasted pick (who the fuck knows how Bellicheat will use his RB’s and I think his TD total will drop this year), Wells went too high, but you have great RB depth and servicable QB’s. The WR position may be tough, I’m not sold on Braylon and you gotta figure at some point Driver will drop off even more. But I like Pettigrew a lot, and waiting on defense and kicker is what I always recommend. I’d probably dump Hasselbeck and grab a high upside WR sleeper (Malcom Floyd?, Amendola in a PPR league, Lance Moore maybe?) to hope for. Overall, there is a lot to like in this draft.
How was Ray Rice available in the second round, especially in a PPR league? I have him as a top 6 player, and much higher than McCoy, if you got him in the second (or even bottom of first), that’s amazing value. I worry about Wayne this year, but Wayne, Wallace, and Jackson give you a flexibility to find a good start each week. Schaub is just below the top tier of QB’s. You really reached for the Raven’s defense (I hate drafting a defense before filling all my other starters and a few backups), but you still got Witten and Best in the 11th is just sick value, so it doesn’t look like it hurt you too much. Roy Williams, I think, will be a disappointment, but he’s definitely worth a late round flier.
Great draft that kinda surprised me with some mind bogglingly amazing value.
This one, I’m not a fan of. With only 10 players, I think you can wait past the second round to grab a QB (unless there was a huge run, which would actually make it easier for you to grab elite players at other positions). The difference between Brady and Schaub or Rothslisberger shouldn’t be too great and will likely be smaller than the difference between your #1 WR and your #2 WR. Bradshaw is very good, but there is so much talent at RB behind him, I don’t think he’ll be that valuable, especially not in the third round. Missing out on a stud WR, or a very good WR2, means your stuck with Bowe (who I think has a big dropoff this year) and Colston who has injury issues and is inconsistent. I like Branch in PPR’s, but I hate Sanchez, and I think it’s silly to take a defense in the 10th round, but even worse to grab a backup defense only 2 rounds later. Overall, I wouldn’t be too excited about this team
Manning in the 4th is pretty good value, but I would think you waited too long to grab someone better to back him up. Cutler may surprise, but he had less yards and TD’s under Martz than the OC before him, which would seriously concern me. I’m leery of Turner (lotta miles), and might have gone for another position at 7 (Andre Johnson maybe? Vick? Rodgers?). However, I do like your backup RB’s, but Felix Jones has a ADP in the 10th round (on yahoo at least), Moreno’s ADP is in the 9th, and Jacob’s in the 12th, so I think you reached there. Maybe the fear of relying on Turner and Jackson got to you. Still, they do have some nice upside.
Outside of Megatron, I hate your WR crew. Lloyd was a reach and is due for a huge dropoff with the loss of McDaniels and the gain(?) of Fox as HC. I just can’t see Green, for as talented as he is, having a good year, especially with the limited offseason and Andy Dalton throwing to him. Rice was good value, but his injury history and his lack of numbers with TJax throwing to him concern me greatly. And I hate Lee Evans.
If you’re waiting to grab a TE, you could do much worse than Pettigrew, who is good, but Watson I think will dropoff from his quietly good season last year as Colt McCoy learns to throw to his WR’s and Evan Moore (hope his head is alright) and Jordan Cameron are the future. Maybe a guy like Greg Olsen, Brett Celek, Jared Cook (as a complete aside, did you know that Cook is allergic to grass. A football player who is allergic to grass? Makes me want to cheer him on) would have more upside. There’s a lot of deep talent with upside at the TE position this year.
Hamlet, I guess that brings me down to earth a little. I have a few more teams yet to draft and was trying a few different strategies. In the first one, I was going to wait until round 3 to pick a QB, but all the big name ones were gone by then, so I waited even longer, and decided to fill other spots first. In the second one I decided to try for a QB in round 2, and like you’ve noticed, most of the high quality players seemed to be gone after that. I’ll experiment a little more with the next 3 or 4 teams to see what works out best but yeah, I’ll definitely be in trouble in that second draft if Bowe doesn’t produce this year.
I’m not sure how anybody didn’t notice Ray Rice though, I don’t think people realized the importance of receptions in that league, but a little math before the draft showed me that they are going to be pretty important.
I just did a mock draft where I attempted to put Hamlet’s suggestions to use. This was a 10 team draft, but there were only five people. The other five teams were computer controlled. I was second to pick in the first round, second to last in the second, and so on. Here is the result:
1 Adrian Peterson Min RB
2 Matt Forte Chi RB
3 Calvin Johnson Det WR
4 DeSean Jackson Phi WR
5 Matt Schaub Hou QB
6 Santonio Holmes NYJ WR
7 BenJarvus Green-Ellis NE RB
8 Zach Miller Sea TE
9 Johnny Knox Chi WR
10 LaDainian Tomlinson NYJ RB
11 Marcedes Lewis Jac TE
12 Kevin Kolb Ari QB
13 Green Bay GB D/ST
14 Minnesota Min D/ST
15 Garrett Hartley NO K
I didn’t get the big name QB, but it seems like I have more to show for it in the other positions.
$100 auction, 12 players, points for yardage and touchdowns. We have the option of contracting 3 players for up to two years increasing their salary 10% per year (min $5). I’ve included what I paid so perhaps people can recommend who I should contract.
QB:
Philip Rivers $17
Kevin Kolb $3
Kyle Orton $1
RB:
Michael Turner $22
Mark Ingram $11
Brandon Jacobs $1
CJ SPiller $1
WR:
Calvin Johnson $24
Jason Witten $6
Braylon Edwards $1
AJ Green $1
Robert Meachem $1
Zach Miller $1
I had my money leavue draft this weekend, and I’m looking for a bit of feedback on it. It’s a 12 team league, partial keeper, non PPR, standard scoring except passing TD’s are worth 6. My ending lineup:
QB:
Tony Romo
Sam Bradford
RB
Maurice Jones Drew
Legarette Blount
Mike Tolbert
CJ Spiller
Javon Ringer
WR:
Andre Johnson
Stevie Johnson
Mario Manningham
Malcom Floyd
TE:
Dallas Clark
Jared Cook
K:
Jason Hanson
Ryan Succop
D/ST
Dolphins
Chiefs
I’m liking my depth, and I think I have enough studs to compete, but MJD’s knee concerns me greatly, and I have no idea what to expect out of Blount.
My ten team money league: partial keeper, ppr, no hard TE slot, and all TDs are 6 pts.
I had the 9th pick in a standard serpentine draft.
Starting 1QB; 2RB; 1WR/RB; 1WR; 1WR/TE; 1K; 1DEF
Keeper: Hakeem Nicks wr
Frank Gore rb
Steven Jackson rb
DeAngelo Williams rb
4./2nd keeper: Mike Wallace wr
Ben Roethlisberger qb
Jermichael Finley te
Tim Hightower rb
Davone Bess wr
Pierre Thomas rb
Packers def
Danny Amendola wr
Jerome Harrison rb
Ben Tate rb
Chad Henne qb
Saints def
Alex Henery (Kicker)
With already having two top WR’s I was able to concentrate on getting a solid rb corps. I wasthinking a qb and a wr would go in the first round. However, the first 8 picks were rb’s, leaving me with two big upside (especially in a ppr)/ huge injury-risk players.
** (3) - Chris Johnson RB
** (22) - Steven Jackson RB
** (27) - Peyton Manning QB
** (46) - Jeremy Maclin WR
** (51) - Jason Witten TE
** (70) - Austin Collie WR
** (75) - Fred Jackson RB
** (94) - Joseph Addai RB
** (99) - Sidney Rice WR
** (118) - Julio Jones WR
** (123) - Reggie Bush RB
** (142) - Michael Crabtree WR
** (147) - Donovan McNabb QB
** (166) - Mike Williams WR
** (171) - Dolphins D/ST D/ST
** (190) - Adam Vinatieri K
12 ESPN setup. I’m growing less comfortable with Manning and Chris Johnson to start the season, but I’m still optimistic that they’ll get back in the swing of things. I feel a bit overly reliant on the Colts as a whole, but I’m pretty happy with my depth selections overall.
I don’t like you running back situation, or, at least, how it played out. Stephen Jackson has a lot of wear on the tires. I like Shonn Greene, especially at that pick. I think you need another running back. In a ten player league, you should be able to find one. Eli is very good value down there. Why are you carrying two tight ends, though?
I had a 10-team draft last night as well. With the dreaded 6th pick, I got:
Andre Johnson
Darrn McFadden
Shonn Greene
Desean Jackson
Antonio Gates
Ben Roethlisbgerehgeghe3egrguiger
Tony Romo (value pick at this point, I felt)
Percy Harvin
Matthew Stafford
Fred Jackson
Jonathan Stewart
Willis McGahee
James Starks
Brandon Jacobs
Yes, very heavy on running backs (7 of them). I’m thinking that injuries are going to thin my herd out in this week’s break between now and the regular season.
