|
Are you, in fact, a pregnant lady who lives in the apartment next door to Superdeath's parents? - Commodore |
|
RB NFL Fantasy Football
|
|
I propose making it a virtual two-week match by just adding up the numbers ourselves.
Yes this helps me (what can I say, I'm biased...) but it's also less insane than the random bye. David Corperial Wrote:I get the feeling this will end up as a very close championship match up. Aye, it probably will. The third place game, despite being tied at 75-75, is going to go to Gaspar, unless Jordy can outscore Rodgers, the Packers D, AND NO's kicker. I guess if GB-Chicago a 38-35 shootout, with Jordy catching 180 and 2 scores, and Kasay injures himself on the opening kickoff, then I've got a shot at coming out ahead. The cost of having Romo injure himself on the opening series. It has been a good season, though. Baltimore Blue Jays, after Week 9: 8-1. Baltimore Blue Jays, after Week 16, including playoffs: 9-7.
Yeah, looking forward to the title game's conclusion.
Pretty happy with a 3rd place finish considering I got auto-drafted in the first round. Probably helped, doubt I would have taken Rodgers that early otherwise and it was a revelation having that kind of consistency from the QB position. In real NFL news, watching my Bills put up 40 and pick off my favorite quarterback 4 times is the second biggest highlight of the NFL season for me. (Nothing can top finally beating New England.) Unfortunate that they simply progressed from terrible to up-and-down this year. Just good enough to probably miss a top-10 pick. Cyneheard basically rode the same ups and downs with Freddie.
I've got some dirt on my shoulder, can you brush it off for me?
Well I didn't end up last on the final standings so I'll take that as a victory for a complete NFL noob!
"You want to take my city of Troll%ng? Go ahead and try."
January 6th, 2012, 20:36
(This post was last modified: January 6th, 2012, 20:49 by David Corperial.)
Thank you very much Gaspar.
If you guys don't mind, I'd like to state a couple of my thoughts about how I did so well. First off, use a different site than ESPN for fantasy ratings as I feel like they intentionally screw with ratings to give people who do their own research an advantage. Second, undervalue injury risk players. Michael Vick and Frank Gore are first round talent, but you know they will get injured during the season and risking them being hurt during the playoffs is a serious problem, players get hurt, but knowing players will get hurt should keep you weary. Vick and Gore I would not take until at least the third round where they would be great value. Third, look at under the radar guys heavily, they can win you a championship. Look at my team, I was much higher on Shonn Greene then anyone else and I was probably the only person who had Antonio Brown on their radar at all, yet both of them were major contributors to my team and huge reasons why I won the championship. Fourth, avoid Bill Belichick RBs like the plague. He brings in so many and you never know who's going to get the big numbers, if any. My trade of sending Darren McFadden and Jacoby Ford for Matt Ryan and Brandon Jacobs could've been change to BenJarvus Green-Ellis instead of Jacobs, but I knew I wanted to stay away from Belichick RBs. They also always go pretty high in the draft when you have no clue how it is going to wind up, as I said, just avoid them. Fifth, really look at TEs. I shouldn't have been able to get both Jermichael Finley and Jimmy Graham on my team, they were both being projected as top 5 TEs and that is the position that you really need to study because the top ones produce so much more than any of the others. These are just some of my thoughts on fantasy sports, if you don't like my reasoning just explain why, I'm perfectly happy to get into a discussion about this and hopefully we'll do this again next year. David Corperial Wrote:First off, use a different site than ESPN for fantasy ratings as I feel like they intentionally screw with ratings to give people who do their own research an advantage. I followed the ESPN rankings pretty closely, and can't complain about how I did. I had three big divergences from their rankings, in the draft: Vick Gronk Ochocinco (Cut after Week 1, b/c I realized he was a likely bust, and not Randy Moss Redux, and I needed WR help ASAP) But my late-round picks were all based off of ESPN's rankings, and I had two studs (until an injury) and one nice surprise: McGahee was good value Jordy was almost as good as Gronk at out-performing his draft status (shame we didn't play Week 17...160 yards + 3 TDs!?!?! From Matt Flynn???): #2 in WRs for the season, and he was the 11th round. Fred Jackson (stud until the broken leg) Blount was OK, and my other 4 picks didn't do much (S. Rice, Bradford (what a rough season for them), Ricky Williams and Jacoby Jones were my 14th and 15th rounders, so no big loss there). There's value in doing your own research, but at the same time it didn't strike me as though ESPN's late round choices were that bad, at least for me. Now, their first round? That wasn't very good, but if you're only using ESPN to determine your first round picks, you'd might as well just autodraft. And during the season, you've got to do your own research (especially if you were like me and high on the waiver wire all year: I needed to get the good players the week BEFORE anyone else thought to go after them). |
