Rate my fantasy draft ?

Finished my first draft of 2012
16 team league , I drafted 14th
1 Darren McFadden Oak RB
2 Jimmy Graham NO TE
3 Victor Cruz NYG WR
4 Ahmad Bradshaw NYG RB
5 Jay Cutler Chi QB
6 Stevie Johnson Buf WR
7 Mario Manningham SF WR
8 Felix Jones Dal RB
9 Rashard Mendenhall Pit RB
10 Montario Hardesty Cle RB
11 Braylon Edwards Sea WR
12 Jon Baldwin KC WR
13 New York NYG D/ST
14 Green Bay GB D/ST
15 Billy Cundiff Bal
Opinions please

For a 16 team league it looks ok. Bit unsure about your RBs, McFadden, Bradshaw and Felix Jones are your top 3 and all are fairly injury prone, plus Mendenhall looks out for a while yet. WR and TE are strong, I like Cutler at QB but others may not.

bambamwillis wrote:For a 16 team league it looks ok. Bit unsure about your RBs, McFadden, Bradshaw and Felix Jones are your top 3 and all are fairly injury prone, plus Mendenhall looks out for a while yet. WR and TE are strong, I like Cutler at QB but others may not.

Have since dropped Mendenhall [due to not being available till week 6] picked up C.Benson now a Packer
But agree about injury worries

Only 1 QB?

As bambam said you have quite a lot of injury history at RB, plus Jones and Hardesty are backups unless others get hurt.

Do like your WR's and D/ST's.

Derbyblue wrote:Only 1 QB?

As bambam said you have quite a lot of injury history at RB, plus Jones and Hardesty are backups unless others get hurt.

Do like your WR's and D/ST's.

Hardesty was a pick up based on Trent's knee as was Jones with D M murray
Its amazing how quickly player pool thins in a 16 team draft

I guess in a 16 team league, most of the adequate number 2 QBs go, if you miss the boat may as well just pick someone up off the waiver wire that week.

Can definitely imagine how quick players go in a league that big, I don't think I would be any good at it

Only 1 QB and 1 TE but 2 D/STs? Strange choice IMO, you can generally find decent D/STs on the waiver wire during your bye.

Your top two receivers are solid, but I'm not sure how well you'll do in the flex spot, don't think Manningham will have a particularly great year. I think it would have been worthwhile stashing Mendenhall on the bench instead of, say your second D/ST or Hardesty, but Benson is an absolutely solid pickup. Yeah, the Packers are the Aaron Rodgers Aerial Show, but many people forget that one of the main reasons they won the SB in 2010 was because James Starks really stepped up in the playoffs that year. The Packers offense has the same problem that the run n' shoot had at the Oilers - sure, they could put up points, but they couldn't control the clock or manage the game because they had no real rushing attack. It's what lead to The Comeback.

The Packers D sucked last year and based on last night, won't be much better this year. You can either force Aaron Rodgers to have to fire on all cylinders every single drive of every single game in order to keep the score rising up, because the D can't stop anybody... OR you can build up a nice lead, and then control the clock with your run game. Starks hasn't been great at all since that playoff run - Benson, for all his flaws as a human being, is a solid rusher. I expect Benson will actually have a pretty great year from a fantasy perspective, as I imagine he will be the focal point of the Packers O in the second half of games.

Yeah Benson is a good pickup, I'm kind of surprised that no one picked him in a league of 16

TE As I have J.Graham ,unless he gets injured I only need a 2nd TE for 1 week

Same with QB ,don't think Cutler is top notch but he will have to do there was very little left available by the middle rounds

Your probably right about GBP D

Benson only became available once he signed for Packers I just reacted quickest

Figured we could all use the same thread, managed to forget I even had this draft on today and was busy watching college football, so I got autopicked this:
QB: Philip Rivers, Jay Cutler
RB: Chris Johnson, Darren McFadden, Willis McGahee, Reggie Bush
WR: Julio Jones, Roddy White, Miles Austin, Dwayne Bowe, Pierre Garcon
TE: Brent Celek, Aaron Hernandez
K: Nate Kaeding, Adam Vinateri
TM: Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers

Starting requirements are 2xQB 1xRB 2xWR 2xTE 1xRB/WR/TE 2xK 2xTM. Current starting QBs available: Ponder, Sanchez, Locker, Freeman, Cassel, Palmer, Gabbert, Skelton, Tannehill, Weeden, Dalton, Bradford, Fitzpatrick.

14 team league 12th pick

QB: Stafford, Schaub
RB: Gore, Ryan Williams, Rashad Jennings, Hardesty
WR: Julio Jones, Nelson, Austin, James Jones, Mike Williams
TE: Keller, Moeaki
K: Lmao Kickers
DEF: KC

What league size is that Derby? Thats a great team!

bambamwillis wrote:What league size is that Derby? Thats a great team!

Only 8 which is why it's a pretty solid team, I managed to win the league last year after auto picking and some amazing waiver pickups (McGahee, Gates, Nelson, Boldin, Branch, Ballard). Think I may accept week 7 as already being lost as I'll have Rivers, McGahee, Bush, White, Jones, Bowe, Celek and Kaeding all on a bye week.

Just done a 10 team draft over on ESPN (I love their draft software, think it is by far the best even if their rankings are rubbish)

QB - Eli (again), Locker
RB - Ray Rice, DMC, Mathews, Hillis, Ryan Williams, Donald Brown, Mikel Leshoure
WR- Julio Jones, Jordy Nelson, Brandon Lloyd, Darius Heyward-Bey
TE- Fred Davis, Kyle Rudolph
DST - Packers
K - Crosby

Loaded up on RBs after I drafted the IR duo of DMC/Mathews, pretty happy with the team overall

Derbyblue wrote:Figured we could all use the same thread, managed to forget I even had this draft on today and was busy watching college football, so I got autopicked this:
QB: Philip Rivers, Jay Cutler
RB: Chris Johnson, Darren McFadden, Willis McGahee, Reggie Bush
WR: Julio Jones, Roddy White, Miles Austin, Dwayne Bowe, Pierre Garcon
TE: Brent Celek, Aaron Hernandez
K: Nate Kaeding, Adam Vinateri
TM: Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers

Starting requirements are 2xQB 1xRB 2xWR 2xTE 1xRB/WR/TE 2xK 2xTM. Current starting QBs available: Ponder, Sanchez, Locker, Freeman, Cassel, Palmer, Gabbert, Skelton, Tannehill, Weeden, Dalton, Bradford, Fitzpatrick.

The league also has a horrible rule of QBs losing a point for each incomplete pass, so may actually wait and pick up a back up just so they can't lose me any points during bye weeks.

I have this in an 8 man league:

QB's: Cam Newton, Andrew Luck
RB's: LeSean McCoy, Jamaal Charles, DeAngelo Williams
WR's: Percy Harvin, Eric Decker, A.J Green, Steve Smith (the good one)
TE's: Vernon Davis, Coby Fleener
K's: David Akers, Rob Bironas
D's: 49ers, Seahawks

niner wrote:I have this in an 8 man league:

QB's: Cam Newton, Andrew Luck
RB's: LeSean McCoy, Jamaal Charles, DeAngelo Williams
WR's: Percy Harvin, Eric Decker, A.J Green, Steve Smith (the good one)
TE's: Vernon Davis, Coby Fleener
K's: David Akers, Rob Bironas
D's: 49ers, Seahawks

very good team , what position did you draft ?

third

I recognise that team niner...... I'm never a big fan of 2 K's and 2 D's when it gets to bye weeks you can drop an underachiever to add the necessary cover, hope you manage to find a good QB on waivers though.

My team in that league:
QB: Brady, Schaub, Cassel
RB: Forte, Martin, Greene
WR: White, Brown, Lloyd, Bowe, Torrey Smith
TE: Rob Gronkowski, Gates
K: Matt Prater
D: Bears

I think I can get someone

Some good sides drafted so far. I agree with the ESPN comment bambam, great software, and rubbish rankings! Messed up the middle rounds of my draft as a result as some complete gems were hidden SO low. Still, picked up this in my 14-team league;

QB: Ryan, Wilson
RB: DMC, Martin, Brown, Williams, P. Thomas
WR: A.J. Green, Marshall, Crabtree, Little, Simpson,
TE: F. Davis, Gresham
K: Graham
DST: Lions

Stronger starters than the 606west team I have, but weaker bench IMHO.