NFL Thread 2016

[Stark]

I paid thru the nose for Odell and got Kelvin for a pittance, so I think it evened out.

I scored 90.24 last week and my opponent had 90.00 ... so that was close.

[stickem]

I paid thru the nose for Odell and got Kelvin for a pittance, so I think it evened out.

I scored 90.24 last week and my opponent had 90.00 ... so that was close.

I noticed you drafted 2 kickers and 2 defenses, not many do that. I could probably use the strategy of picking up whoever plays the titans or browns every week and do alright.

[Stark]

Yeah I got a lot of flack, during the draft, but no one told me what to do. I was just thinking that I wanted extras for when the bye for that team was, so I made sure all my extras overlapped in the bye.

[Omerta]

I paid thru the nose for Odell and got Kelvin for a pittance, so I think it evened out.

I scored 90.24 last week and my opponent had 90.00 ... so that was close.

I noticed you drafted 2 kickers and 2 defenses, not many do that. I could probably use the strategy of picking up whoever plays the titans or browns every week and do alright.

I'm in a ten team non-PPR with some guys at work. They put bench limits on to where you had to have an extra kicker and an extra defense and X number of players at each other position. The rationale was that there would be a decent pool of spares if someone goes on IR so everybody doesn't try to stack rockstars on their bench.

This is what I ended up with:

Eli Manning - QB - NYG
LeSean McCoy - RB - BUF
Matt Forte - RB - NYJ
Antonio Brown - WR - PIT
Kelvin Benjamin - WR - CAR
Jordan Reed - TE - WAS
Jonathan Stewart - FLEX - CAR
Seattle Seahawks - D/ST
Adam Vinatieri - K - IND

Tom Brady - QB - NE
Giovanni Bernard - RB - CIN
Desean Jackson - WR - WAS
Sterling Shepard - WR - NYG
Coby Fleener - WR - NO
Green Bay Packers - D/ST
Sebastian Janikowski - K - OAK

I managed to snag Antonio Brown on the fourth overall pick. Seemed like everyone was fighting over the same positions at the same time so I managed to grab a pretty decent list whilst going against the grain. I screwed up by picking kickers with the same bye week - but that will be fixed as it draws nearer.

Last week I wasn't sure how rusty KB would be against Denver and I still have a hard time trusting Kirk Cousins on the deep ball, so I ended up starting the rookie Sterling Shepard. He ended up doing worse than KB, but better than Odell. It was kind of a wash. Ended up defeating my opponent 131-111.

This should be my starting roster this week. My two starter RBs are playing each other tonight and Stewart is on the questionable list, so I have him in the flex slot in case I need to swap him out.

[Stark]

Yay, we have the same QBs

[stickem]

I don't know if that's a good thing. I've tried eli on my bench a few years and he isn't a qb1 to me. With his oline he has no time to throw, throws alot of picks. Against dallas' putrid defense he only managed 200 yrds.

[Stark]

He'll be riding the bench once Brady is back.

[Omerta]

That's my plan. Plus, any starting QB in the NFL should have net positive results when splitting targets between Beckham, Shepard, and Cruz.

Brady was at the tail end of a mass QB1 grab-spree in my draft. Eli and Rivers sat around for a couple of rounds before I figured it would be prudent to grab a somewhat competent starter for 5 weeks of the season.

[stickem]

Cruz f'in sucks, he's at the end of his career. I couldn't trust eli, but I guess if you have brady stashed you had to get somebody. I'd probably rather have tyrod taylor. Josh gordon was on my team last year. I picked him up in case his suspension was lifted and I could use him as one of my keepers, but with 4 games out and no wr's kept couldn't afford it.

[Ack]

Not doing fantasy, but I am doing an office pool on point spreads. I think I should just do myself a favor though and always bet against the Falcons.