Fantasy Football Advice

[PurdueBrad]

Hey guys,

Had our draft today and over the last couple of years I have been terrible at WR. So, I tried to change that but I'm worried I sold out too much elsewhere (got burned last year getting a QB early in Trent Green so I kind of left QB till late this year). It's a 12 team league, point per reception, standard scoring otherwise, and I picked 2'nd.

QB- Ben Roethlisberger, Jake Delhomme
RB- Steven Jackson, Edgerrin James, Tatum Bell, LenDale White
WR- Steve Smith (Carolina), Randy Moss, Andre Johnson, Terry Glenn, Derrick Mason
TE- Jeremy Shockey, Heath Miller
D- Eagles
K- Stephen Gostkowski

Any advice or feedback would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!

[JWay]

I like your RB, Bell and White aren't great, but they shouldn't have to play much, I think you got some good WR and TE talent. the QB could be an issue, but it might not either. I'd say its a very solid team I'm surprised Edge and Smith slid down to you're 2nd and 3rd slots. Very interesting.

[Powerguy]

I agree, that is a pretty solid team. As long as Shockey gets his fat ass to play consistently again, I don't think you'll have any problems.

[PurdueBrad]

JWay, Powerguy, thanks a ton. It is reassuring. Every year I've spent three of my first four picks on RBs so it is weird for me to have two true starters and then a couple of so-so's at back up (plus our league just jumped from 10 to 12 teams so the talent distribution was throwing me off some). I appreciate the input a ton. If you guys play, best of luck to you.

[FrancoeurFranks7]

This is a very good team for twelve teams. SJax is even more valuable in those PPR leagues. Like you said the quarterback position isn't great but you have two capable starters and just look into the matchups each week and you should coast into the playoffs(barring the dreaded injuries).

[marc]

Could you give a breakdown of how many starters at each position?

[Raderick]

I'm curious on who you drafted in the first round.

[marc]

Originally Posted by Raderick

I'm curious on who you drafted in the first round.

Gotta be Steven Jackson.

[PurdueBrad]

Hey Marc,

Starters are as follows:

1 QB
2 RB
3 WR
1 TE
1 DEF
1 K

My draft went in this order:

S. Jackson (1.2)
S. Smith (2.11)
E. James (3.2)
R. Moss (4.11)
A. Johnson (5.2)
J. Shockey (6.11)
Eagles D (7.2)
B. Roethlisberger (8.11)
L. White (9.2)
T. Bell (10.11)
T. Glenn (11.2)
S. Gostkowski (12.11)
J. Delhomme (13.2)
H. Miller (14.11)
D. Mason (15.2)

Thanks again all!

[jaxmagicman]

Who did you have at receiver last year?

I would suggest taking a second look at what you had.

You should always wait to draft wide receiver. Statstically speaking they are a dime a dozen. You probably got pretty good production from them and didn't realize it. Terry Glenn was the 20th best receiver last year. He had 88 total points. Chad Johnson, had 11 weeks of less than 10 points. And many consider him one of the best. Oh and another thing about receiver Santanio Holmes had 51 points last year. That is 37 less than Terry Glenn. As I said earlier Terry Glenn was number 20, Holmes was the 50th best. That is 3 points a game for 30 POSTIONS. In a 12 team league with 3 starting receivers that is 36 starting receivers. Certainly you could do no wrong getting a guy like Donald Driver or Santino Holmes later.

Steve Smith is projected pretty good this year at 236 points. So going in the second for him might be ok. It looks like you were picking second so there were not any running backs there that could have given you those points.

I wouldn't have taken Randy Moss there though. Andre Johnson was a good pick and might be a steal where you got him.

You could have had Mike Furrey instead of Randy Moss though, and you could have picked him up later using your Randy Moss pick to land someone like Marc Bulger.

And about the Quarterback. Only really the elite QB's make a big difference, The difference between the No. 1 quarterback last season (Peyton Manning) and the No. 10 (Vince Young) averaged out to just five points per game

[PurdueBrad]

Hey Jax,

Last year my top two receivers were Eddie Kennison and Derek Mason of all people. I ended up with Furrey off the waiver wire as my eventual number three. But last year I ended up with five running backs (Willie Parker, Edgerrin James, Fred Taylor, Warrick Dunn, and Lamont Jordan) which was nice to have that depth but it also meant I spent a lot of higher picks on rbs to get the talent in. In fact, I didn't take my first receiver last year, looking back, until round 8 so this was a big switch.

[PurdueBrad]

Originally Posted by jaxmagicman

Who did you have at receiver last year?

I would suggest taking a second look at what you had.

You should always wait to draft wide receiver. Statstically speaking they are a dime a dozen. You probably got pretty good production from them and didn't realize it. Terry Glenn was the 20th best receiver last year. He had 88 total points. Chad Johnson, had 11 weeks of less than 10 points. And many consider him one of the best. Oh and another thing about receiver Santanio Holmes had 51 points last year. That is 37 less than Terry Glenn. As I said earlier Terry Glenn was number 20, Holmes was the 50th best. That is 3 points a game for 30 POSTIONS. In a 12 team league with 3 starting receivers that is 36 starting receivers. Certainly you could do no wrong getting a guy like Donald Driver or Santino Holmes later.

Steve Smith is projected pretty good this year at 236 points. So going in the second for him might be ok. It looks like you were picking second so there were not any running backs there that could have given you those points.

I wouldn't have taken Randy Moss there though. Andre Johnson was a good pick and might be a steal where you got him.

You could have had Mike Furrey instead of Randy Moss though, and you could have picked him up later using your Randy Moss pick to land someone like Marc Bulger.

And about the Quarterback. Only really the elite QB's make a big difference, The difference between the No. 1 quarterback last season (Peyton Manning) and the No. 10 (Vince Young) averaged out to just five points per game

Our draft actually had some weird runs. Round four was a monster run on wide receivers that actually saw Driver, Furrey, Boldin, Ward, Holmes (I'm a Steeler fan and would never have picked him there), Branch, and then I took Moss. 16 of our first 21 picks were RB (Manning, Palmer, Brees, Brady, Harrison being the exceptions).

[jaxmagicman]

You did fine.

The only pick I question is Randy Moss, but you made up for that with Andre Johnson.

[PurdueBrad]

I figured the Moss pick was a stretch, particularly given the injury situation. He was definitely my reach, hoping for a big year in that offense and hoping for numerous opportunities for that offense given their quality of D.

[jerrycapo]

Originally Posted by PurdueBrad

Our draft actually had some weird runs. Round four was a monster run on wide receivers that actually saw Driver, Furrey, Boldin, Ward, Holmes (I'm a Steeler fan and would never have picked him there), Branch, and then I took Moss. 16 of our first 21 picks were RB (Manning, Palmer, Brees, Brady, Harrison being the exceptions).

The biggest problem with Moss is he is a boom or bust type of player. If he has the type of season he is capable of, you will look brilliant for getting him there. If he loses interest at any point in the season, then he is not half the receiver he could be.

Moss is capable of outperforming all of the other players taken during that run, but all of the other players are safer picks to provide value consistent to where they were picked, with the exception of Holmes, I also would have let him drop further.