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I think you have to have at least 2 required starters at RB and WR. It balances out the whole draft and reflects a regular football lineup better.

Make sure you have an actual constitution. Write everything down. Make amendments. That way, there is no confusion as to what rules exist.
But it's called fantasy for a reason. What if you hate RBs, why should you be forced to waste roster spots when you'd prefer to play 4 WRs? Football is constantly evolving and fantasy football hasn't really kept up. I mean when the biggest change in most leagues is ppr scoring, the leagues are suffering from laziness. just my .02
 
What's everyone's thoughts on choosing a draft slot? In one of my leagues, we draw numbers then get to choose our slots in that order. I always wrestle with the best strategy for this.

Do I target the studs and pick an early spot?
Do I figure out the last player that I would be happy having in the first round and take that spot in the middle somewhere?
Do I target a spot where I can get a guy in the 2nd round that could drop?

This league is a 12 tm, non-PPR with 6 pt TD for QBs.
 
We keep everything basically the same.

1 QB
3 WR
2 RB
1 TE
1 K
2 DEF until Week 8. Then you can drop one. We did this so the Waiver Wire can actually have more respectable pickups each week.

Unlimited transactions. Trades have to be approved by at least half of the league (we are always fair. We will let the 1st place team do a trade if it is actually fair). We communicate by group chat on phones. Draft position is done by picking numbers out of a hat. Every single year, no matter where you finished the year before.

We may take out a WR spot next year and move to 2 WR and 1 Flex. I actually like the Kicker's because you can be rewarded for maybe jumping on a Kicker in the 14th round that can bomb 50yd FG's on the regular. And yes, it is Fantasy Football = Part skill (drafting, pickups per week, good matchup plays) but a ton of it is luck. Kickers add to that. I won my league a few years back when I had NE DEF and the other guy had the opposing QB. He was up by 3.86 or something like that with less than a minute to go. His QB threw an INT to my DEF, I won by .14. Luck WON me that Championship, but skillfully drafting and picking up players/playing matchups got me to that Championship.

$240 to join. Same people for pretty much 6 years.
 
I'm in a keeper league (auction format=$200), and I need to keep 3 of these 4.
  • Jordy Nelson- $1
  • Jordan Reed- $1
  • Doug Martin- $13
  • Alshon Jeffery- $10

I'm leaning towards dropping Alshon Jeffery. Thoughts?
 
So even in non-PPR leagues, it's time to lose the obsession with taking RB's in the first two rounds, yes?
 
What's everyone's thoughts on choosing a draft slot? In one of my leagues, we draw numbers then get to choose our slots in that order. I always wrestle with the best strategy for this.

Do I target the studs and pick an early spot?
Do I figure out the last player that I would be happy having in the first round and take that spot in the middle somewhere?
Do I target a spot where I can get a guy in the 2nd round that could drop?

This league is a 12 tm, non-PPR with 6 pt TD for QBs.
If it's 6pts for a TD, I'm drafting a QB first. Then I'll pick up some stud WRs before addressing my RBs in the middle rounds.
 
Every. Single. Year.

Unless it's a 2 QB league drafting a QB early is just stupid. Every QB gets the 6 points for a TD pass, not just the elite ones.

So pass on Aaron Rodgers with your top pick, and grab forever undervalued Philip Rivers or Tony Romo or Carson Palmer once the talent pool dries up at RB/WR.
 
I'm in a keeper league (auction format=$200), and I need to keep 3 of these 4.
  • Jordy Nelson- $1
  • Jordan Reed- $1
  • Doug Martin- $13
  • Alshon Jeffery- $10

I'm leaning towards dropping Alshon Jeffery. Thoughts?

Tough. How many spots per position? Know draft order yet?

Martin should get a lot of carries again and their O-line got a bit better, but Sims will still steal some receptions from him. If you keep Martin, handcuff with Sims in later rounds. But could Martin also have another down year from a couple years back?

Jeffery just needs to stay healthy. With Bennett and Forte gone, Cutler will be looking at him. But you also have Cutler throwing him the ball, which is kind of a downer.

It depends on who you draft better. If you like having your WR's set with 2 studs (although they are injury prone studs), then you have them and then you draft 2 RB's to start possibly. Or keep Martin and draft 2 WR's to start.

So even in non-PPR leagues, it's time to lose the obsession with taking RB's in the first two rounds, yes?


Really depends on how your draft is going. If you see WR's fly off the board with 4/5 1st round picks, I would probably still go RB b/c I would rather have a true "preseason stud" RB than drafting AJ Green/Dez/Nelson at 6 or 7.

This may just be me, but I see the WR position deep as fuck this year. You can get the likes of Landry/Moncrief/Maclin anywhere from the 5th-7th rounds. With WR's like Watkins/Edelman/Hilton/Benjamin going in the 3rd-4th.

I pretty much rely on drafting BPA by filling the starting line-up unless an absolute steal falls and that tends to work for me every single year. If you go into a draft and have the firm belief of "I am drafting WR the first 3 rounds, no matter what" that can fuck with your draft. If Lamar Miller falls to the end of the 2nd round, you don't pass on that.

The ONLY thing I generally do is wait on QB's. Now if Rodgers/Newton fall to the 5th, I am snagging them up. But otherwise, I wait until the 9th-11th usually.
 
Every. Single. Year.

Unless it's a 2 QB league drafting a QB early is just stupid. Every QB gets the 6 points for a TD pass, not just the elite ones.

So pass on Aaron Rodgers with your top pick, and grab forever undervalued Philip Rivers or Tony Romo or Carson Palmer once the talent pool dries up at RB/WR.

I made the mistake of taking a QB early once.

ONCE

Never again. Rivers is my target this year. He was top 2 QB last year until Keenan Allen got hurt and the OLINE basically died.
 
I've done 2 mock drafts on yahoo since they've started grading mocks.

I've score a 64 and 85 so far.
 
I'm in a keeper league (auction format=$200), and I need to keep 3 of these 4.
  • Jordy Nelson- $1
  • Jordan Reed- $1
  • Doug Martin- $13
  • Alshon Jeffery- $10

I'm leaning towards dropping Alshon Jeffery. Thoughts?

I would keep all of them but Jeffrey. I am in a $200 auction league as well. Doug Martin would go for 30ish. Jordy at least 20. Jordan Reed probably 8ish. You really trust Alshon? He is never consistent and injury prone. Kevin White is going to be the go-to WR on the Bears. Plus there are so many WRs that I don't think it's worth keeping any WR that's not a stud.

Now I will propose a similar question for my $200 keeper. I can keep up to 2 players. The cost is last year's draft price + 5*the amount of years owned. The price to keep each of these guys:

Brady - $9
Russell Wilson - $23
Kelvin Benjamin - $6
Josh Gordon - $8
Sammy Watkins - $20

I am definitely keeping Benjamin, but I am torn on if I should keep another. QBs have such a wide range. Like last year Cam Newton went for $3, Rodgers $44, Peyton $31, Ben $14. I love Wilson because he is a consistent 20+. Brady is also great since we have game bonuses for 300 yards passing, but I feel like the 4 game suspension crushes his $9 value. The same with Josh Gordon. Suspended for 4 games, and how good is he really going to be? Watkins is a stud, but so injury prone. He had foot surgery this offseason, and missed 3 games last year. For WR comparison, last year: Brandin Cooks $44, Jarvis Landry $21, TY Hilton $21, Cobb $51, Keenan Allen $27, Alshon $45, AJ Green $52, Emmanuel $37...

Now that I wrote this post I feel like I should keep Watkins and Benjamin.
 
I would keep all of them but Jeffrey. I am in a $200 auction league as well. Doug Martin would go for 30ish. Jordy at least 20. Jordan Reed probably 8ish. You really trust Alshon? He is never consistent and injury prone. Kevin White is going to be the go-to WR on the Bears. Plus there are so many WRs that I don't think it's worth keeping any WR that's not a stud.

Now I will propose a similar question for my $200 keeper. I can keep up to 2 players. The cost is last year's draft price + 5*the amount of years owned. The price to keep each of these guys:

Brady - $9
Russell Wilson - $23
Kelvin Benjamin - $6
Josh Gordon - $8
Sammy Watkins - $20

I am definitely keeping Benjamin, but I am torn on if I should keep another. QBs have such a wide range. Like last year Cam Newton went for $3, Rodgers $44, Peyton $31, Ben $14. I love Wilson because he is a consistent 20+. Brady is also great since we have game bonuses for 300 yards passing, but I feel like the 4 game suspension crushes his $9 value. The same with Josh Gordon. Suspended for 4 games, and how good is he really going to be? Watkins is a stud, but so injury prone. He had foot surgery this offseason, and missed 3 games last year. For WR comparison, last year: Brandin Cooks $44, Jarvis Landry $21, TY Hilton $21, Cobb $51, Keenan Allen $27, Alshon $45, AJ Green $52, Emmanuel $37...

Now that I wrote this post I feel like I should keep Watkins and Benjamin.

Brady for $9 sounds too good to pass up. You can take a cheap, high upside flyer on someone for the first four weeks, and know you'll be alright. Shit, handcuff him with Garoppolo if you want. While any QB can perform on any given week, the peace of mind of having a top tier QB not laying you eggs that you can plug in for 3/4 of the season is worth keeping over Watkins at $20.

Use you're extra $11 and throw it at one of the elite WR's in the draft. I don't put Watkins in that class yet.
 
I just used google forms for the first time to get some answers from my league mates in the league I'm running. Pretty cool little service that I've never thought of using before.
 

All five games, huh Mr. Berry? This is amongst the least important stats imaginable. The whole offensive staff is different besides two offensive linemen and the iron ore smeldering Gary Barnidge.
 

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