The Fantasy NFL thread

[Gray Fox]

It would be if he had Russell Wilson, but he doesn't. Team names about players you don't have suck.

This has been my bug bear all season long. Like the guy who called his team Cruz Control and didn't have Victor.

If I win I'm changing my team name to 'Everyday I'M Russellin.' Emphasis on the 'I'm' :D

[Pleb]

McFadden and Woodhead are my RB's this week. Evans, Cobb and T.Hilton in at WR while I'm not sure if I should start C.Clay over Rodgers as TE. Bailey being the top kicker of the NFL has given me a bit of hope but not that much. I feel I should start the Bengals as my defense :sherlock: Fitzpatrick or Bortles as QB?

[Browning]

Bortles. I love Fitz and he's ridiculously consistent but Bortles is the 3rd best fantasy QB this year...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bortles all day long.

[Browning]

3 TDs in 10 seconds. :D

[Browning]

Reed's one called back. :(

[Browning]

Just cut Peyton Manning for Fred Jackson. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Rawls :(

Well that's what happens when you try to run against Brandon Williams.

[Browning]

Dalton injury helps a lot as he's playing for the only guy who could knock me out. If he loses (or if I win) then my position is booked for sure. If I lose and he wins then it'll come down to the other 2 games in the league. Fay's Fall Guys may luck out as he's losing big and has Rawls but if the Dalton injury costs the 5th place guy he gets in anyway.

[Browning]

Well we were wrong on Fitz Vs Bortles.... but I'm glad. :D

Wondering if I should drop Jackson for the other Seattle back. Anyone watching it?

[Gray Fox]

I'm on Steelers @ Bengals. Feisty game thus far.

Currently leading 84.3 to 55.6. He still has Amendola and Adams to come so I still need about that kind of gap at the end. I'm still not confident but I'm still in the conversation at least.

[Browning]

Dropped him in the end for Fozzy Whitaker as both the Hawks backs looked shit.

Looks like the top 4 heading into the day are all going to win easily. So in the end... no drama.

[Pleb]

I'm behind by 7 points :serious:

[Gray Fox]

Current state of play:

https://gyazo.com/266e95420e05bdd27b1d4c3ac1a156ad.png

I take those scores with a pinch of salt though. For example the points of the defences don't add up to what they actually conceded. Also it has Alex Smith down as having 2 TDs and the Chiefs winning 16-3, when they actually won 10-3.

[Pleb]

12 point lead but my opponent has the Patriots defense so I might be fucked.

Bortles got 31 points for me :youpi:

[Browning]

Current state of play:

https://gyazo.com/266e95420e05bdd27b1d4c3ac1a156ad.png

I take those scores with a pinch of salt though. For example the points of the defences don't add up to what they actually conceded. Also it has Alex Smith down as having 2 TDs and the Chiefs winning 16-3, when they actually won 10-3.

:D

This made me laugh because I had some dust or something on my laptop screen in just the right place so that every team driving with 10 points I thought had 16 points, so the whole time I was like "why are the chargers bothering?"

[Pleb]

Patriots :panda:

Twats.

[Gray Fox]

:D

This made me laugh because I had some dust or something on my laptop screen in just the right place so that every team driving with 10 points I thought had 16 points, so the whole time I was like "why are the chargers bothering?"

Yeah whilst in reality they had a chance at a TD as time expired.

It's score corrected him down and I won 137.8 - 80.3.

The Chiefs score fuck up has badly affected the guy running the league. He had West and that mystery TD was the 63 yard one you see in Smiths score breakdown. He's gone from being nearly 15 points clear to about 3. He has Beckham but his opponent has Manning.

[Pleb]

J.Landry, G.Barnidge and the fucking Patriots defense twatted me out of the playoffs with incredible style.

A benched David Johnson wouldn't of saved me to be honest. It would of been fucking worse if my opponent started Stark the massive bellend. I'm fucking seething.

[Gray Fox]

The Barn Yard Dog is probably the single best pick up I've made this season. He has won me probably 3 matches by himself in a very tight end uncertain season.

[Browning]

I really don't know who to play at RB. I've picked up a whole host of options given that my 6 WR/TEs (that's in total) are all pretty much undroppable and play in the WR/TE/Flex spots every single week. I only need 2 RBs and my options: S.Draughn, D.Woodhead, J.Starks, J.Langford, S.Ware (probably injured), B.Powell, A.Abdullah, F.Whittaker or either of the 2 from Seattle (Harris, Brown). Seems a bit like overkill to roster so many but I don't need anything else in any other position. I'm tempted by Powell as he's putting up incredible numbers the last 2 weeks, but he's a back up so it's risky. Woodhead has been shit lately. Starks still gets catches so in a PPR he's tempting.... It's probably got to be Draughn + 1, but I'm just completely lost who it should be.

[Pleb]

Is there still enough interest for a TTH fantasy league next season?

We could do one on either Fox or Fleaflicker. I'm looking at you Browning :baz:

[Gray Fox]

Pleb I'll gladly set one up on Foxs' website for next year if there's interest. I think there'd only be about 5 of us as it currently stands anyway.


Semi final match up time. There's some tough calls on either side for this one. Wilson is a lock at QB1, but the 2nd is a toss up between Rivers and Brees. Leaning Rivers due to Manning just torching the Dolphins defence. RB1 should be Shady but it's tough beyond that. I'm going to try and drop Blue for Dernard Robinson as he was special teams only last week and Atlanta can't handle the run so far. At WR, everyone but Fitz has it tough on paper and even he has tailed right off of late. Right now I'm leaning towards Cooper to partner him. I could do without Barnidge coming up against the L.O.B this week too, but with no real options on waivers it's out of my hands really. I could also use a new defence this week. Right now I'm looking at the Texans or the Cardinals for this week.

Many thoughts are appreciated as I'm a little stumped this week.

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[Browning]

I'll happily run one if there's at least 8 people interested, but we got about 3 this year before I cancelled it. Me, the 2 of you, Mahow and Ian will no doubt play, but we'd need a few more to make it worthwhile.

[Dan]

I'd be up for it next season.

Already been drawing up positional rankings, in fact :cool:

[Gray Fox]

I'd whack up a sign up thread, but then I realised it'd be pointless doing a draft for basically another 8 months. Which is a little shit.

Ideally we'd get 10 or so, but realistically it's somewhere between 6-8.

[Pleb]

Wait till after the draft then set it up. Will it more than likely be a H2H league?

[Browning]

Absolutely.

[Gray Fox]

It'll be head to head yes. It will be just the one league unless we manage to get 10 people. Then I'd split it into 2 divisions of 5. I don't know if I'd do 2 divisions with 8 of us.

I'd also, for the sake of fairness, like to do a manual draft. So setting up quite early would be a benefit. I just don't want to have the draft on a day/time where someone will always miss it.

[Browning]

Manual drafts are really shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Unless we'd all be willing to meet up and do it proper like in 'The League', a manual draft is pointless.

[Gray Fox]

I know but we'd have probably months to do it. I was just trying to avoid the inevitable one or more people missing the draft.

[Browning]

It won't work with TTH. We had months to find the players last year and couldn't. People will be way too slow to do it. I'd rather have 1-2 people miss it than drag it out for months.

[Gray Fox]

Settled then. We'll have to set the date and time weeks/months in advance so everyone has as much warning as possible.

With what I'm imagining is so few of us, missing the draft wouldn't be completely disastrous in any case.

[Gray Fox]

Should I start Doug Martin or Denard Robinson this week? I'm decided for most other positions but that's one I can't make my mind up on. Martin is @ Rams and Robinson plays the Falcons.

[Browning]

Doug Martin all day.

[Pleb]

Sounds like Douglas Martin is the way to go. I wouldn't touch Robinson to be fair.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I would, not over Doug Martin but Denard is a solid play this week.

He's fresh, has great vision and speed, ran well last year when he had a chance and Atlanta's defence has given up this year.

[Gray Fox]

It's Atlantas leaky defence that warranted me having him in my line up, though now Yeldon is 50/50, so I can't risk passing on Martin tonight, only to have Robinson not play.

Cheers for all the help though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've picked him up to play in place of Yeldon if he can't go.

My other options are Charcandrick West against the Ravens which is a horrible match up or Tim Hightower who I can't bring myself to trust.

[Gray Fox]

My RB1 is Shady so I may not have space for him. It's surprised me that McCoy is actually RB3 for the season and against the Redskins I'd hope he carries on that form.

[Pleb]

I would of picked West on the last regular game of my season but my opponent that week snapped him up :moop:

[Gray Fox]

Reasonable showing from Martin, but he earned 9.7, while Barth on my opponents team kicked 13. Which means I probably need to look to shake something up as he was one of the better match ups I had.

At TE I have Barnidge, who I'd be happy with any week but this. He has the shit hot Seahawks in Seattle. The waiver option is Heath Miller who has Denver at home.
At WR Jeffery and Fitz are both degraded to Questionable. Luckily the Cardinals receivers are still on wavers(Floyd and Brown) so swapping Fitz in and out isn't too hard. Elsewhere there is Aiken, LaFell, Hurns, Kearse, James Jones and Stevie Johnson.
D/ST wise I have the Texans(@ Colts), although both the Vikings(Bears) and the Jets(@ Dallas) are now available. There's also the Bills(@ Redskins).

I'm now kind of resigned to losing but not sure if I should stick with my guns or make any of the above changes.

[Browning]

Evans has given me a good start but Seattle signing "Christine" back makes me less confident in Brown and I'm considering Woodhead again....

[Browning]

As for you Gray....

Barnidge all day. He's match up proof.

Jeffrey is a must start if he plays. I'd also lean to Fitz too. John Brown and Aiken if you need back ups.

DST is a no brainer, play the Jets.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/NIX6Lil.png

On the bench I have Tim Hightower who I just can't bring myself to trust, Charcandrick West who has a brutal matchup against the Ravens and Allen Hurns who I might put in in place of Bryant purely because of the matchups.

[Gray Fox]

My last debate is Rivers or Brees. Rivers has the better match up(I think) but has a banged up receivers corps. He's also not had great form going into the weekend, though he has had Denver and Kansas City in recent weeks.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Brees.

The match has 45-42 or something written all over it.

[Browning]

I feel like I'll have to play Woodhead. Does anyone want to try convince me to go with one if the other RBs I named?

[Gray Fox]

I feel a little short changed in the defence department. The Jets got 4 picks and 2 sacks and held the Cowboys to 16 points, but only got me 11 fantasy points. That's only 1 more point that they start on.

Browning I'd play Woodhead. Like I said before the Chargers receivers are all banged up and Woodhead is a good option receiving as well as rushing. Unless you have someone better?

[Browning]

Probably the best one now. I should have started Powell. What kind of Mickey Mouse team plays on a Saturday? At least Fitz and Decker did well.

[Gray Fox]

Jeffery is active.

Means I have to choose 2 of Fitz(@ Eagles). Jeffery(@ Vikings), Robinson(Falcons) and Thomas(@ Steelers) as I don't fancy Cooper this week.

I have Fitz and Robinson in for now. Getting twitchy.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd stick with Fitz and Robinson.

[Pleb]

I got Woodhead and Robinson still in my squad even through I've been shafted out of the playoffs so play them if you need to.

My league is proper mental. My opponent last round is going to knock out the number one seed (hopefully) :youpi:

[Gray Fox]

Stuck with Fitz and Robinson. So of course Jeffery has a TD catch already.

If Fitz is inactive then I'll switch to another Cardinals WR.

[Ian]

Was projected to beat the top seed in my semi-final.

Then Jordan Reed caught two touchdowns with most of the game still left to play. :moop: I need Brown to score a load of touchdowns against Denver who make up for it with a load of pick sixes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/w3OIAWg.png

Horseshit.

Should have played West and I decided at 5pm to put in Hurns instead of Bryant :(

Fuck Cam Newton.

[Gray Fox]

I suppose 3rd place isn't so bad. Better than losing in the final I guess.

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Baldwin :eyemouth:

He's trying to keep me in this shit.

Still projected to lose by 30 odd points though so blah.

[Browning]

Me as the 4th Seed Vs the Number 1 seed in the Semi Final....

QBs- Ryan Fitzpatrick (21.92) and Alex Smith (18.81) Vs Aaron Rodgers (4.98 so far with 2 minutes to go in the first half) and Tom Brady (26.84)

Brady outscored either of mine, but unless Rodgers picks it up, there's a chance I could win this clash. Probably won't but it'll be closer than it has any right to be.

RBs- Shaun Draughn (6.01 so far) and Danny Woodhead (16.87 so far) Vs DeAngelo Williams (13.18 so far) and Jeremy Hill (6.89 so far)

All 4 playing now, all roughly the same time through their matches... and pretty much bang on even so far. Couple of point advantage to me, which i'd take given I hated my options.

WRs- Erick Decker (18.93), Allen Robinson (14.57) and Mike Evans (24.71) Vs Jarvis Landry (3.71 so far), James Jones (2.00 so far) and John Brown

His lot aren't even close to being done, but doesn't look like they'll get close to my studs.

TE- Delanie Walker (19.57) Vs Gary Barnidge (9.00 so far)

Between them they have 3 catches for 3 TDs....

Flex- Jordan Reed (28.50) and Julio Jones (28.93) Vs Julius Thomas (14.64) and Buck Allen (Sweet FA)

Massive advantage me here. Basically decided it.

Kickers- His got 19 points. So far mine only have 6 with just 1 half from Boswell to come... so he'll beat me here most likely.

DST- His Panthers scored 2 points. My Seahawks should do better than that but only have 6 thus far.

IDP- I've half a point up and all his are finished while R.Jones has a half to play for me.

All in all I'm leading 226.32 to 117.23 and after these games he only has Brown to do. Barring massive 2nd halves from all his guys, it should be safe.

[Browning]

Of course Hill gets his 2nd shitty 1 yard TD as soon as I post that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Demaryius Thomas having his best game this season, fuck.

I lose last week by 5.5 points which means I drop to the 4th seed.

I have the worst fucking luck in this stupid fucking league, just look at this table:

http://i.imgur.com/x4cgwjG.png

Number 1 scoring team by a huge margin but dickheads seem to have great weeks against me, just look at the points scored against me in weeks.

Currently 104.48 to 109.90 in the playoffs, what would have happened had I held onto the 3 seed last week? I'd have been in the final already as the other two teams are throwing up dogshit today. Absolutely seething.

[Gray Fox]

Both Thomas and Cooper on my bench with 2 TDs each so far.

I'd be in with a shot of winning had I gone with those two. Now I need a 20-30 point game from Larry Fitz. Watch him get about 5.

[Browning]

Rodgers better go back to being shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Antonio Brown and the Niners scoring has narrowed 'THE GAP'.

Mon lads.

[Gray Fox]

I'm currently about 44 (128 - 83) points down. He still has Williams and Lacy in play. I have Larry Fitz and Brees to come.

From what I see it hasn't added a fumble to Taylor that I'm sure he got. I'll need somewhere from 15-20 points from Larry to have a chance going into Monday. Brees isn't pulling a 30+ point game so I need some serious help.

I'd consider swapping Fitz out for either Brown or Floyd but I know whatever I do here will be the wrong option.

[Browning]

Danny fucking Woodhead.

This is why Brett Favre named his penis after him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Niners with another TD :drool:

It's actually on, especially if Brown can catch another long pass/TD.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Niners recover an onside kick and Steelers pick Osweiler off :drool:

'Mon scores for the Niners and Antonio Brown.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Brown :eyemouth:

28 points ahead now.

Brown in play for me with Bengals defence, Demaryius Thomas and Lamar Miller in play for him with Fitz and Johnson to play.

Edit: 26, fuck you Gabbert.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Gabbert has to take a fucking sack to end the game too, the fucking useless wanker.

[Browning]

My lead is 90 points with only Boswell (me) and Williams (him) still playing and John Brown to play later. So that's that. Time to plan for the Super Bowl.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

25.88 ahead and he has David Johnson as well as Larry Fitzgerald to play.

I think I have it.

If only I had noticed that we had a Saturday game this week, I'd have been all over Mike Evans.

[Browning]

If you started Gabbert you should be expelled from the league.

[Gray Fox]

46 points to make up it is then. Realistically to be anywhere close, Brees needs 5 TDs. Somewhere 30-35pts from him if Larry can't get much beyond 10.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If you started Gabbert you should be expelled from the league.

I started Bortles but his defence was playing Gabbert.

3 fucking points he gave up in the last minute or so. THREE the bastard.

[Pleb]

It's one of those occasions where I fucking wish that Woodhead scored 30 points for me last week :moop:

Newton has 46 points :serious:

[Browning]

I really hope Shady is inactive next week, because if he is Karlos could be massive. I don't even know who they're playing but he was immense earlier in the season.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck the Eagles and their horseshit defence.

That second score for Johnson was horrendous tackling.

[Gray Fox]

So with Fitz actually being the worst of my WRs(Thanks Larry) I now need 41.7 points from Brees before any score corrections. I could use a 5-10 point swing in my favour to even have an outside chance.

What a shame Saints aren't playing the Giants.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lost 151.10 to 131.78 :(

[Gray Fox]

Consolidation play-offs for all!

[Browning]

Me Vs Fay (who some will remember from TTH League) final. I beat him twice in the regular season and both times we would have both lost to everyone else and we both played shite. What a final!

[Ian]

I should actually win mine now. Wilson, Antonio Brown, Lockett and Mason Crosby all did very nicely and now I just need Ameer Abdullah to get half a point to make the final...

[Browning]

Don't bank on it.

[Ian]

I'm more nervous than I would be if I needed four or five strangely, but he's only had one devastatingly shit score this year. I have faith.

[Ian]

Into the final. The last four were three7-6 teams and the10-3 top seed... Who I smashed.

[Gray Fox]

In some proper #Scenes the play-offs are being taken by storm by the guy who managed to sneak in on the last week of the season.

https://gyazo.com/404c8f537ef837509728d80ac577bdaf.png

Look at the state of it. The guy bottom was the only one not making the play-offs. The final is between the guy 3-10 and the guy in 2nd who was 8-5. The guy in 2nd is on about a 7 game winning streak now too.

Some of the knocked out people are annoyed that they've lost to me and especially the 3-10 guy after being way ahead in the regular season, but that's the beauty of the play-offs.

[Pleb]

David Johnson got 46.9 points this week :cab:

[Browning]

Yea and I have to face him this week....

Thankfully Odell Beckham is out.

[Gray Fox]

That's not a sure thing yet. They are appealing so it could well turn to a hefty fine instead. Guy in the final has been riding Beckham all season. Not benched him except for his bye week.

I'm rooting for the 3-10 guy to make a mockery of the whole thing. I also want 3rd place. But we aren't doing keepers so I've put a load of waiver claims in because YOLO.

[Browning]

It basically is. No way it gets over turned.

[Pleb]

My opponent in the wildcard is going to win the whole league.

Seething is a fucking understatement.

[Ian]

Oh for fuck's sake. Not sure if Matt Jones was made inactive at the last knockings or if I just plain missed him when I was checking if I had anybody in on Thursday but he was in the team so I'm a man down for my final. Even though I'm still projected to win....

[Gray Fox]

My opponent hasn't bothered to change his team for the 3rd place play off, but he has Cam Newton still, so I'm expecting to finish 4th.

[Browning]

Well that's my Super Bowl finished then.

QBs- Ryan Fitzpatrick and Alex Smith Vs Blake Bortles and Russell Wilson

The projections had him to outscore me here by about 60 points to 43. I was delighted when Fitzpatrick put up 35 but I could have done without him throwing most of it to Brandon Marshall. I think his TD to Decker in OT was huge, so thanks Patriots. He did outscore me in the end but instead of 43-60 it was 60-67, so I'd take that all day.

WRs- Julio Jones, Allen Robinson and Mike Evans Vs Brandon Marshall, Michael Crabtree and Tyler Lockett

I was wondering why the fuck he didn't start Hurns, but I'm so glad he didn't. The projections had this finishing 53-44 but I expected to beat him much more comfortably than that, despite the fact Marshall is a beast. In the end both Julio and Marshall got the exact same score (32.21) and I ended up scoring 69 points to his 57 points for a nice win here.

RBs- Danny Woodhead and Bilal Powell Vs David Johnson and Doug Martin

There was a time when I almost benched Woodhead, but in the end he played every single week for me except his bye week, and he really repaid me in the last 2 weeks, when it mattered. The projections had this as 28-36 in his favor and I'd probably have accepted that after how much of a beast Johnson was last week. Especially when I had to scrape the barrel for Powell as a RB2. My guys performed way better than expected and put up 37 points to his 30. An unexpected win at the position.

TE- Jordan Reed Vs Zack Miller

My opponent had an embarrassment of riches at TE early in the season with both Kelce and Eifert dominating it, but entered this one without a great option. I half expected him to play Kelce and in hindsight he should have. Not that it made much difference as Miller only scored one point less. It was projected to be 17-12 but both players over performed... but mine drastically more so as Reed took the win 34-15.

Flex- Eric Decker and Delanie Walker Vs Denard Robinson and Dorial Green-Beckham

Decker and Walker are 2 players I've grown to love this season and I think I've played both almost every week, except maybe a few at the start. I didn't rate DGB but Denard did scare me going up against the Saints. He shouldn't have. Projections had this at 28-27 so nothing in it. In the end, despite Decker missing his projection, I won this 30-13, helped a lot by DGB scoring 0. Delanie racked up so many points in garbage time. What a man.

The Rest

Tucker and Boswell combined for 15 points. Goskowski got 9 for him and he has Brown to play later, but it's beyond him,

The Seattle DST were shockingly inept, and his Lions beat me 1-10.

IDP: My 3 beat out his 16-15. Who cares?

All in all a comprehensive 266.55 to 219.18 (Plus Josh Brown) victory that sees me win the title despite being 1-5 at one point. I have to say though, based on the play offs the right team won, as I was top scorer both of the play off weeks. Champions. :D

[Gray Fox]

Congrats on the win Browning. At least one of us managed to pull through.

We're on the verge of #Scenes in my league. The guy who went 3-10 through the regular season currently leads 137.5 to 77.8. Only 60 combined points from Bridgewater and Diggs can stop him from frankly stomping his way to the title. I would be having a close game for 3rd place, but my decision to play Wilson and Rivers over Brees(at the time I couldn't risk waiting on his injury) combined with his having the Cardinals defence(33 points!), has left me only 0.4 ahead while he has Hill and his kicker to play.

[Ian]

Me playing an inactive made no difference.I got molested.

[Browning]

Watching the "Super Bowl" unfold was actually pretty cool. He had a lot of evening players to come and was projected to outscore me in those games by 100 points. I was leading by 120 but didn't think it was enough given the big point potential of Wilson/Bortles/David Johnson/Denard (against the Saints) and the fact that Wilson and Lockett could hook up for double TDs (as could Bortles and Denard). My opponent has a long history of being fucked over by the Patriots, whether it's him picking up players who have been beastly and then them turning to shit, the opposite happening for his opponents when a crap player has a career day, or him investing high picks into Patriot's who end up on IR.... they always screw him. But it takes something special for that streak to continue when neither of us have any Patriots on the team and the Patriots have allowed 2 TDs to his WR. Then the coin toss fiasco happened, and despite a long Marshall grab making me lead look even less secure... Decker then boosts it up to about 140 and ices the season. What a man. I'd keep him (for a 14th) or Fitzpatrick (for a 25th) if I wasn't pretty much set on keeping Allen Robinson for a 9th as I can see him at Wembley and he's a stud. He himself grabbed a 90 yard TD that gave me 14 points while only giving Bortles 8 points, what a hero.

[Gray Fox]

I thought I should probably start posting fantasy related things in here.

For those wanting to get a feel of how things are shaping up for 2016 you can do a mock draft on this site (http://draftwizard.fantasypros.com/home.jsp?sport=nfl).
You set yourself the amount of teams you want and where you'll pick in said draft.

It uses the snake format so for example it goes from #1 to #10 then from #10 back down to #1. The AI will pick based on the average draft position each player is taken by human players. So in theory the more people play it the smarter it will get. It also means should you get a top 2/3 pick you have to use it damn wisely.

Early thing to notice is how early all the top WRs are gone now. There are probably 5 or 6 elite level WRs in the NFL and they're all going in round 1. David Johnson seems to be getting a lot of love too. He went at #5 overall on my first attempt.

It's very early on but it looks already like you're going to have to chose between that top tier RB or WR this coming season. But still try a draft out for yourself see how you'll get on. Your own league will probably have a little more stupidity in it or someone taking risks so getting used to this could be a good idea.

[Ian]

My all time favourite fantasy draft pick is still a guy on a forum I used to go on grabbing Nick Folk with the fifth or sixth overall pick.

[Browning]

My favourite came the year before last when someone I know missed the draft and was on autopilot for the first 4 rounds. He then turned up and posted saying this has his full attention... And moments later picked the Seattle defense. :D

My favourite one I made was 2-3 years back. I had Darren Sproles, who at the time was a PPR stud at the saints, ranked as a high 4th round guy but round after round i passed on him believing no one would take him. I eventually grabbed him in the 9th and 3 posted FUCK at the same time and explained they'd been doing the same :D

[Gray Fox]

Our draft last year was a bit mad, looking back at it. Someone took Justin Tucker with their 2nd round pick, Hauschka being taken in round 3. Defences went commonplace in the 3rd to 5th round. Big Ben only went in round 14. Someone had drafted 2 kickers and a Defence by round 12.
Bell didn't go until round 8.
Browning we had one of those moments. I'd passed over Amari Cooper in round 5 and 6. Him being a rookie was putting me off a little. Pulled the trigger in Round 7 and instantly got abuse from the 2 guys picking after me :D
Made up for missing out on DeMarco Murray in similar fashion earlier on and what a blessing that turned out to be.

EDIT: Did a mock of 10 teams standard. Put myself at #5 and ended up with this:

https://gyazo.com/3c638938fa1f70c84b96f64f4d847e77.png

I'd be pretty happy with that across the board if I got that come August.

[Dan]

Yeah, I've been doing a few 10 team drafts there from various positions. This is my latest one:

1.6 - DeAndre Hopkins, HOU
2.5 - Thomas Rawls, SEA
3.6 - Sammy Watkins, BUF
4.5 - Matt Forte, NYJ
5.6 - Doug Baldwin, SEA
6.5 - Tyler Eifert, CIN
7.6 - Latavius Murray, OAK
8.5 - Ameer Abdullah, DET
9.6 - Tyler Lockett, SEA
10.5 - DeSean Jackson, WAS
11.6 - Gary Barnidge, CLE
12.5 - Carolina Panthers, CAR
13.6 - Stephen Gostkowski, NE
14.5 - Joe Flacco, BAL
15.6 - Markus Wheaton, PIT

Seems like grabbing a receiver in the first round, then trying to snap up a couple of good RBs is the way to go. Leaving a QB til the last few rounds is fine too, since guys like Winston, Ryan, Flacco & Osweiler are sitting around towards the end and half of them will probably be undrafted. Luck being the first QB off the board in the third round is kinda funny too, especially considering both Wilson & Roethlisberger went in round six, and Bortles in seven. One team also drafted Ezekiel Elliott, Derrick Henry AND Laquon Treadwell. That particular AI is clearly big on college football.

I've also seen Martavis Bryant get picked up in almost every draft I've done, sometimes as early as the sixth round, despite him being out for the whole season :D

[Gray Fox]

I seem to do better in the snake format when I draft later. This is me from #8. I took a 2nd TE instead of a 2nd QB. That's obviously gambling on Brock fitting in well throwing to Hopkins and Miller but I think he will.

Took him in Round 11 with Tyrod being the other suggested choice. Oddly enough Flacco just isn't going. I'd assumed he had gone or else I would have taken him.
Cam seems to be sneaking his way towards the top of the 2nd round. Unless you get big points for rushing TDs in your league then I think the top guy to take is Big Ben. He has plenty of targets to hit and he looks like he's going late.

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, I've been doing a few 10 team drafts there from various positions. This is my latest one:

1.6 - DeAndre Hopkins, HOU
2.5 - Thomas Rawls, SEA
3.6 - Sammy Watkins, BUF
4.5 - Matt Forte, NYJ
5.6 - Doug Baldwin, SEA
6.5 - Tyler Eifert, CIN
7.6 - Latavius Murray, OAK
8.5 - Ameer Abdullah, DET
9.6 - Tyler Lockett, SEA
10.5 - DeSean Jackson, WAS
11.6 - Gary Barnidge, CLE
12.5 - Carolina Panthers, CAR
13.6 - Stephen Gostkowski, NE
14.5 - Joe Flacco, BAL
15.6 - Markus Wheaton, PIT

Seems like grabbing a receiver in the first round, then trying to snap up a couple of good RBs is the way to go. Leaving a QB til the last few rounds is fine too, since guys like Winston, Ryan, Flacco & Osweiler are sitting around towards the end and half of them will probably be undrafted. Luck being the first QB off the board in the third round is kinda funny too, especially considering both Wilson & Roethlisberger went in round six, and Bortles in seven. One team also drafted Ezekiel Elliott, Derrick Henry AND Laquon Treadwell. That particular AI is clearly big on college football.

I've also seen Martavis Bryant get picked up in almost every draft I've done, sometimes as early as the sixth round, despite him being out for the whole season :D
That's because some think he might get a reduced suspension on appeal (or it's a dynasty draft).

My favourite/worst pick ever was during my first year of watching NFL and my very first attempt at fantasy.

I had the number 1 pick in draft but had no idea who to take (at that time I only knew players from Madden, most of them being rookies so I drafted a shit load of them including Demaryius Thomas who was the only one to make it in the NFL) so I went to Google.

I found an old Yahoo question asking who should go number 1, so I was fucking buzzing going into the draft. Who do I draft? LaDainian Tomlinson thanks to that Yahoo question.

I ended up dropping him but then picking him back up later.

Here was my drafted team:

Tom Brady
Jimmy Clausen

LaDainian Tomlinson
Joseph Addai
Dexter McCluster (doubles as a RB and a WR)
Montario Hardesty

Steve Smith (Panthers one)
Arrelious Benn
Steve Breaston
Demaryius Thomas

Owen Daniels
Jermaine Gresham

Nate Kaeding
Garrett Lindholm

Dallas

I also accidentally made a second team (which I gave to someone else to be a co-manager) and traded Brady to Elth for Carson Palmer who shit it up at the Bengals.

I did learn from my mistakes and win the league two years later.

[Browning]

The only thing I'm giving thought to is who to keep when my draft comes around. Really there's only 3 candidates.... Julio Jones (2nd round), Allen Robinson (9th round) or Ryan Fitzpatrick (25th round). Fitzpatrick is unlikely but depending where he ends up there's probably a 5% chance I'd consider it as that's the last round and there's usually only pure shite left, plus I went 7-0 in games with him as my starter last year.

But assuming I don't go with him, the other 2 is kinda tough, obviously tougher if I'm drafting 1st or 2nd. There's about an 80% chance it'll end up being Allen Robinson though as he's a WR1 this year and getting him that late probably means I can secure 2 of them, which will be massive in a PPR format.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

With me, the only league that I will be in for sure next year is a dynasty one on NFL.com (let's get a TTH league going this year if possible).

Here is my keepers list:

http://i.imgur.com/6mbsh6c.png

For the 25th spot I have Antonio Andrews (hot garbage and is now behind at least Demarco Murray), Branden Oliver (a useful player but stuck behind Gordon and Woodhead), De'Anthony Thomas (his only value is in returns and as we get points per return yard but only 1 point per 100 yards), Kai Forbath, Steven Hauschka (two meh kickers) and the Eagles defence (I'm considering it as they usually score well).

QB looks set with Mariota, Smith and Osweiler. RB could be good depending on where Foster lands, WR could be good but I need an upgrade at TE. Maxx Williams who is good but there are a lot of options for the Ravens is my only real outlet. Cameron was hot garbage last year and Luke Willson was about as effective as Diljeet on University Challenge.

I'll probably remove Cameron and Willson from my keepers and add the Eagles as well as maybe De'Anthony Thomas although that's because I like him after his Rose Bowl antics.

[Gray Fox]

Luke Willson was about as effective as Diljeet on University Challenge.

:D

Did you mean get a general TTH league for next season or a Dynasty league?

I'm more than willing to host one of either. Never played in one of the latter either, so that'd be an experience.

[Browning]

I think I still have the set up for last years TTH league if I just reactivate it, so it's easy enough to do, just we completely failed to get demand last year.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:D

Did you mean get a general TTH league for next season or a Dynasty league?

I'm more than willing to host one of either. Never played in one of the latter either, so that'd be an experience.
Any league, I wouldn't care about the rules/scoring system etc.

I just want one for 'THE BANTZ' on here.

[Dan]

Probably the strongest draft I've had so far:

1.3 - Odell Beckham, NYG
2.8 - Doug Martin, TB
3.3 - Sammy Watkins, BUF
4.8 - Eddie Lacy, GB
5.3 - Jordan Reed, WAS
6.8 - Doug Baldwin, SEA
7.3 - Latavius Murray, OAK
8.8 - Golden Tate, DET
9.3 - Emmanuel Sanders, DEN
10.8 - Rashad Jennings, NYG
11.3 - Austin Seferian-Jenkins, TB
12.8 - Houston Texans, HOU
13.3 - Marcus Mariota, TEN
14.8 - Markus Wheaton, PIT
15.3 - Justin Tucker, BAL

Might try out a few larger drafts & see how that changes things.

[Pleb]

I think I still have the set up for last years TTH league if I just reactivate it, so it's easy enough to do, just we completely failed to get demand last year.
Use Fleaflicker :sherlock:

[Gray Fox]

Well I'm game for #TopBantz

[Browning]

You drafted Tate before Sanders? Are you mad? Granted Denver have no QB but they will. Rates only gonna catch balls if he's sat in the stands and Stafford hits him by mistake.

[Dan]

He's one of the ones who always seems to fall three or four rounds beyond where they're predicted to go, so I knew I had another round left to get him.

[Gray Fox]

I'm noticing the same about Maclin. Despite being clearly his teams No.1 receiver, he drops to round 5 or 6. Baldwin is also dropping down, despite going off in the 2nd half of last season.

David Johnson seems to be valued high this year. He's almost always RB3 in the draft. Here's my latest attempt from #3

https://gyazo.com/3707c729518a43f52c9fe1acf4b60f25.png

[Dan]

Jordan Matthews is another one who falls miles every time. Baldwin goes in the middle rounds, but usually just before I can pick him up.

[Gray Fox]

He's so low because of all the drops last season. He started to hook it up late on but again, he's a clear WR1 in what appears to be less of a running based team than Maclin has.

Woodhead looks to be a steal late on this time round.

[Browning]

He was a steal late on for me last season. :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's so low because of all the drops last season. He started to hook it up late on but again, he's a clear WR1 in what appears to be less of a running based team than Maclin has.

Woodhead looks to be a steal late on this time round.

Woodhead is a tricky one tbh.

You'd imagine that the Chargers will look to Gordon more this season.

But Woodhead has always been an all or nothing (more often than not it's all) player.

[Browning]

Woodhead was a beast last season. The only 2 players that played more games than him for my fantasy team were Julio Jones and Allen Robinson. Granted it was more through necessity as I had no other good RBs until late on, but he never disappointed.

[Gray Fox]

I watched the Chargers a few times last year as I had Rivers. Woodhead looked a beast. He's certainly one I'll be looking to take when everyone else starts adding QBs.