OT - Fantasy Football 2016

[wichmae]

If anyone has an opening in a league I would be interested. Prefer a money league with buy in and standard PPR non auction.

I have an opening in a league. $100 buy in. Half point ppr though.

Can I get back to you? If I dont find anything else in my parameters I would be down.

[PkrsBcksGphsMqt]

12 team keeper league, standard scoring other than 1pt ppr. I'm keeping Jordy Nelson and Kelvin Benjamin with my 13th and 14th round picks. Start QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, FLEX, TE, K, D.

What should be my big board going into the draft with the #3 overall pick? Here's pool of players after keepers have been claimed (they are listed in my current preference)?

Julio Jones
Odell Beckham Jr.
AJ Green
Todd Gurley
Ezekiel Elliot
David Johnson
Allen Robinson
Dez Bryant
Aaron Rodgers
Adrian Peterson

Since it's PPR, I can start 3 WR, and my two keepers are coming off injury, I am prioritizing those top 3 WRs that are available. I listed the 7 others, just in case you guys really like some of them to consider them in the top 3.

[Kerb Hohl]

1 point PPR, IMO:

Julio
ODB
Gurley
David Johnson
Dez
Green
Zeke
AP
Allen Robinson (maybe a bit higher due to youth and keeper status)

A lot of other WRs and RBs

Aaron Rodgers


When you say "standard" do you mean 4 point passing TDs or 6? I'm assuming standard is 4 but just making sure...because I know with the keeper situation it may make some sense to just take Rodgers, but in general, I'd almost never take a QB until like the 8th round or later in a 1 QB league these days...especially full point PPR.

[PkrsBcksGphsMqt]

Yeah standard meant 4 for passing and no odd bonuses etc. Yeah I would never take a QB as well, but I thought I'd include the best available QB in the list of players available.

And keepers come with a cost. You must give up an equal draft pick to where you drafted them in the year before, or if you kept them the previous year, you must give up a draft pick one round higher (this happens each year the player is kept). So most of the time 1st and 2nd round picks aren't kept. This keeps the top of the draft interesting because there are always good players available, it also rewards owners who draft well and can spot talent before it develops/blows up.

I'm a little worried about David Johnson because of the report that he could split carries. RB's also scare me more than WR's in general because of injuries, potential for RBBC, and for some of them, suddenly losing goal line looks. WR's at the top of the draft seem to be better bets than RB's at the top of the draft. It also seems like it's easier to find solid RB's on the waiver wire once injuries occur, at least compared to WR's in a ppr format.

I've kind of ruled out Dez just because Romo is going to get hurt at some point and then Dez will be a lot less valuable. I've been in that boat and would like to avoid it again if there are better options (I would consider Green a better option).

Not sure what to make of Zeke, he is the rookie with all the hype, but it's so rare for a rookie to live up to a top 3-5 overall fantasy pick. So I'm somewhat hesitant to believe the hype.

I think this is the year AP falls off so I'll be targeting Mckinnon as a reserve RB in both of my leagues.

I like Allen Robinson (had him last year), but not in the 1st round.

Can't argue with Julio, ODB, and Gurley as you top 3, though I like Green a lot too. Gurley is the only RB I will consider at #3.

[RiotPunch]

12 team keeper league, standard scoring other than 1pt ppr. I'm keeping Jordy Nelson and Kelvin Benjamin with my 13th and 14th round picks. Start QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, FLEX, TE, K, D.

What should be my big board going into the draft with the #3 overall pick? Here's pool of players after keepers have been claimed (they are listed in my current preference)?

Julio Jones
Odell Beckham Jr.
AJ Green
Todd Gurley
Ezekiel Elliot
David Johnson
Allen Robinson
Dez Bryant
Aaron Rodgers
Adrian Peterson

Since it's PPR, I can start 3 WR, and my two keepers are coming off injury, I am prioritizing those top 3 WRs that are available. I listed the 7 others, just in case you guys really like some of them to consider them in the top 3.

Julio
Beckham
Johnson (LOVE him in PPR)
Green
Gurley
Bryant
Elliott
Robinson


Peterson


Rodgers

[Profound23]

What do you guys think of Travis Benjamin? He played well for a terrible Browns team....now he has Rivers throwing to him. I could see a huge year from him.

[PkrsBcksGphsMqt]

What do you guys think of Travis Benjamin? He played well for a terrible Browns team....now he has Rivers throwing to him. I could see a huge year from him.

He's a guy I'm going to be targeting for my 4th or 5th WR spot.

[PkrsBcksGphsMqt]

What are some your guys' strategies for TEs this year? The two leagues I play in are a 12 team 2-player keeper and a 16 team 2-player keeper. Gronk is going to be kept in each league and I think Jordan Reed is as well. So that means I won't be getting an elite guy. I'm thinking I'll be one of the last people to take a TE in my drafts this year. The talent pool seems deep, but kind of light at the top after Gronk. There are also some mid-late tiered guys that intrigue me as boom/bust selections...Thomas, Bennett, Green, Ebron, Seferian-Jenkins, and Cook, to name a few.

[Kerb Hohl]

Yeah, I will wait until the end of the draft and look at Dwayne Allen, Fleener, and a handful of the guys you listed if I don't get Gronk at value.

[James1980]

I have the first and 4th pick in the first round this year, who would you guys draft?

[Kerb Hohl]

I have the first and 4th pick in the first round this year, who would you guys draft?

Any PPR? Seems like everyone wants to shift to WR-heavy this year so if it is PPR or .5 PPR you can't go wrong with any of Julio, ODB, Antonio Brown if they drop. If Le'veon is un-suspended you take him there.

If not, I'm kinda torn on all of the David Johnson/Gurley/Zeke Elliot/AP and maybe Lamar Miller tier of RBs. I can hear arguments for and against all of them.

[James1980]

1 point ppr

[Kerb Hohl]

1 point ppr

#1 pick should be Antonio Brown then. I could hear an argument for the other 2 WRs but Brown is probably the safest PPR guy there is.

#4 I would consider taking ODB/Julio (maybe AJ Green if you just want to lock down high PPR WRs) if they drop with 1 point PPR - in that case I'd take a few RBs next and take some late-round 3rd down-type RBs to add depth

If those WRs don't drop to #4 I'd maybe say David Johnson/Gurley/Lamar Miller/Zeke/AP in that order. I'm drinking the Lamar Miller PPR Kool-Aid from some, but I will say he represents some risk. Some think he's going to turn into Arian Foster on the Texans, others think he's not going to get the workload because the Dolphins refused to hand him the keys to every touch on offense even though he was good when he got it.

And again, if Le'Veon is un-suspended I'd take him #4...hell, I'd even consider him at #4 even with the suspension. He becomes an option at #1 as well if he's un-suspended because he is also the best PPR RB there is.

[James1980]

Thanks, I am leaning towards Antonio Brown then Julio Jones, the 2nd and 3rd picks are going to be Rodgers, Brees I believe.

[Kerb Hohl]

Thanks, I am leaning towards Antonio Brown then Julio Jones, the 2nd and 3rd picks are going to be Rodgers, Brees I believe.

Wow...is this a high-scoring QB league? I've always drafted QBs very late. You would have an insane team right off the bat.

[James1980]

Yeah, qbs get 600, 650 points for the season, but you can get a decent one later on.

[Kerb Hohl]

Yeah, qbs get 600, 650 points for the season, but you can get a decent one later on.

If there are some insane scoring categories for QBs I'd consider it...but there just seem to be 15-20 QBs now that are not differentiated by that many points anymore.

Sure, if in hindsight you can get Cam of last year or Rodgers of 2011-2012 and you KNOW you're getting that to open the year then you take the guy that is putting up astronomically high totals...but that's not possible, of course.

[RiotPunch]

Such a weird RB year. I'm reluctant to draft many early on, especially in PPR. I'd rather stock up on stud WR's and roll with pass-catching backs like Duke Johnson, Dion Lewis and Danny Woodhead than draft Lamar Miller in the top 10. Just a weird year.

[BUCKnation]

Yeah, in PPR, I'm looking at Juio or Brown as an interchangeable 1-2.

I'm intrigued by Lamar Miller though (not in the top 5, but late 1st/early 2nd). Texans always use their RB and Miller is pretty much a younger/healthier Foster so he should put up nice stats. His problem last year was a lack of consistency pretty much caused by poor play calling.

[M-C-G]

12 team keeper league, standard scoring other than 1pt ppr. I'm keeping Jordy Nelson and Kelvin Benjamin with my 13th and 14th round picks. Start QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, FLEX, TE, K, D.

What should be my big board going into the draft with the #3 overall pick? Here's pool of players after keepers have been claimed (they are listed in my current preference)?

Julio Jones
Odell Beckham Jr.
AJ Green
Todd Gurley
Ezekiel Elliot
David Johnson
Allen Robinson
Dez Bryant
Aaron Rodgers
Adrian Peterson

Since it's PPR, I can start 3 WR, and my two keepers are coming off injury, I am prioritizing those top 3 WRs that are available. I listed the 7 others, just in case you guys really like some of them to consider them in the top 3.

Elliot in my opinion is way over rated this year. I love David Johnson in a ppr league, but you don't know how much he is going to have to share the field this year.

I'd probably be keying in on Green or Robinson personally. I don't know that Jordy and Benjamin can both be counted on to start for you this year.