Fantasy football 2015

The DLs of many fantasy baseball teams would beg to differ.

 

True, but there seems to be a lot more flexibility in baseball. Guess it depends on the size of the league.

 

I don't know if it is that football is tougher or just that luck is a much larger factor than it is in baseball.

 

This looks like ESPN's fantasy football points from last year.

Scoring Leaders - Free Fantasy Football - ESPN

Keeping taking RBs first overall, dummies.

 

Jack, it's a bit more complicated than that. You have to draft a bit based on what is rare, and what might be left by the time your NEXT pick comes along. Like Sunshine said earlier, there may be only a couple of three down backs these days, with RBBC and pass happiness impacting totals. But as your table shows, there are 6 to 8 top QBs, making them less rare.

 

Position scarcity increases RBs' value. The problem is that the top guys are rarely the same from year to year. So you end up with owners foolishly chasing RBs early. Remember when Doug Martin and C.J. Spiller were considered elite? Wasn't that long ago.

 

Just for the hell of it, I took Luck first in a 12-team standard league mock. Hill, Ingram, Forsett, Hyde and Gordon were all available.

In a real league, Hill would likely be gone and probably at least one other one. Still, though, you can take Luck or Rodgers and have potentially good RBs available.

Of course, then you have to make sure and not fuck up your receivers. They all flew off the board by the end of the second. Mike Evans was the only big name left.

 

Yup. One of the reasons I quit playing fantasy football. Well, that and the fact that I stink at it.

 

CJ Anderson. He'll be sitting there in the third or fourth round and, with Kubiak's offense, he's a great pick.

What is the question around Peterson, exactly? He's going to play, is he not? He's the best running back in the league.

 

Anderson may be the biggest wild card in the draft. But he'll go no later than mid-second in any league. More likely late first in most.

 

Jack, was that a PPR scoring system you linked?

 

I believe so, yes.