Grade my team
 

I think we have had a thread for this in the past.. so feel free to post your own team below.

I just drafted last night in my 14-team, 1/2 ppr league. Return yards count for the individual and the flex position also can be a QB. Our league used to have six points for passing td's, but returned it to four points a couple years ago. Despite that, QBs go off the board way to soon. In fact, eleven were taken in the first round and five in the second round.

My strategy was to wait on QB and load up on other positions, as I picked seventh.

Team is below. The number in parenthesis is my ranking of these players within their positional groups (didn't combine them into one board), just for general interest.

1 - Jamaal Charles - KC RB (1)
2 - Antonio Brown - Pit WR (1)
3 - Teddy Bridgewater - Min QB (18)
4 - C.J. Spiller - NO RB (8) - due to return yards
5 - Latavius Murray - Oak RB (14)
6 - DaVante Adams - GB WR (10)
7 - Blake Bortles - Jax QB (23)
8 - Darren Sproles - Phi RB (25) - I think he will get return yards in the regular season
9 - Percy Harvin - Buf WR (17) - due to return yards
10 - Denard Robinson - Jax RB (40)
11 - Leonard Hankerson - Atl WR (42)
12 - Brian Quick - StL WR (44)
13 - Charles Clay - Buf TE (10)
14 - Chiefs D (14)
15 - Brandon McManus - Den K (2)

I think I regret the Percy Harvin pick already. Beckham was taken two picks before I took Bridgewater, and I think I paniced on QB a bit, although I do like Teddy.

If I had know Bortles would drop into the 7th, I think I would have taken another top-tier WR, but most were scooped up, and I wasn't feeling Demaryius Thomas.

You get points for return yards?

Anyone done a draft only league? I've taken Odell Beckham and Megatron so far not really sure the strategy here.

Yep.. 1 point for every 15 yards returned. It really does throw a wrench on some of the receiver and running backs. Sproles has been a monster with the 1/2 ppr and return yards, for example.

How the hell did you get Charles and Brown? lol

Yep, that was my dream draft... by ignoring QB, while sixteen went off in the first 28 picks, I got a possible #1 RB and the #1 WR.

My TE is a dumpster fire, but I picked up Eric Ebron, and I will keep scouring the wire over the first couple weeks for someone who stands out.

Dropped Hankerson for that, and also dropped Brian Quick to pick up Ty Montgomery, who is returning kicks and punts for GB and will also be a WR. Just in case the Adams hype train doesn't pan out and Montgomery ends up being targeted alot.

What is a "draft only league"?

*bump*

Just did our draft last night. 16 teams, standard-scoring, Team QB option, and I had the 8th pick in the draft.

QB: 49'ers QB
RB: Le'Veon Bell
RB: Alfred Morris
Flex:Andre Ellington
WR: T.Y. Hilton
WR: Nelson Agholor
TE: Dwayne Allen
D: K.C. Chiefs
K: Josh Scobee

Bench: Anquan Boldin, Doug Baldwin, David Johnson (RB), Tyler Lockett, Ladarius Green, D'Anthony Thomas, Redskins TQB

Pretty good for a 16-teamer I think.

You might start a bit slow with Agolor, but we shall see I guess. I got burned my Dwayne Allen the two or three times I started him last year, but he seemed to catch touchdowns every other week. I like your depth.

Yeah, I might start Ladarius Green early with Gates suspended. Someone took Maclin right before I was up and chose Agholor, so that was a bummer. Other than that, I was pretty happy.

I like you WR depth. And I'm assuming you took Bell 8th overall?

Here's my 12 team PPR team with 6 points per QB touchdown.

QB Big Ben
RB Le'Veon Bell
RB Justin Forsett
WR AJ Green
WR Davante Adams
TE Kyle Rudolph
Flex Frank Gore
K Blair Walsh
Def Bengals

Bench
Colin Kaepernick
Larry Fitzgerald
Brandon Marshall
Allen Robinson
Darren McFadden
Devonta Freeman
Tyler Eifert

I think that's a good team

Ok, my turn:

6pts for passing TD, 10 person league, had the 8th pick

QB: Luck
RB: Lamar Miller
RB: Todd Gurley
WR: Beckham JR
WR: Emmanuel Sanders
TE: Kelce
Flex: R Jennings
K: who cares
D: Browns

Bench:

Vereen
Jonathan Stewart
Tre Mason
Damien Williams
Martavis Bryant
Steve Smith Sr
Joke Flacco

OP,

Looks pretty good. If you could upgrade at QB, you would have a bad ass team

Running backs are a little week, but you have good depth at WR to make trades and upgrade.

Unless Gurly shows out then your team is shining like a diamond in a goats ass.

Here's where I'm at. 10 team standard scoring. Flex can be TE,RB, or WR. We have one IR slot for an out player so I have a waiver to pick up another player while Foster is out. My WR is my worry spot. I grabbed two good TEs so I have one for trade bait if needed. Good TEs are hard to come by though and I can always use a second one in my Flex if need be.

QB Ryan Tannehill, Mia
RB DeMarco Murray, Phi
RB Justin Forsett, Bal
WR Odell Beckham Jr., NYG
WR Brandon Marshall, NYJ
TE Jimmy Graham, Sea
FLEX
D/ST Bills D/ST D/ST
K Brandon McManus, Den K
Bench Travis Kelce, KC TE
Bench Michael Floyd, Ari
Bench John Brown, Ari
Bench Alfred Blue, Hou
Bench Darren Sproles, Phi
Bench Markus Wheaton, Pit WR
Bench Stevie Johnson, SD WR
IR Arian Foster*, Hou RB

Maclin was on my radar too and got picked before I had a chance to get him. That seemed to be how all my receiver options went this year.

solid team

Thanks

That's what I'm hoping for.

I'm in a 10 team league here's my team

Qb Luck
Rb Charles
Rb L Murray
Wr Hilton
Wr Maclin
Te O Daniels
K Haushka
Def Chiefs
Bench
Qb Romo
Rb Sankey
Wr Agholor
Wr Moncrief
Wr J Brown
Wr Garçon
I need another decent Backup rb.

Pretty good but yeah, you need another RB.

Damn nice team.

Not sure about Kaep though, since he usually benefits from having running TDs.. in your scoring that doesn't help as much.

I think Allen Robinson (or Marshall) may end up being a better flex for you in a PPR. Obviously, we need to see what Gore does in that offense before we can say that for sure though.

Pretty good. Obviously Luck is a great, Beckham I love. You don't really have a good RB1, but you have alot of options for RB2. I've been burnt on Lamar Miller hype before though, so I may be down on him a bit too much. Keep an eye on the waiver wire and available pickups.

Thanks man.. Really hoping to improve at TE as we start to get some separation between the TE's #5-20.

Yeah, picking 7th in a 14 team league and your first 2 picks were Charles and Brown... you must be drafting with women.

Yeah that's what I was getting at. Both of them should been gone before like pick 6 or 8. Maybe sooner. Brown had 1600+ yards and 129 catches last year lol.. and we all know about Jamaal

Sixteen team, ppr league. 13th pick. QB/RB/WR/WR/Flex/Flex/TE/K/DEF

QB: Cutler, Foles
RB: Anderson, Blount, Coleman, Davis
WR: Brown, Adams, Agholor, John Brown
TE: Kelce
K: Dawson
DEF: Detroit

Yeah, hoping after the season starts I can trade a Wr for a rb.

Seems like you really drafted on points from LAST year. A large number of your starters are on new teams and not likely to reproduce the same points as last year.

Still a solid team, but I feel like for a ten teamer, it should be stronger.

I do like some of your bench players though.

Looks pretty good. Must be some decent rb's left on the waiver in a ten teamer?

Yeah I'm hoping a few guys out of my RB stable can step up. Totally banking on the Dolphins passing game opening things up for Miller. Big risk

Yeah, I was very indecisive this draft, hadn't been able to look into players hardly at all before we drafted because work's been a beast all summer. Some guys like Jimmy Graham probably won't be as good. We'll see how it turns out but you're right, it did end up looking very much like a group from last year.

Although, I do think I will probably still end up with 2 top 10 RBs, 1 top 10 WR, and 2 top 10 TEs. So all in all, it isn't horrible. Definitely not a sexy draft though.

That is what happened to me last year too. Choose Andy Dalton too early and then found out that they were really moving to a running heavy game. Not a good draft, but I was able to recover through the waiver wire.

Ryan Tannehill
Eli Manning

CJ Anderson
Jeremy Hill
Chris Ivory
Arian Foster
Doug Martin
Matt Jones

Jordan Matthews
Mike Evans
Charles Johnson
Nelson Agholor
Steve Smith

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Rams Defense

Brandon McManus

Scoring is standard I assume? 10 or 12 team?

Your QB's are both not great, but your RB's are stacked, stacked, stacked. Not really a WR1 in the bunch, but tons of depth.

I would consider swinging a trade for a top WR with one of your RBs, once the season starts and you can see which one you feel is disposable.

10 team standard, I had the 10th pick. I think tannehil is very under rated this season. He has a ton of talent around him. I agree though besides rb I hate my team. Probably means I'll do really well.

10 team
Big Ben, cam newton
Antonio brown, Alshon Jeffery, Brandon cooks, Breshad perriman, Nelson agholor, Devon funchness.

Jeremy hill, Lamar miller, TJ yeldon, rashad Jennings, CJ Spiller
Jordan Cameron, Charles clay
Haushchka, Phil Dawson
Stl Rams d, Dolphins d

At least it is standard scoring. And you have a bunch of WR2's. I would feel better about that team if either Qb or WR was improved, and you potentially have TONS of trade material at RB.

I like Tannehill too, but do you think he ends up being a top 5 QB?

Good solid team, potentially very good if some of the preseason hype turns out to be true with Miller, Yeldon, Agholor and/or Funchness.

I'm not super high on those players, but looks like you got them later, so still good picks.

12 team PPR, 6 PT TD

Philip Rivers

Le'Veon Bell
Justin Dorsett
T.J. Yeldon
Duke Johnson
Matt Jones

Julio Jones
Davante Adams
Mike Wallace
John Brown
Kendall Wright
Brandon Coleman
Stevie Johnson

Tyler Eifert

Broncos Def

Dan Bailey

I probably would have tried to grab a backup TE, rather than your seventh WR, but pretty solid otherwise. I like your RB and WR depth. With 6 pts per passing TD, probably would have tried to target a top-6 QB, but you can't have everything.

I've ended up with miller the last couple years and he's always been solid.

I'm hoping on the others but all were late filler guys.

OH Aand I fiorgot my flex spot guy.


Add rb CJ Spiller.

10 team, PPR, 4/passing TD, 6/all other TD,

QB: Big Ben, Stafford
RB: L Bell, L Murray, J Stewart, J Bell, G Bernard
WR: AJ Green, R Cobb, J Landry, S Smith Sr, M Wheaton, P Dorsett, T Williams
TE: T Kelce, H Miller
D/ST: Philly
K: didn't draft one and two waiver claims still available

WR obviously the weakest link.

Standard scoring or PPR?

For a weak link.. not that weak. I think your first four WRs all have lots of value.

Your RBs are your weakest link. Bell is Bell but you won't have him the first two weeks. Murray is a talent but his offensive line is shit and he's never been run a full season. Stewart is a walking injury. Bell will be in a timeshare and Bernard is nothing with Hill playing.

Your TE is meh but the rest of the team is bullshit. Doug Martin is a 5th back. wtf

Given all that I don't think you're WRs are bad. Your QBs are a great pair, IMO. Nothing personal to gator but I think Eli or Tannehill could be a top 5ish QB. I wanted to draft Eli but his preseason games scared me off a bit. Still, when Cruz is that fantasy scrub no one wants to draft as your 3rd option and Shane Vereen is an easy dump down back..Eli could have a huge year

We all have different opinions.. I never take offense to differing opinions man.

What scares me is how bad Eli looked in preseason. He looked completely lost again. He is so up and down over his career. You would *think* he would be good with all those receivers, but I don't trust him. I fear a regression back to the norm closer to what he displayed in 2013.

Tannehill seems to be on a hype train, but I haven't spent enough time understanding the fundamental changes that are supposed to happen to that offense. I have heard they want to be very up-tempo (Chip Kelly like), but haven't looked at it enough. The Miami team in general seems to be on a hype train, with every WR seemingly over valued. I'm really not sure what to believe there.

Jamaal maclin me kelce.....
 

12 team, 1st overall pick, standard scoring. Yes I could use a better QB. But injury aside Bradford still has a pretty high ceiling. Plus I think my last 4 picks were 2 QBs, a kicker and the chiefs D with the last pick of the draft.

I like Bradford too.. and I like Palmer if his O-Line bothers to block for him.

Just keep your trigger finger on Mark Sanchez though.

A little thin at RB, after your first three.

Yeah, the reason why my te sucks is because the rb kept dropping. I couldn't pass them up.

Little thin, that's polite.... Lol. I kept finding myself in a position to take more WR depth. Kniles went right before my 6-7 round picks so I went 2wrs. Hopefully I strike some gold in the WR department and have good depth. If JC goes down I'll jump on west and hope he gets more touches than knile.

Plus you can always go a couple weeks thin at something and see how the FAs develop

After a few moves, I though I had improved my WR depth from the OP. Picked up DeVante Parker and Ty Montgomery (again.. return yards also count) and dropped Quick and Hankerson.

Now, with the James Jones possible signing, I may end up dropping Montgomery and picking Eric Ebron up. It also scares me for Adams's upside too.

I have my watch list full of potential TE breakouts.. now I may need to look for WR2's as well.

QB: Bridgewater, Bortles
RB: Charles, Spiller, Murray, Sproles, Robinson
WR: Brown, DaVante Adams, DeVante Parker, Harvin, Ty Montgomery
TE: Charles Clay
D: KC
K: Bullock (Houston)

PPR

He's had 1,400+ yards and 10+ TDs for like 3 years running now..

Yeah, it is true. I'm actually pretty happy with how the draft unfolded, and would have had to scramble for positions (like RB and QB) later had I taken him.

I think more coverage will roll his way though, and I think there will be less throws as well. I don't know what that equals, but it definitely equals a little bit of unknown.

I understand the concern. Manning's arm has been looking pretty weak as of late and he looks like shit in their new run-oriented offense. There's a good chance his targets will see a sharp drop..

I still drafted him, though. Manning will likely do as he always does: start the season off on fire and then taper off near the postseason. Emmanuel Sanders is actually nursing a hamstring injury so I don't expect him to be as effective out of the gate. They also lost Julius Thomas and, despite what KnowMo would have you believe, Cody Latimer is not a viable receiving option. To me, that spells a heavy dose of CJ Anderson and Demaryius Thomas at least through the first month.

I had my draft earlier today and ended up being slotted with the 4th pick.

Le'veon Bell went #1 and the #2 pick was Eddie Lacy. So I'm sitting there thinking "Cool. I'll either get AP or JC, whoever 'TruePatriot' doesn't pick". Then buddy picks Gronk at #3 LMAO So I had to choose between ol' Jaymaal and Adrian. I decided to go with AP since I figure he'll get about 100 more touches than Charles and no one will be stealing his goal-line carries.

Here's my haul:

Russell Wilson
Sam Bradford

Adrian Peterson
Carlos Hyde
Isaiah Crowell
Arian Foster

Demaryius Thomas
Andre Johnson
Keenan Allen
Steve Smith
Mike Wallace

Jimmy Graham
Delanie Walker

Mason Crosby

Chiefs DEF

I'm in a 12 team PPR league that also awards points on return yardage. Drafted 10th. 2 RB, 2 WR, Flex

QB: Drew Brees
RB: LeSean McCoy, Latavius Murray, Knile Davis
WR: Demaryius Thomas, Brandin Cooks, Allen Robinson, Martavius Bryant, Percy Harvin
TE: Travis Kelce, Julius Thomas (I can stick him on the IR so why not)
D: Chiefs
K: McMannus

Solid.. very solid.

It is interesting how many of us have the Chiefs D. I do too. But, now I am looking at week 2 and 3 and thinking I will already have to start streaming defenses. We are facing two of the most potent offenses on those weeks.

That looks like a solid roster. Knile and Percy return kicks, but in that format I usually like to grab someone like CJ Spiller who adds return yards at the RB position. Knile Davis does that too though. At one point last year, I started Charles and Davis when my other RBs were on a bye. Return yards adds a nice change to the league.. really elevates alot of WRs. In that format, I think TE should be a pretty big drafting focus since you can't get phantom return yards from that position (despite my recent drafting history in my league) and grabbing Kelce is big.

I wish we had an IR slot in my league.

Thanks

I love the IR spot. Allows you to deal with injuries, or early in the season grab a guy and sit on him. Agree about Spiller, could have grabbed him instead of Murray, but really thought he was going to make it back to me. My brother nabbed him. Wanted Murray because I wanted a guy who I thought would get the opportunity to pound the rock.

Really like my WRs, especially after Bryant returns. If I need anything it's some RB depth.

Had two drafts back to back Sat and by the time the 2nd one started I was feeling no pain.Had the 9th pick in a 10 man 6pt all td's non ppr and I clearly remember my first four picks of Julio,Beckham,Cooks and Brees after that it gets a little fuzzy but here is the team

Brees
Bridgewater

Doug Martin
chris Ivory
Ameer Abdullah
CJ Spiller

Julio
Beckham
Cooks
Ed Royal
Chris Conley
Ty Mongomery

Martellus bennett
josh Hill

Rams
Lions

B Macmanus
D Carpenter

BTW,this league requires that we carry 2 D's and 2 kickers and except for one flex everyone has the same amount of roster spots

One hell of a dynasty team at rb.

Interesting strategy.. I would have gone RB by round 3 personally. Your RBs ended up pretty weak. For a non-PPR it doesn't make much sense to go WR-WR-WR, although I can see how Beckham was attractive in the second.

Been playing FF for 20+ years and anytime I have a pick 9-10 or 11-12 I've always gone wr,wr.Hell back in '99 I took Moss and Holt and scored points at will and won the championship and cash.

My personal opinion especially these last few years is too much emphasis is put on rb's.It really depends on the scoring of each league.

That said my first draft on Sat I picked 4th out of 12 in a ppr and .5 rb touch league and went with Lacy.

Sorry I should have also mentioned we get double and triple bonus on td's over 40 and over 80,thus my reasoning on the wr's and qb with first 4 picks.

Wait.. you mean.. you get 12 points for a TD over 40 and 18 for a TD over 80?

Actually it's 9 and 12 so it's a 50% bump

i.e with my group an 82 yd td to Cooks would be 20.2 for Cooks and approximately 15 for Brees

Damn.. interesting scoring. Yeah, that would put more emphasis on WRs for sure.

Trade Evans and ivory for dez or Odell and delanie walker?

Yeah,it's the reason I always get frustrated when some fantasy guru says you have to do this and this to be successful in FF.Uh,no,I know my league rules inside and out,hell it's a $170 entry I damn well better,and therefore I try and draft accordingly.

I always try and not be "that guy" when looking at others teams unless of course you spell out each and every rule in your league.It's why I apologized for not telling you everything,it definitely made a difference once you knew all the rules.

Tony Romo
Dez Bryant
Julian Edelman
Jarvis Landry
Jeremy Hill
Andre Ellington
Jimmy Graham
Justin Tucker
Houston Defense

Frank Gore and Anquan Boldin Back Ups

I'm thinking about trading Wallace for Eli Manning.

Hell, I'll put mine in here.

1st pick in a 10 Team League, pretty standard scoring, no PPR. 6 pts all TDs, bonus points for distance Tds (+1 for 50-59, +2 for 60-69, etc.). No TE position, 1 RB/WR Flex and 1 WR/TE Flex

QB Matt Ryan
QB Cam Newton

RB Jamaal Charles
RB Justin Forsett
RB Joseph Randle
RB Bishop Sankey
RB David Cobb

WR Randall Cobb
WR Jordan Matthews
WR Jarvis Landry
WR Charles Johnson
WR Travis Kelce
WR Pierre Garcon
WR Doug Baldwin

K Steve Hauschka

DEF Seattle Seahawks

Makes sense.. if you can pull that off.. probably need a backup QB, since they are valued a bit more in that scoring.