Just finished a live draft...and here's how I shook out. 12-team league; QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, W/R, TE, K, Def, D, D, D, D and bench player lineup. Pretty standard scoring.
I didn't take them in this order, but here they are in alpha order. I drafted second and took Alexander. Took Moss and Holt with the next two picks. I'm still short a K and a D player or so, but I'll see how things shake out and grab them before the first game....
Alexander, Shaun
Arrington, JJ
Brown, Ronnie
Brooks, Aaron
Calico, Tyronne
Edwards, Donnie
Foster, DeShaun
Gore, Frank
Holt, Torry
Lloyd, Brandon
McCareins, Justin
Moss, Randy
Plummer, Jake
Ravens D
Toefield, LaBrandon
Urlacher, Brian
Wiggins, Jermane
Williams, Carnell
Williamson, Troy
I'd drop Lloyd and Toefield to make the room
Good team. You need one of your rookie RB's to have a great year to compete. I imagine it will be hard at first trying to make the lineup decisions. Brook/Plummer are a good fantasy pairing.
I took Moss and Holt early in a draft last year and my team bombed. ;) Good luck to you danielson.
Did a live draft yesterday in another league w/some friends of mine and this one dude who drafted last (10th overall) selected Moss with his first pick and then Ron Mexico with his second pick (11th overall). :-D
Dude's new to the league and I suppose new to fantasy football in general.
It was a CRAZY draft. Put it to you this way...Duce Staley went off the board before Deuce McAllister...and the guy who took Staley with his first pick took Vick with his second pick. That really threw me off.
Wow. That dude drafted worse than the guy in my draft......which I didn't think was possible.
BTW, your roster looks pretty good except that you've got a lot of rookie rb's on there. Might want to try and make a trade to bring in a more proven fantasy back.
After I laughed at the guy (who I didn't know)-- out loud-- he was sort of sheepish...but then took Bettis in the 4th as safety pick. Was like throwing good money after bad. And this is a money league we're talking about. lmao.
Actually, it was a pretty cool draft. A friend of mine works for Sony music, so we had the primo Epic conference room full of plasma TVs, computers, microphones... the works. The four people who called in missed out.
I sat in my recliner and drafted via my laptop while eating taco bell. I did however, make my 8th-11th round selections on the crapper.
lmao, I just got a letter from Joneszilla yesterday and in it he told me not to draft two WR's in the top 2 rounds again this year. :-D
In my defense, I took Alexander first...then Moss and Holt in the second and third ;).
i know i know, i was just making fun of myself. :deion
Oh. In that case, carry on.
Quote from: MURP on August 23, 2005, 09:45:26 AM
i know i know, i was just making fun of myself. :deion
Sounds like my draft this year.
Picking Moss first... stupid, stupid, stupid rookie mistakes. :boom
My team stinks. :-D
I don't care how good they are. Picking a WR in the first round is fantasy suicide.
As a first time Fantasy Footballer, I guess I'll have to learn the lesson the hard way.
really depends on what RB's you have. If you can get a steal in there you should be ok.
Just made a trade. On the surface, I think it favors the other guy...but it helps my team in three areas and I didn't lose anything major.
I traded Ronnie Brown, Jermaine Wiggins and LaBrandon Toefield for Alge Crumpler, Jason Elam and Keith Bulluck. I was going to have to drop some guys to get a kicker and a D player anyway, so I thought I could get higher quality guys this way. I'm stocked at RB, and I was really wondering if I'd ever feel great about starting Brown behind that O line, with those QBs and with Williams waiting in the wings.
What do you think?
I don't think that trade favors the other guy at all. Assuming you aren't crippling yourself with whoever you have to drop.
I don't have to drop anyone now....because of the trade.
So now my starting lineup will look something like:
QB: Jake Plummer
RB: Shaun Alexander
RB: JJ Arrington (or D. Foster)
WR: Randy Moss
WR: Torry Holt
W/R: Cadillac Williams
TE: Alge Crumpler
K: Jason Elam
DEF: Baltimore
D: Donnie Edwards
D: Demarcus Ware
D: Brian Urlacher
D: Keith Bulluck
I can live with that.
Were you wearing a ski mask and holding the dude at gunpoint when you robbed him? Ronnie Brown is kind of an x factor but you just aquired one of the top fantasy tight ends, kickers and defensive players out there. Crumpler is Vick's primary target, especially near the red zone. Elam is one of the most consistant kickers in the league and Bulluck I think was the 2nd highest point producer for fantasy football defensive players behind Donnie Edwards.
Well played sir. :yay
heh heh heh.
Why do you start a Team Defense and Individual Defensive Players?
Because that's the way the league is set up. I'd be a fool not to.
So if, for example, you had the Eagles defense and Lito Sheppard and Lito returned an interception for a TD you would get double the points?
yeah
Now, everyone can make fun of my team for a change. 12-team league. Friend of mine needed someone to fill in their draft, so I agreed. I took some flyers and reached on purpose to avoid having people in common with other teams.
I'm probably going to try to trade a RB for a WR. Anderson's starting in week 1 (@MIA) for me, but probably won't very often. I took McGahee with the 4th pick, with Priest Holmes and Shaun Alexander still on the board. Ha.
QB C. Palmer (CIN - QB)
RB W. McGahee (BUF - RB)
RB D. Davis (HOU - RB)
WR J. Walker (GB - WR)
WR S. Smith (CAR - WR)
TE L. Smith (PHI - TE)
WR/RB M. Anderson (DEN - RB)
Bench C. Williams (TB - RB)
Bench J. Arrington (ARI - RB)
Bench S. Moss (WAS - WR)
Bench J. Losman (BUF - QB)
Bench C. Cooley (WAS - TE)
Bench A. Randle El (PIT - WR)
K S. Graham (CIN - K)
D/ST New York (NYJ - D/ST)
Yeah. Honestly. That team is kind of suck. Palmer and Losman could be money, or they could be average and terrible respectively.
McGahee should be awesome, but Davis is meh and Anderson should lose his job to the superiorly talented Bell. Javon Walker is obviously good but the rest of your WRs suck.
I love to judge.
I made all kinds of ill-advised picks, kind of on purpose. Picking two Washington pass-catchers? Retarded.
Also, half the league was auto-drafting, and there are 2 teams with 3 QB's and 1 with 4 QB's... so Losman's run on my roster might be short-lived.
I also dislike D. Davis for no special reason at all, but I picked him when the value was there.