15-16 Fantasy Football thread

Postby **Staggy** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:55 am

MIMH, I don't have a problem with your first two picks. Getting the number one overall receiver plus a TE two tiers above everyone else gives you a pretty big advantage. It's your next 3 picks where I think you'll likely lose the league. You needed to load up on running back after that with a solid guy at 29 (Morris, Miller, etc.) and then a few homerun swings. Take a Foster a round early, go after Gurley. I guess Abdullah could qualify but he won't be enough.

I went WR-WR to start and ended up with a pretty nice team (also had Gronk as a late keeper). To win a league when you don't have a top RB tandem you need to grab a lottery ticket and hope it's the right one. IMO Foster is that guy this year.

Postby **MR25** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 11:38 am

I almost picked Tom Brady in the 5th round.

Going to be kicking myself for that one.

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:08 pm

I know the injury history, but is Foster the automatic starter in Houston when he gets back in 4 weeks or so? Gonna pick him up and just sit on him

Postby **Craig** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:27 pm

I'd pick him up for sure if he's available.

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:06 pm

I'd pick him up for sure if he's available.

Yeah, I did. Well at least it should go thru tmw. The guy who drafted him must have not known he was injured then panicked when he saw he was for that timeframe. I just wasn't sure how often he's been injured the last couple seasons, just knew he has been.

Postby **Pavel Bure** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:05 pm

I'd pick him up for sure if he's available.
Yeah, I did. Well at least it should go thru tmw. The guy who drafted him must have not known he was injured then panicked when he saw he was for that timeframe. I just wasn't sure how often he's been injured the last couple seasons, just knew he has been.

I took Foster in a couple leagues at round 7-8ish. Also got Blue in those leagues. Foster is a lottery ticket that could win you the league and he's going to have all those games of rest like Bell.

Postby **Pavel Bure** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:10 pm

so you play for easy money but decide to handicap yourself? You are acting as if rbs are dime a dozen and wrs are a precious commodity. Youre the only person ive encountered that thought that way...mostly because its completely wrong.
I was just going by what I considered the best value at the time. I didn't want to reach for an RB. If I saw an RB worth taking, I would've taken them. Gronk at 20 was a no brainer, Sanders and Brees were average value and everyone else I took was great value.

I'll never understand people's love affair with RBs.

In a non-PPR league the obsession is that the RB is guaranteed to touch the ball ~20 times a game. A WR might be 5ish on average with a chance of not touching the ball.

Postby **Staggy** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:57 pm

I know the injury history, but is Foster the automatic starter in Houston when he gets back in 4 weeks or so? Gonna pick him up and just sit on him

Yes, and he's a must start regardless of matchup. Whenever he's healthy he's a top 5 back in the league bar none. Health is always an issue for him but if he's playing weeks 14-16 he can win you a league.

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:01 pm

well then, good to know. Hopefully I'm the only one paying attention to preseason moves. A trio of Beast Mode/Forte/Foster would be choice

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 11:00 pm

Problem with Foster is that he could sit out up to 8 games. Also, he could easily get injured in the rest of the season too. I had to deal with that last year.

But yeah, when he plays he's a top back

Postby **Craig** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 12:33 am

Yeah he could play 8 games and outscore all of your rbs.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 3:06 pm

which combo would you rather have: Charles and VJax or Anderson and Maclin?

Postby **Craig** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 3:17 pm

Charles and vjax

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 5:35 pm

Charles and Vincent Jackson. I'm a lot more optimistic for Maclin tho than a lot of people (mainly because I held off on WR in the lgp league he's my #1 right now

) but despite the alex smith factor reports are the chiefs want to use him all over the field this year. We'll see I guess.

Postby **Sam's Drunk Dog** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 7:03 pm

Maclin will be much better than where he is being drafted, but he will still have worse numbers than last year.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 10:50 pm

Hm OK. I want to trade for CJ Anderson for homer reasons so I bumped up the price to Anderson and Jordan Matthews.

Postby **Pavel Bure** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:31 pm

Hm OK. I want to trade for CJ Anderson for homer reasons so I bumped up the price to Anderson and Jordan Matthews.

I like that, I want every piece of the Philly offense I can get.

Postby **dodint** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:32 pm

Is there any discernible difference between FanDuel and Draftkings?

I haven't had anything new to be angry about in a while, so I'm going to give this gambling, errrr, fantasy football a shot.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:39 pm

Is there any discernible difference between FanDuel and Draftkings?

I haven't had anything new to be angry about in a while, so I'm going to give this gambling, errrr, fantasy football a shot.

I'm interested in this too. I might try it out in addition to my weekly line betting. I need new outlets to lose money

Postby **dodint** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:50 pm

lol, New York Times. Wouldn't have guessed they'd have an opinion on the matter: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/sport ... stors.html

Draft Kings is aligned with ESPN. So if it's a coinflip I'll go with FanDuel.

Postby **skullman80** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:57 pm

Won 53$ on draft kings tonight. One 50$ win, one 3$ win... I'll take it. If I had made on different roster move on the 50$ win, I would have won 125$ blah.

College Football -- Biggest difference I think is.. on Draft Kings your draft 2 QB's, and have 2 flex spots. FanDuel you only draft 1 QB, and have 1TE spot.

NFL wise, pretty similar, except in Draft Kings you do not draft a kicker. FanDuel you do have a kicker. I that is really the only difference.

I play both but prefer draft kings overall I guess.

Postby **dodint** » Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:16 am

From what I understand DK has an extra WR/RB/TE Flex in place of the kicker, which is a bigger wildcard to me.

Reading through reveiws, reddit, etc it really does seem to be a coinflip. Because of the flex thing discussed, and the ESPN thing, I just made a deposit with FanDuel. FanDuel also sponsers the TK Show, which is something. I used offer code "Nigel" and got my "matched" bonus.

I've heard DK has the better UI. It really does seem like a coin flip decision. Thanks for the info.

Postby **Pavel Bure** » Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:48 pm

I own Foster in all 3 of my leagues. Latest reports say end of Sept. start of Oct. I'm very happy here.

Postby **dodint** » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:19 pm

In my other league, about half of the people auto-drafted so there are no interesting injury pickups (like A.Foster) to be made since the computer just went ahead and drafted everyone in order. Made for a pretty boring live draft as well.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Sun Sep 06, 2015 3:29 pm

After last year, I'm happy to not be on the Foster rollercoaster this year. Every week seemed like a 50/50 chance of him not playing. It'll only be worse this year...