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I love your strategy but I don't like the RBs you took. I hate Ronnie Brown and Thomas Jones for fantasy this year. Mendenhall and Torain will do nothing. But your WRs are amazing.

My strategy this year is to not take an RB in first two rounds, at the very least. Too many platoons, too many question marks.

 

I sort of did this last year. I focused more on WRs than I did on RBs. I thought I had a stud RB in Travis Henry and went after No. 1 WRs instead of No. 2 RBs. Here was my draft. It is a keeper league where I kept none but you could keep two.

Keeper pick- Travis Henry
Keeper pick -Torry Holt
1st round - Reggie Wayne
No 2nd round pick
3rd Round - Donovan McNabb
4th Round - Deuce McAlister
4th Round - Laveraneus Coles
5th Round - Marion Barber III
6th Round - Tony Romo

 

I think that's a ridiculous draft that would never happen in any of my leagues. If you can get away with it, I'd do it in a second. Brown and TJ were steals where you got them.

 

well you get crazy WR's thats for sure, but the second set of rb's are no where near good enough to handle a season. Mendenhall is a rookie behind Willie Parker, Kenny watson is behind Rudi Johnson, and Cadillac may never play again. Turner will be solid imo, and Graham is good for 1000 maybe 1200 yards but you want rbs capable of 1500 as starters...

 

I think he just drafted RBs poorly. I bet he coulda gotten better guys at those spots. His WRs are still nasty, though.

 

In any normal league, all the guys you named in that first category will be gone by the end of round 3.

 

Good RB depth gets you through the end of the season. Not only are they more dependable than WRs on a weekly basis, but they do better in the cold.

 

All the more reason why you should target the top WRs. There are certain WRs that are dependable, week in and week out. Randy Moss. TO. Reggie Wayne. Maybe a few more but, realistically, 10 guys tops. Every other WR gives you one good week, one bad week, and so on.

RBs on the other hand are consistent. A bad week for a RB is like 80 yards but no TD or 40 yards and a TD. A bad week for a WR is like 2 catches for 10 yards. And it happens to the so-called "top" WRs all the time.

RBs are a dime a dozen. Target WRs.

 

Haha...so do exactly what doesn't win fantasy championships? OK!

If any of those runningbacks went down you would be screwed. I won my first fantasy championship last year and a BIG reason why I won was because of the depth I drafted at the RB position. I had Addai, Edge, and Bush. Bush was a bust and got hurt all in the same year. I was OK though because I had drafted Edge in round 4 or 5.

I have never gone after WR's high in drafts and I never have a losing record.

I target a top 3 QB early and RB's.

I have the 10th and 11th pick in this years draft and I have my eyes on Peyton Manning or Tony Romo with 10 and a RB with the other.

 

There is no hard rule for what wins fantasy championships. If you have players that score a lot of points, you will win. The difference between Randy Moss and a mid-level WR like Cotchery is huge. The difference between LT and a mid-level RB like Jamal Lewis is not so great. Do the math - look at last year's stats/points.

The other factor is that, every year, a bunch of no-name RBs wind up being top 10 performers. The position is very volatile. But I can guarantee you that the top WRs this year will be Randy, TO, Reggie Wayne, Plaxico, Braylon Edwards, etc.

 

I can't really tell because there is no single scoring system for fantasy football. Do passing TD's (QB's) get the same six points as rushing or receiving TD's, or do they only get 4 or 3 points? What are the points for yardage for each position? Do you get a point per reception?

I love these kind of discussions, but it's impossible to tell without knowing the scoring system (as well as the number of teams, starters, and roster size.) Does this league start two, or three WR?

My experience with this type of strategy is that you are going to be very strong at one position (WR) and weaker elsewhere (RB and QB.) That means you'll probably want to trade a WR for a RB or QB. Some leagues are trade happy and some leagues rarely trade - in which case you could be screwed.

 

To expand on the last thought, if you're in a smaller (10 team) league with small (2 WR, no flex) starting lineups and small rosters, you are going to find it hard to trade. The reason for that is that other teams can pick up decent players up off of waivers. Think last year at RB - Earnest Graham, Kenny Watson, Justin Fargas, Ryan Grant, Brandon Jacobs, etc. Don't count on being able to make a trsde.

If your league uses 3 WR's you're in good shape, but I would be looking for another RB off waivers every week, and still be trying to trade WR's to upgrade QB and/or RB.

 

I just did a mock draft (with the 5th pick) based on my overall strategy. This would be a Yahoo rules league with 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs and 1 TE. Here's my team, in the order in which I picked the players:

(1) Randy Moss - best WR by far
(2) Peyton Manning - will he be the best or second best QB this year?
(3) Reggie Bush - yeah, I'm back on that bandwagon
(4) Antonio Gates - best TE by far
(5) Roy Williams - this was a best available pick - I just missed on Braylon Edwards
(6) Marvin Harrison - could be the steal of the year
(7) DeAngelo Williams - my vote for Carolina's starter
(8) Chester Taylor - gets his even when AP is healthy, which he often isn't
(9) Anthony Gonzalez - excellent insurance for Marvin
(10) David Garrard - coming off a surprisingly solid season
(11) Kenny Watson - flier
(12) Leon Washington - flier
(13) Kolby Smith - one of my back-up RBs is bound to be startable by week 3

And then a kicker and D.

 

If it is a 10 person league and you have the 5th pick, I doubt you get moss and manning . That being if you pick at 5 overall in the second. Neither will fall to them in a normal league

 

I think it's probable. You can definitely get Randy at 5. As for getting Peyton at 16, a lot of people are down on Peyton cuz he just had knee surgery and because Romo was better last year and Brees not far behind.

 

first one is just sick but usually I like to isolate on the rb/wr slot I tent to fill in a wr there because usually you can get a higher ranked player some one with good receptions yards and TD's and then you can get a guy like jones high in carries and yards to fill in as your rb