Board 8 > The 2022 Fantasy Football Topic

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I'm participating in my first league in like 5 years and I was hoping to have a place to talk about it. You guys should talk about your leagues and teams here as well. I'm not going to promise advice will be given in this topic because it certainly wouldn't be coming from me, but we can certainly try and help each other out. At the very least we are in the most fun part of the season with all the drafts being held, so it'll be fun to see all the teams we've assembled. I'll post mine in the next post and you all should do the same.

My league is a 14-team Half PPR league with a bunch of coworkers. There's a $50 buy-in as well, so there's money to be made at the end of the season. Top 7 teams make the playoffs.

My team (drafted at #4):

QB: Derek Carr (LV)
RB: Christian McCaffrey (CAR)
RB: James Conner (ARI)
WR: Mike Evans (TB)
WR: Brandin Cooks (HOU)
TE: Irv Smith Jr. (MIN)
FLEX: Juju Smith-Schuster
K: Dustin Hopkins (LAC)
DST: Cleveland Browns DST
BN: AJ Dillon (GB)
BN: Michael Thomas (NO)
BN: Kenneth Gainwell (PHI)
BN: Khalil Herbert (CHI)
BN: George Pickens (PIT)
BN: Evan Ingram (JAX)

Things at my draft went off the rails a bit. One guy took TEs with his first two picks (Andrews and Kittle) and a number of QBs went in the first three rounds. There's was also an insane run on TEs in like the 5/6 round that happened between my picks. Because of this I feel pretty comfortable with my team since I didn't feel like I was settling with anyone. Only reach is probably Juju Smith-Schuster in the 5th round but with how unpredictable things were (and where he was placed on the rankings sheets that were handed out), I wanted to scoop him up because I have high hopes for him in the Kansas City offense. Michael Thomas could be a coup as well if he's healthy and motivated. I'm not going to start the season with a backup QB as I wait to see how my upside bench players start out before dropping one eventually. I have my eyes on Jameis Winston.

I can't imagine drafting this early where major injuries can still happen. We always draft after preseason is over.

Yeah it's a bit risky. Last year at the draft somebody (JK Dobbins maybe?) got injured while the draft was happening after he had been selected.

And to prove your point further, Khalil Herbert apparently got carted off the field during practice yesterday, so ...*shrug*

Speaking of Derek Carr, I drafted yesterday in a new league where I don't know a lot of the people, and a guy took Carr in the first round. I don't know if he's brand new to this, lost a bet, or was trying to be funny but that was a shocker.

Probably a Raiders fan? Fandom does crazy things to people. My draft featured a Falcons fan, a couple Vikings fan, a couple Bears fans, a Bills fan, a Patriots fan and a large number of Iowa Hawkeye fans (we work at the University). Here are some of the imo bizarre picks that I can remember:

--Cordarrelle Patterson by the Falcons fan in the third round (funnily enough the guy who drafted him drafted TEs with his first two picks and neither of them were Pitts (Andrews and Kittle)). This guy had numerous other outlandish picks and I love him for it.
--Josh Allen went #7 overall (but not picked by the Bills fan)
--Ihmir Smith-Marsette was drafted by a Vikings/Hawkeyes fan (last year the guy drafted ISM in like the 8th round and also drafted Brandon Smith--another Hawkeye WR that got drafted that year)
--The Patriots fan (who had the #1 overall pick) took Tom Brady in the 5th round and I think Gabriel Davis in the 2/3 turn (he tries to be buddy-buddy with the Bills fan)
--Hockeson and Kmet got taken by the same Bears/Hawkeye fan fairly early, I think rounds 5 and 7.
--DeShaun Watson was drafted by a guy who was fully aware of the suspension.

That's what I can remember off the top of my head. There's probably more but the rosters haven't been loaded yet.

So, this year I'm in [at least] 6 leagues (1 dynasty and 5 redraft)
-Dynasty League going into Year 4 (12 team HPPR / QB / SF / 2 RB / 3 WR / TE / Flex, 23 bench)
-Work League (10 team HPPR / 2 QB / 2 RB / 3 WR / 1 TE / 2 Flex, 6 bench)
-Friend league with a lot of overlap with dynasty league (12 team PPR with big play scoring, QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, Flex, 12 bench)
-Separate friend league with less dynasty league overlap (8 team, HPPR, 2 QB, 3 RB, 4 WR, 2 TE, 3 flex, 4 bench)
-League with a bunch of guys from a bar downtown (12 team, PPR, QB / 2 RB / 2 WR / TE / Flex, 7 bench)
-Guillotine league (18 team, HPPR, QB / 2 RB / 2 WR / TE / 2 flex / 6 bench)

have only drafted in Dynasty and Work League so far;

Dynasty Roster
QB: Kyler Murray, Trey Lance, Sam Darnold, Kellen Mond, Sam Howell (4.09), Taylor Heinicke, Cam Newton
RB: Jonathan Taylor, JK Dobbins, AJ Dillon, Chase Edmonds, James Cook (1.12), Tyrion Davis-Price (2.12), Isaih Pacheco (3.12), Chris Evans, Darrel Williams, Jordan Mason
WR: Stefon Diggs, Rashod Bateman, Juju Smith-Schuster, Christian Kirk, Devante Parker, Anthony Schwartz, Isaiah McKenzie, Jamison Crowder, Will Fuller, Ashton Dulin, Justyn Ross (4.12)
TE: Austin Hooper, Mike Gesicki, Adam Trautman

My redraft for work:
QB: Justin Herbert (1), Russell Wilson (2), Davis Mills (14)
RB: AJ Dillon (9), Rashaad Penny (10), Isaih Pacheco (11), James Cook (13), Brian Robinson (15), Rachaad White (16)
WR: Ja'marr Chase (3), Ceedee Lamb (4), Mike Williams (6), Allen Robinson (7), Rashod Bateman (8), DeAndre Hopkins (12), Will Fuller (18)
TE: Kyle Pitts (5)
DST: Denver (17)

Dang that's a lot of leagues. I barely have time for one but then again I'm very indecisive so every waiver decision is like pulling teeth.

What's a guillotine league?

ZaziGuado posted...

What's a guillotine league?

Lowest league-wide scorer every week is eliminated from the league, has to send their entire team to waivers. Last player alive wins (Which is also why there's 18 teams - One gets eliminated every week, league finishes in week 17)

Oh that sounds fascinating. Is there a limit to how many people you can grab off waivers or does it almost become like a weekly fantasy challenge by the end?

ZaziGuado posted...

Oh that sounds fascinating. Is there a limit to how many people you can grab off waivers or does it almost become like a weekly fantasy challenge by the end?

We set it so that every waiver claim costs $1 of FAAB, so you have to balance blowing your budget on big names early in the season vs having budget left at the end of the year for small / many transactions.

it's the first time I'm playing in one

Bump. Probably more drafts happening this weekend.

My work league started back up this year after skipping 2020 due to covid and nobody restarting it last year

Got a couple of guys I'm close enough with there to trash talk, so it's usually good times.

1. Joe Mixon
2. Leonard Fournette
3. Tee Higgins
4. Breece Hall
5. Gabriel Davis
6. Michael Thomas
7. Adam Thielen
8. Tom Brady
9. Allen Lazard
10. Nyheim Hines
11. David Njoku
12. James Cook
13. D'Onta Foreman
14. Broncos D/ST
15. Ryan Succop

This is my work league team (half ppr, 2rb/2wr/1flex) and I mostly hate it. I think the biggest problem is I got distracted with, well, work and panicked on Hall with 4. Hate that pick. Not feeling the Jets at all Could've been Mitchell or Dobbins instead. I may be ok if my Old Man WR group still pans out though.

Personal League, with money line

QB: Russ
HB: CMC
HB: Barkley
WR: Diontae Johnson
WR: Waddle
TE: Mark Andrews
Flex: Eli Mitchell
Broncos Defense
Succop

Bench is Juju/Bateman/Patterson/Foreman/Tua/Woods

would be pretty good if the rbs are healthy

I've seen a lot of advertising for "Best Ball" leagues and I feel like that defeats a lot of the purpose of fantasy football. I love the idea of not having to agonize over my starting lineup, but I feel like it would make everything hollow and easy to lose interest. Plus it makes inactive owners much more dangerous.

ZaziGuado posted...

I've seen a lot of advertising for "Best Ball" leagues and I feel like that defeats a lot of the purpose of fantasy football. I love the idea of not having to agonize over my starting lineup, but I feel like it would make everything hollow and easy to lose interest. Plus it makes inactive owners much more dangerous.

I like Best Ball A LOT for several reasons:

1) Not needing to interact with it on a regular basis allows you to enter into a lot more of these leagues
2) some people love drafting but find the day to day handling to be cumbersome
3) Inactive owners can be more dangerous; I don't necessarily see this as a negative- inactive owners can ruin leagues
4) Creates different strategies (ie "Desean Jackson" types who have a tendency to have 14 bad games and 3 massive games become viable to draft, third down pass catching specialist RBs now have more value because you get their big games, and this opens up your roster construction options)

I'm planning on running a "Best Ball, with transactions" league just to see how that would further change strategy

When I first emigrated to the states and started playing fantasy football I was absolutely dumbfounded by the H2H setup and the very realistic possibility of the best team / highest scoring team not winning the league. I had played the English version of fantasy football for 10+ years prior and those are always total points for the season as a whole wins.

I understand why H2H is preferred here as it's definitely more engaging during the season but it is frustrating when the best team doesn't win. My first few years playing here I almost gave it up as I top scored for the league 3 years running without winning. This included an undefeated regular season into a first round playoff loss to a lucky loser because my regular opponent didn't pay his dues. If I had received a bye or gotten the normal opponent, I'd have gone undefeated for the year so was understandably salty.

Nanahara715 posted...

I like Best Ball A LOT for several reasons:

1) Not needing to interact with it on a regular basis allows you to enter into a lot more of these leagues
2) some people love drafting but find the day to day handling to be cumbersome
3) Inactive owners can be more dangerous; I don't necessarily see this as a negative- inactive owners can ruin leagues
4) Creates different strategies (ie "Desean Jackson" types who have a tendency to have 14 bad games and 3 massive games become viable to draft, third down pass catching specialist RBs now have more value because you get their big games, and this opens up your roster construction options)

I'm planning on running a "Best Ball, with transactions" league just to see how that would further change strategy

I suppose I can see the benefits to Best Ball. Drafting is indeed the most fun part of the season and probably makes the highest floor vs highest ceiling dynamic a lot more compelling.

Shattered posted...

When I first emigrated to the states and started playing fantasy football I was absolutely dumbfounded by the H2H setup and the very realistic possibility of the best team / highest scoring team not winning the league. I had played the English version of fantasy football for 10+ years prior and those are always total points for the season as a whole wins.

I understand why H2H is preferred here as it's definitely more engaging during the season but it is frustrating when the best team doesn't win. My first few years playing here I almost gave it up as I top scored for the league 3 years running without winning. This included an undefeated regular season into a first round playoff loss to a lucky loser because my regular opponent didn't pay his dues. If I had received a bye or gotten the normal opponent, I'd have gone undefeated for the year so was understandably salty.

I've tried Fantasy Premier League for the past few years and it's been so hard for me to stay engaged. A large part of that is definitely my lack of awareness of teams and players in the Premier League as a whole, but another part is how limiting the transfer system feels and how arbitrary (to me) the costs feel. I have trouble predicting anything that's going to happen and I just have to hope I secured a strong enough lineup at the start because once I have to start making moves I'm at a complete loss of the best way to do it.

I guess I misheard what my league's rules were because it's full PPR and also you get .1 point for every rushing/receiving yard and .04 for every passing yard. There's a lot of points to be had. I don't think it would've changed my draft strategy all THAT much, but maybe I would've gone for a WR over a second RB in the 2nd round.

All the top scorer in the league are facing each other. Luckily I'm facing one of the lower scores because it looks like I'm going to have a 0 and a 1 point scorer this week. Currently leading with a player to go while their last players are currently playing.

Welp, just learned my work league resets waiver priority every week based on the week's h2h results

How stupid. Guess I'm making waiver claims every week there.