My 2011 Fantasy Football team

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My Computer-Generated fantasy team.... I'm liking it. Had to miss the draft, it was the same day as my double B-Day party for my youngest and wife last weekend. I didn't even have time to set my ranking order, it was all Yahoo.... which actually drafted 2 kickers. I immediately dropped one for Driver.

QBs - P.Rivers, J.Flacco
RBs - A.Peterson, C.Benson, K.Moreno, Tolbert
WRs - S.Moss, M.Williams(TB), A.Boldin, R.White, D.Driver
TEs - Gates & the TE from Detroit, forgetting his damn name right now....
K - Bironas
Def- GB

Week 1 Lineup is....

QB - Rivers
RBs - AP & Benson(Not sure, all 3 could start, but Benson is playing CLE week 1)
WRs - White, Boldin, Moss
TE -Gates
W/R/T - Williams
K - Bironas
Def - GB

 

I don't recogniose any of those names?

Maybe they are gridiron players and not football players?

 

My apologies Barmy. I sincerely did not mean to confuse you. The next time I will rename the thread "My 2011 Fantasy Football Team, not that pansy-ass, sissy-boy crap you knuckleheads call soccer Team....."? ..... just kidding, I couldn't resist.

 

Is there even such a thing as fantasy soccer?

My first draft is Monday night and I'm already getting excited and nervous about it. I have the title to defend.

 

My youngest nephew's team in our league has 3 players with the last name of Johnson. His team name is...My Three-Headed Johnson.

 

Hell yes.

The TE is Pettigrew - and he's pretty good, but hopefully totally unnecessary with Gates.

I think you'll find that you'll be starting Moreno over Benson in short order. I don't see the Cincinnai offense doing anything this year, and Denver is expected to go to more of a rushing team with Fox taking over. I like Benson as a flex/bye week guy, but I don't think you'll need him as a regular starter.

Is it 3 WRs with a flex (I'm guessing that's the W/R/T position)? If there's a flex spot I'd probably start Moreno as the flex, and put Williams in over Moss.

Some obvious points: Rivers, Peterson, White and Gates are very solid and should start every week barring injury or bye weeks. Williams is almost in that group too, and will start barring very favorable matchups with a lot of other players.

I think Boldin and Moss are bot very solid. Moss is definitely undervalued, and while Boldin didn't live up to his billing last year as a #1 WR, a lot of people are completely ignoring him this year, and he's definitely more than good enough as a #3 WR.

 

I am reading that Moreno will not be getting the ball in the red zone. That scares me. But I will probably alternate between Benson/Moreno/Tolbert to be safe. Boldin has Evans opposite him now. Hopefully that will pull off the double teams and get him more catches/TDs. The problem with Moss is the WAS QB situation. Grossman is so inconsistant. I don't have any confidence in Beck. It will be hit and miss with Moss.

 

'Soccer'?

Sorry, I don't understand this word. I only speak English.

 

Last year I had four players with the last name Jackson, so my team was the "Jackson 4" complete with the logo of a Michael Jackson thriller action figure.

With McGahee, that's a possibility, but I don't see Benson getting into the end zone much either. Cincinnati is starting a rookie QB, so they are going to stack eight guys in the box, and dare them to throw it. Benson was great two years ago, was OK last year (good enough to start on most teams), but I see a pretty bad year for him. I don't see Cincinnati as a team scoring much this year, so I don't see how Benson is going to score much. As always, you have to consider the matchup, but there's no way considering the year as whole that I would start Benson more often than Moreno.

I had my first draft this past weekend. I kept Vick for a 9th round pick (two rounds higher than I picked him last year). That's the rule we have in our league - you can keep anyone you want, but you have to take them two rounds higher than you did the previous year, so no one can keep anyone they took in the first two rounds.

So I'm looking at this typical starting lineup:

QB: Michael Vick (PHI)
RB1: Maurice Jones-Drew (JAX)
RB2: Michael Turner (ATL)
WR1: Vincent Jackson (SD)
WR2: Dez Bryant (DAL)
WR3: Anquan Boldin (BAL)
FLEX: Ryant Grant (GB)
TE: Dallas Clark (IND)
DEF: Eagles
K: Mason Crosby (GB)

I only picked one true backup RB and WR. I have Brandon Jacobs (NYG) and Chad Ochocinco (NE). This will require me to occassionally start a WR in my flex position, but I'm covered throughout the season with bye weeks. Week 8 is the only somewhat problematic week as both Turner and Grant are on bye, so Jacobs will start in the RB2 slot, and I'll have all four WRs active.

I really didn't want to start out RB-RB this year in the first two rounds, but that's what I got stuck with. Both Andre Johnson and Roddy White were gone by the time I had my pick in the first round (8th overall), and I didn't think there were any more WRs with first round value. So I took MJD. Then the guys in the 9th-12th position all took WRs with their second pick, and so with 6 WRs gone off the board by the time I had 17th overall selection, but with Turner still sitting there, it was an easy choice.

The rest of my team is all handcuffs. I got Rashad Jennings as a MJD handcuff, Jason Snelling as a Turner handcuff, and it was absolutely essential that I grabbed James Starks as a handcuff for Ryan Grant, because there is quiet talk that Starks might be named the starter. I picked up Matt Cassel (KC) as a backup for Vick, although I'm praying he only has to play on Vick's bye week. (KC plays Oakland that week, which is why I went with Cassel.)

 

Yeah, watch out for Grant. The rumor mill in Cheese-head land is that he has lost a couple steps and will not be carrying the load. They have Statks and Kuhn, who were both very productive in the post-season for GB. I would start The Chad instead at flex.

 

I'm not too worried about Kuhn. Starks came on strong at the end of last year, but Kuhn and Brandon Jackson were the starters throughout most of the year, and both were unspectacular. If Grant loses the job - and I admit that it's a possibility - it will most likely be to Starks. That said, I can play it safe the first couple of weeks and throw Ochocinco in there, and see how that situation works out. It's rolling the dice if you have one or the other, but I'm confident that even though I don't know who it is right now, I have the starter.

 

Hurricane Irene postponed my draft until tonight so later on I'll be able to join the fun

 

I have draft #2 tonight. It's a 12-team standard scoring league, but I'm worried that the new member of the league is a ringer. Get this - the new guy in the league is the brother of Sal Paolantonio of ESPN - the guy they often refer to as SalPal on ESPN. His name is Marc. I fear that his potential knowledge of football and inside stories vastly exceeds that of the rest of our league. And of course his draft slot is right next to my position.

 

Just more reason to bring beer to the draft. Feed it to him steadily....

 

Well that sucked. In a draft strategy that I have never tried, and one that is completely out of character for me, I went WR heavy. I hate my team. Here are the results:

QB: Josh Freeman and Matt Stafford - this is OK, the plan going into the draft was to wait on a QB, and grab two decent ones in the middle rounds. Freeman should be solid, albeit unspectacular - and if Stafford can stay healthy for the year (admittedly a big if) - he can be very good.

WR: When you spend three of your first four picks on WRs, you're going to get good ones. I have three #1 WRs: Roddy White, Greg Jennings, and Hakeem Nicks. All 3 are in the top 20 players on most sites, and they are the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th ranked receivers overall. (The rest of the top five are the two Johnsons.) The bench receivers are Lance Moore and Danny Amendola.

RB: That's the end of the good news. My RBs are Knowshon Moreno, Beanie Wells, and Fred Jackson. The bench isn't any more impressive with Michael Bush and Isaac Redman. (Well, if McFadden and Mendenhall both get hurt, then the bench is awesome.)

The rest is just the blah stuff. I took Jimmy Graham of the Saints as my TE, Chargers D/ST, and my kicker is Beuhler (Cowboys).

 

Well, I think that on my team I want ogres as quarter-, half-, running- and line-backs, whereas trolls should make up the rest. A giant ought to be the kicker. The trainer ought to be a wizard.

 

I would just like to point out that the title of this thread is "My [i.e. Blades'] 2011 Fantasy Football team". So any discussion that isn't about BoV's team is off-topic.**



** kinda like this post.

 

Here's what I picked. I had the 4th pick in a 12 team league that is PPR. We start QB RB WR TE R/W R/W R/W/T K D

Jamaal Charles- RB KC
Steven Jackson- RB STL
Peyton Hillis- RB CLE
DeAngelo Williams- RB- CAR
Brandon Lloyd- WR- DEN
Ben Roethlisberger- QB- PIT
Rob Gronkowski- TE- NE
Mike Thomas- WR- JAC
Julio Jones- WR- ATL
Pittsburgh- D- PIT
Tony Gonzales- TE- ATL
Cam Newton- QB- CAR
Nate Kaeding- K- SD
Denarious Moore- WR- OAK

Going four RBs to start the draft is really going against my grain, but the WR and QB available just didn't excite me as much as the RBs did. With the flex if I want to I can play them all so it isn't like they will sit on my bench. I'm not convinced that Lloyd will be good enoug to be a WR1, but I'm hoping. I was very pleased to get Big Ben when I did. I totally reached with Gronk at TE and probably could have gotten him later, but this is a NE draft and I wanted him. If Hernandez ends up being better in NE I'll just have to shrug my shoulders. Julio Jones I'm hoping turning into an interesting rookie. When I picked Pittsburgh as my D, I mainly did it because the other options I just didn't think I would ever start. I went to the wayback machine in drafting Gonzo. I figure between the two of them I should be OK at TE and in an emergency I can play both of them as one of our flex positions includes TE. Cam Newton was also a strech play. I figured nobody else would want him, but if he turns out to be good he will be a steal. I'm hoping I catch lightning in a bottle like I did with Vick as a free agent pickup last year. I like getting kickers from teams that score. I'm not even sure who Denarious Moore is, but he was the highest rated player left in round 14.

I can't wait for the season to start.

 

That's a solid team Snook. I'm not particularly high on DeAngelo (I think defenses are going to stack the line and force Newton to throw), but only for people who are drafting him as their 2nd RB. As a 4th RB, he's a great option. I also agree that it is unlikely Lloyd will duplicate last year's numbers, but you're only counting on him to be the 6th best player on your team (after the 4 RBs and Big Ben). In that role he should be fine. And with the exception of bye weeks, I also agree with you that you're probably going to be starting 4 RBs and 1 WR.