I like to fill out my roster with 2 RBs, 2 WRs and a TE in the first five rounds. Round 6 is when I like to pull the trigger on my top signal caller. You can find excellent value in that round. Jake Delhomme, Jake Plummer, and Chris Palmer are QBs that should be available then and produce 25-30 tds and 3,500 yards passing. Plummer is especially good because he usually ads about 200 to 300 yards with his legs and will run in a couple of tds a year. Even if you wait until round 7 value can still be found with guys like Aaron Brooks, and Drew Brees.
The RB position is simply more difficult to fill than the QB position. There is NOTHING worse during a FF season than to have to scour the waiver wire looking for reliable talent at RB. I have been playing Fantasy Football for 15 years and more often than not the owners who have won championships did not have the Mannings, Culpeppers, and Mcnabs. They had guys like Emmit Smith, Barry Sanders, and Ladanian Tomlinson. The guy who won our league last year was led by LT. The guy who had Manning won the division title but fizzled in the playoffs. Manning let him down during the Sunday night game against the Ravens, throwing only 1 TD pass.
I think that the majority of FF championships are won not with the players you select in the first three rounds but with the players you select from round 4 until the end of your draft. This is where your skill, knowledge, and experience come into play. Finding players who outperform their draft position is KEY. For example, during the draft of 2000 I selected Daunte Culpepper in round 10. DC is a classic example of a QB who destroyed his draft position that year and outperformed all the QBs who were taken during the first three or four rounds that year. Another good example is Antonio Gates. In some leagues the guy probably was never drafted but a friend of mine drafted him at 13! Again, this is another player who blew away his draft position. I
t doesn't take an expert in FF to draft studs in the first three rounds of a draft. All of these guys are the cream of the crop in the NFL and, barring injury, a shift in the teams offensive philosophy, or jail time, will produce outstanding or at the very least good, reliable numbers on a weekly basis. There are some owners in my league who think the draft is over after round 8. Needless to say those are the guys who are ignorant of what it takes to win and win consistently in FF. ALL selections are important. The guy you select at 10, 13 or even 18 could be the guy who leads your teamto FF glory!
tds04 wrote:I There are some owners in my league who think the draft is over after round 8. Needless to say those are the guys who are ignorant of what it takes to win and win consistently in FF. ALL selections are important. The guy you select at 10, 13 or even 18 could be the guy who leads your teamto FF glory!
I couldn't have said it better myself. I announced during the 6th round of our draft a few years ago that "This is when the championship team is made." Everyone looked at me and laughed. Good to hear someone else back me up.
Take my team from last year, for instance. My top 5 picks were:
Jamal Lewis
Randy Moss
Chad Johnson
Chris Brown
Todd Heap
Now, if 4 of those 5 had stayed relatively healthy (or not distracted by drug charges), I would have run away with my league, easily. But my drafting in the later rounds allowed me to have a well rounded team that I could substitute in for the injured guys. I ended up with the second highest point total at the end of the regular season, and finished 3rd because of a bad week during the first playoff week.
Without a doubt. A friend and I have a saying that the first three round pretty much even out. Everyone has their studs, whether it's Peyton, Holt, or LT, and anyone can draft studs. The newb can go down a list and draft studs simply by checking off the names in his FF mag. Those players (owners) fall apart when it comes to drafting in the later rounds. So when their stud QB goes down with an injury, they are left high and dry. I'd say around round 6 you start to see seperation.
I tried Kensat30's strategy and this is what my team looks like after 5 rounds. I don't really like having 2 players from the same team as #1s, but Horn was the best available so I took him. The remaining RBs are a little thin, but I think I can draft a few more that will help. I took R. Brown over Cadillac, which I debated over the pick between the two. I can still get a good QB as only 3-4 have been taken. T. Green was there at 4, but I took Gates instead. I know I've read where the end of the draft makes your team, but how do these picks look after 5 rounds? This is a 10 team league.
RB Deuce McAllister 1.06
RB Ronnie Brown 5.06
WR Terrell Owens 2.05
WR Joe Horn 3.06
TE Antonio Gates 4.05
johnnie2130 wrote:I tried Kensat30's strategy and this is what my team looks like after 5 rounds. I don't really like having 2 players from the same team as #1s, but Horn was the best available so I took him. The remaining RBs are a little thin, but I think I can draft a few more that will help. I took R. Brown over Cadillac, which I debated over the pick between the two. I can still get a good QB as only 3-4 have been taken. T. Green was there at 4, but I took Gates instead. I know I've read where the end of the draft makes your team, but how do these picks look after 5 rounds? This is a 10 team league.
RB Deuce McAllister 1.06 RB Ronnie Brown 5.06 WR Terrell Owens 2.05 WR Joe Horn 3.06 TE Antonio Gates 4.05
The strategy I included is kind of dangerous if you aren't able to stockpile RBs.... You're only halfway done in the 5th round... Start looking for underrated starters like Kevan Barlow, Warrick Dunn, Michael Bennett, Fred Taylor, Lee Suggs, Deshaun Foster, etc. Ronnie Brown holds a lot of risk at RB considering he will be competing for playing time with a former ALL-Pro RB on the roster. That is definitely not a RB I would have recommended with this strategy.
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I really like what you've done with your other picks (although I would have taken Gonzalez over Gates if possible) and I still think you will hold a significant advantage at the WR position over anyone else in the league. Remember now that you've taken this route through 5 rounds, you really need to shore up that RB position throughout your draft. That means selecting RBs early and often, and the saying "take the best player available" is not going to apply to you if you're still hurting badly at RB. Don't get caught up and miss out on a QB or forget to draft a decent 3rd WR.... but hey I'm getting too involved here this is your team. Good luck!
johnnie2130 wrote:I tried Kensat30's strategy and this is what my team looks like after 5 rounds. I don't really like having 2 players from the same team as #1s, but Horn was the best available so I took him. The remaining RBs are a little thin, but I think I can draft a few more that will help. I took R. Brown over Cadillac, which I debated over the pick between the two. I can still get a good QB as only 3-4 have been taken. T. Green was there at 4, but I took Gates instead. I know I've read where the end of the draft makes your team, but how do these picks look after 5 rounds? This is a 10 team league.
RB Deuce McAllister 1.06 RB Ronnie Brown 5.06 WR Terrell Owens 2.05 WR Joe Horn 3.06 TE Antonio Gates 4.05
The strategy I included is kind of dangerous if you aren't able to stockpile RBs.... You're only halfway done in the 5th round... Start looking for underrated starters like Kevan Barlow, Warrick Dunn, Michael Bennett, Fred Taylor, Lee Suggs, Deshaun Foster, etc. Ronnie Brown holds a lot of risk at RB considering he will be competing for playing time with a former ALL-Pro RB on the roster. That is definitely not a RB I would have recommended with this strategy. ---
I really like what you've done with your other picks (although I would have taken Gonzalez over Gates if possible) and I still think you will hold a significant advantage at the WR position over anyone else in the league. Remember now that you've taken this route through 5 rounds, you really need to shore up that RB position throughout your draft. That means selecting RBs early and often, and the saying "take the best player available" is not going to apply to you if you're still hurting badly at RB. Don't get caught up and miss out on a QB or forget to draft a decent 3rd WR.... but hey I'm getting too involved here this is your team. Good luck!
I woulda chosen Cadilac over Brown, but your wr's are very good and I like the Gates pick if Gonzo wasn't available. But having Ricky in Miami really moves Brown down my rankings considerably lower than Cadilac. Maybe that's just preference though.
Overall, good. But make sure and get a coupla rb's Kensat metioned. My favorites of that bunch are Barlow, Dunn and Foster.
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I usually take 2 rb's in the first 2 rounds and then a wr or qb depending who's there. but it might be wise to take manning in the first round this year if you can.
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by tds04 » Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:16 pm 
