So I got offered Frank Gore for (my) Arian Foster straight up. This is a standard scoring league, but 3 WR 2 RB's no flex. roster, if you need:
QB: K. Kolb, M. Vick WR: R. Wayne, R. White, M. Floyd, B. Lloyd RB: A. Peterson, A. Foster, L. McCoy, R. Torain TE: D. Clark, V. Shiancoe (if you can believe it, this is a 14 team league and we're somehow 3-2...)
so Gore has the nice matchup this week but has the fumbles and hasn't been that great rushing the ball. Foster has Kubiak who can ruin Foster's value any given week, but I love his huge point-scoring ability and am quite fond of him. Thoughts? tough decision...
No offense but I think you think too highly of your team. If you'd have asked me to predict your record I would have said 2-3 or 3-2. It's solid and you've gotten lucky with some later round picks/waiver pickup in Vick/Lloyd etc. All that said i think you make the trade, i think Gore is in for big things and plays in a division with a bunch of cupcakes.
Foster is overvalued and has nowhere to go but down, imo.
mchapple78 wrote:No offense but I think you think too highly of your team. If you'd have asked me to predict your record I would have said 2-3 or 3-2. It's solid and you've gotten lucky with some later round picks/waiver pickup in Vick/Lloyd etc. All that said i think you make the trade, i think Gore is in for big things and plays in a division with a bunch of cupcakes.
Foster is overvalued and has nowhere to go but down, imo.
Are you kidding me? Other than the QB position (I'm not a Vick believer) that team is stacked, especially for a 14 team league. I have the same starting WR's (Wayne, White, Floyd) and RB's (Peterson, Foster), with a lesser TE (Z. Miller) and Schaub, who's underperformed, at QB. I'm 5-0 and I've outscored the next highest scoring team by over 100 points. Lloyd is the leading fantasy WR in the NFL right now and McCoy has been a beast also. They might not all be household names, but for 2010, that's a great team that had to have run into some bad luck, to be 3-2.
As far as the original question goes, I think it all depends on how you value Foster. If you think he's for real, you hold onto him. If you think he's playing over his head right now, you make the deal. Personally, I think Foster is the real deal. I think he and Gore are probably around equal value for the rest of the season and as such, I don't see the need to make the trade, unless you want the security that Gore's name comes with. As far as I'm concerned, if it aint broke, don't fix it.
anyways, I think Foster could be the real deal, but it's just that Gore's schedule is really juicy: Oak, @Car, DEN, STL, TB, @ ARI, @ GB, [playoffs SEA, @SD, @ STL]. There's some pretty solid matchups right there. It's a really enticing trade but I'm trying not to commit bias by going for Gore's name value, but at the same time I drafted Foster in quite a lot of leagues so I'm a bit reluctant to let go. All emotional factors aside, I'd like to take the trade but it's just so hard to ignore foster's huge games while Gore has been just reliably good.
no offense to the 2nd poster, but he's totally wrong and a bit confused. you've got an extremely strong team with very few weaknesses.
i'm not against dealing foster, as i believe he will not perform this well for the whole season, but i am not a fan of gore. i don't see a reason to make this trade, but i would continue exploring options for other stud backs in exchange for foster. honestly though, you'll probably be fine if you don't. mccoy has been solid too and torain could get more points with the job security.
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by seahawks506 » Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:43 pm 
