Let's start it now! Rookies are reporting in, so why not.









Maybe the best rookie class we've seen in a while? At least, the best top heavy rookie class.

Besides AP, not many huge FA shake ups. Blount, Alshon, Pryor, Murray, and the return of Marshawn!



Let's get it on!

RB position will be very deep this year compared to what it usually is.

Do you get more value this year drafting WR, WR, WR, RB, RB, RB... this year with early position? Thinking PPR 12 league snake.

I think if you're top 3 anything but the clear top 3 rb's is a mistake...after that is more interesting, McCoy vs. AJG and what not.

As always, I am very against planning any draft, capitalize on the neverending draft spew and take BPA.

Pumped for this season, finally took DFS seriously last season and did well (cash only), guess I'll see if I just ran good.

Will post some thoughts as we get closer, ADP's are still out of whack at the moment and a lot will change in the coming weeks, of course.

Curious as to people's takes on Fournette, early rankings on FBG have a ton of variance but I have to figure that he will be getting plenty of touches?

Man, I need to recalibrate my calendar.

Early 1st round rankings for PPR

1. David Johnson- improved offense should help. Does it all.
2. LeVeon Bell- OL is sneaky good. Best RB in the league but injury and off field concerns drop him a bit.
3. Zeke- best OL in football
4. ODB- he'll be ranked up here for years. The targets might come down a little.
5. Evans- he'll fix those drops plus he's a yearly double digit TD threat.
6. Antonio Brown- his numbers are going to tail off a little
7. Julio Jones - stud but injury concern
8. T.Y. Hilton- #1 on great offense. Yardage leader last year the TD's will come.
9. AJ Green- safe pick here I could see taking him in front of Hilton.
10. Jordan Howard- elite vision. Looks like the real deal when he plays.
11. Dez Bryant- injuries have slowed him down but Dak's elite and they will developed some chemistry.
12. McCoy- risky pick but I'm not taking lol Freeman here. Maybe Gurley but I have to see how that offense looks.

No way im ever taking Howard, Dez, or Shady there.

i have what i think is a fun conundrum that ill probably ask a few times as OTAs go on:

dynasty league, PPR, 3WR/2RB setup with deep benches

current lineup:

rb - mccoy, gore, woodhead, d johnson, k dixon, gillislee, burkhead, smallwood
wr - cooks, j matthews, m mitchell, t gabriel, garcon, t benjamin

(as a side note, its been a weird off season seeing half my team go to NE, woodhead go to BAL and then dixon get suspended)

in the upcoming rookie draft i have the 1st and 5th picks

so, how do i go in the draft?

i'm obviously thinnest at WR, although also still have a lot of question marks at RB

do I do something like take corey davis #1, and then whoever falls out of mixon/cook/mcaffery at 5?

or take fournette #1 and then mike williams at 5?

Yeah I'm not going to "just" look at last years stats and rank accordingly. I'm predicting

Dez has a bounce back year. Big believer in Dak though. All Dez has to do is stay healthy.

Howard is going build on his rookie season. He quietly had a monster year last year and there is no reason to believe he's not getting the ball 230-240 times this year.

McCoy is debatable but he seems inline for 220+ carries and 40+ catches this upcoming year. I mean they didn't add any RB early in the draft and they didn't bring in any big name FA RB. McCoy is their guy this year. Then add how he performed last year it's hard to pass on that at 1.12..........

Yea if anything McCoy should be higher

Taking brown over Evans at this point. Tampa has a lot of other weaPons there now. I'm thinking hes more of a top 10 then top 3 type.

Hilton feels a little high.

Howard feels right there. They have a QB now to take off some of the pressure although no alshon.

As on now id go davis+ w/e

Haven't really started thinking too much about it. Gonna enjoy summer a bit first. Still super excited for it though!

I've done quite a few mock drafts already (15+) and I would say that for PPR, I'm def. thinking opposite of what I posted earlier in the thread. In a 12 man league if your pick is on the back-end( 9-12) then I think going RB strong is very beneficial. There are a-lot of questions as far as handcuffs and rookie rbs taken over early downs on a lot of teams (williams for gb, mixon for cin, etc.) and I think just locking up go-to RBS that are going to get 250+ reps is the best way to go.
The amount of RB combinations you could pick up is plentiful. Howard, Ajayi, Gordon, Murray, Freeman. You could very well end up with Mccoy here plenty of times too which to me is an absolute steal compared to someone like TY Hilton who could lose a lot of TDS to moncrief this year alone.

If you fill up on two of those RBS mentioned, in the 3rd round you still have a plethora of RBS that are both extremely good depth value and beyond flex worthy appeal: Lynch, McCaffery, Hyde, Ingram, Anderson (I think he can have a breakout season this year).


4th round WRS you'll still be able to get robinson, adams, crabtree, fitz, moncrief.
or you could get kelce at TE then stack WRS and your QB from 5-10

Just a thought.

I'm starting a 12- team keeper/dynasty league w/ friends & I need some feedback on the rules.

I was going to do $500 draft budget every year with the rule that you must keep exactly 13 players every year (for free - aka players kept aren't effecting your draft budget in future seasons). However, to help teams that suck I was going to give each teams that doesn't make the playoffs an extra $50 in draft money and probably a bonus if they win ($150 total) or come in second ($100 total) in the consolation bracket.

1Qb/2RB/3WR/1TE/3Flex/1Def/7Bench - total of 18 on the roster

$100 buy in, but you always pay $50 for next years buy-in early - effectively I will collect $150 this year and $100 every year after. If someone leaves the league we keep their $50.

.5PPR, $500 FAAB (free agent acquisition budget)

Antonio should always be the 1st WR taken. After that: ODB/Julio/Evans. AJ Green rounds out the top 8 (which obv includes DJ/Bell/Zeke).

After the top 8 is where it gets interesting. For RBs I'm leaning Melvin > Freeman > McCoy >>> other RBs. Of course, folks are likely to spew/reach and someone in the top 8 will sometimes fall. If that doesn't happen and I'm picking 9th-12th I probably take a WR.

As always, no need to draft a QB until way late.

For anyone who does MFL10s, here's an interesting one (the "MFL10 of death") among industry writers that recently wrapped up:

http://www81.myfantasyleague.com/201...DISPLAY=LEAGUE

Coming from a Steelers diehard, you don't think Brown loses value with Bryant back and a TE like James taking TD passes in the redzone, along with Bell?
I'm weary of Brown too because I feel it's inevitable Ben will be out 2-3 games this year and he's been terrible on the road lately.

AB will still get his redzone looks - IIRC he even had 1 or 2 short 5yd TD grabs last year while James was on the field.

Ben being out is a bigger risk than Bryant/JJ. If anything the presence of Martavis means that AB gets double-coverage fewer times.

That's not to say I'd begrudge anyone who picks ODB/Julio/Evans over AB - they're all the same tier - just think that AB has both higher ceiling, higher median, and higher floor given what we know right now (and it's only June, of course).

Maclin as a couple good years left. It will be interesting to see where he lands......

FYI, we're gonna likely need 2-4 in our SE dynasty league we're starting this year.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/46...eague-1660140/

I have a feeling Tyreek Hill is going to be one of the largest busts this year (relative to his ADP).

When you all are setting up a league do you ever change the team defense scoring to slightly lower the avg. scoring and/or the difference between an elite Def & a league avg. Def? The goal being that defenses become less valuable, but still worth picking up a new defense every now and then (we aren't ready to completely get rid of Def yet).

I'm thinking of making TDs worth 4, INT & fumble recoveries worth 1.5, sacks worth .5, and lowering the points given in all the categories for points allowed and yards allowed.

Do you think Kelce is going to catch every ball thrown by alex smith, is another KC WR stepping up or is KC not going to throw the ball?

Tyreek is not a WR1 caliber player. A good chunk of his special plays came on situations you will not find a WR1 doing (like special teams). He's also going to run into two-man coverage. Alex Smith isn't the greatest throwing QB btw. They will probably use Charles for a lot of 3D plays as well as Kelce.

Mind you, I said realtive to his ADP. Will he contribute to KC- yes. Will he have good plays-yes. Is he worth a 4th round pick? No.

Yea there's plenty of WRs I'd rather have in the late 4th / early 5th instead of Tyreek (Diggs, Fitz, Manny Sanders). Crabtree used to be in that ADP range but he's moved up a bit; similar shuffling/movement is bound to happen as the season gets closer.