Those are good. I also like

Greenbay/Minnesota
Rams/Cards

Detroit plays 14 games in domes this year.

By ADP try ranking your favorite to least at each position. Here's mine

QB:
Stroud
Mahomes
Love
Hurts

RB:
Jacobs
Bijan
Breece
Achane
Aaron Jones
Kyrien
Henry
Zamir
Charbonnet
Rachaad

WR:
Jameson
Nico
Chase
Nacua
Nabers
Tank
McLaurin
Gabe
Adams
Kupp
Aiyuk
Legette
Waddle
Doubs
Flowers
Olave
Devonta
Ridley
London
Godwin

TE:
Njoku
Freiermuth
Hockenson
Laporta

Had the 2nd pick. Got my PHI-DAL stack out of the way


QB - Hurts, Dak

RB - Jacobs, Walker III, Pollard, Dowdle, Hill, Bigsby

WR - Lamb, Waddle, Devonta, Jeudy, Downs, Wilson, Robinson, OBJ, McMillan, Brown

TE - Goedert, Taysom

Generally, you don't want both of your QBs in the same week 17 game.

If the game doesn't go off, you're dead.

If the game does go off, well both of them are probably having a good game with similar scores.

You want to give yourself more outs by stacking week 17 games with two or three separate QBs.

TE room also too weak.

The one caveat is that in superflex, stacking two QBs in the same week 17 game is the ultimate upside play.

Good point. Should've gone Hurts-Tua or Dak-Tua

Pretty nice list. I have a few thoughts.

Stroud - Way too expensive and is a byproduct of where his receivers go. I'll take him sometimes, especially if I have someone like Andrews on the bring back, but I'd much rather take AR in that range or take Burrow, Kyler, Dak, Jayden, etc. at cost.

Charbonnet - Why don't you like his price? Seems reasonable in a backfield that is consolidated to two, with both getting work, and contingent upside of likely having a 75%+ snap share if KW goes down.

Jamo - I think he's a trap at his current price, but he's definitely a better in best ball profile. He has 0 as his floor, but he could also easily give you 3 for 120 and 2 TDs.

Godwin - Too low, imo, especially with him moving back to the slot.

London - On the surface, the price tag is steep. But it's hard to overstate just how bad Mariota and Ridder have been for him (and Pitts too). Also, one thing that I'm not sure people are thinking about enough is backup QB play. While Penix is a rookie, at his age he should be pro ready and able to step in if anything happens to Cousins. Or even if the Falcons are somehow out of the playoff hunt down the stretch and decide to play Penix, it shouldn't hurt London too much. The QB contingency helps boost London's value, imo.

Olave - I was out on him last year, and Dennis Allen is certainly still an idiot thorn who is probably going to be fired mid-season, but the change in OC should be a significant boost.

Kupp - He is probably going to be my highest drafted WR this year. I think he should be a 2nd round pick. It was fun getting him in the early 4th in the pre-draft contests.

LaPorta - Agree. Sucks he's so expensive, and I think he is still likely to be a top 5 TE, but their are better prices elsewhere. I'll have 4-6% in stacks, but other than that, just targeting the guys going later.

DK and UD are certainly two different markets haha. I'm biased since I started out on UD, and you probably feel the opposite, but I think UD's interface is far superior to DK or Drafters. The way DK lists players as you draft them drives me crazy. I don't need to see starting lineup and bench. I want to see the positions grouped together.

18 versus 20 rounds is a mental adjustment, but I like the squad. With 18 rounds, I probably would have only stopped at 5 RBs with that room and allocated to one of the other three positions.

Anyone doing "most points weeks 1-17" best ball sit-n-gos on Underdog or DK?

Those were my bread-&-butter in the MFL10 2014-2017 days. Kinda more interested in competing for total season points (instead of tournaments) for the same reasons I like cash game poker more than tournament poker.

I see a lot of ink on the usual sites talking best ball strategy for tournaments. So I have a slight concern about game-selecting for total-season points if I'm going to playing against folks who are also less interested in tourneys.

Game selection aside, I'll probably bonus-whore those a bit after July 4th and post some thoughts.

Not sure about the SNG streets, but UD released their first big field most points weeks 1-17 contest called The Marathon. $15 buy in, 150k entrants, $300k to first. Top 23k cash for double the buy in.

Have you ever checked out Drafters? They only offer weeks 1-17 most points contests for their two big field tournaments, so the SNGs might also be softer there for people dabbling in both. Their two big field tournaments are a $15 $2.5 mil and a $2 $100k.

I fired some of the $2 on Drafters, but I just don't care for the format compared to the big field playoff tournaments.

Apparently Kamara is holding out for a new contract . We dropping him down a bit ?

With the 9th pick I took care of my BAL-HOU stack.

QB - Stroud, Watson, Jones

RB - Barkley, Swift, Javonte, Dowdle, Mitchell

WR - Nico, Hollywood, Jeudy, Gabe, Downs, Wilson, OBJ, Slayton, McMillan, Metchie

TE - Andrews, Ferguson


I don't know if taking 3 QBs is bad or not.

Your Nico/Stroud with Andrews bring back is solid. Who did you get in the 9th stack wise? Or did you have the 9th pick overall?

Who did you take in round one? Barkley? Nico? It must be I guess. I feel like your team is missing a star player.

I would have grabbed another RB instead of Ferguson. You already had a stud TE so you could wait on the back up.

Your strong at QB and TE. I think your RBs and WRs are thin.

When I take one of the top QB's I usually just take two total unless I wait too long the get my second guy. If I wait on QB I'll go 3 usually. I lean towards grabbing a stud QB if I can and it fits in with my team structure.

I got Pierce in Rd 17. I felt throwing another dart at the RB room made sense. I didn't feel I needed 3 QBs or 3 TEs. I also felt comfortable with my receivers. It does seem like 5 RB's in UD is the standard.

I'm finding clicking on specific positions during the draft weird. It could be user error but is there a trick to this. I'll hit RB and WR's pop up or all players will pop up. Eventually I get it to work.

Yeah 9th pick. I went Nico, then Barkley

Probably right about Ferguson. These were the picks taken after him. If I could go back I probably would've gone with either Kamara, Jones or Godwin.

Early 6th is way too early for Ferguson. The one time I have taken him was in the 9th and that was as a week 17 bring back to a Philly stack. Are you a big Ferguson fan? I feel like he is just a Jag but obviously in a good spot. I'd prefer an upside guy too him like Njoku or Bowers. I definitely would have taken one of those RB's.

Did you draft with the intention of putting together a Texans/Ravens stack? Your Nico/Barkley start will certainly be unique. I do think that after pick 8 it is pretty flat regarding the talent available so if that's what you want to do then fine. I love Nico but there are a lot of mouths to feed in Houston. That's the first time I have seen Nico go in the first.

I really like Ray Davis in buffalo. Right now he is RB2 on the depth chart. He does a lot of things well. He has good size and may be a guy they put in close to the goal line. Obviously Allen is gonna get a lot of those looks. We know James Cook will not. Davis passes the eye test for me. He sets up his blockers extremely well. His short area burst is exceptional. He catches the ball well. I also like his story of being homeless for much of his life and having to fight for everything he has. I believe he is the first College RB to run for a thousand yards for 3 different division one teams.

A very deep sleeper is Blake Watson in Denver. He is an undrafted RB out of Memphis. He is the third highest paid UDFA this year so that say's something. He has been compared to Alvin Kamara by Sean Payton. He is currently 5th on the depth chart so he's obviously not a lock to make the team. Estime has lost some practice time due to an injury. Jaleel Mclaughlin couldn't get on the field much because he couldn't block. I don't see him improving much given his small size. It's possible Denver releases Perine if they like what they see in Watson. Denver is only expected to win 5 ish games this year. If they are out of it early on they may bring in Watson to see what they have.

Nice post. Another thing is Davis is 24 years old and will be 25 in November. I’d like to think a team wouldn’t draft a 24 year old RB in round 4 unless they plan to use him. He should be pro ready with his age, experience and size.

Watson is a nice sleeper, but the coach speak on him just tells me to avoid Javonte and mix in Jaleel, Estime and Watson in the late rounds. Payton doesn’t seem to care for Javonte.

I’m starting to change my tune on having more 3 TE teams. I’ve heard some compelling arguments for how important having that coverage can be during playoff weeks.

As far as clicking on positions, it’s definitely a little quirky. If you have one selected, then you can click another to add it in. But it can reset to all positions sometimes.

I might have to try as well. I've seen multiple people in my drafts take 3 TEs.

Even seen a couple take 4.

It all depends who you take as your top 2 imo.

I think teams are less worried about age because most likely they aren't going to give him a second contract. RB's are just too easily replaceable these days.

I'm hearing Javonte looks more explosive which you would expect a year removed from injury. He is still fairly cheap in drafts. I could see him moving up a round or two if he looks good in pre season.

I draft TE like I do QB. If I get stud early I'm only going with two. If I go late I'm going three for sure. I don't think TE is a position to wait on. I want a guy in the playoff rounds who can blow up not just maybe get me a TD.

I had a draft where I wasn't paying attention an then noticed I had 3 TE's with a week 14 bye. I had to do it.

I've yet to get a #1 pick in order to take CMC, but I did find this chart on fantasypros. It shows all the RBs that led the league in touches (like CMC did last season), and where they finished the following year.

Definitely. I wouldn’t do a team with McBride, Bowers, and Njoku, for instance. But I’m leaning more and more to adding an extra TE when going elite + late. I.e McBride, Conklin, Fant, whereas I was basically always doing 2 when taking one of the top 12.

I also do quite a few teams with 2 of the top 12, where it’s something like Njoku/Bowers or Kittle/Njoku. But I generally wouldn’t go super bully with something like LaPorta/Kelce.