Boards Division 4 Thread

Hazys

Well im fcuked and my season is fcuked.

Everything on NFL.com works in my office except the draft client. I tried to login a few minutes ago and i couldn't. Then I tried to fix my predraft rankings so auto-draft wouldn't fcuk up, i couldnt as we are in draft mode.

I have two players on the top of my predraft rankings who are only there as a reminder to pick them if they are available later in the draft.

So my picks in the first 2 rounds are going to be a joke.

poldebruin

Hazys wrote: »

So my picks in the first 2 rounds are going to be a joke.

...or it could be the masterstroke of all masterstrokes!

matthew8

Hazys wrote: »

Well im fcuked and my season is fcuked.

Everything on NFL.com works in my office except the draft client. I tried to login a few minutes ago and i couldn't. Then I tried to fix my predraft rankings so auto-draft wouldn't fcuk up, i couldnt as we are in draft mode.

I have two players on the top of my predraft rankings who are only there as a reminder to pick them if they are available later in the draft.

So my picks in the first 2 rounds are going to be a joke.

That's horrible. Absolutely rotten luck. You should've seen the reaction to the Kenbrell Thompkins pick though, no one had seen this post.

Hazys

matthew8 wrote: »

That's horrible. Absolutely rotten luck. You should've seen the reaction to the Kenbrell Thompkins pick though, no one had seen this post.

Haha i can imagine, 2nd pick won't be as bad but still a massive reach

Hazys

matthew8 wrote: »

That's horrible. Absolutely rotten luck. You should've seen the reaction to the Kenbrell Thompkins pick though, no one had seen this post.

What number pick was i?

matthew8

Hazys wrote: »

Haha i can imagine, 2nd pick won't be as bad but still a massive reach

At least they both have upside.

matthew8

You were pick 12.

A_Sober_Paddy

Brady is available for trade...

swoody

why did you pick him so?

A_Sober_Paddy

swoody wrote: »

why did you pick him so?

Was a panic selection, my draft board pretty much went to pieces very fast

Hazys

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

Brady is available for trade...

Kenbrell Thompkins for Brady?

A_Sober_Paddy

Hazys wrote: »

Kenbrell Thompkins for Brady?

Tristram

Will look again after work and assess the damage.

matthew8

This website is pretty fun for rating your team post-draft:
http://subscribers.footballguys.com/rate-my-team/team.php?team=2rA2msv4Bi63&rater=50

They seem to think my team is good. Draft could've gone worse certainly.

HigginsJ

So how is everyone's team looking

QB - Aaron Rodgers
RB - Trent Richardson
Gio Bernard
WR - Jordy Nelson
Emmanuel Sanders
Alshon Jeffrey
TE - Jimmy Graham
K - Dan Bailey (missed Zuerlein)
D - Chargers

Bench
Santonio Holmes
Stephen Hill
Antonio Gates
Justin Blackmon
Ryan Williams

Willing to shop any combination of Hill, Holmes & Gates for WR/RB

swoody

Robert Griffin III QB
Stevan Ridley RB
Reggie Bush RB
Miles Austin WR
Greg Jennings WR
Steve Smith WR
Ed Dickson TE
Justin Tucker K
Arizona Cardinals D#

BENCH

Jake Locker QB
Isaiah Pead RB
Jonathan Stewart RB
Aaron Dobson WR
Josh Morgan WR

A_Sober_Paddy

HigginsJ wrote: »

So how is everyone's team looking

Looking back over the draft, I'm fairly happy...

QB - Brady
RB - A. Bradshaw
RB - D. Richardson
WR - Britt
WR - D. Thomas
WR - C. Johnson
TE - Gresham
K - Prater
DEF - Denver

Subs
QB - Rivers
RB - K.Davis(KC)
RB - S.Vereen(NE)
WR - Heyward-Bay
WR - K.Stills(NO)

HigginsJ

matthew8 wrote: »

This website is pretty fun for rating your team post-draft:
http://subscribers.footballguys.com/rate-my-team/team.php?team=2rA2msv4Bi63&rater=50

They seem to think my team is good. Draft could've gone worse certainly.

My team is below average

http://subscribers.footballguys.com/rate-my-team/team.php?team=27C77sxV6i5Q

matthew8

QB- Brees and Bradford

RB- Lynch, Mathews, Woodhead and Reece

WR- White, Garcon, Tavon Austin, Gordon and Patton

TE- Sudfeld, picked mainly because Gronk is out first couple of weeks.

Def- 49ers

K- Forbath

A_Sober_Paddy

HigginsJ wrote: »

My team is below average

http://subscribers.footballguys.com/rate-my-team/team.php?team=27C77sxV6i5Q

Sites broken...Reckons I have a strong team with a 99% of making the playoffs...http://subscribers.footballguys.com/rate-my-team/team.php?team=Xq8YLmDQU5d8

Hanners

Going to need some big performances, team looks like Oakland

QB: Ben Roethlisberger, Alex Smith
RB: Jamaal Charles, Lamar Miller, Joique Bell, Bilal Powell
WR: Randall Cobb, Torrey Smith, Golden Tate, Ryan Broyles, Donnie Avery
TE: Jermichael Finley
PK: Steve Hauschka
TD: Pittsburgh Steelers

matthew8

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

Sites broken...Reckons I have a strong team with a 99% of making the playoffs...http://subscribers.footballguys.com/rate-my-team/team.php?team=Xq8YLmDQU5d8

Pretty sure you don't have both Calvin Johnson and Richardson.

A_Sober_Paddy

matthew8 wrote: »

Pretty sure you don't have both Calvin Johnson and Richardson.

Defo have Calvin but its the wrong Richardson now that I've looked back...Now its 85%(great) and 64%(Average)

padraig_f

Picking 5th. Kinda made a mess of things.

1. Doug Martin RB1
2. Maurice Jones-Drew RB2
3. Rob Gronkowski TE1
4. Wes Welker WR1
5. Russell Wilson QB1
6. Chris Givens WR2
7. Pierre Thomas RB3
8. Owen Daniels TE2
9. Brian Hartline WR3
10. EJ Manuel QB2
11. Daniel Thomas RB4
12. Jeremy Kerley WR4
13. Packers DEF
14. Robbie Gould K

Fortunate enough to get Doug Martin 5th, had him ranked 2nd overall. Things started to go wrong at the second pick, choice between MJD and Jimmy Graham. Should've probably gone for Graham, think I panicked at not wanting to try and find a 2nd RB further down, and took MJD.

Had it in mind to go for Gronkowski at the bottom-3rd/top-4th, but guys I was targeting at the top of the third went off the board, so ended up taking Gronk at the top of the third.

Didn't get much better after that. Found WR a struggle, but probably because I waited til the 4th round to start picking them.

Verdict:
I guess my season will go as Gronk's health goes. If he returns to full health, I could do ok. If he misses games, I'm in trouble. I had planned to take a bit of a risk with him, just not quite as high.

padraig_f

Trade block...

I stupidly picked a backup QB with the same bye-week as my starting QB, so if anyone did the same, would be interested in a swap of backups (I have EJ Manuel).

Deep enough at RB (two solid backups: Pierre Thomas and Daniel Thomas). A bit thin at backup WR. If someone has the opposite, might be interested in a trade there.

My team is here:
http://fantasy.nfl.com/league/367806/team/3

wawaman

QB
Peyton Manning, Andy Dalton

RB
Chris Ivory, Alfred Morris, Michael Bush, Shonn Greene

WR
Denarius Moore, Cecil Shorts, A.J. Green, Nate Burleson

TE
Greg Olsen, Brent Celek

K
Blair Walsh

D
Texans

Average to say the least. Anyone fancy taking Michael Bush or Shonn Greene off my hands for a WR !!?

Tristram

QB: Colin Kaepernick, Carson Palmer
RB: Chris Johnson, Rashard Mendenhall, LeVeon Bell, Christine Michael
WR: Dez Bryant, Vincent Brown, Anquan Boldin, Sidney Rice, Julian Edelman
TE: Martellus Bennett
PK: Matt Bryant
TD: Cleveland Browns

This is not the team I imagined drafting when I went to bed last night Waking up five minutes before the draft was due to start had me a bit disoriented and picking from ＃16 was a bitch with everyone grabbing RBs.

I think Dez is the only one on my roster who I'm confident will have an elite season but I'm optimistic about the likes of Kaepernick and Chris Johnson. They could both potentially put up big numbers. Mendenhall should play every down if he can stay healthy, and hopefully he will do that long enough for Bell to come back from injury. In the meantime maybe Lynch gets injured and Michael becomes a big thing in Seattle?

I think Boldin will do better in SF than with the Ravens last season but nothing spectacular, just solid. Depending on health Rice and/or Edelman could be nice surprises. I love Brown but it's hard to see what good will come out of the Chargers this season.

Martellus Bennett... who knows. Much of a muchness between the TEs there at that stage.

jester1980

Very happy myself. Not overly great on depth so hopefully no injuries, most of my players are on byes late in the season so maybe i'll have made the playoffs by then :P

QB - STAFFORD
QB - WEEDEN

RB - Mccoy
RB - Wilson
RB - Ingram
RB - Leshoure

WR - Amendola
WR - Wayne
WR - Mike Williams
WR - Greg Little
WR - B Lafell

TE - B Myers

K - Zuerlein

DEF - The Bucs

Hazys

Let me talk a little about some of the highlights of my draft picking strategy and how all the pieces fell together on the day for Team Better Than Awesome:

1.Kenbrell Thompkins WR PICK 12

Shocked Thompkins was still on the board at the 12th pick, some 'experts' say you could have picked Thompkins up on waivers after the draft was over but I say, you gotta pull the trigger on the 3rd WR for the Patriots when he's on the board, no matter what. The first Undrafted Rookie Free Agent picked in the first round of a fantasy draft, a landmark moment in Fantasy Football.

2.Montee Ball RB PICK 21

Hmm it was a tossup here between Ball, Gore, Larry Fitz and MJD, but you have to stay true to your draft board, so i went with the backup rookie running back with the 21st overall pick. Some say it was a risky strategy picking a backup running back early in the second round but what most people don't know is NFL.com is giving points for the amount of minutes a player sits on the bench carrying a veteran's helmet about.

3.Vincent Jackson WR PICK 44
4.Antonio Brown WR PICK 53
5.Tony Gonzalez TE PICK 76
6.Tony Romo QB PICK 85

Thanks autopick!! You picked my favorite player in the NFL 2 year in a row. Here is some of the praise I've offered up for Romo through the years:

Hazys wrote: »

I'm gutted you didnt accept, that was my chance to save my season after a disasterous autopick draft.

I knew you had a bad QB situation and i had two "decent" qbs in Romo and Palmer.

I hate Romo, he is useless, stupid autopick picked him the 3rd, that basically ruin any chance of a good season. That trade propsal was my 3rd attempt to trade him.

Hazys wrote: »

Romo is garbage

Hazys wrote: »

Anything but the Cowboys they are on every week over here. I dont care if none of the other 4pm games have playoff implications, I'm sick of watching Romo and the Cowboys stinking up my Sunday football every week.

7.BenJarvus Green-Ellis RB PICK 108
8.Seattle Seahawks DEF PICK 117
9.Stephen Gostkowski K PICK 140
10.Josh Freeman QB PICK 149
11.Johnathan Franklin RB PICK 172

4th string BEAST of a running back

12.Brandon Pettigrew TE PICK 181
13.Toby Gerhart RB PICK 204
14.New York Giants DEF PICK 213

Always need 2 defenses. You need to stockpile defenses in Fantasy...especially defenses that are aging and nowhere the caliber they were at years ago.

jester1980

ha ha very good