Apolyton Fantasy Football (not soccer damnit)

[snoopy369]

Not sure you can really blame Peyton about Collie. He seemed like he was going to go down any second once he entered the league; wonder about his college days. And Welker I suspect had some under Brady - same exact playing style, though perhaps Manning threads them in a little closer.

Dallas Clark on the other hand, had better be getting a christmas ham ever year from the Manning family.

[Berzerker]

sorry guys... I'll be busy the next 2 days too

[Berzerker]

picks sent to jag and snoopy

[MRT144]

Reminder that the Auction is 2 days away! 8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT Be there or suffer the pain of having 3 kickers.

[Ben Kenobi]

What if I want 3 kickers?

[snoopy369]

My team in my money auction. What do you think? ESPN standard, so no PPR and 4 pt passing TDs, no return yards.

QB Drew Brees 53
RB Adrian Peterson 33 (K)
RB Steven Ridley 12 (K)
WR T.Y. Hilton 17
WR Michael Floyd 6 (K)
WR Randall Cobb 15 (K)
TE Kyle Rudolph 1
DST Seattle 6
K Mason Crosby 1
B Ryan Matthews 18
B Andre Ellington 21
B Anquan Boldin 2
B DeAndre Hopkins 10
B Carlos Hyde 1

[snoopy369]

For reference, my other two WR choices instead of Hilton (the two 'best' WRs):
Calvin Johnson ($78)
Antonio Brown ($38)

Both went to one player. I could've had Brown instead of one of the RB backups, but Hilton was such a bargain (and keepers here are +$5, so Brown at $38 is only a marginal keeper while Hilton at $17 could be a bargain).

My big problem will be keepers next year: which four to pick, assuming they all perform towards the middle-top of their expected performance. Hopkins at $15 next year could be amazing, Cobb at $20 still a good deal, Floyd at $11, Hilton at $22, APete at $38 could still be worthwhile, Ellington if he's the sole ARI RB at $27 ... so many options.

[ColdWizard]

I don't know why ARI has so low points and such a high ranking.

If you sort by "Project Remaining Games" it does it right but not for other teams.

There is no rhyme or reason to this.

It's right there in the bapay rules!

These are just numbers cooked up by the staff at Yahoo!, but they reasonably represent consensus of what players are likely to do next year, and they are scored within our system. Therefore, these picks should be very fair. Note that they are slightly different from the "projected rankings," which don't take our scoring into account.

Though the yahoo page says the projections are powered by Pro Football Focus. I assume they are more reliable than yahoo! staff.

[Ben Kenobi]

Not a keeper team I'd favor, fwiw.

[MRT144]

Well, with that out of the way, how do you like picking Josh Gordon one minute before Deadspin announced his year long suspension was upheld?

[snoopy369]

Well, with that out of the way, how do you like picking Josh Gordon one minute before Deadspin announced his year long suspension was upheld?

I would say, you're welcome America for finally causing the arbitrator to release his decision.

I actually think he may play this year (lawsuit), so i'm happy with him here...

[-Jrabbit]

There was lots of speculation that he would get a reduced suspension via negotiation, based on the fact that it took 4 freaking weeks to announce the decision.

[Greadius]

Thanks for that. I was so close to taking him with my last picks but I'm not that risky. Now I'm going to drop him like a sack of potatoes in IDP. I admire your willingness to keep a roster spot on him. You have more faith in lawyers than I do.

[snoopy369]

Well, the other side of that is that his team obviously thinks there will be a good chance of it being overturned in court, or that Goodell will back down if they go to court and try to subpoena records.

[snoopy369]

Thanks for that. I was so close to taking him with my last picks but I'm not that risky. Now I'm going to drop him like a sack of potatoes in IDP. I admire your willingness to keep a roster spot on him. You have more faith in lawyers than I do.

More, I have a solid team that doesn't really need the too-many roster spots we have now. I can take a few fliers and still be fine.