Apolyton Fantasy Football Auction League is open for business

[Ben Kenobi]

That should do it. Kenobi vs TDS for auction finals. Would have defeated all but the number 1 team this week.

My cunning plan of cutting Cutler, and coaxing my Bears loving opponent to start him in the semifinals worked perfectly!

[Ben Kenobi]

So far, final week battles:

TDS vs Electric Slide Jedi for first overall.

Andrew Luck (JR) vs Aaron Rodgers (Deviations) 585.60 points vs 573.65 points. Luck has a 12 point advantage.

WR champion is Antonio Brown (BK) with 468.84.

RB champion is LeVeon Bell (TDS) with 533.55

TE Champion is Gronkowski (Deviations) with 354.45

Best Kicker is Gostkowski (Berz)

Best D is Buffalo (Longs for Kyle).

[Ben Kenobi]

Best Draft pickups -

TDS - Greg Olsen (9) for the number 2 TE.
MRT - Ben Roethlisberger (3) for the number 6 QB.
Deviations - Emmanuel Sanders (6) for the number 6 WR.
Flashtastics - Golden Tate (3) for the number 9 WR.
LongsForKyle - DeAndre Hopkins (2) for the number 11 WR
MRT - Justin Forsett (0) for the number 7 RB
Dreadnaughts - Jeremy Hill (0) for the number 9 RB
TDS - Le'Veon Bell (37) for the number 1 RB.


TDS draft:

Went with the standard 4 studs, and the rest duds. What sets him apart is that he didn't buy a QB, expecting that QB depth would be deep this year.

Studs chosen:

Demaryius (57), Julio Jones (43), Le'Veon Bell (37), Morris (35).

His goal is to get 4 starters. Hit three home runs in Bell, Jones and Thomas, scoring the number 2, 4 WRs and the number 1 and number 11 RBs.

But, that's not all. Olsen (9), was a steal. Number 2 TE. That seals up 5 starting positions.

Drafted Indy D for a dollar, but dropped and really doesn't have a good DEF. Ks were both complete busts. Eli, also a bust with Fitzpatrick. A very different kind of draft that actually paid off this year. 5 great starters left him with just QB. Should have picked up Roethlisberger, and Buffalo, but came very close to a perfect team. Did what he needed to do.

[Ben Kenobi]

Number 2 - Ben Kenobi

Normally I go with the 3 stud approach. This year I went with the two stud approach.

Studs: Drew Brees (49), Eddy Lacy (56).

Lacy was swapped for Antonio Brown. Hit two home runs. This secured WR1 and QB1.

But.. you can't build a team around them.

Cutler (21) - terrible pick, blew 21 cash that should have been spent on better players.
White (20) - WR 27. There were better players out there. Emmanuel Sanders.
Rivers (14) - Decent buy for a top 10 QB, but overpriced at 14.
Gore (22) - RB 23. Starting caliber RB2, which is about what you expect for 22 bucks. There were better buys than Gore.

Aside from Cutler, I had a QB1, QB2, WR1, WR2, RB2. So I had 5 positions covered, with 2 home runs, and 2 break-evens in White and Gore.

Rest of the draft - Witten swapped for Walker. Upgraded for free here - Walker is a top 5 TE 1.

Kenny Stills (WR3)
Anquan Boldin (WR2)
Chris Ivory (RB2)

So I really didn't do too badly, picking up Steve Smith, Stills, Boldin and Ivory, plus the Baltimore D and a good Kicker. I had really only one dud draft pick who wasn't productive and that was Cutler.

[MRT144]

Its weird that I had such varied success with so many similar players in place across 3 fantasy teams.

I'll have to dig into it deeper but I had TY and Lynch on 2 teams and one is going into the championships (civfanatics keeper) and there's this one. There was more overlap but I'm too sleep deprived to look it up now.

[Ben Kenobi]

Its weird that I had such varied success with so many similar players in place across 3 fantasy teams.

Yeah - this league is frankly bizarre. Reaching the finals with Ivory + Gore? Umm. Ok.

[Ben Kenobi]

And apparently I should have benched Ivory not Gore. *sigh*. That might cost me a championship. We shall see.

[-Jrabbit]

Congrats to Touchdown Syndrome, league champions. Won the regular season title and, by far, the highest-scoring team all year.

Well deserved, JC.

[Ben Kenobi]

Ain't much I can do with a poor outing from Brees. Congrats TDS.