Fantasy Football Draft Results

As I made mention in my initial post, I really enjoy thinking about sports from a GM/roster moves standpoint.  Whether that's through sports video games where I play in the franchise or GM modes or through fantasy football, it's one of my favorite things to do.  Typically I operate many fantasy teams in each sport, but this season I am going to start reducing the number of teams and focus more attention on each individual one.  For fantasy football I have four teams, two ESPN teams and two Yahoo teams.  I think that is where I will let it stand and will probably draft five or six fantasy hockey teams.  I am going to post the draft results from each draft that I had and during the seasons, on Tuesdays, I will post the results of my fantasy football match-ups.

Jeff's League - 12 Team Yahoo League/Standard Scoring

Pick	Name	Pos.	Team	Notes
1-11	A.J. Green	WR	Cincinnati	Best available player
2-14	Le’veon Bell	RB	Pittsburgh	Best available – worth waiting for suspension
3-35	Carlos Hyde	RB	San Francisco	Needed a running back to fill in for Bell
4-38	Greg Olsen	TE	Carolina	Best available
5-59	Jeremy Hill	RB	Cincinnati	Best available – needed a second RB
6-62	Jordan Matthews	WR	Philadelphia	Needed a second WR
7-83	Marvin Jones	WR	Detroit	Best available
8-86	Emmanuel Sanders	WR	Denver	Best available
9-107	Philip Rivers	QB	San Diego	Realized I waited too long to draft a QB
10-110	Chris Ivory	RB	Jacksonville	Best available – a bruiser and should score a good number of TDs
11-131	New York Jets D/ST		NYJ	Wanted a D
12-134	Charles Sims	RB	Tampa Bay	Best available/Is Doug martin reliable enough?
13-155	Mohamed Sanu	WR	Atlanta	Should be Matt Ryan’s number two target and be productive
14-158	Dan Bailey	K	Dallas	Needed a kicker
15-179	Ladarius Green	TE	Pittsburgh	Best available

Post-Draft Moves: 

• Traded QB Philip Rivers, WR Mohamed Sanu, and New York's defense for QB Blake Bortles, WR Allen Hurns, and Cincinnati's defense - I think I may have won this trade...Bortles should be more productive than Rivers, Hurns is definitely better than Sanu and plays in a more productive system, and Cincinnati's defense is projected to be better.  The person I made this trade with said he really wanted the Jets' defense so I tried to take advantage of this.

Roster Analysis

• I think once Bell comes back from suspension in week 4 this team should be super productive. With he and Carlos Hyde/Jeremy Hill as my two starters, I think I will be fine.  Until then I believe that Hyde and one of my other backs will be serviceable enough.  My wide receivers and tight ends are definitely good enough with Greg Olsen and A.J. Green leading the way.  My major concern at the time of the draft was quarterback when I realized that I drafted one too late.  I think I remedied this by trading Rivers for Bortles, who was better last season and has better weapons to throw to.

Yahoo Keeper League - 16 Team/Drafted Team D/ST as well as individual defensive players

• Joined league specifically because I wanted to be in a keeper league
• Didn't realize the league included individual defensive players so I stopped drafting after the fifth round

Pick	Name	Pos.	Team	Notes
1-3	Antonio Brown	WR	Pittsburgh	Possibly the best fantasy player
2-30	Carlos Hyde	RB	San Francisco	Best RB available
3-35	Ben Roethlisberger	QB	Pittsburgh	Didn’t want to wait too long on QB
4-62	Julian Edelman	WR	New England	Love the production that comes in a New England offense – will be a security blanket for Jimmy Garoppolo
5-67	Jordan Matthews	WR	Philadelphia	Stopped drafted at this pick
6-94	Delanie Walker	TE	Tennessee
7-99	Danny Woodhead	RB	San Diego
8-126	Houston D/ST
9-131	Graham Gano	K	Carolina
10-158	Micah Hyde	S	Green Bay
11-163	Andrew Sendejo	S	Minnesota
12-190	Lerentee McCray	LB	Buffalo
13-195	Terence Garvin	LB	Washington
14-222	Casey Lemonier	LB	San Francisco
15-227	Orlando Scandrick	CB	Dallas
16-254	Josh Robinson	CB	Tampa Bay
17-259	Brandon Copeland	LB/DE	Detroit
18-286	Bruce Ellington	WR	San Francisco
19-291	Sammie Coates	WR	Pittsburgh
20-318	Alex Smith	QB	Kansas City
21-323	Clive Walford	TE	Oakland
22-350	Javorius Allen	RB	Baltimore

Post-Draft Moves:

• Added WR Kenny Stills (MIA), dropped WR Sammie Coates
• Added S Malcolm Jenkins (PHI), dropped S Andrew Sandejo
• Added DE Michael Bennett (SEA), dropped LB/DE Brandon Copeland
• Added CB Trumaine Johnson (LA), dropped CB Josh Robinson
• Added CB Richard Sherman (SEA), dropped LB Corey Lemonier

10 Team ESPN League - Standard Scoring (Pigskins)

Pick	Name	Pos.	Team	Notes
1-10	Rob Gronkowski	TE	New England	Best available player
2-11	Le’Veon Bell	RB	Pittsburgh	Best available player – worth taking a pick despite his suspension
3-30	Demaryius Thomas	WR	Denver	Needed a WR
4-31	LeSean McCoy	RB	Buffalo	Needed a #1 RB
5-50	Russell Wilson	QB	Seattle	Didn’t want to wait for a QB and Wilson is reliable and productive
6-61	Kelvin Benjamin	WR	Carolina	Best available player
7-70	DeMarco Murray	RB	Tennessee	Needed a #2 RB
8-71	Jeremy Langford	RB	Chicago	Best available
9-90	Marvin Jones	WR	Detroit	Best available
10-91	Allen Hurns	WR	Jacksonville	Best available
11-110	Andy Dalton	QB	Cincinnati	Dalton was available at a great spot for a backup QB
12-111	Broncos D/ST
13-130	Markus Wheaton	WR	Pittsburgh
14-131	Mohamed Sanu	WR	Atlanta
15-150	Kamar Aiken	WR	Baltimore
16-151	Steven Hauschka	K	Seattle

10 ESPN League - Gregory20

Pick	Name	Pos.	Team	Notes
1-3	Antonio Brown	WR	Pittsburgh	Best available
2-18	Lamar Miller	RB	Houston	Best RB
3-23	Jordy Nelson	WR	Green Bay	Talent level/Green Bay’s offense too good to pass up
4-38	Amari Cooper	WR	Oakland	Same as above
5-43	Carson Palmer	QB	Arizona	QB production was too good to not draft
6-58	Emmanuel Sanders	WR	Denver	Best available
7-63	Ryan Matthews	RB	Philadelphia	Needed a 2nd RB
8-78	Marvin Jones	WR	Detroit
9-83	Chris Ivory	RB	Jacksonville
10-98	Gary Barnidge	TE	Cleveland	Needed a TE
11-103	Josh Gordon	WR	Cleveland	Despite suspension still worth drafting for his upside
12-118	Cardinals D/ST
13-123	Charles Sims	RB	Tampa Bay
14-138	Ryan Fitzpatrick	QB	NYJ
15-143	Travis Benjamin	WR	San Diego
16-158	Roberto Aguayo	K	Tampa Bay

These are my four fantasy team draft results and I am excited for at least two of my rosters.  I am also excited for this season of fantasy football and to see what happens.  As I wrote at the top, my plan is to perhaps preview my weekly matches and who I added via the waiver wire, as well as write recaps to review how I did that week.  Stay tuned for those posts and my fantasy hockey draft results which I may be even more excited for.