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Quarterbacks to Target and Avoid, Projection Pal Files Available

August 17, 2016 By Draft Buddy Leave a Comment

Russell Wilson

I’m not saying make a habit of drafting a quarterback early, but if you are going to take the plunge, Russell Wilson offers the best potential ROI of the top passers.

In case you missed it … What? You haven’t liked our Facebook page or don’t follow us on Twitter yet?… here is a bit of an update on what I’ve kept myself busy doing the last week.

Mostly, answering emails from Draft Buddy customers. It is mid-August and we are in the thick of drafting season. NFL regular season will be here before we know it. If you haven’t re-upped Draft Buddy yet then please get on it. Don’t wait until the last minute in case you do need some help getting ready for your draft.

I also updated my own rankings here on the website. The last update included some icons to show players to target and avoid. I will add a few sentences below explaining why I picked some of the quarterbacks who received the target or the avoid tags.

Today I added three Projection Pal files to the Draft Buddy download page, which include projections from each of CBS, ESPN and FantasyPros you can import into Buddy. These projections are as of yesterday, as it took a little while to put these together.

Quarterbacks to Target

Russell Wilson, SEA
I have him ranked 4th at QB. He usually goes QB4. The point here is, if you are going to take one of these top quarterbacks, grab the guy near the end of that tier and only IF he is at a value. In some drafts, Wilson is falling far enough he is worth it over stockpiling more middling RB and WR. Would it surprise me if Wilson ends the season as the number one QB? Not at all.

Kirk Cousins, WAS
Fantasy players don’t believe in Cousins’ talent. Fair enough. Under pressure, a do-or-die playoff game, I probably don’t have Cousins high on my list either. However I do believe in the offense run by coach Jay Gruden and Cousins has excellent receiving talent around him. Running game could look better. Cousins finished QB9 last season and is usually getting drafted outside the top twelve. When I wait at QB, which is most of the time, I’ve ended up taking Cousins a fair bit.

Quarterbacks to Avoid

Andy Dalton, CIN
A.J. Green is great but Tyler Eifert is banged up and I am not confident he is going to start the season. While I’m getting slightly intrigued by rookie Tyler Boyd because of the opportunity in front of him, Brandon LaFell is LaForgettable. Short of Giovani Bernard catching 100 passes there isn’t enough receiving talent here to propel Dalton to be any more reliable than Alex Smith, and everyone is already avoiding him, right?

Marcus Mariota, TEN
Admittedly my avoid picks at quarterback are, on average, not usually ranked or drafted very high, but I’ve seen a reach or three for Mariota in the last month. I think it is his youth, draft pedigree and good old fashioned optimism getting some fantasy players ahead of themselves on Mariota. Maybe he will be the next breakout Blake Bortles, but not this year. The receivers aren’t good enough and head coach Mike Mularkey has a spotty offensive record even though that is supposed to be his forte.

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Initial 2016 Fantasy Football Redraft Rankings and Projections

July 15, 2016 By Draft Buddy Leave a Comment

Adrian Peterson

Where do we rank Minnesota Vikings RB Adrian Peterson? Spoiler: Tier 2, RB3. Check out the complete QB, RB, WR and TE redraft player projections and cheatsheet rankings.

Last week you got an appetizer with our preliminary ranking tiers for each of quarterback, running back, wide receiver and tight end positions. Today is the release of our initial detailed player projections and rankings for the 2016 season.

Fantasy football season is underway. You know, the main drafting season entertaining the vast majority of fantasy footballers worldwide, not the 365-days on the calendar version a smaller hard core group of us are card carrying members of (here!). So given that, high time we published our initial projections and rankings for redraft leagues.

I am currently in Round 12 of the Scott Fish Bowl, better known as SFB#480 on Twitter. The draft is going okay, but I don’t feel it is stellar. Probably not enough mock drafting practice heading in resulting in numerous players I hoped to get a round later not falling, or just a really tough group of competitors.

At any rate, now I feel I have base rankings to start from, and between now and early September these rankings will be scrutinized and adjusted for training camp and preseason news, plus additional research and analysis of players, situations and simply new thoughts on players and player value. That is the way it goes with prognosticating fantasy football. These are fluid documents.

From browsing around the website, most everything is up to date now to get us fully into 2016 draft prep, but since the new design of the website implemented before baseball season there are still a number of features that could look better and be more user friendly. The plan is to get tackling those starting next week too.

Last but certainly not least, if you haven’t got Draft Buddy yet, then get on it. It is updated with projections from FF Today and ready to help you in all of your upcoming drafts. We will have a method of pulling our DraftBuddy.com projections into Draft Buddy soon.

Thanks for your time. Would love to hear some feedback on the rankings and projections. Feel free to comment below.

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Preliminary 2016 Quarterback Redraft Ranking Tiers

July 5, 2016 By Draft Buddy Leave a Comment

Andrew Luck

We have five quarterbacks in Tier 1 of our preliminary ranking tiers, including the Indianapolis Colts Andrew Luck, looking for a big comeback off an injury plagued and ugly 2015 season.

Draft Buddy is available for the 2016 fantasy football season. Many of you are already drafting numerous redraft, best-ball and dynasty leagues (me too), so download Draft Buddy to get started down the path to hoisting your league trophy at season’s end.

In addition to providing Draft Buddy each season with player projections from FF Today, we also publish our own projections and cheatsheets right here at draftbuddy.com. Today is the day we get started on that with preliminary quarterback redraft ranking tiers.

To be clear, these are just the tiers, not the actual rankings, so do not get too hung up on where a player is relative to players in the same tier. Focus more on the tier groups themselves.

There is no commentary at this time, but as we slowly roll out our fantasy football projections and rankings for the upcoming season the basic plan is this:

  • preliminary tiers
  • rankings and projections
  • player commentary
  • ongoing adjustments and updates

With respect to the preliminary tiers, while we have knowledge about current average draft position (i.e. average rankings of players), there was no reference made to ADP creating the tiers. Also, as we dig more into the detailed rankings and projections, a few more outliers from ADP will become more prominent, which will be players we promote to target or avoid in your fantasy drafts.

Please feel free to comment below on the tiers. Who is too high? Who is too low? Who are we totally off base on? Looking forward to your feedback. Lets keep the comments constructive and cool.

Tier 1

Aaron Rodgers
Andrew Luck
Cam Newton
Drew Brees
Russell Wilson

Tier 2

Ben Roethlisberger
Blake Bortles
Philip Rivers
Tom Brady

Tier 3

Carson Palmer
Eli Manning
Kirk Cousins
Matthew Stafford
Ryan Tannehill

Tier 4

Alex Smith
Andy Dalton
Derek Carr
Jameis Winston
Jay Cutler
Marcus Mariota
Matt Ryan
Tony Romo
Tyrod Taylor

Tier 5

Blaine Gabbert
Brock Osweiler
Joe Flacco
Mark Sanchez
Teddy Bridgewater

Tier 6

Geno Smith
Jared Goff ®
Robert Griffin III
Sam Bradford

Tier 7

Jimmy Garoppolo
Josh McCown

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