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Draft Buddy RotoBowl I – Week 10 Update

November 16, 2018 By kopasetic 1 Comment

Drew Brees

QB Drew Brees has Chris’ RotoBowl team currently 2nd, 1st and 1st in passing categories: yards, yards per attempt and touchdowns.

Roto fantasy football? It is true, it is a thing. Check the origin story, participants and league details and my Week 5 update for some history about the league.

Week 10 has come and gone and I’m currently sitting in 2nd place.

Rotobowl I Standings, Week 10

Draft Buddy RotoBowl I standings through NFL Week 10.

You can check the updated standings for yourself.

Passing Stats

My options: Drew Brees.

  • Passing Yards – 3004 (2nd)
  • Passing Yards per Attempt – 8.7 (1st)
  • Passing Touchdowns – 25 (1st)

That’s me driving the Brees for MVP wagon. He’s been a beast.

Receiving Stats

My WR options: Doug Baldwin, Alshon Jeffery, DeSean Jackson and Tyler Boyd.

My TE options: Jordan Reed, Vernon Davis, Vance McDonald.

  • Receptions – 315 (5th)
  • Receiving Yards – 3867 (5th)
  • Receiving Touchdowns – 24 (7th)

As I predicted in the last update, I regressed in TDs down from 3rd to 7th. The pleasant surprise is how I’ve been able to climb up in receptions and receiving yards when I’ve been focusing more on rushing. Getting Jeffery and Baldwin back and Boyd’s breakout season have certainly helped.

Rushing Stats

My options: Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry, Phillip Lindsay, D’Onta Foreman, Ronald Jones, Chris Ivory, Rex Burkhead and Malcolm Brown.

  • Rushing Yards – 1401 (9th)
  • Average Yards per Rush – 4.0 (T-12th)
  • Rushing Touchdowns – 14 (T-6th)

In the last update I mentioned that I might need to pull off a trade. I was right. In Week 8 I traded WR Taylor Gabriel to @PJHofer07 for RB Phillip Lindsay. I now have Barkley & Lindsay as my two RB’s to plug in every week. After that it is matchups and lottery tickets.

Trades

Week 10 – @EvFWFB makes two trades: trades WR Golden Tate to Killer Fins for RB Josh Adams and trades WR D.J. Moore to Fighting Chance Steve for RB Ito Smith.

Week 11 – Fighting Chance Steve trades WR Kenny Golladay to @FantasyTaz for QB Ben Roethlisberger.

The running theme with these trades and my trade is it is not so much that you are trading players but that you are trading categories… which is a common Roto practice.

Mid-Season Observations on the Roto Format

I firmly believe giving each team the ability to start more than one QB is essential to maximizing the strategic potential of roto fantasy football. I’ve come across 2-QB formats in points leagues and prefer them for the shear fact that someone will have to start Eli Manning occasionally (if not every week). Now, in points leagues you’re just hoping for a few TDs to make his score palatable. In roto, your hoping he doesn’t kill your Yards/Attempt and other ratios. Chess over checkers.

When putting this league together I was asked by some about doing a Best Ball format. If you are not familiar with Best Ball it is where you draft players and never have to worry about setting the lineup as your top scores each week will be used to fill out the starting lineup to maximize your point total. It is becoming more popular each season in the fantasy industry. Well, in regards to the roto format it isn’t as easy to put into practice.

Since the scoring isn’t a cut and dry point total to judge players against it is nearly impossible to determine who the “best” player is each week. The only way you could do it would be to make the stats count for every player drafted. Due to the low participation in this year’s RotoBowl (only 4 of 15 teams have submitted a complete lineup every week), I may be forced to go that route in future years.

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Draft Buddy RotoBowl I – Update

October 12, 2018 By kopasetic 3 Comments

Week 5 is in the books and I’m way overdue on giving you an update on how the roto fantasy football league is going. In case you missed it back in late-July, here is the origin story, participants and league details of this unique fantasy football league format.

I’m currently sitting in 4th place overall… but in trouble.

Draft Buddy RotoBowl I Standings

Draft Buddy RotoBowl I standings through NFL Week 5.

This update is as of the end of NFL Week 5, but check the current standings to follow along at home.

Passing Stats

My options: Drew Brees, Jameis Winston

  • Passing Yards – 1666 (2nd)
  • Passing Yards per Attempt – 8.7 (2nd)
  • Passing Touchdowns – 11 (T-4th)

As Brees goes, I go. Barring injury I should stay towards the top of the passing categories. I had Brees as the 3rd best QB going into the draft behind Wilson and Brady. I ended up getting him in the 6th round as the 6th QB off the board.

Receiving Stats

My WR options: Doug Baldwin, Alshon Jeffery, DeSean Jackson, Kenny Stills, Tyler Boyd, Taylor Gabriel, Allen Hurns

My TE options: Jordan Reed, Vernon Davis, Vance McDonald

  • Receptions – 146 (11th)
  • Receiving Yards – 1905 (8th)
  • Receiving Touchdowns – 14 (T-3rd)

Work to be done here. Touchdowns are more random so I shouldn’t expect to stay towards the top in that category. Getting Baldwin and Jeffery back will (hopefully) help me move up in receptions and yards. In a 15 team league you’re going to see the likes of Gabriel and Boyd contributing.

Rushing Stats

My options: Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry, Doug Martin, D’Onta Foreman.

  • Rushing Yards – 687 (9th)
  • Average Yards per Rush – 3.7 (15th)
  • Rushing Touchdowns – 5 (T-11th)

Losing Rex Burkhead and Jeremy Hill to injury didn’t help my poor showing. Even the guys not injured are dragging me down. Henry is pulling down my yards per rush and I don’t have any other options. I missed out on Wendell Smallwood this week and took a flyer on Kapri Bibbs hoping Adrian Peterson and/or Chris Thompson can’t go this week. Unfortunately for me I can’t confuse hope for a plan. I may be forced to try and pull off a trade to land a RB worth a damn and try and improve my standing in these rushing stats.

Early Observations on the Roto Format

Too much emphasis on one QB? The perfect roto league would seem to have the ability to start more than one QB each week so that the passing stats aren’t driven predominantly by one player. In roto baseball it would be like tracking home runs and RBI hit by catchers separately from other hitters.

You still need balance. I know this in roto baseball and I thought I knew this coming into this league. I’m in a bad spot with my RB and need to adapt. Much like in roto baseball you need to aim for finishing high in each category. Not necessarily 1st in each but in the 3rd to 4th place territory.

Make sure you have your lineup in each week! Unlike the head-to-head format where you can start a player on a bye and risk just losing the week, in roto that wasted opportunity could create a gap too big to make up. Take Rushing Yards for example, I’m in 9th place: 51 yards behind 8th; 149 yards behind 7th; 283 yards behind 6th and 364 yards behind 5th… and that is with filling out my lineup each week!

Best/Worst through First 5 Weeks

Category Best Worst
Passing Yards 464 – Week 4 / @MStepney71 118 – Week 1 / @MikeKAdamson*
Passing TDs 5 – Week 3 / @kingsperry37 0 – 10 Times
Receptions 54 – Week 2 / @Razzball_MB 17 – Week 5 / @Roto_Chris
Receiving Yards 646 – Week 5 @MikeJAdamson 172 – Week 4 / @PJHofer07
Receiving TDs 7 – Week 3 / @FantasyTaz 0 – 5 Times
Rushing Yards 447 – Week 2 / @PJHofer07 38 – Week 4 / @Razzball_MB*
Rushing TDs 4 – Week 1 / @PJHofer07 0 – 24 Times
Turnovers 0 – 16 Times 5 – Week 1 / @FFzinger

*Removed @EvFWFB since he hasn’t set a lineup the past few weeks.

Filed Under: Fantasy Football

Preliminary 2016 Wide Receiver Redraft Ranking Tiers

July 7, 2016 By Draft Buddy Leave a Comment

A.J. Green

Miss out on the top two RB in your draft? No worries. It might even be better to set your team up with one of these stud WR, including the Cincinnati Bengals A.J. Green.

The last two days we posted preliminary quarterback tiers and running back tiers for the upcoming fantasy football season. Today, the longest list at 70 players, our preliminary wide receiver tiers.

Note the players are only tiered, not ranked within their groups, so focus on the tiers as opposed to where a player is situated relative to other players in their own tier.

Expect detailed projections and rankings, plus some fantasy football player commentary in the coming weeks. Feel free to post your feedback in the comments below, or on Facebook or Twitter.

Tier 1

A.J. Green
Antonio Brown
Julio Jones
Odell Beckham Jr.

Tier 2

Allen Robinson
DeAndre Hopkins
Dez Bryant
Mike Evans
T.Y. Hilton

Tier 3

Alshon Jeffery
Amari Cooper
Brandon Marshall
Demaryius Thomas
Jarvis Landry
Jordy Nelson
Larry Fitzgerald

Tier 4

Brandin Cooks
Doug Baldwin
Eric Decker
Golden Tate
Jeremy Maclin
Julian Edelman
Keenan Allen
Kelvin Benjamin

Tier 5

Allen Hurns
DeSean Jackson
Donte Moncrief
Emmanuel Sanders
John Brown
Jordan Matthews
Markus Wheaton
Randall Cobb
Sammy Watkins
Sterling Shepard ®

Tier 6

DeVante Parker
Kendall Wright
Kevin White
Marvin Jones
Michael Crabtree
Michael Floyd
Stefon Diggs
Steve Smith
Tavon Austin
Ted Ginn
Torrey Smith
Tyler Lockett
Vincent Jackson
Willie Snead

Tier 7

Bruce Ellington
Corey Coleman ®
Jerome Simpson
Kamar Aiken
Kenny Britt
Laquon Treadwell ®
Michael Thomas ®
Mike Wallace
Mohamed Sanu
Pierre Garcon
Robert Woods
Terrance Williams

Tier 8

Brandon LaFell
Danny Amendola
Dorial Green-Beckham
Jamison Crowder
Josh Doctson ®
Nelson Agholor
Rueben Randle
Sammie Coates
Travis Benjamin
Tyler Boyd ®

Filed Under: Fantasy Football

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