Board 8 > The Best Board 8 Fantasy Football league 2017 part 3

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This is so brutal...I still have a 5 point lead at halftime. Gonna end up losing for sure but geez why does it have to be so drawn out

VI loses and I woulda beat both. Vi leaves points on the bench.
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2nd last year. Clutched out 3rd this year.

Always the bridesmaid.
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Ended 4th in my league. Disappointing after how much my team was killing it during the regular league. Completely avoided major injuries until it really mattered.

Oh well, 4th is enough to get my buy-in back so its not a total loss.
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Ugh FFD. You beat me by .36 points.
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I'm the best of the losers, apparently.
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Man, I botched it heavily didn't I (or just didn't expect Mixon to get hurt... again.)

oh well, gg suprak I guess as the owner you deserve to win once
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-FFDragon- posted...

2nd last year. Clutched out 3rd this year.

Always the bridesmaid.

Wonder where you would finished if you didn't trade for shitty Dak.
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Corrik posted...

-FFDragon- posted...

2nd last year. Clutched out 3rd this year.

Always the bridesmaid.

Wonder where you would finished if you didn't trade for shitty Dak.

LOL
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2nd in my money league, 7th in Cokes's B8 league. I'll take it.

These will be my options for keepers next year.

1st Round: Devonta Freeman
2nd Round: AJ Green
3rd Round: Christian McCaffrey
4th Round: Dalvin Cook
5th Round: Tyreek Hill
6th Round: Emmanuel Sanders
7th Round: Marcus Mariota

Everyone else is not eligible as they are no longer on my team. Pretty good that my first 7 picks made it through the entire year (Cook went to the IR slot). Mariota was a huge bust given some of the QBs that went after him though. Anywho, I get to pick two, and I've been leaning Cook and McCaffrey most of the year but I might take Hill instead of one of the RBs.

I got really lucky VI's team had a bad week, because Freeman only got 5 points, I made the wrong choice on defense by 11 points, and I made the wrong choice on Flex with my other two options both outscoring the guy I used by 8 points. Oh, and the guy I picked up in desperation to replace my TE that got put on IR got a total of zero points >_> This is actually one of my worst teams since we've done the B8 league, but yet I somehow beat two teams in the playoffs significantly better than me by pure luck. Hooray for randomness, I suppose.

Thanks for everyone for playing! I hope to see everyone back next year!
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I actually don't think having Dak vs Ben would have changed much for me actually.

It was a matter of the rest of my team letting me down on the weeks I lost.
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Season Story:

[D Grade] Draft Strategy (30%)
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[A Grade] In-Season Management (20%)
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[A Grade] Projection and Final Standing (50%)
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[B Grade] Season Grade

Projected Standings: 14th Place (out of 14)
Final Standings: 3rd Place (out of 14)

aw yeah spinning bronze out of a shit auto-draft
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Honestly, regardless of auto or not, we all kind of got trashed by the draft because hardly any players were ever consistent. Literally the #1 and #2 fantasy QBs had one game with <10 points each, while the third never went below, but had more 10-20 pt games.

To state my ranks by player...
QB
Drafted: Jameis Winston- 23rd at QB (dropped), Jared Goff- 8th at QB
Picked Up: Case Keenum- 14th at QB

Thoughts: Goff was one of the people I listed to be underrated for this season, I was right. I also said Winston would be better than Ryan this year, Flacco would do well, and Trubisky would be a star rookie QB. Well, I was 1/4.

RB
Drafted: DeMarco Murray- 18th at RB, Danny Woodhead- 81st at RB (dropped), Jacquizz Rodgers- 78th at RB (dropped), Samaje Perine- 44th at RB (dropped)
Picked Up: Dion Lewis- 16th at RB, Corey Clement- 46th at RB

Thoughts: Perine I dropped as a spare slot, trying to grab a bunch of good stuff. Dion was a good pick up, but I really got screwed at this position overall. Murray was my 1st round.

WR
Drafted: Amari Cooper- 40th at WR, Martavius Bryant- 50th at WR (dropped), John Brown- 84th at position, Marvin Jones Jr- 12th at WR, Paul Richardson- 34th at WR (dropped)
Picked Up: Deonte Thompson- 62nd at WR, Brandon Coleman- 79th at WR

Thoughts: I think I dropped Richardson after his big stuff ended, but I had really poor players starting for the entire season.

TE
Drafted: Greg Olsen- 49th at TE (dropped), O.J. Howard- 17th at TE (dropped), David Njoku- 23rd at TE (dropped)
Picked up: Tyler Kroft- 18th at TE, Julius Thomas- 20th at TE

Thoughts: I just got screwed on an injury year for Olsen. Just as someone else probably got screwed on an injury year for Eifert, and I got lucky to get Kroft, but still... Not even close to a good TE year for me.

Def
Drafted: Carolina- 7th at Def
Picked Up: Green Bay- 20th at Def

Thoughts: Not the best, but honestly, how many defenses above it were drafted? Only Rams/Eagles I think.

K
Drafted: Matt Prater- 11th at K

IDPs
Drafted: Eric Berry- ? at DB (dropped), Earl Thomas- 27th at DB (dropped), TJ Watt- 38th at LB (dropped then repicked up later), Sheldon Richardson- 78th at DL (dropped)
Picked Up: Demario Davis- 9th at LB, Telvin Smith- 10th at LB, Trumaine Johnson- 18th at DB, Aaron Donald- 10th at DL

Thoughts: I said it before, I had at least one week where my Defenses (Def+IDPs) nearly outscored all my W/R/Ts.

If there is anyone who would like me to do this sort of thing for their team (go over rank of their draft picks), it's not that hard for me and I'm a stats nerd like this anyway. I can do it.
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Nobody had a good TE year.
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Eh, Kelce helped someone probably on some weeks. Also Graham in some key weeks could destroy some teams.
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I had Rudolph in my league who had been good until this week when he shafted me.
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Ertz had a really good year and was why I made the finals
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I went Olsen -> Doyle -> ASJ -> Rudolph

It was ok-ish. Rudolph blueballed me in the end though.

In my 4 leagues this year I came:

1st (after starting 0-6, I then won out)
3rd (10-4 regular season)
3rd (10-4 regular season)
Currently losing in a 2 week long championship game (9-4 regular season)

I drafted well in all 4 really but had to do some waiver acrobatics in the league I won. My entry fees for the year were $190 (1 league was free/no prize) and I'm going to walk away with $940-1190 so pretty decent year.

Ajayi worst first round pick of my life
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I traded away Abdullah for Elliot when the first of his bans was supposed to kick in. Worked out pretty well.
Started 0-3. Finished 10-3.
Won first round play off but absolutely muffed this round down by 20 with 1 week to play.
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I had 3 Giants in the top 6 picks of my draft. All of them were injured by week three. My team was otherwise decent, but horribly inconsistent.
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Draft strategy: B+
In-season management: B
Projected and final standing: B
Season grade: B

Hell yeah
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I just looked at the league standings for kicks. It's hilarious that our champion is 9-4 and entered the playoffs on a 4-game losing streak.
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