Your top ten sets the tone for your draft. The great thing about a top ten is you can share it with the idiots in your league. Everyone had a variation of the same seven and three. Seven consensus players that everyone wants, and up to three opinion picks. A perfect example from the past is Curtis Martin. He was a consensus top ten for the first five years of his career, but very much a contraversial opinion top ten pick in years 6 and seven.
Okay, so here is my top ten:
1. Adrian Peterson - The best fantasy player in the NFL. If you don't agree, you've never watched him in a full game. Go to you tube and search for his highlights.
2. Randy Moss - WHAT??? Always nice to have a pocket shocker at number 2. Check the numbers. In a head to head league, he's a wet dream for any owner: a wide receiver that scores like a running back.
3. LT - No, not the coke machine, Lawrence Taylor. At three, you can't even beat him with a pocket shocker. A bad year from LT is a good year for anyone below him.
4. Tom Brady - If he scores half as much as he did last year, he'll only be worth 50% of what he was. Uhuh. I said that.
5. Peyton Manning - If he's healthy. He's in any top ten just for name.
6. Larry Johnson - Actually, I don't believe in him at all, but everyone else does, so he goes here.
7. Joseph Addai - Solid solid solid.
8. Steven Jackson - Long holdouts sometimes hurt running backs, but this is Steven Jackson.
9. Ryan Grant - Oh, come on. Don't be a snob. Sure, you could take a name here, but this guy produces.
10. Vince Young - This pick is poison. Don't listen to me. I do this in honor of the five straight years I took Steve McNair around here. Three years it worked.
Caveats: Draft according to your plan. After number 5, there are no guarantees. Remember, you don't rank players to sleep through the draft. Pick what you see, what you want and what you like. Especially in a free or cheap league, nothing is worse than a team of players you don't like.
Remember, only one team wins, so nine out of ten times, you're paling for fun and pride.
More draft advice next week.
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4 comments:
What about Rae Carruth?
One ommission in your top ten is Brian Westbrook. Perhaps left off the list on purpose. I suspect the inclusion of Johnson and Young is the planting of weeds in the minds of the uneducated
You have to be careful with guys like Brady - putting numbers up in weeks 1-12 or 13 is great, but if he stops playing for the last few weeks (i.e., the fantasy playoff weeks), you're screwed. It depends on the scoring system (and, if you paid to get in, the betting system), but taking someone like Brady means you also have to have a really trustworthy backup for those last few games.
Hey, idiot. Check Brady's numbers in December, then get back to me. You're one of those nimwits who READ fantasy reports.
Read a stat sheet, moron.
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