2024 Fantasy Football Thread

My ownership through 23 drafts is just a list of most of the grossest clicks on the board haha

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Forced myself not to take Shipley by… drafting Saquon haha

Kyler, Maye

Saquon, Bucky, Davis, Allgeier, Ekeler, Lloyd

MHJ, Sutton, Jamo, Pickens, Downs, K Williams, Pop, Turpin

Laporta, Muth

Haha. I like that one.

Another Eagle I think I'm going to have to force myself not to overexpose is Hurts. I'm going to have a bag of 5th round Hurts if that's where he stays.

Yeah, at this point, I don't think you can pull him up in the 4th with AJB. I don't have any Hurts/AJB stacks post-draft.

But through 23 drafts, Hurts is my highest drafted QB at 22%. I'm one of the Hurts/DeVonta drafters stealing him from you haha.

In those 5 drafts, I have

Hurts/DeVonta/Goedert
Hurts/DeVonta
Hurts/Goedert
Hurts/DeVonta/Goedert
Hurts/DeVonta/Shipley

I do need to be careful with those combos. I'll probably do some completely unstacked Hurts with elite WRs too, just to avoid too many of the same combos.

I probably should add a few Hurts/Saquon too. I also think you can leverage with Hurts/Bijan and Hurts/Gibbs, where if Saquon goes down, Hurts's weekly projection would have to go up.

Stacks on stacks with some big values.

I reached on Taylor, but I don't think it really matters much in the 14th. I think he should be going around there anywhere, given what's on the depth chart. Ertz, Henry, Gesicki, Muth, and Schultz went between Taylor and Otton.

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I drafted a second team at the same time, which ended up as kind of a disaster after autoing Purdy and feeling like I should take Stroud 13 picks past ADP.

Purdy, Stroud, Geno

Saquon, Jacobs, Cook, Brashard, Woody

Tee, Zay, Pickens, Jakobi, Kupp, Noel, Doubs, Tre

Kelce, Engram

Traded

G Wilson + Ray Davis

To get

Tet + 26 3rd

In 10 tm start 10

Felt like the ceiling on Tet is higher. Did I sell too light on Wilson?

I think you did well. Tet has a higher ceiling, is 3 years younger, in theory has more QB certainty, the current coaching staff invested him, etc.

Wilson might end up being a guy who never lives up to the hype. He's also got a contract negotiation coming up.

Tet > Wilson, Davis = 3rd.

Lmao.

A guy in my draft right now has only taken MIN and WAS players through 9 rounds. He might actually get to Felton before me.

I guess it can work if they’re the two best offenses in the league lol.

I’m looking forward to watching this tomorrow.

Mahomes, Love

Gibbs, Hampton, Pacheco, Braelon, Allen, Shipley

AJB, Wilson, Worthy, Golden, Reed, Hollywood, QJ, Slayton, Noah

Kraft, Chig, Fannin

Just watched, no rookies haha. A couple interesting insights for sure, but I think we’re mostly doing what they say already

Hopefully they'll do a DK one as well.

LAR/SF or NYJ/NE in W17 might be nice.

Fields, Maye, Stafford

CMC, Henderson, Pollard, Allgeier, Corum, Giddens

Puka, JSN, Rice, Jeudy, Aiyuk, K Williams, Hollywood, Lazard

Njoku, Higbee, Theo

I get the feeling a lot of the podcasters / content creators use UD drafts for their content creation but DK for making most of their $$ (if their strats are indeed profitable at all).

No data to support this, just a hunch (given the wild variance of DK)

Another dynasty trade question

I traded away

26 3rd, 26 3rd, 27 3rd, 26 & 27 4th, Jordan mason

For

Tyler Warren

10 tm start 10 sf tep

I have a bunch of rb depth this year and mason felt like a 1 yr type of player

If Warren ends up being a TE 6-10 it's fair and if he is better than that it's a win obv. A lot of good players in the 3rd in a 10 man and also those 3rds are useful as trade add-on's in future drafts to move up spots in the 2nd but seems pretty good. Doubt moving Mason will be a huge regret.

Every time I watch Herzig, he spends the entire draft talking about stacking and correlating. It makes me feel good about how we play it. There are still so many drafters who don't stack enough or don't stack/correlate properly. I also liked how they stacked the RBs with the QB. The only thing I didn't like was taking Njoku 13 picks ahead of ADP, but that's just based on how much I've seen him falling. Also, you short changed them on the no rookies! They drafted TeSlaa in the 18th haha.

I feel like if you knew nothing else and showed up to a draft, on average, you're going to do pretty well as long as you stack QBs with pass catchers and don't do horrendous things with position and draft capital allocation.

Levitan is such a virgin with light mode lol. But it was a fun watch.

I have no doubts that they will.

Basically all of my volume is UD, and generally, it's probably a sharper market, though I see plenty of bad teams being built. But the flipside of DK is that while you may be in soft rooms, on average, when you get to the playoff weeks you're going to be against super teams everywhere. There are still enough sharp drafters that when the contest pool consolidates, the insane teams that the average pool allows to be drafted are everywhere. I also can't get past the fact that they still list drafted rosters with starting lineup and bench like it's a redraft league, rather than grouped by position.

Wait I thought they took Shipley in 18 and just talked about tesLaa haha I guess I missed it!

Haha, they took Shipley in the 17th.

For anyone curious on the team. Herzig continues to be a fan of taking cheaper backfields together.

Jayden, Stroud

Gibbs, Jacobs, BRob, Ekeler, Shipley

Tee, Ridley, Jeudy, Pickens, Downs, Kirk, Tillman, TeSlaa

Njoku, Goedert, Schultz

The cheaper backfield stacking and te allocation after the t2 are the 2 takeaways that I took from it

I haven’t been doing the cheap backfield combos (even though I did Warren/najee a bunch last year)

I’ve been doing the te allocations, but I think I should be more aggressively pushing given the current pricing

Yea taking RBs from the same team was what stood out the most. I think they used the term "complimentary"

One thing I've been doing on occasion to diversify my portfolio a little more is forcing myself to draft guys I have the least exposure to every other round. So Draft 1, maybe I'll do that on the odd numbered rounds. In Draft 1, I'll do it in the even numbered rounds.

Oh, the other thing for me (can't remember if it was Levitan or Herzig) was them talking about the difference on DK and how they always try to get 3 stacked QBs.

For some reason I've talked myself into doing more 2 QB builds, but I'll be doing more 3 QB builds now on unless my QB1 is Josh, Lamar, Jayden, or Hurts.