I need your expert FFB draft help.

[27offsuit]

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One suggestion: get cheatsheets that are separated by position, and mark off who's been taken as the draft goes on, so you'll be able to spot good players that are still unchosen. This is fairly rudimentary, but you may not have thought of it.


Hope this is of some help 27offsuit; your posts on SSH have been of help to me, and our positions are reversed there!

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I do do the cheatsheets during the draft. Thanks for the input. I'll definitely use it.

[27offsuit]

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I would appreciate any advice you FFB people could give me. I play in one league with people I would very much like to crush. I am 'dead money' in this 12 man league.

So, here's what I have.....

In a serpentine(up & down) draft, I have the #2 selection of where I want to be in that draft order.

Do I take the #2 pick (if #1 is gone)?

and

Who's my #2 pick?

#23?

#26?

Any other draft position theories?


Thaks in advance to anyone who gives me any opinions. They are appreciated.

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How does scoring work in your league? If passing TD's are worth as much as rushing or receiving TD's, Manning is the easy #2.

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They are, and I'm giving it serious consideration.

But what do you think that will leave me for #1 RB options when it gets around to me again?

[JayLear]

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They are, and I'm giving it serious consideration.

But what do you think that will leave me for #1 RB options when it gets around to me again?

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There will be a lot of good running backs left when you come back around in the second round. If you're drafting second, that leaves you with the 23rd pick, and then the 26th pick turning the corner in the 3rd round. Reasonably you could come back and take a running bck at both of those spots, and find many serviceable players there. For example, Curtis Martin, Tatum Bell, Steven Jackson, Bryan Westbrook, rookies such as Ronnie Brown, Cadillac Williams. If I'm you, I take Manning in the first round, fill my RB spots in the second and third, and then go for WR -- maybe a TE in the 4th or 5th if Gonzo or Gates are still there.

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Curtis Martin is much more than servicable.

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Curtis Martin is much more than servicable.

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Agreed. I mentioned him only as a strong possibility to be around late in the second round. And let's not kid ourselves. Curtis Martin was a pleasant surpise for fantasy owners last year. Huge rebound after a couple of down years. I got him in the 4th round last year, and won it all with him.

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Of those you mentioned, I like Cutis, Westbrook, and Cadillac. The others are really ?. Huge upsides on all of em, but their situations are murky. Cadillac is mruky too, but less than the rest from what I hear.

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There aren't may players out there without question marks. At this point, we don't know if T.O. will play this year. Does that mean he won't get picked in the second round? I think Cadillac is going to be a load back for the Bucs this year. I need to see what happens in the next couple of weeks with Tatum Bell before I come to a conclusion on him.

[27offsuit]

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They are, and I'm giving it serious consideration.

But what do you think that will leave me for #1 RB options when it gets around to me again?

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There will be a lot of good running backs left when you come back around in the second round. If you're drafting second, that leaves you with the 23rd pick, and then the 26th pick turning the corner in the 3rd round. Reasonably you could come back and take a running bck at both of those spots, and find many serviceable players there. For example, Curtis Martin, Tatum Bell, Steven Jackson, Bryan Westbrook, rookies such as Ronnie Brown, Cadillac Williams. If I'm you, I take Manning in the first round, fill my RB spots in the second and third, and then go for WR -- maybe a TE in the 4th or 5th if Gonzo or Gates are still there.

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Thanks for some solid info.