2024 Fantasy Football Thread

I like this one a lot

Got my first saquon team and I even drafted AR

Was this too much investment in qb?

Maye, Dak, AR

Saquon, Mixon, Conner, Harvey, Brashard Smith, Mullings

Tee, Wilson, Tet, Burden, Shaheed, Pittman, Coker, Savion

Ferguson, Henry, Fannin

Not sure how to feel about this one

Baker, Tua, Rodgers

CMC, Walker, Skattebo, Ray Davis, Harvey, Brashard Smith

Nabers, MHJ, Evans, Waddle, Pearsall,Pittman, Ayomanor, Savion

Kincaid, Otton, Arroyo

It seems the community has wised up and is going with 3 QB's this year.

We way over did the week 17 game stacks last year as well. I will not be forcing it like we did last year.

I'm getting into the NFL draft but I just can't get myself to do a best ball draft yet. I don't know how you guy's do it.

I'll be posting my lessons learned shortly.

3 QBs was always the standard for 20 rd drafts fwiw

I like this team and think the QB investment is fine for 20 rounds. Probably stick with Maye/Dak in 18 rounds. You're well balanced everywhere and just need the TEs to come through.

I think it's good. Like the one above, need the TEs to come through. But if CMC is CMC, then you're in good shape.

Week 17 correlation is meant to be a tiebreaker and not something you force. Some drafters put too much stock into it, and I have been guilty of it too at times, but it really should be secondary to other fundamentals.

If you want to not have to think about week 17 correlation, the predraft contests are great for you haha. Although, some drafters still try to edge it by correlating divisions hoping for week 17 matchups.

As far as the 3 QBs, as jimmy posted, it's pretty standard in 20 rounds. It's the 18 round drafts that make it a tough balance. My goal is still to keep QB/TE to 4/5 players total in 18 rounds. I'll do 3 each, if my first taken for both positions is somewhere in the 9th/10th rounds or later.

There is also so much more uncertainty right now, especially at QB, than there will be by this summer. 3 QBs can be an advance rate play, but it can still put you at a disadvantage in the playoffs, especially if you're regularly doing it unstacked. You can't be afraid of variance and uncertainty when first place is 10-15% of the prize pool.

That makes sense. I did mostly UD drafts last year.

Grabbing a third starter late still makes sense to me. Most of these picks outside of QB won't work out anyway. I like having depth and a third guy who can make my lineup when the other two suck.

Just built something with similar investment.

Caleb, Tua, AR

Gibbs, BRob, Neal, Roschon, DJ Giddens, Damien Martinez, Bhayshul Tuten

Reek, Tee, Odunze, Reed, Aiyuk, Downs, Jayden Higgins, Tez Johnson

Kittle, Kmet

Another roster construction conundrum. I think I could have done any of 3-6-8-3, 3-7-8-2, or 3-7-7-3. I guess it's nice to have luxury picks. I felt like Kittle/Kmet were strong enough to stick with 2 rather than chasing a late round dart throw.

My exception to the 3 QB rule will be if I take two QB's fairly early. Even then I may still go three. The playoffs seem kind of crapshooty too me. I'd prefer to get there and then hope for the best. Winning first is probably not gonna happen. If it does happen it will require some crazy luck. The last two years were pretty nutty. It just makes more sense to have a bunch of teams advance and hope to get lucky than constructing teams in the hopes of winning it all. My gut told me 3 QB's was the way last year but I didn't follow my gut. This year I am following my gut 100%.

I was definitely guilty of forcing in way too much week 17 correlation last season. I'll still take it, but it'll be more as a tiebreaker like heels said.

My main thing is going to be focused on taking stands on fades, and not trying to get exposure to players "just in case."

I will be getting at least 7% of players going in the first 3 rounds. last year I soft faded Barkley 3% and Henry 3% and paid the price. I will continue to fade players in later rounds if I feel strongly about it. Luke Musgrave and Zamir White were two I can think of. I had 1% of each. Each year there are free squares of players who should be faded. I had zero Olave, Adams, and Aiyuk in the early second. I will also force feed myself players I typically pass on but still like. Josh Jacobs and Joe Mixon were two guys I liked but I liked other players around them.

I remember all of us were patting each other on the back when we posted a team that had a bunch of week 17 correlation. Last year was the first time I did mass entry best ball so I followed the herd. I never felt great about it.

The try to guess which team the rookie QBs are going to roster.

Maye, Ward, Shedeur

CMC, KW3, Mondre, Tyjae, Jordan James

Malik, Evans, Tet, Jeudy, Jakobi, Doubs, Wan'Dale, Tez Johnson, Jaylin Noel

Njoku, Loveland, Ertz

Hit the Titans, Browns, Giants, and Vegas. Then Maye with Tet too.

I feel like Loveland is destined to be a Bronco which would be a nice landing spot.

Want to talk about going hard in the degen paint?

I had a profitable DFS night in MMA last night. So I signed up for a 3-day Nascar optimizer trial so I could enter 200 lineups for today's race.

Lmao. Good luck. Let us know how you do.

NASCAR is how I got into gambling. My mom and her friends used to do a driver pool and let me participate. I can’t remember exactly how old I was, but I was pretty young. Probably somewhere between 9-12.

I used to follow it pretty closely. But I haven’t watched in years.

I luck boxed a nascar dfs win during covid for $3K while not knowing a single driver haha. I read some rankings and ownership projections and just clicked buttons.

Was a fun sweat at the end of the race. The first 90% was insanely boring

It’s definitely a spectator sport. I’ve been to a few races back in the day. It’s a pretty fun live experience. But it’s a boring TV experience.

He is very good and will be good wherever he goes.

I can see Denver signing Gerald Everett because he would fit in well with the "joker" roll Sean Payton wants. I don't know if this would effect whether Denver took Loveland or not. The TE's are deep in this draft. Loveland would thrive as the "joker". I really want us to get Tyler Warren but it's not looking good for him to slide to 20. I don't think Denver would give up a second or third rounder to move up given how rich in talent these rounds are this year.

I'd be taking some shots at Fannin, Helm and Arroyo in the early best ball draft season.

Your Broncos definitely need to solve their TE problem. It's been a while since they've had a good one.

If Loveland or Warren fall to 20, that'd be great. But I think it's probably unlikely.

Fannin, Helm, and Arroyo are all fun prospects. Mason Taylor too. Dane Brugler had quite a few in the top 100 in his last big board.

10. Warren
11. Loveland
37. Taylor
39. Arroyo
64. Helm
82. Fannin
98. Terrance Ferguson

that's awesome! Well I did my 200 for today. Basically tried to be pretty even with the chalk, and went a little over on Ryan Blaney. Then forced in some extra exposure to some of the less chalky guys whose projections looked pretty good.

Only entered 1 into the big contest for $100k up top so I did that build by hand. For the sweats.

25 tms in, not worrying too much about exposures in this, will worry about that more in bbm

Also, drafted 10 dingers. I think I’m hooked haha. May actually watch some baseball this year

Do any of you guys pay much attention to positional availability by round?

Let's say in Round 5, there's normally 6 RBs, 3 WRs, 2 QBs, and 1 TE

Are you more likely to

A. Take a RB because of how many are available.
B. Take a QB/TE because of how few are available.
C. Take whatever fits your team.

Fun exposures, jimmy. Pounding those rookies haha. Chubb is the only one on that list I’m completely out on. I know he’s cheap, but it just feels over for him.

As far as positional availability, I don’t ever consider it by round, since that’s such a small sample.

Team fit, tiers, ADP, the value I perceive to be available later, the opportunity cost relative to what’s available later, combo balancing, etc. are all things I think about.

My first round pick will dictate a lot of my direction. Thinking back to front will also dictate a lot.