Acme Packing Company Fantasy League: Where We Stand After 6 Weeks
by Brandon on Oct 22, 2010 7:00 AM CDT
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This is the 3rd year I've run the Acme Packing Company league which is comprised of friends of the blog and my own personal friends. And for the 3rd year in a row, my team is limping along with a good point total, but something keeps holding them back. The league is also looking for its 3rd champion in 3 seasons as the two previous champs (wildcats and Devil Dogs) are currently cellar dwellers. Ah, sweet parity.
| Team | Record | Streakage | Points Scored | Points Against |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weasel Sausage | 5-1 | W1 | 633 | 489 |
| Powered by Peyton Manning, who's the fantasy league MVP after 6 weeks. It has sure helped that he's had by far the fewest points scored against him. | ||||
| Greedy Goblins | 4-2 | W1 | 638 | 638 |
| An early choice of Drew Brees has helped, and the surprise of Arian Foster has been a boon to many fantasy owners this year. The winning record is surprising since his opponents have been up to the challenge and kept pace with the top points team in the league. | ||||
| BeerGuzzlers | 4-2 | L1 | 629 | 537 |
| Another top team with another top QB (Phillip Rivers). This is a QB powered league. | ||||
| Notre Dame Box | 3-3 | W1 | 635 | 621 |
| Which is why I'm in 4th place with only Matt Ryan as my starter. I waited too long to grab a QB. Also, I see a losing streak in my future as I just lost my No. 2 fantasy player, TE Antonio Gates. | ||||
| The Juche Idea | 3-3 | L2 | 622 | 641 |
| The injuries are piling up, and Tom Brady has been too inconsistent. Chris Johnson can only do so much. | ||||
| Don't Blame BP, Blame Kiper's Hair | 3-3 | W2 | 603 | 625 |
| No huge star, but a lot of solid players. His team is playing better than it appears due to one horrific week dragging down his stats, but he'll need his Eli Manning/Michael Vick platoon to continue to produce. | ||||
| Favre's Wafflehouse | 2-4 | L1 | 582 | 534 |
| He's struggling to overcome the two headed, twin disappointments at the top of his fantasy draft (Jones-Drew and Turner). | ||||
| Devil Dogs | 2-4 | L1 | 549 | 526 |
| This is what happens when work gets in the way of your fantasy team, and you have to let the auto-draft take over. | ||||
| wildcats | 2-4 | L3 | 511 | 642 |
| A Packer heavy roster plus Adrian Peterson won the league last year, but losing Ryan Grant after 8 carries, and now Jermichael Finley, has taken it's toll. It certainly hasn't helped that he's got no clear cut No. 2 to carry the load with Aaron Rodgers. There's always next season. | ||||
| Somewhere Over Dwayne Bowe | 2-4 | W2 | 507 | 656 |
| He's at the bottom, but won his last 2. A mid-season trade for Tony Romo has given his team a boost, but now he's got Big Ben back too. We've got no trade deadline, so maybe he can now swap a QB for a RB/WR. | ||||
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ugh
This season has been SO frustrating. I didn’t want MJD but he was the only viable choice where I was in the draft. Now I am stuck with him even though I don’t want him. I still love Turner as a second round pick, he’s a GREAT value in the second round and has been decent but not spectacular. Now I get to unleash Marshawn Lynch on everyone this week just in time as I have lost Floyd and Clark to injuries!
interesting
If you look at the draft recap it tells you the total points for each guy picked. here are my first 4:
MJD: 56
Turner: 54 (injury comes into play here)
Moss: 52
Clark: 53
My best point non QB scorer is Floyd at 70…I remember being questioned for passing on Bowe on this one. In hindsight it was a pretty mediocre draft for me, disappointing though most of my leagues these days are auction style so I guess I am rusty.
Love that name...
Somewhere over Dwayne Bowe.
How long is the Sausage?
How long can my team keep winning by narrow margins? I hope Manning can keep racking up the points throwing to the scrubs.
This is my second year playing fantasy football and I honestly can’t see why everyone says “wait to take a QB in the second round, grab a top tier RB first”. To me, RB is the position that changes most from year to year. How is Chris Johnson doing so far for that first pick? But there are a number of QBs that you can hang your hat on year after year. Peyton Manning being on top of that list. Plus, QB is the only position on the field that gets scoring help from other players. 5 yard pass and a 60 yard yac and TD? You still get points for 65 yards and a TD.
I’ll take later RB picks and a top tier QB every time.
Yeah having a stable QB is nice but there is a reason why they don’t usually go that high. The dropoff in points from the top bunch to the next tier isn’t nearly as bad as it is with RBs. In most seasons, the top RBs are solid and get you consistent points in a position that isn’t nearly as deep. You need 1 starting QB…there are 10 teams in the league and 30 in the NFL. The dropoff in QB points from 1 to 10 isn’t that big. Heck I could make the same point using QBs. Where was Orton drafted? Probably wasn’t yet, he’s among the tops in the league.
QBs went often in the first round (current rank by ppg)
Rodgers (5)
Manning (1)
Brees (7)
Schaub (9)
There are lots of lower drafted and undrafted QBs sprinkled all over in the top 10 list too. So yeah, it worked out this year for ya, but it doesn’t always do that!
Well, yeah, if I couldn’t have gotten Rodgers, Peyton, Rivers or Brees, I probably would have gone with a top tier RB, but that probably would have had me looking at MoJo or Ray Rice who have not turned out to be any great shakes so far. I would have been better off with Tony Romo or Tom Brady.
Take a look at the first round RBs. Chris Johnson is the best scorer and he is nowhere near where people thought he would be. That is my major point. You never know who is going to be hot year to year. Where was Arian Foster drafted? 4th round, 4th pick and he is tops in the league. see – Matt Forte, Peyton Hillis, LaDanian Tomlinson.
Yeah I hear ya…at the same time CJ started out slow last year too .
Just remember the #4 QB in the league is Kyle Orton…he was undrafted. STinkin Shaun Hill is number 8. So it happens in both but I will agree the top QBs might be a LITTLE more reliable, but I have NEVER seen a draft with 4 QBs in the first round before…craziest thing I’ve ever seen.
Looking at the records of the teams who went QB in round one, two good and two bad so you really can’t make an argument either way with that. Thought that was interesting. All I know is that I didn’t take a QB until after round 5 and I still have a top 4 QB on my roster…yet I still have a 2-4 record. Frustrating.
Agree
I think thats the first time I have been in a draft where more than one QB went in the 1st round! It was rediculous… I went in thinking RB, WR, RB then QB… Thats been my very general pattern for most of my fantasy drafts. And that has almost always gotten me a top QB. But that strategy got nixed when 4 went in the 1st rd. I had to suck it up and go after a QB much sooner than expected. About 2 full rounds earlier as it turned out!
You've been Stroh'd!!!
In the league I play in (past 15 years),
our scoring system results in QBs almost always being the highest scorers.
Currently, the top five QBs are all scoring higher than Arian Foster, who is the highest scoring non-QB.
And, I have the #1 (Rivers; 1st round, 9th pick) and #3 (Orton).
Right now, somebody is trying to get me to trade Orton to him, because his only QB not on a bye this week is Vince Young. Haha.
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TT bashers - turning my stomach since 2005!
The glass is way more than half-full!
Rivers
I got Rivers w/ the 2nd pick in the 3rd, I believe… We’re playing 1 pt = 20 yds and 6 pts TD, I think…
Trade Orton for a Top WR or RB if you need too. Otherwise I would keep him. The trade has to make your team alot stronger, obviously.
BTW- Just traded Hakeem Nicks and Ronnie Brown for Stephen Jackson and Crabtree.. MIcheal that is… LOL Not Tom…
You've been Stroh'd!!!
Pulled the trigger.
Traded Orton, Woodson and Donte Whitner (Bills DB)
for
Matt Stafford, BJax, Pierre Garcon, Brandon Pettigrew and Terrell Thomas (NYG).
I needed short-term help at WR, with three of my four due to be on bye in Week 8, and was down to Owen Daniels, who is having a pretty disappointing year, at TE after Finley went down.
We use two DBs, and Woodsy and Whitner were my third and fourth in scoring so far this year, so I felt that, with Thomas to replace one of them, I’m still okay at that position.
Stafford is listed at CBS Sportsline as being probable for the Loins’ next game, in week 8, so should be at least servicable the only time I should have to use him (Rivers’ bye in Week 10).
(And, since that is the Pack’s bye week as well, then I don’t have to worry about using him when he is playing against us, haha.)
Good pickup with Stephen Jackson, BTW.
I drafted him in the second round. :)
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TT bashers - turning my stomach since 2005!
The glass is way more than half-full!
trade
I still have Calvin Johnson, Brandon Marshall, Brandon Lloyd and now Crabtree at WR, so I had plenty left at WR w/ the trade. My RB were Peterson, Michael Bush, and Ronnie Brown. So #2 RB was a problem… Call it fixed!!! Feel like I got 2 guys who are trending upwards and gave up 2 inconsistent players. Though Nicks had some BIG games, he had a couple lousy ones too.
Never played in a league w/ IDP. Do you like it? Seems alot less complicated using team D instead. Good luck w/ your trade and league… Let me know how you do.
I’m currently in 3rd overall I think…
You've been Stroh'd!!!
I really do like it.
I’ve been fantasizing (haha) for 15 years, and this is the only league I’ve ever been in.
Something about not needing to play three or four leagues to win one, I think.
An ego thing, lol.
It is more complicated, but, I tend to think that playing team D would be a bit boring, anymore.
Lastly, I feel the same about the complicated, detailed down to hundredths of a point, scoring system we use.
Winning or losing by a hundredth of a point is something you need to experience. haha.
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TT bashers - turning my stomach since 2005!
The glass is way more than half-full!
Losing by tenths of a point.
I had one of those in my other fantasy league… 1st week lost by about .5 pts! That sucked!!! LOL
I’m w/ you about fantasy leagues. I have always only done one, until last year. Now I do a local buy in league (took 2nd last year and won a few hundred $$$) and this one. Usually won about 50% of the leagues and always make the playoffs.
I don’t like to do multiple league, but I like doing this one for fun and the other one for money! I’ll never do more than 2, and if this was a pay league I would only do this one.
You've been Stroh'd!!!
Yeah, I thought about that some this summer.
If there are openings next year, I’ll consider joining this one, which would be my ‘fun’ league.
I don’t seem to recall getting one of Brandon’s invites this year, though.
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TT bashers - turning my stomach since 2005!
The glass is way more than half-full!
Come to think of it
that’s prob’ly cause I never responded in the comments when he was trying to drum up players. :D
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TT bashers - turning my stomach since 2005!
The glass is way more than half-full!
BeerGuzzlers
I’ve made a living in fantasy drafting good RB high every year and usually waiting on a QB till the mid rounds. I broke that a couple years ago and took Brady in the 1st only to see him blow his knee out (luckily I drafted Rodgers as my backup that year). This is only the 2nd time I took a QB high… Rivers in the 2nd or 3rd and he’s helping me alot. Still think RB in the 1st is the way to go, but as the NFL becomes more pass happy QB starts to become a higher priority!
My 2nd year in the APC fantasy league and this year is going well. Biggest mistake was taking Ronnie Brown instead of LeSean McCoy…
You've been Stroh'd!!!
My fantasy team is 6-0
Led by none other than #12, A-Rod! 8-) (not easy to do sunglasses with emoticons :P)
Pulled of a big sunday morning trade...
MONEY this week! Might regret it down the line, we’ll see but I LOVE me some Roddy White and he came through BIG time for me this week! Lets see how Felix looks tomorrow now to see if I really like the trade or not.
Whew!
In spite of a unstellar performance by Hasselbeck, looks like I’m going to make it pass my Peyton-less week. Dropped Carson Palmer to pick up Matt Hasselbeck for my scrub QB and of course, Palmer goes off.
Good to see the Pack get a win and Jennings put up numbers again.
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