2017 FANTASY FOOTBALL THREAD VOL. ZERO RB IS STILL KING

rc103dc said:
Seriously considering dropping Ajayi, since I have clay and want to stash him. My other RBs are Zeke, Cohen, Martin, and Coleman. Would this be ok? I was thinking about picking up Dickson.
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NO. Try to trade him before you do anything. Zeke and Martin are your only reliable backs. I certainly wouldnt drop him.
 
wrightone86 said:
Pryor & Mixon

for

Cooks & Blount


I would be getting Cooks/Blount combo
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I would do that. As high as I was on Mixon before the season, that line is god awful terrible. He averages the least amount of yards before contact of any running back in the NFL and isnt the type of runner to break a ton of tackles.
 
I was 0-3 in my 12-team league. 5th highest points total and lost week 3 by 2 points because Rivers only gave me 5 points. Decided to take a chance on Watson in week 4 and now I’m about to be 2-3 thanks to him :pimp:

Still need a bona fide RB tho. Y’all think AJ Green and Buck Allen is too much to offer for LeVeon?

I would still have Cooks, TY, Hurns and Fuller.

RBs would be Bell, Cohen, Gallman, McKissic, and Powell.

Im tired of getting ~5 pts out of my RB2
 
erupt said:
I was 0-3 in my 12-team league. 5th highest points total and lost week 3 by 2 points because Rivers only gave me 5 points. Decided to take a chance on Watson in week 4 and now I’m about to be 2-3 thanks to him :pimp:

Still need a bona fide RB tho. Y’all think AJ Green and Buck Allen is too much to offer for LeVeon?

I would still have Cooks, TY, Hurns and Fuller.

RBs would be Bell, Cohen, Gallman, McKissic, and Powell.

Im tired of getting ~5 pts out of my RB2
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If someone offered me that for Bell I would tell them to piss off.
 
junglejim said:
If someone offered me that for Bell I would tell them to piss off.
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Fair enough :lol:. I forgot to mention that dude is 1-4 and his receivers are Odell, Amari, Marshall, Ginn, and Wallace. He needs a big time receiver.

My RBs are Cohen, Powell, Buck, Gallman, Mckissic, and Kelley. Who would y’all pair with AJ? Or what other RB would y’all target? This Zero RB strategy hasn’t panned out too well for me as far as RBs are concerned :lol:
 
junglejim said:
I would do that. As high as I was on Mixon before the season, that line is god awful terrible. He averages the least amount of yards before contact of any running back in the NFL and isnt the type of runner to break a ton of tackles.
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He came back and doesn't want Pryor, but he said he would do Garcon/Mixon for Cooks/Blount
 


macbk macbk I know you already have McGuire but for anyone who doesn’t he’s worth an add. Forte is likely out again & Powell has a calf strain.

McGuire is playing the worst defense in the league. He’s capable of catching passes, too for PPR leaguers.
 
both Crowell and McGuire are available in my league, but I don't know if I should pick up David Johnson now to stash. No one in my league is making ANY trades. I've proposed 7 trades so far since week 2, no bites. I really have to make due with the WW and FA every week.

This week, I started 6 new players due to some team byes and injuries
 
nickmaz96 said:


macbk macbk I know you already have McGuire but for anyone who doesn’t he’s worth an add. Forte is likely out again & Powell has a calf strain.

McGuire is playing the worst defense in the league. He’s capable of catching passes, too for PPR leaguers.
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I should try and trade him and attach that report alongside any offer :lol: because I have Kamara back off the bye so I would certainly start him over McGuire :emoji_thinking: .
 
I swear some of you have to be trolling

Drop Ajayi? :rofl:


Go ahead and give someone a championship. He hasn’t been great because that team sucks but to drop him?

SMFH
 
Agreed. Some of y'all wildin with drop questions. I know it's desperation moves for losing records but would you really rather settle and start even more questionable players? I'm 2-3 in my main league and will continue to ride out the tried and true fellas
 
Dude in my league dropped Ty Montgomery over the weekend for Ellington.

I had already snagged A.Jones off waivers.
 
This article is from last year so the player examples no longer apply. But the entire message does. Great read.

Is It Time to Panic?

Is It Time to Panic?
October 3, 2016 | By RotoViz Staff
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I’ve never actually read Aron Ralston’s book “Between a Rock and a Hard Place,” where he recounts getting his arm stuck while rock climbing, and then having to amputate that arm. But I think about Ralston a few times per week.


That might sound weird, so I should say that I think about his ordeal and I wonder whether I would have the judgment needed to cut off my own arm in order to save my life. I find Ralston’s story to be incredibly powerful because I don’t think many of us are able to focus on that one thing that matters, and then optimize for that thing. More often we try to balance too many considerations at once, and often fail on a number of measures instead of really focusing on succeeding at the one super-important thing.

The title of this article is: Is it time to panic? By that I mean, is it time to do something dramatic? Should you be doing whatever the equivalent of cutting off an arm is in fantasy terms, in order to save your fantasy season?



First let’s think about some reasons that you shouldn’t panic yet, even if you’re off to a slow start. You should not panic if you’re 1-3, but you’re in the top three in your league in points. You’re getting unlucky and running into squads each week that you’re losing to, but you probably still have a good team. You shouldn’t panic if you’ve had some bad injury luck. If you drafted Rob Gronkowski and then watched him sit two weeks, followed by watching him underwhelm in two weeks, you probably don’t need to panic. If the rest of your team is strong you can plan on Gronk eventually returning to form.

But maybe it is time to panic. And it might be time to panic even if you’re something like 2-2. It’s time to panic if you’re narrowly winning the games you’ve won, and you’re getting your doors blown off in your losses. It’s time to panic if you’re in the bottom three in your league in points, and you don’t have a good excuse for that (drafting Le’Veon Bell in the first round might be an excuse). It’s time to panic if you’ve lost the parts of your team you thought would be strong. If you started your draft with Keenan Allen and Sammy Watkins as two of your first three picks, then you qualify.

I’m using the term panic, but in reality there shouldn’t be anything emotional about your action. This is fantasy football, which is just a silly game. All you really have to do is look at your roster and figure out whether you need to take dramatic action in order to remain viable long term. Once you decide that dramatic action is required then the important thing to keep in mind is that you’re embarking upon a costless path. There is no cost to dealing away your best player, because your team is ****ed if you don’t do something dramatic. That doesn’t mean that you should be careless in deciding upon a path, only that you have to be prepared to have no regrets once you decide on an action.

I can’t offer advice for every struggling team in the space of this article, but I can give you my general outlook on trying to turn around a loser. I would embark upon the following steps:

  1. Find the players on your team that have the biggest gap between their current market valuation, and their ability to help you in the future. Trade those players away.
  2. Find the players on opposing teams with the biggest gap between their potential to score in the future, and their current valuation. Trade for those players.
  3. Try to trade one high value player on your team for two high variance players on an opposing team. Lots of owners like to be on the side of a 2-for-1 where they’re getting one player back. That works to your advantage if you can find a team in your league that has two players that both have a lot of upside, but have reasonable costs now.
  4. If you have a QB you can trade away and get something in return, do it and start streaming.
If you have a ****ty team, but somehow still have a stud on that team, you probably only get one shot to turn that stud into something good. So you have to make it count. You can’t make a marginal deal because then you’ll be handicapped going forward with nothing of value to offer someone else. The other thing to keep in mind is that you probably have to compound whatever action you take a few times between now and the end of the season. It’s not enough to take a ****ty team and make one move in Week 4/5. You probably need to do that almost every week between now and when you start to end up as one of the highest scoring teams (if everything goes well).

Sometimes it’s not possible to turn around a loser. But at least you can try. I’ve had some of my most fun seasons taking a team that under-performed for one reason or another, and trying to turn that team around. It can also be exhausting too, because sometimes it’s just easier to accept your fate and realize this isn’t your year. It takes effort to care, and it takes effort to try to turn over your entire roster so that you have a winner. Throwing in the towel is an attractive option sometimes, and that’s why I wonder whether if I were confronted with almost certain death, whether I would have the fortitude to cut off my own arm to try to save myself.
 
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