Yea but its only 4pts for every passing TD so not really losing out on much. All I need is a solid RB2 which can definitely emerge from the group I have. I am stacked at WR and have the best TE.
Assuming that the league deducts points for INTs, you may wish that TDs got 6pts since Freeman has a history of throwing more picks than touchdowns. Freeman isn’t even a top 12 QB, which makes me wonder how you ended up with him (since there’s only 12 teams).
How do you end up with Freeman in a 12 team league? Did you pick your QB with your last pick? You might only have 4 pts for a TD, but the NFL has now become a throwing league. 10 years ago, 30% of all offensive plays were passes and 70% were rushes. Now it’s the opposite. Most QBs gets at least 300 yds passing now. Heck, we had 3 5000+yds passers last year. You are severely underrating the value of QBs in this era.
Well it was an auction draft and since the projected total for QBs ranked 6-25 was so close that if you didn’t target the top guys it wasn’t worth spending too much on QB. So I held off and before I knew it, people had already drafted back up QBs. Freeman was the best of the remaining lot and since he scrambles I will get rushing yards from him.
For week 1: Freeman is projected to score 15pts while my opponent is starting Romo who is proj at 17.5.
Also I completely underestimated AFers. Players were being bid up way past the average auction value (which I figured is what we would use as the benchmark). Example: Foster went for $68 and I had to spend $47 on DMac while their average values were $50 and $35.
WR: Miles Austin, Roddy White (Dwayne Bowe, Kenny Britt, Demaryius Thomas)
TE: Jermichael Finley (Fred Davis)
K: Robbie Gould
DEF: Pittsburgh
Not a terrible autodraft, but I’m going to need to work the waiver wire hard in the first couple weeks to turn my second string K/DEF into solid backups at RB.
For all the doubters, I would like to announce that my 1st week match up against the winner of the ‘best draft’ award; Mr Torontopuckers resulted in a blowout of 130+ to 96 win (with one player remaining for me (DMAC))
Even though our core players were evenly matched, he stood no chance against my K who scored 17pts and my D/ST added another 16pts.
I think I underestimated the importance of QB since Freeman did let me down despite having zero turnovers. But no need to worry. That concern has already been addressed with a spectacular pre week 1 trade with a team in need for an RB. I will be sending the services of the great ‘Law firm’ and rising WR Brandon Lafell in exchange for Miles Austin and diabetes kid Cutler.