For you faithful readers out there, you know I wax poetic on "Doing the Opposite" in Fantasy Football at your draft. Meaning, instead of RB-RB in rounds one and two, you go WR-QB or even both WR in one and two, and then go a step further and coming out of round three you have both your WRs and your top QB.
You can read a whole bunch more about this here and follow the links to track my progress last year. I ended up the Regular Season league champion and finished 3rd overall during the playoffs (damn Brady and New England D, as well as Kolby Smith...who...exactly....going for a buck 20 and 2 touches.....ugh). And when you read the article, look who I had listed as "sleeper" picks last year: AP, Lynch, T. Jones (he had 7 100 yard games last year), and Brandon Jones (if only he could have stayed healthy).
Well, this year, I landed the #2 pick. Doing the Opposite works best and ideally when you are not in the top 3 (most years). My league doesn't allow trading of draft picks, so I have number 2. Which is the highest I have ever drafted (last year was number 5 and that was the highest ever to that point). Having had the bottom of the 1st and top of the 2nd round for so many years, I started doing the opposite and cornering the market on WRs and QBs in the first 3 rounds, and then swooping up all RB's in rounds 4-8 trusting one will hit. And last year that was AP, 3 years ago that was LJ, 4 years ago it was Westbrook. You gotta do your research a little bit more on the middle of the pack RB's but the elite QBs and WRs are always the same, so you need time researching them, spend it on the middle of the pack RBs.
I could go on and on and on about follow the link above you can read all about it.
But this year, with number 2, I going RB in the first round. But do not fail....it's going to be all WRs and QBs in rounds 2,3,and 4. Then back to "middle of the pack" rb's in rounds 5-8.
I hate to disappoint all of you, but at number 2 I may get LT or Westbrook. My personal top 2 in all of fantasy football land. AP has been hurt every year of his collegiate and now NFL career, S-Jax has never lived up to the hype, and Addai doesn't touch the ball as much as Westbrook does and he too gets hurt...a-lot. Also, the guy holding 1 says he's taking AP #1, which leaves me LT!!!!! I'll find out next Friday (22nd) at the draft.
I am aiming for something along the lines of this coming out of the draft:
QB - Derick Anderson (Cleveland has the best O-Line in the game...take in round 4)
RB - Brian Westbrook (rd 1)
RB - Jonathon Stewart (rd 5)
WR - Marques Colston (rd 2)
WR - Larry Fitzgerald (rd 3)
How could you not like this team?
Do the Opposite!!!
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Marques Colston (rd 2)
Uhhh... that is, um... interesting.
I am assuming that moss, T.O., and Wayne will be off the board by this time....if they are not then it is one of them for sure.
But my success at "Do the Opposite" has worked so well in this league that others have started to implement some of it. I am confident when it comes to me in the 2nd round (8th pick in the 2nd round), Peyton, Brady, and the WRs will be gone.
I'm actually considering taking Romo or Brees in the 2nd or 3rd now.
I'm telling you, if you have pick 5-10 in the first round, make your first 3 picks non-rb's, then horde them all in rounds 4-8 and viola, you have the best drafted team!!!
I snagged Portis in round one with the eleventh pick and Reggie Wayne in rd 2. I'm also gambling on McFadden, and stole Phil Rivers in Rd 4
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