Fantasy Football

Believe it or not, one of my league's drafted yesterday. Stupid to draft in July, I agree. But I'm not the commish so that's how it goes. This is year 2 of a Dynasty League, where each team kept 3 players from last year and then drafted from there, with each team losing whichever draft pick spot each keeper was drafted in last year. My keepers were LaDainian Tomlinson (round 1), Plaxico Burress (r4) and Ben Roethlisberger (r8).

It's a twelve team league and I finished in 3rd place last year, which meant I would draft 10th this year. Accounting for keepers, my first pick ended up being in round 2, 8th pick overall. I had Ronnie Brown ranked 8th overall on my draft board but I knew he was a risky pick coming off of a season ending ACL injury last year. So I was pleasantly surprised when Marques Colston, 5th on my draft board, fell to me at #8. Snagged him. I knew that I needed to fill the WR2 and RB2 spots with my first two picks so I started looking at RBs as my next pick approached. My draft board predicted that I would have to go with Edgerrin James or Thomas Jones if I was lucky. Well, let's just say I was really lucky. Rookie RB from Carolina, Jonathan Stewart, who was 9th on my draft board fell to me at 18th overall. Sweet.

Time will tell how the rest of the draft went. I waited too long to draft a TE and ended up with the 16th ranked TE, Zach Miller, Oakland Raiders. He could be a steal, could be a bust. I was all set to take the guy I was targeting, Tony Scheffler, in the 11th round when the guy who picked directly before me snagged him. Doh! I said screw it, I'll take my defense and then I'll snag Algie Crumpler on the turn. Nope, somebody grabbed Crumpler before it came back to me. WTF? Why were people drafting TE2's in the 11th round?

Other than that, my team looks solid. I took some gambles on young RBs but that's the name of the game in Dynasty Leagues. You have to try to balance your team with guys who can contribute this season with guys who may be great in a year or two. Lock them up now and you have them forever. Anyway, my roster is listed below. The league starts a QB, 2RB, 3WR, TE, K, DEF.


1.(10) LaDainian Tomlinson RB (SD)
2.(15) Marques Colston WR (NO)
3.(34) Jonathan Stewart RB (CAR)
4.(39) Plaxico Burress WR (NYG)
5.(58) Matt Forte RB (CHI)
6.(63) Santana Moss WR (WAS)
7.(82) Anthony Gonzalez WR (IND)
8.(87) Ben Roethlisberger QB (PIT)
9.(106) Chester Taylor RB (MIN)
10.(111) Chris Johnson RB (TEN)
11.(130) Baltimore DEF
12.(135) Jason Campbell QB (WAS)
13.(154) Zach Miller TE (OAK)
14.(159) Ronald Curry WR (OAK)
15.(178) Kris Brown K (HOU)