10-26-2021, 08:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2021, 06:10 PM by Crunk. Edited 1 time in total.)
Welcome to the first of a few fantasy articles I will be writing up this offseason. The point of this one here is to walk through the group 6 (my group) draft that took place before the S31 season and see what went right and what went wrong. As a new create right before the S31 season, I signed up for fantasy having literally no idea what was going on, who the teams or players are, or what the scoring was like. I simply saw that it was fantasy football and you could earn $ and TPE for it and dove right in. As a big fan of NFL fantasy football, I had a decent grasp on how to approach the whole thing so it's not like I was going in completely blind. At the end of the season I ended up winning my group to secure that 5 extra TPE and I ended up being 7th overall in the entire league rankings. How did that come to be? Read on and find out.
Round 1:
Nearly 1 season ago today, the fantasy groups and draft orders for S31 were announced! I open up the ping and see that I'm drafting #1. I freak out and realize that I know nothing about the players or teams or anything about the ISFL really. Where to start? I opened up the index and start scouring the stats, I create a little spreadsheet and start looking at people's stats and trying to see who scored the most fantasy points last season. I go through and add up rushing, receiving, passing, blocking stats and create a leaderboard of who the highest scorers were in S30. Little did I realize there was already a fantasy scoreboard from the previous season, I just hadn't found it yet. One of the things I wanted to identify outside of what individual players scored the most, is that what the positional scarcity looked like and to see if it mirrored real life fantasy football. Meaning are running backs as valuable in ISFL fantasy as NFL fantasy? And the answer was yes. I will do a more in-depth analysis on this in a future article, but for now just detailing what I was thinking at the time. So I did notice that QBs were among the highest scorers but there were a couple of running backs up there like Goat Tank and Cobra Kai but not too many other running backs were high up on the scoreboard. So at this point I knew I wanted to spend my #1 pick on a running back and it seemed like it was between Goat Tank and Cobra Kai for me. I don't believe anyone had put out their fantasy rankings yet and I was being very impatient and not waiting for other groups to make their 1st pick; I can't remember how exactly I differentiated between the 2 but I went with Goat Tank and that was easily the best pick of the draft given that he was the highest scoring running back and overall player in the league by a mile.
Selection: Goat Tank, RB
Round 2 & 3:
By the time it came back to me at the round 2/3 turn, there were some rankings out, namely from Pat & Kotasa (shoutout to y'all) and I had found some more resources like the scoreboard for the previous season, the TPE tracker, and the ISFL Team Budgets spreadsheet. Luckily at this point I had realized that I had nailed the Goat Tank pick. At this point a lot of the top tier running backs like Kai, Memes, Watts, Rogers were all gone with the exception of Tatsu Nakamura. With Arizona coming off of an all time great offensive season, all Outlaws were in play for fantasy. I was definitely considering him here but wasn't so sure how it would work out with him being the 2nd RB on his own team behind Deadly Memes. If I were to take an RB here it would have been Nakamura, but I wanted to look at the other positions as well. With these 2 picks I had my choice of any QB as none had been taken yet. The consensus #1 QB to look was Cortez, also from Arizona. Coming off of an elite season he would have been a good pick here and given me a clear advantage at QB. Next up was looking at some Wide Receivers. Unfortunately for me (at the time at least), both of the premier Arizona receivers were taken with Taro Raimon being sniped right before my pick. Also, Kendrick-Watts, Pama, and Skiuuup were gone. This left me with the Yellowknife duo of Walker/Sakura, Kingston from Sarasota, and Delacour or Lim from Colorado as the players to choose from. I leaned on Pat's rankings here where he identified in his elite tier both Sakura and Walker from Yellowknife as elite options, it would just depend on who would get the WR1 designation from the Wraiths as to who would perform better over the course of the season. I had decided that I wanted Sakura based on his performance from the previous season as my round 2 pick. Then I decided to go with Mark Walker as my round 3 pick to kind of mitigate the risk and guarantee that I get the YKW WR1. I did not consider any other position this early for positional scarcity and value reasons that I will detail in a future article.
Selections: Kai Sakura & Mark Walker, WRs
Round 4 & 5:
Before my next set of picks, 3 QBs were taken as well as some other running backs and wide receivers. I'm not the biggest fan of latching on to the end of positional runs so I wasn't really considering a QB at this point. I briefly considered a TE here but I wasn't really sold on any of them being the standout TE1 which is what I would need to justify taking one this early given how little they score relative to other positions. That leaves it down to me picking my RB2 and filling out the flex spot on my roster. For my RB2 the pickings were relatively slim since about 5 RBs went off the board since my last pick and about 11 had gone off the board in all. I could've taken a big risk here and waited on my RB2 since most of the league had 2 already but I didn't want to have a few more RBs go in people's flex spots and end up dropping down a couple tiers to get my RB2. On the board here we had Busch Goose, Danny King Jr, Madison Hayes, and Jay Cue Jr. Clearly I should've picked Jay Cue, but alas I did not, I was worried about overexposing myself to YKW my taking their top 2 receivers and their RB, also being a S29 baby, Cue's TPE was kind of low compared to most of the other options available here. I ended up going Madison Hayes here because he was higher up in everyone's rankings and it seemed like he was going to be the focal point of that offense with a young QB and relatively lower TPE wide receivers. So now with both of my RB and WR spots filled I was looking to fill my flex now. Looking at the scoring from the previous season of RBs and WRs in the 10-15 range at their position, the WRs score a lot more points relative to their similarly ranked RB counterparts so I figured snagging a WR to put in my flex spot was the way to go. (There will be more on this particular analysis in a future article, stay tuned). Some of the people at the top of my board for this pick were Hood, Videl-San, Sam the Onion Man, and Lim. In the end I went with the WR that had the best QB and that was Videl-San. Jackie Daytona had just a few more TPE than Caliban (Lim's QB), the other 2 were significantly lower at this point in their careers. The really big differentiator between Videl-San and Lim at this point was the target share, Lim has been productive in the past but Colorado had plenty of mouths to feed with 2 other ~1k TPE WRs, a good TE, and 2 productive RBs in the passing game. Videl-San was by far and away Austin's WR1, even with 2 1k+ TPE RBs dominating the ball, I figured when the Copperheads threw the ball it would be to Videl-San.
Selections: Madison Hayes, RB
& Videl-San, WR 
Round 6 & 7
With RB/WR/Flex all filled up on my roster, I need to pick a QB, TE, OL, D, and K. After my two picks, group 6 saw the first 3 Tight Ends selected in the subsequent rounds as well as the first defense and a couple of OL were taken. Like I said regarding my previous 2 selections, I don't really like to latch onto the end of a positional run so I wasn't thrilled with the idea of taking a TE or OL. I gave kicker a quick thought here but based on real life fantasy football experience, kickers are highly variable and not very predictable over the course of a season. Based on all of that I'm looking at taking a QB and a defense here. Cortez, Negs, and Daytona were all taken here so I had my choice of the 11 remaining QBs in the league. Based on rankings, Boss Jr, Caliban, and Colby Jack were my 3 choices and all were pretty darn good choices. I highly considered just taking a different position and essentially just taking whichever QB of those 3 was the last available with my last pick in the draft. Looking back at it, I probably should have done that but alas I did not. Looking at Colby Jack and YKW it seemed like it would be a highly concentrated target share to Sakura and Walker but I wasn't sure that would amount to a great fantasy season for Jack so I passed on him. To be completely honest, I don't remember what differentiated them in my mind and made me think Boss was the better pick. Both Sarasota and Colorado had a pair of 1k TPE WRs, 2 productive WRs, and a 3rd passing attack option that was lining up to be very good as well (a 3rd WR for the Yeti and the top TPE TE for the Sailfish). I ended up going with Boss who turned out to be a good pick, but unfortunately for me Caliban ended up being the QB1 by a mile, the 2nd highest scorer in fantasy this season, and scored 80 more points than Boss. If I had picked Caliban over Boss, I would have ended up in 4th on the league rankings instead of 7th. Either way, these QBs were very very close in the preseason process, Caliban was just much better fantasy wise over the course of the season. After the QB selection of Boss, next up is a defense. Like a broken record, I'll talk about this more in a future article, but it seems like defense scoring is probably driven by and is most predictable by looking at sacks first then turnovers second (I wouldn't really try to consider touchdowns when looking at defenses). With that said, Arizona was already off the board with 2 1.5k+ TPE CBs and 2 other ~1.5k TPE players in the front 7. I had my choice of every other defense out there and I ended up going with Colorado. Why? Because they were lined up to rack up a ton of sacks. With 4 1k+ TPE players in the front 7 and another D lineman regressing just below 1k alongside 4 1k TPE players in the secondary and another S27 safety getting close to 1k, they probably have the most cumulative TPE on the defensive side of the ball. Coming off of the 2nd most sacks in S30 as a team and having all those users with a ton of TPE they seemed like a good choice here.
Selections: Mike Boss Jr., QB
& Colorado Yeti, DST 
Round 8 & 9
Coming into the 8/9 turn, 2 more tight ends were taken meaning I would be the last team to need a tight end. So my round 8 & 9 picks would need to be a OL and a K. First up is OL, a low variance but high scoring position. Nailing this pick is necessary to not lose your group, but snagging the right OL won't win you your group. With Franklin and Roberts gone here there were a few good OL to choose from. I ended up going with Jaja Dingdong. I didn't and still don't know the ins and outs of getting pancakes in the sim, it would be interesting to know if pancakes happen more in run or pass plays, how much TPE plays into it, how much position on the OL plays into it, etc. I ended up picking Jaja because he was clearly the OL1 on his team with little competition compared to players like Mellott who actually ended up being 2nd on his team despite having 400 more TPE. Not much to really say about OL so I'll move onto my kicker selection now. Blago Kokot was the only kicker off the board so I had 13 other kickers to choose from. In real life fantasy with kickers you are mainly looking for a team with a good enough offense to consistently get into scoring position, but if the team is too efficient and always scores touchdowns then your kicker won't get many field goals and will only get extra points. That was definitely a concern with the kicker that I chose but I went with it anyway. My choice here was Cade York from Arizona. Definitely the most prolific from the previous season, York was going to have plenty of kicking opportunities, the only concern is whether they are all extra points and he has much fewer field goal opportunities than other top kickers. Turns out that happened in addition to Arizona regressing quite a bit in terms of scoring but York was a fine pick at the time.
Selections: Jaja DingDong, OL
& Cade York, K 
Round 10
Last but not least is my choice for tight end. Off the board are Spencer, Mahi'ai, San Lorenzo, DiNozzo, and Messi. Which leaves me my choice of Zee Rechs, Buffalo Hunter, and James Angler. I talked earlier about all of the receiving options Colorado had so I didn't think Buffalo Hunter was going to get a ton of opportunities to produce. James Angler had a very productive career but was behind the TE TPE leader Mario Messi on his own team's depth chart so there were some question marks there as well. With Zee Rechs, I already had both of the Wraiths WR options, so grabbing Rechs would be tripling up on a single passing attack which doesn't seem like the best option but that is what I went with because it seemed like the YKW passing attack would be very concentrated about those 3 guys so I wasn't extremely concerned about having 3 receiving options from the same team. I ended up going with Zee Rechs and it worked out for me as he ended up as the TE1.
Selection: Zee Rechs, TE
Hits:
Goat Tank, RB
Easy one here, Goat Tank led the league in rushes, rushing yards, rushing TDs, 7th in RB receiving yards and T-3rd in RB receiving touchdowns. Goat scored 30 more fantasy points than any other fantasy player and 45 more fantasy points than any other running back, and 90 more fantasy points than the RB3 on the season. Grabbing the RB1 and highest scorer with the first overall pick is about as good as you can do.
Mark Walker, WR
The WR1 in terms of fantasy points, scoring 5 more than WR2, 8 more than WR3, and 20 more than WR4, Mark Walker was the 16th highest fantasy scorer on the season. Leading the league in receiving yards, yards per catch and tied for 2nd in touchdowns. Getting the WR1 at the end of the 2nd round/beginning of the 3rd round was an absolute steal. Turns out Mark Walker would be the WR1 in Yellowknife and he made good use of it.
Videl-San, WR
The WR2 in terms of fantasy points, just 5 points behind Mark Walker. Videl-San was 5th in catches, 5th in yards per catch, 3rd in yards, and T-2nd in touchdowns. A great season for Videl-San not only from a personal production standpoint, but also leading Austin to the conference finals in their retirement season.
Zee Rechs, TE
With the last pick in the group 6 draft, Zee Rechs was an afterthought among tight ends, but was the TE1 by almost 10 points over James Angler. An absolute steal for the 6th tight end drafted at the absolute tail end of the draft. He led the league's tight ends in both yards and touchdowns.
Meh:
Kai Sakura, WR
Sakura had a decent season, but not quite good enough to justify the 2nd/3rd round pick I spent on him. He was top 10 in receiving yards on the season, but a little lower in touchdowns with just 7. Not a bad WR3 to have on your team, but not a great value for the draft pick.
Madison Hayes, RB
Hayes was the RB9 on the season with some pretty good rushing stats. Being 7th in rushing yards and 5th in rushing touchdowns, Hayes lost some value compared to the rest of the top RBs in the receiving game being 18th in receiving yards among RBs and just 3 touchdowns. Getting the RB9 at the 4th/5th round turn isn't bad value.
Jaja Dingdong, OL
Like I said earlier in the article, picking the right OL isn't going to win you your group, but picking the wrong OL can lose you your group. Dingdong ended up being the OL9 on the season and definitely not what you would consider the wrong OL that loses you your group. Not a bad OL to pick up at the 8th/9th round turn.
Misses:
Mike Boss Jr., QB
Let me be clear here, Mike Boss wasn't a miss at his draft position in terms of winning your group. I only put him here because of the QB I selected him over and how that basically knocked me out of contention for leading the entire league. Boss was 3rd in yards, but only 8th in touchdowns ending up in a QB5 finish. In a vacuum he would end up in the Meh category, but considering I have to compare him to Caliban who led the league in yards by 300 and touchdowns by 10 and scored 80 more fantasy points than Boss; all that leads me to categorizing Boss as a miss for my draft.
Colorado Yeti, DST
Colorado was more unlucky in terms of fantasy than underperforming. Ending up 3rd in sacks with just 1 below 1st, they were also T-2nd in fumble recoveries but were bottom half of the league in interceptions and only 1 touchdown. All this adds up to Colorado being the DST8 on the season. Not a complete whiff with where I drafted them, but you're aiming a little higher than DST8 with a 7th round pick and the 2nd DST off the board.
Cade York, K
I touched on it a little earlier in the article, not only did the Arizona offense regress quite a bit this season, but York also ended up with a very small amount of field goal attempts. York was 4th in extra point attempts, but 11th in field goal attempts. Definitely not what you are looking for in the 2nd kicker off the board. York was very good with the opportunities he was given but opportunity and volume are king in fantasy as opposed to efficiency.
Jay Cue Jr., RB
Jay Cue was my biggest miss of the season. Not only did I draft a different RB over him, I also let him sit on waivers until someone else picked him up. Cue ended up 3rd among all fantasy scorers and was the RB2 by a wide margin over RB3. Cue was an absolute monster waiver wire star that plenty of people missed out on, but if you snagged him you probably won your group.
So that was my longwinded breakdown of the group 6 draft and my thought process making each pick and how they turned out. Let me know if you guys like this type of article. I'll try to do one of these each season and we will see if this was just beginner's luck or if I can produce consistent results in ISFL fantasy.
Round 1:
Nearly 1 season ago today, the fantasy groups and draft orders for S31 were announced! I open up the ping and see that I'm drafting #1. I freak out and realize that I know nothing about the players or teams or anything about the ISFL really. Where to start? I opened up the index and start scouring the stats, I create a little spreadsheet and start looking at people's stats and trying to see who scored the most fantasy points last season. I go through and add up rushing, receiving, passing, blocking stats and create a leaderboard of who the highest scorers were in S30. Little did I realize there was already a fantasy scoreboard from the previous season, I just hadn't found it yet. One of the things I wanted to identify outside of what individual players scored the most, is that what the positional scarcity looked like and to see if it mirrored real life fantasy football. Meaning are running backs as valuable in ISFL fantasy as NFL fantasy? And the answer was yes. I will do a more in-depth analysis on this in a future article, but for now just detailing what I was thinking at the time. So I did notice that QBs were among the highest scorers but there were a couple of running backs up there like Goat Tank and Cobra Kai but not too many other running backs were high up on the scoreboard. So at this point I knew I wanted to spend my #1 pick on a running back and it seemed like it was between Goat Tank and Cobra Kai for me. I don't believe anyone had put out their fantasy rankings yet and I was being very impatient and not waiting for other groups to make their 1st pick; I can't remember how exactly I differentiated between the 2 but I went with Goat Tank and that was easily the best pick of the draft given that he was the highest scoring running back and overall player in the league by a mile.
Selection: Goat Tank, RB
Round 2 & 3:
By the time it came back to me at the round 2/3 turn, there were some rankings out, namely from Pat & Kotasa (shoutout to y'all) and I had found some more resources like the scoreboard for the previous season, the TPE tracker, and the ISFL Team Budgets spreadsheet. Luckily at this point I had realized that I had nailed the Goat Tank pick. At this point a lot of the top tier running backs like Kai, Memes, Watts, Rogers were all gone with the exception of Tatsu Nakamura. With Arizona coming off of an all time great offensive season, all Outlaws were in play for fantasy. I was definitely considering him here but wasn't so sure how it would work out with him being the 2nd RB on his own team behind Deadly Memes. If I were to take an RB here it would have been Nakamura, but I wanted to look at the other positions as well. With these 2 picks I had my choice of any QB as none had been taken yet. The consensus #1 QB to look was Cortez, also from Arizona. Coming off of an elite season he would have been a good pick here and given me a clear advantage at QB. Next up was looking at some Wide Receivers. Unfortunately for me (at the time at least), both of the premier Arizona receivers were taken with Taro Raimon being sniped right before my pick. Also, Kendrick-Watts, Pama, and Skiuuup were gone. This left me with the Yellowknife duo of Walker/Sakura, Kingston from Sarasota, and Delacour or Lim from Colorado as the players to choose from. I leaned on Pat's rankings here where he identified in his elite tier both Sakura and Walker from Yellowknife as elite options, it would just depend on who would get the WR1 designation from the Wraiths as to who would perform better over the course of the season. I had decided that I wanted Sakura based on his performance from the previous season as my round 2 pick. Then I decided to go with Mark Walker as my round 3 pick to kind of mitigate the risk and guarantee that I get the YKW WR1. I did not consider any other position this early for positional scarcity and value reasons that I will detail in a future article.
Selections: Kai Sakura & Mark Walker, WRs
Round 4 & 5:
Before my next set of picks, 3 QBs were taken as well as some other running backs and wide receivers. I'm not the biggest fan of latching on to the end of positional runs so I wasn't really considering a QB at this point. I briefly considered a TE here but I wasn't really sold on any of them being the standout TE1 which is what I would need to justify taking one this early given how little they score relative to other positions. That leaves it down to me picking my RB2 and filling out the flex spot on my roster. For my RB2 the pickings were relatively slim since about 5 RBs went off the board since my last pick and about 11 had gone off the board in all. I could've taken a big risk here and waited on my RB2 since most of the league had 2 already but I didn't want to have a few more RBs go in people's flex spots and end up dropping down a couple tiers to get my RB2. On the board here we had Busch Goose, Danny King Jr, Madison Hayes, and Jay Cue Jr. Clearly I should've picked Jay Cue, but alas I did not, I was worried about overexposing myself to YKW my taking their top 2 receivers and their RB, also being a S29 baby, Cue's TPE was kind of low compared to most of the other options available here. I ended up going Madison Hayes here because he was higher up in everyone's rankings and it seemed like he was going to be the focal point of that offense with a young QB and relatively lower TPE wide receivers. So now with both of my RB and WR spots filled I was looking to fill my flex now. Looking at the scoring from the previous season of RBs and WRs in the 10-15 range at their position, the WRs score a lot more points relative to their similarly ranked RB counterparts so I figured snagging a WR to put in my flex spot was the way to go. (There will be more on this particular analysis in a future article, stay tuned). Some of the people at the top of my board for this pick were Hood, Videl-San, Sam the Onion Man, and Lim. In the end I went with the WR that had the best QB and that was Videl-San. Jackie Daytona had just a few more TPE than Caliban (Lim's QB), the other 2 were significantly lower at this point in their careers. The really big differentiator between Videl-San and Lim at this point was the target share, Lim has been productive in the past but Colorado had plenty of mouths to feed with 2 other ~1k TPE WRs, a good TE, and 2 productive RBs in the passing game. Videl-San was by far and away Austin's WR1, even with 2 1k+ TPE RBs dominating the ball, I figured when the Copperheads threw the ball it would be to Videl-San.
Selections: Madison Hayes, RB
& Videl-San, WR Round 6 & 7
With RB/WR/Flex all filled up on my roster, I need to pick a QB, TE, OL, D, and K. After my two picks, group 6 saw the first 3 Tight Ends selected in the subsequent rounds as well as the first defense and a couple of OL were taken. Like I said regarding my previous 2 selections, I don't really like to latch onto the end of a positional run so I wasn't thrilled with the idea of taking a TE or OL. I gave kicker a quick thought here but based on real life fantasy football experience, kickers are highly variable and not very predictable over the course of a season. Based on all of that I'm looking at taking a QB and a defense here. Cortez, Negs, and Daytona were all taken here so I had my choice of the 11 remaining QBs in the league. Based on rankings, Boss Jr, Caliban, and Colby Jack were my 3 choices and all were pretty darn good choices. I highly considered just taking a different position and essentially just taking whichever QB of those 3 was the last available with my last pick in the draft. Looking back at it, I probably should have done that but alas I did not. Looking at Colby Jack and YKW it seemed like it would be a highly concentrated target share to Sakura and Walker but I wasn't sure that would amount to a great fantasy season for Jack so I passed on him. To be completely honest, I don't remember what differentiated them in my mind and made me think Boss was the better pick. Both Sarasota and Colorado had a pair of 1k TPE WRs, 2 productive WRs, and a 3rd passing attack option that was lining up to be very good as well (a 3rd WR for the Yeti and the top TPE TE for the Sailfish). I ended up going with Boss who turned out to be a good pick, but unfortunately for me Caliban ended up being the QB1 by a mile, the 2nd highest scorer in fantasy this season, and scored 80 more points than Boss. If I had picked Caliban over Boss, I would have ended up in 4th on the league rankings instead of 7th. Either way, these QBs were very very close in the preseason process, Caliban was just much better fantasy wise over the course of the season. After the QB selection of Boss, next up is a defense. Like a broken record, I'll talk about this more in a future article, but it seems like defense scoring is probably driven by and is most predictable by looking at sacks first then turnovers second (I wouldn't really try to consider touchdowns when looking at defenses). With that said, Arizona was already off the board with 2 1.5k+ TPE CBs and 2 other ~1.5k TPE players in the front 7. I had my choice of every other defense out there and I ended up going with Colorado. Why? Because they were lined up to rack up a ton of sacks. With 4 1k+ TPE players in the front 7 and another D lineman regressing just below 1k alongside 4 1k TPE players in the secondary and another S27 safety getting close to 1k, they probably have the most cumulative TPE on the defensive side of the ball. Coming off of the 2nd most sacks in S30 as a team and having all those users with a ton of TPE they seemed like a good choice here.
Selections: Mike Boss Jr., QB
& Colorado Yeti, DST Round 8 & 9
Coming into the 8/9 turn, 2 more tight ends were taken meaning I would be the last team to need a tight end. So my round 8 & 9 picks would need to be a OL and a K. First up is OL, a low variance but high scoring position. Nailing this pick is necessary to not lose your group, but snagging the right OL won't win you your group. With Franklin and Roberts gone here there were a few good OL to choose from. I ended up going with Jaja Dingdong. I didn't and still don't know the ins and outs of getting pancakes in the sim, it would be interesting to know if pancakes happen more in run or pass plays, how much TPE plays into it, how much position on the OL plays into it, etc. I ended up picking Jaja because he was clearly the OL1 on his team with little competition compared to players like Mellott who actually ended up being 2nd on his team despite having 400 more TPE. Not much to really say about OL so I'll move onto my kicker selection now. Blago Kokot was the only kicker off the board so I had 13 other kickers to choose from. In real life fantasy with kickers you are mainly looking for a team with a good enough offense to consistently get into scoring position, but if the team is too efficient and always scores touchdowns then your kicker won't get many field goals and will only get extra points. That was definitely a concern with the kicker that I chose but I went with it anyway. My choice here was Cade York from Arizona. Definitely the most prolific from the previous season, York was going to have plenty of kicking opportunities, the only concern is whether they are all extra points and he has much fewer field goal opportunities than other top kickers. Turns out that happened in addition to Arizona regressing quite a bit in terms of scoring but York was a fine pick at the time.
Selections: Jaja DingDong, OL
& Cade York, K Round 10
Last but not least is my choice for tight end. Off the board are Spencer, Mahi'ai, San Lorenzo, DiNozzo, and Messi. Which leaves me my choice of Zee Rechs, Buffalo Hunter, and James Angler. I talked earlier about all of the receiving options Colorado had so I didn't think Buffalo Hunter was going to get a ton of opportunities to produce. James Angler had a very productive career but was behind the TE TPE leader Mario Messi on his own team's depth chart so there were some question marks there as well. With Zee Rechs, I already had both of the Wraiths WR options, so grabbing Rechs would be tripling up on a single passing attack which doesn't seem like the best option but that is what I went with because it seemed like the YKW passing attack would be very concentrated about those 3 guys so I wasn't extremely concerned about having 3 receiving options from the same team. I ended up going with Zee Rechs and it worked out for me as he ended up as the TE1.
Selection: Zee Rechs, TE
Hits:
Goat Tank, RB
Easy one here, Goat Tank led the league in rushes, rushing yards, rushing TDs, 7th in RB receiving yards and T-3rd in RB receiving touchdowns. Goat scored 30 more fantasy points than any other fantasy player and 45 more fantasy points than any other running back, and 90 more fantasy points than the RB3 on the season. Grabbing the RB1 and highest scorer with the first overall pick is about as good as you can do.
Mark Walker, WR
The WR1 in terms of fantasy points, scoring 5 more than WR2, 8 more than WR3, and 20 more than WR4, Mark Walker was the 16th highest fantasy scorer on the season. Leading the league in receiving yards, yards per catch and tied for 2nd in touchdowns. Getting the WR1 at the end of the 2nd round/beginning of the 3rd round was an absolute steal. Turns out Mark Walker would be the WR1 in Yellowknife and he made good use of it.
Videl-San, WR
The WR2 in terms of fantasy points, just 5 points behind Mark Walker. Videl-San was 5th in catches, 5th in yards per catch, 3rd in yards, and T-2nd in touchdowns. A great season for Videl-San not only from a personal production standpoint, but also leading Austin to the conference finals in their retirement season.
Zee Rechs, TE
With the last pick in the group 6 draft, Zee Rechs was an afterthought among tight ends, but was the TE1 by almost 10 points over James Angler. An absolute steal for the 6th tight end drafted at the absolute tail end of the draft. He led the league's tight ends in both yards and touchdowns.
Meh:
Kai Sakura, WR
Sakura had a decent season, but not quite good enough to justify the 2nd/3rd round pick I spent on him. He was top 10 in receiving yards on the season, but a little lower in touchdowns with just 7. Not a bad WR3 to have on your team, but not a great value for the draft pick.
Madison Hayes, RB
Hayes was the RB9 on the season with some pretty good rushing stats. Being 7th in rushing yards and 5th in rushing touchdowns, Hayes lost some value compared to the rest of the top RBs in the receiving game being 18th in receiving yards among RBs and just 3 touchdowns. Getting the RB9 at the 4th/5th round turn isn't bad value.
Jaja Dingdong, OL
Like I said earlier in the article, picking the right OL isn't going to win you your group, but picking the wrong OL can lose you your group. Dingdong ended up being the OL9 on the season and definitely not what you would consider the wrong OL that loses you your group. Not a bad OL to pick up at the 8th/9th round turn.
Misses:
Mike Boss Jr., QB
Let me be clear here, Mike Boss wasn't a miss at his draft position in terms of winning your group. I only put him here because of the QB I selected him over and how that basically knocked me out of contention for leading the entire league. Boss was 3rd in yards, but only 8th in touchdowns ending up in a QB5 finish. In a vacuum he would end up in the Meh category, but considering I have to compare him to Caliban who led the league in yards by 300 and touchdowns by 10 and scored 80 more fantasy points than Boss; all that leads me to categorizing Boss as a miss for my draft.
Colorado Yeti, DST
Colorado was more unlucky in terms of fantasy than underperforming. Ending up 3rd in sacks with just 1 below 1st, they were also T-2nd in fumble recoveries but were bottom half of the league in interceptions and only 1 touchdown. All this adds up to Colorado being the DST8 on the season. Not a complete whiff with where I drafted them, but you're aiming a little higher than DST8 with a 7th round pick and the 2nd DST off the board.
Cade York, K
I touched on it a little earlier in the article, not only did the Arizona offense regress quite a bit this season, but York also ended up with a very small amount of field goal attempts. York was 4th in extra point attempts, but 11th in field goal attempts. Definitely not what you are looking for in the 2nd kicker off the board. York was very good with the opportunities he was given but opportunity and volume are king in fantasy as opposed to efficiency.
Jay Cue Jr., RB
Jay Cue was my biggest miss of the season. Not only did I draft a different RB over him, I also let him sit on waivers until someone else picked him up. Cue ended up 3rd among all fantasy scorers and was the RB2 by a wide margin over RB3. Cue was an absolute monster waiver wire star that plenty of people missed out on, but if you snagged him you probably won your group.
So that was my longwinded breakdown of the group 6 draft and my thought process making each pick and how they turned out. Let me know if you guys like this type of article. I'll try to do one of these each season and we will see if this was just beginner's luck or if I can produce consistent results in ISFL fantasy.
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