Thursday, August 21, 2008

Final FFB Rankings

My top FF league draft is Sunday, so I'm completing my rankings. I've used FFToolbox to get the rankings for my league specifically, and I've tiered the players by advantage. For example, each team in our 12 team league gets to start one quarterback. Therefore, I averaged the points per game for the top 12 point quarterbacks and I assigned them an advantage value.

It helps me identify what the advantage is of selecting one player over another across positions. It doesn't, however, reflect scarcity directly. So if you see a position run, you might want to take that position before you can no longer get an advantage there.

We start
1 QB
2 RB
3 WR
1 TE
1 K
1 DEF

I've also located all of the injured players using rotoworld (http://www.rotoworld.com/Content/injuries.aspx?sport=NFL). Last year, I took LJ Smith, and I was never able to get consistent tight end play. As deep as the position was, I at a 3-4 point deficit every game because of the mistake. The expected amount of games missed is in parenthesis.

Specifically speaking, I've taken one player of consequence off my board. Willis McGahee is injured, has a bad attitude, is on a mediocre team, and has a history of being run out of town. I don't see great things in his future. I've highlighted in red players that I plan to target within tiers where necessary. My do not draft teams are in red and my reduced value only teams are in yellow.

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