Fantasy Football

[Keeping the faith]

Tee Higgins showed up as well. I love the guy but he is always hurt. I'm out on all my games so just a spectator this year. That Chase and Burrow stack would have been great.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

My teams kind of crumbled in the playoffs. Looking like I'll finish 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.

What sucked this time was that two different teams more or less lost because my opponent got huge points in overtime games.. Last week it was another 10pts for Chubba, and this week it was another 20 from a Burrow/Higgins stack.. all in overtime. Extremely unlucky, but thats fantasy playoffs. Wish you had more of an advantage for being the higher seed to offset the randomness/bad matchups (Washington against Philly last week, for example).. ive often thought that the higher seeds should be spotted 10 or 15 points.

But I'll take league regular season champ in all 3.

 

[kybloo92]

Tee Higgins showed up as well. I love the guy but he is always hurt. I'm out on all my games so just a spectator this year. That Chase and Burrow stack would have been great.

Indeed! Easily one of his best games along with the Ravens game a few years back when he nearly caught 200 yards.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Tee Higgins showed up as well. I love the guy but he is always hurt. I'm out on all my games so just a spectator this year. That Chase and Burrow stack would have been great.

Chase was great, but I feel like he also could have been even bigger.. Chases holdout meant he had a cold start to the season, and while he had some great games where he really popped.. it almost felt like a shared WR tandem, even to the point where Higgins was better at times.. especially as Chase drew the best CB (like Surtain last night). Makes me wonder if these two won't be closer in their draft ADP next year.

Noticed an interesting trend this year: all 3 teams that are about to win the title had a draft pick in the 8-9 range. Maybe its a coincidence, but I also think the top6 or 7 picks all had some problems. CMC lost season, CeeDee and Tyreek lost their QB, Chase had his holdout, Hall was lost on the Jets at times and even Bijan only just turned it up late. I think having a high pick means you're picking a guy based on what he DID the last few seasons, which almost inherently means a lot of usage and a lot of wear.

Another interesting thing: 6 of the top7 W/R/T positions were running backs and the top13 of 15 were running backs. RBs dominated this year. And it makes me wonder if there's some truth to the idea of keeping defensive backs on top and bottom of WRs, and if that's why receivers had such a tough time across the NFL. Might be good to remember for next year and if the pendulum won't swing to emphasize RBs again.

 

[kybloo92]

I don't see Chase and Higgins on the same team next year unfortunately and that is coming from a Bengals fan that would love to have both back. They can give him another franchise tag but risk holding out and he has previously requested a trade before. I expect Chase will be the top WR off the board. Chase still has nearly a 70-point lead over Jefferson in Minnesota. 4.3 more Fantasy PPG. Even with the slow start and the Bengals usually playing catchup the first few weeks with Taylor's preseason approach with the starters. As good as Amon-Ra St. Brown is, I would take the volume of Chase over him with all of the mouths to feed in that Detroit offense which is much deeper than in Cincinnati. I was fortunate to have both Chase/St. Brown in one league this year after parting with LaPorta earlier. I do see Cincinnati getting a extension done to keep Chase/Burrow tandem going on. Tee's draft position will no doubt rise on a new team if he is gone as I expect he will sign somewhere he is the clear-cut #1 option in the offense.

 

[catsfanbgky]

My son is in the championship game of his league, Small wonder as I have never seen a owner lose as many players as him to injuries.
Just a SMALL list :
Chris Olave
Christian McCaffrey
Dallas Goedert
Taysom Hill
Deandre Hopkins
Rahem Mostert
Nick Chubb
Isiah Pacheco
Rashee Rice
Chris Godwin
Joe Mixon
Chuba Hubbard was a HUGE loss for the championship yesterday as he was on a tear. He also lost of couple of kickers and a few more players I am forgetting.