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Fantasy Resource
Position by Position Rankings
The Fantasy Maverick brings a career .700 record to the table spanning 13 years of Keeper & Re-draft leagues.
Below are the Top 5 Capsules, click here to expand the complete rankings.
Rankings based on a re-draft league. (*)
(*) Points system:
Passing ( TD = 3pt ) ( 50yds = 1 pt )
Rushing ( TD = 6pt ) ( 25yds = 1 pt )
Receiving ( TD = 6pt ) ( 25yds = 1 pt )
Kicking ( FG = 3pt ) (PAT = 1 pt )
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 Your Opportunity To
Ask The Maverick !
Got a Fantasy dilemma? Can't decide what to do? Your toubles are over as the doctor is in session...fire your questions at the Maverick and we will publish the most needy patients...
Mark Godden: I am playing in a keeper league and i can keep 3 players. I have narrowed it to 4, those being:
Marion Barber (keeping)
Reggie Wayne (keeping)
Larry Johnson
Ryan Grant
My question/dilemma is should I keep LJ after his poor injury hit season? Or should i opt for Ryan Grant as an up and coming RB?
Which 3 would you opt for?
Maverick: Interesting dilemma you've got there Mark, luckily it's a nice one...that is until the guy you drop burns you for 4tds whilst playing for one of your rival managers.
OK well there's no bye week clashes between the backs so no need to worry about that, so it's all about production.
Let's bring up Ryan first: 188 carries for 956 yards last year, that's a tasty 5.1yard average, racking up 8TDs. In anyone's book that's solid #2 RB stats.
The question is can he do it all again? Having been traded from the Giants he came from nowhere and I am never keen on that.
What sort of competition does he have for the job in 2008? Well don't even concern yourself with Vernand Morency, DeShawn Wynn or Noah Herron, the Packers gave them all a shot last year and they couldn't even run out of toilet paper, let alone a backfield. Brandon Jackson is the only real danger, and the only danger he has shown is in getting to know the team medic too well.
The possibility of Ryan being a potential one year wonder however pails in significance when you consider one other GB factor, sorry, the ONLY other GB factor: who is going to QB this ship? The Pack played far beyond most people's expectations last year (although not everyone's - gloat gloat) and that was WITH the Mighty Favre in charge of the sails. Should Favre remain retired that leaves the total unknown quantity that is Aaron Rodgers starting, and with that there is a very real possibility that the Pack will be leaking water at great volume, and that will mean Ryan could be in for a tough year. Pass the water-wings.
So what about Larry Johnson? 2007 was indeed a very forgettable year, a year where many owners drafted him high only to receive almost nothing in return...thank the heavens for keeper leagues!
Let's first look at job security. Kolby Smith took up the slack last year...but failed to make it taught. If he's hoping for any decent time he'd better think again, especially when KC spent a 3rd round pick on speedster Jamaal Charles. The Texas rookie was considered one of the quickest RBs in the draft and his selection does make me finger my collar and emit a "yeee-ikes"; you never like a team to draft a RB in the top 3 rounds when you own the established starter. But let's just hold on here a moment, this is LJ we are talking about.
Fantasy owners all too often exhibit a memory shorter than Ronnie Corbett after a hot wash cycle.
Let's just refresh our memories on what LJ did for us in 2006:
1789 yards for 19 total TDs
And that was after his breakout 2005:
1750 yards for 21 total TDs
(Prior to that Priest Holmes was starting.)
Those are stats that only a handful of RBs can claim to have ever achieved, any owner would give his best leather lazy-boy up for that kind of productivity.
And so in conclusion: I would chose LJ over a guy who has proved nothing on a regular basis in a heart beat.
And as a final bonus, Mr Johnson will keep his fantasy trade value far longer than Ryan. Even with another sub-par year all you would need to quote is 40TDs in a two year span and your rival owners should be knocking at your door quicker than Amy Winehouse at Oddbins before a set.
Your turn to ask the Mighty Maverick:
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Notes From A Keeper
The Ultimate, Utopian Ups and Definitive, Diabolical Downs of Life as a Keeper Leaguer
In the end, it was a simple coaching mistake that finally terminated the Holybourne Prophets' 2007 season.
From the sidelines in the dying minutes, as fans filed out early to beat the traffic, as our starters worked frantically to pull something back on the field before me, I knew that I had done the inexcusable: left touchdowns, four of them, on the bench.
As long as Kevin Jones and Lee Evans, with two scores apiece, were riding the pine, the Prophets were finished with the playoffs...
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Notes From A Keeper
The Urlacher Ups and DeBerg Downs of Life as a Keeper Leaguer
The locker room is complete madness. There is champagne, singing, dancing, even tears, and the party will go on through the night.
The Holybourne Prophets, in the final week of the regular season, have made the playoffs.
A champagne cork whizzes past me, actually grazing skin from my cheek, and for a moment, the whole place falls still, looking to see what I'll do.
Anyone would think Welker had ordered a Babycham.
In fact, I laugh. I laugh like a drain. And the whole place erupts once more into action and raucousness...
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Notes From A Keeper
The Umberto Eco Ups and Danny La Rue Downs of Life as a Keeper Leaguer
I begin to wonder if any parachute can save us now.
It has all gone disastrously wrong, and the Prophets are in a freefall I'm helpless to prevent.
I am like Steve McClaren, fenced in and pacing on the sidelines, red cheeked and disbelieving as my nightmare becomes reality, the increasing width of my desperate eyes giving me away.
Like McClaren, we're on the verge of snatching elimination from the jaws of qualification....
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Notes From A Keeper
The Umbrella Ups and Downpour Downs of Life as a Keeper Leaguer
In my dream, they come at me again and again, LT and AP, running, cantering, moonwalking and even – somehow – backstroking over the goal line.
I awake in a sweat, believing I have lost 500 to nil, that the season, the playoffs, the championship, have crumbled before me, that it's in the tank, all of it.
It is Sunday morning....
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Notes From August 10th Draft Day
Notes From July 13th Draft Strategy
Notes From June 17th Cutdown
Notes From May 20th Off Season
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