Fantasy football reporting for the leagues we play in. Findings first, personas second.
14-team keeper league on Sleeper. Half PPR, 6-point passing TDs, one dedicated RB slot and four flex seats, plus a kicker and a team defence. Every week produces two results, not one.
Forty-three of this league's 196 picks were keepers, and 43 of the 56 picks in the first four rounds were spent before anyone sat down. Segment one of the Desk Draft Special, transcribed: who won a draft that was mostly a reading, and why the cleanest live draft in the league carries the widest interval in it, second to twelfth.
A running back walked past two seats at the same table in five picks. MarShawn Lloyd went at 84 with a projection of 175 and a VOR of +21; the two picks in front of him returned 131 and 155. The board called it a reach because the board's market rank was written before the news that made him a starter.
The top five ALOFT teams are separated by 71 projected points over fourteen weeks — about five a game — and every one of them has a single slot that can undo it. Shake 'N Bake leads on a league-best 382 skill VOR while starting the lowest-projected quarterback in the league. Forty of 198 rostered players carry a Questionable tag as of this morning.
The middle eight ALOFT rosters sit inside 55 projected points for a whole season — about four a game, inside one week's noise — so the sixth seed is decided by FAAB and lineup discipline. This league's own 784 team-weeks say bottom-four teams start 0.74 tight ends a week against the top four's 0.25, and one bubble team kept two elite tight ends. Another added minus 3 to its starting six across ten live picks.
The corrected board ranks these four 11th through 14th, and only one of them is dead for the reason the board thinks. This league's own two seasons measure 4.9 ppg of defence spread and 3.9 at kicker — about 124 points — which makes one of these rosters defensible and the outside projection wrong about it. Between them they hold five of the league's 14 rostered backup quarterbacks.