Scores Through Sunday (Week Two)

1. Jon 83.61

2. Kiah 82.16 (H. Nicks)

3. Tony 81.65

4. Jerod 74.13

5. Joe 69.96 (A. Bradshaw)

6. Brad 66.84

7. Justin 61.89 (Ram K)

8 Bryan 61.76

9. Abe 61.30 (E. Manning, M. Manningham)

10. Nathan 61.06

Week One Results

Abe 9-0 (92.96)

Brad 8-1 (85.78)

Jerod 7-2 (77.05)

Jon 6-3 (66.49)

Tony 5-4 (66.44)

Kiah 4-5 (64.55)

Joe 3-6 (58.50)

Bryan 2-7 (57.49)

Nathan 1-8 (56.45)

Justin 0-9 (55.39)

It doesn't take a true PHENOM to realize this is also the current standings, and the reverse order of week one Free Agency.

Scores Through Sunday Night (Week One)

Jerod 77.05

Abe 68.51 (W. Welker, B. Lloyd)

Brad 65.05 (K. Orton, Raider K)

Kiah 64.55

Tony 58.64 (Patriot K)

Bryan 5749

Justin 55.44

Nathan 50.45 (Dolphin K)

Joe 45.70 (D. McFadden, Patriot D)

Jon 35.60 (T. Brady, B. Green-Ellis, C. Ochocinco)

Starting Lineup Strength

One way to analyze each team's strengths and weaknesses is to look at the rankings of the players in each team's starting lineups. Listed here, then, I provide the rankings of each team's projected Week 1 starters. I'm using ESPN simply because it has a convenient Top 300 list with sortable positions. I'm also going with the POSITIONAL RANKINGS, not overall rankings, since I think that gives a better reflection of how each team fares at a position (it's also easier).

It should be obvious this is not a total evaluation of team strength, as it ignores depth (personally, I went weaker at #2 RB and #3 WR than I otherwise might have so that I could be strong at #3 RB and #4 WR, trying to build a team for the long haul). But it does give us some ideas of where managers might try to fortify weaknesses, and where we might stand going into the season.

It is also obvious that we who have drafted some of these players would certainly dispute the players' rankings.

I have taken the starting lineups that you have plugged into Yahoo!.

Kiah

QB: #9

RB: #7, #8

WR: #4, #10, #14

TE: #11

Jerod

QB: #17

RB: #14, #15

WR: #5, #7, #13

TE: #22

Justin

QB: #2

RB: #3, #5

WR: #8, #57, #63

TE: #10

Tony

QB: #7

RB: #6, #19

WR: #18, #20

TE: #3, #4

Joe

QB: #8

RB: #12, #16

WR: #6, #12, #21

TE: #12

Brad

QB: #14

RB: #11, #23

WR: #1, #11, #24

TE: #14

Nathan

QB: #6

RB: #9, #10

WR: #2, #16

TE: #1, #8

Bryan

QB: #1

RB: #4, #13

WR: #27, #41

TE: #2, #5

Jon

QB: #4

RB: #20, #21

WR: #3, #9, #26

TE: #6

Abe

QB: #12

RB: #1, #2

WR: #17, #19, #22

TE: #13

Roster Analysis 2

I noticed that this year (seemingly more than ever), there is a lot of discrepancy between different sources' rankings. For example, Maurice Jones-Drew is ESPN's #5 overall player, while he is Yahoo!'s #16 overall player, Darren McFadden makes a jump from #21 to #9, and Shonn Greene is Yahoo!'s #19 but isn't even in ESPN's Top 50. So for the sheer hell of it (and since I'm not blogging about real football this season), I'll post the same Roster Analysis as I did a few days ago, but with Yahoo!'s rankings rather than ESPN's.

Kiah

Rashard Mendenhall (#5), Lesean McCoy (#13), Hakeem Nicks (#17), Miles Austin (#25), Mike Williams (#34), Ben Roethlisberger (#47)

Jerod

Calvin Johnson (#12), Matt Forte (#23), Mike Wallace (#28), DeAngelo Williams (#35), Felix Jones (#39), Dwayne Bowe (#43)

Justin

Chris Johnson (#7), Michael Vick (#15), Maurice Jones-Drew (#16), Vincent Jackson (#26)

Tony

Ray Rice (#3), Shonn Greene (#19) LeGarrette Blount (#29), Tony Romo (#32), Mark Ingram (#41), Jermichael Finley (#48)

Joe

Darren McFadden (#9), Larry Fitzgerald (#14), Ahmad Bradshaw (#30), Dez Bryant (#42), Matt Schaub (#46), Brandon Marshall (#49)

Brad

Andre Johnson (#6), Steven Jackson (#27), DeSean Jackson (#36), Ryan Grant (#37), Peyton Manning (#40), Beanie Wells (#50)

Nathan

Michael Turner (#8), Roddy White (#11), Frank Gore (#20), Philip Rivers (#21), Antonio Gates (#45),

Bryan

Jamaal Charles (#4), Aaron Rodgers (#10), Drew Brees (#18), Peyton Hillis (#24)

Jon

Tom Brady (#22), Greg Jennings (#31), Reggie Wayne (#33), Jahvid Best (#44)

Abe

Adrian Peterson (#1*), Arian Foster (#1*), Brandon Lloyd (#38)

Roster Analysis

After an auction, with its flexibility of roster construction, it can be interesting to match our teams against a top-50 list and see how teams were constructed. I'll show where the players we draft show up on ESPN's Top 50, and you can see for yourself how rosters were constructed. It should be noted (obviously) these rankings do not bear correlation to the actual auction costs of players, to the values of certain positions in our league, or even to where players might have been taken in a snake draft.

Kiah

Lesean McCoy (#8), Rashard Mendenhall (#12), Hakeem Nicks (#17), Miles Austin (#31), Mike Williams (#39), Jeremy Maclin (#41)

Jerod

Calvin Johnson (#18), Mike Wallace (#23), Matt Forte (#27), DeAngelo Williams (#30), Dwayne Bowe (#37), Jonathan Stewart (#38), Felix Jones (#48)

Justin

Chris Johnson (#3), Maurice Jones-Drew (#5), Michael Vick (#9), Vincent Jackson (#26)

Tony

Ray Rice (#6), LeGarrette Blount (#40), Tony Romo (#42), Santonio Holmes (#49)

Joe

Darren McFadden (#21), Larry Fitzgerald (#23), Ahmad Bradshaw (#33), Dez Bryant (#34), Knowshon Moreno (#35), Matt Schaub (#47)

Brad

Andre Johnson (#9), Steven Jackson (#19), Peyton Manning (#22), DeSean Jackson (#32)

Nathan

Roddy White (#10), Frank Gore (#13), Michael Turner (#15), Philip Rivers (#29), Antonio Gates (#36), Marques Colston (#43)

Bryan

Jamaal Charles (#4), Aaron Rodgers (#7), Drew Brees (#16), Peyton Hillis (#25), Dallas Clark (#50)

Jon

Greg Jennings (#14), Tom Brady (#20), Reggie Wayne (#28), Jahvid Best (#44), BenJarvis Green-Ellis (#45)

Abe

Adrian Peterson (#1), Arian Foster (#2), Brandon Lloyd (#46)

In which I submit a radical alteration to draft strategy

You know what really grinds my gears? Asterisks. Asterisks imply some sort of hijinks like PEDs. If this is true, why not do what the NFL surely has already done... look the other way and let everyone juice. So, in honor of my "tainted" championship I submit a radical idea. Let's have a snake draft this year.