Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy Election Special, News, Mailbag

two-keeperly, $200 auction. Okay, to keep somebody out of free agency, you picked up is $20. To keep somebody for the first time, it's $15 on top of what you paid for them. And that keeps somebody that you kept, the previous year, it's $10. So these are my choices. I have Levyon Bell for $57. I have Jamal Charles for $20.

I have Brandon Marshall for 27. I have Kenan Allen for 35, and I have Julian Edelman for 32. I need the key to who the other thing is the best to keep with the price, knowing that the two I keep, the money was the track for my $200. Thanks. That's a tough one, man. That's a really good question because Love Bell is very expensive compared to these guys.

Yeah, Lev Bell is worth that price in general, but he's not necessarily a value. You know, you're getting, if this was a redraft league, Lev Bell's going to go for probably around $57 in the $200 auction league. To me, the lock is Jamal Charles. I completely agree. Jamal Charles at 20. He is, you know, the, he is clearly the bounceback player of the year. Go vote for him at the FF Ballers. But between them...

Man, if you've already got Charles locked and loaded, I don't think I'm going to pony up for Lev Bell. And when you go between Brandon Marshall, Keenan Allen, and Edelman, three players I like, that's tough. That's tough. I think I would... Okay, well, so what is your take? Which two are you taking? I'm going to go Jamal, Charles, and Keenan Allen for 35.

I'm actually going to take Love Bell and Jamal Charles. I think Charles is, I mean, Charles is the lowest price on the board here. He's the best value potential. And so I think it lets you move up and grab Bell for a fair price for Bell. And then you have the, you know, if one of those two leads the league at the running back position, you're in great shape. I think you can find value at wide receiver. You know, Marshall, his situation is up in there with Fitzpatrick right now. Keenan Allen certainly, we believe is great.

coming off an injury, different offensive coordinator. And then Edelman's great too, but I just take Levin, Charles. Yeah, I mean, if you add them up, you get, so you get 77 bucks for the two guys, so you're spending under 40 each. That's how I will think about it because of the value you're getting with Charles is so extreme. So to get two RB1s under 40 bucks each.

That's a pretty solid deal, so I'm going to go that way. I like it. I like it. Unlike in the election, you have won my vote here. All right. These are a couple more questions here. This one's from at Miyagi Waxoff. Well, I shouldn't have read that one. In Omaha. I'm drafting an MFL 10 right now. Wide receivers are going off the board like crazy. Eight wide receivers in round one.

Seven in round two. Question is, when a draft is going heavy in one position, do you try to get a player in that position before the good ones run out, or do you stick with the best player available? There's two rules of thought here, right, when you have a run in any draft. This is why it's important to tier players, because what happens is if there's a run on a certain position and you're getting to the end of a tier, so let's say there's five round wide receivers you really, really, really want.

And four of them just went, and you can grab that fifth guy, the back guy of a tier. I like grabbing them then. But generally speaking, what this does is it provides great value to kind of playing the opposite role. This means that there's going to be a lot of running backs that are very valuable there. So you can do it either way. What you don't want to do is you don't want to see a bunch of wide receivers going and then draft a wide receiver.

Because you feel the need for him when he is not a good value. When he's not in the tier, you should be drafting at that spot. And just because others are gone, all you're going to end up with is a weak team. Yeah, and, you know, the question of before the good runs run out, if you're getting to the end of a tier and you're sitting there on the board, then that is the time to take him. Right? Right. So, all right, Jeff and Reno.

He said, who are the players in the past few seasons that you would never pick up? Just because you had a feeling they would not pan out. For me, it would have, I would have never selected Joseph Randall last year in any round. I wanted no part of Arian Foster. I had no desire to have Peyton Manning. I know the stories, but for some reason I never wanted them. So who are your gut feeling no-nows? For this year. Yes. Ooh. I've got two of them.

Mike's talked about Devonta Freeman. Yeah, Freeman is definitely on my no-no list where... That's a very high-level no-no. Yeah. That's not a late-round no-no. That's an early-round no. And when we're talking about no-no guys, I completely admit I could be wrong on Freeman. I was very wrong last year. I think Coleman gets a lot more work this year. So I'm willing to be wrong. And he's on my no-no list of teams where it's just 98% chance he won't be drafted by me.

Yeah, I have a, Cam Newton's most likely on my no-no list this year, not because I project a bad season, but because I think there's no way I will ever get a value for Cam Newton coming off a year like the one he had. I would say Eddie Lacey and C.J. Anderson are still on my no-no list because I learn from the past as opposed to my counterparts. He learns from one year of history as opposed to multiple years, which I believe was your defense of Andrew Luck.

Thank you, Mike. Go vote now for Eddie Lacey. Eddie Lacey and C.J. Anderson have not had multiple years of elite play. I disagree strongly with Eddie Lacey comment. He might have had to. He might have had to. All right. Do you got any no-noes in your head? You know, I don't know if it's a huge no-no. I would still take him, but I don't believe that much in Jarvis Landry.

From where he's being drafted, he's probably going to be a no-no for me. I don't like T.J. Yeldin, I think that Chris Ivory thing scares me. I just don't know what his role is for where he's being drafted. And, yeah, I would say those are two guys that come to my mind. All right, Lacey did have two years. Yeah, I'll give you that. Thank you. He's still a no-no to me. Because he can't say no-no to anything. No-no to a ho-ho. Right, right, right. And I'll probably...

It's piggybacking a little bit on Cam, but Calvin Benjamin, where I think he will end up being drafted, will likely be on my no-no list. All right, Joel. No, no, no, no, no. Joel in Los Angeles, full point PPR, two keepers allowed. Who do I keep? Gurley for a five, Jordy for a 13, or David Johnson, for a 16. Thanks, guys. Ooh, this is the ultimate Gurley test for Andy. Gurley is, he said two keepers allowed, so he needs two? Yep.

I would go Gurley and David Johnson. Yeah, I would as well. Even though it's full point PPR, I don't need to mess around with Jordy there. I'm taking Gurley in the fifth. That's beautiful. I would take the values. I would take Johnson and Jordy. Yeah, and I would go with Andy Gurley and David Johnson. You still got your first four picks and you go in with two in the top five running back. I can honestly see it both ways. I think it depends honestly about how do the other teams in your league break down position-wise with their keepers?

That could make a very big impact on that decision. So the good news is you have three amazing keepers at great values. So that is it for today's show. We will be back on Thursday. Make sure you go to our Twitter page at the FF Ballers, cast your vote for the presidential candidate and the rest of the members of our fantasy football government election show. I think we've made enough perfect political tie-ins and arguments. Not enough fearmongering, though.

Well, we really didn't. We kept it clean. Yeah. I will build a wall and I'm going to keep Eddie Lacey out. So it's going to be thick. I will say this. I think there was some surprise from the rest of you guys, as well as surprise of myself of how emphatic and passionate I got about Rashad Jennings. You really did. I didn't know that was coming. You really did. You know who's going to pay for that wall, Andy? Uh-oh. Sarah Lee.

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