Fantasy Football 2017 - RB Rankings Pt. 2 + Sleepers

in this offense, and for him to be able to be in the 6th, 7th round in certain drafts, he's a great value for where he's going. All right, so Cook, Ingram, Mixon, rounds out our top 24. I'm going to run them back. Lamar Miller, Isaiah Crewell, Marshall Lynch, Leonard Fournette, Mike Gillisley, Danny Woodhead, Christian McCaffrey, Carlos Hyde, Frank Gore, Ty Montgomery, Spencer Ware, Dalvin Cook, Mark Ingram, Joe Mixing.

Before we move on, and I want to answer a couple mailbag questions. So get your pipes ready, Mike. Before you do that, I think Jason should do it. I want a sleeper running back. Pick one out. Give me your sleeper running back. And it can't, look, Jamal Williams falls into that category for sure as a sleeper running back candidate. But who's another one deep down in drafts hidden away that you could throw the name out there and maybe get something special for? I'll throw out.

He shouldn't be a sleeper because if you play fantasy football, you should know who this running back is. But it's Theo Riddick always gets drafted far too late. And in PPR, he's an absolute stud. He's been fantastic. And he's coming along fine. He'll be ready for the season. So Theo. Nice. Jason.

Late in draft, why would you not grab Theo? Two guys that come to mind for me, depending on how late. Robert Turman, we don't draft handcuffs usually, but I see him as someone involved, and you can actually get touchdowns and use him in the meantime. But Danelle Pumphrey mentioned him a while ago as well. How do you pronounce that? Pronounce with an enfree. Thank you. Yeah, I think he is, if you're wanting super, super late. I mean, undrafted, deep.

Deep leagues. I'll throw out a guy you may never have heard of him. Jamal Charles. I'm going to throw Jamal Charles out there. I think there's going to be if he shows that he has some pep in his step, I don't think there's going to be hesitation whatsoever. The coach said he's playing on Thursday. Yeah, there's no hesitation for the coach. Yeah, never mind. Oh, they took it back? Yeah, they took it back. I'll throw Jamal Charles out there. We'll see what happens. All right, let's get to the mailbag.

Mailbag. All right. If you have a question for the show, head over to the website, the fancy footballers.com, or you can leave us a voicemail question, 302464-64-64-T-FFB. Leave us a voicemail question. Keep him short. To the point. And we'll get through as many as we can. This question comes in from Tom in Bridgeport, Chicago. He says he always hears us refer.

to so-and-so as a QB1 or QB2 or RB2, please explain exactly what is meant and how that is determined. Great question. I was actually going to say this earlier when I corrected Mike from, you know, running back one to a running back one because a lot of people don't know that. It's very simple. We use everything here in half point 12 team league. So a running back one or a quarterback one or a tight-in one means a top 12. They finished within, you know, there's 12 teams in your average league.

So he was a top 12. A QB2, a wide receiver 2 would mean they're 13 through 24 at the end of season rankings. And the QE2 is a big boat. Yeah, that's different. Totally different. Just to throw in, if you say the running back one, you mean final standings at that position. Yeah, he was the number back.

The running back one or the running back six. Excellent point, Brooks. Thank you. Thank you, Brooks. The nuances of fantasy football. You're welcome, guys. All right. Tom and Ohio, when drafting in a league, we're passing touchdowns are worth six points instead of four points. Does that change your draft strategy? This is, look, if I came out with a book of frequently asked fantasy questions. Did you do the cooking bite? This would be part of that equation. Six point versus four point leagues. How does that change? It changes almost nothing.

might shift guys around a little bit as far as overall rankings like Tyrod Taylor and a four points because passing, he throws a lower amount of passing touchdowns, but it gets you rushing yards and rushing touchdowns. So it can change those rankings slightly. So that's within the quarterback category, shuffling names, not necessarily changing where the quarterbacks belong. But it does not change at all my belief in taking a quarterback late because they are replaceable.

in fantasy football. We will never stop getting this question asked. And I will answer it every time. No, but that's important. I mean, so many people see this and get the wrong perception that that means they need to take that quarterback in one round two. And we urge you. Don't do it. We urge you. All right. Mr. Butterface has a question. At Mr. underscore Butterface himself says, what useful statistic in evaluating players is the most often.

Overlooked or underutilized. I've got one. I'm going to throw it out there. I would say possibly, and I don't know this, but maybe fantasy points per snap would be interesting to find out. You're saying that that could be, that's underutilized and should be utilized. Potentially, yeah. I mean, it does factor in things like, you know, opportunity and efficiency. It's an interesting one. But what do you guys think? What do you think is most often?

overlooked or underutilized? And I'll throw in there, what do you think is maybe over-emphasized? I would say underutilized. It's not necessarily a statistic. It's just reading a situation. What are the tendencies of a team? What are the tendencies of an offensive coordinator who's now, he's got a new job? And because it's really easy to look at quantifiable things from last year. What did this team do last year? Well, the Baltimore Ravens.

The last two years have been the most pass-happy team in the league. Meanwhile, their new offensive coordinator, he's not known for that. There could be a dynamic shift back to, or returning things more to a more balanced approach. So that's not a stat, but I think that's an underutilized thing, is reading a situation instead of looking at actual raw numbers. Yeah, my one for each would be, I think the more.

overutilized one is touchdowns. You know, if a guy's had a lot of touchdowns, he gets bumped up and he is now a touchdown guy, but, you know, those fluctuates so much and they're hard to predict. And the most underutilized would be consistency metrics. You know, you look at versus end of year numbers and total numbers. But check out, and we just built, you know, all of these consistency metric data so you could check out.

What percentage of time last year or the year before or the last two years or three years or whatever for every position? How often were they finishing in a place that helped your fantasy team? Because I would much rather have a guy who finished five spots behind. You know, he was at the wide receiver 20 instead of the wide receiver 15. But every single week he was helping me not lose. Whereas the 15 every other week I was losing because he put up a goose egg. And he didn't week 17.

explode 30 points to boost his overall final ranking. Look, Garrett Blunt's not in New England anymore. But if he was, where's he going in this draft this year? Because that final total of touchdowns versus where he really belonged, Jason just said six weeks outside the top what? Seven weeks outside the top 20 and a half. Yeah. So that's what Jason's saying. He's saying the consistency factors in. All right, that doesn't. Wait. Wait. I know we're near in the end. But I have to avenge.

myself from the ridiculous stat earlier of fourth quarter. Here's the thing. I mean, you almost had this just amazing stat. Todd Gurley had 270 carries. The Cleveland Browns had only had 279 to running backs. Yeah. So here's, I knew this stat from earlier and I was looking it up on the fly. That's why it happened because I, you know, I clicked the wrong button, go figure. Didn't do your cooking by the book? I didn't do my cooking by the book. But I'm not going to be lazy. Here are the real numbers.

The Cleveland Browns in the fourth quarter only had 48 rushing attempts, whereas Zeke had 86, Lamar Miller had 69, Todd Gurley had 63. The next lowest team was at 57 rushing attempts, and there were, I think, over 10 teams that had over 100. So for Crowell, the Browns have to be in games for its change. Yeah, and that's one of those stats, too, where you're just basically...

You look at it as opportunity or a negative. You can take it both ways. Wow, this is such a low number. It's got to change this year. Or, wow, that's such a low number. Ooh, I hope it doesn't happen again. Yeah, I think you've got to look at the why. Why was that number low is because the brown sucked. Don't worry, Brock is here. Woo! Wallpaper situation in Cleveland has upgraded, as has the quarterback height.

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They're super fun. Jason, right before the show today, just made his pick. Who did you take? Who did I take? See, I stole somebody from you. I took McFadden. I think we're in the 12th round. You took Doxon. Yeah, and you foolishly didn't like it. Doxin and the 12th is amazing. That's a great pick. Thank you, Mike. All injured league. Yeah. All right. Best ball. Check out. Talk about overutilized. All right. We'll be back tomorrow. We're starting wide receivers. Isn't that right, Brooks?

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