1. Indian Outlaws
· I mean to start things off, I don’t think Bradford will be a top 10 or top 15 QB but Indian Outlaws is looking to prove me wrong. Outside of this you can’t deny that team that the Outlaws has put together is pretty great. I mean you start with Odell and Eddy and went big for top WRs with D. Thomas and A. Jeffrey is a pretty decent start. He also picked up some cheaper RBs who could be top 10 RBs (Foster and Gore). With Foster possibly being back as early as late September and Gore finally on a TD scoring team are pretty good RB2/Flex players. Coupled with a solid bench means he might have too many options to choose from every week. Not that he can beat his line-up last year which was almost cheating, but it seems that he hasn’t given up the top spot just yet. Someone will have to take the top spot or a few injuries (and I mean a few) will cause him to get knocked off his top spot. 2. The Mullynation · Obviously Mullynation has a great team. Her top squad is 2nd to none. I mean with starters like Luck, Murray, Charles, Jones, and Cook (questionable Allen Robinson, but still should be quality as a flex) could make her unbeatable. Like I said in the draft recap – the question is just the depth. Either bye week or injury could cause her RB corps to fall to ruin. Having no team’s starting RB as a flex or back up RB could be questionable during any injuries or bye weeks. WR depth isn’t bad with Boldin, Parker, and Royal. Okay, so typing this out she has a pretty great team, but like I said above someone will have to knock the Outlaws out of his spot and having a weak RB bench doesn’t earn you the Number 1 spot. We’ll see if she can prove me wrong and knock Indian Outlaws off his top spot after week one. 3. The 90* Putters · The 90* putters has some pretty great players but are they fantasy top 3 players like the players noted above? We will have to wait and find out later this season if these players can beat their prior year top 10 results and break the top 5 or 3 ranking in fantasy results. With Brady back his team only gets better with a unstoppable QB (even when he doesn’t cheat). Forsett and Lynch are pretty great starting RB1 and RB2 with any team wishing they had either as their Starting RB1. WR1 Cobb is only improving with the Jordy injury. Additionally, Edelman is a much better fantasy value with Brady under center as compared to Geno Smith. Depth isn’t too bad with a RB Coleman (who is at least a starter) as a flex or backup RB2. This much better than Mullynation above him. The only thing keeping him down at number 3 is the Outlaws and Mullynation having PY top 3 scoring players. However, this is a new year and let the new season begin!! 4. Big City Hillbillies · Keeping BCH out of the top 3 is whether or not Doug Martin can repeat his 2012 rookie performance. Having Forte and Morris are a solid RB1 and RB2. Doug Martin could be that key flex player or change of pace RB2 to play on tough matchup weeks for the two stars above. Additionally if DeAndre and Morris can break the top 10 WR and RB this year, then BCH will have a pretty solid team!! Plenty of bench spots to mix up the starters to play on strong team matchups or future bye weeks. BCH has a good team but we’ll see if it turns out to be great. 5. River Gypsies · I assume that it won’t take RG long to move up in the Power Rankings early in the season. I currently have him down at number 5 as his two top RBs (in my opinion) are SSPD for either 1 or 2 weeks. Starting these first two weeks he’s got good players (excluding Gronk and Watt who are unbeatable) but actual starters QB, RB, and WR are all just good. If Bell comes back strong and a few WRs (Tate, Matthews, or Roddy) have a few great weeks RG could have a top tier team. With a decent bench he has plenty of options these first few weeks but are they enough to earn him the wins before his studs are back in starting roles? We’ll just have to wait and see once RGs team is at full strength to see how fast he can move up the power rankings. 6. Troll Hunters · Looking at THs bench, it looks like the players are either a FA or injured which should put him lower than number 6 right? If one more starter has to ride the pine TH will probably fall on the power rankings pretty fast. For now though he has a strong starting squad outside of the long shot Ameer Abdullah. If CJ, Shady, and Megatron stay healthy this is a pretty solid team. With his hopes in rookies Amari, Ameer, and Gurley hopefully making names for themselves and putting up some big points this year. This might help him increase his win percentage to greater than 38%... As such, the reason TH is down at 6 is the depth (or lack there of) of his bench. With Gurley, White, and Perriman on the IR for a few weeks (if not more) could cause some difficulties for any poor performance or injury’s come from the starting squad. We’ll find out if his starting squad can survive long enough to add a little more depth when his bench gets a little healthier. Until then he will either stay in the middle of the pack or fall fast to the bottom of the pack. 7. Northside Angels · To start things, he has a great QB1 (Rodgers) ad RB1 (AP), consistent WR1 (TY Hilton) and TE (Jimmy Graham). Having these 4 players as part of your 7 starters players can’t make you a bad team. However, those other 3 players are the difference between making you a great team. He will win, but you can’t win a lot without rounding out the remaining starting spots. Tough having backup RBs as your RB2 (Gio) and Isaiah Crowell is a true question mark until the Browns solidify their starting RB. Isaiah is the best guess but this is a new year and they have some fresh meat joining their ranks. NSA needs a few of these RBs to solidify starting roles before I can see him moving up the power rankings. Depth in the bench is still a little questionable with more backup RBs with McFadden and Hillman being RB2 on the Cowboys and Broncos. NSA team is not bad, before week 1 there are too many questions to move him up the rankings. 8. Smell My Finger · The key for SMF is if his QB Russell can be another top 5 QB like the prior year. I mean he has a lot of games with high 20s or 30+ but also games with less than 15… Hopefully, he can gain a little consistency to stop giving his owners a heart attack each week whether he will break the bank or earn you pennies. Additionally, I am unsure about his starting RBs. Jeremy Hill is awesome but he loses reps (and fantasy points) each week with Gio being a stud as well. Also Hyde is going to have to prove himself as the starter as well as Ellington having to prove himself as a valuable asset this year. We all know the hype fizzled out last year with a sub par year. Hopefully, both these players can prove me wrong and break the top 15. SMF does have some options on the bench with Tre Mason, Davante Adams, Steve Smith Sr. which keeps him from the bottom two. Better year these players could have a few good games and move SMF up the power rankings. These are all question marks at this point though which keeps him at number 8. 9. Twin City Tree Cats · We’ll see if TC2 can rebound after the flop who is Jordy Nelson. This is risk with any early draft but honestly it could have happened to anyone and it will not be the only injury early this season. However, TC2 needed to do some damage control which anyway you look at it puts him near the bottom of the pack. Ingram is a solid RB1 which will be the anchor to his team along with Peyton who hopefully can rebound after that pitifully week 13-17 last year. Randle and Gordon are question marks as to whether they are truly worth a spot on starting teams. Everything is pointing that they will be starters but will they actually perform starting week one? That is the real question. A solid few weeks performance from either of these two and overall pointing up decent point totals will move TC2 up the list. What forces TC2 to number 9 is that he has no true WR 1. As well as a WR depth which is weaker yet. Not that this is expected, if Calvin when down for TH instead of Jordy I could see their rankings switched. Overall, I need to see the WR corps producing Top 10-15 points to consider moving up the charts. 10. 302 Cadets · I mean 302 Cadets can’t go wrong with Antonio Brown but will any of the other starters (or bench players even) become Top 15 scoring players in their position? Jonathan Stewart has some serious upside freeing himself from the RB committee with Deangelo Williams now at Pitt, however will it be enough? Also are Latavius Murray and TJ Yeldon worth starting spots week one? I mean last year the starting RBs for Oakland and Jac were poor at best. Hopefully, these teams can produce or 302 may be holding this spot for quite some time. The RB depth for 302 is no better with the RB committee at Det and NYG making it uncertain who will get the most touches or the more important TD scores. A.J. Green better stay healthy because 302 needs all the help he can get and the WRs are his only hope. Maybe Jordy is on 302s bench as a peace offering or a prayer for no 302 WRs to get injured this year. At this point, WR are 302’s best hope and hopefully he will get lucky with these long shot RBs. I tried this last year with Zac Stacy and Bishop Sankey and it didn’t turn out well. As such, you have earned the number 10 spot before week 1. Hopefully, you can prove me wrong. Predictions: Highlighted/Underlined are the expected winners. Troll Hunters (0-0, +0/-0) @ Northside Angels (0-0, +0/-0) Mullynation (0-0, +0/-0) @ Big City Hillbillies (0-0, +0/-0) 90* Putters (0-0, +0/-0) vs. 302 Cadets (0-0, +0/-0) River Gypsies (0-0, +0/-0) @ Smell my Finger (0-0, +0/-0) Indian Outlaws (0-0, +0/-0) @ Twin City Tree Cats (0-0, +0/-0)
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