As I was taking a break from my essay brainstorming I, uh, decided to do some preliminary research on the upcoming fantasy football season. (BTW if you haven't had a chance pick up Matthew Berry's new book Fantasy Life. I finished it in two days. Hilarious. Here is a snippet of the book: http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-10-worst-punishments-losing-in-fantasy-…). A light bulb came on. Check this out:
MBA tiers are just like running back tiers
Mega elite studs: Adrian Peterson, Arian Foster, and Doug Martin are your H/S/W this year. (I personally think Martin will have an amazing year [going on record] and a better pick than everyone else at this point)
Elite studs: Jamaal Charles, CJ Spiller, Marshawn Lynch, Ray Rice, Lesean McCoy plus Megatron round out your top 10. I think Megatron and Shady are arguably on the lower end of this tier, just as Tuck and Cal are usually the two excluded when the topic of M7 is discussed.
Bona Fide RB1s: Trent Richardson, Alfred Morris, Steven Jackson, Matt Forte, Ridley, Chris Johnson are your top 14 schools, such as Johnson, Stern, Anderson, Duke, Darden, Ross, Yale. Great RBs that'll get you the carries you want with a bit of a name recognition. A bit of a step down if you will from the previous tier.
Other Running Backs: Tough to rank from here on out. There will be some names that people will recognize, but it'll be really hard to evaluate their value at this point.
What do you think about my idea? Is it plain stupid, or super ingenious? :)
Plain stupid.
And Megatron is a WR.
obviously a silly joke post ;) i would think someone with a screenname that references The Van Buren Boyz can tell such. now if you think it's horrible, then lolMe
warning: fantasy strategy follows: and I know megatron is wr. he's been valued at lower rb1 tier (because of his Value Above Replacement) for the last few seasons (even though I never end up with him for whatever reason). Targeting Jimmy Graham in round 2 this season because of VAR.
Not sure if serious..
Stopped reading after you listed Megatron as an RB
Megatron and Brady in 1st round? No thanks.
megatron bestest rb of all timeeee, I'm planning on drafting yasiel puig first round QB
West Coast (or anyone else) do you play in money leagues? I had no idea Berry wrote a book, he's a decent analyst, but caters to the masses and all the sheep follow his oftentimes basic and/or common sense advice. Will check out his book though, he's pretty entertaining.
I play in a couple $ leagues...nowadays you can play $ leagues on Yahoo ($25, $100, $250). Without $ a lot of people will give you after week 10 and it's really annoying. But the thing about $ league is you gotta worry about collusion.
Woah. I didn't know you were applying this year. Best of luck!
I think the HSW are the perennial safe picks. For this season they would be AP, Rice, Foster.
Yea I actually agree with this thought. Rice is falling in the rankings because there's a chance his carries will be limited this year, but he is the epitome of the perennial safe pick.
I like the concept. Plus, I too am very high on Martin! I wouldn't slot him over All Day, but definitely over Foster unless something dramatic happens with Houston's right side.
The boy Trent Richardson will be soon be a top three league runningback. Run Trent, Run!
Got Ray Rice and CJ Spiller on my team I'm pleased
Clever post, I agree with the general concept
Seriously people lets stop ranking this stuff. Successful people never got that way by trying to assign a hierarchy to life and then trying to figure out what their rank is in that hierarchy.
If we're going to rank MBAs, lets compare them to old cars:
Columbia/Sloan: The 1990 Chevy Impala.
Harvard/Stanford/Wharton: The 1983 F150 Truck.
Chicago Booth: 1983 Honda Accord with peeling paint and rust. (Top of the hierarchy)
this post is more about fantasy football than MBA...I hate MBA rankings more than the next guy and this is a "satirical" piece if you will?
This
lol not even fair. GG league
And who do you suppose will be taking his carries? Bernard Pierce?
hmmmm maybe. but also could start turning into a more vertical offense (which started happening after they ditched the no good Cam Cameron). I also think he's slipping because he's not as "sexy" as some of the others in front of him at the moment.
Hope you're still trolling.
Anyone know of a draft guide better than Rotoworld's?
I really like Football Guys.
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