Even Mel Kiper Jr. can't scowl at this draft performance. And he even has a scowl when he's smiling. Despite a late draft pick, Bitterness assembled a team that is projected to finish second in Motor City Fantasy Football League with a record of 9-4-0 (3,165 points). If they have a bad season, it won't be due to a lack of wide receivers, as they used three of their first five selections to pick up WRs Julio Jones (third round), Jordan Matthews (fourth round), and Mike Evans (fifth round). They landed the best group of RBs in the league, as they have Adrian Peterson, Le'Veon Bell, Ameer Abdullah, and Isaiah Crowell on their team.
Bitterness should use Week 8 to consider life's deeper mysteries, like why do we park in a driveway but drive on a parkway? It will be better to think about that than to check fantasy football. They have four players and the most projected fantasy points on bye that week. Looking at the entire season, they have an easier-than-average schedule. Along with the fourth-easiest overall schedule, both the first four games and last four games of the season are pretty average for Bitterness.
Draft Notes
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Strength in Numbers
TE is the best position for Bitterness, though RB and DEF are also stronger-than-average.
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Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
At three different positions, Bitterness picked up projected top-two players (Adrian Peterson, Julio Jones, and Travis Kelce).
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Afraid to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone?
With nine "low-risk" players among their 20 picks, Bitterness is looking for dependable help.
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Show Some ID
Bitterness isn't afraid to rob the cradle, drafting the youngest team in the league with an average of just 3.3 years of NFL experience.
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It's How You Finish
Bitterness made every other squad look silly after some amazing halftime adjustments, accumulating the most projected points in the league over the second half of the draft.
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Bargain Shopper
With five steals in the first 12 rounds (including Sammy Watkins, Houston, and Travis Kelce), Bitterness made some shrewd moves.
Player Analysis
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- A. Peterson, RB
- Round 1, Pick 4
Adrian Peterson Doesn't Read the PlaybookThe playbook reads him. Bitterness should be in decent shape if Peterson gets his 333 projected touches this year.
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- Le'Veon Bell, RB
- Round 2, Pick 17
Old FashionedBitterness stuck to the tried-and-true fantasy strategy of going RB-RB to start the draft, taking Adrian Peterson and Le'Veon Bell before targeting other positions.
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- Julio Jones, WR
- Round 3, Pick 24
Hopping for JulioJones was the lone NFL player to log 30 catches of at least 20 yards last season, and only Odell Beckham, Jr. averaged more receiving yards per game in 2014.
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- Mike Evans, WR
- Round 5, Pick 44
On a Scale of 1 to AmericaHow free will Mike Evans get in the secondary? He's projected to put up 1,244 receiving yards this year.
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- Travis Kelce, TE
- Round 8, Pick 77
A Big, Strong ThreatTravis Kelce ranks second in the Motor City Fantasy Football League among TEs with 192 projected fantasy points. If the pundits are wrong and he places outside the top-10, Bitterness could be on the outside looking in come playoff time.
Best Available
With three below-average positions on Bitterness, K and QB are projected as especially weak units that should be upgraded first.
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- Blair Walsh
- Rank 260, ADP 132
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- Robert Griffin III
- Rank 180, ADP 125
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ADP Analysis
Bars above zero indicate a pick was selected later than a player's ADP. Bars below zero show players that were taken earlier than their ADP.
Position Rank vs League Average
The average projected points for all the players at each position versus the average projected points for all players at that position in the league.
Team Forecast
Bye Week Points Lost
Each bar represents the total projected season points for each player that's on bye that week. This chart shows any potential bye week issues.
Schedule by Opponent Points
Week-by-week schedule with each opponent's projected season points. This chart shows any difficult or easy stretches in the schedule.
How We Grade
Draft grades are based strictly on teams' draft performances. This is calculated by counting the number of fantasy points teams are projected to score over the course of the season using their optimal line-ups. The grades do not take schedule into account. Because of bye weeks and other variables it is possible to earn a high grade yet be projected to finish in the middle of the pack. The opposite is also true. Bottom line: Fantasy Football is like the real game. You can draft the greatest talent in the world but you still need to manage your team every week to get the most out of that talent. As a wise man once said, "On any given Sunday..."
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