The GM of The Tusken Raiders must be an angel, because this team looks like it fell from heaven. They were able to flip the 10th overall pick into an expected finish of first place with a record of 10-3-0 (1,427 points). They waited until the eighth round to secure their top quarterback, picking up Ryan Tannehill with the 87th overall selection. They put together the highest-scoring TE tandem in the league, as they have Rob Gronkowski and Zach Ertz on their team.
Whether by good fortune or well-planned strategy, The Tusken Raiders has secured a favorable bye week schedule for their superstars. Of their top five players in projected points, none share a common off week. Based on their opponents' projected points, they have a harder-than-average schedule. In addition to having the fifth-most grueling overall schedule, The Tusken Raiders has the second-most difficult last four games of the season.
Draft Notes
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Good Luck With That One!
The Tusken Raiders will have some intriguing decisions to make each week at WR, with a narrow projected points difference between their third- (Jarvis Landry), fourth- (Michael Floyd), and fifth-ranked (Torrey Smith) wideouts.
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On Autopilot
Picking starting RBs should be an effortless exercise most weeks for The Tusken Raiders, as there's a healthy projected point difference between their third-ranked (T.J. Yeldon) and fourth-ranked (Jonas Gray) RBs.
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Strength in Numbers
In order, the three best positions for The Tusken Raiders are TE, WR, and QB.
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I Keep Getting Older
And they stay the same age. The Tusken Raiders isn't afraid to rob the cradle, drafting the youngest team in the league with an average of just 3.6 years of NFL experience.
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Nearly There
The top half of the The Tusken Raiders roster is one of the strongest in the league (ranked No. 1). However, the bottom of the roster is among the weakest (ranked No. 11).
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A Pair of Proven Winners
The Tusken Raiders has a couple of fantasy MVPs in their lineup. Last season, two of their players (Rob Gronkowski and Cody Parkey) finished among the top-20 players that were on the most first-place fantasy teams.
Player Analysis
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- Rob Gronkowski, TE
- Round 1, Pick 10
And It Wasn't Even CloseAcross all Yahoo! leagues, no Tight End appeared more often on first-place rosters than Gronk last year.
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- Dez Bryant, WR
- Round 2, Pick 15
The Power of PersuasionNow would be a reasonable time for The Tusken Raiders to encourage the Hiawatha Premier League to increase the value of receptions. They grabbed Dez Bryant and his 87 projected catches (ranked 10th in the NFL).
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- Alfred Morris, RB
- Round 3, Pick 34
How Rebellious of YouThe Tusken Raiders said 'no' to the tradition of fantasy drafting a RB early, waiting until the third round to pick up their first (Alfred Morris).
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- Mark Ingram, RB
- Round 4, Pick 39
Haters Gonna HateThe rest of Hiawatha Premier League overlooked a gem, and The Tusken Raiders made the swaggiest pick of the round by grabbing Mark Ingram.
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- Amari Cooper, WR
- Round 5, Pick 58
Derek Carr's New ToyAnd now The Tusken Raiders gets to play, too. Cooper's projected to finish in the top-20 for receptions this year, something that hasn't happened in Oakland since Jerry Porter ten years ago.
Best Available
If The Tusken Raiders is looking to make a roster move, RB is a position they could look to upgrade first.
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- Tre Mason
- Rank 111, ADP 119
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- David Johnson
- Rank 143, ADP 126
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- Andre Williams
- Rank 151, ADP 120
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- Darren Sproles
- Rank 169, ADP 114
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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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