Andy Dufresne once said that "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Sadly, hope might be the only thing that Dirty Hippies can cling to as their playoff aspirations are dwindling quickly. They picked eighth overall in OklahomIraqis League NFC League and are forecasted to finish 10th with a record of 6-7-0 (2,239 points). They clearly wanted to put together a wide receiver corps early, using three of their first five selections on Mike Evans (second round), Doug Baldwin (fourth round), and Michael Floyd (fifth round). Even so, they ended up with one of the worst groups of WRs in the league.
Dirty Hippies should use Week 8 to finally read War and Peace. Anything that isn't following their fantasy football team. They have four players and the most projected fantasy points on bye that week. Looking at the entire season, they have a tougher-than-average schedule. Along with having the seventh-most grueling overall schedule, Dirty Hippies has the softest last four games of the season.
Draft Notes
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Senior Citizen Discount
With an average of 7.2 years of NFL experience, Dirty Hippies is the team most likely to have a player become a grandpa.
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Great Idea, Poor Execution
Dirty Hippies will need to get busy on the waiver wire in Week 9, as their only TE (Zach Miller) and only K (Stephen Gostkowski) will both be off that week.
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Batman Needs Robin
Just like Adrian Peterson needs Jerick McKinnon. Dirty Hippies hedged their bets by snagging a couple of teammates with their first-round and 12th-round selections.
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Defense Wins Championships?
Dirty Hippies chose to go with two DEFs instead of loading up at other spots.
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A Dominating Pair
Dirty Hippies has a pair of fantasy MVPs in their lineup. Last season, two of their players (Adrian Peterson and DeAngelo Williams) finished among the top-20 players that were on the most first-place fantasy teams.
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No Back-Up Necessary
Going with just a single TE (Zach Miller) and K (Stephen Gostkowski), Dirty Hippies opted to add depth at other positions.
Player Analysis
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- A. Peterson, RB
- Round 1, Pick 8
Peterson is HungryAnd he'll get plenty of chances to feast this season, projected to rank second in the NFL with 336 touches.
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- Mike Evans, WR
- Round 2, Pick 21
Delivering NightmaresMike Evans will look to haunt the dreams of opposing corners, as he's projected to finish sixth in the NFL with 8.7 receiving TDs.
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- Doug Baldwin, WR
- Round 4, Pick 49
Rethinking That OneDoug Baldwin may not justify his 49th overall draft pick if projections hold true. Currently, he is estimated to fall outside the NFL's top-30 in both yards (31st with 955) and TDs (33rd with 6.3).
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- D. Williams, RB
- Round 6, Pick 77
Heavenly HandcuffPittsburgh's back-up made the most of his opportunity to start last year, and when the dust had settled on the 2015 season, only one RB (Devonta Freeman) appeared on more first-place rosters than DeAngelo.
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- B. Roethlisberger, QB
- Round 7, Pick 92
The Heist Is OnThe other league managers passed over a diamond in the rough. According to ADP, Dirty Hippies got a steal in snatching Ben Roethlisberger in the seventh round (92nd overall pick vs. ADP of 46.6).
Best Available
WR and DEF are projected to be the weakest units for Dirty Hippies.
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- James Jones
- Rank 199, ADP 124
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- Philadelphia Defense
- Rank 206, ADP 142
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- Green Bay Defense
- Rank 236, ADP 133
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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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