This is Dre's Team turned a solid draft slot (No. 6 overall) into a decent performance. With Antonio Brown and Golden Tate expected to combine for the 3rd-highest point total of all starting WR groups in the league, This is Dre's Team is projected to finish 8-5 (1,489 points), which would place them 4th in Hiawatha Elite League.
- Drew Brees
Best Pick: This is Dre's Team scored a outstanding early-round bargain with the pick of Brees at No. 67, about 16 spots later than his ADP of 51. Following a season in which he threw for 4,334 yards and 23 TDs with 8 INTs, totaling 271 fantasy points, Brees is projected to score 284 fantasy points with the Saints. That makes him a valuable No. 1 QB for this squad.
- Marshawn Lynch
Going out on a Limb: Everyone fancies themselves a fantasy expert nowadays, so there's no telling what led you to draft Lynch at No. 54, about 29 picks earlier than his ADP of 83. Projected to score 162 fantasy points this season with the Raiders, he'll aim to perform similarly to last year when he rushed for 891 yards and 7 TDs and snagged 20 passes for 151 yards, totaling 164 fantasy points. According to projections, Lynch will slot in as the No. 2 RB for This is Dre's Team to begin the season.
Draft Notes
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Week 6 will bring on a case of the Bye Week Blues for This is Dre's Team, as they have three players on a bye (Drew Brees, Matt Prater, and Golden Tate). Ben's Besties, your Week 6 opponent, won't be nearly as hamstrung with only one player (Matthew Stafford) on a bye.
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Based on projected records, This is Dre's Team has one of the toughest schedules late in the season in Hiawatha Elite League with a strength of schedule for the last three weeks rated as the 3rd-most difficult. Even so, for the season as a whole, This is Dre's Team has drawn a fairly balanced schedule rated as the 9th toughest.
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With the oldest group in the league at an average of 6.9 years of NFL experience, This is Dre's Team has put together a fairly old squad. Case in point: they didn't pick any of the 13 rookies drafted.
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In spite of offensive openings at QB and TE in the 5th round, This is Dre's Team drafted RB Marshawn Lynch with the 54th pick, filling the WR/RB flex position rather than a higher leverage position. The team was the third squad to fill a flex position.
Player Analysis
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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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