Apologies for the slowness on my end - I returned home from my travels to one sick kid, a sick husband, and broken laptop. So I'm slapping a bandaid on things to do and muddling through. Awesome time in Michigan with my family though. Bob is back with your Week 2 Streaming Defense thoughts and I'll have more posts out your way soon!
Here are the ownership % and projections for Defs this week of the ‘owned’ defenses. Owned being better than 80%.
The first week of Fantasy Football is in the books with the
results. How did you do on your Def picks? It was a good week for streaming
Defs and I hope you benefited from some starts on Def.
Below are the results using MFL stats and Fantasy Sharks
scoring. Suggested streams are outlined in Green. Owned and started are in Blue
for start, Yellow for temper expectations and Red for look elsewhere. As you
can see four of the six suggested streamers outperformed all but Sea of the
owned Defs. Panthers were the number one pick and ended up number one over all.
Ten did better than TB and ended up fourth. Rams and Bills still ended up in
the top 12 even with tempered expectations. And I warned you about PHI and HOU.
1. Panthers, Carolina CAR Def 23
2. Seahawks, Seattle SEA Def 21
3. Broncos,
Denver DEN Def 20
4. Titans, Tennessee TEN Def 20
5. Ravens,
Baltimore BAL Def 18
6. 49ers,
San Francisco SFO Def 16
7. Dolphins, Miami MIA Def 16
8. Jets, New York NYJ Def 16
9. Rams, St. Louis STL Def 16
10. Lions,
Detroit DET Def 14
11. Bengals,
Cincinnati CIN Def 13
12. Bills, Buffalo BUF Def 13
13. Chiefs,
Kansas City KCC Def 12
20. Buccaneers, Tampa Bay TBB Def 6
22. Eagles, Philadelphia PHI Def 6
23. Packers, Green Bay GBP Def 6
27. Texans, Houston HOU Def 4
So what did we learn? How about our targets? The Titans are
off the list of targets. TEN’s new QB is not going to be the patsy we may have
thought. Mariota came out throwing short, early, and often and torched the TB
defense. Didn’t see that coming, but we can change our expectations going
forward. The Jags didn’t disappoint, and will stay the leading target going
forward. WAS is also firmly acknowledged as a good target. Foles surprised us
and so did the rest of the Rams offense. Even though they gave up 21 points to SEA
defense, they are not expected to do that with lesser defenses, so they’re off
the list. TB stays on the list until the rookie can prove otherwise, like
Mariota did.
So did other targets emerge? It’s only one week, but you’ve
got to suspect, dare I say it? The Broncos did not look good (FFLibrarian editorial note: noooooo!). The Ravens were
not projected to be a good defense, ranked 14th in cheatsheets, but
they put it on DEN even in a loss. I’m thinking DEN is going to have a bad year
with a marked decline in Manning magic, so I’m putting them on my ‘watch list’
as a target. The 49ers were supposed to be decimated in Def ranked 16th, but
they destroyed MIN. Bridgewater looked like a sophomore slump, so MIN also goes
on my ‘watch list’. And OAK looked bad with both Carr and McGloin. CIN was only
ranked 15th but put it on the flaying OAK offenses. So OAK goes on
my ‘watch list’.
With those observations in mind, what does Week 2 look
like? Here are some links to early streaming advice. They may or may not align
with my analysis below:
The Fake Football's Dreaming of Streaming: Week 2
NFL.com's Week 2 Waiver Wire: Streaming defenses to targetHere are the ownership % and projections for Defs this week of the ‘owned’ defenses. Owned being better than 80%.
So here are the top streams to fill in those blanks above.
Comments