Prime-Time First TD Bets — Monday Night Football, Week 16
Alex Christenson
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How many times have you looked at your fantasy team and realized it’s one of the best teams you have ever drafted? How many conversations have you had with friends or family about their fantasy team from a different league you are not in? I have always wanted a way to compete against my friends and prove who has the best overall team. Well, now? We can.
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Here is a roster of mine from the NFBC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s a standard 5×5 roto draft with 30 rounds and a 12-team league. This team sits at 10th place out of 12 in the standings through the first six weeks of the season.
C: Salvador Perez (KC)
C: Francisco Álvarez (NYM)
1B: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (TOR)
2B: Max Muncy (LAD)
3B: Yandy Díaz (TB)
SS: Javier Báez (DET)
CI: Anthony Rendon (LAA)
MI: Bryson Stott (PHI)
OF: Juan Soto (SD)
OF: Steven Kwan (CLE)
OF: Andrew Benintendi (CHW)
OF: Jose Siri (TB)
OF: Ramón Laureano (OAK)
UT: Matt Mervis, 1B (CHC)
P: Cristian Javier (HOU)
P: Joe Ryan (MIN)
P: Jesús Luzardo (MIA)
P: Tanner Bibee (CLE)
P: Yusei Kikuchi (TOR)
P: Jordan Montgomery (STL)
P: Ryan Pressly (HOU)
P: Clay Holmes (NYY)
P: Zach Jackson (OAK)
B: Yasmani Grandal, C (CHW)
B: Jose Altuve, 2B (HOU) – IL
B: Tyler O’Neill, OF (STL) – IL
B: Alex Kirilloff, OF (MIN)
B: Max Scherzer, P (NYM) – D2D
B: Drew Smyly, P (CHC)
B: Brusdar Graterol, P (LAD)
One may look at this team and wonder what the problem is. It has key offensive studs like Guerrero, Soto, Muncy, some decent speed and a set of worthwhile starting pitchers. Looking under the hood, you’ll note a team with a wide set of issues.
The offense only 26 total points out of a possible 60, particularly hurting in the HR and RBI categories. Max Muncy and Yandy Díaz have been leading the way there and this squad will need its two primary boppers (Guerrero, Soto) to produce going forward. Moreover, the outfield is quite below average in power – the quartet of Steven Kwan, Andrew Benintendi, Jose Siri and Ramon Laureno is underwhelming – Kwan has just one homer this season and Benintendi has still yet to hit one.
Kwan does have eight stolen bases and a few others chip in here and there, but the team underwhelms in this department as well. Getting Tyler O’Neill fully healthy and chipping in for both power and speed will be important. He’s one of the reasons this team has struggled.
On the pitching side, just 20.5 points out of a possible 60. Joe Ryan and Jesús Luzardo have held up their end of the bargain, but both were arms readily available in the 120-160 ADP range in drafts. They were not expected aces. The big issue here is the constant health issues for Max Scherzer, who was just scratched from his Tuesday start. He’s been dealing with a minor shoulder injury, neck spasms, and recently served a 10-game suspension for apparent cheating (that he still vehemently denies). If Scherzer needs to a trip to the IL, so be it. I’d rather have him healthy and firing on all cylinders for four months than to have to deal with such strife with my ace.
The closer situation is rough as well. Ryan Pressly has been holding it down, but the rest has been murky. Clay Holmes has struggled mightily of late and may not even be the primary closer for the Yankees anymore. I picked up Brusdar Graterol two weeks ago, but he’s only scored one save with Evan Phillips the primary closer for the Dodgers now. I added Zach Jackson of the A’s this week but don’t have my hopes up since the A’s rarely win games and provide save opportunities. On the plus side, Jackson does seem to be their most reliable bullpen arm could lead the way in saves this season.
Despite this team’s obvious struggles and holes, I do plan to climb out of this. This squad may not be a world-beater, but I’ll work the waiver wire and try to make optimal lineup decisions to pull it out of 10th place and into a more respectable spot. This is the type of squad I’d battle someone with head-to-head via Bettle, though likely try to pick my spots. Perhaps against a team off to a hot start but is running on good fortune and is due for some negative regression.
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