Can I get some trading advice? (again, even though my first query went unanswered)
This is mostly directed toward DL1, erokero, and TT, as you guys seem to be the most experienced in fantasy, and perhaps know how to swing a savvy trade. it's a bit long and in-detail, but I like to not leave any holes.
Alright, I've been trying like mad to get as many trades done in this one PPR league, highly-competitive and active, but all the owners are nightmares, and don't good value when it repeatedly slaps them in the face.
(league settings: 1 pt per catch, yet yards earned cut in half: RB/WR - 20 yards - 1 pt ; QB - 50 yards passing -1 pt ... all TDs - worth 6 pts
it's probably the worst setting ever, e.g. last year, Fitz scored 232 pts, Peterson scored 158, Turner - 189, I think)
First of all, I should tell you, I traded away Ray Rice early :( like, when McGahee was on 2 TD streak for 3 straight games. I got Jonathan Stewart in return.
Now, the real reason I've been trying to conduct as many trades as possible in this league is because all of my RBs are 2nd, 3rd-stringers at best. They are Leon Washington, Jonathan Stewart, and as of this week, now an added Maroney.
I traded away perhaps the top-producing PPR RB behind MJD in Ray Rice because I've not had much experience in trades. I just wanted to get a trade done, and I thought that the two backs were similar in value...
(as in, Ray Rice gets yards in a league where they don't matter as much + catches but little chance for TDs, while Stewart, I thought would become Car. goal-line vulture when healthy).
Fuck, and I got a steal when I drafted Rice in the 9th round, and then pawned him off just to think I made a deal.
Whatever, big mistake on my part. I'm still 4-2 with perhaps the weakest stable of RBs because nearly every one of my WRs would be no-brainer starts on anyone else's teams: Fitz, Andre Johnson, Steve Smith (north), Greg Jennings, Percy Harvin, Bernard Berrian ... (let go of Cotchery to pick up Kellen Winslow, and I hope to be able to trade him away if he produces another big game soon)
The last two Minn. receivers may get a back seat to Sidney Rice now, (by the way, where did he come from producing big the past 3 or so weeks?), but I just received notification tonight that one of my offers was accepted:
Harvin + Berrian for Calvin Johnson
So, now my team shapes up like this (sorry this has gone on so long, question at the end)
Rodgers (scored 250+ pts last season)
Fitzgerald (scored 232)
Johnson (scored 233)
Johnson (about 203-21, if I recall)
Jennings (198)
Steve Smith (has 89 pts this season)
dreg RBs (the backups in NYJ, Car., NE... their celing any given week, EVEN with a TD, is only 8-10 pts)
Cooley (53 pts this season)
Winslow (65 pts thus far)
Alright, now the moment of truth, which of my now 5 "automatic start" (read: stud) WRs should I try to trade in order to secure a top-10 back in return? As of Monday, I will now have the #1-3 top-scoring WRs from last year, the number #3 overall top-scorer with Rodgers (only behind Brees and Rivers), and the overall #15 scoring player with Jennings. If anything, I should try to swing a deal for a top-3 back, because in this league's scoring, pass-catchers and gunslingers are king, but... nobody else realizes this. I mean, I offered this one guy Jennings + Stewart for Frank Gore, and he told me to lick his shoes. What? Jennings, last year alone, scored 50 points more than Gore, and I'm trying to acquire a RB who has only played in two games this season. I don't know.
I'd love to keep Fitz and AJ, and wait and see how high I can sell with Calvin later on... but as of next week, I think either Steve Smith (dark blue) or Jennings will be on my block, and I need to know what RB you think I can get in retrun for either of them. They are both projected to have good, if not great games this week, so I'll probably be selling high with either of them, although they both have top-10 scoring potential in this particular league.
I would like to get either Ray Rice (back), Kevin Smith, Jones-Drew (he's over 100 pts already this season might be hard to pull off a trade unless I combo WRs), Ronnie Brown, Frank Gore (I think I burned that bridge with the owner), and maybe Steven Jackson (of all the trades I've made, people always offer him to me first... I didn't even draft him once this year, and now I have him on 3 or 4 of my 8 rosters... I think he can definitely get it going later in the year, barring injuries).
What do you think? I think those are the top backs, besides AD, whom I think is a near impossibility to get good value for, especially with this league's settings. Who else would be a good consideration I don't want Michael Turner, and I'm ambivalent about Chris Johnson. Honestly, I don't want anything to do with him, but it seems as though LenDale is pretty much a non-factor now, and the only thing that is holding back is the Titans' QB. Do you think he can be "bought low"?
This is the league:
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com ... ilted_time
(hopefully you can see it... I'm the 5th ranked team as of now)
sorry for the longest post ever made, but since this thread has been eerily quite for the past few weeks, I thought you guys might be eager to help a relative new guy like me. Thanks for any help and suggestions.
