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Week 1 Lineup Decisions

The NFL season starts tonight! So, I'm not doing any more mock drafts (even though I heard ESPN allows you to draft up until Sunday). Instead, I'm going to go through my three teams and look at the lineup decisions I have to make. Originally (since some of these decisions talk about players on waivers), I thought maybe I shouldn't make all this public, but nobody is reading this anyway, and certainly I don't think anybody from any of my leagues is reading this. If you are, I think you owe it to me to speak up in the comments. NFL.com PPR+1/2PPA league . Current matchup projected at 129.33 to 121.45, but my opponent hasn't selected a Defense yet; so we're basically even. QB J.J. McCarthy vs. Justin Fields . I drafted Fields earlier for his upside, but I really don't trust him at all. Not that I have any reason to trust McCarthy, who hasn't even played a regular season game before. Jordan Love is available. Maybe I should just pick him up and drop McCarthy...

Yahoo PPR Draft Ranking Sheets

Here are the draft sheets that I used for my 10-Team Yahoo PPR draft earlier tonight. The numbers show projected points per game, the expected PPR above a "replacement" player (the projected next player on waivers, which was arbitrarily based on one of the mock drafts I did just before this draft), and the expected PPR above the next non-starter (in the case of running backs, that would be RB21). Your mileage will of course vary based on your league's settings and whichever projections you decide to use and how many missed games you expect (I expect none in these projections, except for those known to miss games at the start of the season). Number rank is where the player is listed in the Yahoo Draft Room RUNNING BACKS 2   Bijan Robinson ATL      5       325.49  19.1    11.4    6.9 3   Saquon Barkley PHI      9       321.28  18.9    11.2    6.7 4...

Real Draft: Yahoo.com 10-Team PPR (Position 2) Grade: B

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This is a family league, although they are all in-laws. Yahoo has not yet given me a grade on this draft. I'll have to add it later. Quarterbacks and Tight Ends kept being drafted this time, with seven teams landing at least two QBs and seven drafting at least two TEs (including me). I kept seeing QBs that I would be fine starting on the board and people kept taking quarterbacks before my turn; so I waited until the last round to take J.J. McCarthy. Update: Yahoo graded this draft as a B with a projected 4th-place finish at 10-5. 1.02 Bijan Robinson RB  My latest projected stats did not show Christian McCaffrey as RB1 and confirmed Ja'Marr Chase as the best overall pick (+11.4), Bijan (+11.4), Saquon (+11.2), and Jahmyr (+11.0), and the first four picks went exactly like that. 2.09 Drake London WR  Bowers went 2.07 and Kittle went 2.08. Given that 1.01 took Chase, my default plan was to take an RB first and then a WR, but with only London and AJ Brown left from this tier of WR...