Ben, do you give trade advice? I lost Dak due to injury. I'm number 1 in the league. Someone is offering me Russell Wilson and David Johnson to give up Davante Adams and Raheem Mostert. Rostered WR: tyreek hill, marquise brown, Robby Anderson. Rostered RB: Miles Gaskin, Chris Carson, Chase Edmonds, Cam Akers.
I certainly get the appeal to something like that, but it's not a deal I'd make. QB is the most replaceable position, and while I love Russ's outlook ROS, I couldn't justify giving up Adams for him let alone a major RB downgrade as well. And Mostert > David Johnson is a pretty major RB downgrade.
YES ar, hitting too well on those churn fliers is a problem, though a welcome problem. My only solution is aggressively pursuing 2-for-1s and when that doesn't work out, accept Claypool is going somewhere else. Related issue experienced this week stems from what Ben also advocates: I don't carry a backup TE, Hunter Henry is on a bye, but my worst guy is Brandin Cooks, Akers, or Dobbins. Instead of dropping one of them, is it crazy to consider dropping my defense for Jimmy Graham and playing this week without a defense? Dobbins is the definition of an upside flier, Akers too but murkier, and I only roster 5 WRs incl Cooks. Feels like an impossible spot.
That's tough. Everyone says to trade 2-for-1 but sharp league-mates won't fall for that unless you overpay and that's what I'm going to add here. Try to find that trade and overpay if you have to.
I find that "losing" a trade once in a while greases the wheels for future transactions anyway.
This was insightful. One of the things I struggle with is when a bench hits a saturation point where it's already serving your roster well, filled with the types of players described here (the Higgins and Laviskas of the world), and then lacks obvious back of roster options for weekly churn. Then I'm wrapping around the axle trying to gauge whether it's time to move on from a Laviska to chase, say this week, a Claypool or Fulghum. It's sad to watch everybody else rain down bids even if I'm already confident in the roster, especially when in-season churning has become a strength.
Yep, this is tough, and I often run into this problem in home leagues or leagues that aren't as "important" to me so unfortunately I wind up dealing with it by just doing nothing. But the only real advice I have when I hit this in leagues I care about is to just stay diligent and ensure each week that the guys you're rostering still have the same upside you thought they had, and to be willing to improve if there are better options available. In your example, I'd probably prioritize Claypool over Laviska right now because of offense and the ceiling Claypool just showed which opens up a range of very high upside possibilities. But for something like that there's an opportunity cost too, where I'm not going to bid 50% of my budget to make that add because the improvement to my roster is minimal. So I wind up with a keep-'em-honest bid that doesn't land the player 95% of the time. But in that scenario I'm at least keeping FAB and in a good spot later. There's probably a smarter way to handle these types of rosters but I haven't found it.
This is such a frustrating the problem to me. Your in-season hustle working the waivers leads you to enter the playoffs with a "killer" lineup all the way through, only for a Week 15 waiver wonder to swing the playoffs for someone else, because at that point you think you have no one left to drop.
I love this piece. Timely as I’ve be rostering Higgins and Shenault as AJ Brown was out. Looking at them this week and wondering if I should drop either of them for Kirk or Mike Williams and really struggling with it. More strategy info like this would be great! Awesome stuff!
Ben, do you give trade advice? I lost Dak due to injury. I'm number 1 in the league. Someone is offering me Russell Wilson and David Johnson to give up Davante Adams and Raheem Mostert. Rostered WR: tyreek hill, marquise brown, Robby Anderson. Rostered RB: Miles Gaskin, Chris Carson, Chase Edmonds, Cam Akers.
I certainly get the appeal to something like that, but it's not a deal I'd make. QB is the most replaceable position, and while I love Russ's outlook ROS, I couldn't justify giving up Adams for him let alone a major RB downgrade as well. And Mostert > David Johnson is a pretty major RB downgrade.
Thanks for the advice! I'll pickup fitzpatrick for this weekend against jets and stream after that.
YES ar, hitting too well on those churn fliers is a problem, though a welcome problem. My only solution is aggressively pursuing 2-for-1s and when that doesn't work out, accept Claypool is going somewhere else. Related issue experienced this week stems from what Ben also advocates: I don't carry a backup TE, Hunter Henry is on a bye, but my worst guy is Brandin Cooks, Akers, or Dobbins. Instead of dropping one of them, is it crazy to consider dropping my defense for Jimmy Graham and playing this week without a defense? Dobbins is the definition of an upside flier, Akers too but murkier, and I only roster 5 WRs incl Cooks. Feels like an impossible spot.
That's tough. Everyone says to trade 2-for-1 but sharp league-mates won't fall for that unless you overpay and that's what I'm going to add here. Try to find that trade and overpay if you have to.
I find that "losing" a trade once in a while greases the wheels for future transactions anyway.
Great point. Especially if the trade is more on the margins, why not improve the relationship.
This was insightful. One of the things I struggle with is when a bench hits a saturation point where it's already serving your roster well, filled with the types of players described here (the Higgins and Laviskas of the world), and then lacks obvious back of roster options for weekly churn. Then I'm wrapping around the axle trying to gauge whether it's time to move on from a Laviska to chase, say this week, a Claypool or Fulghum. It's sad to watch everybody else rain down bids even if I'm already confident in the roster, especially when in-season churning has become a strength.
Yep, this is tough, and I often run into this problem in home leagues or leagues that aren't as "important" to me so unfortunately I wind up dealing with it by just doing nothing. But the only real advice I have when I hit this in leagues I care about is to just stay diligent and ensure each week that the guys you're rostering still have the same upside you thought they had, and to be willing to improve if there are better options available. In your example, I'd probably prioritize Claypool over Laviska right now because of offense and the ceiling Claypool just showed which opens up a range of very high upside possibilities. But for something like that there's an opportunity cost too, where I'm not going to bid 50% of my budget to make that add because the improvement to my roster is minimal. So I wind up with a keep-'em-honest bid that doesn't land the player 95% of the time. But in that scenario I'm at least keeping FAB and in a good spot later. There's probably a smarter way to handle these types of rosters but I haven't found it.
This is such a frustrating the problem to me. Your in-season hustle working the waivers leads you to enter the playoffs with a "killer" lineup all the way through, only for a Week 15 waiver wonder to swing the playoffs for someone else, because at that point you think you have no one left to drop.
I love this piece. Timely as I’ve be rostering Higgins and Shenault as AJ Brown was out. Looking at them this week and wondering if I should drop either of them for Kirk or Mike Williams and really struggling with it. More strategy info like this would be great! Awesome stuff!