OK, straight up? I don't care for my FanDuel roster for this week. Jordy Nelson against the Seahawks in Seattle? Tom Brady, LeGarrette Blount and Rob Gronkowski against my Colts? Blech.
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(For the record, and this doesn't really relate to daily fantasy, but whatever. I'm in Naples this week for a friend's wedding. I'm driving back to Kentucky Sunday during the games. I plan to radio the NFC Championship, and had the Broncos beaten the Colts I'd do the same for the AFC. But the Colts, man, the Colts. I think I'm going to have to find a sports bar somewhere in the middle of a 16-hour drive to sit, not drink and watch the Colts, before driving back forever and going to work Monday. It will be awful. Think of me fondly.)
When you’re down to two games, four teams in FanDuel, it isn’t about finding the perfect roster. It’s about finding one you can live with. Like being the last single friend in a group, and you’re 35, and your standards are lower.
Before I turn this into a full-on therapy session (I’m only 31, I do have a girlfriend, but when she read the above paragraph she got all faux-indignant “Is that what I am?!”, so I need to get to football stuff soon), I’ll show my roster, then I’ll get into the rationale. I had a hard enough time settling on this that I would have a really tough time picking a second one, so I’m sticking with one this week:
Now, my thinking:
- Against the Colts, I think Tom Brady is a great investment this week, even if I don't want him to be. And the Colts do really well against receivers, but typically struggle much more against running backs and tight ends, giving me LeGarrette Blount and Rob Gronkowski.
- There are two super-expensive running backs left, Marshawn Lynch and Eddie Lacy. Well, Lynch is a Seahawk, while Lacy faces the Seahawks, and that's more than enough to make the decision for me.
- Call it gut. You don't love any receiver going against Seattle. But with Davante Adams coming off a huge game and Randall Cobb still doing big things, I think the Packers will look to feed Jordy Nelson this week after he's slumped of late. You gotta have some receiver anchor, and with T.Y. Hilton likely to draw Darrelle Revis or similar, the star names were down to just Nelson and Cobb, and I chose one.
- Back to Gronk - he's $8,200 this week. The No. 2 tight end, Coby Fleener, is $5,500, and it falls off quickly from there. Normally, I'd say the expensive guy is too high-risk, to try to find a deep dive instead of splurging on a guy who has to come through. And if I do decide to field a second team this week, Gronk 100 percent won't be on it. But for one team, how can you go against him? He's a monster.
- If I had my druthers, I'd have gone with the Seattle defense, because of course, but it was $600 more than Green Bay and, as you can see, I was down to $200. But Seattle is the worst offense left (admittedly, not by much), and the Packers' defense has had its moments this season. Still, I'm very iffy on this call. Might switch to the Patriots by game time, since I'm not Colts-heavy in the rest of my roster. Debating.
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