[FFB] Who's been your biggest bust/breakout so far?

1. (6) Aaron Rodgers QB
2. (15) Ryan Mathews RB
3. (26) Greg Jennings WR
4. (35) Roddy White WR
5. (46) DeSean Jackson WR
6. (55) Mike Sims-Walker WR
7. (66) New York Jets DEF
8. (75) Knowshon Moreno RB
9. (86) Thomas Jones RB
10. (95) Eddie Royal WR
11. (106) Arian Foster RB
12. (115) Donnie Avery WR
13. (126) Brett Favre QB
14. (135) Garrett Hartley K

Blue is bust, red is breakout (relative to where I picked them)

 

In one of my leagues, I took Randy Moss in the 2nd round, Kevin Kolb in the 4th, and Sims-Walker in the 6th. It's a very QB heavy league (2 starters on each team, pts for completions), and I thought Kolb would be throwing the hell out of the ball in Philly. Then I failed to pick up Vick when he went down, so I was starting Shaun Hill or David Garrard for a few weeks next to Aaron Rodgers, and finally traded for Eli Manning.

Luckily I nabbed Malcolm Floyd, LT, and Santana Moss late to cover my gaffs. I'm in a 4 way tie for 3rd right now ... not many leagues that you can get almost nothing from your top 2 WR picks and still compete, not to mention I had J.Finley at TE too.

In the Clutchfans PPR league I had to do autopick and faired pretty well with no major busts, yet I'm 3-5 and have more points than the leader.

 

I'm in a 10 team PPR league and wiffed on not picking up Arian Foster. I think he went in the 12th and final round in my league.

We have this weird system that was just implemented the year I started (this year). It's a keeper league but you CAN'T keep the top 3 players of your league, therefore if someone picked Foster with the 12th pick they'd give up a 10th or 11th round pick for him this draft.

I picked up Brandon Lloyd a, life saver, and if I keep him this year he will be worth a 12th round pick.

This year I would say giving up a 4th round pick for Ryan Grant would constitute as my bust pick.

I'm at 5-3 flipping this other guys team of scrubs to what I have now.

 

1. (9) Shonn Greene
2. (16) Calvin Johnson
3. (33) Beanie Wells
4. (40) Jonathan Stewart
5. (57) Chad Ochocinco
6. (64) Brett Favre
7. (82) Owen Daniels
8. (89) Pittsburgh Defense
9. (106) Rob Bironas
10. (113) Reggie Bush
11. (130) Dez Bryant
12. (137) Steve Slaton
13. (154) Vince Young
14. (161) Marcedes Lewis


Using DonnyMost's color scheme

My team was autodrafted...sigh I was the only one autodrafting in a 12 team league.


Lewis has been a breakout but I didnt play him in week one and the next two weeks he didnt score as well and so I dropped him..my biggest mistake to date.

Bush wasnt great the first 2 weeks but considering his injury I cant really declare him a bust and same with Bironas even though he has been good I probably could have gotten a kicker later on.

Wells was a bust but he can change to a decent fantasy player after two straight weeks of double digits but considering Greg Jennings, Philip Rivers, LeSean McCoy, Matt Forte, Antonio Gates, DeSean Jackson were all still on the board when Wells was picked...yeah he is still a bust in my eyes.


I've traded Wells and Calvin Johnson since then currently my team sits

Vick, Knox, Garcon, Mike Turner, Fred Jackson, Dez Bryant, Ochocinco, Pitt D, Shonn Greene, Ben Watson, Brandon Pettigrew,Kenny Britt, Lindell (for this week) and I picked up Seyi Arijotutu (whatever his name is since he is starting at WR this week against Hou)

I've somehow gotten lucky and I am sitting in second place this week

 

In general:

Busts: Shonn Greene, Ryan Mathews, Beanie Wells
Breakout: Roddy White, LT, Arian Foster, Lloyd

 

Busts in blue, steals in red. (IMO)

Team 1 (5-3):

11 DeAngelo Williams, Car RB
14 Ryan Grant*, GB RB
35 Dallas Clark*, Ind TE
38 Arian Foster, Hou RB
59 Mike Sims-Walker, Jac WR
62 Hines Ward, Pit WR
83 Kevin Kolb, Phi QB
86 Fred Jackson, Buf RB
107 Lee Evans, Buf WR
110 Jacoby Jones, Hou WR
131 Michael Bush, Oak RB
134 Bengals D/ST, Cin D/ST
155 Kenny Britt*, Ten WR
158 Darrius Heyward-Bey, Oak WR
179 Derek Anderson, Ari QB
182 Neil Rackers, Hou K

Team 2 (3-5):

12 Miles Austin, Dal WR
13 Jamaal Charles, KC RB
36 Matt Schaub, Hou QB
37 Arian Foster, Hou RB
60 Vernon Davis, SF TE
61 C.J. Spiller, Buf RB
84 Mike Wallace, Pit WR
85 Reggie Bush, NO RB
108 Chester Taylor, Chi RB
109 Visanthe Shiancoe, Min TE
132 Jacoby Jones, Hou WR
133 Vince Young, Ten QB
156 Neil Rackers, Hou K
157 Texans D/ST, Hou D/ST
180 Jason Snelling, Atl RB

Not many steals. Most steals were on waivers (as usual). Team 1 has suffered massively from season-ending injuries are benchings yet somehow has a superior record.

Waiver saviors:

Team 1:

Brandon Lloyd
Davone Bess

Team 2:

BenJarvus Green-Ellis
Pierre Garcon (soon)
Giants D/ST
Jacob Tamme (soon)

Obviously, Arian Foster is my overall hero.

 

I would do that in a heartbeat.

 

i would do that deal..charles will soon be getting all the carries and all KC does is run and you get Hillis as well?

 

I still dont get why Shonn Greene and Ryan Matthews were ranked higher in Yahoo.

Better then Steven Jackson????

All I could do was lol.

 

Hillis will not keep it up the rest of the season.

 

I would do it simply because Jamaal Charles will lead the NFL in rushing this year.

Benson, Jackson, and Torain aren't bad #2s though.

 

8 Larry Fitzgerald, Ari WR
17 Shonn Greene, NYJ RB
32 Philip Rivers, SD QB
41 Sidney Rice*, Min WR (epic fail #1)
56 Dwayne Bowe, KC WR
65 Tony Gonzalez, Atl TE
80 Mike Wallace, Pit WR
89 Owen Daniels, Hou TE
104 Darren Sproles, SD RB
113 Matt Ryan, Atl QB
128 Montario Hardesty*, Cle RB (epic fail #2)
137 Bengals D/ST, Cin D/ST
152 Robbie Gould, Chi K

This is why I hate autodraft

And in week 1, I traded away Philip Rivers for Kevin Kolb and Jerome Harrison (epic fail #3)

Luckily I picked up Peyton Hillis, Green-Ellis, and some other guys from WW and now I'm sitting at 7-1 :grin:

 

I'll say picking Larry Fitz first was your first epic fail #1

 

Ryan Grant, DeAngelo Williams, Tony Romo

Then traded LT away.

My team is 0-8

 

I don't consider injuries as busts, because that happens.

Yeah, I had Ryan Grant too. I try to be cute and select high impact rookies. I did pretty good with that last when I selected Percy Harvin, and Hakeem Nicks. he didn't pick up until the end of the year.


But Ryan Matthews. Damn.

 

Busts for me....

Marion Barber, Brandon Jacobs, Visanthe Shiancoe


Luckily picking up Mike Vick and trading him immediately netted me both Jamaal Charles and Peyton Hillis

 

MJD
Megatron
Fitzgerald
McCoy
Crabtree
Kolb
Forte
Cutler
Zach Miller
Saints
Vincent Jackson
Greg Olsen
Dez Bryant
Rackers

 

Any list that doesn't include Maurice Jones-Drew is an epic fail.