WR Juron Criner looks to shake off defenses as the #1 WR in the Pac 12 (Icon SMI)
Tier 1 – Top Options
Juron Criner, Arizona – We expect Criner to be a tick above the next three names on the list. All of them should tally 1,100+ yards through the air. However, Criner will get more endzone targets and should collect about 13 TDs. Draft him first from the Pac 12 WRs and he’s worthy of being a top starter for your overall team. Read the rest of this entry →
On Monday we debuted our exclusive TEBOW rankings for the Fantasy College Football Invitational (FCFI) Expert League format (18 teams, 2QB, etc.), and I wanted to get new rankings for the major formats ahead of the weekend as this tends to be the first big draft weekend of the year.
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A refresher - Talent Excess Budgeted Over Walkon (TEBOW) applies some time-tested fantasy principles to CFO Drew Smith’s projections, helping you better prepare for your unique draft setups. I think I can credit Baseball Prospectus with the fantasy application Value Over Replacement Player (VORP) concept, in that any member of a fantasy roster only has value if expected to perform over the value of a player on the margin of the league’s starting lineup requirements.
So for our purposes, while Case Keenum is universally accepted as the creme de la creme of fantasy college QBs, his value to a given fantasy roster is determined by the value relative to a replacement QB in your league. Assuming a 16-team league, if you play 2 QBs his value is greater than in a 1QB league since the marginal utility is QB 33 versus QB17.
Got it? Not yet, please realize you can now compare the relative values among the positions to see who is a better overall pick. Compare Keenum’s TEBOW value versus Justin Blackmon or La Michael James and on down the line. We are going much deeper after the jump. (UPDATED WITH FULL RANKINGS ON BOTH FORMATS)
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You can argue whether Justin Blackmon (Icon SMI) or Ryan Broyles deserves the top WR ranking - what should not be debated is that these are the top 2 picks of 2010 fantasy college football!
CFO (Chief Fantasy Officer) Drew Smith updates this constantly with news (follow him on Twitter @fcbdrew for his updates) – for a frame of reference here are links to his Aug 9 preseason positional rankings:
My critically-acclaimed Cheatsheet Customizer will be ready this week (personalized conference groupings, etc.) – in the meantime, a look at my all-FBS top 144 Wide Receivers for 2011.
Rank Name Class Team Bye
1 Ryan Broyles Sr OKLA 2, 11
Alshon Jeffery crushed many a smaller defender in 2010, expect more in 2011 (Icon SMI)
2 Justin Blackmon Jr OKST 5, 13
3 Alshon Jeffery Jr SOCAR 8, 14
4 Jeff Fuller Sr TXAM 2, 14
5 Royce Pollard Sr HAW 6
6 Patrick Edwards Sr HOU 7, 14
7 Juron Criner Sr ARZ 7, 14
8 Michael Floyd Sr ND 7, 14
9 Jordan White Sr WMCH 10, 14
10 Tavon Austin Jr WVU 7, 12
11 Damaris Johnson Sr TULSA 6, 14
12 Darius Bright Jr HAW 6
13 D.J. Woods Sr CIN 6, 9
14 Lance Lewis Sr ECU 3, 14
15 Eric Page Jr TOL 9, 14
16 Kamar Jorden Sr BGSU 10, 14
17 Darius Johnson Jr SMU 6, 14
18 Cody Wilson Jr CMCH 13, 14
19 T.Y. Hilton Sr FIU 7, 14
20 Robert Woods So USC 6, 14
21 Da’Rick Rogers So TENN 4, 14 Read the rest of this entry →
I'm here to declare myself the #1 fantasy WR in the SEC (Icon SMI)
I don’t want to mince words, so let’s just have it out: the SEC’s wide receivers kind of suck as a fantasy unit. There’s a steep dropoff from the top to the mid-tier right now; some of this will shake out over the course of the season, but it’s equally likely that it’ll just be slow chaos all around. It doesn’t help matters that so many of the top WRs from last year – AJ Green, Julio Jones, Denarius Moore – have bolted for the NFL. That leaves question marks all around.
First Tier: As Good As It Gets Here – Draft-Worthy
Yes, it’s gotten so bad here that we have to call out the guys that are actually worth drafting. I’m just glad there’s enough rain that there won’t be clouds of dust.
