Tuesday, September 6

Evaluation teams in league 156

Jameson (Rodgers, fitzpatrick, mccoy, forte, best, benson, ward, harrison, scott, fitzgerald, v.jackson, marshall, aj green, m.thomas, cribbs, gonzalez, kendricks, henery, baltimore, houston) By far the best team I drafted. 3 stud wr's with 2 other #1 wr's for bye weeks. The best qb along with a top rb and 2 other rb's with top 15 potential. Only and injury to Rodgers can prevent this team from making the league championship.
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Odds to win: 2:1  Heavy favorite

The Scrappers (Brady, Roethlisberger, campbell, mendenhall, s.jackson, lynch, d.thomas, ringer, redman, d.jackson, welker, garcon, smith (car), crabtree, meachem, da.clark, z.miller, hartley, bironas, pittsburgh) - Solid team. Not flashy. Plenty of steady scorers, but lacking the big week players. Sometimes it's slow and steady that wins the race.

Odds to win: 10:1  Contender

teamP28Ccsxis  (Schaub, Kolb, collins, adp, mjd, ingram, d.williams, addai, p.thomas, wayne, collie, l.moore, nelson, hester, gronkowski, hernandez, keller, j.brown, new england, arizona) - RB's is the strength of the team. Sacrificed wr's for it. Good thing for this owner, you can often pick up some solid wr's thru free agency. This will have to be done in order to contend.

Odds to win: 12:1  Pretender

La Arana (stafford, cutler, henne, c.johnson, mcfadden, r.bush, spiller, starks, d.carter, wallace, bryant, boldin, knox, ford, bennett, daniels, celek, rackers, detroit, san diego) - Two explosive rb's and a solid WR corp. QB's are decent, but potentially disastrous.   This is the type of team that can go 15-3 or 6-12.  Too much volatility to really rank this, so I will put them in the middle.

Odds to win: 10:1  Wild card team

Hard Caulk (vick, ryan, cassel, mccoy, turner, f.jones, LT, snelling, t.jones, holmes, colston, edwards, julio jones, roy williams, floyd, graham, winslow, bryan, eagles, chiefs) - As in my other leagues, Zebb had another good draft. Per his MO, he concentrated on qb's and rb's and got his usual wr's in the later rounds. I think he can find 2 reliable wr's, but  he needs one more to be a strong contender. Needs Vick to be back to his 30 ppg in order to pick up the wr's.

Odds to win: 8:1  Contender

Undertakers (Rivers, e.manning, smith, foster, blount, moreno, barber, tate, torain, nicks, bowe, s.johnson, burress, little, evans, v.davis, cook, gostkowski, crosby, jets) - This team could actually be better than mine. If Foster stays healthy, I will probably be playing this team in the finals. He has the 3 strong wr's to go with a stud qb and top 5 rb. Blount could be the key since Moreno's stock has dropped by not getting goal line carries.

Odds to win: 4:1  Favorite in the making

Team A.W.E.C.E.M (freeman, flacco, mcnabb, rice, mathews, bradshaw, stewart, m.bush, hunter, a.johnson, maclin, s.rice, bess, simpson, burleson, m.lewis, gresham, f.davis, vinatieri, bears) - Exhibit A as to why there are 2 stellar teams in this league. Rice and Johnson are studs, but what else does this team have? Not much. This team is the anti-awesome.

Odds to win: 20:1  Needs a miracle

Hot Rats (p.manning, sanchez, hasselbeck, charles, green, f.jackson, karim, ro. brown, g.jennings, harvin, ochocinco, driver, berrian, royal, finley, pettigrew, kaeding, longwell, green bay, new orleans) - Exhibit B. Even if Manning was healthy, this is a weak team. There are 3 or 4 guys on the team that shouldn't even be drafted.        

Odds to win: 30:1  No Chance in Hell 

Drake (bradford, orton, newton, jacobs, helu, hightower, wells, mcgahee, ridley, ca.johnson, white, miles, manningham, sims-walker, d.moore, gates, olsen, seabass, atlanta, denver) - did a great job stock piling wr's, which isn't easy to do. However, they have no qb's or rb's. I like Bradford and Wells, but as qb2 and rb3, not qb1 and rb1. I'll be shocked if this team contends. Could be exhibit C

Odds to win: 15:1  Lonshot

 Courthouse Coyotes #7 (brees, romo, garrard, gore, hillis, grant, bjge, tolbert, hardesty, m.williams (tb), lloyd, britt, s.moss, amendola, h.ward, witten, cooley, cundiff, giants, dallas) - Very strong team. This owner routinely takes a qb with his first 2 picks and he got 2 tier 1 qb's. Not only that, but gore and hillis can be studs. If they come through, then the good, but not great wr's will be acceptable. The bad news for this team is that there are 2 other power house teams in the league.

Odds to win: 6:1  Contender 

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