Who to Draft: Tony Romo or Dez Bryant?
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My first draft of the season and I didn’t know who to take, Tony Romo or Dez Bryant. You’re probably baffled at how this is possible, but let me explain the history and the scoring system and you’ll understand the predicament.

This is the 20th year of this league, I joined 7 years ago. Like fantasy football, joining the league was a little luck and a lot of skill.

They already had 12 players so I was left out. One of my friends had a team, but he admitted he knew nothing about fantasy football. He just liked to gamble so that’s why had played for several years.

I hated missing out on a league, so I asked if we could be co-managers. He said that didn’t make sense since again, he knew nothing of fantasy football. (I told we would draft LT first overall and he said “Who”s LT?”) That said, he decided to let me manage the team. He even paid the entire entry fee and agreed if I won, we would split the winnings. He only had two mandatory agreements.

“You have to draft Sebastian Janikowski and you can’t change the team name.”

“What? Why?”

“Sebastian helped me make the playoffs once and his name is crazy like our team’s name: the Kookamunga Crackakillas.”

Sounds like a fine deal to me.

The fantasy gods rewarded my friend”s good nature. I drafted Sebass with my last pick and the Kookamunga Crackakillas went 11-5 to win the championship. We even paid the karma forward by taking some of the winnings and throwing a keg party for the league. After that, my friend rode off into the sunset as a champion and relinquished control to me.

So that’s the history. Here’s how the league scoring system works that led to my predicament. Touchdowns yard bonus.

6 points for a TD, 3 points if it’s over 10 yards, 3 more points if it’s over 40 yards. You also get milestone bonuses too. 3 over 100 yards rushing/receiving, 3 over 300 yards passing, and then 3 more points for every casino online 50 yards on top. Anything else is worth 0 points.

This scoring system injects QBs with steroids and then lets them do three lines of coke. Drew Brees scored 381 points last year. AP only scored 151. Dez Bryant led WRs with 110 points.

So it’s no shock that 7 QBs went in the first round in this draft.

That’s not a typo, 7 QBs in the first round. QBs in this league are like RBs in standard scoring leagues.

My strategy has always been the same, unless I get a top tier QB, I focus on the best RBs and WRs and take a QB late. This has worked for 7 years running. I have made the playoffs 6/7 years drafting Jon Kitna, Kurt Warner, RG3, Matt Schaub, and Alex Smith late because my RBs and WRs were always the top performers.

But then this year happened. Back to my predicament.

Sitting at The scope of the material is as vast as the author’s industry experience, accommodating the beginner trying to establish free-credits-report.com for the first time and more experienced consumers seeking greater knowledge of all aspects of free-credits-report.com . pick 11, Rodgers, Brees, AP, Foster, Martin, Peyton, Stafford, Ryan, Brady and Lynch all went in front of me. I looked at my Tier List. Romo was the last of the top tier QBs on my board for this league. (1- Brees, Rodgers 2- Brady, Manning, Stafford, Romo, Ryan) The top tier RBs were all gone. Calvin Johnson sits alone among my top tier WR list. (I have him getting 1500 plus yards and 15 TDs this year)

I drafted Megatron, figured I would lose Romo to the next pick but get Bryant or Green next and draft Dalton or Vick much later on. However, the team sitting at 12 drafted Newton and Trent Richardson.

So I had a dilemma. Do I take Romo here (last year, he put up the 5th most points for a QB in this league with Miles Austin injured half the season) or do I stick with my plan and take the top WR or RB?

My WR Tier list had plenty of talent (2-Green, Bryant, Dez, Marshall, Fitz, Julio) and so did my RB Tier list (2-Ridley, Spiller, McCoy, Rice, Morris, Jackson).

At the end of the day, the Tier List is always right. Taking the last player on a tier list is the best value you can ask for. So I took Romo, even though I didn’t want to.

Why did I ever doubt the tier list strategy? Turns out, the tier list was right. Fitzgerald came back to me in the 3rd round (the last of my tier 2 WRs). I also grabbed Roddy White on the swing (all RBs on tier list 2 were gone) and then took Vincent Jackson and Eddie Lacy to round out my starting lineup. (we play 1 RB, 1 WR, and 3 flex) I grabbed Miles Austin and Andre Brown as backups and finished up with Mark Ingram, Lance Moore, Denarius Moore, and Fred Jackson. I also drafted the Bears defense.

And you guessed it, Sebass himself is my kicker.

I’m betting the combo of Romo and Fitzgerald will put up more points in this league than Dalton/Bryant. I know the Cowboys” offense is going to throw a ton this year (3rd most attempts last year, 3rd in yards, and DeMarco Murray is not helping his cause) With Bryant getting better and Miles staying healthy, Romo could see 33-35 TD passes this year. I am more inclined to think this is a possibility over Dalton making huge strides. I went against my normal strategy in this league, but in the end, don”t doubt the tier list.


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