A look back at the Freakingbeastness Fantasy Draft of 2018: The Freakingbeasts

DISCLAIMER: 

• Position ranking is taken from the end of year stats from each player.
  
• Pick position ranking is referring to when they were selected in our leagues draft.
  
• I.E. Christian Mccaffrey being the 13th RB selected in the draft means he has a pick position ranking of 13.
  
• Kickers and Defenses are not taken into account for these reviews. In the draft overview section if it looks like a round is missing, that is where a defense or kicker was selected.

Alx AKA The Freakingbeasts: 

• Rank 4/10
  
• Record 10-4
  
• Points Scored: 1,632 (Since 2013, The Freakingbeasts have had the highest points scored 4 times)
  
• Points Against: 1,403

The three-time champ of the Freakingbeastness league has never missed the playoffs nor had a regular season worse than 7-7. He’s figured out a recipe to succeed in fantasy football and has even gone as far as setting the lineups for other league members who have given up on the season to not give anyone easy wins. This is how we ended up with N***************hitler winning the championship in 2017 so I hope you’re happy Alx.  

In the most recent Profootballjokes podcast, the staff briefly went over some fantasy draft strategies (when to pick what positions, tendencies of picks, preferences of early/late round position, etc.) and you can see a great example of these strategies in Alx’s draft overview. He got his RB’s early while not neglecting the WR spot completely, got a stud at the TE position, and waited to make good value QB selections.  Even though Wentz (QB#23) didn’t have a fantastic year, he was traded off The Freakingbeasts for Kirk Cousins (QB#13) before the season started. Matt Ryan (QB#2) was also dropped from this team after a 3 point fantasy performance in week 1, good thing he didn’t turn it around or anything.  

Kirk was the guy up until week 10 when Andrew Luck (QB#5) was picked up off waivers to make the playoff push. Good news for Alx, Luck will likely be available to pick up at the same time this upcoming season.

Another reason this franchise has had a level of sustained success over the years is the amount of activity on the waiver wire. They consistently have the highest number of transactions in the league, and in this past year added players such as James Conner, Bears D, Chris Godwin, Calvin Ridley, Andrew Luck, Corey Davis, and Harrison Butker among others. 

So even though Alx missed on some WR’s in the draft, he was able to turn it into a serviceable position group due to the pickups of Godwin and Ridley.  Unfortunately this position still turned out to be their downfall. 

In the semifinal against Hillary Clinton’s Blue Wave, none of The Freakingbeasts WR’s broke double digits.

The Freakingbeasts Average Position Rankings

• QB Ranking: 6th
• RB Ranking: 2nd
  
• WR Ranking: 9th
  
• TE Ranking: 1st

At the time I thought Kelce may have taken a little too high, however I was proven completely wrong with the amount of production he had (12 PPG). There also has to be a form of comfort to not stress about the TE position week after week. 

The Freakingbeasts also showed how to effectively stream defenses by getting an average of 13 PPG. It was usually Bears D starting but included weeks of Bengals D, Redskins D, and Seahawks D. 

I’m happy if my defense ends up with positive points.