Fantasy Football Insights: Identifying True League Winners

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00:00Uh, I guess if there was a true league winner, like the player, like what I consider a league

00:09winner, George is someone that didn't go in the first couple of rounds, maybe was a little

00:14bit later that people weren't as high on as some others, they ended up being the best.

00:19And even this player, by the way, was still taken relatively high in fantasy.

00:23But I personally think if there was one above all, it would be Saquon Barkley.

00:27I think to me, that was the guy, you know, still a good player on Philadelphia.

00:33But again, he lost a lot of luster from being on the Giants for so long.

00:37I mean, this guy's going to rush for like 2000 yards, you know, like to me, he was the

00:41most like the fantasy MVP, I think, based on his draft position and based on the output.

00:45And we'll go through everyone else too.

00:47But I think to me, maybe you'll tell me if I missed anybody.

00:50I think he was the most valuable based on where he was picked there.

00:55The problem is he was drafted in the first round, second round at worst.

00:58I know I got a couple of leagues where I took him.

01:01Not one or two or 10.

01:03He was like back in, he was really, was he drafted top five, top six?

01:08I don't know if I say top five, top six.

01:10I think he's more back end of the first round, more maybe in that 10 to 14 range.

01:15He was heavily because we thought he could do, we thought maybe they wouldn't do a tush

01:18pusher as much with him.

01:20We knew he was good.

01:21Eagles were good and all that.

01:23The only running back who I think was drafted definitely above him was Carl Christian McCaffrey.

01:26Then it became, okay, do you want Hall?

01:28Do you want Bajon Robinson?

01:29Do you want Barkley?

01:31You know, sort of what order are we going in here?

01:33You know, he threw in a bunch of receivers that went first.

01:36So I'm probably not giving him fantasy MVP for that reason.

01:39It just went too early.

01:40He did, he outperformed what we thought.

01:42There's no way anybody saw this coming.

01:44All right.

01:45But I don't know if I'd give him fantasy MVP.

01:47That being said, there's no obvious choice here.

01:52There's no guy.

01:53He said, there's no Pukunuku here.

01:54I'm going through all the fantasy numbers here.

01:55There are guys who had gut seeds that we didn't expect here.

01:57You mean Drake London for Atlanta, though that's calmed down of late here.

02:01And Derrick Henry would have to be mentioned here, though he was that second, third round

02:04pick.

02:05I don't know if Joe P. Sapir does a show tomorrow, or he was big on Derrick Henry there.

02:10Kamara's had a nice rebound year.

02:12Same thing with Josh Jacobs.

02:14There's no way that truly stands out here.

02:16So that's going to be an issue when we think about who should be fantasy MVP.

02:20All right.

02:21What about Josh Allen?

02:22All this guy does is like six touchdowns a game.

02:24People are yelling at our screen right now, George.

02:26They're like, these idiots didn't see Josh Allen.

02:28Are you kidding me?

02:3032 touchdowns, five interceptions.

02:32I mean, the thing is, George, he was great.

02:34Now let's take a look at Lamar Jackson.

02:36Take a look.

02:37Let's go.

02:38Next slide, Sam.

02:39I mean, the same guy, OK?

02:41So that's why Josh Allen is not the MVP.

02:44In a one quarterback, he's the MVP of the NFL, Sam.

02:48Stop.

02:49What I'm saying is in fantasy football, you can draft players like Lamar Jackson

02:55who is going to end up giving you, I'm looking at the stats here,

02:59if Sam did them right, Lamar Jackson was better than Josh Allen this year.

03:03OK?

03:04Number one.

03:05Number two, these two guys, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson,

03:08are a cut above the rest.

03:10But the next cut was like 75% of those guys.

03:14The cut below Saquon Barkley is like 80% down from that.

03:19And so to me, that's how, in fact, now in a two quarterback league,

03:23boy, to have Josh Allen, you probably won your league.

03:26I get that.

03:27I understand.

03:28But in a one quarterback league, you know,

03:30there were a lot of other really good quarterbacks.

03:32I mean, Jameis Winston had a game where he threw like 500 yards, too.

03:34Takes nothing away from them.

03:36I just don't think that they're league winners.

03:38I think that they helped you win.

03:40I think you had to do good in other places, too.

03:43If you're talking about quarterbacks,

03:45I'll give you the league winner, the fantasy MVP for quarterbacks.

03:48And it's not Lamar Jackson.

03:50It's not Josh Allen.

03:51It's not Jalen Hurts.

03:52They were all great, by the way.

03:54All great.

03:55All right.

03:56But if you're talking about quarterbacks,

03:58depending on when you were able to start starting,

04:00when you were able to pick them up, it's Baker Mayfield.

04:02Mayfield's not that far behind these guys.

04:05His numbers are out of this world nuts.

04:08We didn't see this coming, even though he had great wide receivers.

04:11We probably thought, okay, that's the end of Baker.

04:13Not so.

04:14Not so.

04:15I'm looking at my home league here.

04:17Baker Mayfield's fourth at quarterbacks.

04:19He's got more points than Hurts.

04:21Barely, but he has more points than Hurts.

04:23All right.

04:24He's just behind Allen and Burrow and Lamar Jackson.

04:26He's not going to catch any of these guys, I don't think,

04:28but he's been that good.

04:29And remember, he wasn't drafted.

04:31You know, or probably wasn't drafted.

04:33You know, so I think Baker Mayfield.

04:35I was going to go quarterbacks.

04:37He might be that fantasy MVP.

04:39Trust him early enough that you got for free

04:42and he's led you to where you are now.

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