Slow PPR Live Draft Blog, Entry 1

Currently doing a slow PPR draft (12 hrs max per pick, although no one has waited that long yet) and going to put up scenarios coming up in my draft. I said in the July 31st blog that I decided to choose whatever RB fell to me & in this scenario, it was Forte. As I said before, good enough as I would be happy with any of those guys.

This league has a lot of creativity in the sense that it is a 3RR draft. I had never done a draft like this before as I have the 3rd pick overall, but then in the second and third rounds, I have the 10th pick in each round respectively (ends up being the 22nd and 34th pick). To show the draft order as it may be easier, it looks like this (I am The Knuckles)

1.01	Smackdown	Jones-Drew, Maurice JAC RB
1.02	SUPERDAVE	Peterson, Adrian MIN RB
1.03	The Knuckles	Forte, Matt CHI RB
1.04	Green Bowl Packers
1.05	Philippe27
1.06	Pain Train
1.07	River-Rats
1.08	Feisty Ferrets
1.09	Jaguars
1.10	The Grim Reaper
1.11	White Mules 1
1.12	We Need to Win 1
2.01	We Need to Win 1
2.02	White Mules 1
2.03	The Grim Reaper
2.04	Jaguars
2.05	Feisty Ferrets
2.06	River-Rats
2.07	Pain Train
2.08	Philippe27
2.09	Green Bowl Packers
2.10	The Knuckles
2.11	SUPERDAVE
2.12	Smackdown
3.01	We Need to Win 1
3.02	White Mules 1
3.03	The Grim Reaper
3.04	Jaguars
3.05	Feisty Ferrets
3.06	River-Rats
3.07	Pain Train
3.08	Philippe27
3.09	Green Bowl Packers
3.10	The Knuckles
3.11	SUPERDAVE
3.12	Smackdown
4.01	Smackdown
4.02	SUPERDAVE
4.03	The Knuckles
4.04	Green Bowl Packers
4.05	Philippe27
4.06	Pain Train
4.07	River-Rats
4.08	Feisty Ferrets
4.09	Jaguars
4.10	The Grim Reaper
4.11	White Mules 1
4.12	We Need to Win 1
5.01	We Need to Win 1
5.02	White Mules 1
5.03	The Grim Reaper
5.04	Jaguars
5.05	Feisty Ferrets
5.06	River-Rats
5.07	Pain Train
5.08	Philippe27
5.09	Green Bowl Packers
5.10	The Knuckles

And when I got back from work, I'm welcome with a choice on who to select for the 22nd overall selection. Here is what the draft has looked like thus far

1.01	Smackdown	Jones-Drew, Maurice JAC RB
1.02	SUPERDAVE	Peterson, Adrian MIN RB
1.03	The Knuckles	Forte, Matt CHI RB
1.04	Green Bowl Packers	Gore, Frank SFO RB
1.05	Philippe27	Jackson, Steven STL RB
1.06	Pain Train	Williams, DeAngelo CAR RB
1.07	River-Rats	Slaton, Steve HOU RB
1.08	Feisty Ferrets	Johnson, Andre HOU WR
1.09	Jaguars	Fitzgerald, Larry ARI WR
1.10	The Grim Reaper	Johnson, Calvin DET WR
1.11	White Mules 1	Tomlinson, LaDainian SDC RB
1.12	We Need to Win 1	Johnson, Chris TEN RB
2.01	We Need to Win 1	Moss, Randy NEP WR
2.02	White Mules 1	Turner, Michael ATL RB
2.03	The Grim Reaper	Jennings, Greg GBP WR
2.04	Jaguars	Westbrook, Brian PHI RB
2.05	Feisty Ferrets	Smith, Steve CAR WR
2.06	River-Rats	White, Roddy ATL WR
2.07	Pain Train	Jacobs, Brandon NYG RB
2.08	Philippe27	Barber, Marion DAL RB
2.09	Green Bowl Packers	Colston, Marques NOS WR
2.10	The Knuckles	?????????

So at this point, I was left with these assortment of players at current positions

QB:
Brees
Brady
Manning

RB:
Portis
Brown
Kevin Smith
Thomas
Grant
Bush

WR:
Wayne
Boldin
Bowe
Welker

I made this decision fairly easily and chose Wayne. I was tempted to take Brees off the board at this point, but I thought Wayne, Boldin, & Bowe would not drop back to me at the 34th pick. Maybe if I had the 27th pick, I can pluck a QB, but it's a league where QB TD's are only worth 4 points vs. RB/WR TD's being worth 6 points & the difference is negligible. There are certain picks that feel easier and certain picks where you agonize a bit because you would like to choose 2 or 3 guys at that point. This was one of the easier picks as I feel that I can wait for a QB even at a 4th round spot when there is more value to select one. I'll continue to put these slo-motion live blogs up there for this draft. I actually have never done a draft similar to this and it's actually quite a bit of fun.