These results are from a real, online draft that I participated in on FFPC (Fantasy Football Players Championship). It is a 12-man, PPR league with a $350 buy-in fee and the grand champion of the tournament gets $300,000. I will give you the draft results round-by-round and below that I provided some analysis and opinion on some of the teams and draft picks. I will mainly focus on analyzing my team. I get fed up with traditional mock drafts, so I prefer participating in alternate methods to practice drafting to get me prepared:
- Free leagues – I draft in a free, public league and then never actually play I know, I’m a jerk.
- Draft Simulator (Draft Wizard) – I finish mock drafts 20 times faster with this tool. You have to try it!
- MFL10s – These are leagues that you actually buy-in that start at $10 but all you do is draft and that’s it. These leagues are what all the kids are raving about.
I figure, what better way to mock draft than to spend 350 bucks on one! I’ll post more mock drafts in the future. My analysis and commentary can be found at the very end of this post–you can scroll all the down or click here. By the way, my team name is BrainChild and I had the 11th pick in this snake draft. Here are some of the basic scoring settings in this league:
- 4 pts for pass TD
- 1 pt for 20 pass yds
- -1 pt for int
- 6 pts for TD
- 1 pt per reception for RBs and WRs
- 1.5 pts per reception for TEs
Roster settings for this league:
- 1 QB
- 2 RB
- 2 WR
- 1 TE
- 2 Flex (RB/WR/TE)
- 1 K
- 1 DEF
- 10 Bench
2015 Fantasy Football Mock Draft Results
Round 1
1.1) Antonio Brown
1.2) Rob Gronkowski
1.3) Adrian Peterson
1.4) Le’Veon Bell
1.5) Jamaal Charles
1.6) Demaryius Thomas
1.7) Dez Bryant
1.8) Eddie Lacy
1.9) Odell Beckham
1.10) Julio Jones
1.11) Calvin Johnson
1.12) Matt Forte
Round 2
14.1) Jordy Nelson
14.2) C.J. Anderson
14.3) Jimmy Graham
14.4) Marshawn Lynch
14.5) Arian Foster
14.6) A.J. Green
14.7) LeSean McCoy
14.8) Andrew Luck
14.9) DeMarco Murray
14.10) Randall Cobb
14.11) Aaron Rodgers
14.12) C.J. Spiller
Round 3
3.1) DeAndre Hopkins
3.2) Jeremy Hill
3.3) Mike Evans
3.4) Alshon Jeffery
3.5) T.Y. Hilton
3.6) Brandin Cooks
3.7) Emmanuel Sanders
3.8) Andre Johnson
3.9) Justin Forsett
3.10) Melvin Gordon
3.11) Lamar Miller
3.12) Kelvin Benjamin
Round 4
4.1) Greg Olsen
4.2) Mark Ingram
4.3) Frank Gore
4.4) Andre Ellington
4.5) Keenan Allen
4.6) Julius Thomas
4.7) Travis Kelce
4.8) Alfred Morris
4.9) Julian Edelman
4.10) Jonathan Stewart
4.11) Latavius Murray
4.12) Jordan Matthews
Round 5
5.1) T.J. Yeldon
5.2) Carlos Hyde
5.3) Joseph Randle
5.4) Martellus Bennett
5.5) Brandon Marshall
5.6) Amari Cooper
5.7) Peyton Manning
5.8) Golden Tate
5.9) DeSean Jackson
5.10) Drew Brees
5.11) Russell Wilson
5.12) Giovani Bernard
Round 6
6.1) Zach Ertz
6.2) Vincent Jackson
6.3) Shane Vereen
6.4) Jeremy Maclin
6.5) Martavis Bryant
6.6) Todd Gurley
6.7) Sammy Watkins
6.8) Mike Wallace
6.9) Allen Robinson
6.10) Jarvis Landry
6.11) Brandon LaFell
6.12) Eric Decker
Round 7
7.1) Ben Roethlisberger
7.2) Joique Bell
7.3) Jordan Cameron
7.4) Ameer Abdullah
7.5) Torrey Smith
7.6) Tevin Coleman
7.7) Owen Daniels
7.8) Jason Witten
7.9) Roddy White
7.10) Ryan Mathews
7.11) LeGarrette Blount
7.12) Matt Ryan
Round 8
8.1) Rashad Jennings
8.2) Steve Smith
8.3) Nelson Agholor
8.4) Delanie Walker
8.5) Doug Martin
8.6) Tre Mason
8.7) Michael Floyd
8.8) Charles Johnson
8.9) Anquan Boldin
8.10) Ryan Tannehill
8.11) Larry Fitzgerald
8.12) Charles Sims
Round 9
9.1) Chris Ivory
9.2) Kevin White
9.3) Eli Manning
9.4) Cam Newton
9.5) Josh Hill
9.6) Davante Adams
9.7) Isaiah Crowell
9.8) Reggie Bush
9.9) Tom Brady
9.10) Breshad Perriman
9.11) Victor Cruz
9.12) Pierre Garcon
Round 10
10.1) Percy Harvin
10.2) Theo Riddick
10.3) Kendall Wright
10.4) Devonta Freeman
10.5) Tyler Eifert
10.6) Duke Johnson
10.7) Knile Davis
10.8) Bishop Sankey
10.9) Darren McFadden
10.10) Kyle Rudolph
10.11) Marques Colston
10.12) Kenny Stills
Round 11
11.1) Roy Helu
11.2) Brian Quick
11.3) Jerick McKinnon
11.4) DeVante Parker
11.5) Kenny Britt
11.6) David Johnson
11.7) Cody Latimer
11.8) Antonio Gates
11.9) Tony Romo
11.10) John Brown
11.11) Vernon Davis
11.12) Defense SEA
Round 12
12.1) Andre Williams
12.2) Austin Seferian-Jenkins
12.3) Marvin Jones
12.4) Montee Ball
12.5) Rueben Randle
12.6) Dwayne Allen
12.7) Jay Ajayi
12.8) Defense BUF
12.9) Ladarius Green
12.10) David Cobb
12.11) Darren Sproles
12.12) Philip Rivers
Round 13
13.1) Jace Amaro
13.2) Larry Donnell
13.3) Stephen Gostkowski
13.4) DeAngelo Williams
13.5) Dwayne Bowe
13.6) Matthew Stafford
13.7) Coby Fleener
13.8) James Starks
13.9) Heath Miller
13.10) Jared Cook
13.11) Defense HOU
13.12) Danny Woodhead
Round 14
14.1) Fred Jackson
14.2) Doug Baldwin
14.3) Charles Clay
14.4) Defense STL
14.5) Stevie Johnson
14.6) Terrance Williams
14.7) Javorius Allen
14.8) Teddy Bridgewater
14.9) Jordan Reed
14.10) Defense ARI
14.11) Defense NYJ
14.12) Eric Ebron
Round 15
15.1) Devin Funchess
15.2) Michael Crabtree
15.3) Dorial Green-Beckam
15.4) Niles Paul
15.5) Greg Jennings
15.6) James White
15.7) Phillip Dorsett
15.8) Carson Palmer
15.9) Markus Wheaton
15.10) Branden Oliver
15.11) Malcom Floyd
15.12) Jay Cutler
Round 16
16.1) Mohamed Sanu
16.2) Colin Kaepernick
16.3) Josh Huff
16.4) Dan Herron
16.5) Alfred Blue
16.6) Donte Moncrief
16.7) Richard Rodgers
16.8) Cameron Artis-Payne
16.9) Sam Bradford
16.10) Rob Housler
16.11) Denard Robinson
16.12) Zac Stacy
Round 17
17.1) Chris Polk
17.2) Justin Tucker
17.3) Matt Jones
17.4) Defense MIA
17.5) Virgil Green
17.6) Defense DEN
17.7) Terrance West
17.8) Josh Robinson
17.9) Adam Vinatieri
17.10) Joe Flacco
17.11) Khiry Robinson
17.12) Defense NE
Round 18
18.1) Dan Bailey
18.2) Maxx Williams
18.3) Pierre Thomas
18.4) Robert Turbin
18.5) Christine Michael
18.6) Defense PHI
18.7) Mychal Rivera
18.8) Steven Hauschka
18.9) Lance Dunbar
18.10) Scott Chandler
18.11) Marqise Lee
18.12) Defense GB
Round 19
19.1) Lorenzo Taliaferro
19.2) Bilal Powell
19.3) Marcus Mariota
19.4) Ronnie Hillman
19.5) Marlon Brown
19.6) Derek Carr
19.7) Connor Barth
19.8) Mason Crosby
19.9) Eddie Royal
19.10) Defense TEN
19.11) Matt Bryant
19.12) Jeremy Langford
Round 20
20.1) Andrew Hawkins
20.2) Jameis Winston
20.3) Graham Gano
20.4) Marquess Wilson
20.5) Defense BAL
20.6) Ray Rice
20.7) Matt Prater
20.8) Trent Richardson
20.9) Dan Carpenter
20.10) Matt Asiata
20.11) Jaelen Strong
20.12) Cody Parkey
Analysis
Let’s start off with my team. My team overall is decent, but my glaring weakness in this draft was the tight end position. I tried to make up for that by drafting Vernon Davis and Austin Seferian-Jenkins in back-to-back picks, then going for upside with rookie Maxx Williams. I was hoping Gronk would fall to the eleventh overall pick, but that was a fantasy and nowhere near a reality (he went No. 2 overall). In order to win this thing, I need Vern to have a bounce-back season or ASJ to have a breakout year. Or, an even more unlikely scenario, but wishful thinking: I’d like Maxx Williams to be the best rookie tight end in the history of the NFL. Tight end, Zach Ertz, was taken before I could get to him and Owen Daniels was drafted earlier than I anticipated. No one is to blame but me here.
We won’t know yet, but another obvious draft choice that may haunt me, is passing up on Marshawn Lynch and Arian Foster, to get C.J. Anderson. I love the upside with C.J. and I think he’ll be a top 5 RB with Kubiak’s Broncos. In a league like this with 20 rounds, it’s a good strategy to draft backup plans and handcuffs. I was able to handcuff Mark Ingram with Khiry Robinson at a much later pick (203 overall). I noticed team Comeback Player drafted Todd Gurley along with Tre Mason and Isaiah Crowell along with Duke Johnson.
This year I decided not to be the first team to draft a team defense, and I’m happy with the Houston Texans D. It would have been nice to get the Rams a round or two later, but that likely wouldn’t of happened. The Rams defense was selected late in the 14th round and I thought that was a great value pick. I would rather have the Rams in the 14th round than the Seahawks in the 11th. As long as these two events happened, I was ready to draft a team defense: 1) it had to be late in the draft, and 2) at least two defenses had to be selected before I committed to drafting a one. I would have been happy with the Rams, Dolphins and even the Broncos D if they fell a couple rounds. Both DEN and MIA defenses went in the middle of the 17th round, and those were great value picks. But you don’t want to wait too long and be like team Burn Dust and Eat Rubber who is stuck with their sole team defense being the Tennessee Titans.
Both Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota were ranked in the online draft very low (this could have been a glitch), so they were drafted in Round 19 and Round 20). I was fortunate enough to draft Winston in the last round (230 overall), but other owners likely won’t be able to do this as his current ADP is a bit high at 162.
I think Miss Piggy (pick 9) and Dazed and Confused (pick 12) have the two best teams. The combination of Tom Brady and Tony Romo should work out will for Miss Piggy. Getting Marshawn Lynch at pick 16 and Justin Forsett at pick 33 are sure to make this owner happy. Dazed and Confused enjoyed having back-to-back picks and used the perks of that draft position when selecting Zach Ertz and Matt Ryan in the sixth and seventh rounds. I really wanted to get Forsett and Ertz but failed to do so.
Leave a comment or hit me up on social media @fantasycocuh and let me know what you think. I hope these 2015 fantasy football mock draft results help you out in your preparation for your draft.
