One exercise I have found very helpful is to take stock of all your dynasty teams each year. While it is very simple to review an individual team, I’ve found looking at your portfolio of leagues can be helpful in understanding if you have too much exposure in specific players or if there are players you may be able to target in more leagues. Here are my ownership stats for the quarterback and tight end positions across my 10 leagues. These are my 2016 Dynasty Market Shares at the quarterback and tight end positions for reference.
Quarterbacks
- 4 Jameis Winston
- 4 Russell Wilson
- 3 Derek Carr
- 3 Matthew Stafford
1 share of Blake Bortles, Drew Brees, Kirk Cousins, Mike Glennon, Hoyer Brian, Andrew Luck, Eli Manning, Cam Newton, Philip Rivers, Ben Roethlisberger, Alex Smith, and Mitchell Trubisky and others.
To put some perspective around these numbers, of my 10 leagues, one is a TripleFlex (start up to 3 QBs) and three more are SuperFlex leagues. I am not surprised to see Jameis Winston and Russell Wilson at the top of my list as I bought in heavily last year. I have been working to acquire Matthew Stafford as a mid-cost QB1. His mix of age, current production and ADP are a screaming buy in startups. I recently took Stafford in the 11th round.
These numbers emphasize the depth of the quarterback position. There are so many viable options for a fantasy team, especially in a start-1QB league. The four names above are solid UTH targets at the position. My strategy for quarterback outside these players is to take what the rest of the league gives me. This is why my shares outside of my target players are fairly random.
Tight Ends
- 4 Evan Engram
- 3 Clive Walford
- 3 Coby Fleener
- 3 Travis Kelce
- 2 Rob Gronkowski
- 2 Jack Doyle
- 2 Hunter Henry
- 2 Adam Shaheen
- 2 Jesse James
1 share of Dwayne Allen, Cameron Brate, Eric Ebron, Tyler Eifert, Zach Ertz, Crockett Gillmore, Austin Hooper, O.J. Howard, Maxx Williams and others.
Last year was rough for me at the tight end position. My top owned players were Clive Walford, Eric Ebron, and Austin Sefarian-Jenkins and unfortunately, none of those players came through as I was hoping in 2016. This year I am heavily invested in Evan Engram and several other young prospects (Hunter Henry, Adam Shaheen, OJ Howard, Austin Hooper). In order to avoid the same issues as last year, I have been able to buy other production at the position to fill gaps assuming that the youth will need additional time to develop. Half of my 10 leagues will start either Travis Kelce or Rob Gronkowski.
What surprised me doing this exercise is that half of my 10 leagues will start either Travis Kelce or Rob Gronkowski. I would not have expected this to be the case as I do not preach paying up for the position. Most of these shares were acquired at a deflated price due to Gronkowski’s injury and an early season slump from Kelce. If I can sell them at full price, I will explore this option during the early season, otherwise, I will look to ride these studs until the young prospects are producing at a TE1 level.
