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James Serra of First Place Sports Software is the winner of the tight ends portion of the Experts Poll that appeared in Fantasy Football Index magazine. He is also, at least for now, the overall leader in the competition.
I’m in the process of grading each of the six positions – QB, RB, WR, TE, PK and defenses. Whichever expert amasses the most overall points, using our complex grading system is the overall winner.
At tight end, Serra is the winner, followed by Sam Hendricks (Fantasy Football Guidebook) and Alan Satterlee (Dynasty Rogues). Serra’s key pick, it appears, was ranking Vernon Davis 14th – four spots higher than any other expert (seven didn’t even include him in their top 20). Serra also benefited by being one of the few experts who didn’t rank Jason Witten first.
In this grading system, every pick counts. The higher you rank a player, the more he counts towards your score. If you rank a player first, his fantasy production is multiplied by 20. If you rank him 2nd, it gets multiplied by 19. Ranking him 3rd brings in 18 as the multiplier number and so on.
In the case of Vernon Davis, Serra ranked him 14th. That works out to about 1,047 points (6 x 174.5). If an expert ranked Davis 19th, he would receive only 339 points for that choice (2 x 174.5).
This grading system isn’t ideal. The penalty when a player gets injured might be too severe. And that was the case with some key tight ends this year – both Chris Cooley and Owens Daniels got hurt, gutting some boards. But it’s the best system for grading these picks that we could think of.
On the overall board, Serra, Scott Pianowski (Yahoo! Sports) and Chris Liss (Rotowire.com) are the current leaders.
When the scoring is done for all six positions, the top 11 finishers will win spots in our Mock Draft league (with the No. 1 finisher getting to choose where he would like to select). That field should be set in a few days.
The Fantasy Index picks aren't included in these results. Out of fairness to the competition, we stay in the administrator role. (Most notably, our picks aren't locked into the same deadline, which usually is around May 20.) But if you plug in our magazine picks, which are printed in early June, we would have come in after seven experts in this category, with 22,842 points. We’d be sitting at 4th overall right now. But that number should go down; we had Anthony Gonzalez as a top-10 wide receiver, and he got hurt in Indianapolis’ first game.
Tight ends are scored on the system of 1 point for every 10 yards and 6 points for touchdowns.
FANTASY INDEX EXPERTS POLL: TIGHT ENDS
Points
23,819 James Serra
23,042 Sam Hendricks
22,957 Alan Satterlee
22,949 Chris Liss
22,939 Bo Mitchell
22,921 Pretzel May
22,872 Lenny Pappano
22,830 Scott Pianowski
22,798 Kevin Marshall
22,789 Nathan Zegura
22,767 Colin Darlington
22,733 Rick Hawes
22,691 Louis Tranquilli
22,410 Scott Endsley
22,265 Bob Henry
22,255 Michael Nazarek
22,198 David Dorey
22,081 Cory Bonini
21,865 Jeffrey Kamys
21,597 Christopher Harris
FANTASY INDEX EXPERTS POLL: OVERALL (TE & PK)
Points
46,655 James Serra
45,892 Scott Pianowski
45,849 Chris Liss
45,425 Rick Hawes
45,336 Pretzel May
45,022 Alan Satterlee
44,994 Nathan Zegura
44,899 Christopher Harris
44,815 Sam Hendricks
44,791 David Dorey
44,690 Michael Nazarek
44,398 Bob Henry
44,207 Kevin Marshall
44,105 Colin Darlington
44,054 Bo Mitchell
44,046 Lenny Pappano
43,951 Jeffrey Kamys
43,919 Scott Endsley
43,896 Louis Tranquilli
43,224 Cory Bonini
FANTASY INDEX EXPERTS POLL: TIGHT END MULTIPLIER NUMBERS
Final fantasy stats for tight ends named in the 2009 Fantasy Index Experts Poll, using the scoring system of 1 point for every 10 yards and 6 points for TDs.
Points
174.5 Vernon Davis
171.7 Dallas Clark
163.7 Antonio Gates
145.1 Brent Celek
122.7 Tony Gonzalez
122.6 Visanthe Shiancoe
119.1 Kellen Winslow
115.0 Jason Witten
114.9 Heath Miller
109.2 Greg Olsen
99.4 John Carlson
98.5 Zach Miller
95.5 Todd Heap
88.3 Kevin Boss
81.9 Owen Daniels
74.9 Jeremy Shockey
66.9 Dustin Keller
63.8 Marcedes Lewis
53.6 Tony Scheffler
50.0 Bo Scaife
46.6 Brandon Pettigrew
45.9 Anthony Fasano
45.2 Chris Cooley
39.2 Randy McMichael
32.0 Donald Lee
21.6 Shawn Nelson
00.0 Martin Rucker
—Ian Allan
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