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Christopher Harris of ESPN is emerging as a contender to win the Fantasy Index Experts Poll. Harris has won the running backs portion of the poll, moving him up to No. 2 in the overall standings with one position (quarterbacks) left to be graded.
In our complex scoring system (where every pick is awarded points in varying degrees), Harris separated himself from the back by ranking Brian Westbrook lower than anybody and putting Chris Johnson up at No. 4 – higher than all but one other expert.
Louis Tranquilli (BFD Fantasy Football) finished 2nd in this category, largely because he rank Johnson higher than anybody. And David Dorey (The Huddle) and Kevin Marshall (Draftwizard.com) placed highly again after doing well at wide receiver.
But can anybody catch James Serra of First Place Sports Software? With only one position left, he’s still got a lead of almost 800 points. Harris is currently in 2nd, followed by Scott Pianowski (Yahoo! Sports), Dorey and Marshall.
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 will be finalized tomorrow (at least those 11 spots – we also always put a Fantasy Index reader in that league).
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 been just average at the running back position, with 39,113 points, coming in behind 11 of the 20 experts.
Running backs are scored on the system of 1 point for every 10 run-rec yards and 6 points for touchdowns on runs, catches and returns. In addition, Ronnie Brown earned 4 points for a TD pass and there were a few 2-point conversions.
FANTASY INDEX EXPERTS POLL: RUNNING BACKS
Points
40,746 Christopher Harris
40,575 Louis Tranquilli
39,860 David Dorey
39,825 Kevin Marshall
39,809 Alan Satterlee
39,632 Scott Pianowski
39,535 Jeffrey Kamys
39,400 James Serra
39,376 Nathan Zegura
39,229 Sam Hendricks
39,144 Scott Endsley
39,059 Lenny Pappano
39,016 Pretzel May
38,935 Chris Liss
38,765 Bo Mitchell
38,752 Rick Hawes
38,596 Bob Henry
38,523 Cory Bonini
38,230 Michael Nazarek
37,648 Colin Darlington
FANTASY INDEX EXPERTS POLL: OVERALL (SO FAR)
Includes all positions except quarterbacks, which will be tabulated Thursday morning.
Points
152,096 James Serra
151,234 Christopher Harris
151,176 Scott Pianowski
150,887 David Dorey
149,962 Kevin Marshall
149,765 Pretzel May
149,706 Alan Satterlee
149,702 Nathan Zegura
149,671 Rick Hawes
149,452 Chris Liss
149,429 Louis Tranquilli
149,220 Sam Hendricks
148,808 Jeffrey Kamys
148,377 Bob Henry
148,121 Scott Endsley
148,081 Michael Nazarek
147,861 Lenny Pappano
147,674 Colin Darlington
147,328 Bo Mitchell
146,477 Cory Bonini
RUNNING BACK MULTIPLIER NUMBERS
Using the fantasy scoring system of 1 point for every 10 yards, 6 points for any kind of touchdown and 4 points for touchdown passes:
Points
348.9 Chris Johnson
289.9 Adrian Peterson
272.5 Maurice Jones-Drew
252.1 Ray Rice
230.6 Frank Gore
230.0 Thomas Jones
211.0 Ryan Grant
198.4 Joseph Addai
197.8 Steven Jackson
193.2 Jonathan Stewart
180.9 DeAngelo Williams
172.2 Cedric Benson
170.0 Knowshon Moreno
166.0 Matt Forte
160.4 LaDainian Tomlinson
157.5 Pierre Thomas
157.3 Marion Barber
150.6 Michael Turner
148.2 Kevin Smith
137.9 Brandon Jacobs
135.6 Beanie Wells
132.0 Darren Sproles
127.4 Steve Slaton
126.6 Ronnie Brown
120.5 Reggie Bush
74.9 Marshawn Lynch
73.9 Derrick Ward
67.1 Clinton Portis
66.2 Darren McFadden
66.1 Larry Johnson
57.5 Brian Westbrook
51.3 Willie Parker
35.6 LenDale White
—Ian Allan
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