I did the two Fanex experts mocks recently. There was the Fanex Analysis Draft in June, and there was the auction that started in early July. And those are kind-of sort-of interesting because 11 of the franchises were picked by the same guys.
There was some crossover in the choices, but not as much as I would have expected. Of my 20 players (in each league) 11 were the same in both leagues. Chris Dolfi and Tom Walls (who co-own a team) finished with 10. But only two other owners made it up to seven.
I would have expected more. After all, the owners are presumably working with the same lists. You would think that the late-round favorites of the guys when they were picking in late June would be the same guys they’d pick up for a dollar late in the auction a few weeks later.
But that wasn’t the case. Mike Nease, most notably, picked 40 players with only name coming up twice (Jameis Winston, as a later-round guy). And Dish Adams and Brady Tinker had only three of those players.
I don’t see how this is possible. For me, when I stack my board, that’s my list. So when it’s the third, fourth, fifth round, there will be guys who’ll tend to be available that I will wind up selecting. They’re the guys who aren’t as high on other people’s boards. And it makes sense in an auction that those same owners who didn’t want to select them will now also not be willing to break the bank for them in an auction format.
| FANEX EXPERTS LEAGUES / COMMON PLAYERS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft | Auction | Player | Owner |
| 1.04 | $48 | RB Adrian Peterson | Serritella |
| 1.09 | $47 | WR Dez Bryant | Dolfi |
| 1.10 | $35 | RB Arian Foster | Schauf |
| 2.01 | $39 | WR Demaryius Thomas | Panizo |
| 2.07 | $30 | RB Jeremy Hill | Allan |
| 2.12 | $32 | WR Jordy Nelson | Cahill |
| 3.01 | $31 | QB Aaron Rodgers | Cahill |
| 3.08 | $26 | WR Brandin Cooks | Day |
| 3.09 | $22 | WR DeAndre Hopkins | Dolfi |
| 3.10 | $21 | RB Frank Gore | Schauf |
| 4.07 | $20 | RB C.J. Spiller | Allan |
| 4.09 | $15 | WR Jeremy Maclin | Serritella |
| 5.03 | $12 | RB Joseph Randle | Tinker |
| 5.06 | $14 | WR Roddy White | Allan |
| 5.08 | $21 | WR Andre Johnson | Day |
| 5.09 | $15 | RB Jonathan Stewart | Dolfi |
| 5.12 | $15 | TE Martellus Bennett | Panizo |
| 6.01 | $23 | QB Peyton Manning | Panizo |
| 6.05 | $8 | RB Rashad Jennings | Day |
| 6.07 | $10 | WR Larry Fitzgerald | Allan |
| 6.11 | $14 | RB Giovani Bernard | Holm |
| 6.12 | $7 | RB LeGarrette Blount | Cahill |
| 7.06 | $14 | QB Cam Newton | Allan |
| 8.01 | $8 | RB Knile Davis | Panizo |
| 8.03 | $13 | WR Steve Smith Sr. | Schauf |
| 8.09 | $8 | RB Tre Mason | Serritella |
| 8.11 | $12 | WR Nelson Agholor | Holm |
| 9.03 | $2 | WR Michael Floyd | Tinker |
| 9.10 | $5 | RB Chris Ivory | Schauf |
| 10.01 | $2 | TE Owen Daniels | Panizo |
| 10.07 | $5 | RB Devonta Freeman | Allan |
| 10.10 | $4 | WR Pierre Garcon | Tinker |
| 10.11 | $3 | RB Charles Sims | Holm |
| 11.01 | $3 | RB Bishop Sankey | Cahill |
| 11.09 | $2 | RB Darren McFadden | Dolfi |
| 12.03 | $5 | QB Carson Palmer | Schauf |
| 12.04 | $4 | TE Delanie Walker | Dolfi |
| 12.07 | $2 | TE Josh Hill | Allan |
| 13.02 | $1 | TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins | Holm |
| 13.04 | $3 | RB Matt Jones | Serritella |
| 13.05 | $2 | QB Jameis Winston | Nease |
| 13.11 | $1 | WR Devin Funchess | Adams |
| 14.04 | $1 | RB Stevan Ridley | Dolfi |
| 14.07 | $2 | ST St. Louis | Allan |
| 14.09 | $3 | RB Cameron Artis-Payne | Serritella |
| 15.06 | $3 | TE Vernon Davis | Allan |
| 15.09 | $1 | QB Marcus Mariota | Dolfi |
| 15.12 | $2 | TE Larry Donnell | Panizo |
| 16.03 | $1 | ST Miami | Schauf |
| 16.04 | $1 | ST NY Jets | Dolfi |
| 16.07 | $2 | ST Kansas City | Allan |
| 16.09 | $2 | TE Charles Clay | Serritella |
| 16.11 | $1 | ST Carolina | Holm |
| 17.02 | $1 | PK Connor Barth | Holm |
| 17.06 | $1 | RB Dan Herron | Allan |
| 17.09 | $1 | PK Steven Hauschka | Dolfi |
| 17.10 | $1 | ST Denver | Schauf |
| 18.02 | $1 | TE Richard Rodgers | Adams |
| 18.04 | $1 | WR Markus Wheaton | Dolfi |
| 18.05 | $1 | PK Shaun Suisham | Day |
| 18.09 | $1 | WR DeAndrew White | Serritella |
| 19.11 | $1 | PK Sebastian Janikowski | Adams |
I always take a peak at the end of these things to see which opponents I think did the best and worst. This time around, I think the Dolfi/Walls franchises did the best job of accumulating talent. I’ve got them as the No. 1 opponent in the draft league, and No. 2 in auction. Tony Holm is the other guy I had in the top 4 in both leagues.
Ric Serritella and Jim Day were the two guys whose opinions were the most different than my own. If my projections turn out to be perfectly correct, Serritella will finish last in both of these leagues. I have Day with the 3rd-worst team in both league.
Dish Adams, I don’t understand him. He has (according to my figures) the 2nd-worst team in the draft league, but the same guy (presumably using the same draft board) finished with the top opposing roster in the auction format. He, of course, was one of the wild-card owners, with only three players in common across the two leagues.
If you want to check out the results of these two leagues, they’re both online at MyFantasyLeague.com. Click here for the auction league. And the Draft League is also available.
—Ian Allan