This is my third year playing NESCAC fantasy football, the past two seasons of which Jeff and I have squared off head to head. Our league format is 2 QB, 4 RB, 6 WR, 2 TE, 2 D/ST, 1 K with 2 Bench spots. We had our draft a week ago, but decided to wait until after the first week to post the results. Below is the order in which we drafted and how our teams performed in Week 1. One thing to keep in mind when looking at the draft is positional limits. For example, I likely would have drafted Billy Sadik-Khan, one of the steals of the draft, earlier, had Jeff not already taken both of his tight ends. If this were even  a four-team league, the draft order would have changed quite significantly. Something to keep in mind when you see kickers being drafted ahead of quarterbacks.

Having issued that primer, there were still some significant hits and misses for both of us. A week later, it seems impossible that Luke Duncklee, a player Jeff and I both really like, went with the 18th-pick of the draft. Similarly, allowing Jeff to nab Kyle Gibson at 22 was a huge mistake on my part. And yet I capped it off with an even bigger mistake when I drafted Ryan Silva with the eighth-pick of the draft. He doesn’t show up there because he’s not on the Amherst team (something I had somehow forgotten), so I was allowed to re-pick, but only after Jeff made his selections at 10 and 11, which seemed like a fair punishment. There were some redeeming moments for my draft, including choosing Ryan Curit as my replacement for Silva. Thus far, I’ve also won the game of Middlebury receiver roulette, selecting Minno and Duval vs. Jeff’s Rankowitz-Wheeler combination. Though I hesitate to put words in his mouth, Jeff appears to have gone high-risk, high-reward here, and so far it hasn’t worked particularly well. He also went that route with his pick of Tim Laspada, who drew rave reviews during the offseason, but didn’t see a snap in Bates’ loss to Trinity last week. Though it’s been just one week, here are the best and worst picks for each team:

Best
Damon: Billy Sadik-Khan
Jeff: Justin Ciero/Luke Duncklee

Worst
Damon: Ryan Silva/Kevin Davis (taken before Duncklee)
Jeff: Tim Laspada (for now)/Trevor Wheeler (don’t go chasing waterfalls)

So naturally you want to know how our teams stacked up against one another. Using ESPN standard scoring, here are the results, both for individual players and also for our teams:

While at first glance the score was was pretty close, Jeff won by almost 12 points despite four players on his team registering no points, with just one player doing the same for me, though Nick Kenyon’s negative-point total gets an honorable mention. As you might imagine there was some waiver-wire action after the weekend, which resulted in seven roster moves:

Heading into Week 2, here’s what our respective rosters look like:

Feel free to weigh in on how you think will win a pivotal Week 2 matchup, if you think there are guys who you can’t believe we’ve neglected to add (favorites go to the Tufts backfield of Chance Brady and Zach Trause) or anything else you’d like to add.