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Fantasy Football Index Draft

Just completed the FFI Draft which will come out in their magazine, and which we'll play out on their site. It's a 22-round "best-ball" league, meaning no pickups or trades, and your best performers that week who fill the starting spots count for you. In other words, you might have six receivers, and whichever three perform the best in a given week count for that week. The other three would just be on your bench.

The scoring is 4/6, 20/10. It's a 12-team league. 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 K, 1 D.

I picked ninth. Here's my team:

RoundPlayerPosition
1Marshawn LynchRB
2Randy MossWR
3Darren McFaddenRB
4Brandon MarshallWR
5Rudi JohnsonRB
6Calvin JohnsonWR
7David GarrardQB
8Vince YoungQB
9Chris JohnsonRB
10Ahmad BradshawRB
11Ronald CurryWR
12Owen DanielsTE
13Alge CrumplerTE
14Reggie WilliamsWR
15Kellen ClemensQB
16Oakland RaidersTeam D
17Jacob HesterRB
18Derrick WardRB
19Kris BrownK
20Roydell WilliamsWR
21San Francisco 49ersTeam D
22John KasayK

A couple notes about this format: QBs fly off the board early because there's no waiver wire - you really need two or three of them at least, and preferably four, though I only got three.

And you really need two Ks and two Ds, because if your kicker gets hurt, you'll have zeroes (plus there's the bye week). And defense can't get hurt, but it fluctuates so much from week to week, it's good to have two and take the best performance.