The 2018 DFFL Awards
Here are the results of the DFFL News award winners for 2018
Most Valuable Player – Pat Mahomes (Cosa
Nostra) the 107th player selected in the draft blew away the field with a total of 165 points in just 11 fantasy
starts from 3667 passing yards, 37 TDs, 10 INT's and at least 14 fantasy points in 9 of his starts. Finishing second was this year’s #1 overall selection Todd Gurley (‘merica’s Team) who scored
148 points in 12 starts from 1175 rushing yards, 15 rushing TD’s and an additional 4 receiving scores, and had at least
one touchdowns in every week but one, plus double digit scoring in 6 games. Perennial
DFFL MVP candidate Drew Brees (F T C) finishes third after putting up 139 points in 12 starts from 3262 passing yards, 30
TD passes and 3 rushing scores. Mahomes becomes the 17th different
winner in the 27 year history of this award and the first player not named Manning, Brady or Brees to win the MVP since Andrew
Luck did it in 2014
Least Valuable Player – This
year’s Ashley Lelie Award goes
to RB Derrick Henry (Spartans) Henry was the Spartans keeper selection (31st
overall), and responded by producing a grand total of 5 fantasy points during his 8 weeks in the Spartans starting lineup
– all coming from a mundane 310 rushing yards on 90 carries with 1 touchdown. Henry becomes the 9th consecutive
Running Back to win the award. Dalvin Cook (Cosa Nostra/Lucky 7’s) finishes a close second in the balloting with a total of 8 fantasy points in 6 starts with two different teams. TE
Evan Engram
(Cosa Nostra/Spartans) also received consideration
with 6 points from his 7 starts
Rookie of the Year – Saquon Barkley (Mean Machines) while the rest of their
season was a dumpster fire Barkley was one of
the few things that went right for the Machines this year. Selected fifth overall
– the highest a rookie has ever been selected - Barkley exceeded expectations with 102 fantasy points in 12 starts on
954 rushing yards, 602 receiving yards and 12 total TD’s. No one else comes
close to challenging for this year’s ROY award.
Late Round Steal – Tough to pinpoint a winner this year. While there were multiple candidates extenuating circumstances made declaring a true winner challenging. The winner should have been RB Sony Michel – but he doesn’t qualify since he was drafted in the
12th round by Mean Machines – then later dropped, Other
candidates included RB Nick Chubb (F T C) the 10th pick
of round 10, along with 11th round picks Cooper Kupp, Aaron Jones and Calvin Ridley (by ‘merica’s Team, Cheeseheads from Hell
and Sacks
in the City respectively) and 14th round
pick Courtland
Sutton by Mean Machines but none of them made enough fantasy starts to qualify for
the award.
First Round Draft Bricks – It was an unusual season, as most of the top picks actually lived up to
their draft position – with a few exceptions
Here's
a recap of the first round
1.01 'merica's Team RB GURLEY,TODD
148 points in 12 starts
1.02
Deficient Orange RB
BELL,LE'VEON 0 points
in 0 starts
1.03
F T C RB JOHNSON,DAVID 53 points in 12 starts
1.04
Lucky 7's RB ELLIOTT,EZEKIEL 82
points in 12 starts
1.05
Mean Machines RB BARKLEY,SAQUON 102
points in 12 starts
1.06
Heinekins RB FOURNETTE,LEONARD 33 points
in 4 starts
1.07
Spartans WR BROWN,ANTONIO
88 points in 12 starts
1.08
Cheeseheads from Hell WR HOPKINS,DEANDRE
65 points in 12 starts
1.09
Sacks in the City RB
GORDON,MELVIN 102 points in 10 starts
1.10
Gamblers RB MCCAFFREY,CHRISTIAN 90 points in 12 starts
1.11
Cosa Nostra RB COOK,DALVIN
8 points in 6 starts
1.12
Jerk Store TE GRONKOWSKI,ROB
9 points in 7 starts
- #2 overall pick Le’Veon
Bell - 0 fantasy points after never taking a snap
in 2018
- #3 choice David Johnson - 53 fantasy points with numbers nowhere close to expectations
- The #6 pick Leonard Fournette – 33 fantasy points on 5 TD’s –
all coming in the past 4 weeks
- #11 pick Dalvin Cook – A combined 486 rushing and receiving yards from 88 total touches with
1 touchdown in 6 starts between two teams
- #12 pick Rob Gronkowski - 29 catches, 454 receiving yards and 1 TD as a starter with another 3 games missed
due to a rare injury
Free Agent pick up of
the Year – After 165 waiver moves the results
show it was a fairly run-of-the-mill collection of FAPUOTY candidates, so it might have to be F T C RB Matt Breida –
even though DFFL News mocked and ridiculed
the move in the pre-season after Jerrick McKinnon was lost for the year Breida did ok for himself with 38 fantasy points in
8 starts. Also in contention was Cosa Nostra TE Jared Cook
with 36 points in his 8 appearances
Sentimental Value Award – The Chuck Evans Award - given annually to the
player(s) who are drafted by a DFFL team, spend the entire year on the roster, but never make it into the starting lineup.
This year’s prize will
be shared between Deficient Orange RB Le’Veon Bell (the second overall pick)
Gamblers RB Kenyan
Drake (Selected
58th overall) Deficient Orange RB Tevin Coleman – (pick122) and Cheesehead from Hell WR Dez Bryant (drafted
156th)
Blindfold Award – This award is given to the player who makes the most of their single start. This year’s winner
is Mitchell Trubisky (Cheeseheads from Hell) with 16 fantasy points in his only appearance – a week #7 start where he went 26 for 50 for
333 passing yards, 2 passing TD’s and a rushing score. Runner up was F T C back up QB Case Keenam who threw for 322 yards and 2 scores – good for 10 points
during his only start in week #6
Todd Collins Award - This award was created in 2010 is to honor the player who has the worst performance in their single start.
For the first time since this
award was created there is no winner this year. There were a total of 216 players who recorded at least a fantasy point greater
or less than zero. The closest that we came to a winner would have been Spartans TE Jack
Doyle, who produced a negative 1 point – but it came in two fantasy starts
Award for the Most Awards Award - This
award is given annually to the teams who appear most often in the "Bogus Move of the Week" column. There were a
total of 34 occasions in which a team was referenced in the BMOTW column during the 13 weeks of the 2018 season.
Congratulation go to the Gamblers –
who are the runaway winners this year by appearing in Bogus Move a
remarkable 7 times – thanks in large part to his deft stockpiling of mostly
mediocre quarterbacks. Finishing in second place were both Jerk Store and Deficient Orange with 4 mentions each, ‘merica’s Team, Mean Machines, Heinekins and Cosa Nostra each received 3 acknowledgements,
while Sacks in the City, Spartans and F T C finished with 2 awards each. Despite finishing at 3-10 The Cheeseheads from Hell
somehow only received one award. Which
makes the Lucky 7’s the only team never to appear in BMOTW this season.
