Home League Roundup

My home league is a bloodbath every year. There are 14 teams and limited keepers. Even though are keeper rule is tough (you pay three rounds higher to keep a guy than where you drafted him and you generally can't keep guys you trade for during the season), a lot of good guys are off the board at bargain prices.

The teams that had McGahee (in his second year after being drafted in Round 9 when he was still recovering from knee surgery as a rookie) and LaMont Jordan (fifth round price this year) were tough to beat. And they ended up with two solid backs, which is huge in a large league like this.

My team:

Plummer, Brees, K. Jones, M. Anderson (Bell was gone 30 picks into the draft), L. Johnson (a protect), M. Harrison, Roy Williams (Lions), Gates (a 13th round protect, as we don't have to play a TE, but inflate their scoring by about 50 percent), Moulds, Wilkins.

We also don't use defenses, but a better format where teams receive points based on how many points they score that week. If the active NFL team wins its game that week, they get their actual points scored is divided by five. If they lose, the actual score is divided by 10. This is huge because our scoring system is so modest that 40 points gets you a win about 80 percent of the time.

With this system, you want a team that scores a lot primarily and you'll gamble on whether they win. 8-8 teams with no defense are okay as long as they score a lot. I took three teams (which I've never done before): Broncos, Raiders, Cowboys.