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The Huddle's David Dorey Wins Experts Draft League

Faith in Gurley pays off

Congratulations to David Dorey of The Huddle. He's the winner of our annual Experts Draft League for the 2015 season. Footballguys' David Dodds finished 2nd, just one game off the pace.

We drafted back in May, to get the results into our annual preseason magazine. This is a Draftmasters type of league where participants -- 11 fantasy expert qualifiers and a reader representative -- drafted their entire team, and then were allowed to make no moves from that point on. If players got hurt, they couldn't be replaced, and backups couldn't be added.

Each week during the season, teams got their best starting lineup of 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs ,1 TE, 1 PK and 1 Team D/ST. They also played every other team every week, to avoid luck of scheduling. Highest score each week went 11-0, lowest score 0-11, etc.

Dorey picked 12th, and his top two picks worked out fairly well (LeSean McCoy and Odell Beckham Jr.). Few were as fortunate with those early picks. Tom Deskovitz, for example, drafted Arian Foster and Jordy Nelson in the first two rounds. Ouch.

Dorey's key pick, though, was probably Todd Gurley at the end of the third round. Back in May, it wasn't certain that Gurley would avoid the PUP list to start the season. He also had some nice later round picks, like Carson Palmer (10th) and Allen Hurns (22nd).

David Dodds finished 2nd. He drafted 1st overall and selected Jamaal Charles, but overcame that with solid picks like Mike Evans, Emmanuel Sanders, and Chris Ivory. Martavis Bryant and David Johnson paid off in the second half of the season, and top-shelf performers at quarterback (Philip Rivers), tight end (Delanie Walker) and defense (Carolina) also helped.

Michael Livengood, who qualified for the league by finishing in the top 11 in the Experts Poll the previous year, finished 3rd. His team was led by Russell Wilson, Doug Martin and Calvin Johnson; Latavius Murray also was solid.

The final 2015 standings are presented below.

2015 INDEX EXPERTS DRAFT LEAGUE RESULTS
TeamWLT
The Huddle125510
Footballguys.com124520
Experts Poll Qualifier (Livengood)119570
FFMastermind.com107690
Fantasy Football Warehouse106700
FFMagicMan.com104720
Extra Point Press91850
Pro Football Focus751010
Fantasy Titan 101721040
Experts Poll Qualifier (Deskovitz)641120
Perfect Season Fantasy Football 381380
Super League Qualifier (Schlyer)311450

--Andy Richardson

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