Adrian Peterson is the Fantasy Football MVP, While the Least Valuable Is . . .
Adrian Peterson is now being talked up about for the league MVP in the NFL. He is already the fantasy football MVP. Using data provided by CBS Sports Fantasy Department, no player had a higher winning percentage among players on fantasy football roster.
The information provided by CBS involves every player currently on at least 60% of all fantasy rosters on their site–a total of 163 quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, kickers, and defensive teams. It includes every game result from any game when they were on a roster; in Peterson’s case, that was over 1.3 million fantasy games played with him on a roster.
Here were the top ten players by winning percentage in CBS fantasy league teams:
- Adrian Peterson, RB, Minnesota (59.8%)
- Doug Martin, RB, Tampa Bay (56.7%)
- Arian Foster, RB, Houston (56.4%)
- Brandon Marshall, WR, Chicago (56.4%)
- A.J. Green, WR, Cincinnati (55.7%)
- David Wilson, RB, New York Giants (54.9%)
- Calvin Johnson, WR, Detroit (54.8%)
- CHICAGO BEARS DEF/ST (54.7%)
- Rob Gronkowski, TE, New England (54.5%)
- Danario Alexander, WR, San Diego (54.5%)
I already wrote about David Wilson’s appearance on this list yesterday, and Danario Alexander also benefits from being a cheap pickup who was more likely picked up by winning teams still paying attention at midseason. No quarterbacks appear on the above list, but Tom Brady was close and had the highest winning percentage among the position (54.2%). He was followed by Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Matt Ryan, Colin Kaepernick, Russell Wilson, and Robert Griffin III.
Equally as interesting is the bottom of the list. Bills fans and those of us who wanted C.J. Spiller to get more touches agree with the answer for least valuable fantasy player: Fred Jackson. Teams that had Fred Jackson on a roster only won 45.0% of games. Here is the rest of your least valuable fantasy players team.
QB- Eli Manning, New York Giants (45.7%)
QB- Philip Rivers, San Diego (46.0%)
RB- Maurice Jones-Drew, Jacksonville (46.2%)
RB- Rashard Mendenhall, Pittsburgh (46.3%)
RB- Felix Jones, Dallas (46.5%)
RB- Jonathan Stewart, Carolina (46.5%)
WR- Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona (46.4%)
WR- Nate Washington, Tennessee (46.8%)
WR- Greg Jennings, Green Bay (46.8%)
WR- Dwayne Bowe, Kansas City (46.9%)
TE- Brent Celek, Philadelphia (45.2%)
TE- Antonio Gates, San Diego (46.8%)
K- Mason Crosby, Green Bay (46.2%)
DEF- DALLAS COWBOYS (46.6%)
[photos via USA Today Sports Images]
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December 21st, 2012 at 3:11 PM
How is Vernon Davis not on the least valuable list?? He bent me over week after week
December 21st, 2012 at 3:13 PM
http://youtu.be/vzoQolIDlTw
December 21st, 2012 at 3:15 PM
MJD was doing pretty well until he got hurt. I think the Jags sucktitude needs to be considered when putting him on the least valuable list. if they had been playing worth a shit I bet he would have been back a month ago.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:17 PM
I will never draft him again.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:20 PM
Adrian Peterson is the Fantasy Football MVP, While the Least Valuable Is . . .
Fucking Hillbilly. Never again.
/uses different methodology than Lisk.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:21 PM
/looks at list
//sees 3 of the top 5 are on my 9 YEAR OLD sons team
///smiles proudly
December 21st, 2012 at 3:24 PM
/looks at list
//sees 3 of the top 5 are on my 9 YEAR OLD sons team
///smiles proudly
Looks like you might be raising the next Mike Tannenbaum
Congrats!!
December 21st, 2012 at 3:24 PM
If you were counting on a TE to win you games, you’re doing it all wrong.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:29 PM
Of course y’all just look at QB winning percentage here.
/misses point
December 21st, 2012 at 3:30 PM
/lays in wait to comment on something that isn’t fashion or fake football related
December 21st, 2012 at 3:30 PM
If you were counting on a TE to win you games, you’re doing it all wrong.
True but Tony Gonzalez was a pretty great pickup this year.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:31 PM
I’m surprised the ‘least’ still won 45% of his team’s games. I guess if you let one player ruin your season, it’s a you problem, not a him problem. Though you should probably still send him that tweet that it’s all his fault.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:32 PM
Perhaps you could explain why you think that South Carolina’s mascot is the Trojan.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:33 PM
Isn’t this not true? I thought Lisk showed that TE had a very high value-over-replacement level for top players, higher than many/all other positions.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:34 PM
Another gem from the Craig James thread:
Craig James dreams in the language of Nell.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:34 PM
Oh I know, however anything would have been better than the 1 point he put up last week.
I mainly blame Rodgers for not looking to Cobb in the end-zone.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Isn’t this not true? I thought Lisk showed that TE had a very high value-over-replacement level for top players, higher than many/all other positions.
That’s because there are only 2 or 3 that actually make a predictable difference from week to week. The point production difference from having Adrian Peterson vs. settling for Fred Jackson is quite a bit bigger than anything you would get at the TE position.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:38 PM
I managed to make the final in my league despite a massive bedshitting by both Jamaal Charles and Doug Martin. Thanks, opponent who started Jeremy Kerley!
December 21st, 2012 at 3:38 PM
Oh I know, however anything would have been better than the 1 point he put up last week.
Or the ZERO he put up not once but twice
December 21st, 2012 at 3:41 PM
That’s not the comparison. If you are looking at #1-3 vs #7-10, is RB or TE going to be more important to get early?
December 21st, 2012 at 3:42 PM
I would guess most teams are a combination of players from the good and bad lists, making things average out around 50%. Teams with multiple players from the bad list probably have a much worse winning percentage. For example I had Fred Jackson the whole season (still do even though he’s on IR) but am in the final, in part because I almost never played him.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:42 PM
That didn’t affect me too much since that was during my bye and/or I had already clinched the bye in my league. Oh well.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Yo, at work I can’t use adblockers so can someone please buy the ad space that keeps showing me kids with cleft lips? Because I don’t like that shit.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:45 PM
He had one good game at Indy in week 3. Got hurt the next week and hasn’t done shit since. Jags should have just put him on IR and saved his fantasy owners the grief.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:46 PM
So I just looked at RB vs TE.
TE 1-4 = 125 points average
TE 7-10 = 94 (75% of the peak)
RB 1-4: 225
RB 7-10: 170 (75% of the peak)
All done in my head, so I apologize if there’s any slight errors, but in general, the top vs middle isn’t more dramatic for TE. In addition, since RBs generate more points, the top RB is more valuable, meaning that I’d expect the top RBs to be prominently featured on the least of most winning players.
/top 3 spots
//take that, WWoS!
December 21st, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Think of it as a guidance groove.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:48 PM
/Sandusky’d
//got cut off
December 21st, 2012 at 3:55 PM
I know there’s no way in hell I want to travel to Quebec right now.
December 21st, 2012 at 4:02 PM
They get 1.5ppr in our league. Makes for an interesting draft.
December 21st, 2012 at 4:13 PM
I’m surprised the ‘least’ still won 45% of his team’s games. I guess if you let one player ruin your season, it’s a you problem, not a him problem. Though you should probably still send him that tweet that it’s all his fault.
The difference between having Peterson and Jackson on a roster was a little over 2 wins, which seems right. If we are talking about a total of 5 wins separating bad teams from the top teams, and you have 8-9 starters, that’s less than half a win per starter.
December 21st, 2012 at 4:29 PM
My two QBs: Eli and Rivers
My top pick: Lesean McCoy
My WRs: Percy harvin and Julio jones
/started 2-6
//removed yahoo fantasy app
December 21st, 2012 at 4:54 PM
I am in 4 leagues, 2 Yahoo and 2 ESPN, and I would have gone 4/4 in title game appearances if not for Chris Johnson’s 94-yard TD run. Thanks, Jets.
But I’m sure I’ll grab the triple-crown and lose all three title games, thanks to favorable match-ups for each of my opponents, the Gronkowski conundrum (I have him and if I bench him, he’ll go off, and if I start him, he’ll play one series), and it seems like every opponent has Calvin Johnson or Andre Johnson (or both). Yikes.
December 21st, 2012 at 4:56 PM
Oh, and Merry Christmas everbody!
December 21st, 2012 at 5:08 PM
Link didn’t work…here it is, a Christmas gift for all:
Robot Santa
December 21st, 2012 at 5:18 PM
I am in 4 leagues, 2 Yahoo and 2 ESPN, and I would have gone 4/4 in title game appearances if not for Chris Johnson’s 94-yard TD run. Thanks, Jets.
But I’m sure I’ll grab the triple-crown and lose all three title games, thanks to favorable match-ups for each of my opponents, the Gronkowski conundrum (I have him and if I bench him, he’ll go off, and if I start him, he’ll play one series), and it seems like every opponent has Calvin Johnson or Andre Johnson (or both). Yikes.
I saw a report that Gronkowski will be inactive, we’ll see if that happens.
December 21st, 2012 at 5:25 PM
Clearly you forgot Ryan Matthews on the LVP list.
December 21st, 2012 at 7:20 PM
I gotta go Larry Fitz. I sat him on the bench the last 5 weeks. Worthless. #44 WR in NFL.com leagues.