Fancy fantasy football: rookie drafts, salary caps

August 3, 2012 @ 15:30:59 PDT

Giving the Reality Sports Online football league manager a test run thanks to our invitation to the RSO Experts League. This software is wild. Basically, in a limited capacity, you're both GM (personnel and salary cap management) and coach (lineup decisions) of your fantasy squad.

My Rookie Draft is on Sunday. Ours is only two rounds, and I choose fifth. Our league has 10 teams, each with a $120,600,000 cap this year. RSO explains the rest, at least as far as the Rookie Draft is concerned:

Each draft slot of each round comes with an associated contract, based on reality. The first selection of the Rookie Draft signs a more valuable contract than the second selection, the second selection signs a more valuable contract than the third selection, etc.

Just finished some quick adjustments to the pre-draft rankings for the rookies. I'll take my chances and include them. I'm probably going to adjust them again, and quite a bit while on the fly, anyway.

Site Rank	My Rank	Player	Team	Pos
1	1	Trent Richardson	CLE	RB
2	2	Doug Martin	TB	RB
3	3	David Wilson	NYG	RB
4	7	Robert Griffin III	WAS	QB
5	9	Justin Blackmon	JAC	WR
6	15	Rueben Randle	NYG	WR
7	5	Michael Floyd	ARI	WR
8	14	Andrew Luck	IND	QB
9	8	Brian Quick	STL	WR
10	4	Kendall Wright	TEN	WR
11	17	Bernard Pierce	BAL	RB
12	10	Isaiah Pead	STL	RB
13	19	Coby Fleener	IND	TE
14	13	Lamar Miller	MIA	RB
15	6	Alshon Jeffery	CHI	WR
16	20	Stephen Hill	NYJ	WR
17	16	LaMichael James	SF	RB
18	21	Robert Turbin	SEA	RB
19	12	Mohamed Sanu	CIN	WR
20	22	Chris Polk	PHI	RB
21	11	Ronnie Hillman	DEN	RB
22	23	Vick Ballard	IND	RB
23	24	Chris Givens	STL	WR
24	25	Brandon Weeden	CLE	QB
25	26	Marvin Jones	CIN	WR
26	27	Bryce Brown	PHI	RB
27	28	Chris Rainey	PIT	RB
28	18	A.J. Jenkins	SF	WR
29	29	Brad Herman	NE	TE
30	30	Marvin McNutt	PHI	WR

About Nicholas Minnix

Minnix is baseball editor and a fantasy football analyst at KFFL. He plays in LABR and Tout Wars and won the FSWA Baseball Industry Insiders League in 2010.

The University of Delaware alum is a regular guest on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio and Baltimore's WNST AM 1570. Follow @NicholasMinnix