One exercise I have found very helpful is to take stock of all your dynasty teams each year. While it is very simple to review an individual team, I’ve found looking at your portfolio of leagues can be helpful in understanding if you have too much exposure in specific players or if there are players you may be able to target in more leagues. Here are my ownership stats for the running back position across my 10 leagues. These are my 2016 Dynasty Market Shares at the position for reference.
Running Backs
- 6 Alvin Kamara
- 5 James Conner
- 4 Le’Veon Bell
- 4 Christine Michael
- 4 Jamaal Williams
- 3 Giovani Bernard
- 3 Kenneth Dixon
- 3 Ezekiel Elliott
- 3 D’Onta Foreman
- 3 Joe Mixon
- 2 Ameer Abdullah
- 2 Frank Gore
- 2 Todd Gurley
- 2 Elijah Hood
- 2 Matt Jones
- 2 Jerick McKinnon
- 2 Samaje Perine
- 2 Jaquizz Rodgers
- 2 Jonathan Williams
1 share of LeGarrette Blount, Tevin Coleman, Dalvin Cook, Matt Forte, Devonta Freeman, Melvin Gordon, Derrick Henry, Jordan Howard, Kareem Hunt, Ty Montgomery, Paul Perkins, Bilal Powell, CJ Prosise, Jonathan Stewart, Dwayne Washington, TJ Yeldon and others
Takeaways
This is an interesting list. Of the 10 players I own in over 3 leagues, 5 of them are rookies. I am not surprised by this as my strategy this past year and offseason was to stockpile as many top 24 rookie picks as possible which resulted in several teams having picks in the range where players like Conner and Foreman were typically falling. While I expected to have heavy ownership of Alvin Kamara and James Conner as a result of heavy drafting this offseason, I was not expecting to own them in over half of my leagues. I am thrilled to have so much exposure to these players as I feel that they could see significant boosts in value over the next 12 months.
While ownership of Christine Michael, Giovani Bernard, and Kenneth Dixon are holdovers from heavy 2016 investment, seeing Le’Veon Bell and Ezekiel Elliott as my next most owned players shows a slight shift in my overall dynasty strategy. I have seen how the stud running back season can really sway a fantasy league. Building a core of wide receivers is vital to long term success and is still my focus in start-up drafts, but once your core is in place you need high-end RB1 scoring on your team. Last year I had 2 shares of each Elliott and Bell but have made a point of attempting to acquire additional shares of them on teams that are ready to win now. Most of these teams were also in need of roster space so I was able to build packages of talent to acquire the stud. In 2 of these leagues, I own both Bell and Elliott. My expectation is the high-end RB1s along with a core of young receivers will be able to compete for years to come.
