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Ranking the Freaks 2004 Picks - Tight Ends

The Sandman - March 29, 2005


Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | Kickers | Defense / Special Teams


The 2004 season is over so it's time to look back and see who had the most accurate pre-season cheat sheets.  The formula is simple; points are given for the difference between a Freak's pre-season ranking for a player and the player's actual final ranking.  Nothing, including injuries, is accepted as an excuse.

For example, if StingRay had Jeremy Shockey ranked 4th and he finished 6th then StingRay would have two points added to his score.  If StingRay had him ranked 2nd instead, than he would also have

2004 Final Cheat Sheet Rankings

Freak

QB RB WR TE KI DT Total

Hindsight

2

1

1

3

2

3

12

StingRay

1

4

5

1

3

1

15

Smokin' Joe

3

2

4

4

1

4

18

CrunchTime

4

3

3

2

4

5

21

The Sandman

5

5

1

5

5

2

23

two points added to his score.  The goal is to have the lowest point total for all of the players that were ranked by each freak.

The players are listed in the order of their pre-season combined ranking.  This was calculated by adding the Freaks' individual rankings for each player, and then sorting by total score from the lowest to the highest.  Only players that were ranked by a majority of the Freaks are charted here.  To view the Freaks' 2004 combined cheat sheets, click here.  To view each of the Freaks' individual cheat sheets (most with comments), click the Freaks' name at the top of the table.
Pre-Season Rank Player Name Team 2005 Rank StingRay Crunch Time Hindsight Smokin' Joe The Sandman
1 Tony Gonzalez KC 2 1 (1) 1 (1) 1 (1) 1 (1) 1 (1)
2 Jeremy Shockey NYG 6 4 (2) 3 (3) 4 (2) 3 (3) 4 (2)
3 Todd Heap BAL 23 19 (4) 21 (2) 19 (4) 21 (2) 20 (3)
4 Kellen Winslow CIN 81 78 (3) 75 (6) 78 (3) 77 (4) 76 (5)
5 Boo Williams NO 24 16 (8) 17 (7) 19 (5) 19 (5) 20 (4)
6 Alge Crumpler ATL 4 1 (5) 1 (5) 2 (6) 2 (6) 4 (8)
7 Randy McMichael MIA 5 1 (6) 1 (4) 2 (7) 2 (7) 5 (10)
8 Freddie Jones ARI 18 11 (7) 9 (9) 9 (9) 10 (8) 7 (11)
9 Dallas Clark IND 11 2 (9) 1 (12) 3 (8) 2 (9) 4 (7)
10 Daniel Graham NE 9 2 (11) 4 (13) 2 (11) 4 (13) 0 (9)
11 Antonio Gates SD 1 7 (8) 16 (17) 9 (10) 18 (19) 5 (6)
12 Marcus Pollard IND 15 1 (14) 5 (10) 1 (16) 4 (11) 2 (13)
13 Desmond Clark CHI 32 15 (17) 18 (14) 19 (13) 18 (14) 15 (17)
14 Itula Mili SEA 36 5 (-) 28 (8) 22 (14) 24 (12) 24 (12)
15 Bubba Franks GB 10 23 (22) 1 (11) 8 (18) 0 (10) 9 (19)
16 Ben Troupe TEN 32 20 (12) 17 (15) 23 (15) 1 (-) 14 (18)
17 Billy Miller HOU 44 24 (20) 24 (20) 25 (19) 27 (17) 29 (15)
18 Mikhael Ricks NYJ 99 86 (13) 80 (19) 76 (23) 83 (16) 79 (20)
19 Jason Witten DAL 3 7 (10) 13 (16) 17 (20) 18 (21) 28 (-)
20 Jimmy Kleinsasser MIN 89 68 (21) 66 (23) 64 (25) 71 (18) 75 (14)
21 Anthony Becht NYJ 55 31 (24) 37 (18) 34 (21) 29 (26) 39 (16)
22 Doug Jolley OAK 28 1 (27) 6 (22) 16 (12) 4 (24) 5 (23)
23 Chris Cooley WAS 15 0 (15) 6 (21) 9 (24) 8 (23) 16 (-)
24 Matt Schobel CIN 26 3 (29) 1 (25) 2 (28) 6 (20) 4 (22)
25 Eric Johnson SF 7 16 (23) 24 (-) 10 (17) 21 (28) 19 (26)
26 Erron Kinney TEN 29 2 (-) 0 (29) 7 (22) 14 (15) 2 (-)
27 L.J. Smith PHI 13 12 (25) 13 (26) 16 (29) 16 (29) 11 (24)
29 Brandon Manumaleuna STL 46 16 (30) 22 (24) 16 (30) 16 (30) 21 (25)
30 Ernie Conwell NO 51 25 (26) 23 (28) 25 (26) 20 (-) 20 (-)
Totals 497 533 538 539 558

So what does all this mean?  StingRay beat down the competition with his tight end cheat sheet. 

You won’t get this from many sites but we believe in accountability, so we track our results to ensure that you have all the information you need to make good decisions for your next draft.

Good luck in 2005...The Freaks.


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