The Bracket: Which division can create the best fantasy roster?

With the NCAA Tournament around the corner, we thought it’d be a good time to bust out our own bracket by creating fantasy super-teams from each NFL division.

The idea: Figure out which division could create the best fantasy football team.

It’s pretty straightforward. We created a fantasy “team” within each of the eight divisions consisting of 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 Flex, 1 K, and 1 D/ST. The teams were decided based on our early 2018 rankings (with kickers and defenses decided based on 2017 scoring).

A few players are pending free agents, but they were considered a part of their 2017 team for this exercise.

The “Dream Teams”

No surprise here: It’s almost all Patriots, with two Dolphins (Drake and Landry) and one Bills player (McCoy) making the squad. No Jets players made the cut.

This team features a ton of speed with McCoy, Drake, Lewis, Cooks, and Landry, and the best real-life red-zone duo in the league in Brady-Gronk.

With this fantasy dream team, you get to pair Le’Veon Bell with Antonio Brown (while adding in A.J. Green for good measure).

This is a top-heavy roster, but it does feature at least one player from all four teams. Will it be enough in the tournament?

That’s right: Deshaun Watson leads the AFC South’s fantasy dream team, not Andrew Luck. How many touchdowns could he throw with DeAndre Hopkins and T.Y. Hilton on his team?

The low-key upside of this fantasy squad is the nice Fournette-Jaguars correlation. And Derrick Henry makes for a great RB2 after DeMarco Murray was released. This fantasy “dream team” features at least one player from all four teams.

This all-AFC West squad features no Broncos players and just one Raiders player (Cooper).

The core of Hunt-Gordon-Allen-Hill-Kelce is one of the strongest of all divisions.

This roster features two of the biggest stars in fantasy at their respective positions: Elliott at RB and Beckham at WR. Wentz and Ertz are also among the strongest at their respective positions.

There are no players from the Washington Redskins on this fantasy “dream team.”

This is a fantasy team, but it’s fun to imagine what Aaron Rodgers would do with Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs at his disposal.

This team is loaded at wideout and features the Rodgers-Adams stack. Howard is underrated as a fantasy running back, and Cook flashed plenty of promise in limited time last year. This fantasy “dream team” features at least one player from all four teams.

The core of this all-NFC South roster is ridiculous, with Kamara and Ingram at running back and Michael Thomas and Julio Jones at wideout, with Mike Evans in the flex.

This roster also features the Newton-Olsen stack. This fantasy “dream team” features at least one player from all four teams.

The NFC West’s roster features in Gurley and Johnson the players who could be the top two overall players off the board in some fantasy drafts this year.

Hyde’s inclusion at the flex position ensures that all four NFC West rosters are represented here.

The tournament: Round 1 matchups

I randomly “seeded” the eight teams to create a bracket. We’ll first pit the AFC teams and NFC teams against one another to create conference champions before deciding the final victor.

Round 1 matchups:

Check in Saturday to see how the first round is decided!