I created a recruitment thread to find peopel for leagues that need players. If you want to join a league, you can find a good one there to join, or if you need some more people for your league, you can post about it there.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. You will, however, get yourself into trouble if you try to implement that strategy as a goal. Like I mentioned earlier, you need to be flexible. If you’ve drafted Andre Johnson, and it comes to the 5 round and both Manning and Shaub are there - you take Manning, because he’s a much better value. Draft for value, not for novelty.
Who to start for week 1? I’ve got Arian Foster and Jahvid Best as possible RB2s (Frank Gore is my RB1).
With Foster, even though he’s the featured back, it looks like he’ll still be sharing a portion of the carries with Slaton.
Best, on the other hand, looks to be in a favorable situation with Kevin Smith questionable for week 1.
Houston is hosting Indy and Detroit is at Chicago.
Not a great example, since Schaub actually outscored Manning last year in standard league scoring.
Yes, but you’d still draft Manning over Schaub.
We might as well use this as a general discussion thread during the season, right?
Well, there’s bragging to do.
This week I had what might be my most dominant week across the board ever in FF. I’m in 4 leagues and won all of the games. But not only that, I scored amongst the highest in each league. In the all-pro league, my 134 points were 1st out of 12. In the auction league, my 136 was 1st out of 10. In the big league, my 125 was 3rd out of 20. In the dynasty league, my 142 was 3rd of 12.
That adds to my 3-1 record last week making me 7-1 for the year, and top 4 in all leagues.
That, my friends, is some badass make believe footballing.
Gonna fly this boat to the moon somehow.
Yeah, I’ve had a remarkably strong start across the board this year. I attribute that success to my anti-bust strategy of drafting Peyton/Brees with my high first rounder in each league instead of picking a running back which always ends up busting.
In the previous three years in the keeper league, my top-5 overall draft picks were:
2007: Larry Johnson
2008: Joseph Addai
2009: Matt Forte
So yeah, all QB all the time for me from here on out.
I know there are plenty of SDMB leagues, but is there any interest next season for either a 2 QB league or a league which starts an Offense Utility Player?
I’m trying a bunch of leagues this year. I’m really liking my OUP league.
On the other hand, the league I’m in which uses Individual Defensive Players is turning into more work than fun. I won’t be playing in that format after this year.
What’s an Offense Utility Player?
A second quarterback, unless you want to lose.
I don’t like using IDP, but I looooove getting IDP scoring for offensive players and kickers. That’s the one thing I miss.
Is it me or does it seem like the average point gap between random head to head matchups in FF is smaller than chance would suggest? You see a lot of 80 vs 82, 104 vs 106, 150 vs 146 more often than you see the same group of scores as 150 vs 80, 146 vs 104, 106 vs 82, etc.
I mean, not all the time, but it seems to me like the teams get matched up randomly against similar scorers a lot. Does it seem that way to anyone else? I’m probably just finding patterns in the randomness.
THat seems to be the case for our league. Last week, the guy/girl I was playing and I had the top two scores by quite a stretch. I lost 129-125. The same week someone else won with a score under 40. This week, my opponent and I are both scoring high again (but I SHOULD take it unless Green Bay destroys Chicago.
I’ve never understood why Fantasy Football doesn’t just do a total points thing. The versus thing seems so arbitrary. Last year I won my league even though my total points was somewhere in the bottom five. I just got lucky catching opponents at the right time.
Thanks. And well put. 
Salary cap leagues (ie., where you pick whatever players you like, and people can all have the same players) usually work that way.
You can set it up like that, most people just prefer it this way. There’s a sense of progress and finality - you’re winning or losing every week, not gaining or losing 10 points on the leader. You also get a collection of players to root against. The scheduling can make it unfair, but most people strongly prefer to play head to head.
Ok, I need some ideas.
Ellis Dee wrote a cool app that will capture the data from your fantasy football league. Right now he has it determining a GM and coach score for each team, like shown here.
The GM grade rates how good you are at assembling talent on your roster by showing what your best possible score would’ve been that week if you’d started the best guys. The coach score reflects how much of your actual score from the players you started compares to that. So if guys on your bench go nuts and you could’ve scored 150 points, that means you assembled a talent-laden roster and are a good GM. But if you picked the wrong starters and only actually put up 90 points compared to your potentially best 150, you’re not so hot as a coach.
Anyway, since we’re going to have the data from all the SDMB leagues anyway, we can do whatever we want with it. We could make cross-league comparisons, or compile some sort of stats on owners, including accumulated stats from owners in multiple leagues. Just fun, informational stuff like the coach/GM thing he already made.
So I’m asking for ideas. What sort of stuff could we do with the data that would be interesting?
One idea I’m kicking around is average rank in GM points. Like, if you’re in three SDMB leagues, and are 4th, 5th and 7th in GM ranking in those leagues, your average rank would be 5.33. The lower the better.
Of course your aggregate coaching grade is a no-brainer.
What I’d really like is some way to normalize scoring across all leagues but I am unable to think of how to do that with the different scoring, different roster sizes, and having owners in anywhere from 1 to 4 of the leagues. Any ideas are welcome.
You could just assign point values for the ranking in each league, and subdivide further for larger leagues.
That is, 1st place would always get (say) 10 points. 2nd place in a 10-team league would get 9 points, but 2nd place in a 12 team league would get 9.17 points ([10/12]*11, with 11 being the multiplier for 2nd of 12).
Yeah, I see where you’re going with that. That’s a good thought.
Would it make sense to give people a score based on percentage of the max possible? “Max possible” could be defined as best score that week, best score of any week, or literal best possible if you could pick any player from any team to fill each position, again either for the current week or just the best all season?
That’s not a bad idea. Then you can just express the scores as percentages.