Beef -10…57% F…12. Petey…75% C**
After an abysmal start in week 1 – ranking 12th in points scored – I have now scored the most points in the league two weeks in a row despite being mediocre-at-best at picking starters. My potential is now 2nd overall, only eclipsed by Hamlet, which is impressive since my potential after week 1 was 11th.
Note: This week’s numbers include a stat correction for RNATB’s week 2 points.
I’ve been thinking about creating an end-of-season recap report detailing various stats. For example, count of top 1, top 3, bottom 3 and bottom 1 finishes. Something like “Hamlet finished 1st in total points 4 times, and top 3 8 times.” That kind of thing.
If anyone has any ideas for season recaps, let me know. It’s several months before it needs to be finished.
EDIT: Just noticed we finally got our first “F” coaching grade. Gratz to SenorBeef! hehheh.
I’m super horny for QBs this year for some reason. I mean I still have Rodgers who is likely to be top 5 for a few years to come, but I’ve made like 3 trade offers for QBs, drafted two of them, and picked one up off waiver wires. Apparently I was just fine running 1 QB for years, but now I must have them all.
That’s a good format for your post Ellis. Extra stats would be interesting but I’m not sure specifically what that should be. The numbers next to entries like -5 or +3 are position moves from the last week’s report, right? So going from 5th to 8th is -3.
I’d definitely be interested in your other project, the record if everyone faced everyone every week. In fact I wish there was a fantasy site that ran leagues like that - it would kind of be like a points league and semi-head to head at the same time, or at least makes weekly finishes worth investing in compared to points leagues. It’d be interesting to try.
Agreed. I’m working on that now, but I also have another idea for aggregate totals. I’m hoping to have it completed and posted to a new thread tonight, but possibly some time this weekend. Right now I’m going through and capturing scores for the other three SDMB leagues so I have data to work with.
I’ve always felt like a strictly head-to-head format in fantasy is limiting. It’s nice to incorporate some portion of strength relative to field.
I used to do a league where the last playoff spot would go to the highest overall scorer regardless of record. Can help keep bad luck teams excited too.
I especially feel that way when I start 0-3 with a firmly middle-pack team… Sigh.
He’s pouting about [thread=862909]his Family Feud thread getting closed[/thread].
While I agree this isn’t a thread game – the game doesn’t actually take place in the thread – I personally wouldn’t die on that hill. It’s not like we get any walk-in traffic, and it’s only of interest to those of us in the league. So it doesn’t really matter what forum FF league threads go.
I wouldn’t care if these threads weren’t in the regular game room during the season, but moving them off would hurt during the recruitment period. But the key point with thread games is that they dominate a forum because they receive dozens of posts per day, as people actually play them in the threads. So you drown out normal discussion traffic since the game threads are always moved to the top. This thread, being a discussion and not a game, receives a normal amount of traffic, so I don’t think it’s necessary/justified to treat it that way.
I may overvalue the eye test and running style in backs. I wasn’t enamored with Chubb because he doesn’t have much in the way of fancy moves or anything, he’s just a big, fast guy. But then watching him blow past the defense for long TDs for 2 of his 3 carries reminds me that size, speed, and a little vision is pretty effective. Certainly a great early sign.
Jordan Howard has size and vision and dismal speed, he’s pretty effective. Speed and power is awesome but vision is like 75% of it. I think of it like accuracy for QBs.
It would be interesting to look at a player’s skill trajectory and see how well and how quickly they develop vision. I do the sideline chains for high school and community college games and, at that level, offensive speed is everything. I would guess, though, that as players progress through the ranks that speed on the defensive side of the ball is one of the biggest changes.
I’m of the opinion that it’s not something you can really develop. You either have it or you don’t, that’s probably an over-generalization but it seems close to true.
You really can’t outrun or overpower a defense on your own the way you can in college. A good scheme can put you in a position to beat your man, but on even footing without deception, you’re not outrunning anyone. The guys that are successful are the ones who can get what’s blocked…i.e. let the play develop, see the hole, hit it hard. The speed governs how much success you have in the second level and if you can take advantage of mistakes like over-pursuit.