Don Quixote
Footballguy
I'd go back to my original point that potential points does not determine best teams or best rosters. In one of my leagues, I have a rebuild that I took over that had the worst record at 3-10 and worst all-play record (I have Bell, OBJ, and not much else), but I have more potential points than a 6-7 team with Murray, Gio, and Jordy Nelson. He would have easily made the playoffs if Gio did not get hurt (he lost his last three). I had a team full of boom-bust guys that were hard to predict (Antone Smith, Justin Hunter, Antoine Cason, Davante Adams, Bowe, Baldwin, et al.).People don't tank good rosters. There's even little reason to tank borderline rosters (those 6-7 teams that clog up the middle of the standings). Tanking is almost always when there are 2 terrible teams (say 3-10) and one guy doesn't start starters to get the number 1 pick. Or a team is winless after 7 weeks and doesn't set a lineup anymore. Stuff like that.People are always jealous of the number 1 pick. Going back a few years the number 1s have been Watkins, Lacy, Luck, Julio. You get a number 1 pick, you get a stud or someone capable of being a stud.
My first question would have to be answered. If you can kick someone for tanking, yet they have the worst roster, what happens to the pick? What if it's close between him and the second worst? Why does the team that didn't tank get punished for something someone else did to make the league worse? How do you determine that the tanker has a worse roster, or better? If he's kicked out before the end of the season, who makes his roster? Who decides what the right players to start are? What if that guy makes bad decisions and that team loses in close matchups?
Sure having a code of conduct can get rid of most obvious cases, but not all of them. Is it tanking to throw in Charles Sims this week instead of Crowell who is on the injury report? What about Stephan Taylor over Ellington if he plays? You can make a case that Manzel will get the starting gig in the second half for the Browns and have that not pan out too. Or start Ben Tate and leave Doug Martin out.
Best ball during the regular season for draft slot only takes tanking completely out of the picture. You don't have a choice on your draft slot outside of trading current players for future picks which is a completely legit way of running a team. I guess I'm just not understanding the downside to running it this way.
It wasn't "tanking" that led to me having less potential points; my 4 highest scoring weeks were all in the last four weeks of the regular season. I just have a lot of inconsistent players that I could not tell when they would go off.
So, why should the 6-7 team draft ahead of me?
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