As our league looks to next year we want to see how a 'normal' league does its scoring. We have complaints that Receivers are overvalued. I just think that our owners have subscribed to the RB-RB-RB draft theory for 20 years and don't want to change, but I digress.Here is our scoring. Is it fairly normal?Pass TD - 4 ptsRush/Rec TD - 6 ptsRBsRush yards - 1 per 10Rec yards - .05 per 10WRReceptions - 1 pt per rec. Rush Yards - 1 per 10Rec yards 1 per 10If you could post your scoring for my research, I would appreciate it.
Don't forget that how many at each position you start has as much to do with how valuable a position does as the scoring system does. The more of a position you start, the more valuable the position.
We start:1 QB2 RB2 WR1 TE1 Flex (RB, WR, or TE)
I think that combination probably makes WRs more valuable than most leagues, yes.You underscore RB receiving yards compared to most common scoring for them. And 1 pt receptions for WR but nothing for RB would further that.A flex in a 2 RB, 3 WR league normally bumps up RB value since the 12 highest scoring players after RB25 and WR36 (the last normal starters) are mostly RBs. In a 2 RB, 2 WR league, it favors RB less, and with your scoring system favoring WR it would favor RB even less beyond that. How far exactly you'd need to just check it with your actual scoring. To do that, dump the top 24 RB and WR into excel (I'm assuming 12 team league, 2 starters * 12 teams = 24... if not 12 teams, adjust accordingly) along with their average points per game. Then add in to each position the remaining players who would be the flex starters - the 12 total players at either position who score the most after the top 24. So you might end up with 30 of each, or you could have 27 RB and 33 WR, or vice versa.Once you have that, take the lowest scoring player at each position and subtract his average points from each player at his position. The number that results is his approximate value as a starter, normalized so you can directly compared across the positions. Those steps I walked you through are basically the last starter VBD value.So if RB1's VBD value is higher than WR1's VBD value, the top RB is more valuable. You'll want to compare all the way down the positional list, as they likely won't stay consistent. It might be that the top RBs are still more valuable, but then as you go down the list, the same ranked WR starts becoming more valuable. Your league will just need to look at the results and see if overall they are happy with them.Also, this obviously changes from year to year as the crop of players changes, so you may wish to do the same thing with the last 2 years of results to get a better feel for how it may vary from year to year. When I designed my own league, which is very non-standard in both scoring and setup, I did this to test each setup until I found a mix that did what I wanted... making the top players at each position close enough in value that every position's top player would be a legitimate first round pick, and RB wouldn't rule the roost.
