VikingFrog
Footballguy
I’m hopeful Greg the Leg picks up right where he left off after a meeting with the stifling Vikings defense.
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The Official Kicker (K) Thread (2 Viewers)
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BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Lutz, obviously. Logic being he’s on my roster.
Seriously though, very consistent production all year.
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need2know
Footballguy
I dropped Bryant for Elliott. Gonna try to pick Bryant back up. If I fail, I will go with who the eagles go with. They have not activated sturgis yet and it sounds like Elliott will keep his job if he's cleared
Buck Bradcanon
Footballguy
VikingFrog
Footballguy
This guy was so much fun to cheer against at Texas... and his hair didn’t help him much.
He has missed a lot of clutch kicks.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
robb
Footballguy
Waivers were Wednesday evening. I decided to take the "sure thing" and claim Lutz and dropped Elliott. While I would have preferred to keep Elliott, with the concussion potential and him not playing, and Sturgis's possible return......decided Lutz would be the better choice.
And, Lutz has a great indoor schedule coming up so he may even be an upgrade!!
And, Lutz has a great indoor schedule coming up so he may even be an upgrade!!
VikingFrog
Footballguy
New trend...
Never start your kicker against the Cowboys.
Never start your kicker against the Cowboys.
The Captain
Footballguy
Lost Butker after dropping him over his bye week. The best I could get was Forbath, who has been incredibly frustrating. How could a guy on such a high-powered offense produce so little? Doesn't help that he keeps missing XPs (which my league penalizes for).
Considering switching to Gano. Carolina offense seems to be rounding into form.
Considering switching to Gano. Carolina offense seems to be rounding into form.
The Frankman
Footballguy
You too? Elliot literally lost a game for me last week... both have great matchups (Boswell vs. GB, Elliot vs. CHI) and both teams have offenses willing to run it up. I should win this week but I'm not sure who to start.
Pitt at home vs a gb team with 0 defense and 0 offense.. and a high implied point total from vegas (27.5 currently)
Philly playing chicago who wants to run run run and eat clock.. probably less opportunities to score.
Think i'll roll out boswell but hold Elliott.
Team Smokin'
Footballguy
Going with Matt Bryant...I sense the Falcons are going to be putting up some decent points - in that 30 point range again.
The Frankman
Footballguy
Will be sad to drop Boswell but Elliot seemed to be ok after the concussion, will roll him out in Seattle.
Dang, came here to see if anyone had opinions/updates on Novak.
I like Novak's situation, but not so much that I'm going to wait around until Sunday to find out if he's playing. And even if he does, there's a risk of a repeat of the Dallas game.
As of right now, leaning Gano over Forbath.
NeverEnough
Footballguy
Butker was dropped in 1 of my leagues. I think I will stick with Elliot
beerbuff
Footballguy
I had Butker and with the playoffs almost here I am now doing something stupid and carrying two kickers, Butker and Elliott. I figure to give Butker one more chance this week to see if the chiefs can get the offense back on track against the jets. If not I have insurance in Elliott for the playoffs.
need2know
Footballguy
Do not pick up Novak. Dude barely finished last game and missed all kinds of kicks. Surely you can do better than that
need2know
Footballguy
Agree. Elliott is on a high-powered offense. That's the best you can hope for at this time of year (well, technically the best you can hope for is a high-powered offense playing in a dome, but this is a close second.)
I keep going back and forth on Butker vs Elliott. I think Butker is the better kicker and has all those home games coming up, but Elliott is on the better offense. All misses are -3, even at 50+, so accuracy is very important to me. Forbath is available too, but he has some misses/blocks that concern me. Kicker problems.
I just dropped Forbath for Gano. He had all the right ingredients (offense, team on a hot streak, plays in a dome) but the accuracy issues were killing me.
King of the Jungle
Footballguy
This made me look at mine....outside of QBs and Antonio same thing....along with my defense (jags)Zuerlein is the 3rd highest scoring player on my entire team on the season.
He's fourth on mine, behind Tyrod, Bell and Allen (though he's only one point back of Keenan).
Kicker Travis Coons has signed to the Chargers’ active roster and will kick for them tomorrow against the Browns, his agent announced on Twitter. Coons was signed to the Chargers’ practice squad this week after Nick Novak was injured on Thanksgiving. The Chargers initially said they expected Novak to be able to go on Sunday, but apparently Novak has been slower to recover than the Chargers hoped.
Coons played all 16 games for the Browns in 2015 and went 28-for-32 on field goals but hasn’t played in the NFL since. Now he’ll get a shot at kicking against his former team.
flapgreen
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Lutz is T2nd in our format amongst Ks. 2 QBs, 5 WRs, 2 RBs, 2 DSTs with more points. Managed so badly I'm only 8-4. 
ETA: I misread that, you guys are Zuerlein owners. He has 28 more points than Lutz.
If he were on my team my list would be 2 QBs, 2 WRs, 1 RB, 2 DSTs. Makes me glad the Legatron owner is in 11th place.
ETA: I misread that, you guys are Zuerlein owners. He has 28 more points than Lutz.
If he were on my team my list would be 2 QBs, 2 WRs, 1 RB, 2 DSTs. Makes me glad the Legatron owner is in 11th place.
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the spanker
Footballguy
No one talking about Dan Bailey? He looked very good on TNF.
Sarlakticacid
Footballguy
Is there a FG attempts vs team stat page somewhere?
TIA
TIA
Curious: Does that stat have much predictive value? Eyeballing the list, it looks like most of the teams near the bottom are bad teams that have lost a lot of games, and most of the teams near the top are good. That makes intuitive sense -- if you're ahead, you're more likely to be kicking FGs in the second half. (Weird anomalies: Denver/NYJ at 7/8, Minnesota at 27).
I could see starting Koons this week vs Washington because you believe the Chargers will be playing from ahead. I'm not sure I can see starting Gano vs. Minnesota just because a table says he's likely to have more FGAs.
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BobbyLayne
Footballguy
The request was for a table of FGA allowed. I provided.
You then conflated that with FFPA to Ks. That's not what you are looking at; the table only tells you FGA allowed. It doesn't account for PATs allowed or bonuses for longer FGM.
(Yahoo users may find FFPA to Ks specific to your leagues scoring format by clicking on the Research tab)
IME FFPA to Ks does offer some value as a predictive tool, though intuitively it is more limited than say FFPA to WRs (lousy DBs) or FFPA to RB (stout front 7) and probably is less accurate than other positional comparisons. Kickers are a crapshoot, none of us can ever figure it out.
Anyway, Minnesota is 16th - middle of the pack - in FFPA to Ks, because they have only allowed 15 PAT (on 16 TDs.) Using a similar example, Tennessee has also allowed only one more FGM (26) than the Vikings - both have allowed 28 FGA - but they've given up twelve more TDs. And further, if your league scoring is like most, they've given up a lot of 40-49 FGM (10) and 50+ FGM (6), so they're second worst in FFPA to Ks.
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