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Foosball God, on 09 Dec 2014 - 11:55 AM, said:Clearly Joe Bryant is still a first round draft pick, but is he really 1.1 material? With his advancing age you have to wonder if he'll be able to produce for the whole season
Dodds may look great in a jersey, but he's value has been steadily dropping through the years.
Maurile Trembley is a consistent performer year after year, his depth of knowledge is unparalleled, and his performance has won many a Fantasy FBG Staff league through the years. You have to wonder though if his heavy workload will affect him in the coming years.
What can you say about Sigmund Bloom, clearly a star, but seldom gets to be the top pick. You have to admire his consecutive games streak.
Jene Bramel, the guy seems to continually be on flirting with the disabled list, hard to trust he will be there for your team in the playoffs.
Dave Baker, a dark horse boom or bust candidate. One week he'll be on fire, the next nothing. Be wary.
Clayton Gray, steal of the draft. Often overlooked because of the flashier names, he will win your league for you as a steal in the second or third round.
Cecil Lammey, first of all how are you? He's a one trick pony, all he does is score touchdowns.
Aaron Rudnicki, often overlooked because of his lack of measurables Aaron is a game breaking talent that can be had in later rounds. Don't sleep on him for too long.
Chase Stuart, Some might wonder about putting Chase up with the other high round staff picks, but the savvy FFBG player knows that Chase will put up the points week after week and can be had in the middle rounds.
Jeff Pasquino, built for the playoffs, he won't wow you during the regular season but is
Bob Magaw, Every team needs a staff member like Magaw, the unsung hero that plugs along each week getting you 50 yards and a touchdown
Doug Drinen, He may not pass the eye test, but people who rely on stats swear that Doug out performs nearly every other staff member at his position.
Jason Wood, Always comparing himself to other staff members, his spotlight series will give you a big boost in the early season, but his production drops off dramatically during the playoffs.
Bramel is the man if you play IDP like the big boys!Clearly Joe Bryant is still a first round draft pick, but is he really 1.1 material? With his advancing age you have to wonder if he'll be able to produce for the whole season
Dodds may look great in a jersey, but he's value has been steadily dropping through the years.
Maurile Trembley is a consistent performer year after year, his depth of knowledge is unparalleled, and his performance has won many a Fantasy FBG Staff league through the years. You have to wonder though if his heavy workload will affect him in the coming years.
What can you say about Sigmund Bloom, clearly a star, but seldom gets to be the top pick. You have to admire his consecutive games streak.
Jene Bramel, the guy seems to continually be on flirting with the disabled list, hard to trust he will be there for your team in the playoffs.
Dave Baker, a dark horse boom or bust candidate. One week he'll be on fire, the next nothing. Be wary.
Clayton Gray, steal of the draft. Often overlooked because of the flashier names, he will win your league for you as a steal in the second or third round.
Cecil Lammey, first of all how are you? He's a one trick pony, all he does is score touchdowns.
Aaron Rudnicki, often overlooked because of his lack of measurables Aaron is a game breaking talent that can be had in later rounds. Don't sleep on him for too long.
Chase Stuart, Some might wonder about putting Chase up with the other high round staff picks, but the savvy FFBG player knows that Chase will put up the points week after week and can be had in the middle rounds.
Jeff Pasquino, built for the playoffs, he won't wow you during the regular season but is
Bob Magaw, Every team needs a staff member like Magaw, the unsung hero that plugs along each week getting you 50 yards and a touchdown
Doug Drinen, He may not pass the eye test, but people who rely on stats swear that Doug out performs nearly every other staff member at his position.
Jason Wood, Always comparing himself to other staff members, his spotlight series will give you a big boost in the early season, but his production drops off dramatically during the playoffs.
makes sense, and it may be how FBG approaches dynasty rankings. it would be nice for FBG to state this is their view however.
They seemed to be updated quite frequently during the offseason...I think that speaks to the dynasty focus being on startups and rook drafts. An ongoing NFL season is quite fluid, with rapid swings in short-run value that aren't easy to project long term with limited info, even just on medical issues that develop. I can see it being a lot more work to make a stab at such rankings, and possibly untenable while turning out weekly content and playing on one's own leagues week by week.
I have updated my positional dynasty rankings every 2 weeks throughout the season. I think that's reasonable. If you're looking for overall (not by position) that's something I don't do except for offseason.
Lol, rankings are one of the features that the paid subscribers get, but it should be taking off the list of benefits that you get for paying $$$. Not a big deal, but, for me personally, I only play dynasty leagues, nice havingupdated rankings available. There are a lot of staffers who provide rankings at FBG, I'm just disappointed that no effort is being given to try to keep them "reasonably" updated.
Out of what looks like over 20 FBG staffers who do rankings, you and 2 or 3 other staffers do make an effort and I am thankful but I just expect more overall. It is nice having 6 or 7 different individual rankings, like they have at Dynasty League Football, and those are free.
What bothers me the most is that some sites are providing updated rankings for free and are providing a better overall product. I guess we are in the minority for those of us who subscribe.
Bruce, I do appreciate your rankings. Every 2 weeks is more than reasonable, wish every staffer would do their rankings at least every 3 weeks. The trading season is coming to an end in most of my leagues, and having the latest rankings is a useful tool.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I haven't updated as frequently this year since I'm already submitting weekly dynasty value charts (here's last week's, this week's should be submitted sometime tonight). They're my rankings, but with much more detail added, (in the form of quantifying relative value differences and adjusting based on scoring system and competitive window). I guess I never really gave much thought to the idea of discoverability.
Adam, for me personally, I want all of the rankings in one spot, I want to be able to compare each staffer's rankings to get a general idea of a player's value and have easy access to them.
FBGs' dynasty content has been ramping up bit by bit over the last couple years. I've personally got a lot of really fun stuff planned to investigate this offseason. My value charts were a late addition to the slate this year, (kind of came together the week before the season), and I think with an entire offseason to work on refining and figuring out ways to leverage them, there can be some really cool applications in store.
Alright, noted. It's typically a lot of work to translate from my format into FBGs' CMS to get rankings up, and the value charts are kind of a huge time sink as it is, and of course I'd rather people view them in chart form since it includes so much more granular detail. But I'll make an effort to get my rankings updated more frequently for those who prefer them in that format, too.
Yeah, that's terrible. If that's his best effort he should just be removed from the list. Just brings down the other guys because that mess stands out.
Adam. I've always appreciated your contributions, and remember the strong content that you provided in these forums, prior to becoming a compensated FBG. Keep up the good work.
Dynasty gets ramped up bit by bit but they throw every resource they have at DFS.
If there were two billion-dollar dynasty companies spending $500 million advertising their dynasty product, and there were millions of people rushing out to join dynasty leagues right this moment, you'd see dynasty content quintuple overnight, at least. That's just the reality of it. That's capitalism. When there's a huge surge in demand like that, it creates a vacuum that the market is going to rush to fill.
While your response is well presented, and well articulated, I can't help to believe that this isn't a complete picture of why dynasty content tends to be underrepresented (by FBG). Judging primarily by how the podcast content is presented (i.e., specifically referring to various scenarios that are presented by the prognosticated probability of most likely outcomes; e.g., Bloom's so-called 'telling of a story'), my gut tells me that the primary reason that dynasty content is neglected is because it's difficult. There are just too many possible scenarios. In other words, it's difficult to tell a story that has any real likelihood of coming to fruition.
The podcasts are sweet, but that's Sigmund and Cecil (and Waldman and Jene). They've all got their own unique styles, and those styles are naturally going to be emphasized. Sigmund, especially, is very much a "tell a story" kind of guy. Though I'd hardly say that that "telling a story" mindset is incompatible with dynasty; Sigmund was one of the most active dynasty contributors before he got his (well-deserved) promotion and found himself spending more time on the podcast and on overseeing content. (And I'd also add that being unlikely to happen has never stopped Sigmund from telling a story. He's a contrarian to the bone.) I'm pretty sure that dynasty is the favorite format of all of The Audible regulars.
Supply and demand works another way too. Sites doing dynasty is minimal, sites doing DFS is ridiculously huge.
Likely an inherrent bias in that sample for several reasons, not the least of which being that mfl has been offering "year-round" league access for far longer than the big name FF sites, so dynasty leagues gravitated there. More "serious" leagues are also likely to want more custom features (future draft pick trading as a simple example) not available on the larger sites until recently.
As Arodin said, I think that's a pretty big selection bias. MFL has always billed itself as the most feature-rich league management host, which means leagues that need "special features" that don't come standard for a long time have had to host there. And for a long time, core dynasty functionality fell under the "special features" bucket- trading future draft picks, for one. Accessing the league in May, for another. A decade ago, if you wanted to play in dynasty, you either ran it on MFL or you ran it by hand.Kevrunner said:
Oh, for sure. DLF does a fantastic job about this. They don't even try to go after the main fantasy market, they just identify their niche and go about capturing as much of it as possible. (Though even DLF has DFS content and DFS partnerships.)Doubledown1313 said:
Wow, really didn't know how small a percentage that dynasty/keeper leagues were in the overall market, I am honestly surprised. Also, heard you on the DLF podcast, you should do more of them if you have time. I liked your comment about if your not losing any trades then you aren't trading enough.
Thanks! I typically accept whatever podcast invites I receive. If you have a regular podcast you'd like to hear me on, pester them to ask me on.
I actually wound up bumping Dez a little bit this week after the podcast, and he's higher in standard scoring (where his TD skills carry more weight).
We don't enter numbers next to a player's name. We literally copy/paste the names in the order we want them, then hit enter. A new page then comes up with a numbered list, which we are to review and then hit enter again if satisfied it is what we want (or go back if it is not). The next time we want to do rankings, the last list we created comes up so we don't have to start again from scratch.
