Will 14 Playoff Teams Make Week 17 Fantasy Playable? (1 Viewer)

HairyGOATee said:

Too often I've seen teams  rest their players because they already have a bye locked up, or they just don't have anything to play for. Now there's one less bye on each side of the bracket and there's another spot to play for, which might make more teams play a full 4 quarters in week 17.

Who might not play a full 4 quarters? Teams with no shot of making the playoffs, a team that already has homefield advantage/#1 locked up, and/or other teams that have clinched playoff berths and would rather rest their players than 1.) risk losing them to injury or 2.) securing a higher seed from a win.

So what do you think, Will 14 Playoff Teams Make Week 17 Fantasy Playable?
Are you going to try playing a full 17 weeks this season?
Or do you do that already?

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Leroy Hoard said:

My league is already 17 weeks, and I think it will be better with the added playoff teams. Lot of talk also about adding another game and maybe bye week onto all that and shrinking the preseason in future years.

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Deamon said:

Absolutely don't play that already and while the extra playoff team SLIGHTLY makes it more playable, it brings it from a 5% to a 10% for me.  There will still be lots of times where a team has the 1 seed locked up (the only bye) and has nothing to play for and rests a huge fantasy stud during fantasy finals.  Garbage.

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HairyGOATee said:

Yeah, that's kind of how I feel. My league is approaching it as nothing has changed, but if we see a significant difference, then we'll consider it.

Obviously, when the league adds a 17th game, then week 17 will HAVE to be included, but ionno about week 18. Maybe. I'd imagine a lot more teams would have more on the line with their being an odd number of games then.

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