Adding return yards to DEF: anyone have experience (1 Viewer)

[ElBuzzard]

Our league is interested in adding Return yards scoring to our DEF/ST position. Anyone have thoughts/advice?

In folks' experiences, is 1pt/10 yards too much? Will that turn the DEF/ST position into a overly-high scoring position?

Our current point system is:

Defense TD : 6pts

Blocked kick : 3pts

Sack : 2pts

Int : 2pts

Fumble Recovered : 2pts

Safety : 4 pts

0 points allowed : 12pts

2-6 points allowed : 6pts

7-13 points allowed : 3pts

Other positions scoring is fairly standard PPR. 1pt/10 yards rush/rec; 1pt/20 yards passing; 6pts all TDs, etc.

We don't want the defense to become the "unstoppable" position because of too many points from return yards.

Does anyone have any experience doing this?

 

[Black]

In folks' experiences, is 1pt/10 yards too much? Will that turn the DEF/ST position into a overly-high scoring position?

We have a PPR / High performance scoring league (1 point for 10 yards rush/rec)....

1 point for 10 yards for DST is waaaaaay too high. We had 1 point for 20 yards, and I am moving that to 1 point for 40 yards this year.

The reason, even with 1 point/20 yards is that bad defenses will get scored on, and subsequently receive more kickoffs. A typical kickoff return will net 20 yards. The net result is DEF lose points for getting scored on, then get them right back for all the kickoffs.

 

[Yenrub]

In folks' experiences, is 1pt/10 yards too much? Will that turn the DEF/ST position into a overly-high scoring position?

We have a PPR / High performance scoring league (1 point for 10 yards rush/rec)....

1 point for 10 yards for DST is waaaaaay too high. We had 1 point for 20 yards, and I am moving that to 1 point for 40 yards this year.

The reason, even with 1 point/20 yards is that bad defenses will get scored on, and subsequently receive more kickoffs. A typical kickoff return will net 20 yards. The net result is DEF lose points for getting scored on, then get them right back for all the kickoffs.

The 2nd bolded statement is why we only award return yards on interception, fumble and punt returns not on kickoffs

 

[Jman]

Agreed with 1 pt. for every 10 yards is waaaay too high. If your ratio isn't right you'll have players who are JUST kick returners scoring more points than starting WRs.

We've used 1 pt. for every 50 yards and that seems to be about right. We use that for ALL returns including punt, kickoff, fumble and int.

 

[Mystery Achiever]

The league I was in that used this also gave 1pt/20 yards.

 

[smackdaddies]

we do 1 for 20, pr/kr, plus td value increases based on yardage

So far not that big of an impact generally - it makes an impact on some idp (we don't do team def/st) and wr, but typically adds significant value to just a few players, for others it makes a #4 WR into a #3 WR,etc

Just makes the pool of players that score well just a little bigger - gives some benefit to the folks who spend the time to research, etc. Guppies get burned, but there are no guppies in my one remaining leauge - just a bunch of guys who have done it for over 10 years each.