Maybe I am old school, because when I first started playing FF it was before the internet became a viable option. Back in the day, you had to score games using the USA Today box scores. All TD's were 6 pts (as they should be), and generally the only other points you were given were bonus points for 100 rush/rec/ 300 passing. Even today, the most recent league I played in scored games like this. There is no 1 pt for every 10 yds rush/rec, 25 for every pass etc. Yes, we made changes, the most significant being going from no DT or players at all to IDP's. But, the scoring has pretty much stayed the same throughout the years with only a few minor tweaks here and there.
When we first set up the league, the main premise was to make it as close to the NFL game as possible, especially when it came to scoring. You don't see NFL games end 125-100, so we didn't want ours to either. That just didn't appeal to us. In that league if you scored 35-40 points, you had a pretty good shot at winning the game, and that holds true as well in the NFL. It seems the evolution of the internet has prompted many changes to the great game of Fantasy Football.
Everyone has different things that they like, and different systems that they use. It's unfortunate but it seems to me as times have changed so have Fantasy Football Leagues. Now, there are so many different scoring systems, it makes your head spin. standard lineup requirements have changed, and simply put....the game has changed. It's not the same game it was when I first started. To some degree, I understand some of the changes, everyone prefers different things. I myself have always preferred a game that emulates the real game in as many ways as possible. Not every aspect of real football can be incorporated into FF, I understand that.
I guess the most amazing aspect that has seemingly changed in recent years to me, is the Auction style drafting. Now admittedly, I have never tried it, so maybe I shouldn't be speaking about it, but to me, the ONE thing about FF, that I thought I'd never see change over the years, is the draft. That was and is always the most enjoyable part of FF to me. The bluffing, the outmaneuvering of other owners to get a player in the draft you really want, the trading of draft picks, and just the overall ability to show your wares and football knowledge as you draft a player in the 3rd round, that no one else in the league knows about. The draft is where you can show your true football knowledge IMO.
An auction style draft, every player simply has a dollar value placed on them and you have to decide whether you want to bid on a player or not, and how much. To me, it takes away a lot of the strategy of a a real draft. Yes, you generally have a salary cap that you can't go over, but for the most part if you REALLY want a player, you simply decide to outbid everyone else. There's no trading of draft picks I don't believe, none of the true modern day strategy that goes into draft day. The basic argument I have seen for this is "everyone has a chance at every player". Is that really what you want?? Wouldn't it be more fun, and show your true knowledge and GM skills if you could build a championship team year after year, without the benefit of having access to every player?? To me, it takes more skill and more knowledge to be drafting 8th or lower every year and build a championship team year after year, without the benefit of being in a position to have access to a LJ, an LT or a Peyton Manning, because you simply pick to low every year to get them. In an auction league, you have as much chance as everyone else to get those players, and it's much easier to build a championship team.
My question is....whatever happened to good old Fantasy Football leagues?? The kind that were around when I was younger??
I've been thinking this same thing for a long time now I witnessed a auction draft and it is my opnion that the auction in nowhere near as much fun as a standard draft. I see all these guys put down redrafts but that is the only way I would like to play!! 
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