Are Yardage Bonuses Flukie? (1 Viewer)

[Seven Costanza]

As mentioned in my VBD post, my league issues a flat 5 point bonus to any player reaching either 125 rushing yards or 125 receiving yards. Does anyone else think this might add an unnecessary layer of luck??

I just feel like the 125 yard number is very arbitrary. Also, why should 125 yards be worth 5 more points than 124? Should one extra yard basically count as a TD scored for the player that hits 125 yards and gets a 5 point bonus (almost 6, hence the TD comparison).

Thoughts?

 

[Ruffrodys05]

Yes, way too flukey, even at 100 yards, which is what most leagues that still incorporate yardage benchmark points do. 125 yards seems very odd and highly unattainable on a regular weekly basis.

We did the yardage benchmarks for a few years, 3/100 passing/rushing/receiving. Then we went to a detailed yardage benchmark system for 10 years where we awarded points in 25 yard increments. Now we are in a points-per-yard system which awards 1/40 passing, 1/15 rushing/receiving. However you set your benchmarks in this system, it seems the fairest way to award yardage points, unless you go decimal points-per-single yard.

 

[Gawain]

Some of those flukey rules are what makes leagues fun imo.

We give bonus points for TD length. Remember way back in 2004 watching at a bar with some buds. One guy's team was like half Browns so we were giving him #### about it. Doesn't Garcia hit Davis for a 99 yard double dagger for the guy. 39 points in a league where 100 is a winning day from that one play.

It's all fun to me, especially if it's a local league.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

As mentioned in my VBD post, my league issues a flat 5 point bonus to any player reaching either 125 rushing yards or 125 receiving yards. Does anyone else think this might add an unnecessary layer of luck??

I just feel like the 125 yard number is very arbitrary. Also, why should 125 yards be worth 5 more points than 124? Should one extra yard basically count as a TD scored for the player that hits 125 yards and gets a 5 point bonus (almost 6, hence the TD comparison).

Thoughts?

I've always considered a milestone bonus "double dipping" so unnecessary and as you imply unfair. I'm only in one league that has them, and I'm not a fan at all.

 

[Sudoku_in_the_Bathtub]

Sounds like league scoring circa 1990's.

 

[MattFancy]

I had a league that awarded 5 point bonuses for 100yds, 200yds, and 300yds rushing/receiving and 5 points for 300, 400, and 500yds passing.

To me, it didn't make a ton of sense. You're basically devaluing TDs if you get an extra 5 points for getting to those milestones. You could have a guy rush for 100yds and get 15 points. You can have a guy rush for 99yds and get 9.9 points. So basically that 1yd instead of being worth .1 points becomes worth 5.1 points. I just don't like it.

 

[We Tigers]

I think they're silly, but don't mind something like 1 extra point for 100 yards rushing or receiving, 1 for 300 yards passing. A lot of people really like bonuses.

 

[MattFancy]

I think they're silly, but don't mind something like 1 extra point for 100 yards rushing or receiving, 1 for 300 yards passing. A lot of people really like bonuses.

It's like people want to see huge point totals to justify their teams. "Well Doug Martin has 64 points for me in my league this week." I mean does it really matter if your team is league ABC scored 200 points a week and mine in league XYZ scores 150?

 

[Magic Nose Goblins]

Sounds like league scoring circa 1990's.

Definitely what I was thinking. We had these yardage bonuses back when scoring was done manually in our league. The league is still not at a 1 pt/10 yards rushing/receiving but we've at least added in a few spots to incrementally add the bonus points you would previously have gotten after 100 yards rushing/receiving.

 

[Dreamer]

I hate this.