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[matttyl]

6-6 Most Points in League QB Matt Ryan (Atl - QB)RB Arian Foster (Hou - RB)RB Adrian Peterson (Min - RB)WR Brandon Marshall (Chi - WR)WR Miles Austin (Dal - WR)W/R/T Jimmy Graham (NO - TE)K Dan Bailey (Dal - K)DEF New York (NYJ - DEF)BN Darren Sproles (NO - RB)BN Knowshon Moreno (Den - RB)BN Felix Jones (Dal - RB)BN Ryan Broyles (Det - WR)BN Danario Alexander (SD - WR)BN Dallas (Dal - DEF)

And I thought possibly not making the playoffs with Rodgers/Rice/Calvin was bad....you're stacked top to bottom!

 

[solorca]

My team has the worst record (3-9) in the league and has the most points

QB- Ryan

RB- Charles

RB- Martin

WR- VJax

WR- Marshall

WR- Bowe / Moore

Flex- Spiller / DMC

TE- Rudolph / Hernandez

D- Texans

K- Bryant

With the exception of Brandon Marshall and to a lesser extent Doug Martin, your entire team is boom/bust. That's what happens when you have a team like that. You put up huge numbers some weeks, but other weeks you struggle.

Welcome to fantasy football

Not sure what this means (other than you trying to be snarky), but it's obvious to see why you lose pretty regularly. You have players who are just as likely to give you a big 30+ point game as they are to give you a 3-4 point game. Here's an example, using your team.

You have Jamaal Charles. Another team has Frank Gore. In the total points for my PPR league, Jamaal Charles is averaging slightly more points than Frank Gore on the season, but the person who owns Frank Gore is more likely to get consistent week to week points than you are, because you have a boom/bust players.

You happen to have a lot of players like that. A good fantasy team has a healthy mixture of boom/bust options with consistent week to week performances. Your boom/bust players outweigh your consistent performers by a large margin. There happens to be a team in my league that is one of the top 2-3 scorers, year after year...but he always seems to miss the playoffs. He constantly talks about how he is the most unlucky player in the league, but in actuality, he regularly builds teams that look much like the one you have. He has yet to figure this out, but maybe one day he will.

Who is really being 'snarky' here? With the exception of his RB1 & WR1 he doesn't have machines who are locks for double digits? That's like, any team that doesn't have Foster/AJ Green or 1 of the big 3 QBs? Most teams with Ryan & Charles/VJax as their #2's are in the playoffs.

That's not true at all, nor what I was saying. When you have guys that put up large chunks of their total season points in 2-3 games, your team will struggle when you have too many of those guys. Sure, you'll break league records for points in a week on the weeks that your team happens to hit, but you'll also get beaten by teams that look worse on paper when you have a week where none of your guys hit big.That's why if you are heavily invested in boom/bust players like many of the people he mentioned, you really need to also have consistent performers mixed in with them. These are guys (at least in the PPR league I play in...different scoring systems have different examples) like Jason Witten, Stevie Johnson, Frank Gore, etc. Not the flashiest options, but the guys that can anchor your team and get you solid, week to week points.

If you have a team in a league of yours that always seems to miss the playoffs, even though they have a high point total every year, go back and look at their rosters. You'll see a lot of teams with a similar makeup as the one listed above. It's not being snarky, it's just mathematics. I've been much more successful at fantasy football since I identified this need for a healthy balance on my teams. For every Vincent Jackson style player that I draft, I make sure I also have a Stevie Johnson style player as well.

 

[Bills_Fan11]

My team has the worst record (3-9) in the league and has the most points

QB- Ryan

RB- Charles

RB- Martin

WR- VJax

WR- Marshall

WR- Bowe / Moore

Flex- Spiller / DMC

TE- Rudolph / Hernandez

D- Texans

K- Bryant

With the exception of Brandon Marshall and to a lesser extent Doug Martin, your entire team is boom/bust. That's what happens when you have a team like that. You put up huge numbers some weeks, but other weeks you struggle.

Welcome to fantasy football

Not sure what this means (other than you trying to be snarky), but it's obvious to see why you lose pretty regularly. You have players who are just as likely to give you a big 30+ point game as they are to give you a 3-4 point game. Here's an example, using your team.

You have Jamaal Charles. Another team has Frank Gore. In the total points for my PPR league, Jamaal Charles is averaging slightly more points than Frank Gore on the season, but the person who owns Frank Gore is more likely to get consistent week to week points than you are, because you have a boom/bust players.

You happen to have a lot of players like that. A good fantasy team has a healthy mixture of boom/bust options with consistent week to week performances. Your boom/bust players outweigh your consistent performers by a large margin. There happens to be a team in my league that is one of the top 2-3 scorers, year after year...but he always seems to miss the playoffs. He constantly talks about how he is the most unlucky player in the league, but in actuality, he regularly builds teams that look much like the one you have. He has yet to figure this out, but maybe one day he will.

Who is really being 'snarky' here? With the exception of his RB1 & WR1 he doesn't have machines who are locks for double digits? That's like, any team that doesn't have Foster/AJ Green or 1 of the big 3 QBs? Most teams with Ryan & Charles/VJax as their #2's are in the playoffs.

That's not true at all, nor what I was saying. When you have guys that put up large chunks of their total season points in 2-3 games, your team will struggle when you have too many of those guys. Sure, you'll break league records for points in a week on the weeks that your team happens to hit, but you'll also get beaten by teams that look worse on paper when you have a week where none of your guys hit big.That's why if you are heavily invested in boom/bust players like many of the people he mentioned, you really need to also have consistent performers mixed in with them. These are guys (at least in the PPR league I play in...different scoring systems have different examples) like Jason Witten, Stevie Johnson, Frank Gore, etc. Not the flashiest options, but the guys that can anchor your team and get you solid, week to week points.

If you have a team in a league of yours that always seems to miss the playoffs, even though they have a high point total every year, go back and look at their rosters. You'll see a lot of teams with a similar makeup as the one listed above. It's not being snarky, it's just mathematics. I've been much more successful at fantasy football since I identified this need for a healthy balance on my teams. For every Vincent Jackson style player that I draft, I make sure I also have a Stevie Johnson style player as well.

All I'm saying is there aren't as many players who fit your pigion-holed "steady vs all or nothing" categories as you're suggesting and even if there were, OP hardly has the boom or bust all-star team (Matt Ryan is somehow in that category because he's had a couple bad games?). I could see if he had Chris Johnson, Vernon Davis & Lee Evans circa 2006. Has Stevie Johnson even outscored VJax in the majority of weeks (I dunno but I bet it's pretty close)? I don't mind hating on a bad beat post, but the smug rationalizations & refusal to acknowledge that luck exists is kinda silly. JMO. FWIW I don't own any of his players except Charles.

 

[chickensoup]

I'd also say, the teams that most consistantly make the playoffs are the ones that generally have the most consistant scorers in the leagues I'm in.

I love Charles, VJax and the like......but really only one per team and never ones as the first option (thus I generally never have them). It's a "you have to beat me" approach. Get your perceived minimum score high enough by drafting safe options and hope for the best will net you more wins than praying for the huge game to balance out the duds IMO.

 

[Monsieur Meursault]

Top 3 in points for and against. Need a win and another team to lose in order to make an 8 team playoff in a 14 team league.

Andy Dalton / Joe Flacco

Arian Foster / M Lynch / M Reece / V Ballard

Dwayne Bowe / James Jones / Davone Bess / Greg Jennings / various waiver pickups

Vernon Davis

Packers D and waiver pick ups throughout

Blair Walsh and waiver pick ups throughout

 

[coachbobbyfinstock]

My team has the worst record (3-9) in the league and has the most pointsQB- Ryan RB- CharlesRB- MartinWR- VJaxWR- MarshallWR- Bowe / MooreFlex- Spiller / DMCTE- Rudolph / HernandezD- TexansK- Bryant

your team is pretty good looking. All 3 of my PLAYOFF BOUND teams are better though. Points, while relevant, are someimtes misleading. For example, you could have had 3 huge weeks where you completely blew out your opponent, but you could a just had, eh weeks the rest of the season.If you want fantasy advice feel free to PM me.

 

[DexterDew]

i would like to subscribe to your newsletter, coachbobbyfinstock

 

[Chazzhawk]

Here are mine

Stafford

Spiller

Forte

Calvin Johnson

A.J. Green

Reggie Wayne

Bennett

Olsen

whoever and whoever for kicker defense. Playing matchups and doing well

Brady

Spiller

Martin

Harvin

Decker

Bowe

Broyles

Allen

Rudolph

Bennett

Whoever and whoever

Not going to make playoffs in either league, however look at this crap and I am going to make the playoffs in this league and could win the division if I win this week and the division leader loses, and I would get a bye lol.

Vick

Palmer

Locker

Lynch

Murray/Jones

Donald Brown

David Wilson

D. Alexander

S. Smith

D. Moore

Broyles

L. Moore

Gronk

Gresham

Tynes

Whoever for defense

That is the life of fantasy football

 

[FF Ninja]

6-6 Most Points in League

QB Matt Ryan (Atl - QB)

RB Arian Foster (Hou - RB)

RB Adrian Peterson (Min - RB)

WR Brandon Marshall (Chi - WR)

WR Miles Austin (Dal - WR)

W/R/T Jimmy Graham (NO - TE)

K Dan Bailey (Dal - K)

DEF New York (NYJ - DEF)

BN Darren Sproles (NO - RB)

BN Knowshon Moreno (Den - RB)

BN Felix Jones (Dal - RB)

BN Ryan Broyles (Det - WR)

BN Danario Alexander (SD - WR)

BN Dallas (Dal - DEF)

Not to be rude/mean, but that's what happens when you play with tiny rosters. You've only got 5 RB/WR/TE spots. Basic leagues start 6. More competitive leagues start 7+. The less players in the lineup, the harder it is for the best teams to win. But even if you move this team to a start 7 league and your team is barely above average. You had no WR3 most of the year and your RB3 is nothing special (and an underperforming Sproles). I've played in leagues with a 2-2-1 format and they're ALWAYS a crapshoot. You need more starters to separate the teams. You basically go into those leagues knowing that you're going to catch some bad breaks and you're going to have bench remorse every week (not in your case with the sub-par bench) but most people have a WR3 that will often outscore their WR2 or several good flex options.

Edit: accidentally wrote "and" instead of "an"

 

[solorca]

My team has the worst record (3-9) in the league and has the most points

QB- Ryan

RB- Charles

RB- Martin

WR- VJax

WR- Marshall

WR- Bowe / Moore

Flex- Spiller / DMC

TE- Rudolph / Hernandez

D- Texans

K- Bryant

With the exception of Brandon Marshall and to a lesser extent Doug Martin, your entire team is boom/bust. That's what happens when you have a team like that. You put up huge numbers some weeks, but other weeks you struggle.

Welcome to fantasy football

Not sure what this means (other than you trying to be snarky), but it's obvious to see why you lose pretty regularly. You have players who are just as likely to give you a big 30+ point game as they are to give you a 3-4 point game. Here's an example, using your team.

You have Jamaal Charles. Another team has Frank Gore. In the total points for my PPR league, Jamaal Charles is averaging slightly more points than Frank Gore on the season, but the person who owns Frank Gore is more likely to get consistent week to week points than you are, because you have a boom/bust players.

You happen to have a lot of players like that. A good fantasy team has a healthy mixture of boom/bust options with consistent week to week performances. Your boom/bust players outweigh your consistent performers by a large margin. There happens to be a team in my league that is one of the top 2-3 scorers, year after year...but he always seems to miss the playoffs. He constantly talks about how he is the most unlucky player in the league, but in actuality, he regularly builds teams that look much like the one you have. He has yet to figure this out, but maybe one day he will.

Who is really being 'snarky' here? With the exception of his RB1 & WR1 he doesn't have machines who are locks for double digits? That's like, any team that doesn't have Foster/AJ Green or 1 of the big 3 QBs? Most teams with Ryan & Charles/VJax as their #2's are in the playoffs.

That's not true at all, nor what I was saying. When you have guys that put up large chunks of their total season points in 2-3 games, your team will struggle when you have too many of those guys. Sure, you'll break league records for points in a week on the weeks that your team happens to hit, but you'll also get beaten by teams that look worse on paper when you have a week where none of your guys hit big.That's why if you are heavily invested in boom/bust players like many of the people he mentioned, you really need to also have consistent performers mixed in with them. These are guys (at least in the PPR league I play in...different scoring systems have different examples) like Jason Witten, Stevie Johnson, Frank Gore, etc. Not the flashiest options, but the guys that can anchor your team and get you solid, week to week points.

If you have a team in a league of yours that always seems to miss the playoffs, even though they have a high point total every year, go back and look at their rosters. You'll see a lot of teams with a similar makeup as the one listed above. It's not being snarky, it's just mathematics. I've been much more successful at fantasy football since I identified this need for a healthy balance on my teams. For every Vincent Jackson style player that I draft, I make sure I also have a Stevie Johnson style player as well.

All I'm saying is there aren't as many players who fit your pigion-holed "steady vs all or nothing" categories as you're suggesting and even if there were, OP hardly has the boom or bust all-star team (Matt Ryan is somehow in that category because he's had a couple bad games?). I could see if he had Chris Johnson, Vernon Davis & Lee Evans circa 2006. Has Stevie Johnson even outscored VJax in the majority of weeks (I dunno but I bet it's pretty close)? I don't mind hating on a bad beat post, but the smug rationalizations & refusal to acknowledge that luck exists is kinda silly. JMO. FWIW I don't own any of his players except Charles.

There are a large number of players who are more consistent, expecially when you're talking about the players at the same tier level as the ones he has. If you see that you have a team that has 3-4 guys who are at risk of giving you low performances every week because of their up/down nature, then you should probably try to make some moves to add more consistently (while keeping some of the boom/bust options). I never said that luck doesn't exist. I said that when you build a team that's full of boom/bust players, it makes sense when you struggle. When I have a team like that (because sometimes even with planning for a balanced team, you get surprised), I work trades to make my team more consistent.For instance, last year I had a few players like that, so I traded Vincent Jackson (who was #7 in league scoring) for Marques Colston (#15 at the time) in week 12. I ended up winning the league because of it.

Granted, this was a slightly different situation because I was in the playoff race, but the point remains. The guy made a post lamenting his bad luck, when there is a very clear vision of why he struggled to win games this season. I'm not saying that his team should be 3-9, but I can very easily see that team missing the playoffs because of the inconsistent performance of his team.

 

[Resident A]

This team of mine has only won 4 games:

QB- Eli/Luck

RB1- Ray Rice

RB2- Lynch

WR1- Andre Johnson

WR2- Dez Bryant

WR3- Shorts/Hernandez/Amendola

Defense- Broncos

Kicker- doesn't matter

 

[Crazy Tony]

It's been an up and down year for a lot of players, owners, more so than in the past. Steady guys have their one bad game when some no namer goes off. There are some great teams missing the playoffs this year. Injuries at critical weeks caused problems. Hot FAs not the hot starter we'd hoped. Ogletree is not miles Austin or laurent Robinson of years past. Wallace, Brown, Nicks, Fitz under perform. Ppr RB studs you could normally ride to aren't doing as well and have RBBC drawbacks. Some "cheaper" value plays are playing above their expectations. RG3,LUCK,DALTON, Palmer, Freeman scoring big and frequently. This creates upsets especially when studs have bad week, bye week or short term i.jury

 

[Da Guru]

I missed the playoffs in one league with this starting lineup. What are you going to do?? Lost to the highest scoring team of the week 5 times.

QB- P Manning

RB Martin

RB Foster

WR- AJ Green

WR- Cruz

WR- Brandon Marshall

TE- Gonzo

K- Bryant

 

[cvnpoka]

My team has the worst record (3-9) in the league and has the most points

QB- Ryan

RB- Charles

RB- Martin

WR- VJax

WR- Marshall

WR- Bowe / Moore

Flex- Spiller / DMC

TE- Rudolph / Hernandez

D- Texans

K- Bryant

With the exception of Brandon Marshall and to a lesser extent Doug Martin, your entire team is boom/bust. That's what happens when you have a team like that. You put up huge numbers some weeks, but other weeks you struggle.

Welcome to fantasy football

Not sure what this means (other than you trying to be snarky), but it's obvious to see why you lose pretty regularly. You have players who are just as likely to give you a big 30+ point game as they are to give you a 3-4 point game. Here's an example, using your team.

You have Jamaal Charles. Another team has Frank Gore. In the total points for my PPR league, Jamaal Charles is averaging slightly more points than Frank Gore on the season, but the person who owns Frank Gore is more likely to get consistent week to week points than you are, because you have a boom/bust players.

You happen to have a lot of players like that. A good fantasy team has a healthy mixture of boom/bust options with consistent week to week performances. Your boom/bust players outweigh your consistent performers by a large margin. There happens to be a team in my league that is one of the top 2-3 scorers, year after year...but he always seems to miss the playoffs. He constantly talks about how he is the most unlucky player in the league, but in actuality, he regularly builds teams that look much like the one you have. He has yet to figure this out, but maybe one day he will.

you really have no proof of this at all. intuitively, its total bs to me. you need to find a way to prove that a steady 17 pt scorer leads to more than the guy who puts up 30 half the time and 4 half the time. but that isnt even enough, since there is no such thing as the steady 17 pt guy.theres actually another thread where some guy actually did a bunch of simulations with different distributions of weekly scoring and found out...wait for it...the more points a player the scores the more valuable he is to his team.

 

[Tchula]

5-7 in a 10 team league with this lineup:

Ryan

Rice, Charles, Turner

Nelson, Wayne

Hernandez

Bryant

Broncos

Bench:

Forte, Murray, Edleman, James Jones, Mike Williams, Gates

 

[Chazzhawk]

5-7 in a 10 team league with this lineup:RyanRice, Charles, TurnerNelson, WayneHernandezBryantBroncosBench:Forte, Murray, Edleman, James Jones, Mike Williams, Gates

This looks good on paper but I can see how you are 5 - 7. Charles and Turner have given you duds for games this year. Nelson has missed timed and Jones has put a couple of duds up to and as good as your tight ends are in name you haven't gotten much from this year except a couple good games from Gates. Even Ryan has had a few sub par performances. Wayne and Rice have been the only consistent performers.

 

[Chazzhawk]

I missed the playoffs in one league with this starting lineup. What are you going to do?? Lost to the highest scoring team of the week 5 times. QB- P ManningRB MartinRB FosterWR- AJ GreenWR- CruzWR- Brandon MarshallTE- GonzoK- Bryant

Can we get a link please? I am having a hard time believing this lineup would not make the playoffs even in a 4 team in league. Other than Cruz's 3 game funk this is as consistent and rock solid of a lineup you can get.

 

[flapgreen]

I missed the playoffs in one league with this starting lineup. What are you going to do?? Lost to the highest scoring team of the week 5 times. QB- P ManningRB MartinRB FosterWR- AJ GreenWR- CruzWR- Brandon MarshallTE- GonzoK- Bryant

Can we get a link please? I am having a hard time believing this lineup would not make the playoffs even in a 4 team in league. Other than Cruz's 3 game funk this is as consistent and rock solid of a lineup you can get.

Yeah, I'm not buying this.

 

[MrBigBoss]

In my 2 leagues I have a pretty similar roster. In the ppr I'm 10-2 and have been spanking people the last 5 weeks. In the regular league I was at 2-5 facing elimination... But went on a 5 game raping spree and now I'm 7-5 clinched my spot. Both leagues I've been top scorer 5/4 weeks. The rosters r in the sig. And I agree how the OP got in the situation he's in. I have some of those players and they were a hit or miss earlier this year. Thank god they snapped out of it and now playing good. Better luck next year dude.

 

[DropKick]

Nice team... on paper! I see a lot of injuries and inconsistent performance... two ingredients for a bad season.