Bonus points for longer scores (1 Viewer)

[SFBayDuck]

Drafting in a league next week that provides double points for longer TDs - over 35 yards passing/receiving, over 25 yards rushing. I've never paid attention to this so don't have a feel for how frequent these longer scores are, and if there are certain players that have a tendency towards them. I didn't see any way with the Data Dominator to pull this info, anyone have any idea on another source that would be easy to use to compile this?

Primarily I'm curious to see if these longer scores happen enough, and to individual players often enough, to consider this part of our scoring system while I'm drafting.

TIA

 

[stealthrunner]

Absolutely, it gives more value to someone like Tatum Bell that can break a 80 yard TD run. And you can do it in draft dominator. It asks for the value of TDs under 15 or so, 30-40, 40-50 and 50+. Add the bonus to the td value, and it will redo your rankings.

For instance, in our league, a rushing TD is worth 6 points. But a 50+ yard TD run has a 9 point bonus so the TD is worth 15 points. No granted, we tier them, so there is a bonus for 3 point bonus for a TD of 20 yards, and 6 point bonus of a TD of 40-49 yards.

We also give bonuses to field goals over 50.

It makes it interesting, and definitely changes the values of the "home run hitters" such as Tatum Bell, Janikowski, Randy Moss, and other speedsters or strong legs, even if they are inconsistent.

 

[wannabee]

I might look up certain players on NFL.com/players and look for players with plays of 40+ yards

 

[Mike]

Here you go:

http://www.myofficepool.ca/temp/td_distance_data.xls

Its a one tab spreadsheet with number of TDs scored by certain players from 2001-2005. Includes number of TDs and % from each distance. It is broken down by position and type of TD (pass, rush, receive).

 

[SFBayDuck]

Absolutely, it gives more value to someone like Tatum Bell that can break a 80 yard TD run. And you can do it in draft dominator. It asks for the value of TDs under 15 or so, 30-40, 40-50 and 50+. Add the bonus to the td value, and it will redo your rankings.For instance, in our league, a rushing TD is worth 6 points. But a 50+ yard TD run has a 9 point bonus so the TD is worth 15 points. No granted, we tier them, so there is a bonus for 3 point bonus for a TD of 20 yards, and 6 point bonus of a TD of 40-49 yards.We also give bonuses to field goals over 50.It makes it interesting, and definitely changes the values of the "home run hitters" such as Tatum Bell, Janikowski, Randy Moss, and other speedsters or strong legs, even if they are inconsistent.

I see that you can set the scoring system up this way in the Draft Dominator, but looking at the projections I don't see any reference to length of TDs. Is it there, but just hidden?

 

[SFBayDuck]

Here you go:

http://www.myofficepool.ca/temp/td_distance_data.xls

Its a one tab spreadsheet with number of TDs scored by certain players from 2001-2005. Includes number of TDs and % from each distance. It is broken down by position and type of TD (pass, rush, receive).

That's the info I'm looking for, albeit it doesn't cover a ton of players, (only 12 TEs, 35 WRs), this is a help. Thanks.

 

[stealthrunner]

Absolutely, it gives more value to someone like Tatum Bell that can break a 80 yard TD run. And you can do it in draft dominator. It asks for the value of TDs under 15 or so, 30-40, 40-50 and 50+. Add the bonus to the td value, and it will redo your rankings.For instance, in our league, a rushing TD is worth 6 points. But a 50+ yard TD run has a 9 point bonus so the TD is worth 15 points. No granted, we tier them, so there is a bonus for 3 point bonus for a TD of 20 yards, and 6 point bonus of a TD of 40-49 yards.We also give bonuses to field goals over 50.It makes it interesting, and definitely changes the values of the "home run hitters" such as Tatum Bell, Janikowski, Randy Moss, and other speedsters or strong legs, even if they are inconsistent.

I see that you can set the scoring system up this way in the Draft Dominator, but looking at the projections I don't see any reference to length of TDs. Is it there, but just hidden?

I think hidden because it bumps up value of some guys. And I would hope so since it is an option to modify in scoring.

 

[Mike]

Here you go:

http://www.myofficepool.ca/temp/td_distance_data.xls

Its a one tab spreadsheet with number of TDs scored by certain players from 2001-2005. Includes number of TDs and % from each distance. It is broken down by position and type of TD (pass, rush, receive).

That's the info I'm looking for, albeit it doesn't cover a ton of players, (only 12 TEs, 35 WRs), this is a help. Thanks.

It includes these players because I felt they had enough data (TDs) to warrant making the list. Any other players have scored so few TDs since '01, the distance of their TDs is likely nothing more than random chance.