tombonneau
Footballguy
...your view of player in current year?
The cold-hearted fantasy footballer in you of course says you shouldn't have any biases towards players based on how they treated you in the past, every year is a new year.
But the football fan and the guy who watches games, says "There is absolutely no way I'm going to stomach another 16 games having to root for this turd only to watch him flop."
A guy I'm struggling with drafting this year is Kevin Jones. Like lots of folks I took him end of round 1 in 05 with visions of his killer games down the stretch in 04 dancing in my head. He of course was a massive turd.
I just had to take him in a mock, and I could barely click the button.
Is this irrational?
In a way, for certain guys who burned you, you are actually leveraging your up-close-and-personal experiences with the player.
e.g. in the case of KJ, it wasn't so much he sucked in 05, it was that he would have 60 yds in the 1st quarter, then come out for cramps and not play another snap.
So in his case, seeing that he is a soft player that won't play through pain gives you an advantage over other players who might not realize this component of his "game."
On the flip side, I took Gonzo in the 3rd last year which was a "bust" but would take him again in a heartbeat for where he is going in drafts this year. Again, with the up-close experience, it wasn't so much Gonzo took a step back, he simply didn't score TDs, which as we all know is a highly mutable statistical category.
Anyway, just wondering if other folks out there struggle with re-drafting guys who burned them, and maybe some posters can share uplifting success stories of cases where having a blind eye for the guy who burned you turned into a windfall when you had the stones to draft him the next year.
The cold-hearted fantasy footballer in you of course says you shouldn't have any biases towards players based on how they treated you in the past, every year is a new year.
But the football fan and the guy who watches games, says "There is absolutely no way I'm going to stomach another 16 games having to root for this turd only to watch him flop."
A guy I'm struggling with drafting this year is Kevin Jones. Like lots of folks I took him end of round 1 in 05 with visions of his killer games down the stretch in 04 dancing in my head. He of course was a massive turd.
I just had to take him in a mock, and I could barely click the button.
Is this irrational?
In a way, for certain guys who burned you, you are actually leveraging your up-close-and-personal experiences with the player.
e.g. in the case of KJ, it wasn't so much he sucked in 05, it was that he would have 60 yds in the 1st quarter, then come out for cramps and not play another snap.
So in his case, seeing that he is a soft player that won't play through pain gives you an advantage over other players who might not realize this component of his "game."
On the flip side, I took Gonzo in the 3rd last year which was a "bust" but would take him again in a heartbeat for where he is going in drafts this year. Again, with the up-close experience, it wasn't so much Gonzo took a step back, he simply didn't score TDs, which as we all know is a highly mutable statistical category.
Anyway, just wondering if other folks out there struggle with re-drafting guys who burned them, and maybe some posters can share uplifting success stories of cases where having a blind eye for the guy who burned you turned into a windfall when you had the stones to draft him the next year.
i'm actually the opposite for some reason. i tend to stick with guys i liked the year before even if they disappoint. i think it's because i usually favor talent over opportunity, and my opinion on talent tends to change less from year to year. Sometimes it helps, e.g. Santan Moss of 2004 and 2005. I liked him both years. Sometimes it doesn't.
