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Bye Week Peril (1 Viewer)

Jeff Pasquino

Jeff Pasquino

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Since there are more sharks swimming in this pool every day, I need to draw to your attention the following issue.

Week 6

Cleveland

Green Bay

Indianapolis

Jacksonville

Minnesota

New England

Week 7

Baltimore

Chicago

New Orleans

San Francisco

St. Louis

Tennessee
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Weeks 6 and 7 have SIX teams off this year.Why?

NBC wanted that flexible TV schedule, starting Week 10. That meant all teams' byes had to be done by Week 9, so instead of 4 teams off Weeks 3-10 like last year, 2 teams were added to Week 6 and Week 7.

So listen up.....

If you have a short bench (or are in a league with a short bench), you need to watch out for these two weeks.

I consider Week 6 a killer week this year.

CLE - Frye, Droughns, Jurevicius, KW2, etc....

GB - Favre, Green, Gado, Driver, etc....

INDY - Peyton, Addai, Rhodes, Harrison, Wayne, etc...

JAX - Leftwich, FTaylor, Matt Jones, MLewis, etc....

MIN - Brad Johnson, CTaylor, MMoore, KRob, Wiggins, etc...

NE - Brady, Branch, Dillon, Maroney, Watson, etc.....

Week 7 is softer, but still - watch out.

Just be mindful of it.

 
Since there are more sharks swimming in this pool every day, I need to draw to your attention the following issue.

Week 6

Cleveland

Green Bay

Indianapolis

Jacksonville

Minnesota

New England

Week 7

Baltimore

Chicago

New Orleans

San Francisco

St. Louis

Tennessee
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Weeks 6 and 7 have SIX teams off this year.Why?

NBC wanted that flexible TV schedule, starting Week 10. That meant all teams' byes had to be done by Week 9, so instead of 4 teams off Weeks 3-10 like last year, 2 teams were added to Week 6 and Week 7.

So listen up.....

If you have a short bench (or are in a league with a short bench), you need to watch out for these two weeks.

I consider Week 6 a killer week this year.

CLE - Frye, Droughns, Jurevicius, KW2, etc....

GB - Favre, Green, Gado, Driver, etc....

INDY - Peyton, Addai, Rhodes, Harrison, Wayne, etc...

JAX - Leftwich, FTaylor, Matt Jones, MLewis, etc....

MIN - Brad Johnson, CTaylor, MMoore, KRob, Wiggins, etc...

NE - Brady, Branch, Dillon, Maroney, Watson, etc.....

Week 7 is softer, but still - watch out.

Just be mindful of it.
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Post of the year.
 
Thanks for the heads up... had no idea they went to six. I had the facts, but it didn't compute...

 
Except for my backup QB and TE(if I have one), I actually prefer my players to have their bye weeks during the same week. I'd rather just suck one week than be thinned out over several weeks.

 
This is going to totally change my strategy.

Thanks Jeff. Only on FBGs, just when I think this is the greatest site you add this nugget.

I'm going to have to digest this.

 
From post 1:

I consider Week 6 a killer week this year.

CLE - Frye, Droughns, Jurevicius, KW2, etc....

GB - Favre, Green, Gado, Driver, etc....

INDY - Peyton, Addai, Rhodes, Harrison, Wayne, etc...

JAX - Leftwich, FTaylor, Matt Jones, MLewis, etc....

MIN - Brad Johnson, CTaylor, MMoore, KRob, Wiggins, etc...

NE - Brady, Branch, Dillon, Maroney, Watson, etc.....

Week 7 is softer, but still - watch out.

Just be mindful of it.

Wow, that is a killer wk. I'm targeting several of these players. I'm sure a lot of you are too. I raelly liked Favre and Leftwich this year for my #2 because they slipped so far. Of course I like Manning and Brady (Jeff's #1&2), but if I get 1 of them I have to give up my solid #2's IMO.

That settles that I won't be paying for Manning or Brady, which is a good strategy to know going into the draft season. I would have caught this when I actuall did my

projections. I always take bye wks into concideration. Some people don't, I have no idea why they don't.

I guess I'll have to start my projections now.

 
I dont expect my roster to look the same in august all the way to week 7. Not sure I will adjust my draft strategy that much because of a killer bye week. :2cents:

 
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From post 1:

I consider Week 6 a killer week this year.

CLE - Frye, Droughns, Jurevicius, KW2, etc....

GB - Favre, Green, Gado, Driver, etc....

INDY - Peyton, Addai, Rhodes, Harrison, Wayne, etc...

JAX - Leftwich, FTaylor, Matt Jones, MLewis, etc....

MIN - Brad Johnson, CTaylor, MMoore, KRob, Wiggins, etc...

NE - Brady, Branch, Dillon, Maroney, Watson, etc.....

Week 7 is softer, but still - watch out.

Just be mindful of it.

Wow, that is a killer wk. I'm targeting several of these players. I'm sure a lot of you are too. I raelly liked Favre and Leftwich this year for my #2 because they slipped so far. Of course I like Manning and Brady (Jeff's #1&2), but if I get 1 of them I have to give up my solid #2's IMO.

That settles that I won't be paying for Manning or Brady, which is a good strategy to know going into the draft season. I would have caught this when I actuall did my

projections. I always take bye wks into concideration. Some people don't, I have no idea why they don't.

I guess I'll have to start my projections now.
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I will tell you why some people don't watch them. Because I feel it is more important to draft the better players. If I get beat on a bye week that many of players are off on that means I am better covered another time. Getting the better player is of MORE importance.Does it really matter whether you have "LT2 and Larry Johnson" off on consecutive weeks or the same week? You could argue that both sides that it is better to balance out your off weeks or have them all on the one loss week so that you could win more weeks? It really is a wash

 
From post 1:

I consider Week 6 a killer week this year.

CLE - Frye, Droughns, Jurevicius, KW2, etc....

GB - Favre, Green, Gado, Driver, etc....

INDY - Peyton, Addai, Rhodes, Harrison, Wayne, etc...

JAX - Leftwich, FTaylor, Matt Jones, MLewis, etc....

MIN - Brad Johnson, CTaylor, MMoore, KRob, Wiggins, etc...

NE - Brady, Branch, Dillon, Maroney, Watson, etc.....

Week 7 is softer, but still - watch out.

Just be mindful of it.

Wow, that is a killer wk. I'm targeting several of these players. I'm sure a lot of you are too. I raelly liked Favre and Leftwich this year for my #2 because they slipped so far. Of course I like Manning and Brady (Jeff's #1&2), but if I get 1 of them I have to give up my solid #2's IMO.

That settles that I won't be paying for Manning or Brady, which is a good strategy to know going into the draft season. I would have caught this when I actuall did my

projections. I always take bye wks into concideration. Some people don't, I have no idea why they don't.

I guess I'll have to start my projections now.
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I will tell you why some people don't watch them. Because I feel it is more important to draft the better players. If I get beat on a bye week that many of players are off on that means I am better covered another time. Getting the better player is of MORE importance.Does it really matter whether you have "LT2 and Larry Johnson" off on consecutive weeks or the same week? You could argue that both sides that it is better to balance out your off weeks or have them all on the one loss week so that you could win more weeks? It really is a wash
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I tier my players and draft the best player if I have too many w/the same bye (late round back ups) I draft an equal player w/a favorably bye wk.Do you actually not play att. to bye weeks at all?

 
This is news?  This was announced 3 months ago was it not?
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Diesel,Read the first line of Post #1.

-JP
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Since there are more sharks swimming in this pool every day
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I think what he meant is, that by definition, a "shark" should know how to read a schedule.LAUNCH
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Thats kind of what I was thinking yes.If this is just news to you now, the term "shark" might be being used a little too liberally.

 
I was just doing a mock ADP and player rank by DD and found that there are so many quality players off wk 6, You could draft most of your starters in wk 6 and be strong the rest of the year. I did this 1 year and it worked out, except I lost too many times in the first 5 or 6 weeks when at full strength. So I missed the playoffs the last week.

Oh well, I'm going to keep playing w/it.

 
I was just doing a mock ADP and player rank by DD and found that there are so many quality players off wk 6, You could draft most of your starters in wk 6 and be strong the rest of the year. I did this 1 year and it worked out, except I lost too many times in the first 5 or 6 weeks when at full strength. So I missed the playoffs the last week.

Oh well, I'm going to keep playing w/it.
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The issue with that strategy is that you're tossing away a game. You're 0-1 to start.If your regular season is tough and/or you have lots of competition, you may have to be 8-5 to make the playoffs.

8-4 the other weeks makes it a steeper hill.

While I don't tailor my draft around byes, I do note them and will use them as a tiebreaker on some players. Also, don't get caught with your pants down on say your backup QB or TE - many candidates are off this week. If you have Brady or Manning, you may want Simms or Carr rather than Frye or Brad Johnson for this reason.

 
I was just doing a mock ADP and player rank by DD and found that there are so many quality players off wk 6, You could draft most of your starters in wk 6 and be strong the rest of the year. I did this 1 year and it worked out, except I lost too many times in the first 5 or 6 weeks when at full strength. So I missed the playoffs the last week.

Oh well, I'm going to keep playing w/it.
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The issue with that strategy is that you're tossing away a game. You're 0-1 to start.If your regular season is tough and/or you have lots of competition, you may have to be 8-5 to make the playoffs.

8-4 the other weeks makes it a steeper hill.

While I don't tailor my draft around byes, I do note them and will use them as a tiebreaker on some players. Also, don't get caught with your pants down on say your backup QB or TE - many candidates are off this week. If you have Brady or Manning, you may want Simms or Carr rather than Frye or Brad Johnson for this reason.
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Exactly why I used Manning ,Brady as an example earlier.BTW I was just throwing out that all 6 wk starters for fodder to promote more of this type of thinking

Here is my SOS that I posted last month (if you don't use a SOS then ignore this).

Footballguystalk -> Week 17 included in projections

There it is

post Jun 22 2006, 09:08 PM

These are my 2006 Rushing and Passing SOS. 1) being the easiest to 32) the toughest.

Rushing

1) n eng

2) miami

2)chic

4)seattle

4)g bay

6)det

7)buf

7)ind

7)jac

7)min

7)jet

Bottom

24)Bal

24)t bay

26)atl

26)giant

28)k c

29)cin

29)cle

29)oak

32)rams

Passing

1)oak

2)s die

3)k c

4)ari

4)den

4)sea

7)ram

8)ind

8)jac

10)chic

10)sfran

Bottom

22)dal

22)phi

24)cle

25)giant

26)cin

26)min

28)pit

29)n o

30)car

31)t bay

32)atl

Notice that Passing oak, sd, and kc have the easiest, they all have wk3 byes.

I chose kc-T. Green to target. W/Leftwich as #2, he plays @Indy wk 3 and will be forced to put up points.

Thats just 1 sample pair that can be had (cheaply in this case) by matching SOS and bye wks.

Ltes bring back your week 6 byes:

I consider Week 6 a killer week this year.

CLE - Frye, Droughns, Jurevicius, KW2, etc....

GB - Favre, Green, Gado, Driver, etc....

INDY - Peyton, Addai, Rhodes, Harrison, Wayne, etc...

JAX - Leftwich, FTaylor, Matt Jones, MLewis, etc....

MIN - Brad Johnson, CTaylor, MMoore, KRob, Wiggins, etc...

NE - Brady, Branch, Dillon, Maroney, Watson, etc.....

Ok.This is a great list, I'm glad you posted it this way.

There are so many good players and all will be drafted. It's not like you can pick them up on waivers. so, you have to pick and choose nwhich ones you really want.

If I get Driver I probably won't take Favre. I guess what I'm seeing here is don't fall into the trap of drafting too many wk 6 bye players

I just see this as hugh and I'm glad that I never told my leaguemates about this site.

I see total advantage just being aware of this info from FBGs.

 
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I was just doing a mock ADP and player rank by DD and found that there are so many quality players off wk 6, You could draft most of your starters in wk 6 and be strong the rest of the year. I did this 1 year and it worked out, except I lost too many times in the first 5 or 6 weeks when at full strength. So I missed the playoffs the last week.

Oh well, I'm going to keep playing w/it.
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The issue with that strategy is that you're tossing away a game. You're 0-1 to start.If your regular season is tough and/or you have lots of competition, you may have to be 8-5 to make the playoffs.

8-4 the other weeks makes it a steeper hill.

While I don't tailor my draft around byes, I do note them and will use them as a tiebreaker on some players. Also, don't get caught with your pants down on say your backup QB or TE - many candidates are off this week. If you have Brady or Manning, you may want Simms or Carr rather than Frye or Brad Johnson for this reason.
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True, you start out 0-1, but you also have an advantage EVERY OTHER WEEK of the season, so it's a lot easier to accumulate wins on other weeks.Let's give an extreme example. Let's say that all starting quality players score 15 points, and all backup starting players score 10. Let's also say that everyone's roster is filled out with 1 starting-caliber QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, 1 TE, 1 PK, 1 Def, and as many backup-caliber players as they need.

Scenario #1- you spread all of your starters' byes over 9 weeks so no two starters have the same bye (yes, I know, there aren't 9 bye weeks- we're talking hypotheticals here). This means you will score 130 points every single week for 9 weeks, and 135 every week after that. You will post a win against anyone with 2 players on bye, a loss against anyone with 0 players on bye, and a tie against anyone with 1 player on bye.

Scenario #2- you put all of your starters' byes on the same week. You post a loss that week. You score 135 points every other week, which means you post a win against anyone with even a single player on bye, and a tie against anyone operating at full strength.

Looking at it logically, if you ran the situation a bunch of times, Scenario #1 would result in a perfect .500 record. If you ran the situation a bunch of times, Scenario #2 would likely result in a record of 8-1-0, 7-1-1, or 6-1-2 at worst (72+% winning percentage).

Yes, these are extreme examples, but they show the logic behind taking all of your players' byes at the same time. If you want a better example, how about this. Let's imagine that I told you that however many points you scored in week 1, and take a 0 instead, but you'd then have all of those points "in the bank" and you could feel free to add as much or as little of them to any point total you scored for the rest of the season. I would JUMP at the chance. I don't care if I lose my week 1 game by 150 points and win all of my subsequent games by 1 point, that's still better than being within 5 points every single time but losing half the time and winning have the time.

I see no point to maximizing or minimizing margin of victory, or even fielding a super-competetive team every single week. I would much rather have all of my defeats be by huge margins and all of my victories be by slim margins if it means more victories for me.

I agree with the sentiment that the only time you actually even make bye weeks a consideration is when you're locking up guys who you don't expect to be anything more than depth (which means QB3, RB5, WR6, TE2/3 for me). With that said, I think it's logically clear that a team with all of its players on bye at the same time will, over the course of the season, be stronger than a team with all of its players' byes scattered.

 
I was just doing a mock ADP and player rank by DD and found that there are so many quality players off wk 6, You could draft most of your starters in wk 6 and be strong the rest of the year. I did this 1 year and it worked out, except I lost too many times in the first 5 or 6 weeks when at full strength. So I missed the playoffs the last week.

Oh well, I'm going to keep playing w/it.
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The issue with that strategy is that you're tossing away a game. You're 0-1 to start.If your regular season is tough and/or you have lots of competition, you may have to be 8-5 to make the playoffs.

8-4 the other weeks makes it a steeper hill.

While I don't tailor my draft around byes, I do note them and will use them as a tiebreaker on some players. Also, don't get caught with your pants down on say your backup QB or TE - many candidates are off this week. If you have Brady or Manning, you may want Simms or Carr rather than Frye or Brad Johnson for this reason.
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True, you start out 0-1, but you also have an advantage EVERY OTHER WEEK of the season, so it's a lot easier to accumulate wins on other weeks.Let's give an extreme example. Let's say that all starting quality players score 15 points, and all backup starting players score 10. Let's also say that everyone's roster is filled out with 1 starting-caliber QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, 1 TE, 1 PK, 1 Def, and as many backup-caliber players as they need.

Scenario #1- you spread all of your starters' byes over 9 weeks so no two starters have the same bye (yes, I know, there aren't 9 bye weeks- we're talking hypotheticals here). This means you will score 130 points every single week for 9 weeks, and 135 every week after that. You will post a win against anyone with 2 players on bye, a loss against anyone with 0 players on bye, and a tie against anyone with 1 player on bye.

Scenario #2- you put all of your starters' byes on the same week. You post a loss that week. You score 135 points every other week, which means you post a win against anyone with even a single player on bye, and a tie against anyone operating at full strength.

Looking at it logically, if you ran the situation a bunch of times, Scenario #1 would result in a perfect .500 record. If you ran the situation a bunch of times, Scenario #2 would likely result in a record of 8-1-0, 7-1-1, or 6-1-2 at worst (72+% winning percentage).

Yes, these are extreme examples, but they show the logic behind taking all of your players' byes at the same time. If you want a better example, how about this. Let's imagine that I told you that however many points you scored in week 1, and take a 0 instead, but you'd then have all of those points "in the bank" and you could feel free to add as much or as little of them to any point total you scored for the rest of the season. I would JUMP at the chance. I don't care if I lose my week 1 game by 150 points and win all of my subsequent games by 1 point, that's still better than being within 5 points every single time but losing half the time and winning have the time.

I see no point to maximizing or minimizing margin of victory, or even fielding a super-competetive team every single week. I would much rather have all of my defeats be by huge margins and all of my victories be by slim margins if it means more victories for me.

I agree with the sentiment that the only time you actually even make bye weeks a consideration is when you're locking up guys who you don't expect to be anything more than depth (which means QB3, RB5, WR6, TE2/3 for me). With that said, I think it's logically clear that a team with all of its players on bye at the same time will, over the course of the season, be stronger than a team with all of its players' byes scattered.
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SSOG,Ideally, I would agree in principle.

Having a 2-5% advantage every week but one would be advantageous.

But that also means you have the "perfect draft" where all of your starters have the same bye. That would likely mean that the first 6-8 players selected have the same bye week - what is the likelihood of that scenario?

Also - if you are trying to do that, you may reach for a player that wasn't starter caliber just to align the bye weeks - which would be a major mistake.

Let's say you try and do this for Week 6 this year with starting QB, 2 RB, 3 WR and a TE.

Round 1 - Peyton

Round 2 - CTaylor

Round 3 - Driver

Round 4 - FTaylor

Round 5 - Branch

Round 6 - AGreen

Round 7 - Matt Jones

Round 8 - Wiggins

Round 9 - Jurevicius

Round 10 - Leftwich

All off week 6. (This list is pure speculation, but it could easily fall this way). I imagine that could be a strategy - but everything would have to fall into place to pull it off.

It is risky but creative. I don't know how much of an advantage is truly gained, however, unless you were getting great value players falling in your lap. For example if you grab Peytonin Round 1, and then Harrison and Driver and Wayne (or 2 of 3) fall in your lap, I can see getting both. But I wouldn't take Matt Jones or Jurevicius before Round 7 just because their bye is right.

Bottom line for me with this strategy is that it is creative but rather hard to implement. You need to get solid value falling to you, all with the Week 6 bye. It could happen, but you could easily get shafted trying to do it.

 
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SSOG,

Ideally, I would agree in principle.

Having a 2-5% advantage every week but one would be advantageous.

But that also means you have the "perfect draft" where all of your starters have the same bye. That would likely mean that the first 6-8 players selected have the same bye week - what is the likelihood of that scenario?

Also - if you are trying to do that, you may reach for a player that wasn't starter caliber just to align the bye weeks - which would be a major mistake.

Let's say you try and do this for Week 6 this year with starting QB, 2 RB, 3 WR and a TE.

Round 1 - Peyton

Round 2 - CTaylor

Round 3 - Driver

Round 4 - FTaylor

Round 5 - Branch

Round 6 - AGreen

Round 7 - Matt Jones

Round 8 - Wiggins

Round 9 - Jurevicius

Round 10 - Leftwich

All off week 6. (This list is pure speculation, but it could easily fall this way). I imagine that could be a strategy - but everything would have to fall into place to pull it off.

It is risky but creative. I don't know how much of an advantage is truly gained, however, unless you were getting great value players falling in your lap. For example if you grab Peytonin Round 1, and then Harrison and Driver and Wayne (or 2 of 3) fall in your lap, I can see getting both. But I wouldn't take Matt Jones or Jurevicius before Round 7 just because their bye is right.

Bottom line for me with this strategy is that it is creative but rather hard to implement. You need to get solid value falling to you, all with the Week 6 bye. It could happen, but you could easily get shafted trying to do it.
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Which is exactly why I said that I don't take bye weeks into consideration unless I'm specifically drafting someone to be nothing more than a bye-week starter. :) With that said, I never let bye weeks scare me off of a guy who I think is the best talent available. I don't even look at byes until I get to the "fill out your roster" stage of the game. Even if only HALF of my team has the same bye week instead of the whole team, it still provides the same advantage- just to a lesser extent.

 
that by definition, a "shark" should know how to read a schedule.

LAUNCH
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Maybe Jeff meant guppies instead of sharks. Or maybe "sharks" are the guppies.I really don't know. My copy of Nature hasn't arrived yet.

 
Thanks for the info...not all of us pay that close attention to things like the NFL schedule, months before most drafts occur.

 
Thanks for the info...not all of us pay that close attention to things like the NFL schedule, months before most drafts occur.
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:goodposting: I get a strange feeling that some poeple don't want this out and understood by all.I actually think a lot of us are saying the same thing. Like in post15 I said:

I tier my players and draft the best player if I have too many w/the same bye (late round back ups) I draft an equal player w/a favorably bye wk.

Something tells me this is going to be an important thread to heed.

Tough competion but maybe Jeff will get ROY honors.

 
The biggest issue might be for the survivor players. In fact some leagues such as WSl were drafted befroe the bye weeks ere even known. :wall:

But the survivor leagues are a bit of a challenge in some cases. Getting around the week 6/7 stragle hold is not easy. But everyone is in the same boat so plan accordingly.

 
The biggest issue might be for the survivor players. In fact some leagues such as WSl were drafted befroe the bye weeks ere even known. :wall:

But the survivor leagues are a bit of a challenge in some cases. Getting around the week 6/7 stragle hold is not easy. But everyone is in the same boat so plan accordingly.
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Hi FM. Last year you and I were selected to be in the ANARACHY league where bye weeks did not matter. I think what Jeff is warning about is redraft or on line :moneybag: leagues. Like the OMEGA leagues, that I play in every year. This heads up is very timely to remind us to look out for when we are making our projections now.Do a mock draft and you will see that there are a lot of wk 6 & 7 bye week players right there when you are selecting. I think it's a great heads up.

 
I was in another thread talking about SOS for N Eng and Minn, I gave an opinion.

Then later it dawned on me that both n eng and min have the dreaded wk 6 bye.

Will this change your drafting strategy?

Will you pay more attention to bye wks this year?

 
I was just doing a mock ADP and player rank by DD and found that there are so many quality players off wk 6, You could draft most of your starters in wk 6 and be strong the rest of the year. I did this 1 year and it worked out, except I lost too many times in the first 5 or 6 weeks when at full strength. So I missed the playoffs the last week.

Oh well, I'm going to keep playing w/it.
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The issue with that strategy is that you're tossing away a game. You're 0-1 to start.If your regular season is tough and/or you have lots of competition, you may have to be 8-5 to make the playoffs.

8-4 the other weeks makes it a steeper hill.

While I don't tailor my draft around byes, I do note them and will use them as a tiebreaker on some players. Also, don't get caught with your pants down on say your backup QB or TE - many candidates are off this week. If you have Brady or Manning, you may want Simms or Carr rather than Frye or Brad Johnson for this reason.
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:yes: Bye weeks CAN come back to haunt you (as I found out in FBG vs. Staff Survivor I back in 2004), but I don't let it drastically change my draft.

 
Week 6 will be rough, but they really took the trash out on week 7, didn't they?
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Some other sport's championship series starts that weekend.When in doubt - TV is usually the reason.

 
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Week 6 will be rough, but they really took the trash out on week 7, didn't they?
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Some other sport's championship series starts that weekend.When in doubt - TV is usually the reason.
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Exactly -- Week 7 = World Series --- There is no Sunday Night game.
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Damn BB this is my least favotite week in the NFL. :hot: With the 6 teams Jeff mentioned as off, this should be a good wk for football. Yet no Sunday night game?

I still want to know, will the dreaded wk 6 byes change your drafting at all?

 
My league has short benches--8 starters, 6 reserves. One particularly devious strategy is to start a trade negotiation for a borderline player around week 5--someone that's OK, not great, but may have name value--but that you don't actually want. His owner will be far too scared to drop him, knowing he'll get scooped up, putting a lot of pressure on that short bench.

 
My league has short benches--8 starters, 6 reserves. One particularly devious strategy is to start a trade negotiation for a borderline player around week 5--someone that's OK, not great, but may have name value--but that you don't actually want. His owner will be far too scared to drop him, knowing he'll get scooped up, putting a lot of pressure on that short bench.
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Thanks for the post. I am in several live drafts next month and this information is important. (to me) Also, have been in a Dynasty league for many years and the below has been listed on the site since the rookie draft.

"There are SIX teams on "bye" this year Week 6 and 7. Active roster size will be increased from 21 to 23 fot those two weeks. " With 14 teams all ready with a roster have to look for some -diamonds- in the free agents. Shine for two weeks. Lots of luck.

thanks to all for your input. :thumbup:

 
My league has short benches--8 starters, 6 reserves. One particularly devious strategy is to start a trade negotiation for a borderline player around week 5--someone that's OK, not great, but may have name value--but that you don't actually want. His owner will be far too scared to drop him, knowing he'll get scooped up, putting a lot of pressure on that short bench.
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:D Stragegy is strategy. This wk 6 byes is going to spawn some unique strategies.As Jeff says Be aware.

My league has short benches--8 starters, 6 reserves. One particularly devious strategy is to start a trade negotiation for a borderline player around week 5--someone that's OK, not great, but may have name value--but that you don't actually want. His owner will be far too scared to drop him, knowing he'll get scooped up, putting a lot of pressure on that short bench.
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Thanks for the post. I am in several live drafts next month and this information is important. (to me) Also, have been in a Dynasty league for many years and the below has been listed on the site since the rookie draft.

"There are SIX teams on "bye" this year Week 6 and 7. Active roster size will be increased from 21 to 23 fot those two weeks. " With 14 teams all ready with a roster have to look for some -diamonds- in the free agents. Shine for two weeks. Lots of luck.

thanks to all for your input. :thumbup:
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Aug is a heavy draft month, thats why I, like you, think this is an important post.My 1st live draft (in my house) is in 4 wks. Aug 5. Then I have the OMEGA leagues with NO trading, start 8 and live draft(on internet) 18 rnds. $50:00 OMEGA pays $1315 for 1st place and $100:00 OMEGA pays $2800:00, that why there is no trades.

They have some unique rules. I'll just post a link for those who want to read, and not try to explain things here.

One of the keys is if you draft say 2 QBs w/the same bye your screwed. These guys are serious and if they notice any small mistake, they'll make pick ups to further screw you. So, be mindful.

http://www.phenomsff.com/leagues/omega/index.html

 
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