Bye Week Strategies? (1 Viewer)

[Maven]

We all know bye weeks are inevitable in FF but what are some of your strategies in dealing with the dreaded bye week? Do you try to stockpile most of your players to fall on a particular bye week and sacrifice a game? Do you look at your schedule and try to identify which players you might want to have all your guys for? Or do you simply just draft regardless of where the bye weeks fall? What are some of your bye week strategies?

 

[The Man with the Plan]

We all know bye weeks are inevitable in FF but what are some of your strategies in dealing with the dreaded bye week? Do you try to stockpile most of your players to fall on a particular bye week and sacrifice a game? Do you look at your schedule and try to identify which players you might want to have all your guys for? Or do you simply just draft regardless of where the bye weeks fall? What are some of your bye week strategies?

 

[BigRed]

Pay little if any attention. Is it better to take one big hit or little hits thoughout the year? You could make a case either way.

 

[VTjkru]

I dont really pay that much attention to where bye drafts lay but if I have players ranked around the same spot Ill pick the one that has the same bye week as other players. Id rather take a hit that one week, cause usually I have a team that's good enough to still be competitive so I dont feel Im at a total lost.

 

[Sylira21]

Generally the only time I'll care is if my starting QB has an early bye week, I might look at matchups that week for my backup QB.

 

[tomarken]

I don't typically worry about bye weeks too much. However, one thing I like to do which has proven very useful is this:

During the draft, I monitor my schedule and the bye weeks of my opponents (using DD of course!) For example, let's say I'm playing TEAM A in week 9, and I notice that in the first four rounds he has drafted two players that are both on bye week 9. If I'm trying to decide between two or three players who I all have ranked equally when it is my turn to pick, I will take the one that is on bye week 9. Why? I already know I'll have an advantage that week, so taking a player on bye that week won't hurt me as much.

This actually just happened to me in a draft I am in. The team I am scheduled to play week 9 drafted Steven Jackson and Ronnie Brown with his first two picks. His top two running backs are both on bye the week I play him! When it was my turn to pick I wanted a WR from a closely grouped tier of available players, and I targeted Plaxico Burress (who is also on bye week 9). So just as normal, one of my starting WR's will be out for a week, but I specifically targeted it to be week 9 when it won't hurt too much to be missing one of my starting WR's!

LOL, unfortunately Burress was selected two picks before me, so it didn't work out that time, but I have pulled it off in previous years to great effect - I think a smart drafter should always look for such opportunities to maximize the value of every pick.

 

[BigSteelThrill]

Pay little if any attention.

Correct-amundo.Byes happen. Just use free agency. Byes dont come until week 4 so there is plenty of time to make most anything workable.

 

[Tommy Collins]

People put too much emphasis into bye weeks and weaken their team because of it. Draft who you want, worry about bye weeks later. Would you rather have a mediocre team every week or a very good team that struggles a couple weeks?

 

[1huskerfan]

Draft a K and a DST w/ the latest possible bye week.