Cheatsheet Tiers (1 Viewer)

[gsmayes]

I'm new to footballguys, after being a member of thehuddle for many years. I switched because I felt the quality of writing was slipping, and I was becoming increasingly turned off by the atmosphere of the forum.

Anyway, one thing they did that I liked was have tiers in their cheat sheets. The thinking is, the players in each tier are close to interchangeable. So maybe your second tier of QBs is Rodgers, Rivers, Romo, McNabb and Cutler. You could use the tiers to determine you might be better off drafting a 2nd WR, while still having a decent chance of landing one of your second tier QBs when it gets back to your pick.

Just a suggestion, I noticed the 163 cheatsheets don't have tier information. Or perhaps this info is somewhere else or there's a strategic reason that footballguys doesn't agree with the use of tiers?

 

[gump]

There is an article on the mainpage with the "expert tiers".

 

[Easy Money]

you can always determine the tiers yourself and mark off where you think the one group ends and another tier begins. that's what i usually do. hope that helps.

 

[SeniorVBDStudent]

you can always determine the tiers yourself and mark off where you think the one group ends and another tier begins. that's what i usually do. hope that helps.

even if you end up ignoring the tiers you setup, its a valuable process cuz it forces you to think about where you want Tier 1 WRs to fit relative to Tier 2 RBs, etc etc. in other words, I always feel a lot more comfortable going into a draft after having been through a tier setting process...

 

[Crusaderfan]

I'm new to footballguys, after being a member of thehuddle for many years. I switched because I felt the quality of writing was slipping, and I was becoming increasingly turned off by the atmosphere of the forum.Anyway, one thing they did that I liked was have tiers in their cheat sheets. The thinking is, the players in each tier are close to interchangeable. So maybe your second tier of QBs is Rodgers, Rivers, Romo, McNabb and Cutler. You could use the tiers to determine you might be better off drafting a 2nd WR, while still having a decent chance of landing one of your second tier QBs when it gets back to your pick. Just a suggestion, I noticed the 163 cheatsheets don't have tier information. Or perhaps this info is somewhere else or there's a strategic reason that footballguys doesn't agree with the use of tiers?

Look at the draft tools - Draft Dominator or the VBD. They combine all positions for you based on your scoring system

 

[Wyld Stallyns]

you can always determine the tiers yourself and mark off where you think the one group ends and another tier begins. that's what i usually do. hope that helps.

In all fairness though, if you're paying money for a service you shouldn't have to "do it yourself"...

 

[thehornet]

I was disappointed with the expert tiers article. It just didnt have the feel of an unbiased tier structure. Ill check back later with some specifics.

 

[fantasyplayer]

I'm new to footballguys, after being a member of thehuddle for many years. I switched because I felt the quality of writing was slipping, and I was becoming increasingly turned off by the atmosphere of the forum.Anyway, one thing they did that I liked was have tiers in their cheat sheets. The thinking is, the players in each tier are close to interchangeable. So maybe your second tier of QBs is Rodgers, Rivers, Romo, McNabb and Cutler. You could use the tiers to determine you might be better off drafting a 2nd WR, while still having a decent chance of landing one of your second tier QBs when it gets back to your pick. Just a suggestion, I noticed the 163 cheatsheets don't have tier information. Or perhaps this info is somewhere else or there's a strategic reason that footballguys doesn't agree with the use of tiers?

Look at the draft tools - Draft Dominator or the VBD. They combine all positions for you based on your scoring system

I think the DD is supposed to have a top 200 or 300 section, but I can't find it. Can someone point in the right direction?

 

[Defending Champs]

As someone mentioned earlier, it is a great exercise to do it yourself. I just took an ADP cheatsheet and tailored it to my socring rules then color coded the tiers myslelf. I just used a spreadsheet and a color printer, worked like a champ and it's already coded the way I want it to go.

I'd recommend this for anyone! It's a good way to remember what you have in mind in the event you don't want to take that exact cheat sheet to the draft, you know, wandering eyes from high school?

 

[gsmayes]

My cheatsheet methodology is to copy the base cheatsheet into excel and tweak to my liking. I also used to grab the ADP info from mfl; but it's not as useful now that my main league is a keeper and my work league is so unpredictable. It's nice to have the tiers in there as a starting point/second opinion. I still have to check out the draft dominator to see what it offers.

I read the tiering article and I think his tiers are too tight, one player is not a tier. Having a bunch of tiers with 2-3 players kind of defeats the propose, IMO.

 

[Bills_Fan11]

My cheatsheet methodology is to copy the base cheatsheet into excel and tweak to my liking. I also used to grab the ADP info from mfl; but it's not as useful now that my main league is a keeper and my work league is so unpredictable. It's nice to have the tiers in there as a starting point/second opinion. I still have to check out the draft dominator to see what it offers.

I read the tiering article and I think his tiers are too tight, one player is not a tier. Having a bunch of tiers with 2-3 players kind of defeats the propose, IMO.

Sorta agree. Setting min's or max's either way defeats the purpose. I think the 3rd WR tier for example is quite large for example. But I think one player can be a tier: eg Manning by himself on the 2nd QB tier (I know most won't agree with that specifically).