Do Home/Road Factor In WDIS? (1 Viewer)

[DexterDew]

not going to name some specific players since this is not a WDIS thread, but i was doing some research to determine who i want to start between a couple of tough decisions and i was shocked with what i found: one player has been awful at home. The sample size is only five games but it was enough to sway me.

do other FF Owners use home/road splits as a factor?

how about turf/grass?

just curious since i don't want to leave a stone unturned during the first round off playoffs

TIA

 

[footballnerd]

if all other variables have already been looked at first, then maybe look at home vs road. or look at the defense they are going against being on the road, such as SEA

 

[DexterDew]

since the week is over and this generated virtually no interest in the SP:

I benched Finley for Hernandez since Finley has been terrible at home. Helped me win a couple of playoff games since Finley continued his trend at underperforming at home (this time to a whole new level: Zero). I'm sure someone could come up with some spurious reasoning, but I could not ignore the trend. I find it interesting that when it comes to actual "betting" on the game, home/road is a huge factor, but not on the players performace.

I also started Jordy over Dez since he has killed it at home all year.

Normally I would use this just as a data point, like footballnerd said, but sometimes it is the main consideration after health and opposing DEF.

 

[ConstruxBoy]

For several years I made WDIS decisions giving some weight to Home/Away. After examining the results, it only seemed to matter for K and DEF and even that effect was minimal.

 

[DexterDew]

Curious as to why that is... has to be some sort of sample size issue since there are only a 12 games of data to make a Week 14 conclussion.

And the variance from year to year can be attributed to so many different (team) factors that it would be impossible to accurately draw such assumptions (like Brett Favre's record when below 32 degrees or in a dome).

I will say that I am intrigued about the turf/grass splits, especially for teams like NO that have trouble on the road in places like TEN but kill teams like NYG at home.

 

[firstseason1988]

Sometimes, depends on player, team, and place.