Does your league use fractional scoring? (1 Viewer)

[Evilgrin 72]

For example, if your league is 1 pt per 10 yards receiving and your RB gets 17 receiving yards, do you get 1.7 points for this, or simply 1 point?

 

[KellysHeroes]

always..

 

[massraider]

The only argument for full points is, "Ummm, well, this is the way we've always done it."

And it's a dumb argument.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

need to go with fractional just to reduce the chance of ties alone. I do this in all leagues but one.

I do have one league were the scoring is pretty complex, prr and tons of bonuses etc, and in 12 years we have only had one tie game.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

The only argument for full points is, "Ummm, well, this is the way we've always done it."And it's a dumb argument.

Join my league. It took me 6 years of begging for 1 pt/10 yds rush/rec to get them to lower it from 1 pt/25 yds to 1 pt/20 yds. Still playing with 1 pt/50 yds passing

 

[fsufan]

2 leagues that do and 2 that do not

 

[GroveDiesel]

The only argument for full points is, "Ummm, well, this is the way we've always done it."And it's a dumb argument.

It seems goofy to reward a guy for getting 10 yards but give him nothing for 9 yards. Fractional scoring rewards all performances and helps eliminate arbitrary cutoffs.

 

[fsufan]

need to go with fractional just to reduce the chance of ties alone. I do this in all leagues but one.I do have one league were the scoring is pretty complex, prr and tons of bonuses etc, and in 12 years we have only had one tie game.

2 of my leagues do not use fractional scoring and we usually have 1 tie a year.

 

[H.K.]

Fractional scoring makes me mad .

QB's get those cheap TD's - you know the kind, when the nose of the ball at the LOS is about one centimeter from the goal line - then they sneak it across and not only do they get credit for the 6 points, but they get credit for one yard rushing! WTF is that? A yard is three feet, not one centimeter! Now the clown gets 6.1 points instead of 6 for one lousy centimeter?!?!?!

 

[KellysHeroes]

The only argument for full points is, "Ummm, well, this is the way we've always done it."And it's a dumb argument.

Join my league. It took me 6 years of begging for 1 pt/10 yds rush/rec to get them to lower it from 1 pt/25 yds to 1 pt/20 yds. Still playing with 1 pt/50 yds passing

Leave the league then

 

[Jayrod]

The only argument for full points is, "Ummm, well, this is the way we've always done it."And it's a dumb argument.

It seems goofy to reward a guy for getting 10 yards but give him nothing for 9 yards. Fractional scoring rewards all performances and helps eliminate arbitrary cutoffs.

Last year I missed the championship game by one point in one of my leagues and I had 2 receivers & 1 running back whose receiving yardage totals ended in a 9 and we did not use fractional scoring. If we had used fractional scoring I would be sitting here talking about how I won that league as my team had the highest point total in week 16 (where I got 3rd place )

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

I much prefer fractional scoring. I'd like to see the survivor leagues go to this.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

The only argument for full points is, "Ummm, well, this is the way we've always done it."And it's a dumb argument.

Join my league. It took me 6 years of begging for 1 pt/10 yds rush/rec to get them to lower it from 1 pt/25 yds to 1 pt/20 yds. Still playing with 1 pt/50 yds passing

Leave the league then

Nah... bunch of old friends - almost all original owners for 10 years, plus it's pretty high stakes.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

The only argument for full points is, "Ummm, well, this is the way we've always done it."

And it's a dumb argument.

It seems goofy to reward a guy for getting 10 yards but give him nothing for 9 yards. Fractional scoring rewards all performances and helps eliminate arbitrary cutoffs.

And once that is accomplished, we can stop rewarding players 60x as much for getting the last yard on the field, compared to all the other yards.

 

[massraider]

The only argument for full points is, "Ummm, well, this is the way we've always done it."And it's a dumb argument.

Join my league. It took me 6 years of begging for 1 pt/10 yds rush/rec to get them to lower it from 1 pt/25 yds to 1 pt/20 yds. Still playing with 1 pt/50 yds passing

Yeah, it's usually stubborn owners that fear change without actually considering what the change might mean.The very first league I was in, round '93 or so, expanded from 10 guys into 48 guys in 4 seperate leagues, champs played each other, huge payout for a $100 entry fee. It was with a bunch of my high school buddies, and was very well run. But the scoring was absurd, with huge points for long TD plays, making yardage virtually worthless. If you had a couple long TD's, you easily outscored some guy whose team did better overall. I won the league twice, but one was pure luck, and as time went on, it became apparent that the scoring was out of whack. No one ever wanted to change it, and I left the league. I don't miss it at all.Fantasy football is still being tweaked, there are great changes being made annually. It's a good thing not all changes are fought that strongly, otherwise there'd still be commissioners sitting there on Monday with a calculator and a copy of USA Today.

 

[ravnzfan]

For example, if your league is 1 pt per 10 yards receiving and your RB gets 17 receiving yards, do you get 1.7 points for this, or simply 1 point?

Great question, 'Grin...I started my dynasty leagues w/a cross section of rules I liked from 3 different leagues I played in early in my FF days

we use decimal scoring because every yard counts, and every yard counts the same

I play in 1 league (my original, so I understand the emotional tie you feel) that was TD heavy(which is fine), but awards to this day 1/20 ru/rec combined for RB/WR/TE, w/a 1 point bonus for 100 yds

99yd ru/rec = 4 points

100y ru/rec = 6 points

why is the 100th yard worth 50% of the first 99 gained?

The commish doesn't want to see the games turn into 125-100 slugfests (altough I set scoring record last yr w/5--100+ point games!), so we rarely see more than 6 points or so for production from a player...

...but to your point, decimal scoring is the way to go!

 

[Godsbrother]

The commish doesn't want to see the games turn into 125-100 slugfests (altough I set scoring record last yr w/5--100+ point games!), so we rarely see more than 6 points or so for production from a player...

I don't get the rationale of this at all. Who cares if the score of the game is 30-25 or 130-125?

 

[Captain Hook]

FWIW, both WCOFF and NFFC use fractional scoring for yardage AND FG (over thirty yards)

 

[DA RAIDERS]

i would never do full points. it's a thing of the past.

 

[ravnzfan]

The commish doesn't want to see the games turn into 125-100 slugfests (altough I set scoring record last yr w/5--100+ point games!), so we rarely see more than 6 points or so for production from a player...

I don't get the rationale of this at all. Who cares if the score of the game is 30-25 or 130-125?

Which is why I've started leagues that use decimal scoring and count yardage the same, be it the 1st yard or the 151st

 

[Evilgrin 72]

I'm not pushing for change because I (alone, I believe) have figured out how to alter the projections in order to truly realize the impact of RB's receiving yards. If an RB catches 2 passes for 18 yards each and every game of the season, he will finish with 32 receptions for 288 yards. The unsavvy will simply mark this as 14 points in his projections, while I realize that the actual value of those receiving yards is 0. Figuring out how to account for that means your projections will be far more accurate (namely a player like Rudi Johnson and a player like Frank Gore will have far less distance between them in our scoring format than in most others, even non-PPR leagues.)

 

[doughboydeluxe]

I'm not pushing for change because I (alone, I believe) have figured out how to alter the projections in order to truly realize the impact of RB's receiving yards. If an RB catches 2 passes for 18 yards each and every game of the season, he will finish with 32 receptions for 288 yards. The unsavvy will simply mark this as 14 points in his projections, while I realize that the actual value of those receiving yards is 0. Figuring out how to account for that means your projections will be far more accurate (namely a player like Rudi Johnson and a player like Frank Gore will have far less distance between them in our scoring format than in most others, even non-PPR leagues.)

I'd be interested to know what process you use. Historical info?

 

[Penguin]

Most of my leagues use fractional scoring but two are still whole numbers. I much prefer fractional scoring mainly because I really dislike ties. In one 12 team league we had 5 ties last year, all among the top 6 (playoff) teams.

 

[bjabrad]

FWIW, both WCOFF and NFFC use fractional scoring for yardage AND FG (over thirty yards)

Great idea to fractionalize the FG's. I've played for six years and never heard or thought of thatbut it makes great sense. I've used fractional in all my self commissioned leagues and feel the need to educate other leagues/commissioners of the benefits of fractional points including the value as a way to prevent ties.

 

[msommer]

Most of my leagues do, my homeboy league doesn't

 

[wannabee]

fractional for my online dynasty leagues and whole points for my long time local redrafts that are VERY old school in scoring and all rules

 

[Liquid Tension]

Fractional scoring makes me mad . QB's get those cheap TD's - you know the kind, when the nose of the ball at the LOS is about one centimeter from the goal line - then they sneak it across and not only do they get credit for the 6 points, but they get credit for one yard rushing! WTF is that? A yard is three feet, not one centimeter! Now the clown gets 6.1 points instead of 6 for one lousy centimeter?!?!?!

I hope this was a joke???

 

[fridayfrenzy]

You guys use fractions?? Weird.

Decimal scoring is where its at.

 

[The Man With No Name]

One does, one doesn't, and probably never will.

 

[ImTheScientist]

We switched to fractional scoring last year and it was the best thing our league has done. It eliminates ties for the most part. I also missed the playoffs by .4 pts total, in the last game, of last season...............INTENSE

 

[radballs]

Fractional scoring makes me mad . QB's get those cheap TD's - you know the kind, when the nose of the ball at the LOS is about one centimeter from the goal line - then they sneak it across and not only do they get credit for the 6 points, but they get credit for one yard rushing! WTF is that? A yard is three feet, not one centimeter! Now the clown gets 6.1 points instead of 6 for one lousy centimeter?!?!?!

I hope this was a joke???

It's H.K.. What else could it be?

 

[H.K.]

Fractional scoring makes me mad . QB's get those cheap TD's - you know the kind, when the nose of the ball at the LOS is about one centimeter from the goal line - then they sneak it across and not only do they get credit for the 6 points, but they get credit for one yard rushing! WTF is that? A yard is three feet, not one centimeter! Now the clown gets 6.1 points instead of 6 for one lousy centimeter?!?!?!

I hope this was a joke???

It's H.K.. What else could it be?

:X radballs, you complete me.

 

[KellysHeroes]

Fractional scoring [ 110 ] [77.46%]

Full points only [ 32 ] [22.54%]

That says it all