drafting strategy - shallow bench (1 Viewer)

[moleculo]

how would having only two bench spots available affect your strategy? any thoughts here? I'm honestly not sure how to play this.

My first thought is that handcuffing is out the window.

Next - what about QB? will it be more important to get a QB early, or late? with such a shallow bench, it's pretty much a mortal lock that there will be QB talent available on the WW, but every other team will have the ability to get these QB's too. One could consider QBBC a strong possibility, using the WW as the QBBC pool, but again, you can't guarantee that every other team won't be playing QB roulette at the same time.

RB hoarding: is this worth doing with two bench spots? Probably don't want to go RB RB RB here. Or, maybe I do. I don't know.

 

[moleculo]

Bueller? anyone?

 

[Bender]

What's the league roster setup?

I'd go extra heavy with RBs. Because of such little depth on each team, you can probably play matchups most weeks with QB and TE, and even WR if you had to. There should be enough talent at all those positions.

Meanwhile, RBs will probably still be scarce by the end of that draft.

As always, you need to be conscious of value. If people are taking LenDale White and Tom Brady is still on the board...then you just have to make the value pick at that point.

 

[moleculo]

What's the league roster setup?I'd go extra heavy with RBs. Because of such little depth on each team, you can probably play matchups most weeks with QB and TE, and even WR if you had to. There should be enough talent at all those positions. Meanwhile, RBs will probably still be scarce by the end of that draft.

it's screwy - this is my college buddies. We've been playing in the league for years and I've never taken it serious - i want to win it this year just to probe my mettle.QB, WR, RB, TE, W/T, W/R, W/R, K, DEF, DB, DL, BN, BNso, it's IDP and team D. Plus, return yards count just as much as regular yards. I think Reggie Bush becomes RB1 ahead of LT in that format, considering he will be returning kickoffs now.

 

[dojeff]

Make sure your TE, Def, and K all have different bye weeks

 

[moleculo]

Make sure your TE, Def, and K all have different bye weeks

actually, I'm considering taking only bills, Broncos, Lions, colts, Steelers, and 49ers across the board, and sacrificing week 6. That would take bye week totally out of the equation.

 

[george]

Never done this before, but I think when you have two players valued about the same, take the one with the later bye week. 11 starters 2 bench. Almost impossible to not duplicate bye weeks.

This would give you the ability to not drop players you want to keep because BYES are going to be a ##### in this format. AND try to trade your players before their byes to teams with player who already had their byes? Just a thought.

 

[chris1969]

The only thing you should care about in that league is getting 4 solid RB's and make sure that they don't have the same bye weeks. In every other position you should try to get the best players that you can that either have late bye weeks or an easy schedule early. You will be cutting each of those players when they get a bad match-up or have a bye week if you want to win.