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I am not sure of the exact total (Doug has that count), but he told me that there were slightly less than 12,000 valid entries. Everyone will advance to week 2.Doug will have all of the vital stats here soon.
thank god:breesandbush:
That's what I was thinking as a non-Brees/Bush owner.Still think Bush is over-rated in this format with Duece still lurking around. Some weeks he'll single handedly advance you, others he'll leave you with a pumpkin.thank god:breesandbush:
thank god:breesandbush:
Me too. Thank goodness for the "less than 12,000 entries". I think we dodged a serious bullet. 
I am guessing the number is quite high. If you don't have him, then you were not putting your orster together correctly.
NO FLEX in the contestBroadwayG said:
From the rules:Each week your top QB, top 2 RBs, top 3 WRs, top TE, top flex (either RB, WR or TE), top PK and top Def/ST will count towards your weekly total. You do not have to select who will play. You will receive the maximum score based on your roster.
I wouldn't have less than 3 for any position except for Kicker. Going with 2 QB's is suicide. TE isn't a big scoring position, but because of the inconsistency at that position, having 3 TE's is a good strategy to ensure you don't get shutout. Any healthy kicker will get you 3-10 points consistently, so there is little value in loading up on kickers.BroadwayG said:
There is this year.
I disagree. At 1.5 PPR for Te's I think it's very important especially the better ones who are likely to have a consitent 5-7 catches a game, without yards right there that's 7.5-10.5 points for your team, add in the 50-60 yards (now you're at 12.5-15.5 ppg) and a possible TD (12.5-21.5 ppg) and they became very important considering that typicaly cut marks are around 100-140 (if i recall correctly taht was about the range throughout last year).
I didn't give too much attention to TE's...Based on the average results of the top 10 TE's in 2006 (top 10 in receptions, top 10 in yardage, top 10 in td's)
I don't mean to poke, but your numbers are obliterated by the best starter format of the contest.
You disagreed with a minor point about what is considered 'big', but what about the main point of having at least 3 TEs? I was making the point it is important to get points out of that position and the best way to guarantee decent production is with more than 2 TE's.
No they aren't. What's the use of a crappy third TE who's never going to score enough to make a difference?
You're looking for TEs that have 80 to 112 catches per year? Only one TE had that kind of production last year.
You're obviously not ready.
My squad:QB - Peyton Manning - 31QB - David Garrard - 2QB - Bruce Gradkowski - 1RB - LaDainian Tomlinson - 70RB - Adrian Peterson - 23RB - T.J. Duckett - 2RB - Greg Jones - 1WR - Chad Johnson - 43WR - Reggie Wayne - 39WR - Joe Horn - 7WR - Patrick Crayton - 3WR - Jacoby Jones - 2WR - Antwaan Randle El - 2WR - Chris Henry - 2WR - Dennis Northcutt - 1TE - Greg Olsen - 7TE - Alex Smith - 1PK - Adam Vinatieri - 5PK - Nick Folk - 1TD - San Diego Chargers - 5TD - Cleveland Browns - 1TD - Tennessee Titans - 1
Well, I guess I was just trying to say I don't think the TE position is that important - even with the 1.5 ppr. Its an inconsistant scoring position and not a lot of point difference between the players. Certainly Gates will provide the points but I didn't want to spend $35 for him. Just my view.(edited to add my team)
Yes I agree that it's a way to gaurantee decent production.
Killer team dude, good job!
I understand your point but I believe your logic is wrong. I'd be looking at a TE having 80-112 catches per year IF the 5-7 catches were limited to only 1 TE. But you're not, you only need one TE to get those 5 catches and it doesn't have to be the same one every week. If you grab two decent TE's (and possibly a 3rd cheaply) you have a good shot at getting those 5 catches week in and out (case in point look at E. Johnson last night, will he continue to catch 7 ball a game? Not likely, it got someone 15 points or so) I'm not saying that you have to go out and grab Gates, just not to overlook the position.And even if I down grade the numbers to 4 catches (64 rec per year) a game you still talking about 10+ ppg, which can be crucial.
I see what you are saying (35 versus 36) but aren't you really trying to figure the relative probabilities of how 3WRs (or 3WRs and 1Flex) are going to perform, and therefore you need to consider the product of probabilities (in other words isn't the 7WR team 75% as good as the 4WR team in terms of the combined performance of 3WR and 1Flex starter, versus 93% as good?). I never liked statistics....Edited to ask: Wouldn't the math be:If Ratio of Individual Probabilities of 1 Good Score on each team = X = (7*5/16)/(4*9/16) = 97.2%Then Ratio of Team Probabilities of 4 "good" starting WR scores (3WR and 1FLEX) = 4*X = 89% (3*X = 91% excluding FLEX)?Wouldn't you want to pay whatever you could afford to achieve any relative advantage? In other words, put all your money on your starters? As for choosing between WHICH starters (LT and 4RBs OR Addai, Bush and 2RBs for example) isn't the actual math to work out where to spend based on projected variation in week to week performance versus auction cost all so protracted and assumption-dependant that its silly to approach this on any such detailed numbers basis, and better to just populate your team starters first assuming their relative chances of success can be approximated based on a typical value versus baseline? What are the relative confidence factors in, say, Marvin Harrison versus Marty Booker? I simply don't know if the relative standard deviation of lower tier players is bigger, smaller or the same as higher tier players. Did Joe lock Yudkin in a basement and force him to work out all these probabilities when setting auction prices?
4 Placekickers, but only 2 QB's???? Makes no sense. Brees is a great QB but is still gonna have bad weeks. Is Hurad dependable enough to pick up the slack. As I said, no one is gonna win with only 2 QB's unless one is named Manning. I would still have three. Even stud QB's have off weeks and you need backups to pick up the slack. QB is too high scoring position to have just two.
He's gonna have to sweat Indy's bye bigtime but the good thing is that it's early in the season. Or is that a bad thing?
Especially since everyone advances in week 1.
And sometimes week 2.Especially since everyone advances in week 1.
