Need help with crazy scoring system (1 Viewer)

[dschuler]

Normal yardage rules, but all touchdowns are scored as follows:

Plus 4 points for a PaTD of 1 to 9 Yds

Plus 5 points for a PaTD of 10 to 19 Yds

Plus 6 points for a PaTD of 20 to 29 Yds

Plus 7 points for a PaTD of 30 to 39 Yds

Plus 8 points for a PaTD of 40 to 49 Yds

Plus 9 points for a PaTD of 50 to 59 Yds

Plus 10 points for a PaTD of 60 to 69 Yds

Plus 11 points for a PaTD of 70 to 79 Yds

Plus 12 points for a PaTD of 80 to 89 Yds

Plus 13 points for a PaTD of 90 to 99 Yds

Plus 14 points for a PaTD of 100 to 100 Yds

I have the first pick, and don't want it. I feel like QBs are gonna be strong. What you think?

 

[Bobtender]

Stick to regular strategy.

Obviously take AP with the first pick.

you can't predict long TD's

 

[Sarnoff]

I found this, covering the 2000-2004 season. Someone more versed in Data Dominator could probably generate a more recent report. But these older numbers show the majority of passing TDs occurring within the 20, for 4 or 5 points in your system. Doesn't seem like TD distance is very predictable to me, I think you could run the projections with Pass TDs = 5 points or Pass TDs = 6 pts, or if Draft Dominator has a bonus option, plug that in, but I think getting worried over flukes isn't the way to go here. Just draft normally and let the other guys freak out over QBs.

I mean, at some point during the year, you're going to lose to some guy with a second-rate QB getting lucky on a short 5 yard pass that the WR breaks for 95 yards. It'll happen. But I don't think it's a concern on draft day to try and capture that.

 

[dschuler]

Yeah thanks for the input guys, I think I'm going to take your advice and not get too cute

 

[jbz]

Assuming you still only start 1 QB....they could make passing TDs worth 1000 points, it wouldn't change your draft strategy. Every team still can only start 1 and you should be able to get a good one later on. Take AD and proceed as planned. If you can flex QBs, then all bets are off and I would strongly consider taking a QB IMO.

 

[Amused to Death]

Normal yardage rules, but all touchdowns are scored as follows:

Plus 4 points for a PaTD of 1 to 9 Yds

Plus 5 points for a PaTD of 10 to 19 Yds

Plus 6 points for a PaTD of 20 to 29 Yds

Plus 7 points for a PaTD of 30 to 39 Yds

Plus 8 points for a PaTD of 40 to 49 Yds

Plus 9 points for a PaTD of 50 to 59 Yds

Plus 10 points for a PaTD of 60 to 69 Yds

Plus 11 points for a PaTD of 70 to 79 Yds

Plus 12 points for a PaTD of 80 to 89 Yds

Plus 13 points for a PaTD of 90 to 99 Yds

Plus 14 points for a PaTD of 100 to 100 Yds

I have the first pick, and don't want it. I feel like QBs are gonna be strong. What you think?

100 yard TD pass is not possible. 99 yards is the longest possible offensive play.

 

[joffer]

Change leagues

 

[dschuler]

Change leagues

It's a league from work, lot of trash talking going on. Gonna stick to a normal strategy and see how it plays out.

 

[Adam Harstad]

Assuming you still only start 1 QB....they could make passing TDs worth 1000 points, it wouldn't change your draft strategy. Every team still can only start 1 and you should be able to get a good one later on. Take AD and proceed as planned. If you can flex QBs, then all bets are off and I would strongly consider taking a QB IMO.

Last year, in standard scoring, Drew Brees outscored the second best fantasy QB (Aaron Rodgers) by 2 points. If all passing TDs were worth 1,000 points, Brees would have outscored the second best fantasy QB (still Rodgers) by 3,978 points. A team that started Drew Brees and no one else- simply left every single other roster spot on its entire team empty- would have outscored a team that started Aaron Rodgers, Adrian Peterson, Doug Martin, Calvin Johnson, Brandon Marshall, Dez Bryant, and Jimmy Graham... by 2,611 points. That's right, Drew Brees would be the highest scoring team in the entire league by thousands of points.

With that said, a length-of-touchdown bonus is tricky. Elite passers are elite because they're unstoppable in the red zone. They typically don't get more long TDs than the other guys. You know who led the league last year in TDs over 40 yards? Andy Dalton, with 8 (out of 27 total). Peyton Manning only had 2 (out of 37 total). It'd be pretty difficult to predict which QBs are winning and which are losing in this scoring system. Functionally, in terms of total points, I'd imagine this wouldn't be too terribly different from a typical 6-point TD league.