No lineup fantasy football (1 Viewer)

[rawdog]

I've long been intriguied by the idea of not putting in a lineup each week for fantasy football, but rather getting your Best Available lineup after all the scores are up. Not only do you avoid stressing over that last WR or somebody's playing status, but it also allows you to take advantage of depth aside from the byes. Knowing any player on your roster might make the cut any given week makes the last few rounds of your draft more interesting. Maybe you carry three kickers and have them battle it out every week for that one starting slot. or maybe you carry an explosive boom-ror-bust guy like Antwaan randle El for the 2 times a year he bust a long TD.

The downside, of course, is NOT having to make lineup choices– does that dillute the strategy of the game and 2) finding a website that will easily calculate Best Available. Lord knows it's not soemthing Sportsline would be innovative enough to come up with.

Anybody ever play this way and/or know of any websites that offer to do lineups this way?

 

[ShadowMaster]

Have you seen the Mock Drafts R Us area of this forum?

 

[kbreaker]

Might be interesting for a 2nd league. Don't think I'd want it for my primary, though.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Have you seen the Mock Drafts R Us area of this forum?

All of the WSL, SSL, MBSL, PDSL leagues play this way. Go look...there's drafts going on now.

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

It's called "Best Ball" normally, and several players here (and their leagues) play that way.

For those who enjoy drafting over weekly transactions / lineup sets, it is a nice way to go.

 

[Bada Bing]

I've long been intriguied by the idea of not putting in a lineup each week for fantasy football, but rather getting your Best Available lineup after all the scores are up. Not only do you avoid stressing over that last WR or somebody's playing status, but it also allows you to take advantage of depth aside from the byes. Knowing any player on your roster might make the cut any given week makes the last few rounds of your draft more interesting. Maybe you carry three kickers and have them battle it out every week for that one starting slot. or maybe you carry an explosive boom-ror-bust guy like Antwaan randle El for the 2 times a year he bust a long TD.

The downside, of course, is NOT having to make lineup choices– does that dillute the strategy of the game and 2) finding a website that will easily calculate Best Available. Lord knows it's not soemthing Sportsline would be innovative enough to come up with.

Anybody ever play this way and/or know of any websites that offer to do lineups this way?

Myfantasyleague.com offers this option.

 

[jcjets]

Isn't that the way the survivor leagues are scored?

 

[Godsbrother]

I have a buddy who plays in a league where there is no draft and you don't submit weekly lineups. Each player is given a salary and you have a set number of players for each position but you can choose whoever you want for your team as long as you stay ator below the salary cap.

Once your roster is set your team is frozen. There are no transactions and no weekly lineups. If a player on your team gets hurt you don't get any points from him. The team that accumulates the most points at the end of the year wins the pot.

Pretty simple but I don't like it. Most of the fun in FF is playing around with your roster, making trades, looking at matchups, etc.

 

[Captain Hook]

Both the WCOFF (World Championship of Fantasy Football) and NFFC (National Fantasy Football Championship) run smaller events called Draftmasters or Draft Champions where prior to the season the competitors in 12 team leagues (WCOFF) or 14 team leagues (NFFC) draft larger rosters (26) and then their scores are "optimized" for the starting lineup requirements they have in their main events (QB, 2RB, 3WR, TE, Flex (RB/WR/TE), K and DST

The entry fee for both is $650 and they pay three places.

Certainly NFFC and perhaps both also run smaller entry versions on their earlier, satellite, on-line competitions.

 

[John Facenda]

What??? Not getting to kick yourself for putting RB B in instead of RB A?

To me, making the lineup choices for the weekends games is part of what makes FFootball fun.

 

[Giggity]

Yes search for Draft Masters.

You draft, and it picks the highest players each week to fill your lineup. It's pretty fun.

 

[Fiddles]

What??? Not getting to kick yourself for putting RB B in instead of RB A? To me, making the lineup choices for the weekends games is part of what makes FFootball fun.

dont have to choose one over the other. you can do both. bestball takes no time during the season so theres no reason not to do them if you enjoy drafting.

 

[GregR_2]

Isn't that the way the survivor leagues are scored?

Yep, at least the one I'm in is. It was originally one of the FBG commentary drafts from a few years back but we've kept doing it every year on our own. All that we do is draft and that is it. No trades, no waivers. You get your best scoring lineup each week.It's nice in that a lot of the fun of FF is drafting while a lot of the toil and drugery is keeping up with injuries and who will start or not. It's a good way to be in another league without increasing how much time each week you have to deveot to FF during the season.Not that there's any reason you couldn't do one with trades and waivers of course.

 

[GDogg]

I'm in a secondary league, which gives points for all players on your roster. It's an interesting way of doing things.

 

[The Shizzle]

That way you can have your draft in August, and see how you season went after week 17.

Not fun.

 

[bigfishboy]

But can you still make roster moves and trades during the season? You can't in most survivor leagues. It would be interesting if everything else played the same except for "best ball" on gameday.

 

[rawdog]

I guess from a strategy point of view it comes down to what you find more interesting: Figuring out that last WR every week, etc or making sure even your last few players in your roster have potential since they could actually make it into your lineup.

The FBG rushing/passing matchup e-mails go out the window when you play "Best Ball".

 

[GDogg]

That way you can have your draft in August, and see how you season went after week 17.Not fun.

I guess this would be true if you either a) had an amazing draft or b) want to lose.The one league I am in that does this has a limited amount of transactions. So, drafting well is obviously a huge benefit, but you also want to make solid moves throughout the season.It's only one league and I wouldn't want my only league to be like this, but it's fine as a secondary league.

 

[stugnut]

Do any of the online sites offer a Best Ball league like the FBG's subscriber contest? Where each player is given a value and you have to draft your roster (3 QB's, 5 RB's, etc) and stay under the cap?

 

[NOONAN]

That way you can have your draft in August, and see how you season went after week 17.Not fun.

I guess this would be true if you either a) had an amazing draft or b) want to lose.The one league I am in that does this has a limited amount of transactions. So, drafting well is obviously a huge benefit, but you also want to make solid moves throughout the season.It's only one league and I wouldn't want my only league to be like this, but it's fine as a secondary league.

In my main league(18 year old, 10 team, 7 per side keeper), we start 11 on offense(2-QB, 3-RB, 4-WR, 1-Flex and the dreaded kicker) and 11 on defense(4-LB, 4-DB, 3-DL). You have a 4-man taxi. Besides injury replacement, you can make 2 transactions every week(mostly for bye week replacement but also waiver wire pickup-sometimes only for a particular matchup). It is a blast because you don't have as much bench scoring, yet you are making moves every week. There are ways to make virtually any format enjoyable, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[Monty Burns]

What??? Not getting to kick yourself for putting RB B in instead of RB A? To me, making the lineup choices for the weekends games is part of what makes FFootball fun.

dont have to choose one over the other. you can do both. bestball takes no time during the season so theres no reason not to do them if you enjoy drafting.

If you prefer using your time, especially if its limited, at looking at trades and scouring the WW, instead of looking at WDIS, BestBall is a great way to go. In a dynasty BestBall I started this year, trades and WW moves are unlimited. 12 teams, 1/2/3/1/1/1 plus 2 RB/WR/TE flex with 1.5/1.0/.5 PPR for TE/WR/RB. 26 roster slots with rosters limited to only 2 D's and K's are its main features.

 

[SanDawg]

I do play in a league like this. Not a huge fan of it, but it does present different strategy. We draft 2QB's, 3RB, 5WR, 2TE, 2D, and 2K. We only get a waiver move every other week that is predetermined based on your draft slot. Each week all players are in. Only 1 QB, 1RB, 2WR, and 1 D,K, and TE count. You need to draft well only having a move every other week.

 

[Family Matters]

As you can see there are many pros and cons to playing a "bestball" format. As always it's what you like best. My biggest frustration playing FF is winning and losing based on injuries. There's no skill involved with getting your starter injured after you set your line up only to lose to an inferior team because you lost 1 or more players due to injury. Also, I hate winning that way. Again that's not skill, it's luck. And for those that say injuries are a part of the game well in the real game you get to make a replacement for injured players. There is no fair to that in FF so that's the greatest advantage to "bestball". It's keeps it fair for everyone.

Another factor for those that play in multiple leagues, when you are required to make your starting line ups by a certain time and you have more than 1 player that's perhaps questionable for playing and you're waiting for lasy minute updates, well you can't always be in 2 or more websites or leagues at a time making those decisions. You're likely going ot get burned somewhere.

I enjoy the challenge of selecting players as a strategy as much as anyone. But I've seen too many times a team win/lose based on an injury. There's no skill in that and that makes the game less enjoyable for me. I'll take being held fully accountable for my outcome over luck any day. Any chance to remove luck factors is always a good think IMO.

But I can fully appreciate the arguement of those wanting to set line ups. It's what most of us have always done.