Tennessee_ATO
Footballguy
It seems to me that the "best" players to have as your backbone are low-volatility, high scorers. Obviously you can't assemble an entire roster of those guys since the salary constraints get you, but those are the guys you have to build around. The reason is that the worst week of a player is just as important as the best week of a player. If your whole team is a bunch of those 15, 0, 0 guys, you're doomed. On the flip side, if your team is nothing but a bunch of 5, 5, 5 players, you're doomed.I firmly believe that while low-volatility, high scorers are what you have to build around, in order to win you need to fill-out the roster with $2 15, 0, 0 guys. The 5, 5, 5 guy is useless -- completely and utterly useless. If you're relying on any of those guys, give it up. All of that leads me to conclude that a shorter roster is the way to go. You may not be able to spread the risk around as much, but you should have enough low-risk players that it shouldn't matter.Obviously you have to plan your byes appropriately and you can be prone to the injury bug. But isn't that pretty much true of every fantasy football game/league/contest?Yeah, straight points per dollar isn't a good metric. (Mike Nugent is the current leader, fwiw.) I've played around with different utility models in the past but never really settled on anything simple that I liked. To really determine how "valuable" a player has been in this contest you have to weigh the additional points vs the additional cost and what else you could acquire for that cost, cutting across positions, etc. Tom Brady has averaged 38 points a week, for $27. Matt Stafford has averaged 31 points a week, but only cost $18. Is it worth $9 to sacrifice 7 points at the QB position? Cam Newton has averaged more points than Stafford for $4 less, so clearly Stafford hasn't the best buy at QB. Hasselbeck has averaged 25 points per game for $11; guys like Grossman and Henne have only averaged 20 points per week but only cost $8. Is it worth it to take fewer points at QB if it means you free up that much more money for other positions? Etc. etc.I did this a couple of years ago and it is pretty jacked by lower cost guys. There has to be some sort of factor entered in to show true value instead of straight pts/$.'JamesFFB said:I agree I wonder if any of the database guys have any information on which players are the highest fantasy points/$ per position? Though this might be skewed to the super cheap $2 guys.'QuizGuy66 said:Maybe the reason the smaller rosters are holding together is that there haven't been many low-priced guys that are category killers this year. Be interested to see the correlation between price and performance compared to last year - I bet it's higher this year.-QGAnd even averages are a bad metric because a $2 player scoring 15, 0, 0, is better than a $2 player scoring 5, 5, 5. I don't think it'd be possible to come up with "simple" metric that was also effective.
And even averages are a bad metric because a $2 player scoring 15, 0, 0, is better than a $2 player scoring 5, 5, 5. I don't think it'd be possible to come up with "simple" metric that was also effective.
---------Week 6 bye 
-QG