Not that you are characterizing anyone's position as such, but did want to clarify my own position - I don't think just making the cut is better than scoring high in the early weeks. The revealed information of knowing you picked good players is going to be more predictive of success than an increase in uniqueness. I just think that the coefficient on uniqueness is positive once we hit the top 250 everything else constant. However everything else is not held constant as we have a self-selection process in which the least unique players are most likely to be the best value plays during the year.I built my own database of all the entries in the contest. Each week I'll usually post some summary stats like this, as well as anything else I find interesting or relevant to the discussion at that time. FBG provides this querier where you can look up some very general information on your own, as well. I don't actually know if it's good to barely make the cut. I actually suspect it's probably not good, in terms of predicting your success in later weeks. But, in theory, if you value uniqueness, then being close to the cut would seem to be more likely to weed out teams similar to your own. If you score 200+, then everyone with the same players as you probably also had a great week.Where do you find this? I hope you are right about it being good to barely make the cut. Out of 21 RB/WR/TE (30-man total) I managed only 3 TDs and one was Andre RobertsSo I'm part of the reason 30-man rosters didn't hold up as well as 29. 147.60
The reason uniqueness is theoretically valuable in the final 250 is not that it is correlated with point scoring, but for any given level of point production the expected value of your payout is higher due to potentially fewer splits.
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Also I don't want anyone to think I really know what I'm talking about, I've made it to the finals once or twice, made it to week 13 last year IIRC, but I've also gotten booted in weeks 4 and 5 some years too, so I don't really know better than anyone else here what it takes to win.Anyway, I like your team a lot. It's roughly similar to my own entry, if not in player selection, at least in philosophy.Like the previous poster, you also spent $37 at QB but I like your setup better than the 4 QB one. Rodgers is a stud QB who should consistently put up starter-worthy points, while Gabbert is insurance for the bye week and in the unlikely event that Rodgers puts up a total stinker. And in case anyone's inclined to ask, "What if Rodgers gets hurt?" or something like that, I don't think that's something you should be concerned with in a contest like this. Injuries are impossible to predict, and if one of your high-priced players gets hurt, no amount of planning will be that much help. If you have more backups, or higher priced backups, you're just pulling money away from other positions where it's much more likely to contribute to your overall score. At RB my only minor concern would be that you doubled up on PIT and GB RBs - on any given week, for example, it's likely that one or the other of Benson and Green will have some value, but probably not both. So even though you own 7 RBs, each week you may only be really going in with 5: your top three, and "Green Bay RB" and "Pittsburgh RB." But they're all so cheap it's not that big of a deal - I think I said earlier in the thread something to the effect that for a total of $17, you have (hopefully) locked up "Starting RB" for Green Bay and Pittsburgh. Not too shabby. Where else in the contest could you get the starting RBs for two good teams for that price? McFadden, Charles, and Lynch should hopefully combine to produce stud-like RB stats most weeks.Like the previous poster, I don't think anyone's going to look at your WR corps and declare it a weakness. I personally prefer more than 7 here, and I probably would've found a way to add one more (maybe by ditching the third K and D) but in reality, 7 is plenty to keep you alive and perform in the finals if you get there.Gates is assumed to be a stud TE again, and I was high on Bennett this year at TE, I think the Giants will find a way to make him productive (see how Eli kept feeding him in the red zone last week?). I honestly don't really know anything about Allen but for $2 you can't really go wrong - you already flexed him once, and while it didn't make a difference this week, you could say you already got your money's worth. Later in the year when your other guys are on bye he may actually keep you afloat with a random TD or a bunch of catches at 1.5 PPR.K and D I've already touched on, I don't like taking 3 of each but I think I'm in the minority there. And I think your roster is pretty solid as-is, there's nothing that jumps out immediately where I'd say you could've used that $6 to improve. I probably would've added another WR or something but that's a minor quibble.Overall, I like this team a lot, it's very similar to the kind of entry I like to submit. But like I said, I've never won the $25k or anything, so what do I know? 
Pretty sure it's still the same 3 for 0-29, 4 for 30-39, 5 for 40-49, 6 for 50+ that it's been the last couple of years...-QG
. Young as a usual #3 seemed like a nice price in that offense. I like to have a bunch of back-end guys that can do stuff and put up the occasional solid game. I think this accomplishes that - Blackmon being a total boom/bust choice IMO. Would have liked to have sneaked a Bronco WR in here as I think they'll benefit from having a real QB (with a HOF pedigree at that).Julio Jones $23Dez Bryant $18Titus Young $10Justin Blackmon $7Danny Amendola $6Mario Manningham $4Jonathan Baldwin $4Harry Douglas $3Ryan Broyles $2---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TE - 3 for $47. Oops. This is what happens when you are traveling and trying to put together one of these teams. Don't get me wrong, I expect to get solid production and have 2 of these guys count almost every week, but this was overkill. Really love the upside of Gresham this year and couldn't take him out - he's the real #2 option in Cincinnati. I should've bought a $4/$5 guy like M Bennett and used the $6 elsewhere.Aaron Hernandez $23Jermaine Gresham $13Greg Olsen $11---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PK - 3 for $9. Variance, variance, variance. I always go 3 for PK and Defense. And there's really a lot of value with all 3 of these guys as well as they all have strong legs that can lead to big points week. I wish I had done everything else as well as this.Rob Bironas $3Matt Prater $3Mike Nugent $3---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DEF - 3 for $10. Again, this is a case of diversify and conquer. The Jets seem really cheap at $4, especially with how much the defense will probably be on the field (and since scoring defense doesn't matter this is okay). The Bengals and Saints both should play above their $3 price tag as well. I just don't see spending the top $ on this position - more is better here.New York Jets $4Cincinnati Bengals $3New Orleans Saints $3So there you go, I'm a 27-man roster guy this season. Big rosters may be out of fashion but I still feel good rolling this way. 
-QG
-QG
