PPR draft strategy (1 Viewer)

[killease]

So this year my league is going 2QB, 2RB, 3WR, 1 Flex, 1TE, 1DEF PPR, 6pts per TD for all positions and a heavy emphasis on homerun hitters (aka 40+ yard TDs an extra 4 points). In my mocks, I'm seeing alot of WRs and QBs going earlier than I'm used to seeing. My question is, would you still go after RBs in the 2nd round with so many RBBCs in the NFL these days or go after the big name WRs who can get you alot of receptions and have a better chance of getting long bomb TDs?

 

[Follows Closely]

So this year my league is going 2QB, 2RB, 3WR, 1 Flex, 1TE, 1DEF PPR, 6pts per TD for all positions and a heavy emphasis on homerun hitters (aka 40+ yard TDs an extra 4 points). In my mocks, I'm seeing alot of WRs and QBs going earlier than I'm used to seeing. My question is, would you still go after RBs in the 2nd round with so many RBBCs in the NFL these days or go after the big name WRs who can get you alot of receptions and have a better chance of getting long bomb TDs?

2QBs and 6pts for TD, I would get a QB in the first two rounds, maybe 2!

 

[Follows Closely]

Wow, interesting top 20 given that scoring system:

1 Tom Brady

2 Peyton Manning

3 Carson Palmer

4 Tony Romo

5 LaDainian Tomlinson

6 Drew Brees

7 Ben Roethlisberger

8 Brian Westbrook

9 Donovan McNabb

10 Jay Cutler

11 Frank Gore

12 Steven Jackson

13 Adrian Peterson

14 Joseph Addai

15 Derek Anderson

16 David Garrard

17 Randy Moss

18 Matt Hasselbeck

19 Eli Manning

20 ...

 

[burd]

Last year, my league had the exact same lineup and almost the same scoring. At season's end, 8 of the top 10 scoring players were QBs and 17 of the top 20 scoring players were QBs. Given this info, plus the fact that you're starting 2QBS, the end result is that QBs are much more valuable than other positions. There's only 32 starting QBs and half of them aren't worth much.

This being said, my league wanted to keep 2QBs so we altered the scoring to create more equity. I didn't want to change passing TDs to 4 points, so instead we decided to start tracking rush/rec first downs... PPR will help too, so you should be ok. Either of these will increase the values of RBs and WRs so that the QBs don't run away w/ the points. good luck

 

[FUBAR]

Last year, my league had the exact same lineup and almost the same scoring. At season's end, 8 of the top 10 scoring players were QBs and 17 of the top 20 scoring players were QBs. Given this info, plus the fact that you're starting 2QBS, the end result is that QBs are much more valuable than other positions. There's only 32 starting QBs and half of them aren't worth much.

This being said, my league wanted to keep 2QBs so we altered the scoring to create more equity. I didn't want to change passing TDs to 4 points, so instead we decided to start tracking rush/rec first downs... PPR will help too, so you should be ok. Either of these will increase the values of RBs and WRs so that the QBs don't run away w/ the points. good luck

I usually find altering the lineups works as well. for example, you have 24 starting QBs and 32 in the NFL; in order to make this relatively even, you'd have to require 2/3 of the RBs and 2/3 of the WRs to start, but given RBBC or valuable backups and some teams have 3 WRs worth starting, you can require 3 RBs (36 total) and 4 WRs (48). IMO, it's better to use more flex, but to each their own.

I like that you give value to 1st downs.

 

[cheatsheetwarroom]

Sounds to me like QBs may have overtaken RBs in terms of importance in your league. I'm not sure that I like this approach, but since you've already made your mind up the correct course of action is to map out last year's players' fantasy point output as if it was based on your current season's scoring rules. In this way you know how much weight you need to give to each position and player.

You absolutely need to know how each player's stats from last year would translate into points in this year's system. Only then will you have a true indicator of each player's worth. To accomplish this would be relatively easy with some of the online tools, but even a spreadsheet would do the trick. I don't have the numbers in front of me so telling you which position to target would be grasping for straws, but if mlavwilson's post is correct is sounds like you may need to either go QB-RB or RB-QB in rounds 1 and 2, depending on where you pick. Once Brady is off of the board the drop is significant, so you may want to go RB-QB-QB.

If you put in this extra effort it could really pay off because I'd venture that 80% of your league will go into the draft ill-informed, and you could take serious advantage of that.

 

[dirty_martini]

QBs get the home-run bonus too? If so you (and everyone else in the league) go QB QB then start with your normal draft in round 3