99% of the ink and hot breath in discussing fantasy football is devoted to minutiae like "Who's better, Manning or Brees, Jones-Drew or Turner", blah, blah, blah.
Fast forward to week 15 & 16, and it's MATCHUPS and HEALTH that own those arguments. If you can predict THAT stuff in July, well, you can make a bit of coin with a fantasy 1-900 number?
Meanwhile, if somebody told you at the beginning of the year to roster the SF D at the beginning of the year because they are going to disembowel the Lions, you would be well on your way to being a little richer.
Yet there is almost zero discussion of D's on this board. WHY NOT? I realize most league scoring systems are different in that regard, but the fundamentals are basically all the same: Points allowed BAD, sacks, turnovers GOOD.
It's amazing to me the sheer volume of posts about the relative values of Dwayne Bowe vs. Michael Crabtree stuff that MIGHT net one 1-2 points on a weekly basis, yet .2 % of the bandwidth here is devoted to stuff like kickers and D's that can have ENORMOUS implications on the average fantasy matchup.
Is it because it's just "luck"? I am still playing in week 16 because Matt Prater was the 8th highest scoring player in my whole league last week (50+ yard field goals heavily weighted). We have ONE kicking thread here, and the main topic of discussion is "Who's going to lose one's job?"
If this is the SHARK pool, shouldn't there be more analysis about this stuff? All I ever see about this is from pre-season tout mags is "wait til the last round to pick a kicker or a d". That seems to be the party line here too?
Fast forward to week 15 & 16, and it's MATCHUPS and HEALTH that own those arguments. If you can predict THAT stuff in July, well, you can make a bit of coin with a fantasy 1-900 number?
Meanwhile, if somebody told you at the beginning of the year to roster the SF D at the beginning of the year because they are going to disembowel the Lions, you would be well on your way to being a little richer.
Yet there is almost zero discussion of D's on this board. WHY NOT? I realize most league scoring systems are different in that regard, but the fundamentals are basically all the same: Points allowed BAD, sacks, turnovers GOOD.
It's amazing to me the sheer volume of posts about the relative values of Dwayne Bowe vs. Michael Crabtree stuff that MIGHT net one 1-2 points on a weekly basis, yet .2 % of the bandwidth here is devoted to stuff like kickers and D's that can have ENORMOUS implications on the average fantasy matchup.
Is it because it's just "luck"? I am still playing in week 16 because Matt Prater was the 8th highest scoring player in my whole league last week (50+ yard field goals heavily weighted). We have ONE kicking thread here, and the main topic of discussion is "Who's going to lose one's job?"
If this is the SHARK pool, shouldn't there be more analysis about this stuff? All I ever see about this is from pre-season tout mags is "wait til the last round to pick a kicker or a d". That seems to be the party line here too?