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Starting a WR from the same team as opp. QB (1 Viewer)

bshell27

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Sorry if this is AC material, but it falls under FF strategy so I will post it here.

What do you think of playing a WR from the same team as your opponents QB? This has probably been discussed ad nauseum somewhere or sometime in this forum, but I cannot find it in a search.

If you want my specific details it is in the AC forum, but I am speaking in general, how many of you employ this strategy?

 
bshell27 said:
Sorry if this is AC material, but it falls under FF strategy so I will post it here.What do you think of playing a WR from the same team as your opponents QB? This has probably been discussed ad nauseum somewhere or sometime in this forum, but I cannot find it in a search. If you want my specific details it is in the AC forum, but I am speaking in general, how many of you employ this strategy?
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Actually, I'd rather be the guy with the QB in this scenario. If your WR scores a TD, I'm guaranteed to get a QB TD. OTOH, my QB could still throw TDs to 3 or 4 other guys and you get nothing.
 
Good thread. I have to say i've see it at least 4x every year. And in the end you'll get the same response: "I don't know about you but I start the players I think will get me the most points."

We can close it up now.

 
go with the best player, but it certainly figured in to my choice to start Mason this week as my opponent had Flacco and it worked.

 
lynx4ben said:
Good thread. I have to say i've see it at least 4x every year. And in the end you'll get the same response: "I don't know about you but I start the players I think will get me the most points."We can close it up now.
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I think properly it goes like thisOP _ What do you guys think about this ?first five posters - Start the guy who will score the most pointssixth poster - I don't know who will score more pointsseventh through tenth - Start the guy who you think will score the most points you dolteleventh poster - I actually think it is a good idea if it is close12th through the rest - see the first five posters and repeat until thread is buried
 
Worked great for Garcon owners last week. Blew up in the face of Maclin owners last week. You go ahead and try to apply some logic to that. I'm sure in hell not going to try.

 
lynx4ben said:
Good thread. I have to say i've see it at least 4x every year. And in the end you'll get the same response: "I don't know about you but I start the players I think will get me the most points."

We can close it up now.
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Close it up, clearly you friendly "Shark Pool" folks love this.

If you want to provide some HELPFUL comments please see the following thread in the AC forum, and please keep the sarcasm and condescending posts to yourself.

Seriously, why post if you do not want to see this question? If you post it bumps to the top and you have to stare at it longer.

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...howtopic=576189

 
bshell27 said:
lynx4ben said:
Good thread. I have to say i've see it at least 4x every year. And in the end you'll get the same response: "I don't know about you but I start the players I think will get me the most points."

We can close it up now.
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Close it up, clearly you friendly "Shark Pool" folks love this.

If you want to provide some HELPFUL comments please see the following thread in the AC forum, and please keep the sarcasm and condescending posts to yourself.

Seriously, why post if you do not want to see this question? If you post it bumps to the top and you have to stare at it longer.

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...howtopic=576189
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Thanks for running the place while the mods are on their coffee break :lmao:

 
Gonna have to disagree with most of the shark poolers on this one. I think you start the guy you think will score the least amount of points.

 
All the reasoning like "If my WR gets a TD then his QB gets a TD but if his QB throws to somebody else ..." is just shorthand for saying that variance is reduced by starting a WR from your opponent's QB's NFL team. If you have a better option, take it. If the options are about equal, then figure it if you expect to win or lose this week. If you expect to win, decrease variance by starting said WR. If you expect to lose, give yourself more opportunity to get lucky by avoiding that WR. If you have an opportunity to see some early games play out before you have to decide which WR to play, then you can gain an advantage by deciding at that point if you expect to win or lose.

 
Good God mods, can we just get one thread on this topic, and pin it? So we don't have to wade through the same thread posted five times every single week?

Getting tiresome.

 
I am racking my brain, trying my best to conceive of something, anything, that will keep this thread off the first page!

 
Perfect Tommy said:
All the reasoning like "If my WR gets a TD then his QB gets a TD but if his QB throws to somebody else ..." is just shorthand for saying that variance is reduced by starting a WR from your opponent's QB's NFL team. If you have a better option, take it. If the options are about equal, then figure it if you expect to win or lose this week. If you expect to win, decrease variance by starting said WR. If you expect to lose, give yourself more opportunity to get lucky by avoiding that WR. If you have an opportunity to see some early games play out before you have to decide which WR to play, then you can gain an advantage by deciding at that point if you expect to win or lose.
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This is correct. You do not start the guy who you think will score the most points. You start the guy who you think will give you the best chance of winning. The vast majority of the time, that's the same guy, but not always. As Tommy says, if you're the favorite it makes sense to connect your WR to his QB or vice versa. If you're the underdog, you want to avoid that. The advantage is tiny, though, so the above only applies to coinflip decisions.
 
Ever Present Lurker said:
You're right, it has been discussed ad nauseum. The general consensus is, start the player who you think will score the most points.
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priority 1: start the guy who you think will score the mostif and only if they are completely equal AND this is a sunday night or monday night game, where you can see the score before you enter this last wr into your lineup...if your ahead, you start the wr from the same team (for every td the wr scores, you are canceling out 1.5 td's from the qb)if you are behind, you start the wr from the opposing team (td's from that wr will score you 6 instead of 2 points*)2 points* - meaning 6 pts from your wr minus 4 from his qb
 
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