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[chucknorrisfanclub]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

 

[Avery]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure I agree with this.I use the contributor's knowledge and the tools of this site (draft dominator is worth the subscription fee alone ) to help me draft a winning team.

I use the updates to help me spot emerging talent, waiver wire picks and injuries I wasn't aware of.

I read the articles to help me hone my strategies and evaluate trades.

No one, again no one, can really predict what will happen on a weekly basis. I use the ranking as a sounding board to evaluate who I might start on a given week. When I'm undecided I might use it to help me decide, but in no way is this the basis I would evaluate the effectiveness of footballguys or any fantasy football site.

 

[Dreamer]

You'll get more out of the site by reading everything and forming your own opinions. Welcome.

 

[The Dude]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

I think he's 100% correct - theoretically. The problem is it's not a science. You can use math to determine some values but there's way too many variables. If it were possible to develop weekly rankings that were say consistently 20% more accurate that all other competitors - that would be something too hang your hat on

 

[dollarbill13]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure I agree with this.I use the contributor's knowledge and the tools of this site (draft dominator is worth the subscription fee alone ) to help me draft a winning team.

I use the updates to help me spot emerging talent, waiver wire picks and injuries I wasn't aware of.

I read the articles to help me hone my strategies and evaluate trades.

No one, again no one, can really predict what will happen on a weekly basis. I use the ranking as a sounding board to evaluate who I might start on a given week. When I'm undecided I might use it to help me decide, but in no way is this the basis I would evaluate the effectiveness of footballguys or any fantasy football site.

I do agree with the original post that you could gain a certain amount of knowledge about the quality of a site by measuring actual vs. projected performance. There are a lot of factors that go into players having good or bad games and a better site will be able to recognize the important factors when it comes to their projections/rankings. That being said, no one will be able to predict 100% the outcomes of an NFL week or season. Additionally, the whole fun of fantasy football is doing your own analysis based on the information that you can gather. I'd rather use the information that I gather from this site, make my own decisions and live with being wrong sometmies than rely entirely on the site to make my decisions for me. I also agree with the second poster that the draft dominator is worth the price of admission alone.

 

[PranksterJD]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure I agree with this.I use the contributor's knowledge and the tools of this site (draft dominator is worth the subscription fee alone ) to help me draft a winning team.

I use the updates to help me spot emerging talent, waiver wire picks and injuries I wasn't aware of.

I read the articles to help me hone my strategies and evaluate trades.

No one, again no one, can really predict what will happen on a weekly basis. I use the ranking as a sounding board to evaluate who I might start on a given week. When I'm undecided I might use it to help me decide, but in no way is this the basis I would evaluate the effectiveness of footballguys or any fantasy football site.

Completely agree, but the funny part about this post is that the DD is based on staff projections, just like the weekly rankings.

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

The purpose of this site is to gather Footballguys.As a direct result, you'll know more about football - mostly the NFL, but also some college - and reap the benefits of that knowledge.For example, the rookies for next year you will know from this very forum in much greater detail than at any other fantasy football or football discussion site. You may learn more about a particular player at another site, but for all-encompassing info this is the place to be.It is also a great place to discuss football and get the information for you to be successful in knowing more than most anyone about NFL teams and players.You'll also get 30+ staff opinions on players, and also have a vehicle to talk to each of us and find out why we think what we think.The result of all of this is that you will be far better at football ventures - either fantasy football, picking games, etc. - and as a result you'll do better overall.On a weekly basis - anything can (and does) happen. No site this week could have predicted that Davenport would crush in Week 16 and FWP would fall to an injury in the first quarter. However, you would know about Ryan Grant, Kolby Smith and Earnest Graham days - possibly weeks - ahead of the rest of your league (unless they already subscribe).The best testimonials about this site come from members / subscribers and even those who just use the forums. You'll see in the responses that I am sure will come to you here.In addition there will be a "Wall of Champions" up soon for those who dominated their fantasy leagues to brag about how well they did as FBG members.Check us out and feedback is always welcome.

 

[Avery]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure I agree with this.I use the contributor's knowledge and the tools of this site (draft dominator is worth the subscription fee alone ) to help me draft a winning team.

I use the updates to help me spot emerging talent, waiver wire picks and injuries I wasn't aware of.

I read the articles to help me hone my strategies and evaluate trades.

No one, again no one, can really predict what will happen on a weekly basis. I use the ranking as a sounding board to evaluate who I might start on a given week. When I'm undecided I might use it to help me decide, but in no way is this the basis I would evaluate the effectiveness of footballguys or any fantasy football site.

Completely agree, but the funny part about this post is that the DD is based on staff projections, just like the weekly rankings.

Not to quibble, but the the staff projections, which you can massage or change to your hearts desire, are based on yearly projections which are different than weekly ranking.Also much of the genius of the DD is as an organizational tool. Following their recommenced selections is only part of its value.

 

[Sopranos]

AHhh. The purpose of this site is to gather knowledge. Find players before they become stars then sell them high. And know when to buy low. Rankings are rankings. You know who you are going to start most of the time, sure the rankings help but i always start who i want or who i think i should. Yes it is comforting to see your guys ranked high. But dont ever blame the rankings for your loss. YOU gather the knowledge and make your own conclusion.

 

[GregR_2]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

You've gotten a bunch of good replies to this already, but let me make an analogy that I think is pretty appropriate in a lot of ways.If you go to someone for help with playing poker, you don't pick the person to help you based on the fact they are more accurate at telling you what card is going to be the next one off the deck. Because it's very obvious in poker that it's pretty much impossible to predict the next card.You go to them because they teach you how to play the game, how to play different hands, what the odds are, what the tells are, etc.Footballguys is a lot like that. They can teach you what things seem to make sense but aren't true (like that a player being consistent in the past means they are likely to be consistent in the future). They can show you how to determine how valuable players at one position are vs another.And they can give you some guidance as to what is likely to come in the future, just like in poker you can be told what the odds are that you'll get a card that lets you win. But they aren't going to be able to tell you with certainty.I'm not saying that predictions don't matter. They do, and player performance in FF is more predictable than are cards from a deck. And FBG and any other site needs to work to be the best at predicting that they can.But what I'm saying is, there is a lot that you'll learn here that isn't just based on their predictions. There is a lot you'll get out of the site, like breaking news, that isn't prediction based. Do show some concern about the quality of predictions, but don't focus on that as being the only thing worthwhile.

 

[bentley]

The weekly projections are the least important part of the subscription. The information you get from everything else the site has to offer are why a subscription is such a great value.

 

[Otis]

It's all about the smilies.

 

[shredhead]

It's all about the smilies.

 

[Pigskin75]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

Everybody has good comments from the articles to the weekly support to the Shark Pool. And the Draft Dominator has been mentioned as worth the price of admission. But let me remind everyone what the Dominator is based on and what made Footballguys into the fantasy football site that it is...VBD (Value Based Drafting). Joe advanced this theory and brought it to the masses at this site (and ol' yeller). If you've never read the article Joe first pinned in 2001, you need to Joe Bryant - Principles of VBD . It's a bit technical and it may take a few readings to fully grasp, but once you do you'll understand the system and then be able to fully utilize the DD or even your cheat sheet generated from a spreadsheet.

A draft will not win you a championship, but it is very important in building a solid core team. From there take in the weekly input from the staff and users, understand and utilize the tools like the target stats, redzone data and the upgrade/downgrade reports. Utilize also the tools provided like your customized team page and you'll have one stop shopping for all the information you need to make your decisions. After the draft I've used the information on this site to grab free agents, those hidden gems, long before they're on my opponents radar. This is probably more important than the draft since quality pick ups can save a poor draft.

The cheatsheets are nice...they help re-enforce your decision. But who you start is ultimately your decision. If you rely 100% on this site, or any site for that matter, to make that decision for you you're going to be disappointed in the end.

But stick around...if it's football discussion and info you want, you've come to the right place.

 

[Cunk]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

You've gotten a bunch of good replies to this already, but let me make an analogy that I think is pretty appropriate in a lot of ways.If you go to someone for help with playing poker, you don't pick the person to help you based on the fact they are more accurate at telling you what card is going to be the next one off the deck. Because it's very obvious in poker that it's pretty much impossible to predict the next card.You go to them because they teach you how to play the game, how to play different hands, what the odds are, what the tells are, etc.Footballguys is a lot like that. They can teach you what things seem to make sense but aren't true (like that a player being consistent in the past means they are likely to be consistent in the future). They can show you how to determine how valuable players at one position are vs another.And they can give you some guidance as to what is likely to come in the future, just like in poker you can be told what the odds are that you'll get a card that lets you win. But they aren't going to be able to tell you with certainty.I'm not saying that predictions don't matter. They do, and player performance in FF is more predictable than are cards from a deck. And FBG and any other site needs to work to be the best at predicting that they can.But what I'm saying is, there is a lot that you'll learn here that isn't just based on their predictions. There is a lot you'll get out of the site, like breaking news, that isn't prediction based. Do show some concern about the quality of predictions, but don't focus on that as being the only thing worthwhile.

Fantastic reply. I can't believe some people have to be told this; but none-the-less, fantastic reply.

 

[maxwelledison]

What he said.

Very well done.

 

[mad sweeney]

New to this site, but like what I've read this far. That said, the single most important tool of this (or any fantasy football) site would be its weekly player rankings. The accuracy of these projections is likely the best measure of a sites' (and staffs) ability to assist owners with picking the best possible lineup each week. I am curious if anyone on has taken the time to check weekly player projections vs. actual weekly production for this site or others - or if staff members have as a means of accountability. Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure I agree with this.I use the contributor's knowledge and the tools of this site (draft dominator is worth the subscription fee alone ) to help me draft a winning team.

I use the updates to help me spot emerging talent, waiver wire picks and injuries I wasn't aware of.

I read the articles to help me hone my strategies and evaluate trades.

No one, again no one, can really predict what will happen on a weekly basis. I use the ranking as a sounding board to evaluate who I might start on a given week. When I'm undecided I might use it to help me decide, but in no way is this the basis I would evaluate the effectiveness of footballguys or any fantasy football site.

Completely agree, but the funny part about this post is that the DD is based on staff projections, just like the weekly rankings.

It's fully and easily adjustable to your own projections. Relying on the given projections is the same as relying on the weekly rankings. A very uncertain science filled with educated guesses. But the great part about DD is that you can put your own projections in there or tweak what Dodds' has in there to your thinking. Again it falls on either doing it yourself or relying on those that do. The DD is just like all the other tools on this site, something for you to use to form your own decision about who to draft and play.