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CC,I wish I could help you out, but I'll be out of town with no access that night. Good luck getting a switch.
Your going to need more than a couple jabs!!!
Thanks. I missed on a couple of guys that I was after but all in all, if my WRs do what they are expected to do (Morgan, Smith, and Schilens primarily) I like my chances. Loved getting Moreno so late (6th round, IIRC) although I'm a bit weak at TE all things considered.
I passed on Moreno which was a horrible mistake by me. It was one of those drafts where I kept letting a guy slide and ended up losing him. I felt so weird taking Moss #7 and that really got the ball rolling in the wrong direction for me.-QG
The thing I liked about the scoring system and the league is that you have to think about how to manipulate the settings in DD. What looks like folly can be genius and what looks like genius could be folly. As you say, Quinn goes in the 4th rd. and TO and Steve Smith go in the 5th and 6th. I don't care what the scoring system is - that is WILD!!!
Mine's not too bad!Marvin88 Team RatingBetter yet, ignore the scoring system when you look at the draft results
I dug up my rate my team already:
And here it is. Surprise! My RBs are terrible!
This team is like the opposite of every other fantasy team I've had in the last 15 years...
-QG
Major questionmark is WR......two rookies and Antonio Bryant just had surgery.Also with Lynch being suspended.But who knows with this league scoring.
Your team would be sooooo much better if it was PPR....
Old habits die hard, but I honestly didn't try to assemble it this way, it just happened. I keep going back to taking Welker over Moreno as my Shatterpoint in this draft. It could benefit me, it might not. I had Moreno in my que the whole time, but when the time came, I froze since I was worried about the start 3 WR roster requirements.
This. If I had two similar tiered players (Welker vs Boldin was an early one for me) I grabbed the guy without the bye week issue. I believe I took Slaton over Brees too because I didn't like Drew's early bye. Slaton was the last guy in my 2nd RB tier that didn't have the bye week problem.
This is why I think most people would have looked at my draft and thought "what the heck is he doing"? I weighted weeks 6-16 low, then week 1 quite high, week 2 a little higher, week 3 a little higher still, week 4 a little higher, and week 5 a little higher and heaviestly weighted. But even doing this I could not ignore value if it got too great (TO in the 5th and Steve Smith in the 6th). But I would not have grabbed a TO or a Smith AT value and especially not REACH for them. It made some sense, too, to grab guys who had dropped a little because of a BYE in week 4 or 5 to buffer positional weaknesses.
Why did you weigh 6-14 at all? Why not zero them out? They're 100% irrelevant to your draft.
It seemed to skew (at least to my liking) the rankings too much and push guys like Fitz and Smith too far down the list!! So I simply added a very minute weight to weeks 6-16.All that being said, there were two other owners who seemed to have their DD settings the same as mine.
OK. Did you try tweaking the weighting of Strength of Schedule instead? I see your point, it just occurs to me that if you put any value in SoS and weekly weights (I know many don't), it wouldn't make sense to give weeks that aren't used any consideration. Either way, I think you had a nice draft so whatever you did clearly worked.
It doesn't work. I'm not sure what the DD is doing (games v. season), but it's not taking into consideration that when Fitz is on a bye that you can pick up half his production using a WRBC. Obviously it's not in tune with best ball for a good reason. I also weighted weeks 6-17 in my setup. That moved fitz from something like WR15 to WR6 which made sense to me. I'm not a huge SOS fan, but I also didn't want to compound it by only using 5 weeks, especially when I was weighting those 5 weeks for our survivor format. Your scoring is different than my league (no ppr, QB yd/TD pts), but we still had the QB flex. Brady was #1 on my board, Manning #4. The QB run in this league was insane. Those on the front end of it got huge value in their drafts.OK. Did you try tweaking the weighting of Strength of Schedule instead? I see your point, it just occurs to me that if you put any value in SoS and weekly weights (I know many don't), it wouldn't make sense to give weeks that aren't used any consideration. Either way, I think you had a nice draft so whatever you did clearly worked.
I ignored it to a degree and used it as a tie-breaker some, but even though you lose 20% of a players production, there were some guys that were 20% (or more) better then the other options available. I got Michael Jenkins at WR70 or so, which seemed odd to me. True, he has a week 4 bye and Gonzo will take some touches, but a guy who has never finished outside the top60 and has improved every year and is a started on a team with a good quarterback should not be sliding past 3rd and 4th receivers, IMO.The biggest one was Steve Smith - he slid for a really long time. It seemed most people who wanted a top receiver got theres and other folks were content to wait. Smith was available for quite some time.
My setup was similar. I lowered 6-17 a little. Then raised 2 & 4 some and then raised 1 &3&5 even more. I didn't draft 100% off that list but I felt it honed me on what the league settings were
Could you be more specific when you say "other variables"? Because it almost sounds like you are arguing from a position that says projections are useless and "luck" and "variables" is how you went about your draft process. If you used DD for your draft, then you are by default saying that you believe in projections and not "variables". If you believe in DD, then why wouldn't you believe it's projections? As far as my team being discounted for Smith, I would say that DD has me scoring the most points in week 4 which is Smith's BYE week, so......but, again, this is if you personally believe in DD and projections which we haven't established yet.
I didn't use DD....I could've but figured since everyone else would....I would not. I instead went with a different thought process. I choose WR's or targets that were the best on their teams. Bowe, ocho cinco, cotchery, mason(especially with clayton and williams hurt right now), Muhammed(b/c I think Smith will miss time during the regular season), Olsen(we have seen the connection cutler/sheffler had and the one in TC with olsen/cutler), Winslow(with bryant out with surgery).So that must be different than what the projections say.I just went through and rated all the teams myself....and then listed bye week starters lost.Top team-Nugget, By the sea, hicks, myself, hermit, radballs, quiz, dowling, riffraff, rusty, marvin, yellow.But that doesn't take into account who will be dropped from each week etc, just overall for 5 weeks.
Yeh I weighed the Bye's into ranking you higher than the other guys tied with you. I think it gave you some guys with slightly lesser talent......but you get them for the duration of the league.
