Judge Smails
Footballguy
Example - Zeke has Bears/Rams/Eagles in the playoffs. Factor or not? Who did you give additional weight to based on playoff schedule and who did you avoid based on "red" matchups?
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Who did you target/avoid based on playoff schedule? (1 Viewer)
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Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
None. I drafted the best available players.
If I had a tough choice, I did have SOS listed with a value 1 to 10 in a column. Fortunately, I did not have to refer to that once during any of my drafts as I had a pretty clear choice of player every round.
I did go back and look after the draft, and my playoff matchups are pretty well averaged out from good to bad.
To get to the playoffs, you have to have the best players possible though. So that’s how I draft.
If I had a tough choice, I did have SOS listed with a value 1 to 10 in a column. Fortunately, I did not have to refer to that once during any of my drafts as I had a pretty clear choice of player every round.
I did go back and look after the draft, and my playoff matchups are pretty well averaged out from good to bad.
To get to the playoffs, you have to have the best players possible though. So that’s how I draft.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
I get that. But I picked 8th.
My tier was Hopkins/Julio/Adams
hopkins went 5th, Julio 7th.
i took Adams.
No way I drop a tier because of a perceived SOS matchup in August. Who knows what The health of the secondaries will be like during weeks 15 & 16.
Strength of schedule is only as relevant as the health of the players on the defenses that your guys are facing.
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Totally fair. It's just that when you have a choice of all three in the tier you have to break the tie somehow.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Completely agree. That said I probably still would have taken Adams as I give priority to my ranking over SOS.
Truebluey
Footballguy
Are you saying that's good or bad for Zeke? I can see the Bears game as being a downgrade for Zeke as the Bears D isn't bad at all, but both the Rams and Eagles games project to be shootouts, even more so than last year in the case of the Eagles and their upgraded offense. So that's an upgrade for Zeke in those 2 games. So would you avoid or target Zeke based on playoff schedule?
BigTex
Don't mess with Texas
It does change from year to year but that doesn't necessarily mean one can't account for those changes done properly and it can be highly beneficial.
Here's who I targeted/ drafted with strength of schedule for the regular season and the playoff weeks. The first number is for regular season the second number is playoff.
This includes our Contest on this site:
QBs: Goff 1/13, Wentz 2/9 and Brady 3/19 in that order
RBs: Zeke 4/25, Bell 1/16, Mixon 6/10, Cook 7/6, Johnson 9/19, Guice 11/2
WRs: Julio 1/11, Elderman 4/2, Thomas 6/14, Allen 12/19, ( Washington has a cream puff schedule for WRs but their situation is so cloudy I couldn't pull the trigger).
TEs: Andrews 2/20, Eifert 3/6, Walker 4/1, Henry 7/5, (I know I'm missing a few).
Tex
BigTex
Don't mess with Texas
By my ranking Zeke playoff schedule is ranked #25 mostly due to Chicago being #32 but during the regular season he's weighing in at #4 so if you can find a few running backs that have an "easy" playoff schedule then you're golden. Sanders, Barkley, Cook, Mixon, Guice, and Bell should be on the top of that list.
Tex
Gopher State
Footballguy
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Can’t draft scared.Gopher State said:
Ray Barboni
Footballguy
This.Gally said:
A couple weeks before my leagues trade deadline? Yea ... that’s when I take a look at playoff matchups for my starters. Try to move some depth for something.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I do not even look at the playoff schedules. These things do not often turn out how they seem. There are no '85 Bears or '00 Ravens in the NFL anymore anyway.Judge Smails said:
