We will have our fun in fantasy football increase by 6.25%... https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/03/28/yes-the-nfl-will-expand-to-17-regular-season-games-this-week/
I’m with you, the more football the better for me.I usually just pull for more. Whereas some people say they don't like Thursday Night NFL football I wish we had it Friday and Saturday as well.
I 100% like a longer fantasy season and whatever it takes to achieve it but in this instance while I don't hate the 17 game/18 week season but I'd have preferred 16/18 instead.
I've been railing against this for years but in a sport were most of the revenue is based on TV money I just don't understand the need to put out usually between 50- 65% of your inventory in one 3 hour window when I only have one set of eyeballs. Just think a double bye week with slopping off some of those Sunday games, especially the noon games when sometimes you got 9 or more games going on at once would have been better.
I think the short term ir is going to stay. If it does, that helps with minor injuries and managing the roster depth.I’m not thrilled about it, but hey - 15 games to make the playoffs instead of 14. Could increase competitiveness.
Or it could cause owners who flail early to get even less interested during the last 1/3 of the season.
I worry about more injuries, but of course the league is all about player safety, so I’m sure they’ve done all the research to prove that adding one more game isn’t at all a concern.
I’m a little confused by that calculus. I would think that adding one more NFL game would increase the number of injuries.I think the short term ir is going to stay. If it does, that helps with minor injuries and managing the roster depth.
i’m wondering if for fantasy football it might not be better to just stick to a 16 game season with weeks 15 and 16 for the playoffs.Makes those in 17 game leagues a little happier. Now they get to enjoy that last week off before the playoffs just like their 16 week brothers have up to now.
It is. But it seemed teams used the short term IR a lot to get an extra roster spot to promote a guy as a fill in rather than having guy on side lines but they didn’t want put on long term IR. Helped with the injuries that are only couple few weeks to recover.I’m a little confused by that calculus. I would think that adding one more NFL game would increase the number of injuries.
This was my first thought. We've seen the whole scrub thing creep into Week 16 as it is. The longer season might just mean more of that as things tend to get wrapped up sooner in the season rather than later.i’m wondering if for fantasy football it might not be better to just stick to a 16 game season with weeks 15 and 16 for the playoffs.
because in a real football, if a team has their division locked up, it might be scrubb time in week 16 instead of 17.
Why would things get wrapped up earlier? An extra game gives the teams behind one more game to catch up.This was my first thought. We've seen the whole scrub thing creep into Week 16 as it is. The longer season might just mean more of that as things tend to get wrapped up sooner in the season rather than later.
I'm not saying they will I'm saying they could.Why would things get wrapped up earlier? An extra game gives the teams behind one more game to catch up.
Still not seeing this, the extra game comes at the end, not the beginning. For FF purposes anyway.I'm not saying they will I'm saying they could.
And the answer is because some divisions have "haves & have nots". In divisions where there's 1 dominant team & 3 scrubs (see NEP for the last decade before 2019-ish) there could nothing to play for.
It happens in a 16 game season, so for sure it'll happen in a 17 game season. And as such, it's also possible that teams have 2 weeks of meaningless games instead of 1. division locked up in week 16 with no chance at a higher seed? That'd do it.
Just looking at the "might happens" and that's 2 weeks of ugly for competitive FF leagues.
For fantasy purposes it's great. For RL football, players might be out with minor nicks, or play 1/2 games if they don't matter. It's the same reason some teams do it in week 17 currently.Still not seeing this, the extra game comes at the end, not the beginning. For FF purposes anyway.
OK, I was thinking FF only. Which was the whole reason most leagues end in week 16 right now.For fantasy purposes it's great. For RL football, players might be out with minor nicks, or play 1/2 games if they don't matter. It's the same reason some teams do it in week 17 currently.
Do you want this be best sport in world or not?For fantasy purposes it's great. For RL football, players might be out with minor nicks, or play 1/2 games if they don't matter. It's the same reason some teams do it in week 17 currently.
Right - so let's say some dominant team in a weak division has it locked up by week 15. If you have players on that team, good luck with that.OK, I was thinking FF only. Which was the whole reason most leagues end in week 16 right now.
Not if it messes with my fantasy football I don't.Do you want this be best sport in world or not?
You are the ultimate devils advocate.Right - so let's say some dominant team in a weak division has it locked up by week 15. If you have players on that team, good luck with that.
And how is that different than now?Right - so let's say some dominant team in a weak division has it locked up by week 15. If you have players on that team, good luck with that.
Because in the proposed format for the NFL, week 16 could be like what teams currently do in week 17. So instead of 1 week of scrub ball after the current FF season, you might be in the LCG without a top player because the team has 2 meaningless games instead of 1.And how is that different than now?
I thinks you got your math backwards.Because in the proposed format for the NFL, week 16 could be like what teams currently do in week 17. So instead of 1 week of scrub ball after the current FF season, you might be in the LCG without a top player because the team has 2 meaningless games instead of 1.
Hmm..seems clear in my head, but then I've been up since 4.I thinks you got your math backwards.
Well I've been up since 6, so that creates our difference of 2.Hmm..seems clear in my head, but then I've been up since 4.
Well I’ve been up since 11.Well I've been up since 6, so that creates our difference of 2.
I might have gotten away with it free and clear if it weren’t for you Medellin kids....curses! :shakes fist:
Right. That’s why I suggested I might keep my league to 14+2If fantasy leagues still go till week 16, then there will be LESS chance of scrubs playing week 16
Or do our 14+2 leagues (4 playoff teams) change to 14+3 leagues instead (6 playoff teams). Wondering if this might be the way my old school, 25+ year work league goes.Right. That’s why I suggested I might keep my league to 14+2
The implied alternative is to expand FF Leagues to 15-2.
Now I see where the confusion was in all this.
BYE weeks? More playoff teams?Or do our 14+2 leagues (4 playoff teams) change to 14+3 leagues instead (6 playoff teams). Wondering if this might be the way my old school, 25+ year work league goes.
Grandpa, is that you?BYE weeks? More playoff teams?
not for me, thanks.
You ask for others to think for you?This has been a really weird diversion. I'm thinking of bye weeks and that fantasy would have to extend to Week 17 to make it all fair, actually. I'm not sure how HSG is approaching it. If it's still a 16 week fantasy season, you'll have less chance of there being clinches and scrubs, as ghostguy123 asserts.
I think, anyway.
Right - I’m considering approaching it as a 16 week season.This has been a really weird diversion. I'm thinking of bye weeks and that fantasy would have to extend to Week 17 to make it all fair, actually. I'm not sure how HSG is approaching it. If it's still a 16 week fantasy season, you'll have less chance of there being clinches and scrubs, as ghostguy123 asserts.
I think, anyway.
If I can farm out for free that which requires effort, I'm all in.You ask for others to think for you?
Both big arms. Also, like how each process things. Lance, then Wilson.If I can farm out for free that which requires effort, I'm all in.
I played in that format in the early days of FF. Just say no to 1/2 the league making the playoffs. Normalize competition.Grandpa, is that you?
I’m in a mix of leagues that are 4 or 6 team playoffs and I don’t care either way. I guess I’ve finished in 5th place enough in my long time 4 team playoff league that I wouldn’t mind seeing it move to 6 teams. But I guess that’s more of aI played in that format in the early days of FF. Just say no to 1/2 the league making the playoffs. Normalize competition.