In post 1320, PokerFace wrote:you were 8 with 5-8 and 1145 ptf
khan was 9 with 5-8 and 1141 ptf
you are both winning your games
khan currently has highest score this week of 114.90. You currently have 88.50 this week with Lamar miller left. He needs to get you about 22. Lamar did get a 35 something earlier in season so he could save you
Looking good for Lamar. 19 points and we're only halfway there.
By the way my new position is "Fuck Divisions." This has absolutely no relation to the fact that I was knocked out of the playoffs due to division record.
Congrats Agar. I had a hard time overcoming injuries this year. In the end, injuries to Forte, Sanders, Gronk, Edelman, and a slew of my backups were just too much. The injuries to the Chargers offense also killed Rivers' value.
I need to do a couple things differently next year.
1) Do not use the waiver wire unless it gives me an RB1 for 2+ weeks. It's just not worth it otherwise. I used waivers better this year, but that Forte injury cost me big. It's impossible to draft enough legit RBs without compromising other parts of my strategy, so I need to be able to effectively pick up players when needed.
2) Pay more attention to defense in the preseason. I thought I was drafting a weekly shutdown defense in Houston, but they sucked, and I HATE streaming defenses rathe than having a mostly-weekly option.
FF isn't going to be fair. While there is some skill involved its going to be mostly luck.
but if we got rid of divisions then the whole "but I scored more points than you, you have a better record but my team is better!" then the argument becomes "ok, lets axe PVP and go straight point scored" and I think that'll be boring.
Also hype for my team in auction.
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Hey Rob, kudos to a hell of a competitive season this year. It was back and forth all season long, and there wasn't a dull moment. You could easily be in this spot instead of me and be just as deserving. Wouldn't have wanted anyone else to come down to the wire against. Looking forward to next year, I hope were in the same division so we get a few matches against each other.
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In post 1336, Rob14 wrote:Congrats Agar. I had a hard time overcoming injuries this year. In the end, injuries to Forte, Sanders, Gronk, Edelman, and a slew of my backups were just too much. The injuries to the Chargers offense also killed Rivers' value.
I need to do a couple things differently next year.
1) Do not use the waiver wire unless it gives me an RB1 for 2+ weeks. It's just not worth it otherwise. I used waivers better this year, but that Forte injury cost me big. It's impossible to draft enough legit RBs without compromising other parts of my strategy, so I need to be able to effectively pick up players when needed.
2) Pay more attention to defense in the preseason. I thought I was drafting a weekly shutdown defense in Houston, but they sucked, and I HATE streaming defenses rathe than having a mostly-weekly option.
You can do all the research you want into defenses preseason but the reason it's dumb to draft them early is they're not that predictable, particularly from year to year.
I don't draft early. I drafted like 3-4 rounds from last, when the players are not people I would want to start anyway. There will be better options on waivers if I'm in desperate need.
In other news, I lost in my big $$$ league this week, so my best hope is to recoup $100 of my $150 entry if Cam keeps outscoring Brady and he wins MVP or OPOY (hurrah superlative payouts!).
And because of this, I'm drunk.
Ski mask? Check! Sawed off? Check! Guilty conscience, fear of death? Check! Check! Check!
In post 1337, Nero Cain wrote:FF isn't going to be fair. While there is some skill involved its going to be mostly luck.
but if we got rid of divisions then the whole "but I scored more points than you, you have a better record but my team is better!" then the argument becomes "ok, lets axe PVP and go straight point scored" and I think that'll be boring.
Getting rid of divisions isn't about getting rid of variance, it's about not adding more variance for the sole sake of adding variance.
I'm fine with divisions, just I don't want the winner of a division to be automatically in. Yes they should be in, but only if they are actually one of the best four teams. I understand fantasy football requires a good bit of luck, but when a team is in the playoffs, and can feasibly get promoted, and there are teams with more points and better records, who are not in the playoffs, well that just doesn't make sense.
perhaps we should change the promotion/relegation model?
but if we did that then I could see it getting subjective i.e; "I had a better team b/c..."
Of all tyrannies,a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
This is all subjective. People can't even agree on the best way to measure how good teams are - we've seen people argue for both total points and EPE pretty recently. What about if your team had a high points total because it was great for the first 7 weeks and then mediocre for 7 but you sneaked into the playoffs ahead of a team that started badly to get way behind in total points then put up the highest score in the league for the last four? The other team is probably going to be much better in the playoffs but any of our regular suggestions would have your team in the playoffs.
I said this last year but I'll say it again - if you want the head to head matchups to mean something, you have to accept the random fluctuations and luck that comes with that.
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I can agree with that. I just think divisions adds to the luck significantly. I could possibly get behind the idea of assigning divisions AFTER the draft based on Yahoo draft grade, if that's possible. Is that technically possible and something people would be interested in? All it would do is at least attempt to create balanced divisions.
Because of divisions peg has less points than wraith, but peg makes playoffs since someone in l2d1 must make playoffs (both peg and wraith are 9-5). everyone but PEG in l2d1 is getting relegated. Zach needed 2.06 more points from lamar. Baring any stat corrections, l2d1 has 3 players going to relegation and l2d3 has 1. l2d2 has none being relegated
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Oh yeah, I'd never claim that divisions don't add an extra element of luck to the process. I just think that people spend so much time talking about whether teams did or didn't deserve their record but they gloss over the fact that the fundamental H2H structure of most fantasy football leagues is a fairly flawed way to determine which team is 'best', however you want to define it. If you actually want to address what we might define as unfair records, we should just stop using single H2H matchups.
As for doing divisions differently, I'd rather do something like what we did in baseball this year and have the division winners draft their division the next year than use draft grades. That at least offers the chance for some balance and rivalry rather than being completely random.
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