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I don't think you quite understand what you are talking about.
I finished 6th in 2014. I finished 11th in 2015 and went to L2 for 2016.
If you were demoted in 2014 it wouldn't have mattered b/c I was above 8th place. If you were demoted in 2015 it's not like I was kept in L1 despite your claims. I'm back in L1 b/c I was in the top 3 of L2 in 2016.
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2 RB, 2 WR, 1 Flex puts too much emphasis on running backs IMO, at a time when the league is doing the opposite.
Auction actually runs 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 Flex, which I would be fine going to (though of course it's pretty deep with 12). Flex is most interesting in auction though, since you could actually choose to take 4 top 10 WRs or 3 top 10 RBs or something crazy like that.- D3f3nd3r
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Honestly, I'd be more in favor of 2 RB, 4 WR/TE.
In your version, there's just not going to be much difference for drafting purposes - no one is taking a TE2 over a WR3, all it would really do is allow someone to take two top tier TEs at the expensive of their WR slots. (Obviously in season it makes having a decent backup TE available better, in case your WR corps turns out to be terrible/broken.)
WR4 vs. TE1 is a more interesting decision - Yahoo's current rankings would have 39 WRs starting vs. 9 TEs - and if you really like TEs for some reason you could load up on the top 6 and have something like Gronk/Ertz/Graham/? as your receiving starters.- Nero Cain
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TBF, I've tried doing 2 TE in auction for realism sakeOf 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.
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this is what i run in my main .5 ppr league and it's greatIn post 130, mith wrote:2 RB, 3 WR, 1 Flexgreen shirt thursdays- PokerFace
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Why we doing top 6 in playoffs?When I joined this site, I was a software tester for mobile business applications and the song PokerFace was not yet written by Lady Gaga
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The main reason is that the balanced divisional schedule for 10 team is 13 weeks. It's a little silly to have more than half the league in playoffs, but it does place more importance on finishing top 2 (for the bye) and week 14 (for making it to semis, vs. maybe having a random extra game against unequal competition determine the 4 seed).
It's been in the spreadsheet for ages, and it's what we use in the GL league, just haven't had a 10 team league here in a while.- mith
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Sounds fine thenIn post 139, mith wrote:The main reason is that the balanced divisional schedule for 10 team is 13 weeks. It's a little silly to have more than half the league in playoffs, but it does place more importance on finishing top 2 (for the bye) and week 14 (for making it to semis, vs. maybe having a random extra game against unequal competition determine the 4 seed).
It's been in the spreadsheet for ages, and it's what we use in the GL league, just haven't had a 10 team league here in a while.When I joined this site, I was a software tester for mobile business applications and the song PokerFace was not yet written by Lady Gaga
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So uh...why isn't this a ppr league again? Pretty sure that'd solve the emphasis problem.In post 130, mith wrote:2 RB, 2 WR, 1 Flex puts too much emphasis on running backs IMO, at a time when the league is doing the opposite.Sometimes a sandwich is just a sandwich.- xRECKONERx
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at the risk of agreeing with panzer: thisIn post 144, PJ. wrote:
So uh...why isn't this a ppr league again? Pretty sure that'd solve the emphasis problem.In post 130, mith wrote:2 RB, 2 WR, 1 Flex puts too much emphasis on running backs IMO, at a time when the league is doing the opposite.green shirt thursdays- Nero Cain
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b/c it isn't a problem.
the only thing PPR does is put a bigger emphasis on quantity and make like 3rd down backs viable starting options.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.
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PPR would alleviate emphasis that points place on RB, but because the the current NFL does not have that many teams that live and breath on the strength of the RB, finding good rbs for the rb spot will be hard. PPR wouldn't alleviate the positional requirements.
We would have to have 1 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 W/R/T with PPR to alleviate it from both aspects.When I joined this site, I was a software tester for mobile business applications and the song PokerFace was not yet written by Lady Gaga
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PPR by itself both eliminates the emphasis AND the burden by A) giving more points to receivers and B) increasing the pool of viable running backs that can be played i.e Duke Johnson, Jerrick McKinnon, Christian Mccaffery, Chris Thompson are all basically unplayable in standard.In post 147, PokerFace wrote:PPR would alleviate emphasis that points place on RB, but because the the current NFL does not have that many teams that live and breath on the strength of the RB, finding good rbs for the rb spot will be hard. PPR wouldn't alleviate the positional requirements.
We would have to have 1 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 W/R/T with PPR to alleviate it from both aspects.Sometimes a sandwich is just a sandwich.- mith
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My point about emphasis was that 2.5 RB, 2.5 WR (which is what the standard Flex roster basically turns into) is so far removed from actual football schemes. I don't have any problem with RBs scoring more points than WRs (and that's really only true at the very top) - without Flex, it doesn't matter at all (since points are relative to replacement only within that position).
PPR eliminates the emphasis in a Flex league by (in theory) making the Flex decision shift strongly toward WR3 over RB3... Which is what 2 RB, 3 WR does anyway. (In practice, I'm not sure even that is true - ESPN's current rankings would have you draft 24 RBs and 26 WRs as starters in a 10 man league - their standard for those rankings - for non-PPR... and 25 RBs and 25 WRs in PPR).
And yes, PPR does make certain RBs more playable... at the expensive of making other RBs less playable. PPR also leads to some bizarre scoring, IMO (a 0 yard catch should not be worth as much as a 10 yard run).
I would not be opposed to playing PPR sometime, but I don't think it objectively makes the fantasy football experience any more interesting. It's a matter of preference - and Scumleague has always been non-PPR. - mith
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