discoverecology
Revvin' for Seven!!
This is all Bush's fault.
Regular season anger thread
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ExperiencedRookie
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George W, Reggie, or the 90s rock band?
ExperiencedRookie
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I'll play along with your exercise if you take mine..
My brain says that the Saints would be the pick but I already know the correct answer. Yes, the Jets won the game of course.
I assume this is to make a point of in head to head it's an "any given Sunday" mentality. This is true of course.
However, what is New Orleans record? Are the 1 of the best teams in the league and will they likely make the playoffs? I'd say so.
That being the case, what does that have to do with one of the best teams in a fantasy league not making the playoffs?
ExperiencedRookie
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But if you can't tell the difference between a 10-3 team and a 5-8 team by looking at the weekly scores, can you admit that maybe, just MAYBE, there might be something wrong with the standard structure of fantasy football? Shouldn't leagues be trying to put the best teams in the playoffs?
One simple point that hasn't been mentioned is that teams in weak divisions have a much easier path to the better record than teams in strong divisions especially since you play your division rivals twice. Thusly score a point here for total points being the truer indicator of over all team strength.
If I am not mistaken, and it has been a long while ago, but we had a league like this back in the Fantasy Sportswire days. We drafted our teams, and listed our starters, and just got awarded for final pts. To me that was pretty boring, as you weren't head to head with anyone, so you didn't have the key need to adjust lineups and such
ExperiencedRookie
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I have to agree here. Total points scored is boring. It's def fun being able to play head to head.
Unfortunately this only happens about 50% of the time. Blow outs happen frequently, which can kind if suck the fun out of a weekly matchup when it's 121-77 going into Sunday night.
The point that I'm trying to make us that strictly head to head leagues are flawed and they keep deserving teams out of the playoffs
Unfortunately this only happens about 50% of the time. Blow outs happen frequently, which can kind if suck the fun out of a weekly matchup when it's 121-77 going into Sunday night.
The point that I'm trying to make us that strictly head to head leagues are flawed and they keep deserving teams out of the playoffs
Absolutely I agree that head to head competition is the only way to play however I do like and prefer that the first tie breaker be total points. There should be some sort of reward out there for fielding the best or nearly best scoring tem week in and week out.
ExperiencedRookie
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I'm still hoping someone looks over those 2 lists of scores I posted on page 1 and guesses which team is which
chrisslabaugh
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I would guess team A was 10-3 seemed a little more consistent
ExperiencedRookie
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I'll wait a bit longer to reveal the correct answer. Thanks for the reply tho Chris
ExperiencedRookie
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Myfantasyleague.com gives your "all play" record in the standings. I'm pretty sure it can be set up to be the true rankings too.
ExperiencedRookie
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Well, I guess no one else wants to run through my exercise. Maybe it's not interesting enough. Maybe it's laziness. Or maybe people are unable to truly tell the difference between a 10-3 team and a 5-8 team by looking at their weekly scores.
To answer the question, Chris got it wrong. Team A is the record of scores from my 5-8 squad.
If we can't pick the league champion out of a lineup by pitting the scores against each other, then the "luck" of drawing a super soft schedule is far too dominant in head to head leagues.
discoverecology
Revvin' for Seven!!
Well I'm glad they fired Kubiak because the same week I played him when he was pulled Reggie Bush was pulled. I lost by 5 pts.
discoverecology
Revvin' for Seven!!
I would argue the point that keeps getting missed is:
Fantasy football is all that matters to us. Not reality football.
discoverecology
Revvin' for Seven!!
In our paid league the leader at 10-3 has far fewer points than the second place and my third place team. And a wildly easy matchup this week against the # 12 team in a 12-team league to retain his number 1 rank! He beat me because Brees and Graham teed off one week for 60 pts. DAMN, there goes Graham again! And I don't get to play him next week. No....I get the highest scorer of the league for the championship round week 15. Well, as I am the 2nd highest scorer that is really the finals.
Rank Team W-L-T Pts For Pts Agnst Streak Waiver Moves
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Gladiators 10-3-0 1351.80 1297.00 W-6 11 362
BackLash 9-4-0 1566.00 1402.00 W-4 4 223
FOREpLay 8-5-0 1455.20 1303.40 W-1 3 294
Plaxidental Shooting 8-5-0 1412.00 1262.20 W-1 9 305
Ice Camels 8-5-0 1262.60 1189.60 L-1 6 19_How do you like my SUDFFL icon_?
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