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An interesting league


My last draft of the year is tonight at a local restaurant at 6pm. This league is a bit strange. It's largely a group of middle-aged men, 14 teams, QB heavy scoring. This is going to be the league's 11th season, and it will be my 3rd. You have to keep 3 players, but once a player has been kept 2 years in a row, he has to go back into the draft pool.

What they've done with team defense scoring drives me crazy. In a misguided effort to make it more important, they make a point scored on your defense worth -1. So, in any given week, your defense can light up your team to the tune of -20 or -30. I understand their intentions, but what they fail to see is that no matter how you set up the scoring, the problem isn't that team defense is unimportant because it isn't worth anything, the problem is that it's still unpredictable. Yet nobody realizes it. One of the guys is KEEPING A DEFENSE. Yes, that's right. He's keeping Tennessee Defense over Jonathan Stewart or Ray Rice, because he thinks defense is important now.

Also an interesting tidbit of information: The keepers were due on Sunday and there is another gentleman in this league that is keeping David Patten. Where is David Patten even playing this year, you may ask? In fact, you probably are definitely asking yourself that because I was. My initial thought was New Orleans or Washington. He is actually about to be CUT by Cleveland. And this guy wants to KEEP him. I voted for a mulligan. We'll see what happens tonight.