An interesting league

by ILLZ on Sep 9, 2009 8:50 AM EDT

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.

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Defense Scoring

How can a DST finish in positive territory each week if the average defense allows 18 pts? I do think making DST slightly more valuable is a good intention.

I just wonder whether the road to fantasy football Hell is paved with them.

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by faketeams on Sep 9, 2009 11:18 AM EDT reply actions

They don't.

Every week your defense ends up negative. I always consider -15 or so to be a good week from my defense. You can do everything right offensively… pick great matchups, have good weeks out of your studs, get a TD from an obscure TE on a bye week… and then have it all cancelled because Philadelphia accidentally gave up 3 touchdowns and some FG’s to Detroit and hit you with a -27. Craziness!

by ILLZ on Sep 10, 2009 8:47 AM EDT up reply actions

Money Gone

Teams that do not research are just handing their money to you. I wouldn’t complain, just politely accept!

It may be now..it may be later...later aint gonna be no use! Am I right Al? We got alot of angry guys in their black panthers,muslims, young lords, besides you average anti-socials. We gotta go in, am I right, clean their clocks!

by Yardpenalty.com on Sep 9, 2009 6:13 PM EDT reply actions

Not that this is important...

…and probably way out of date. But a few years back I remember seeing a stat of NFL team defense scoring over the past 10 years or so- this included defenses and special teams. But teams that led their conference in defensive/special teams points made it to their conference championship game like 80%+ of the time. So, assuming that stat is still relevant and reliable, I would not say defensive points are unimportant. Though there most likely is a way to allow for defense/ST points that is cohabitable to the other scoring in the league. In leagues I have been in the defensive points have been on par with an individual position player scoring.

by acr on Sep 27, 2009 2:04 AM EDT reply actions