Posted by jetwildcat on 7/3/2010 3:31:00 AM (view original):
i think both the ranking and scoring system contribute to weirdness, actually.
-the whole points league with the euro and usa titles is like nothing i've seen before.
-points for completions, carries, and negative points for incompletions is something i've only seen hypothesized
-5 points for each td seems a bit odd
-i like the no defense, but that's another odd characteristic nonetheless
i'm not saying there's anything wrong with the league. i'm more of a purist when it comes to fantasy sports scoring systems, but do whatever scoring system you want so long as it's interesting. yours just seems weird as hell. the only thing i would suggest is to incorporate a system to determine a "global" champ, rather than just leaving an american and euro champ.
Ohhh, I've been waiting for this lol.
First of all, the 10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0 point structure isn't so much a ranking system as it is correctly accounting for EVERY team playing EVERY team, EVERY week, which I haven't seen before in FFB. Tell me a better, more fair FFB league than playing every team every week? Under this format, you can't luck into a title by having the right opponents fall to you each week throughout the season. This format will determine who the best team/coach are, period.
A. I prefer my self proclaimed BPI Sports Europe style, but I know this isn't that popular in America and that people like playoffs, so I'm incorporating a BPI Sports United States title as well to account for this. You see it as just 2 champions...I see it as the best of both worlds.
B. Some people just award points for completions, and I think that's silly, its disregarding the whole other aspect of the passing game, which are incompletions. I've dumbed it down from .5 to .25 this year because it was upskewing the numbers too much IMO. So if a guy goes 30 for 50...he gets an extra 2.5 points to his total...its a way to account for completion percentage in FFB. The negligible .05 points per carry is to help prevent ties (though we had 1 or 2 last year...odd in a fractional point league lol) and to reward a back for getting the ball...20 carries = 1 point...I might dumb it down still, I can see how/why people wouldn't like this. I have a carry as one tenth of a catch (.5).
C. The way I look at things are based in the context of yardage, so a TD to me isn't worth 5 points, its worth 50 yards...as opposed to 6 points or 60 yards. When you look at it from this perspective, 6 points for a TD is a bit odd, even arbitrary, even though its the value given by the NFL and almost all fantasy leagues.
D. Honestly, I'd love to have DEFs and/or Ks however the way that fantasy football leagues are setup on Yahoo (my favorite) as well as on others, I can't adjust the points to my liking, thus I punt both positions. I assure you I have the best kicking format around.
Thanks again for joining.