Yahoo! Fantasy Football Autodraft Strategy Question: Does it make sense to exclude all kickers?
May 14th, 2007 | by Michael |
TimeWaster asked:
There? ? for a surcharge on order with the default settings that the game could have less than 10 people. The thought? I do not want the extractor autodraft select a snap with an eighth or ninth round pick. Excluding all extractors snap, no extractor will snap? designed, but I can then try to select someone off waivers (or morely probably an FA). The analysis of the response that would be quite different if we are talking about tight end and / or defense?
There? ? for a surcharge on order with the default settings that the game could have less than 10 people. The thought? I do not want the extractor autodraft select a snap with an eighth or ninth round pick. Excluding all extractors snap, no extractor will snap? designed, but I can then try to select someone off waivers (or morely probably an FA). The analysis of the response that would be quite different if we are talking about tight end and / or defense?
4 Responses to “Yahoo! Fantasy Football Autodraft Strategy Question: Does it make sense to exclude all kickers?”
By hisandhers on May 15, 2007 | Reply
I don’t think that you want to exclude ALL kickers. Most of the kickers will give you a constant higher score than the top 1/3 Tight Ends.
By gotearz on May 16, 2007 | Reply
Absolutely makes sense. Kickers get picked up and dropped all the time in Yahoo leagues. They are essentially worthless. There are always a few kickers that start to have great years on the waivers. I think DEF. fall into the same category. I have won leagues with a top 20 Def and a top 10 Def both of which I picked from the waiver wire.
By Doug on May 17, 2007 | Reply
With less than 10 people, I’d say that’s not a bad strategy. In fact I like it quite a bit, with such a small league. One thing I like to do in an autodraft league is only allow for players I want to draft.
How I do this is take the total number of players to be drafted (for example a 10 team league drafting 15 players = 150 players drafted). I then take the top 150 players and add them to my list and exclude the rest of the players. I then look through my list and see if there are any players I want to exclude (in your case, the kickers) and remove them. I then look through the excluded list and add players to replace the ones I’ve removed. Finally I rank the players I’ve included. This will insure only getting the players you’ve included.
I don’t like the strategy for tight ends and defenses as there can be a much larger discrepancy between a #3 and #10 than in kickers.
By misterlyle on May 17, 2007 | Reply
that is a great strategy. kickers are surely the most unpredictable of positions because their scoring depends on circumstance and a huge variety of factors. drop your last round pick and add a kicker to complete your roster.