Thoughts on the scoring system

[Shiz]

The .35 for receptions certainly helps TEs quite a bit. I might have gone overboard here (as was hinted.)

Anyone have any thoughts? I am not inclined to change it now, but it cannot hurt to talk about it.

[Erudite]

It's been .35 per for a few years now, I think.

I don't have a problem with it helping tight ends, especially in a league this big. Even with it, there are still only a half-dozen tight ends that will be reasonably productive over the entire season. The drop-off after the first few is steep.

[Lycos]

I don't care what the scoring is as long as it stays consistant. The only thing that I do with scoring is to take it into consideration for drafting, etc. As long as everyone gets scored the same, I don't think it matters. Tight Ends always needed something. There are very few "go to" TEs in the NFL, so giving them a little more potency is a good thing IMO.

[Shiz]

Well, it is also much less of a TD league than we have done previously since I lowered the yardage ratios. Not that TDs aren't important in the end, but 14pts for a TE (see Drax's team in week1) with only 1 TD would have been impossible laster year.

[Zyzzyx]

Ah... I'd been wondering a bit about some of the points scoring and how it worked. Didn't realize that it was something that you set up for your league, I was thinking that it was something set overall by Yahoo. Ah, such is the fun of my first yea doing this.

[Raveneye]

I think receptions only counted for .2 in our previous years, so the increase to nearly double that is making WRs and TEs much more valuable.

This is a "good thing", especially in 16 team leagues like ours. In previous years, the strategy was nearly always RB,RB,RB. You took them in the draft, you automatically played them in the WR/RB slot, and they carried your team. This year more teams than ever are spreading the carries around and thereby reducing the points all but the top few RBs (and Jerome Bettis) earn. In addition, our 16 team format means fewer RBs with any real earning potential are there to start each week. This either leaves a huge hole into which points dissapear and teams with stud RBs become unstoppable, or opens up the league for an alternative.

That alternative is the increased role played by WRs and TEs thanks to the receptions value increase. At first I was wary of it, but having been beaten by the sterling performance of a stud WR (TO) this week despite pretty impressive scores by my own stud RBs I'm inclined to think it brings more competitveness to the league and acts as a sort of equalizer.

Now if you have a RB that underperforms one week it doesn't automatically mean you're down and out, as you could have a TE or a 2nd WR with a lot of catches wind up making up the point difference for you.

[Drax]

Well, it is also much less of a TD league than we have done previously since I lowered the yardage ratios. Not that TDs aren't important in the end, but 14pts for a TE (see Drax's team in week1) with only 1 TD would have been impossible laster year.
By lowering the yardage ratios, this becomes much more of a TD league, not less. The reception pts being so high, relatively, counters the decrease of pt/yd, but this still becomes primarily a TD league for this season.

[Shiz]

"lowering the ratio" was misleading. I lowered the yardage to earn a point (as you know) so it takes less yards to equal a TD versus last year.