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Fantasy Football 2018

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Traded Saquon Barkley for Kareem Hunt in a survivor league. Probably a bit of a downgrade, but this week could murder me with Saquon and half my team on bye, so it was worth it.
 
Haha got a stat correction in my money dynasty league and went from a loss to a win. 6-2 baby!
 
Am I crazy to consider OAK in my Survivor League tonight? They're going against the SF 3rd string QB, Nick Mullen.

Otherwise, it would be CAR or DAL.
 
Traded Matt Ryan for Robert Woods after Fuller was lost.

Still have Philip Rivers as my QB1. Maybe the ceiling got lower on my QB spot, but not terribly, and I upgraded a position of need. Poised to make a run.
 
So obviously scoring is way up this year, but I wanted to take a look at exactly how ridiculous it has been. I decided to look at my money dynasty league, which is a pretty consistent .5 PPR and 4 point QB touchdown league with normal starters (1QB/2RB/2WR/1TE/1FLEX/1K) plus 3 IDP starters. Ten teams.

Three seasons ago, the 2016 season was our inaugural year for this league. The league existed before that, but that was the year we switched from redraft to dynasty.

2016:
League High Score - 140.19 PPG
League Low Score - 113.24 PPG
League Average - 131.88 PPG

The top six teams in the league in scoring this year were all within a seven point range of each other, and from there you saw a gradual drop off until the bottom two teams.

2017:
League High Score - 148.98 PPG
League Low Score - 117.4 PPG
League Average - 127.79 PPG

So, not entirely dissimilar at the top and bottom, but scoring was down across the board overall. Less than twelve points separated the third-highest scoring team in the league from the lowest-scoring team. League average was slightly down from the previous year (makes sense with all the QB injuries plus injuries to star players like DJ and OBJ).

2018 (so far):
League High Score - 178.09 PPG
League Low Score - 119.11 PPG
League Average - 139.37

I mean, holy shit. I'm second in scoring and I am outscoring the highest team from last year by thirteen points, and the highest-scoring team is besting his previous record (he was first last year too) by thirty. Average score is up almost twelve PPG from last year.

I imagine this scoring boom is even more noticeable in non-dynasty formats, as in dynasty the best couple of teams tend to have a lot of the top players in the league rather than having them somewhat evenly dispersed like in re-draft, which means a lot of scoring gets left on their benches.

Just as an example, on a weekly basis I have to choose between the following for my flex spot: David Johnson, Tyler Boyd, Keenan Allen, Nick Chubb, Tyler Lockett, and a couple of others. Pretty much all of those guys would be starting for someone in redraft.
 
I just looked at the Panthers' fantasy playoff schedule.

Week 14 @ Cleveland
Week 15 vs New Orleans
Week 16 vs Atlanta

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Start buying up those Newton and McCaffrey shares, motherfuckers!
 
It's really fucking weird when you think about what goes through your head when you're watching the NFL through a FF lens.

Then when you add in multiple leagues, then it's a real trainwreck.
 
Hurl Bruce said:
It's really fucking weird when you think about what goes through your head when you're watching the NFL through a FF lens.

Then when you add in multiple leagues, then it's a real trainwreck.
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Personally, I think fantasy is the main reason I am into football. The Browns have been a train wreck for so long that it's certainly not them keeping me into it. But having players in damn near every game across by handful of leagues really makes all the games matter.
 
Dallas loses!!!

That eliminates one of the three guys that were left in the Survivor League I am in. The other guy picked the 49ers!!!

I went with CAR.

Down to 2. $500 on the line.

Early look points to KC against ARZ as the obvious choice for week 10.
 
Sometimes scheduling just sucks.

I am facing the combination of Rapistberger, Ju-Ju and McCaffery in two different leagues.

I love going into Sunday with only a 5% chance of winning.
 
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