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Quoted: Please don;t change the starting lineup AFTER the draft.
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What I suggested is almost the way it was BEFORE the draft, and Burley changed it and set the draft status to ready before anyone had a chance to set their draft orders.
The only thing to change would be everyone would get to pick up one extra player as a free agent (20 man roster instead of 19) and everyone would get to insert two extra bench players into the lineup every week.
Quality free agents WILL be available as they are every year due to injuries and poor performance of starters... i.e. last year Reuben Droughns, Nick Goings, Billy Volek, Willis McGahee, Larry Johnson, and others went undrafted yet found themselves playing and contributing to fantasy teams. Volek got me to the playoffs last year.
I mean with just 8 teams in the league, any dumb manager can stick his studs in the lineup every week with minimal management decisions. Leagues with more teams are more competitive because they're shallower. We can't add more teams but we can add more players.
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My say is to just let it role. A smaller roster makes it more fun because you put your eggs in one basket. With 2 QB's is less of a gamble.
My vote 1 QB 2 RB 3 WR 1 TE 1 K 1 DEF
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I'd say whoever drafted P Manning and D Culpepper will have pretty full baskets at the end of the season...
2004 Manning fantasy points = 405
2004 Culpepper fantasy points = 361
If Burley's scoring system (7 pts/TD) were used last year (instead of 6 pts/TD) it would look like this:
Manning fantasy points 454
Culpepper fantasy points 402
For comparison...
2004 T Brady fantasy points = 224..... (@7pts/TD = 252)
2004 M Vick fantasy points = 158..... (@7pts/TD = 175)
2004 B Griese fantasy points = 156..... (@7pts/TD = 176)
2004 B Roethlisberger fantasy points = 147..... (@7pts/TD = 158)
Those are pretty significant point differences. As you can see, scoring is weighted heavily to whoever has the top 2 or 3 elite QBs. Most of those who drafted them won their leagues last year. 7 points/TD makes it worse. Some leagues score 3 or 4 points per passing TD to de-emphasize QB scoring. And some leagues let you start 2 QBs so you can spot start a 2nd QB you think is going to have a good day.
But if you guys want just one QB at 7pts/TD I'd say Gold Tooth Beavers and DonkeyPunchers are probably going to have a pretty good season.
ETA: I'm not saying that Manning will best last year's record-breaking season, just that there's more disparity between the elite QBs and the run-of-the-mill QBs than the other positions, WR, RB, etc.