re: Anyone likes the idea of this fantasy format....

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Then what are you arguing? No one is choosing the perfect team each week and still losing every week. It all balances out in the end. You might have 4-5 weeks where you get lucky and choose the right guys and put up 110+ and still lose. But you'll have other weeks where you put up 85 and win. The notion that someone will always pick their top scorers and lose week in week out is bogus. As I said, it all balances out.

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I'm arguing that it doesn't all balance out all the time. That is an incredibly arrogant attitude to think you know what happens in every single fantasy league across the country. I've already provided my own experience just from this year. Our high scorer by quite a bit is 2-6 and will miss the playoffs. Guess things didn't balance out for him huh.

And my main argument all along is that top 6/bottom 6 scoring for W/L makes more sense. In your scenario, the 110 team is probably getting wins those weeks and when he scored 85 he's probably getting losses in top 6/bottom 6. Now explain to me how that makes less sense than your argument that if he gets losses in the 110 weeks, that it'll all just balance out and he'll get wins in the 85 weeks? Does that sometimes happen? Sure. But what also happens is he could very well be winless in all those weeks.

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I see where you're coming from, but if you can't see that it's a massive anomaly for that to happen I don't know what else to say.

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I think we're just gonna have to agree to disagree on this. I certainly from my experience do not consider a high scoring team having bad luck from week to week and screwing any chance they have at the playoffs as a massive anomaly. Some peoples leagues probably always work out where the top scoring teams are in the 1-4 place. Good for them. I guess they don't need to worry about making any changes.

One of the things that placates people when they bitch about having a losing record but scoring tons of points is to have a separate payout for the high scorer in your league

I used to be in a league where it wa a $50 buy-in

$30 went to who won the league and $20 would go to the high scorer

there were a couple years where the person that won the league was also the high scorer

but it gives the people bitching about wins v losses something to look forward to throughout the season

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I don't like it. The fun of fantasy football are the matchups and the luck. Even in sports the team that is "supposed" to win doesn't always

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I really like that format (aside from changing during the playoffs, that doesn't make sense). I will never understand the answers like this. If you truly believe the fun of fantasy is the matchups, then what better way than to make it a free for all every single week. You can literally go into a MNF game 4-5 other guys that are battling for the last of the top 6 "W" spots. It would be a lot more back and forth and drama filled IMO, and it also eliminates a lot more luck for the most part. Teams don't get fricked just because the other team went off. Perhaps Im bitter from being the highest scoring team in one league last year and missing the playoffs completely, but you hear that every year and it just makes no sense. I will always be for adapting to any rule of format that eliminates as much of the luck as possible.

A retard trying to make sense using retarded logic