ST_Pete

I need to chose one of these RBs in a .5 PPR: Mark Ingram Justin Forsett I don' think it matters much, but my opponent does have Drew Breese as his QB. Post a link to yours and I'll answer.

Pick 3 in a .5 ppr. Jordy (pretty obvious), Kelvin Benjamin, Vincent Jackson, Keenan Allen Post a link to yours too.

I've been offered Oliver and Jordan Reed for Forsett. Here's my current squad: Rodgers Leveon Bell Forsett Ingram Robinson Blount Nelson Benjamin Sanu VJax Keenan Allen Jordan Cameron What do you guys think?

Steven Ridley vs Oak or LeVeon Bell vs Car? I'll answer yours!

.5 ppr Leveon Bell or Steven Ridley

Cutler and I don't think it's close. http://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=437334&do=findComment&comment=5317320

Bell - I think he gets a lot of work out of the backfield. http://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=437334&do=findComment&comment=5317320

Rudolph http://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=437334&do=findComment&comment=5317320

Bell but not thrilled about either matchup. http://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=437334&do=findComment&comment=5317320

The Leg

I'm in a 12 team .5 PPR League and have Le'Veon Bell and Lesean McCoy as my two starting RBs with Gerhardt, Ridley, and Ingram on the bench. I am starting Cam as my QB. I've been offered Rogers for Bell. What do you guys think? Basically, it comes down to whether the difference between Rogers and Cam will outweigh the difference between Bell and my platoon.

Thanks for the responses! I've declined the offer.

As bad as Gerhart has looked, I don't think you can drop him for a short term investment. Therefore, I would say no to Davis. Bradshaw is interesting because he has looked 1000x better than Richardson. If you have faith that Bradshaw takes the reigns then that is the play. Otherwise, I think you stand pat. I do think Gerhart gets better if Bortles takes over. Teams are stacking the box and blitzing on every down. http://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=436941

I think you go with Allen here only because I think you still have to wait and see if NE is committed to giving Ridley the ball. To me, the question comes down to who has the higher floor? Buffalo is atrocious against the pass - the numbers so far this year are a bit of a mirage as they faced Chicago and both WRs went down with an injury while Arizona was playing with a backup QB. http://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=436941

I would do this. As others have said, you can ride Robinson who will likely get the goal line work anyway. Alshon will be fine so you are getting a huge upgrade. http://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=436941

I've got Marshall starting and Benjamin sitting on my bench. Rather than starting Benjamin, I am picking up Holmes as insurance and hoping to hell Marshall plays. As always, I am sure this is going to be a bad coaching call though...

You sir, are very sneaky...

.5 PPR league and I need to choose between TRich, Jeremy Hill, Mark Ingram, MJD. I keep going back and forth between TRich and MJD. Denver is not great against the run, but I can see this game getting to be a shootout and not sure how much TRich will be on the field in those packages (I could definitely see a line of 12 rushes 25 yards and 2 receptions for 8...). Ingram plays against the woeful ATL run defense. However, I have to deal with the 3 headed RBBC. I am really hoping to just get 7-8 points here. I am actually pretty stacked at my other positions, so I am just hoping to avoid a donut. Who do you like and why?

Doug, It probably was me. Okay, so you are calculating z scores (aka standard scores). This makes QUITE a bit more sense. Yes, you are correct that these do indeed allow you to make comparisons from players at different positions. I am actually excited to see that you have done this. I've taken a similar approach in my own projections. The nice, value added, to this approach is that since standard scores take into account the variability of the position, it is quite a bit more difficult for a QB to get a high value here versus other positional players. RBs on the other hand, due to the variability in scoring at that position, will be heavily favored at the top (i.e., the stud backs). Your positional rankings actually reflect that fairly nicely. Thanks again - very nice work!

Doug, First, let me say it was like Christmas logging onto the site today as I was able to get to glance at both the Big Board and the Soloist Rankings! Great job this year and I can't wait to spend more time trying to integrate your information with what I have done thus far. I think I mentioned this last year, but I am pretty sure what you define as value needs to be re-phrased. Specifically, you suggest that, "the value reflects the standard deviation from the 12th-ranked player at the position – the last starting-caliber player at the position." Based on what you have written, it is probably more likely that you are calculating something more similar to a standard score. Standard scores allow you to calculate the difference between each players value and the average difference (or in this case, the replacement player) in some standard units (in this case the standard deviation). My reasoning for believing that your use of the term standard deviation is off is because we would never calculate a standard deviation for a single value. Standard deviations are used to talk about the amount of spread in a distribution of scores. So, it might make sense (and I've argued elsewhere), that we could use a standard deviation statistic to talk about consistency ratings. However, it would not make sense to talk about the variability of a single score. At any rate, I'm not trying to derail the thread. Perhaps, you can send me a private message with the formulas you are using and I can make more sense of them. Again, great work here - as always!

1. Charles 2. McCoy 3. ADP 4. Forte 5. Lacy 6. Lynch 7. Ball 8. Murray 9. Foster 10. Leveon Bell 11. Spiller 12. Bernard 13. Ellington 14. Stacy 15. Gerhardt 16. D Martin 17 Morris 18 Richardson 19. Sankey 20 Tate 21 Matthews 22. J Bell 23 Frank Gore 24. Chris Johnson 25. Lamar Miller 26 Jeremy Hill 27 Terrance West 28 Reggie Bush 29. Mark Ingram 30 Khiry Robinson

1. Peyton 2. Brees 3. Rodgers 4. Stafford 5. Luck 6. Ryan 7. Romo 8. Brady 9. Kaepernick 10. N Foles 11. Cam Newton 12. Cutler 13. RGIII 14. Russel Wilson 15. Roethlisberger 16. Rivers 17. Dalton 18. Alex Smith 19. Eli Manning 20. Bradford

1. Calvin Johnson 2. D Thomas 3. Julio Jones 4. AJ Green 5. Dez Bryant 6. Jordy Nelson 7. Brandon Marshall 8. Alshon Jeffrey 9. Antonio Brown 10. Randall Cobb 11. Keenan Allen 12. Roddy White 13. Wes Welker 14. Andre Johnson 15. Vincent Jackson 16. Pierre Garcon 17. Victor Cruz 18. Michael Floyd 19. Desean Jackson 20. Larry Fitzgerald 21. Michael Crabtree 22. Percy Harvin 23. Corderelle Patterson 24. Jeremy Maclin 25. Torrey Smith 26. TY Hilton 27 Marques Colston 28. Emmanual Sanders 29. Julian Edelman 30. Kelvin Benjamin

1. J. Graham 2. R. Gronkowski 3. J. Thomas 4. V. Davis 5. J. Cameron 6. D Pitta 7. G. Olsen 8. J Reed 9. J. Witten 10. L Green 11. K Rudolph 12. M Bennett 13. D. Allen 14. Z. Ertz 15. H Miller

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