08-11-2003, 11:56 PM
yahoo fantasy is screwed up because they award 6 points for a passing td yet you would only get a fraction of that for rushing yardage. RBs are less valuable.... I saw a rant on this the other day explaining it more precisely but I can't recall the exact wording.
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I found this on another forum:
Here's the main problem with Yahoo:
They have no clue about scoring. I've been playing fantasy sports HARDCORE since 1990. I've made about $11,000 from CDM, and probably spend $5,000-6,000 playing there. I've played private leagues, high stakes, free, keeper, you name it, every possible rule combination for all 4 major sports, and Yahoo hasn't a clue.
Yahoo has bad rules and teaches them to newbies and perpetuates bad rules in private leagues. In football, they give you 6 points for a passing TD. Because of that, QBs you draft in the 6th round have more points than an RB you take in the 1st round. And they do nothing to reward scoring.
Yahoo gives you 6 points for a passing TD and 1 point for 50 yards passing. Yardage should be worth something. It should be 3 points for a pass TD and 1 point for 25 yards passing, or 4 points for a pass TD and 1 point for 30 yards passing. RB and WR should get 1 point for 10 yards rushing, not 1 point for 20. You can have an RB with a masterful game of 99 yards on 24 carries with no TD and he gets 4 points, or you can have Stacey Mack or Moe Williams have 1 carry for 1 yard and 1 TD and he gets 6 points.
That's absolutely asinine. And I've said that to them for going on 7 years now. They're completely clueless.
In NBA, they give you TO and PF. That's like giving earned runs in baseball. It should be ERA...EARNED RUN AVERAGE, right? Well, it should be TO/MP, like WH/IP. WHIP=Walks+Hits/Innings Pitched. TO/MP is Turnovers/MINUTES PLAYED. It's so dumb that people with dead teams win TO because they don't have as many people going. Same with PF. PF/MP.
But the dumbest of all, and again, coming from someone who's played Fantasy NHL for 13 years is PIM. In Yahoo, PIM is a good thing. It's like TO or PF in basketball being good. Or Errors or Earned Runs in baseball. Or fumbles in football. WTF are they thinking?
Edited By Velociti on 1060646350
*edit*
I found this on another forum:
Here's the main problem with Yahoo:
They have no clue about scoring. I've been playing fantasy sports HARDCORE since 1990. I've made about $11,000 from CDM, and probably spend $5,000-6,000 playing there. I've played private leagues, high stakes, free, keeper, you name it, every possible rule combination for all 4 major sports, and Yahoo hasn't a clue.
Yahoo has bad rules and teaches them to newbies and perpetuates bad rules in private leagues. In football, they give you 6 points for a passing TD. Because of that, QBs you draft in the 6th round have more points than an RB you take in the 1st round. And they do nothing to reward scoring.
Yahoo gives you 6 points for a passing TD and 1 point for 50 yards passing. Yardage should be worth something. It should be 3 points for a pass TD and 1 point for 25 yards passing, or 4 points for a pass TD and 1 point for 30 yards passing. RB and WR should get 1 point for 10 yards rushing, not 1 point for 20. You can have an RB with a masterful game of 99 yards on 24 carries with no TD and he gets 4 points, or you can have Stacey Mack or Moe Williams have 1 carry for 1 yard and 1 TD and he gets 6 points.
That's absolutely asinine. And I've said that to them for going on 7 years now. They're completely clueless.
In NBA, they give you TO and PF. That's like giving earned runs in baseball. It should be ERA...EARNED RUN AVERAGE, right? Well, it should be TO/MP, like WH/IP. WHIP=Walks+Hits/Innings Pitched. TO/MP is Turnovers/MINUTES PLAYED. It's so dumb that people with dead teams win TO because they don't have as many people going. Same with PF. PF/MP.
But the dumbest of all, and again, coming from someone who's played Fantasy NHL for 13 years is PIM. In Yahoo, PIM is a good thing. It's like TO or PF in basketball being good. Or Errors or Earned Runs in baseball. Or fumbles in football. WTF are they thinking?
Edited By Velociti on 1060646350
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