
Why should a reception for 10 yards be worth twice as much as a run for 10 yards?

How you gain it doesn’t change the result on the field. In the real-life NFL, 10 yards is 10 yards. It is the simple concept of equality of production and scoring, and a translation of real-life impact to fantasy impact. Yet none of that is the reason PPR drives the Madman into madness.

There are many more committee backfields. There are far fewer teams who utilize a feature running back, which used to be the norm – a league littered with Derrick Henrys. Now, NFL teams rely far less on the ground game than they did back then. Points per reception formats were originally created in the early 2000s to counter the overabundance on bell-cow running backs taken in the first couple rounds of fantasy drafts. It yields significantly fewer points, and points are fun.īut it has been overrun by a worse alternative, that is as outdated now as it was counterproductive at its inception. Standard relied far too much on touchdown production, which is notoriously inconsistent and unpredictable. And that isn’t necessarily a bad thing in and of itself.

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