Preparing For the Draft
There are two ways to prepare for the upcoming NFL Fantasy draft being run by my blogging buddy Joe Schick. One is to read all kinds of football magazines, scan the websites, listen to the radio, etc. The other is to go next door to my head of analytics, give him the scoring settings for our league and have him develop a "cheat sheet" with all kinds of valuations. Assuming I don't screw up the actual mechanics of the draft (not a small thing and something I did not avoid last year), I should come out with a fairly good team.
The two things my guy was able to do for me that I would not otherwise have been able to do are, first, value players based on our unique scoring system. It's easy to find player rankings on the web but not one that values players based on our system. Second, he explained the concept of relative value (which Joe put into use last year when he picked Payton Manning very early in the draft rather than a running back). I will share some of my guy's specific ha'arahs after the draft but his approach is quite interesting.
Our draft is motsai Shabbos. What could be better than a combination of melaveh malkah and fantasy football?
There are two ways to prepare for the upcoming NFL Fantasy draft being run by my blogging buddy Joe Schick. One is to read all kinds of football magazines, scan the websites, listen to the radio, etc. The other is to go next door to my head of analytics, give him the scoring settings for our league and have him develop a "cheat sheet" with all kinds of valuations. Assuming I don't screw up the actual mechanics of the draft (not a small thing and something I did not avoid last year), I should come out with a fairly good team.
The two things my guy was able to do for me that I would not otherwise have been able to do are, first, value players based on our unique scoring system. It's easy to find player rankings on the web but not one that values players based on our system. Second, he explained the concept of relative value (which Joe put into use last year when he picked Payton Manning very early in the draft rather than a running back). I will share some of my guy's specific ha'arahs after the draft but his approach is quite interesting.
Our draft is motsai Shabbos. What could be better than a combination of melaveh malkah and fantasy football?
Labels: Fantasy Football
posted by MoChassid @ 3:13 PM
16 Comments:
At 9:05 PM,
Joe Schick said…
Please have your friend prepare a cheatsheet for me too.
At 10:04 PM,
MoChassid said…
Joe
I influence his comp; enough said.
The truth is that there is more to the draft than even the cheat sheet. Even with the rankings, knowing when to pick a receiver over a running back or a QB over a receiver based on relative values, and doing it within the allotted minute per pick is challenging. Of course, without the rankings I'd be much worse off.
At 8:00 AM,
Joe Schick said…
Last year I spent around 10 hours preparing. This year I will spend less than an hour. It may be your year.
At 10:58 PM,
Ezzie said…
That's basically what I do for my baseball league (I've been tweaking formulas all year), so next year should be a good one. Football is a bit simpler - we use the basic scoring system and it's easy enough to use what they've got.
At 2:24 AM,
Anonymous said…
what waste of life! narishkiten of the highest order. ich kenesht
At 8:12 AM,
MoChassid said…
annonymous
It is narishkeit but fairly harmless narishkeit. And, it's fun for someone like me, who barely follows the game, to beat real fans simply on the basis of math.
At 12:25 PM,
Joe Schick said…
moC,
You haven't beaten anyone yet.
Thanks for Jared Allen.
At 2:10 PM,
Anonymous said…
whatever, its sad how obsessed people are with this.
baruch hashem some of us are immune to the hype.
At 8:34 PM,
MoChassid said…
I'm talking in theory.
I will certainly beat someone this year and I assure you I know less about current pro football than anyone in the league.
At 8:44 PM,
Joe Schick said…
You know more than superfeldman.
At 4:43 AM,
Anonymous said…
it was good to see you on shabbos Mo. That guy who dresses like the ocean, is he a regular? any other shul that guy for sure is escorted out by security, in aish though, no1 even bats an eye, seems like a really nice guy just with an affinity for the color blue.mamash pilei pilaim.Brad
At 10:05 AM,
MoChassid said…
Brad
Just to prove your point, I don't even know who you're talking about. Which Ocean guy? Where was he sitting?
Joe
Could be. You're welcome on Jared allen. That was a huge blunder by me; I meant to bench him but dropped him instead. I was distracted at the time.
At 10:15 AM,
Joe Schick said…
If it was just a mistake I will give him back to you.
At 11:40 AM,
MoChassid said…
that would be very generous of you. Total screw up on my part. He was one of the guys my stats guy told me to go after; I meant to put him on the bench since he was "out" but got distracted and dropped him instead. I will totally understand if you keep him; you would be rewarding carelessness!
At 6:14 PM,
Anonymous said…
there was an ocean guy dressed all in techailes. Techailes talis,(with blue stripes)and techailes strings. techailes shirt made into a daled canfos so he needed techailes strings on it and a techailes kippah(white soup bowl with blue strip--no strings--i think). Very colorful. I thought i was at the beach. to the left of the bimah closer to the front.Brad
At 6:15 PM,
Anonymous said…
and just to be clear, you heard it here first, the bears are going back to the superbowl, you can put money on it--and for the record im a native new yorker so im unbiased(in this regard)Brad
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