Aug 11, 2007 3
Have we made fantasy too complicated?
We had former 49er DB Merton Hanks, who is a huge fantasy player and even busted out jargon like PPR, on the Sirius Radio show last night and I asked him about dealing with the matchups in terms of a secondary vs. a receiving corps, or a CB vs. a WR. He had an interesting response. He said he looks at the matchups in a much more general way. Instead of looking specifically at the individual matchups, he looks first at the divisions and if a division as a whole is playing poorly, he’ll start players playing against the division.
Now, Hanks certainly knows football – I recently saw a clip of him picking off John Elway in a big game and running it in for a TD – and he also knows fantasy, as evidenced by his obvious knowledge on the subject. I’m certainly not going to use his methods as my main determinate, but I will consider it now.
Maybe we’re over-complicating fantasy and the matchups? Maybe we get so aggravated when the unexpected happens because we’re trying to peel too many layers off the onion? As I think back, fantasy was less complicated back in the day – and we were [...]
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