StatTracker

Suppose this were not a head-to-head league, but a roto league? Well, here's what it would look like, and you better appreciate how much time this took. The outcomes ... well, they're just about exactly what you'd expect.

	Pass Yards	Pass TD	Rush Yards	Rush TD	Rec. Yards	Rec. TD	TO	Kick	Def. Points
Ed	2261	15	2724	19	3766	26	12	42	112.0
Drew	2433	14	2926	16	3091	14	14	71	101.5
Eli	2138	10	2820	20	3293	20	23	58	131.5
Stem	1761	13	2038	25	2993	19	15	79	118.0
Viano	2135	15	2286	19	2442	13	11	64	67.5
JR	2074	12	2607	8	2591	17	14	68	129.0
Lincoln	2600	18	1440	18	2689	13	16	55	60.5
Baron	2369	13	1585	8	2453	15	16	61	105.5
Champ	2236	13	1788	9	2763	19	19	55	108.5
Sluts	1268	7	1386	12	2013	4	11	35	110.5

	Pass Yards	Pass TD	Rush Yards	Rush TD	Rec. Yards	Rec. TD	TO	Kick	Def. Points	Total
Ed	7	7.5	8	7.5	10	10	8	2	7	67
Drew	9	6	10	5	8	4	6.5	9	3	60.5
Eli	5	2	9	9	9	9	1	5	10	59
Stem	2	4.5	5	10	7	7.5	5	10	8	59
Viano	4	7.5	6	7.5	2	2.5	9.5	7	2	48
JR	3	3	7	1.5	4	6	6.5	8	9	48
Lincoln	10	10	2	6	5	2.5	3.5	3.5	1	43.5
Baron	8	9	3	1.5	3	5	3.5	6	4	43
Champ	6	4.5	4	3	6	7.5	2	3.5	5	41.5
Sluts	1	1	1	4	1	1	9.5	1	6	25.5

Things of note:

The quarterback is even more valuable in this format, where essentially two categories are based upon one player. A guy like Eli, who had Daunte Culpepper, will naturally be more handicapped than you might expect as a result. Plus, Culpepper’s presence made turnovers more weighted.

Turnovers have more impact here, as they are a mere subtraction of three points in the head-to-head system.

A roto format would change the strategy of many teams…especially with the flex spot. A team needing reception yards may be more prone to put a receiver there and a rusher there otherwise. The strategy currently, to put a running back in that slot, would be further magnified since a running back is more likely to get receiving stats and not the other way around. Selecting who to start will hinge on what category is needed that week.

In no way can you really draw conclusions from this. Obviously, a head-to-head league would have more importance on receiving touchdowns, for example, than kicking, because there are far more players getting receiving touchdown points than there are kickers getting points. This treats the entire outputs of receiving touchdowns and kickers equally. Ditto for defense and really the QB values, with only one player compared to three or four registering fantasy points.

Kicking points take no distant field goals into account. It is simply the number of points (three for a field goal, one for a PAT) put forth by a kicker.

Without any other means of quantifying, I am accepting the yahoo system for scoring defensive players and tabulating overall defensive points, using that as one category. Obviously, this will favor teams who have defenders scoring touchdowns, so the category is one that probably shouldn’t appear in a roto format. Defense entirely shouldn’t appear.

I have chosen to throw out “return touchdowns” since that can’t be placed in any category and there would be too few of them to put in a single category. Also out the window are two-point conversions. Receptions and completions are removed from the equation to give equal footing to the outputs by quarterbacks, running backs and receivers.

It’s entirely possible that I mis-added in many places, and thus the results could be skewed heavily as a result. You can add them up if you’d like.