![]() Unlike receptions, first downs are unambiguously important in-game events. This year, set up a league that awards points for first downs (PPFD). I am, however, going to offer a recommendation to fantasy commissioners who are starting new leagues - and to commishes who’ve been playing PPR, but would prefer to only reward stats with real-world value. Really, as long as you aren’t one of the smug PPRists who insist that the rest of us are doing it wrong, I’ve got no beef with you. Plenty of managers like to score for all sorts of minor in-game occurrences - completions, carries, receptions - simply because points are fun. Play whatever fantasy variant you like most. Who am I to tell you how to live your fantasy life? Do your thing. Yet despite PPR’s strange scoring equivalencies, it continues to thrive as a custom league setting. The NFL has evolved in a way that neatly addressed the primary concerns of PPR’s early advocates. Today, in standard scoring leagues, you’d be a fool to ignore the game’s elite receivers in the opening rounds. Four receivers cracked the NFL’s top-10 in scrimmage yards - Josh Gordon, Alshon Jeffery, Antonio Brown and Calvin Johnson - and a dozen finished among the top-25. Only two running backs reached 300 carries, LeSean McCoy (314) and Marshawn Lynch (301). Peyton Manning and Drew Brees each topped 5000 yards. In 2013, nine different QBs exceeded Favre’s passing total from ’98. In that sort of statistical environment, it’s easy to understand why so many fantasy owners adopted PPR scoring.įifteen years later, however, things had changed. Antonio Freeman was the only receiver to crack the top-15. Four of the next five names on the leader board were RBs as well: Duce Staley, Robert Smith, Robert Edwards and Warrick Dunn. These were the NFL’s leaders in scrimmage yards in ’98: Eleven running backs finished with 300 or more carries that season, and Jamal Anderson handled 410. (Bernstein Associates/Getty Images)īack in 1998, for example, the NFL produced only two 4000-yard passers, Brett Favre (4212) and Steve Young (4170).
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