The NFFL is ruining pro football

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BraveHeartFan said:
Fantasy football is only fun for the time during the live draft. After that I don't care about it at all really. And that's after winning a couple of leagues the last few years and I still don't really care beyond the live draft itself.
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This.
Sometimes I forget to update my roster week to week.
And I think that's when my FF team does the best...
 
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jazzcat22 said:
NFFL is more like changing the fans....get / makes fans who don't really care for a team, only bragging rights to win or make money [nothing wrong with that].
I came across quite a few of these in my travels. They follow players, but really don't know the sport in some ways.

I never played it and do not intend to. Personally for me it's a waste of time, goes along with facebook, or ...wastebook...but that's just my opinion, to each their own.
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I'm stealing "Wastebook" from you. Horrible waste of time.
 
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I still dont understand how more scoring is better for fantasy football. Everyone selects from the same pool of players, so each team's point totals are going to increase.
 
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jazzcat22 said:
I believe it will lead to many inconsistent calls over the 1st few weeks or so. Some crews may keep calling them close, others may not. And from week to week, the defensive players won't know how to play within the perceived rules. But I can see some DB instead of taking a chance on a cheap penalty, let the WR catch it, then just level him, no holding, no PI, no illegal contact, no hit on a defenseless receiver.....just sit back and wait...then BOOM, lights out. But then I'm sure, the league will come up with something against that too.
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This is right, and I'm already seeing it. Some crews are being very literal and calling everything, while others seem to take it more with a grain of salt and are letting teams play a lot more.

This could be a mess early.
 
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xwalker said:
OK. I have wondered if the pass interference rules are designed to get more fantasy interest.
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Ahh, you may be onto someting here...wonder who goodell's fanasy team consists of, what's at stake for him....which many people want to put him on a stake...LOL
 
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xwalker said:
OK. I have wondered if the pass interference rules are designed to get more fantasy interest.
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Of course they are. Everything this league does, even the stuff under the player safety label, is geared towards more fantasy stats and, in turn, more money.
 
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If secondaries are handicapped a lot by these new guidelines,we could see more (legal) hits on the qb's resulting from increased blitzing. No reason to hold guys back if they aren't being effective anyway. And, of course, more contact of any kind means more qb injuries. It will be interesting to see how this all unfolds and what the unintended consequences are.
 
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Craig said:
I still dont understand how more scoring is better for fantasy football. Everyone selects from the same pool of players, so each team's point totals are going to increase.
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Too many defensive games without scoring are nails on a chalkboard to viewers only interested in rapid-fire scoring.
 
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Fantasy Football is the NFL's way of shifting the gamblers who give business to local bookies and Vegas back to the league and doing so in a legal matter.

There's a fallacy that 'more offense means more fans.' Baseball tried it and in the end it fell flat on its face. Fans love offense when the offense is truly accomplishing something that is above and beyond the standards of the time. Nobody cares about a 4,000 yard passing season from a QB because it is something that even lower-tier QB's can do, just like fans didn't care about hitting 50 HR's in the steroid era because when guys like Brady Anderson are doing it...it doesn't look that hard to do anymore. And it also insults the history of the game.

To me, the way the NFL can help curb this nonsense is to be more critical on the rules of the offense. They need to be much stricter on the intentional grounding and 'in the grasp' penalties from the offense. They need to be much more critical on illegal pick plays and offensive holding (receiver blocks before the ball is thrown).

Otherwise, you're just getting Arena Football and if Arena football was so successful...it would be the favorite football league to watch.

And whether the league likes it or not, fans are drawn to this game because of 'controlled violence.' It's a term coined by Lombardi and he felt strongly about 'controlled violence' and its importance to the popularity of the game.





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Yakuza Rich said:
Fantasy Football is the NFL's way of shifting the gamblers who give business to local bookies and Vegas back to the league and doing so in a legal matter.

There's a fallacy that 'more offense means more fans.' Baseball tried it and in the end it fell flat on its face. Fans love offense when the offense is truly accomplishing something that is above and beyond the standards of the time. Nobody cares about a 4,000 yard passing season from a QB because it is something that even lower-tier QB's can do, just like fans didn't care about hitting 50 HR's in the steroid era because when guys like Brady Anderson are doing it...it doesn't look that hard to do anymore. And it also insults the history of the game.

To me, the way the NFL can help curb this nonsense is to be more critical on the rules of the offense. They need to be much stricter on the intentional grounding and 'in the grasp' penalties from the offense. They need to be much more critical on illegal pick plays and offensive holding (receiver blocks before the ball is thrown).

Otherwise, you're just getting Arena Football and if Arena football was so successful...it would be the favorite football league to watch.

And whether the league likes it or not, fans are drawn to this game because of 'controlled violence.' It's a term coined by Lombardi and he felt strongly about 'controlled violence' and its importance to the popularity of the game.





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Sure there is a Gladiator aspect to this game because none of us would be willing to walk onto that field and play with those guys. However, it's still very much about the tactics of the game itself, and the courage it takes to play a thinking game amidst a very real possibility of serious injury at any moment.
 
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erod said:
Too many defensive games without scoring are nails on a chalkboard to viewers only interested in rapid-fire scoring.
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That seems more a product of the NFL trying to be for casual sports fans rather than having to do with fantasy football.
 
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