If you're playing fantasy football contests at Fantasy Sports Live, you know that there are a variety of different games. Contests vary by buy in, number of players, and by limitations on what players can be selected.
Most of the contests I enter on a regular basis are point capped. Each player is assigned a point value based on performance to date and your picks are charged against your total cap up to the limit. A variation on this is the no cap contest, where you can pick whomever you wish. The third standard variety is a salary cap contest. Rather than points based on production, players have a salary which bears some relation (for all I know it may match) to the player's actual paycheck.
Salary cap contests are interesting. I'm busy entering one as I type this - chalk it up as "research" - a $3.40 heads up match with a $1.8 million salary cap.
The "problem" referenced in the title to this post is a little misleading - it's not really a problem, more of a quirk: I find that I frequently fall too much in love with the bargains, leaving a huge chunk of my "cap" unspent!*
Some of the players are just ridiculous bargains. Matt Forte, the Bears rookie RB and one of the top 10 RBs ranked by performance, has a salary of $20k. So do a lot of other productive rookies. You snag a few of those guys and all of a sudden, you're picking your last player with a million bucks left on your salary cap!
No, I'm not being serious. I'm just distracted, trying to decide which el cheapo RB will be gracing my roster.
The quirks of the salary cap system also limit the number of guys you are realistically going to take. There are very good QB options available for less - in some case much less - than 400k. So why on earth would anyone ever take Peyton (1.169 million) or Eli (807k) Manning? They wouldn't. Duh.
It's a funny game.
Time's up. Team's picked. If I spend any more time on this, I may yet talk myself into "upgrading" to some 500k receiver when a 180k model works just fine.
Salary cap contests at Fantasy Sports Live - fantasy sports' answer to keeping up with the Joneses.
* Yes, I know. "But Senator, you left two billion on the table!" "Bah. A good politician never leaves a nickel unspent. Appearances matter, my dear."
Most of the contests I enter on a regular basis are point capped. Each player is assigned a point value based on performance to date and your picks are charged against your total cap up to the limit. A variation on this is the no cap contest, where you can pick whomever you wish. The third standard variety is a salary cap contest. Rather than points based on production, players have a salary which bears some relation (for all I know it may match) to the player's actual paycheck.
Salary cap contests are interesting. I'm busy entering one as I type this - chalk it up as "research" - a $3.40 heads up match with a $1.8 million salary cap.
The "problem" referenced in the title to this post is a little misleading - it's not really a problem, more of a quirk: I find that I frequently fall too much in love with the bargains, leaving a huge chunk of my "cap" unspent!*
Some of the players are just ridiculous bargains. Matt Forte, the Bears rookie RB and one of the top 10 RBs ranked by performance, has a salary of $20k. So do a lot of other productive rookies. You snag a few of those guys and all of a sudden, you're picking your last player with a million bucks left on your salary cap!
For that I will not stand.*
I shall revise my picks with more expensive players,
performance be damned.
I shall revise my picks with more expensive players,
performance be damned.
No, I'm not being serious. I'm just distracted, trying to decide which el cheapo RB will be gracing my roster.
The quirks of the salary cap system also limit the number of guys you are realistically going to take. There are very good QB options available for less - in some case much less - than 400k. So why on earth would anyone ever take Peyton (1.169 million) or Eli (807k) Manning? They wouldn't. Duh.
It's a funny game.
Time's up. Team's picked. If I spend any more time on this, I may yet talk myself into "upgrading" to some 500k receiver when a 180k model works just fine.
Salary cap contests at Fantasy Sports Live - fantasy sports' answer to keeping up with the Joneses.
* Yes, I know. "But Senator, you left two billion on the table!" "Bah. A good politician never leaves a nickel unspent. Appearances matter, my dear."
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