Ben, really enjoyed reading this tonight. I haven’t been around your writings long but I’ve been playing FF for a long time. Your work gets me excited to keep playing for many years to come and helps me get a bigger picture than draft this player don’t draft this one.
This was my first full year of following along and first year of drafting best ball and I ended the year up 250% of what I started.
You wind up with both unnecessary complexity and also the scourge of simplicity. On one hand, new stats that wouldn’t possibly stand up to rigorous review, which told you to draft one specific player that did hit and are now preached as bible, until they inevitably strike out in some future season and are thrown on the scrap heap for the next great thing. On the other hand, the people who claim victory for being in on players when they didn’t really analyze anything, and the player did stuff they never really articulated with any detail, because it’s all as simple as “I told you to draft that guy.”
I almost feel like TPPR gets so called “hate” on social media like that because it is actually a pretty useful stat! Kinda like how some of the best athletes are hated. The people that hate TPPR hate it cause it is actually really relevant
Ben, really enjoyed reading this tonight. I haven’t been around your writings long but I’ve been playing FF for a long time. Your work gets me excited to keep playing for many years to come and helps me get a bigger picture than draft this player don’t draft this one.
This was my first full year of following along and first year of drafting best ball and I ended the year up 250% of what I started.
Looking forward to the TPPR posts!
Words to live by:
You wind up with both unnecessary complexity and also the scourge of simplicity. On one hand, new stats that wouldn’t possibly stand up to rigorous review, which told you to draft one specific player that did hit and are now preached as bible, until they inevitably strike out in some future season and are thrown on the scrap heap for the next great thing. On the other hand, the people who claim victory for being in on players when they didn’t really analyze anything, and the player did stuff they never really articulated with any detail, because it’s all as simple as “I told you to draft that guy.”
I almost feel like TPPR gets so called “hate” on social media like that because it is actually a pretty useful stat! Kinda like how some of the best athletes are hated. The people that hate TPPR hate it cause it is actually really relevant