TEs

[Oompa Midgets]

What do you guys think about making one mandatory, and reducing the # of starting RBs to a max of 2?

Should make the game more "realistic" while also adding parity.

[wolfe]

I'm against making TE's mandatory. I would support limiting RB's to 2.

[Oompa Midgets]

Why are you against making a TE mandatory? 1 TE and 2 RBs is WAY more normal than 3 RBs and 0 TEs. There are 32 starting TEs so each team could easily have 2 starters. The only thing it would hurt would be our chances of surpassing previous scoring records.

[wolfe]

I like the flexibility of our lineup. There are only 5 or 6 good TEs. I don't even see 3 RBs in the starting line up as an advantage.

The Numbers in this league last year:
There were 52 teams last season that started 3 RBs and they won 24 games (46%). 116 teams that started less than 3 RB won 60 games (52%).

The 20 teams that started at least 1 TE had 9 wins (45%). The 148 teams that didn't start a TE had 75 wins (51%)

[Oompa Midgets]

That is what I expected from you. Your typical statistical analysis rather than I don't like mandatory TEs. That sounded more like one of my arguments

[wolfe]

Ran the numbers for 2008 and 2007 and the opposite results came up. But I would still vote against forcing a TE into the lineup.

[the Man, the Myth...]

I am not in favor of it being mandatory for a TE to start. The starting line-ups are fine the way they are in my opinion.