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Here is a list of the Top 10 Fantasy Football Quarterbacks in 2017 in leagues that utilize a “6-4” scoring system where touchdowns are worth 6pts and interceptions are scored as -4pts based on ESPN’s fantasy football’s scoring settings.
There are three rankings metrics examined when looking at these Top 10 scoring “6-4” Scoring Quarterbacks of 2017. All of these metrics only count data for 15 weeks of an NFL Fantasy Football season since BYE weeks don’t help anyone AND assuming you don’t play in week 17…which if you do find another league:
- The average number of fantasy points scored by a player over the course of 15 games in fantasy football season
- The average % of a time a player has scored double-digit points over the course of those 15 weeks
- The average number of double-digit points scored when a player has achieved a double-digit point total
The purpose of these metrics is to give you an idea of just how much the Top 10 overall scoring Quarterbacks in 2017 helped you on average during the course of a season, how consistent there were at helping you achieve double-digit points during a season, and when they did go off by how much.
Basically, with this information, you can start to understand the differences in not just WHAT a player scores, but HOW well they do it and HOW often.
Over the course of the offseason, we’ll be providing you with more offensive skill-player content as well as content at other positions leading up to and through the 2018 Fantasy Football season.
Here are your Top 10 Quarterbacks scoring data for 2017 in a “6-4” scoring format!
So what is the purpose of a “6-4” scoring setting? The gist is that it’s supposed to separate out the poorer performing quarterbacks from the average quarterback from the elite quarterbacks. As you can see in this chart the top 10 quarterbacks from list start to show a little more separation from each other than they did in the traditional “4-2” standard scoring setting in In Frame #6. In that article in terms of average points scored over the course and fantasy football season, the difference between 1st and 10 was 5.9 fantasy points. Here in that same metric category, the difference between 1st and 10th is 6.4 fantasy points. Doesn’t seem like that much a difference, does it? Let’s look at the difference between Russell Wilson and Jacoby Brissett in both scoring settings.
In “4-2” scoring Wilson averaged over 15 game 22.1 fantasy points (fpts) while Brissett averaged 13.7 fpts, a difference of 8.4 fpts. In “6-4” scoring Wilson averaged 24.2 fpts while Brissett averaged 13.2 fpts a difference of 11 whole fantasy points. How about comparing Matt Ryan and Jacoby Brissett?
In “4-2” scoring Ryan averaged over 15 games 1.93 fpts higher than Brissett whereas in “6-4” scoring 1.6 fpts separated the two. For kicks lets compare Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan.
In “4-2” scoring Russell Wilson was separated from Matt Ryan by 8.1 fpts while in “6-4” scoring they were separated by 9.5 fpts on average over the course of 15 games.
What does all this mean?
In “6-4” scoring you DO see a broader range of separation the farther you go down the quarterback rankings list. A couple points difference might not seem like much at the top or in the middle but the separation does exist.
Why is this important?
This is important because in 12-team or larger leagues there are A LOT of fantasy managers who like to stock up at other positions and stream quarterbacks from week-to-week. In “6-4” scoring that is a little bit more difficult to do making the importance of drafting a quarterback earlier than those that would in traditional “4-2” scoring or 10-team leagues utilizing “6-4” scoring a necessity.
Feel free to look at the full data here
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