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Here is a list of the Top 10 Fantasy Football Wide Receivers in 2017 based on ESPN’s fantasy football’s standard scoring settings.
There are three rankings metrics examined when looking at these Top 10 scoring Wide Receivers 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 Wide Receivers 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 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 is your Top 10 Wide Receiver scoring data for 2017!
The data shown here is a prime example of how much we as fantasy football managers shouldn’t value potential over performance. Let’s look at Julio Jones. In most 2017 fantasy drafts he was going in the top 5 or 6 picks of the first round. Chances are in 2018 he will be one of the first 4 wide receivers taken off the board again. Why? He only averaged 10.36 fantasy points over 15 games and out of those 15 games he only scored double-digit points 40% of the time. The reason: Potential.
Out of the double-digit games he had in 2017 he averaged 17.2 points in those games. Can you imagine if he did that on a consistent basis?! A.J. Green averaged similar numbers in average points scored over 15 games and only scored double-digit points in those 15 games 40% of the time as well. Why do people draft him early? Potential. In those double-digit games, he averaged 16.8 points. To adapt a line from the late, great Rick James, “Potential is a hell of a drug”.
I’m not telling you all this to discourage you from drafting inconsistent wide receivers earlier on in your drafts from now on, but….wait I AM! In the early rounds of you drafts focus on players that not only have potential but have shown that they can follow through on that potential and deliver you consistent production. Don’t let name value or potential influence you or else you’ll always play the guessing game of when a particular player will come through for you. HINT: It’s never when you want it to.
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