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Kicker scoring, variations?


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Didn't really search so apologize if this has been discussed in the past.

 

My home league has expressed concern about the way kickers are scored and them getting a crazy amount of points at times. Not sure how I feel about that; most of me is in the camp of deal with it. Smaller part is curious if other leagues score kickers differently, devaluing them a bit. Currently, we have this setup. Anybody do anything drastically different? Would love to see some new ideas. Thanks!

Field Goals 0-19 Yards 3 Field Goals 20-29 Yards 3 Field Goals 30-39 Yards 3 Field Goals 40-49 Yards 4 Field Goals 50+ Yards 5 Point After Attempt Made

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Variations I have seen:

 

Flat 3 point per

 

Graduated, similar to what you have

 

Graduated, but more of a 0.1 pt. per yard type scoring (some maintain a 3 point minimum, and the extra points only come in to play for 30+ yard FGs)

 

 

With all of those, I have also seen some that give negative points for missed FGs - some were a flat amount, such as -1 for any missed FG, other were graduated, such that missed 50+ yarders were 0 points, missed 40-49 yarders were -1 point, missed 30-39 yarders were -2 points and missed less than 30 yards were -3 points.

 

 

Or, you can even just eliminate the kicker position from the fantasy teams.

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We use virtually same scoring (FG over 60 are 6 points, may keep going up but never heard of an attempt of 70+).

 

Not sure what "crazy amount of points" your league sees coming from kickers. Sure the occassional 4-6 FG game gives a huge score, but most other weeks its around 10, which is nothing compared to QBRB/WR/TE (6 pt all TDs, 1pt/10 rush/rec yards, 1/25 passing).

 

Defenses are our super low scores, and kickers are usually right there, or TE if you have a bad one.

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Crazy amount of points at times. And I guess I should stress at times. I am not the one championing changing the scoring. Others are.

 

You guys in leagues that don't have the kicker position?

 

 

I've done them before with no team D or kicker (not in any currently)- strictly the position players. It is rather enjoyable, although I must admit that having (or facing) a kicker on Monday night in a close game can be a lot of fun(stress).

 

It's not for the guy that tries to play the "but the NFL has it so we have to have it in our league" routine, but it's a lot of fun. No different than any other little tweak people make to leagues to give them a little added fun/uniqueness.

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is it really that crazy? to me it's fun week to week to spec out a kicker who might boot a good number of FG's based on the opposing D. I don't believe I've ever won or lost based on the K, but it does suck the weeks they only get XP's (why I used to never get Vanderjagt) or miss FG's. I guess if you want to try something different you could penalize for missed FG's, and that might help tame your "crazy scoring problem" :-)

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Field Goals 0-19 Yards 3

Field Goals 20-29 Yards 3

Field Goals 30-39 Yards 3

Field Goals 40-49 Yards 4

Field Goals 50+ Yards 5

Point After Attempt Made1

 

This is how we score them

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Variations I have seen:

 

 

 

Or, you can even just eliminate the kicker position from the fantasy teams.

I don't get this group think. Why not get rid of WR's or RB's ? A kicker is a position just like the others so because you have a hard time figuring out which ones will do good or your one of those people who feel like you should only draft a kicker in the last round then I say great I am glad to play against you because I want every possible advantage possible and every time when I pick my kicker 1st in a league and get laughed at then I say go ahead and laugh because I am going to draft 1 of the top kickers in a top offense. Last year 11 of the top 12 scoring kickers came from playoff teams probably just a kawinkadinke though.

 

I won big championships both by less than 2 pts so the kicker position was pretty important there and probably was the reason I won them because I choose to make sure I got an elite kicker while the teams in 2nd place decided kickers didn't matter.

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