BuckeyeNation27;884569; said:
looking over last year's scoresheet, I only have 2 proposed scoring changes.
1. More points for a safety. Getting a safety is more difficult than kicking a FG or 2 XPs, but it's not treated that way in the scoring.
2. No more bonus points. It's a pain in the ass to keep up with.
Thoughts?
I agree no bonus points for long yard gains, but would not be adverse to bonus points for single player yardage.. ie (the yardage tiers below are just examples, could be set to anything.. though I think these make the possibility of gaing the bonus points reasonable, but not assured.)
QB -
Pass for 300 - 5 points
Pass for 325 - 5 points (that's a total of 10)
Pass for 350 - 5 points (total of 15 bonus)
RB -
Rush for 100 - 5 points
Rush for 150 - 5 points
Rush for 200 - 5 points
WR -
Gain 80 WR yards - 5 points
Gain 120 - 5 points
Gain 150 5 points
Thus, each player has a possibility of gaining 15 bonus points (and no more than 15.. that is, if QB throws for 880 it's still only 15 bonus points.
In the league I ran scoring was:
Passing Yards divided by 20 = 1 pt
Rush yards divided by 10 = 1 pt
Rec. yards divided by 10 = 1 pt
TDs = 6
Safety 2
Receptions = 1 pt
INT = -2pts
FG and XPs as we do them here
Did not keep track of fumbles, too hard to find in box scores, and unreliable (I personally witnessed Lydell Ross fumble, for example, and found that CBS, ESPN attributed the fumble to the fullback, and Yahoo had no record of it at all. - if I had not watched the game, who am I to believe regarding this fumble? A
strong argument for picking a "Official" stat keeper site, as it has been my expierence it is impossible to find agreement across sites. We had ESPN as the "Official" and if there was some kind of screw up there, we had CBS as the "back up" site.)
Scores were as low as in the 80s, and highest was 221 (I know this because it was me who scored it
). I thought it worked well, and I have the spreadsheet which automatically calculated the score (All you had to do was input the yardage) if you all want to do it this way. If not, no biggie... just sayin.
Found it very easy to keep track of - though we did not use Defenses.
Anyway, I wouldn't up the safety score... 2 pts is pleanty. Making it more gives too much emphasis to the safety, making it something of a windfall for the guy who gets one. I'd like to leave it at 2 pts.
