OK, lots of things that we were hoping to do in terms of evaluating teams didn't happen this year, for one reason or another. The current proposal on the table is a way to both bring a little closure to the previous season and to figure out the draft order for the next draft. The specifics are below. Lets use this new thread to argue about whether details need to be tweaked and if there's some rough consensus on a version of this idea, we can go forward next week.
We have eight divisions just like the NFL and for each division (we'll do this one at a time) what we're going to do is open up a thread in which the owners of the four teams will be encouraged to give an assessment of their team and make the case for why they're awesome and their competition is shit. This might involve PFF numbers, other statistics, arguments about your scheme, whatever.
After each thread has been open about a week, we'll have a public poll in which people will be encouraged to vote on which team is the best in the division and which team is the worst.
Repeating this process eight times will produce a pool of eight division winners, a pool of eight division cellar dwellers, and a pool of 16 middle teams. The draft order will involve randomization within each group - ie, the first eight picks will go to the cellar dwellers in some random order, then the middle teams in some random order, then the division winners. It'll be a snake draft though so the teams at the end won't get the top talent but won't get totally screwed either.
If there's enthusiasm for doing this, we can also have a series of playoff rounds among the division winners in which we match them up, the teams make a case for why they would win, and then we vote. Theoretically we should be able to actually determine a champion.
Some unresolved issues as I see it:
-How do we treat injuries? Sam Bradford was injured for most of the season so do I have to make the case for why Ryan Mallett would take my guys to the promised land? That seems like the best course of action to me but its hard to know what we do if there's no backup.
-If one person within each division could take the lead on the PFF numbers, that would probably be really helpful. Not everybody has access.
-Should the broader SOSH public be able to vote in the polls or should it be restricted to other RealFantasy owners?
We have eight divisions just like the NFL and for each division (we'll do this one at a time) what we're going to do is open up a thread in which the owners of the four teams will be encouraged to give an assessment of their team and make the case for why they're awesome and their competition is shit. This might involve PFF numbers, other statistics, arguments about your scheme, whatever.
After each thread has been open about a week, we'll have a public poll in which people will be encouraged to vote on which team is the best in the division and which team is the worst.
Repeating this process eight times will produce a pool of eight division winners, a pool of eight division cellar dwellers, and a pool of 16 middle teams. The draft order will involve randomization within each group - ie, the first eight picks will go to the cellar dwellers in some random order, then the middle teams in some random order, then the division winners. It'll be a snake draft though so the teams at the end won't get the top talent but won't get totally screwed either.
If there's enthusiasm for doing this, we can also have a series of playoff rounds among the division winners in which we match them up, the teams make a case for why they would win, and then we vote. Theoretically we should be able to actually determine a champion.
Some unresolved issues as I see it:
-How do we treat injuries? Sam Bradford was injured for most of the season so do I have to make the case for why Ryan Mallett would take my guys to the promised land? That seems like the best course of action to me but its hard to know what we do if there's no backup.
-If one person within each division could take the lead on the PFF numbers, that would probably be really helpful. Not everybody has access.
-Should the broader SOSH public be able to vote in the polls or should it be restricted to other RealFantasy owners?