As Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) is gaining steam and quickly becoming one of the most popular fantasy games you can play, the more obvious it is that traditional fantasy formats will soon go the way of the dodo bird. Personally, I play in five different types of fantasy football leagues, one of which is a traditional fantasy league, one of which is DFS, and one of which is a Bad Quarterback League. A Bad Quarterback League (BQBL) was started by Grantland.com in 2011 and I immediately became hooked. Unfortunately, Grantland recently stopped posting about the league; however, that has never stopped my interest in it. It certainly makes it more difficult to score your league, but the fun makes it worth it.
The first thing you need to do it set up your players and rules. The way my league is set up is that there are five players in the league, and each player must draft, and start, four teams each. That way each team must choose some "sleeper" teams without having to choose from some truly elite teams like the Green Bay Packers or Indianapolis Colts. After 20 teams have been drafted and each player has their four teams, it is time to set up the scoring. We play in a rotisserie style league where we use Grantland's original scoring. We only play through 16 weeks (because playing in Week 17 is terrible for all formats) and the team that has accrued the most points based on the previous individual 16 weeks is the winner.
Fellow fantasy enthusiast Ben Bernstein and I discussed my initial top 10 BQBL rankings that you can listen on our inaugural pod here:
The first thing you need to do it set up your players and rules. The way my league is set up is that there are five players in the league, and each player must draft, and start, four teams each. That way each team must choose some "sleeper" teams without having to choose from some truly elite teams like the Green Bay Packers or Indianapolis Colts. After 20 teams have been drafted and each player has their four teams, it is time to set up the scoring. We play in a rotisserie style league where we use Grantland's original scoring. We only play through 16 weeks (because playing in Week 17 is terrible for all formats) and the team that has accrued the most points based on the previous individual 16 weeks is the winner.
Fellow fantasy enthusiast Ben Bernstein and I discussed my initial top 10 BQBL rankings that you can listen on our inaugural pod here:
After our discussion I have tweaked my rankings a tad, but without further ado, here is my rankings for your 2015 Bad Quarterback League:
1) Cleveland Browns
2) Jacksonville Jaguars
3) Buffalo Bills
4) Tennessee Titans
5) Houston Texans
6) Washington Redskins
7) Tampa Bay Buccaneers
8) New York Jets
9) Chicago Bears
10) Cincinnati Bengals
11) St. Louis Rams
12) Oakland Raiders
13) Arizona Cardinals
14) Philadelphia Eagles
15) Minnesota Vikings
16) Baltimore Ravens
17) New York Giants
18) Kansas City Chiefs
19) New Orleans Saints
20) San Francisco 49ers
21) San Diego Chargers
22) Carolina Panthers
23) Miami Dolphins
24) Seattle Seahawks
25) Detroit Lions
26) New England Patriots
27) Dallas Cowboys
28) Atlanta Falcons
29) Pittsburgh Steelers
30) Denver Broncos
31) Indianapolis Colts
32) Green Bay Packers
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