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'As good/bad as Sam Darnold is to you...'

We've talked about Sam Darnold before. Justin Jefferson should be my first receiver then?

Jokes aside, what is with fantasy football? Why are rushing yards 60% more important than passing yards? Why do we have to bend over backwards to pretend RBs are important to the modern game? I've always been a football data grinder, but I've never been a fantasy football guy because it feels so detached from the real game. I did my first fantasy draft ever just a little bit ago (my friends needed a replacement in their league last minute), and watching the league's best QBs go by round after round so I can draft third string RBs just gave me a bad feeling. It feels a lot more 'fantasy' than football.

To me, there must be some way to tweak the formulas to at least get the positional values in the right order (QB first, then WR, then TE, then DEF, then RB, then K). That would do a lot to put the 'football' back in fantasy football. This is more of a sports culture thing, but to me fantasy football has gone so far off unto itself that it drives away football fans that do not already understand the intricacies of what fantasy football is, and why would anybody want that?

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