How do I configure Full Impact to account for my bonuses?

An important concept to keep in mind is that Full Impact uses projected data (not data recorded after the fact like commish scoring systems). Huge difference! So, Full Impact will not have all the scoring features of your league. This is by design, because you are working with forecast data.

What we want to do is approximate the increased value a bonus gives to a stat.

Example:

If we were to apply a 3 point bonus at 300 passing yards and have two players projected like so:

Drew Brees - 301 PaYds
Matt Ryan - 299 PaYds

Brees would get 3 bonus points and Ryan 0.

However, this would be an incorrect approach. We are not predicting Drew Brees to pass for exactly 301 yards in every game; nor Matt Ryan to just miss the 300 yard mark in every game. Our projections indicate that both have around a 50% chance of hitting 300 passing yards in a given week.

How to account for a bonus:

The best way to account for the increased value a bonus gives is to increase the value of the stat. For all intents and purposes, the more of a certain stat (eg. PaYds) a player accumulates, the more likely they are to hit a cumulative bonus.

You can slightly weight your league towards a stat to approximate the value of a bonus. If you prefer to go this route, something like 19.5 or 19 passing yards per point (as opposed to 20) can approximate a small passing yardage bonus (1-3pts).

For rushing and receiving, setting rushing yards to 9.5 or 9.75 yards per point (as opposed to 10) can approximate a small yardage bonus.

Don’t build the full value of the bonus into the yardage, because most bonuses are relatively rare occurrences.

That said…

We should not overestimate the impact a small, or rarely hit bonus makes. Unless they are significant, it is generally best to simply leave bonuses out of your scoring rules at 100 yards or more for rushing/receiving and 300 yards or more for passing. It's relatively rare that players hit these bonuses, and factoring them in on draft day will rarely contribute a positive result. Your goal should be to draft the best players and let the bonuses sort themselves out.

For reference purposes, the tables below indicate the number of times the given passing, rushing and receiving bonuses have been hit from 2008-12 in 512 possible team games per season:

	PaYd-250	PaYd-275	PaYd-300	PaYd-325	PaYd-350	PaYd-375	PaYd-400	PaYd-425	PaYd-450
2008	167	123	74	43	23	13	8	2	1
2009	195	144	102	62	38	22	7	4	2
2010	206	149	95	56	35	18	11	8	4
2011	228	169	118	79	52	28	18	4	3
2012	220	172	126	78	47	25	15	11	2

	RuYds-75	RuYds-100	RuYds-125	RuYds-150	RuYds-175	RuYds-200
2008	254	130	55	21	9	3
2009	245	116	56	24	11	7
2010	229	125	56	17	5	1
2011	237	131	51	21	9	5
2012	239	123	45	24	13	8

	RecYds-75	RecYds-100	RecYds-125	RecYds-150	RecYds-175	RecYds-200
2008	384	162	62	21	6	3
2009	388	163	73	28	14	5
2010	402	181	69	28	8	6
2011	440	192	85	30	6	3
2012	412	192	72	28	14	8