I'm fairly new to FF but tried WR WR in two leagues last year with good success (2nd in both leagues). I'm not sold on zero RB so I usually load up on RB's in rounds 3 - 8 with a QB or tight end thrown in there. What I haven't heard anyone talk about is the predictability of RB's week to week. With a few RB3+, I can typically find reliable double digit performance out of one of them just using 4for4 SOS tables. Not so with WR3+. They radically vary from week to week sometimes performing great against a tough D and poorly against a weak D. They're just not nearly as reliable week to week. To me, this is a huge argument in favor of WR WR start to a draft. The top 7 or 8 WRs perform almost every week and between my mid round picks and the waiver wire, I can usually find an RB to perform in any given week. Any chance there are some statistics out there to back up my claim? :)
I don't think we have anything out there right now about this - I don't know this for certain - but it does sound like something we could break down at some point in the next month or so.
I will say as someone who took a RB 99% of the time with my first pick since I've started playing fantasy football in the 90s, I've seen the light when it comes to this and if the spot is right in the draft, WR-WR can be a successful way to go. It's only been in the last few years where I've done tons of drafts, either for article purposes here at the site or for competitive leagues, that I've come to this conclusion - basically not wanting to end up with the same team in every league and so I just tried different philosophies.
That's also been about the time where RB value has started to fall to lower rounds and the WR value is plentiful and makes a lot of sense early on. Now this year I kind of like the crop of RBs in the top-10. McCoy, Murray and Anderson make up the 8-10 spots with Evans, Green and Cobb making up 8-10 at WR.
It really just depends on how your draft goes and what you have to pick from at your selection. There used to be a time many took a RB just to take the position, but that's a big no-no these days.
