For years I've paired top QBs with their #1 pass catchers with great success, but what about having a QB and RB from the same high scoring offense? For example Luck and Gore.
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What about three players like-- Luck, Gore(or Hilton) and Johnson or Rothlisberger, Brown(or Bell) and Bryant?
I think christiansoldier03 hit the nail on the head. Unless your league offers some sort of bonus for hook ups, which is a feature I've seen before in some leagues, I don't think I'd take that approach one way or the other.
I naturally tend to shy away from overloading myself with one team, but that usually takes more shape toward the end of the draft. Like, if I have Jeremy Maclin and Jamaal Charles, my late round upside guy probably isn't going to be Chris Conley. I'll probably go with a non-Chief.
Hope that helps!
Thanks for the responses and I actually agree with you both, but I don't think I was specific enough with my question. Also I'm realizing the situation is SO specific, I don't think we could come up with the the answer with out A LOT of digging. haha
Thanks anyway and good luck this year!
BK
Over the years, I've tried to think of every single way "double dipping" is either a good or bad strategy. In the end, there are no good arguments either way. For a while, I thought pairing a QB with his #1 WR was a good strategy because it would require fewer things for them BOTH to explode. Like with Luck and Hilton. If Luck has a 400 yard, 4 TD game, chances are Hilton had a big game as well. While that may be true, there's the drawback that if a QB has a big stinker, it's unlikely that the WR had a great game. In the end, players will score what they score whether they're on your team or someone else's. Luck doesn't know you have him on your roster. He also doesn't know you also have Hilton. Frank Gore will score whatever he scores whether you also have Luck or not. When I draft, I take the best player I can that fillsl a roster need. I don't actively avoid taking players on the same team, but I don't actively make it a point to double dip either. If I end up with several players on the same team, so be it. I mean, you're not going to lose your league because you end up with both Eddie Lacy and Randall Cobb on your roster lol. It won't destroy your season to have Peyton Manning, C.J. Anderson, and Emmanuel Sanders, you know what I mean? If that's the way the draft falls, that's fine; if not, that's fine too. Let's take a look at plausible example:
Standard scoring, 10 team league. Say you draft Eddie Lacy at pick 3. If you want Randall Cobb, you'll probably have to take him in the 2nd round and it's plausible he'd be around when you pick again. But if Julio Jones or Calvin Johnson is still available when it's your turn, don't pass on them just to take Cobb unless you legitimately think Cobb will produce more than they do. Likewise, if Cobb falls to your early 3rd round pick, don't avoid drafting him just so you don't have 2 offensive players from the same team. Let the draft come to you. In my opinion, if Julio Jones is available to me at pick 18, it's a no-brainer. And if Cobb is available to me in the 3rd round, it's equally a no brainer, regardless of if I have Eddie Lacy or not.
Hope this helped.
