Post by Colts GM (Ben) on May 7, 2019 21:49:26 GMT -6
League members,
By now you know that we moved scoring over from ESPN to MFL. There is a lot of good that comes with this, but also a lot of confusion. In particular, people have been wondering about the scoring. After doing way too much digging on it, I now have your answers.
ESPN and MFL are scored by different people, and some stats are unofficial, making them subjective and sometimes not universal. There's nothing we can do to change this, and so we're at the mercy of the MFL scorers just as we were with ESPN. This will account for slight differences if you ever look back and compare the two sites. However, there are a few notable differences that you need to be aware of.
MFL is much less lenient with tackles. I'd say about half the time that ESPN would give a player a tackle, MFL gives that same player an assist. What we've done to compensate for this is that we're scoring assists the same as tackles. On ESPN, a player may have 8 tackles whereas on MFL he may have 4 tackles and 4 assists, but the math works out the exact same.
MFL is also a little more detail-oriented. ESPN doesn't count QBs losing fumbles as -2 points, but MFL does. That is the rule, so MFL technically is honoring it while ESPN just doesn't. You'll probably find other situations similar to this. It hopefully won't cost you a matchup. The rules are the rules.
Lastly, and probably most importantly, ESPN counts Week 17 stats whereas MFL does not. For example, Ben Roethlisberger scored 366.7 fantasy points on ESPN in 2018. On MFL, he scored 350.58. However, in Week 17, Ben scored 14.8 points on ESPN. 366.7 - 350.58 = 16.12 - 14.8 = 1.32 point scoring difference over the season between ESPN and MFL. Not bad.
There are probably other minor differences. If you notice anything truly major, shoot me a message. Overall though, I think we're where we need to be, and scores should be representative of a player's true fantasy performance.
By now you know that we moved scoring over from ESPN to MFL. There is a lot of good that comes with this, but also a lot of confusion. In particular, people have been wondering about the scoring. After doing way too much digging on it, I now have your answers.
ESPN and MFL are scored by different people, and some stats are unofficial, making them subjective and sometimes not universal. There's nothing we can do to change this, and so we're at the mercy of the MFL scorers just as we were with ESPN. This will account for slight differences if you ever look back and compare the two sites. However, there are a few notable differences that you need to be aware of.
MFL is much less lenient with tackles. I'd say about half the time that ESPN would give a player a tackle, MFL gives that same player an assist. What we've done to compensate for this is that we're scoring assists the same as tackles. On ESPN, a player may have 8 tackles whereas on MFL he may have 4 tackles and 4 assists, but the math works out the exact same.
MFL is also a little more detail-oriented. ESPN doesn't count QBs losing fumbles as -2 points, but MFL does. That is the rule, so MFL technically is honoring it while ESPN just doesn't. You'll probably find other situations similar to this. It hopefully won't cost you a matchup. The rules are the rules.
Lastly, and probably most importantly, ESPN counts Week 17 stats whereas MFL does not. For example, Ben Roethlisberger scored 366.7 fantasy points on ESPN in 2018. On MFL, he scored 350.58. However, in Week 17, Ben scored 14.8 points on ESPN. 366.7 - 350.58 = 16.12 - 14.8 = 1.32 point scoring difference over the season between ESPN and MFL. Not bad.
There are probably other minor differences. If you notice anything truly major, shoot me a message. Overall though, I think we're where we need to be, and scores should be representative of a player's true fantasy performance.