2024: The PPR Running Back Myth

In the ancient past, like when I was a kid, fantasy football scoring was non-ppr. That was the time when touchdowns made a man whereas receptions? Nah brah. Times have changed. Some folks thought passes should count for something, but others just found it difficult to try to predict how players would be used each week. Eventually though, those smaller voices grew more profound and stronger, and catches started to matter. After all, catching the ball can certainly help an offense and that should matter. More importantly in the fantasy game, counting receptions allowed us to expand the player pool to include a whole group of players that, previously, just weren’t overly interesting. In particular, the addition of points for catching passes really opened up the backfield where a whole group of relative nobodies now mattered. At this point, it seems like everything is 0.5 or 1.0 PPR with non-PPR a dying breed. However, a case can be made that the PPR thing has gone a bit too far for the liking of some. What the hell Ray with that nonsense? Well… let’s play a game.

Ray Flowers

July 15, 2024

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