[Burt the Butcher]

Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers

How about a real life example? Let's look at the Brain Dead Squirrel Chasers from the Frenzy last year. With spending 3450 on LT, and 1925 on Lamont Jordan, he had little depth at RB after Lamont went down (well, busted pretty much for the whole season). Being contrained by the cap, there was not much he could do to go out and get another RB that would fit on his roster, or could be had.

However, there were 27 wide receivers that scored more points for the year, and more points per game than Lamont Jordan did for the year, and cost less than Lamont Jordan. Could he have gotten any/all of those 27 players? No, and two of them were on his team, but that leaves over 2 wrs per the other 11 teams that could be traded for and have helped him out. All he needed was to be able to trade for one of those guys, and he'd have been better off.

Heck, if you want to lower the standards even further to the points scored by the RBs he played other than LT and Jordan (Verron Hayes, Leon Washington, TJ Duckett, and Michael Turner totalled 19.3 points in 7 games for the Insects) the number of WRs that could have helped the Insects explodes.

A run and shoot option for the Bay Area Bloodsucking Insects would have definitely been beneficial for him.

I guess I fail to see that this is a bad thing. Making a team more competitive, how is that bad? We are all pretty savvy owners, so if playing 1 RB + 4 WR would give a team an advantage, wouldn't we all see that? And if a team can remain competitive when key players go down or simply suck, how does that lower the standards?