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Welcome to an April Edition of the Brew Crew Corner. With more teams using a two RB system, the number of featured RBs are now very rare. One of the biggest decisions owners make on draft day is whether to take a RB, WR or QB with their first selection. This is a question that is always debated.
There isn't a clear cut method that can truly distinguish one over the other. The variables depend on your league’s size, draft spot and scoring system. However, looking at the results of last year’s scoring you can get an idea of how RBs and WRs compare in scoring according to Shark League PPR scoring.
If you’re looking to see what the difference between the No. 1 RB versus the No. 1 WR you will see that the RB has a great edge on overall points but that the average points per game is slightly higher. In the table below, we list the Top 50 RBs and WRs in Shark Leagues and compare them across the board to get the difference in total points and points per game.
Matt Forte led all RBs with 350 FPTs (21.9 per game). Andre Johnson led all WRs with 314 FPTs (19.6 per game). When you compare the two players, Forte had 36 FTPs more than Johnson but the difference in average is 2.3 FPTs per game. Looking back at the draft, however, Forte was drafted on average at 6.08 and Johnson went at 2.10. Let us compare two similar players drafted in the first tier last year – Adrian Peterson with an ADP of 1.02 and Randy Moss with and ADP of 1.07. Both players were in the top tier at their position. Peterson was the second RB selected and Moss was the first WR selected. Peterson finished with 328 FPTs averaging 20.5 while Moss finished with 228 FPTs averaging 14.2. Peterson scored 100 FPTs and 6.3 FPTs per game more than Moss.
What's that? Moss owners are crying about not having Tom Brady last year? Ok, let's look at the top RB selected compared to one of the top WRs that selected. Ladainian Tomlinson went No. 1 overall in most drafts and even though many people felt he had a down year, he still finished as the fifth-best RB with 317 FPTs (19.8 FPTs per game). Larry Fitzgerald will go No. 1 in this year’s draft among WRs. Last year Fitzgerald was drafted 2.06 on average and the fifth overall among WRs. He finished as the second-best WR with 306 FPTs, averaging 19.1 FPTs per game. Tomlinson still has the slight edge over Fitzgerald as he finished with 11 FPTs higher with 0.7 FPTs more per game.
Below are the Top 50 RBs as compared to the Top 50 WRs:
Let us look at these players from a different perspective. How do they relate to each other if it were tiered by scoring? If you had to group them, you will see that the Top 6 players are RBs before we get to the first WR that scored more points than a RB. Of the Top 10 players, eight of them are RBs and two are WRs. Looking at players 11-20, we see it start to even out as there are six RBs and four WRs in that group. The following 10 players (21-30) is dominated by the WRs for the first time. There are seven WRs to four RBs. Note that there is one RB and one WR with the same amount of points. In the next group (31-40) we have seven WRs to just three RBs. In the final group (41-50) we have six RBs and nine WRs.
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