Nightmare bye weeks?

[M-Dub]

Anybody figure out yet what your personal bye week armageddon is this year? Week 10 is looking brutal for me. Six teams on bye. I’ll be without all of my RBs except Mixon and Ertz is on bye too. Looking like a brutal week unless I make some moves between now and then.

[Jfever]

Lots of things will happen before week 10. Making a couple moves will prob happen for you by then. Also, rookies may be viable options by then and you may find a gem on the ww if your on top of things. I don’t stress too much about bye weeks in dynasty. Just hope your main guys stay healthy.

[BucFanJKE]

In my SF league all 3 of my QBs share the week 10 bye week. So that's an L. Other than that though the rest of my leagues dont look too bad.

[Phaded]

I only skimmed the bye week schedule; nothing jumps out at horrible..
Which is good - I'm more of a "I'll realize it the week it is a problem" type.

[whaley88]

Easily week 9 is nightmare week with Bengals, Falcons, saints, and rams on bye.

[Kiddflash]

Easily week 9 is nightmare week with Bengals, Falcons, saints, and rams on bye.

This!

Ridley, kamara. and gurley on bye.

[M-Dub]

Lots of things will happen before week 10. Making a couple moves will prob happen for you by then. Also, rookies may be viable options by then and you may find a gem on the ww if your on top of things. I don’t stress too much about bye weeks in dynasty. Just hope your main guys stay healthy.

Yeah, I agree. I guess since I don’t have one specific NFL team I root for, the first thing I look at when the schedule comes out is how the bye weeks affect my dynasty team (and my league as a whole). Honestly, even if my roster doesn’t change, it’s probably better to just take all your lumps in one week than have 2-3 weeks where you’re at a significant competitive disadvantage.

[bjd5211]

I haven't really looked at how it affects my teams, but my preference has always been to have as many of my guys on bye the same week as possible. My goal is to win the league, not go undefeated, so essentially punting a week because everyone is on bye is fine with me, just means my team is close to full strength the other weeks.

[FantasyDumDum]

Mine are spread out. Very little overlap. Guess that means a lot of maneuvering over the whole season rather than one or two weeks hitting me hard.

[Jfever]

Yeah, a case can be made for both - spreading them out, or, lumping them into one week. Having many of your studs on bye the same week keeps you strong for the majority of the season but nearly insures a loss that one week. Spreading out your byes (as if we have a choice) keeps you competitive most weeks with some maneuvering and utilization of your depth. The thing is, other team owners will be dealing with byes and injuries too. So, all in all, it pays very little to get too revved up about it as you really don't know who you'll be facing from week to week. It does really suck if both qb are on bye, or say both TE or if you are reduced to one rb from your rb corp, or something like that.

The Defense or kicker (if your leagues use them) are, for the most part, very interchangeable. For most, you can drop and add the week of your bye issue, and really experience very little negative effects. In standard scoring, there are really only a couple defenses worth worrying about, kickers, imo, are useless in fantasy / dynasty, and the difference between them is unpredictable at best, so no need to carry more than one. Heck, aside from 3-5 TE, most are extremely exchangeable and most are TD dependent anyway. So, in most leagues, carrying more than 2 TE is a wasted roster pick (of course this depends on roster size and scoring).

[bjd5211]

Ya ultimately it doesn't make much difference because we obviously have no control over how the byes fall. I just don't use bye week schedules to determine how I draft (obviously more relevant in re-draft than dynasty anyway), but I always prefer it if the schedule aligns so most of my top guys be weeks all fall on the same week or two so I can get then out of the way. Injuries and players over/under performing are also other factors that end up playing more of a role in the success of a team than bye weeks anyway, and those are almost completely unpredictable. I just focus on building the best possible lineup I can, then hoping those unpredictable factors go in my favor.

[M-Dub]

The other main reason I was so interested in the byes this year is because my league starts our postseason in week 12. As you can imagine, the Chiefs and Rams having a week 12 bye last year had a pretty significant effect on several teams. We came up with a “Plan B” this offseason to extend the regular season through week 12 without dramatically altering our unique playoff structure, but I really wish the bye weeks would wrap up by week 11. If they ever extend into week 13 again (as they did in 2016), there’s really no workaround for us.

[bjd5211]

Ooph, ya that's a different matter with it affecting playoffs, but all my leagues use weeks 1-13 as regular season and weeks 14, 15 and 16 are the playoffs so that isn't a problem.

[slaughterrt]

Yeah, a case can be made for both - spreading them out, or, lumping them into one week. Having many of your studs on bye the same week keeps you strong for the majority of the season but nearly insures a loss that one week. Spreading out your byes (as if we have a choice) keeps you competitive most weeks with some maneuvering and utilization of your depth. The thing is, other team owners will be dealing with byes and injuries too. So, all in all, it pays very little to get too revved up about it as you really don't know who you'll be facing from week to week. It does really suck if both qb are on bye, or say both TE or if you are reduced to one rb from your rb corp, or something like that.

The Defense or kicker (if your leagues use them) are, for the most part, very interchangeable. For most, you can drop and add the week of your bye issue, and really experience very little negative effects. In standard scoring, there are really only a couple defenses worth worrying about, kickers, imo, are useless in fantasy / dynasty, and the difference between them is unpredictable at best, so no need to carry more than one. Heck, aside from 3-5 TE, most are extremely exchangeable and most are TD dependent anyway. So, in most leagues, carrying more than 2 TE is a wasted roster pick (of course this depends on roster size and scoring).

Was gonna post a similar reply but JFever nailed it about the pros and cons of having your bye weeks lumped together.

[briank]

7 and 9.