and that kind of piqued my curiosity. So using 1 ppr and a 12 team start 3 WR with a flex as a baseline I thought I’d crank some statistics, because that statement just seemed too simplistic. Given the baseline parameters, I got a sample size of the top 60 players (league has minimum 36 starting WRs plus another say 6 for flex, then adding the other 18 for bye week/injury substitutions) as a meaningful group. Running the group for this year’s results so far and then last year’s group - which yielded remarkably similar results with a couple of exceptions - it turns out that after the top 6 players that the next 44 guys in each group were within a standard deviation of each other. Even the last guys on the list were within 1 FF pt of being in that 44 player grouping.
So much to my surprise, the statement that WRs are a dime a dozen is what I would say to be extremely accurate. If you’re using any WRs outside the top 6 as bargaining chips to move other players, those guys are pretty replaceable. Don’t know if this has any value to most of you, but thought I’d share for the sake of consideration and discussion.
