Fantasy College Wrestling on WrestleStat!

[andegre]

As some/all of you know, I'm developing a Fantasy College Wrestling system for WrestleStat, just like your NFL Fantasy teams/leagues. It will be the same type of thing, draft a roster, then you have weekly head-to-head matchups versus other people in your group. You compile a W/L record for the season which would then position you for your groups "playoffs".

I've made a MASSIVE amount of progress on the majority of the pages that are needed, like drafting, trades, waiver wire, etc. I still need to work on the "matchup" pages within a league, as well as a standings page.

Anyway, I'm looking for some feedback from people on what they think so far, as well as thoughts on some of the scoring that I still have...

If anyone has experience with Fantasy College Wrestling, I'd love to hear some thoughts on these points I've come up with so far. Most of my ideas have come from doing Fantasy Baseball for the last 10+ years, so just trying to apply those here.

• Rosters - 15+ wrestlers, 1 starter at each weight, 2 floaters, 3+ bench
• Scoring Model - Dual scoring format with either a +/- dual points awarded to the wrestler (example Lee lost to Picc by pin, so he received -6 points (negative)). Caveat here is that MFOR and FOR will NOT count for/against the wrestler, even if it's in a dual...
• Scoring Model - POSSIBLY include an "upset" factor (example, Murin beats Carr is ranked higher in WrestleStat, he wins by decision which is 3 points. Maybe provide an upset factor/bonus worth 50%, so he'd earn 4.5 points
• What matches will be included - duals only?, duals plus the major tourneys (CKLV, Midlands, Scuffle), or ALL matches (this last option is interesting as it makes redshirting wrestlers VERY valuable because they have the option of wrestling LOTS of matches, even though never a starter)
• Redshirts allowed for rosters and point scoring?
• Only allow matches vs D1 opponents to be eligible for scoring
• Season length - end it at the conclusion of the dual season, no conference tournaments or the national tournament will be included (separate fantasy systems for those)
• If tournament matches are included, only allow them to count as 50/75% of their value since they could get upwards of 5 or 6 matches in a single weekend, drastically altering the amount of points they can accummulate. Or could be a way for people to strategize on a weekly basis...

If anyone has any input on those, I'd love to hear it. Lots of that I've already made decisions on, or it's not that important in the grand scheme, but the scoring model, and which matches to include are the critical items...

Here's the latest screenshot for quick looksy

 

[johnstownsteel]

Another contest for me to suck at.

Sounds great!

 

[BFosr1]

That sounds pretty awesome

 

[andegre]

Another contest for me to suck at.

Sounds great!

Ah, you just need to find a few friends that suck more...

 

[Gray52]

I’ve run football leagues (including customizing my own), hockey leagues, roto baseball and fantasy baseball. My suggestions...
1. I’d suggest a roster of 10 and maybe 1 “bench” roster spot, and that’s it. The biggest reason guys stop entering lineups is because when one of their guys goes down, they go to the waiver wire, only to find the best 50 backups (assuming a 10-team league x 5 backups/floaters) are sitting on someone’s bench. After doing that 3-4 times in a year, your season is over. Let teams be able to go out and find a decent wrestler. If there’s nobody available to add, they’ll just stop participating. This is the best part of roto baseball vs Fantasy baseball. The 1 bench roster spot would give an owner flexibility in his lineup each week but let most teams be able to add a decent backup.
2. Put a max on the number of scoring events for each weight instead of trying to limit points gained to X events (duals, Top tourneys, etc). You would draft a wrestler at each weight, but he would score points for that weight. If you decided on say a 30 event cap (or whatever number works best) for each weight, and your 125 weight only has 27 scoring events heading into nationals, his first 3 matches count.
Another Example: let’s say you drafted Spencer Lee this year in your 125 spot. Lee wrestles 20 matches (duals and tourneys) and then gets hurt. You go out and add another 125lber. He can gain you points for his next 10 matches (based on a 30 match max).
I wouldn’t allow matches at opens and only allow D1 opponents. With having 1 bench guy, there’d be some strategy involved in matching your roster up vs opponents as your weight classes climb close to 30 (or whatever the number is) events.
3. I wouldn’t include RS’s. Typically, the tournaments they wrestle vary too widely. Some RS’s only wrestle 7-10 matches, or less.

 

[dbldoofus]

The best part of this is the draft party at the bar. Besides that I do not participate in fantasy sports.

One year I did an nfl suicide pool. I won. And I took the money from the other participants who were all waiters and line cooks at the bar. Needless to say, I bought beer for them as I felt bad taking their money.

 

[burnsie1983]

Another contest for me to suck at.

Sounds great!

I've had more luck on the wrestlestat contests than probably any other contest I've ever entered.

 

[andegre]

I've had more luck on the wrestlestat contests than probably any other contest I've ever entered.

No shit, I think you’ve placed top 3 in the season long pickem EVERY season...impressive!