I love this site and your writing, but it does feel like you are artificially reinforcing your consistent “anti-RB” bias by building the conversation around leagues that only require one RB. I play in more standard leagues where two RBs are required, and these strategies don’t seem to have a lot of success in those formats. When I look over the orphans every year (i.e. the teams owners are leaving for dead) they are almost exclusively heavy on WRs and devoid of RBs, and have finished in the 1.04-1.08 dead zone. People hoard RBs in these formats the same way superflex coaches hoard QBs, and unless you tank just right and get the 1.01 or 1.02 multiple years in a row, it’s going to be really tough to ever build up a RB corps that can contend. Just my observations, and maybe other sites are different. Thanks for the article!
I mostly agree but I think if your go very heavy on wr in whatever strategy, the key is to identify when you’re competing and build out rb as if you’re doing a zero rb team. My personal preference is to stockpile 3rds in advance if I think I can make a run, and use them to acquire guys in-seasin like devonta foreman, McKinnon, latavius, perhaps a mostert or Wilson type if that team isn’t competitive and wants to unload while they have value. There’s always some that can be had without mortgaging the future, and they give good short-term production.
