***Official Week 3 FF Thread***

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Start Michael Vick or Peyton Manning? Seemingly an easy question, yet footballguys.com says I should start Vick. I think footballguys.com might actually be retarded

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Seriously though, how about Vick or Brees?

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Vick over Brees in a heartbeat.

And to defend footballguys. It didn't have an article that said start Vick over Manning.

What it does is calculate how well each team has done against the pass and against the run. Compares that to how the various players have done this season. Then it calculates the projected points for each player.

The projections say Vick will score 15.5 points this weekend, while Peyton will score 14.4.

As I mentioned, Jacksonville has allowed few QB points this year, while NO has allowed a lot. So it just puts in the numbers and comes out with Peyton scoring less than Vick.

The worrisome things about that technique are:

1) 2 weeks is a very small sample size.

2) it doesn't take into account that the reason Vick has so many fantasy points is his running (most leagues give more points to running yards and tds than passing yards and tds).