fantasy football: playing qb/wr combos

[vixticator]

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It increases standard deviation when you take combos increasing variance. You don't want this when you have a good team.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, but if you lack big time players like LT/SJax/LJ w/e then the only real way to win is high variance weeks. I'd rather have two great recievers than two mediocre backs because chance of winning league with latter is very small.

[Thremp]

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It increases standard deviation when you take combos increasing variance. You don't want this when you have a good team.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, but if you lack big time players like LT/SJax/LJ w/e then the only real way to win is high variance weeks. I'd rather have two great recievers than two mediocre backs because chance of winning league with latter is very small.

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Exactly. You'd rather have a significantly higher caliber player. For example Peyton/Harrison is better than Peyton/Branch, but clearly inferior to Peyton/Holt. I'm not a huge fantasy football guy. But this is just a basic fantasy sport principle. So correct my examples if I'm errant in them.

But if you have a trash team v a much better one. You might want to hamstring an entire QB/WR1/WR2 together and hope they get into a shootout having to come from behind at the end. This will greatly increase your SD, but might be your only chance to win.

[oe39]

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The only time I active pursued this was when I had Manning, and well, that was because Harrison was/is one of the best receivers

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but isn't this just trying to get two good players?