There was plenty of debate on this last year? Will we continue to see dual position players? If so, who? And will some of last year's dual position players be listed at a single position this year?
Any chance CJ Spiller receives dual eligibility at RB/WR? I had him last year in an ESPN league and towards the end of the season he became eligible at both positions (I only found out because I faced someone with him in another ESPN league and they had him in as a receiver). I don't know why it was changed, but I do know it was a huge advantage for my team over the last couple weeks of the season.
Highly doubtful Spiller moves to RB/WR. We view these on a case-by-case basis, but it is extremely unlikely this happens.
McCluster was changed last year based on the first preseason game (we likely will never touch eligibility past mid-August). I'll paste a post I wrote last year that our positional team relayed to me on McCluster in 2011 (we will be on the lookout for players like this, but it's safe to assume Spiller is solely a RB for now, here was our McCluster post):
The Chiefs play the Rams on Friday. Our stats team will monitor the game and see if this warrants a change in McCluster's
eligibility. Other sites are changing, and we are open to do so and give him dual positions if it is warranted. We will watch the game as a statistical staff, confer with some former employees who did positional/statistical work at the
NFL, and make a decision some time this week. If he is playing there as often as a WR plays in a wildcat, we won't move him. If he is lining up out of the backfield as more
of a gadget guy, we'd move him over if he's taking definitive snaps out of the position.
rangerdaveSat 6/18/11 3:53 PM
There was plenty of debate on this last year? Will we continue to see dual position players? If so, who? And will some of last year's dual position players be listed at a single position this year?
abailey3313Fri 7/27/12 10:20 AM
Any chance CJ Spiller receives dual eligibility at RB/WR? I had him last year in an ESPN league and towards the end of the season he became eligible at both positions (I only found out because I faced someone with him in another ESPN league and they had him in as a receiver). I don't know why it was changed, but I do know it was a huge advantage for my team over the last couple weeks of the season.
FleaMod AdminSat 7/28/12 1:21 PM
Highly doubtful Spiller moves to RB/WR. We view these on a case-by-case basis, but it is extremely unlikely this happens.
McCluster was changed last year based on the first preseason game (we likely will never touch eligibility past mid-August). I'll paste a post I wrote last year that our positional team relayed to me on McCluster in 2011 (we will be on the lookout for players like this, but it's safe to assume Spiller is solely a RB for now, here was our McCluster post):
The Chiefs play the Rams on Friday. Our stats team will monitor the game and see if this warrants a change in McCluster's
eligibility. Other sites are changing, and we are open to do so and give him dual positions if it is warranted. We will watch the game as a statistical staff, confer with some former employees who did positional/statistical work at the
NFL, and make a decision some time this week. If he is playing there as often as a WR plays in a wildcat, we won't move him. If he is lining up out of the backfield as more
of a gadget guy, we'd move him over if he's taking definitive snaps out of the position.