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General feedback regarding scoring options and requests for new scoring options and categories. Some common category requests are:

  • Goal Line Stops
  • Penalty Yards
  • Customizable Points Allowed Options
  • Successful Onside Kicks
  • Touchbacks for Kickers
  • Dropped passes
  • Forced Fumbles (D/STs)
  • QB Hits (IDPs)
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  • Chris commented  ·   ·  Report

    @Am: Don't you mean "Kicking team free kick recovery" instead of "Onside kick recovery"? After all, it should not matter whether the kick is short (your typical onside kick) or deep into the endzone as long as the receiving team never possessed the ball prior to the kicking team gaining possession.

  • clayton dennert commented  ·   ·  Report

    @Yahoo please add ATOI as a category. At this point it looks like pure stubborness. Don't be made because ESPN did it first. Eat the humble pie and make your website better for your customers...

  • bub secret commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hat tricks should be a scoring category. so should OT goals as well.

  • Andrew C commented  ·   ·  Report

    Punters are the reason I watch the NFL

  • daniel hodack commented  ·   ·  Report

    Add 60+ yard field goals as a separate scoring category. 60+ is certainly deserving of more points than a 50 yard field goal. why does field goal points stop at 50+ when 60+ yard field goals are possible and quite an elite achievement by a kicker

  • joey arculeo commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add more goalie category such as "Shootout / OT losses"! I did an ESPN league last year and there were so many more categories. I've ran my fantasy hockey league on yahoo for a decade now, the addition of a few more categories before draft season would make the experience on yahoo the best there is !

  • joey arculeo commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes please do so! I did an ESPN league last year and there were so many more categories. I've ran my fantasy hockey league on yahoo for a decade now, the addition of a few more categories before draft season would make the experience on yahoo the best there is !

  • Mike Ronald commented  ·   ·  Report

    So I guess the team determined to *not* add new categories?

  • Sean Glickman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Another Util category which sounds more fair and important than +/-.

  • David Norton commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'd really just like to see the ability to customize positional scoring (most specifically because my league just passed TE premium PPR) and I don't want to leave the Yahoo platform just because of this one little rule change.

  • Chris commented  ·   ·  Report

    A "dropped pass" is very different from a lost fumble.

    A dropped pass results only in a loss of down.

    A lost fumble results in a loss of POSSESSION.

  • Dale Schreiner commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would love to have (many) more options for Kicker scoring. Certainly, fractional points for yards. Each commissioner can choose which options seem logical.
    I see ideas for combining Kicker into Defense Special Teams. I am absolutely against that, and for the opposite. I want as much separation as possible of Defense from special teams. I use no special teams categories in my current DEF scoring. I would love to have a separate position for Special Teams. Special teams position could have scoring categories for kicker, punter, and returns.

  • Chris commented  ·   ·  Report

    My thoughts:

    1. In reality, each touchback is worth zero points (the NFL Rule Book actually lists the touchback in its scoring section along with the touchdown, the field goal, the safety, and tries). Alternatively, I am in favor in one point for each successful rouge, eh?!

    2. So ... if the opening drive of the games results in a field goal and there's no more scoring throughout the rest of the game, you want to count that field goal double??? (Hint: NO)

    3. Simple solution: Make your league an IDP league and award point(s) for tackles made. Any tackles made by the kicker will be credited as miscellaneous points (those ordinarily earned by players in another position such as an individual defensive player) and will be indicated by an asterisk*.

    4. Change "Onside Kick Successful" to "Successful Free Kick Recovery by Kicking Team" and make it a DEF/ST category. If any point(s) are going to be awarded (perhaps half the value of a fumble recovery, but never more than the full value of such), it should make absolutely no difference as to whether the kick is short (such as an onside kick) or deep into the endzone (recovered there by the kicking team for a touchdown, something which can and HAS HAPPENED in the NFL). The only stipulation it that the ball must never have been possessed by the receiving team; otherwise it becomes a fumble recovery by definition.

  • Vegas GM commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hello yahoo, can we please get a faceoff% or net face offs stat category this upcoming season, like how you have net saves and holds in baseball? We've asked for this for years but to no avail. This stat seems like a no-brainer.

  • Justin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Positional PPR settings for TE Premium leagues capabilities is a must.

    Having the ability to set PPR value based on individual length of reception is another great option.

    A designated tiebreaker players should be able to be selected from the bench when rosters are set.

  • Dcat commented  ·   ·  Report

    Instead of all that fluff, I'd just prefer Yahoo to get the kicking scoring right. Fractional points Yahoo, fractional points for all FGs above 30 yards. 35 yard FG = 3.5 pts. 47 yard FG = 4.7. 62 yard FG = 6.2.

    People have been requesting this now for over 5 years but Yahoo has acted like an a-hole and done nothing. That's just Yahoo being.... well... Yahoo.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Uh.....no

    **** teams and great weather teams would have a huge advantage over non-**** and bad weather teams, like Cleveland. Touchbacks have become the norm, not the exception in the NFL. Why reward for meeting expectations?

    The fact the team, not the kicker, got the ball down to the 1 yard line, then downed the ball 3 times to force the other team to use their time outs before their own kicker makes an extra point length FG to win the game, is not worthy of extra points.

    A kicker making a tackle is not encouraged in pro football and should not be rewarded.

    On side kicks are typically not recovered by the kicker, but of a member of the kicking team. If you reward the kicker for successful onside kick recoveries, then you should penalize them for unsuccessful recoveries.

  • Cowboy commented  ·   ·  Report

    1. Each Touchback. Give them a point. Not a huge play, but it's nice not to worry about the return, as always for any team.

    2. Game-Winning field goal (doubler?) (if is last score resulting in win).

    3. Kicker makes tackle. That could be tough on Yahoo's data collection system, but boy is that a critical play. Kicker probably just saved the team the TD. Worth at least 3-4 points.

    4. Onside Kick Successful. Worth at least as much as a fumble recovery, 3-4 points.

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