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Best fantasy RB of all time*

Who's the best ever


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TREFF

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It is LT
I always played in a PPR league & he got stats in both & was a TD machine.

Cant see Barry being #1 in PPR leagues or non PPR leagues. They normally pulled him inside the 5 yard line.
PPR leagues were not really a thing during Barry's era. Sure they existed, but they surely weren't mainstream, shouldn't hold that against him
 

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I still think I got you beat.
My anniversary is August 26 - smack dab in the height of fantasy draft season.
Yet my wife is fine with any day we pick to "get away" for our anniversary.
I'll keep her.
She's in our $$ league so no worries there either :)
 

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All That matters was the points scored, this is best fantasy RB, not best RB. ..i would NOT pick Emmit to be the best RB ever, that would be a different debate between Sayers, Brown, Peyton and Sanders. . so no idea why you'd think theres a discrepancy as there's an obvious difference


Sanders nor Sayers belong in that conversation. Emmitt wasn't the best fantasy back, I would think it would be more like the Cowboys were the best team for fantasy backs, they gave Emmitt the ball 3 times every time they got inside the 10 and a lot of the time it took him all 3 carries to score.

The obvious difference is you talked about Sanders carrying his line to pro bowls yet say Emmitt is the best fantasy back which was only because of the team he was on and his line. And wrong again about the Lions offensive line, it wasn't that bad at all and neither was the offenses around him.
 

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Sanders nor Sayers belong in that conversation. Emmitt wasn't the best fantasy back, I would think it would be more like the Cowboys were the best team for fantasy backs, they gave Emmitt the ball 3 times every time they got inside the 10 and a lot of the time it took him all 3 carries to score.

The obvious difference is you talked about Sanders carrying his line to pro bowls yet say Emmitt is the best fantasy back which was only because of the team he was on and his line. And wrong again about the Lions offensive line, it wasn't that bad at all and neither was the offenses around him.
So i guess, thangs for proving my point? We're talking fantasy, and when it comes to fantasy do were really care that Barry Sanders was a better pure RB than Emmitt, or do we care who scored us the most points? And does it really matter on Tuesday morning why player X outscored player Y, does it matter that ones oline was better than the other? Not really, all that matters is who helped win the gamers. . And if the best fantasy RB happened to be behind the best oline in the oast 30 years, than i guess that guy's name is Emmit Smith, even though Barry was a better pure RB..

Honestly have seek idea what point your arguing/debating here, as the discussion about Detroit's oline was just two guys talking football, not necessarily a better fantasy player
 

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Barry was insane, dude could put up a 30 spot in no time, then, because his line was almost always crap

I think Barry carried them to their pro bowls.. as in, Barry is leading the llegue in rushing, his line must be doing well, we'll vote for them". Never seen a RB as great as he was fighting behind the line of scrimmage as often as he had to


Well, you did say these things right? You're wrong... And color me shocked a Cowboys fan picks Emmitt...
 

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PPR leagues were not really a thing during Barry's era. Sure they existed, but they surely weren't mainstream, shouldn't hold that against him
I also so said non PPR leagues because they pulled him in inside the 5 yard line. What did he average in scores? 10 or 11 TDs? Meanwhile LT some others were scoring much more. We are talking fantasy points here.
 

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I still think I got you beat.
My anniversary is August 26 - smack dab in the height of fantasy draft season.
Yet my wife is fine with any day we pick to "get away" for our anniversary.
I'll keep her.
Poor planning. I refused to get married any time during football season. I told her I didn't want our anniversary to fall on an important game or something. She really wanted to get married on the day we met or our first date or something, but it was in February and I wasn't going to put myself in that situation where it falls on a Super Bowl day. She insisted that she "was never gonna be mad at me if it did" or some shit, but I wasn't falling for that.
 

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Well, you did say these things right? You're wrong... And color me shocked a Cowboys fan picks Emmitt...
Actually I'm not wrong, one scored more fantasy points, longer and more consistently than the other, and the other was a better RB who played behind a mediocre asst best line, especially when compared you the first..pretty damned simple, and how anyone can't see the innocuous difference in the two circumstances and why there's no double standard/hypocrissy is beyond me
 

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Actually I'm not wrong, one scored more fantasy punts, longer and more consistently than the other, and the other was a better RB..pretty damned simple


Now yer changing the subject, thats not what you originally talked about with Sanders, you talked about him carrying his line which simply is not true and if most career fantasy points makes you the best fantasy RB why even have the conversation? Too me LT, Faulk and others were better than Emmitt because they created more fantasy points, Emmitt just ran it 3 times everytime the boys were inside the 10 which was a lot. There is a reason Hall of Famer Michael Irvin scored double digit TD's once in his 12 year career.
 
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averagejoe

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Poor planning.
I got married before I knew what fantasy football was (almost 30 years ago).
And we eloped. Very little planning was involved.
 

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Now yer changing the subject, thats not what you originally talked about with Sanders, you talked about him carrying his line which simply is not true and if most career fantasy points makes you the best fantasy RB why even have the conversation? Too me LT, Faulk and others were better than Emmitt because they created more fantasy points, Emmitt just ran it 3 times everytime the boys were inside the 10 which was a lot.
You're confusing two different conversations into one. .Smitty and i were simply talking football when discussing the olines.. not who was a better fantasy back there's a massive difference. Michel Vick can be a great fantasy QB, didn't mean he was a better QB than anyone. So why can't Emmitt be a better fantasy back (which he arguably was) with Barry being a better pure RB, and the reason why being he had an inferior oline in comparison, without it being a contradiction?
 

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I got married before I knew what fantasy football was (almost 30 years ago).
And we eloped. Very little planning was involved.
No excuse...
 

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I also so said non PPR leagues because they pulled him in inside the 5 yard line. What did he average in scores? 10 or 11 TDs? Meanwhile LT some others were scoring much more. We are talking fantasy points here.
I only bring it up not to argue against your point, just bringing up the the different era's. Both from an evolving fantasy scoring aspect, and the NFL offenses in general. Would Barry and Emmit have been even bigger studs if they played during the offensive explosion that Fualk and LT did? Or were LT and Faulk just that damned good that they'd have been beasts in the earlier period? And That's the area where just who scored the most points doesn't tell the whole story

And Barry, with 99 career rushing tds over 10 years, averaged a very impressive 9.9 per :)
 

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I also so said non PPR leagues because they pulled him in inside the 5 yard line. What did he average in scores? 10 or 11 TDs? Meanwhile LT some others were scoring much more. We are talking fantasy points here.

He was only getting pulled the last 2 seasons because Bobby Ross believed in the using a vulture in goalline situations 12 TDs on 50 carries for Touchdown Tommy
 

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I think Barry was #5 alltime in rushing TDs when he retired fellas.


Thats about as high as he should be listed when it comes to best running backs of all time! I'm being generous here buddy don't get all mad...
 

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You're confusing two different conversations into one. .Smitty and i were simply talking football when discussing the olines.. not who was a better fantasy back there's a massive difference. Michel Vick can be a great fantasy QB, didn't mean he was a better QB than anyone. So why can't Emmitt be a better fantasy back (which he arguably was) with Barry being a better pure RB, and the reason why being he had an inferior oline in comparison, without it being a contradiction?


No i'm not, I realized they were two different conversations, that doesn't make you any less wrong about Barry's O-line or Emmitt being the best fantasy back of all time.
 

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No i'm not, I realized they were two different conversations, that doesn't make you any less wrong about Barry's O-line or Emmitt being the best fantasy back of all time.
Well alrighty, cling to being confused and incorrect, fine by me. If you realized that to start with there would've been no need to point out some percieved hyoocrisy on my part, no need for this entire discussion which started by your scratching your head, in apparent confusion so. . Well. . There you have it
 
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