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In this game where the object is to score more points than your opponent, we tend to fall in love with players that produce "big games." You know, those 40 point outbursts that a running back or receiver has every so often. The ones that make your weekly opponent physically ill and unable to report to work the next day. Those are fun.
The problem is that those outbursts aren't really all that predictable and they certainly aren't dependable. And the problem with the "big game" is that sometimes it skews a player’s numbers a bit in our perception. It is simple to look at a players stat-line from the previous season and see that he scored 6 touchdowns. But if 4 of those touchdowns came in one game, is that a player you could have depended on from week to week?
The Huddle has always been a proponent of consistency. I share in that view. I strive to build a consistent team on draft day. With that in mind I decided to take a look back at 2008 and see how the top 30 RBs fared when put up to my consistency test.
I pulled up one of my leagues stats as of week 17 last year, and printed the results. I decided to mark each player’s highest week, and lowest weekly score of the season. I did not include weeks where they were not eligible to play, but did count any score of zero where a player is active but sees no action - even in the case of injury. One player caught my eye immediately.
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