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Originally Posted by patteeu
I can see why you'd have trouble figuring out what my D is, but I'm not sure why it matters to you.
Aside from that, I'm not sure what the problem is (aside from not realizing that OLB vs WLB/SLB and ILB vs MLB meant). I have a mishmash of these players because I decided that I'd rather try to target good players (admittedly with only limited success) than start out by worrying about the out-of-position penalty on the assumption that the penalty wasn't as great as the difference between a good player and a bad player. Now that I'm a season into the game, I'll try to work toward a roster that is more consistent with the scheme I'll play.* I played a LT at RT all of last season on the theory that my 2nd best LT was a better player than my best RT. I don't know if that hurt me or helped me, but in the real NFL I'm pretty sure William Beatty would have started ahead of any of the RTs on my roster so I went with it. As it turned out, with a bunch of no-names at skill positions, I think my offensive line must have been treated pretty favorably by the sim based on my competitive results.
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* I played a 4-3 last year because 4-3 DE was a strength. Haloti Ngata had to play 4-3 DT instead of the 3-4 DE he played last year. When I drafted this year, I started out with the assumption that I'd try to get 4-3 players, but I took Sheldon Richardson in the 1st as BPA, one of my better 4-3 DEs switched to 3-4 OLB, Ngata moved to NT and with most teams playing 3-4, I'm having second thoughts.
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I think that's the philosophy to go with. As long as you're not making radical position changes, I think a team is better served having the best players on the field even if their positions are tweaked a little from the NFL. Obviously, putting a FS at MLB is going to have implications, but moving a 4-3 MLB to 3-4 ILB, or FS to SS isn't that big a leap. Think about Derrick Johnson moving from 3-4 ILB to 4-3 MLB. I'd put him there in a heartbeat over some journeyman who's listed as a 4-3 MLB.