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Pass Plays: The value of attempts

By KC Joyner
Special to ESPN Insider

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

One of the incontrovertible rules of fantasy football is that players cannot score if they don't touch the football. That is why fantasy owners pay so much attention to attempt totals. The more players they have with high volumes in that metric, the more likely they are to win games. A corollary of that rule is that starting players in the NFL get more touches than backups. The combination of these two principles often makes it difficult to pick up starting players on the waiver wire, but that ...

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