Someone once said about FF kickers, "You don't draft the kicker, you are drafting the offense." Pretty good advice. A good offense that struggles at times in the Red Zone will yield a good FF kicker. That's what I look for.
i generally switch my kickers out every week unless i have a top guy. i just look for a team with a weak matchup that i think will put up a lot of points in general, and take their kicker. no rocket science involved and it generally works out pretty well.
My 10-team league requires each team to carry 2 Ks and 2 DSTs. So, the last 4 rounds of my draft typically or 2 Ks and 2 DSTs. So thw waiver wire is pretty thin at both positions, thus I'm not able to play Ks week to week.
Draft someone reliable, and play them. I drafted J. Reed, and aside from the Jax donut, he's been a steady diet of 7-9 points each week. Not bad for a 15th round pick!
Go to your waiver wire and pickup the top scoring kicker that is not on bye this week. Hang onto him for 4 weeks and then repeat if you're dissatisfied with your kicker.
Better yet, if you can sort scoring on a week by week basis, take the top scoring kicker over the last 4 weeks (as opposed to total points for the season) and pick him up.
One thing I've learned about kickers. Hot kickers stay hot and cold kickers stay cold. If you jump back and forth on kickers each week that is like selling low and buy high on stocks, and a surefire way to lose points.
i have a slightly different approach. I check out which of the available kickers is playing a team that gives up lots of points to that position. Then I make sure that kicker is on a team that can move the ball on offence. if they have been doing decently at that the last couple of weeks, grab the kicker, otherwise look at the next guy on the list.
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I don't put too much effort into it, but I usually try to get kickers from teams that can move the ball, but have mediocre red zone offenses, with the assumption that they can get in range for the field goal, but won't be scoring many TDs => lots of opportunities for kicker points.
I like Rayner in GB, Hanson in DET (on a bye this week, though), and John Carney in NO right now
Sometimes I try for a good offense playing a good defense, or a bad offense against a bad defense. I find that way that teams move the ball a lot, but may have trouble getting into the endzone.
ateam wrote:I see all kickers available in my league, then research their college histories. I screen out anyone who missed an extra point. Then I screen out those that weren't top ten in any year, then I screen out dome teams, and higher elevation schools. Anyone that wasn't top ten in touchbacks then gets eliminated, and out of remaining kickers I go with the best facemask.
And after 72 hours of research you are left with Martin Gramatica
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by DrSpackle » Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:13 pm 
