"No Contact Means No Stopping Some Wideouts" by Mike Harmon

[tharris]

My thoughts are that all wr will benefit so their relative positional value will remain constant (more or less) with or without the rule change. By value based drafting theories, there's no reason to start drafting wr any earlier than you would without the rule change.

Unless someone can prove that a certain kind of reciever especially benefits from the rule change...

I agree: the same applies when people ask: our scoring has changed.... QBs now get 6 points per TD rather than 4 should I grab a QB earlier?

Actually, a QB's value will go up slightly.

If QB1 scores 30 TDs and QB2 scores 20:

Old rule (4pts per TD):
QB1 gets 120 points for TDs
QB2 gets 80 points for TDs
Difference of 40 points

New rule (6pts per TD):
QB1 gets 180 points for TDs
QB2 gets 120 points for TDs
Difference of 60 points

All of the sudden, QB1's value goes up with the new scoring system.