 If you're playing year-long fantasy football or daily fantasy, there are many rules and scoring settings you can choose from and argue about with your dorky friends. The most important and highly debated topic is how many points a player should get for a reception, or as it's commonly known, PPR. There are typically three ways to score your league, and all three ways are about points per reception. We really care about how many imaginary points we should award our players on our imaginary teams for catching the football. You have standard scoring, which typically means zero points per reception. This is the original scoring setting when fantasy football was invented. Then you have half PPR scoring, which awards half a point per reception. My personal favorite and the most reasonable of the three in my opinion. Finally, you have full PPR, which awards one full point per reception. This is the high octane supersize me at the drive-through option. Let's talk a little bit more about this one. What's the argument for PPR? More points. More points equals more fun. Remember the Rams Chiefs came in 2018 when it was 54 to 51? If you thought that was fun, you're gonna love PPR. What's the argument against PPR? It's imbalanced. It overvalues one specific part of the game, catching the football more than the other parts, like yards and touchdowns. And something PPR is an overcorrection to the original non-PPR, and I tend to agree. Let's give an example of how PPR can change a player scoring in any given week. In week 16 last season, Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins caught eight passes for 48 yards and zero touchdowns, a below average day for him. Now, in typical fantasy football scoring, 10 yards equals one point, so his 48 yards equals 4.8 points. In PPR, those eight catches turn into eight points. So now he has 12.8 points on the deck. In half PPR scoring, he would have 8.8 points. Or in standard zero PPR scoring, he would have 4.8 points. 12.8, 4.8. Is it more fun when DeAndre Hopkins scores double digit points on a below average day for him? Perhaps. Not for me, but perhaps. But the PPR non-PPR topic divides many fantasy football players. And the debate is, is this correct? Should we really award a player a full point for just catching the football? Now listen, don't get me wrong, I get it. Catching the football is hard. These are pro athletes. But in fantasy football, PPR can drastically change the value of a player's performance to the point where their value doesn't even make any sense. PPR's premium on catches d-values things like yards and touchdowns, which you could argue matter more in a game, and it turns past catching running backs and slot wide receivers into fantasy goals. With that said, let's talk a bit about how to draft in a PPR league and who to look out for. The running back position is probably affected the most by PPR. Because unlike wide receivers and tight ends, not all running backs catch passes as part of their job. So at running back, past catching specialists like Christian McCaffrey, Alvin Camara, Austin Eckler, Travis Etienne, James Whites, all those guys get a huge boost. And the guys who catch very little passes like Derek Henry, Josh Jacobs, Nick Chubb, they all take a big hit. At wide receiver and tight end, this isn't as big of a deal, but it still matters. You want target hogs, you want Michael Thomas, Kenan Allen, Tyler Boyd, Cole Beasley. Because all of those extra points from receptions really do add up. And the guys you should be wary of are the ones who depend more on touchdowns than catches. Guys like AJ Brown, Kenny Gallaudet, Chase Claypool, usually it ends up being the big play, guys. So to wrap things up, PPR places more value on catches than anything in the world. So you have to place more value on players who catch the football more. Regardless of the scoring format you use, the most important thing is to match that format with the players you're drafting. So if you like points, ridiculous amounts of points, air raid, West Coast style fantasy football, and not a whole lot of logic, come on down to PPR scoring.