Amidst more hoopla than any other sport accords such an event, the NFL released its 2008 regular season schedule yesterday. The immediate reaction of the fantasy football obsessed among us was to begin analyzing the schedule to see which players had easy or touch schedules, which had primrose paths or rocky roads at the start of the season and/or at playoff time, which running backs faced the toughest run defenses, etc.
It's fine to do this sort of thing, and it's actually a worthwhile exercise just as long as you keep your findings in perspective and don't give them an inordinate amount of weight when doing your rankings. Don't move Ben Roethlisberger out of your top-10 quarternacks just because the Steelers play what is statistically the league's toughest schedule this season for instance.
To that end, Tom Blomberg posted
Fantasy Football's 6th Commandment on the site today and I think it's a perfectly-timed mandate: Don't put too much stock in the playoff schedule on draft day. Check it out along with the rest of the 10 Commandments we've posted thus far. We'll have the rest of them on the site by the end of the month.