Fantasy football is a weekly game.

So why are we so concerned with season-long numbers?

It's true. Before your fantasy drafts, you're flooded with rankings and four-month long player projections. You see how a player is going to potentially perform yearly, but not weekly. And while these things are helpful, they also don't tell the entire story.

You see, a lot of fantasy leagues use a six-point-per-passing-touchdown system, and when that's the case, fantasy owners start to make assumptions based on yearly projections. Logically, you'd think a player like my podcast cohost, Denny Carter, and I, giving one quarterback pick each week where the quarterback was owned in roughly 20 percent or fewer leagues, compiled a passer that was a little worse than another article.

You would think, based on the season-long numbers above, that this number would shrink in six-point-per-touchdown-pass leagues.

It doesn't. It actually gets larger.

In these formats, 43 different quarterbacks finished with at least one top-12 performance last season. In terms of top-six performances -- elite ones, if you will -- the numbers were close to identical, too. In four-point-per-touchdown-pass formats, 30 quarterbacks had at least one top-six performance. When the scoring changed to six, there were 31.

At the individual level, there's little change as well. Andrew Luck's 13 top-12 performances, the most in the league, remains the same when touchdown passes are more valuable. Same with Aaron Rodgers' 11 and Russell Wilson's 10. Peyton Manning actually lost a top-12 week, while Drew Brees gained one.

And it's the same for top-six games -- nothing changes. The only thing that changes is that there's an additional usable quarterback out there.

It's because everything is relative. And it's because lesser-skilled quarterbacks can compete with elite ones weekly, but not yearly.

The fact is, whether you're in a six-point-per-touchdown-pass league or a four-point one, it shouldn't really matter. You should continue to approach the quarterback position as you always would.

I just hope that approach involves drafting them late.