Aug 18, 2007 10:15 pm I'll agree to this only if WYD can be my center.
Third Annual HRC Fantasy Football is now accepting Teams!
Posted on Aug 18, 2007 10:13 pm
guitar_jim
Czar of Cheese
Member Since: Jun 09, 2004
football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/
In order to join the league, follow the link above or go to game front page, click the "Sign Up Now" or "Get Another Team" button and follow the links to "Join a Custom League". When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below.
League ID#: 502748
Password: football
Those who have played in the past know that it is a low pressure all-for-fun game. Some guys get into it, others just do it to make Sundays a little more interesting.
Draft Day is set for September 2nd, which would give us a week to talk smack and make roster moves before the season starts. Also, you hard core people should review the scoring rules and offer up and suggested changes so that the commissioner can make a ruling.
Now go sign your team up!
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Aug 18, 2007 10:15 pm I'll agree to this only if WYD can be my center.
Aug 18, 2007 10:19 pm Actually, he's a little left of center.
C'mon Her Smelly Butt, we need some new blood! I didn't even make the playoffs last year, so I'm on a mission.
Aug 18, 2007 10:22 pm I believe that Tadpui took 1st place last year, and dB had those honors in 2005. This is my year, I can feel it.
Aug 18, 2007 10:31 pm Team created - "Herb's Blurbs"
How's this game played, anyway?
Aug 18, 2007 10:35 pm Everything you need to know and then some:
help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo...ootball-28.html
You can do as little or as much as you want. Either way, just sit back and watch me take the trophy.
Aug 19, 2007 12:01 am Don't be so sure on that trophy Jim. I'll be paying much closer attention this year and won't forget to move players that are on bye weeks. :-)
The Intimidators are back with a vengeance!
Aug 19, 2007 01:37 am North of the border represented!
Aug 19, 2007 03:39 am Ok I'm in
"Battlers"
I have NO idea what's doing.
Shouldn't i be able to pick players? or teams?
What is this anyway?
Aug 19, 2007 07:31 am OK, I'm in! Thanks Jim for setting this up again!
Aug 19, 2007 01:57 pm Bleak, it is an automatic draft. The players who are eligible for your roster are listed on the pre-draft players page. You can click into that and re-arrange them into your preferred order. Last year I just left them as is, but I will be moving a couple of them this year. Then on the 7th or 8th of September the auto draft happens. After that you can start trading players or picking new ones out of the pool.
The only real big item to remember to do is make sure and watch for players that are on bye week and switch them out of the playing roster.
dB, nice choice of names there. I figured that was you.
And ya, thanx a bunch for doing the set up work again Jim!
Aug 19, 2007 02:07 pm I started a league of my own for several friends. Man Yahoo has some weird default settings this year. I changed a bunch of stuff for my league...they're just such strange default settings.
Anyways, I'm in. I always like to be in 2 leagues each year. That way if I end up sucking *** in one league, I can always fall back on the other :)
Aug 19, 2007 02:08 pm How did I end up with TO in my pre draft again this year. I don't know whether to exclude him or give him another shot. He did score me some decent points last year, but also cost me a game or two as well.
On the good side, I got Manning in my QB choices.
Bleak, looks like it is you and I in the first week, I'm gonna smoke ya!!
Aug 19, 2007 02:11 pm Hey TO lead the NFL in TD receptions last year. For all his douchebaggery, he's a pretty damn good receiver.
Aug 19, 2007 04:26 pm I know, but he also missed a couple of key games for me because of his douchebaggeryness. But I suppose he has got better stats lifetime wise then most of my other choices.
Aug 19, 2007 04:38 pm Douchebaggeryness. That one's gonna stay with me. :-D
Hey, do I need to know anything about the real players? If any sort of complex strategy is involved here, I'm gonna suck.
Aug 19, 2007 04:56 pm Actually, herb, you are prolly best off letting Yahoo automate the draft for you, it'll automagically pick the best available at any given position...
It takes a season or two to kinda get the jist of fantasy football...
Aug 19, 2007 06:17 pm Thank for the explanation Noize
However
Now you have armed me with the necessary information it shall be rather humbling for you when i tear chunks off ya.
Aug 19, 2007 07:31 pm Thas OK Bleak. Everyone else tore chunks off me last year at times. I'm used to it.
Aug 20, 2007 06:19 pm Welcome back pjk, glad you could make it. 4 more people and we will have a completed set up I think.
Come on guys, join in the fun.
Aug 20, 2007 07:15 pm thanks herb, but i really know nothing about football...yet alone fantasy....sports in general never really perked my interest.
Aug 20, 2007 07:52 pm Make sure you all pick Michael vick.
Aug 20, 2007 08:19 pm haha, for what season? 2020??
Aug 20, 2007 08:42 pm what a looser scumbag he is, I wish he wouldn't have taken the plea agreement and seen him put away for a long time...
hell, one year is nothing, hopefully he will have no NFL to come back to though.
Aug 20, 2007 09:13 pm Ya, hopefully the NFL will pull their head out and ban him for life.
Aug 21, 2007 08:36 pm k, so now what? Do we just hang out until September something...?
Aug 21, 2007 08:41 pm Well, take a look at the way the players are rated. You can adjust the default by rating players higher or lower than Yahoo does.
The draft is on September 2nd. It's an automatic draft. When your turn comes around you are automatically given the highest available player according to the way you have ranked them (also according to which positions - QB, RB, TE, etc. - you still need to fill up).
So, the higher you rank a player the more likely you are to get him on your team. Of course, the obvious ones are ranked high by everybody, so it's a crap shoot as to who gets them.
So go ahead and tinker, or you can do what most of us do, and that is to just leave the default rankings and just deal with whatever players you're given.
Make sense?
Aug 21, 2007 09:38 pm OOOHHHH i get it!
Like a real draft!
I was wondering how fun this would be if we all ended up with the same team!
I don't even know who anyone is so i might just go in and rank players randomly!
Aug 22, 2007 12:50 am Look, there's a few things you're gonna want to know...
Kickers go fast, you're gonna wanna take one early, don't worry about runningbacks you can always trade for one later.
One more thing, Manning retired.
Aug 22, 2007 01:48 am Cheers Jim! That helps a lot. Does anyone ever get the upper hand by adjusting the default ratings? ...or is it just a luck sort of thing?
Aug 22, 2007 02:45 am Are Kickers Punters?
Aug 22, 2007 04:21 am only when they're punting!
i kid, i kid, i know nothing of what i speak.
Aug 22, 2007 06:54 am the only kicker that really matters is the field goal kicker otherwise it considered "special teams" as I recall...
Aug 22, 2007 08:35 am I was quoting what I thought was a pretty funny commercial for fantasy football on NFL.com.
You do NOT want to take a kicker first.
Aug 22, 2007 08:36 am ...and no, kickers are not punters and punters won't get you any points.
Aug 22, 2007 08:41 am BH, in more centralized leagues, such as my neighborhood league, the draft is much more of an event, we all get together at one persons house, drink heavily and eat junk food, taking turns picking players...it's a lot of fun, loads of smack talkin and drunken fun.
In a league like this, where we are scattered thru time zones and such, the automated method is less fun but more practical, then the trading can change things up as well as releasing and signing players through the season.
Oh, the one Manning that didn't retire is Eli, he's gold, you'll wanna get him ;-)
Aug 22, 2007 08:46 am TJ Whosyermama.
Championship.
Aug 22, 2007 10:15 am Excuse me, but its T.J. Houshmanilli.
Aug 22, 2007 10:40 am I'm counting on Herb's Blurbs to take the title with little or no effort. Same strategy Fred Couples uses to win a golf tournament.
But oh yeah, I forgot... he has talent..
Aug 22, 2007 10:47 am Eh, its a game of luck anyways. All you can do is make educated guesses as to who is likely to do well and who is likely to do poorly on any given week.
For all of you non-football-fans that are participating in the fantasy league, here's a great guide to get your foot in the door as far as understanding what's going on during an American football game:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football_strategy
Aug 22, 2007 12:35 pm Meh. War and Peace is a quicker read than that!
I'll still incinerate you guys.
Aug 22, 2007 12:44 pm The quickest and easiest thing one can do to at least have a fighting chance is log in to your team and read any news about each player (a little icon will appear next to their name if there is any) to see if any player got injured and won't be playing for a few games, and watch for what teams have a "bye" week and are not playing...that is simply so you can swap out those players for your backups that actually ARE playing.
Sounds silly, but forgetting that simple thing has cost me big a couple times...
Aug 22, 2007 12:52 pm Roger that. Also, I can't figure out where to log in to the league on my computer at work. All I can see on the football home page are options to create new teams/leagues, but nothing to log into an existing one. It recognizes me on my home computer, obviously because there's a cookie set on it.
Tips?
Aug 22, 2007 01:18 pm If you just log in to Yahoo.com and then navigate through the links to Fantasy Football you'll be good.
Click of Sports and then Fantasy and you're there.
Aug 22, 2007 01:26 pm At what point did our society go so downhill that fantasy is now related with sports and not sex?
Aug 22, 2007 01:26 pm Thanks Jim. That worked. Apparently it won't let you through the back door to your team, even though it recognizes you as logged in to Yahoo.
Aug 22, 2007 01:33 pm Quote:
At what point did our society go so downhill that fantasy is now related with sports and not sex?
It was probably about the same time our wives discovered Ctrl + H.
Aug 22, 2007 01:39 pm OK, I dispute the use of the word "fantasy"...then Herb mentions wives and back doors and stuff...in another thread zek mentions famous balls...
jeezuz, today sucks...my mind is seriously in the gutter today...
Aug 22, 2007 02:49 pm Baaahahahaha.
In football, the balls are pointy!
Aug 22, 2007 02:50 pm You can also toss one to the tight end.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that)
Aug 22, 2007 04:10 pm Just be sure that when you see a hole in the A-gap, explode into it. You've really got to count on sufficient penetration though, or else you'll end up bouncing right off.
There are almost as many euphamisms in football as there are in billiards!
Aug 22, 2007 04:21 pm Golf: stroking your shaft while getting into the hole as quickly as possible.
"Wow, is he LONG!"
Aug 24, 2007 06:42 pm I'm in.
My advice, in an auto pick league, is to not adjust the predraft rankings other than remove any players you don't want. It can really screw you up if things don't go according to expectations and you somehow end up with no QB etc.
Aug 24, 2007 08:36 pm The Yahoo autopick wont do stuff like that Tony. It may pick an extra kicker or defense when you'd rather have an extra QB or RB, but at least it won't do things like leave a QB slot empty while picking a team of kickers or something :)
But yeah I'd still recommend leaving the pre-draft rankings alone unless you feel like pressing your luck. I ended up with a great team last year, but the players who most contributed to my success were largely ones that I had not intended to draft when I filled out my pre-draft ranking.
Aug 26, 2007 10:13 am I haven't been consulted at all about this!
sports.espn.go.com/nfl/co...&id=2977162
I'll be taking this up with legal on Monday.
Aug 26, 2007 11:04 am [quote]Are there long-shot chances for Vick?
Possibly. What if Tarvaris Jackson doesn't work out in Minnesota? For the moment, the Vikings have cast their lot with Jackson and Brooks Bollinger, and coach Brad Childress wants a mobile quarterback. Nobody is more mobile than Vick. [/quote]
If the Vikings even think about picking up Vick I'm moving to a state that doesn't border Minnesota.
Aug 26, 2007 11:30 am If they even think about drafting Vick it will be the last time I ever watch a Vikings game...as mad as I get about decisions, lousy games, etc...that would all pale in comparison to the moral black hole that it would be to actually hire a scumbag like that.
Besides that, mobile is all Vick is, other than his feet, I have always thought he sucked anyway...
But I guess drowning dogs with your bare hands makes you tough...what a loser.
Aug 27, 2007 12:20 pm Mr Tadpui, rest assured it can screw you up badly. But I had not meant that it would leave you hanging. what I meant is, for example, you move a QB up because you want him but someone in front of you leaves a much better player but you don't pick him, then someone takes your QB and next thing you know you missed out on a top RB and got yourself a low QB all because you thought you were smart.
Do you get a sense that this happened to me before :)
What I really want, and we have a league at work, is a manual draft for the first 3 rounds, followed by auto for the rest.
Aug 27, 2007 12:25 pm Manual draft is too hard across timezones and such.
I had the draft for my 'hood league last night...if it wasn't for the people that take ages to pick a 12th rounder that doesn't matter anyway it'd be more fun...
That said, I scored a pretty good team.
I like the automated system Yahoo has, it's worked well for us the last couple times.
If money was on the line I'd be more picky I suppose, but it's not here, so I'm easy...
Aug 27, 2007 10:27 pm Ya, I got a killer QB and defense last year as well as a couple good RB's. So I'm not going to complain.
Aug 27, 2007 10:40 pm Have i won this thing yet?
Aug 27, 2007 11:08 pm We need like 1 or 3 more players yet. Lets get a couple more in here shall we.
Aug 28, 2007 07:46 pm Let me know if the odd number is a problem. I can either "kindly" drop out or alternatively go out and find someone.
Aug 29, 2007 07:36 am i have signed up the Tritones. it was either that or the augmented fourths, which is funnier but which i'll probably get sick of.
don't know if i have to do any pre-draft stuff. guess i'll read this whole thread tomorrow...
Aug 29, 2007 07:44 am nah, just sit tight, and let the almighty Yahoo pick for you. Then when you've got your guys, just watch if somebody's off one week, and swap them out for someone else for that spot, if you have one.
If you don't have one, you can let someone go, and pick up a new player. That kinda gets fun.
Aug 29, 2007 07:55 am Yeah, the automated draft will work better for a newbie than manually picking usually.
Hey forty, in my 'hood league I got Pittsburgh defense, figured I'll put some faith in my boy, Tomlin...his team will have a great D I am confident.
Aug 29, 2007 08:22 am what if there are guys down in the list i might feel pretty confident about, though? i wouldnt want to pick all my players, but maybe a few. but i dont yet know what the predraft is. is that a list of all players that we can rank? or were our teams dished out some kind of actual pre-draft team and if so i dont understand--i thought nothing happened till the actual draft. i'll look around more later after i get some sleep. might have some questions, though.
tomlin: things look pretty good so far!
Aug 29, 2007 08:32 am you can earmark players you want with he predraft thing...if players are WAY down the list they likely won't be picked up in the automated draft, therefore you could prolly trade for them later and get them out of free agency. I have a couple players I suspect will be free agents after the draft, so I am gambling with it.
Aug 29, 2007 02:54 pm With this many teams you're going to get way down the list before you've even done 7 or 8 rounds.
Do you guys draw the draft order in advance or let yahoo do that ? When you know the order in advance you can actually make small changes that can make a difference.
This many teams can spread the talent nice and thin which makes it more interesting but can weigh heavy towards the couple of teams with the top notch players.
Aug 29, 2007 02:59 pm Quote:
This many teams can spread the talent nice and thin which makes it more interesting but can weigh heavy towards the couple of teams with the top notch players.
You mean just like the real thing? Haha, this is a problem in the NHL anyways.
Aug 29, 2007 03:18 pm Yep just like the real thing :)
There was a story this week I read about how the NFL needs 300 or so players a year now that it did not need 10 years ago for practice squads and roster size etc, yet there are way less college players due to cutbacks on that end so it's clear the pool is smaller.
However it does not effect my passionate enjoyment of the games in any way.
Aug 31, 2007 12:37 pm When will the draft status be set ???
Thank you
Tony :)
Aug 31, 2007 01:47 pm Since we have 12 teams, and everyone has had almost two weeks to jump on board, I'm going to make the executive decision to set the league's draft status to "ready" right now.
I think it actually takes a few days to do the draft. We'll see...and good luck everybody!
EDIT: This is part of the e-mail they sent just me:
Quote:
Your auto draft will be completed between now and 11:59 PM PT on Tuesday, Sep 4.
My experience is that it's usually done sooner than they say.
Aug 31, 2007 02:02 pm My 'hood league has 12 teams and the draft was interesting. Talent did get spread out and it should be a competitive season...I hope the same goes here, considering it's automated, it should be spread out even better, depending on the logic they use to pick "the next best player".
I hope it's done early, Sept 5 is surgery and September 6th I will likely be doped up an painkillers...which means it may be hard to remember to set a lineup...
Aug 31, 2007 04:35 pm I suspect it will be done tonight.
I just read a story on how the draft works.
They pick you a full set of starters before they pick backups. So if for example you already have Peyton Manning and next round Drew Brees is available you will not get him. This means that you kicker will get filled before your backup QB or RB. For the backups they will take the best available player where you don't have a backup. So after the starters are filled they will take the highest ranked player where you don't already have a backup. Once all your backup spots are filled it does the same thing.
That's roughly it anyway.
Sep 01, 2007 12:09 am Just checked, draft isn't done yet. I got pjk for my first stompin, I mean match up.
Sep 01, 2007 12:28 am Draft is done now
First round:
1. LaDainian Tomlinson Herb's Blurbs
2. Chicago Zek's Decoys
3. Steven Jackson Barley Proce...
4. Larry Johnson Ron Mexico's...
5. Peyton Manning Drought Dawgs
6. Joseph Addai Battlers
7. Shaun Alexander Tritones
8. Frank Gore Goobers
9. Rudi Johnson The Behri-axes
10. Laurence Maroney Intimidators
11. Brian Westbrook The Hit Show
12. Willie Parker Old Baldy
Taking Chicago witht the #2 pick is a shocker
Sep 01, 2007 12:32 am Crap the not cut list is scary. I can't cut people like Ronnie Brown or Todd Heap
Sep 01, 2007 03:03 am First round:
1. LaDainian Tomlinson Herb's Blurbs
When read aloud, that's fundamentally problematic all by itself.
Quote:
Crap the not cut list is scary. I can't cut people like Ronnie Brown or Todd Heap
That's funny, too.
Sep 01, 2007 04:45 am k can someone please explain what's going on now? when i look at 'my team,' what am i seeing right now?
Sep 01, 2007 07:51 am Herb, you got the most sought after player in the league
Draft is all done...I gots me whole team.
Sep 01, 2007 07:53 am please deebs help! its almost bedtime... what does the screen convey? why do i have two QBs? i've got roethlisberger? good, as he's about to have a good season with the new offense. why do i also have cutler? what does 'bn' mean
Sep 01, 2007 07:56 am never played fantasy. no defense? you dont get points for sacks or anything?
Sep 01, 2007 08:40 am Well, each team has a Bye week, and players get injured, so it's wise to have a backup of each position, you can only activate one QB, 3 WR, 2 RB, one K and 1 D for each game tho.
Sep 01, 2007 11:37 am Is there a quick and easy way to see which teams/players are on bye weeks or injured? That's what I'm talkin' about.
Sep 01, 2007 12:45 pm when you're looking at your team, you'll see the position, name, opp, and status.
if status is 'bye', then that player is out next weekend. You'll want to put a different player of the same type in that spot.
so if LT is out next week, you'll want to move a benched RB to fill his spot for the weekend.
BN means benched.
I had LT the last two years, he's great for fantasy football.
Sep 01, 2007 12:46 pm Oh yeah, read the little 'news' icons next to a players name, that'll tell you if you the person will be playing or not.
General info goes in there, from the FF league. Helpful to keep tabs on that stuff, to know what your players are doing.
Sep 01, 2007 02:22 pm I think the commissioner can modify the can't cut list (I am the commissioner of another league). You can select "no can't cut list" in league settings then we can cut whoever we want.
The goal of the game is to set up your team every week with the required number of starters in each spot. Each week the site will tell you who is playing and will even give you a projected set of points for each player making the choice quite easy.
Herb not only got the best player he got one of the best receivers in Round 2.
Sep 02, 2007 01:09 am someone explain the defense? you get a whole team's defense, looks like? (now it makes sense what db was saying about tomlin.)
Sep 02, 2007 04:10 am Yes you get a whole teams defense and get points for each sack, interception, touchdown scored etc. and for keeping the other teams points low. Doesn't matter who does it as long as they are playing for your defense.
Sep 02, 2007 06:27 am but we're stuck with one team's defense all season? and i got dallas and buffalo?
this game is stacked.
Sep 02, 2007 10:34 am No, you can trade defenses just like any player...
Some leagues score defenses point by position (line, linebackers and deep coverage) but thats gets confusing. If the vikings D has as good of a season as preseason, anyone with Minnesota's defense might do well with 'em.
I just heard New England might cut Randy Moss...oh how the mighty have fallen.
Sep 02, 2007 02:19 pm Doesn't seem Moss is going to be released according to the updates, but, relevant to us, if he was released it would have been due to injury so he can't be a great bet.
Sep 05, 2007 02:06 pm Just tell me to stop asking and I will but could we possibly change the CANT CUT LIST to NO so I can make some changes :)
Sep 05, 2007 02:20 pm And just for the commish's sake, its under Commissioner Tools/Edit League Settings/Can't Cut List Provider/None.
I got rid of it first thing in my other league that I'm heading. Anybody who got stuck with Randy Moss last year will appreciate not having a can't cut list.
Its there for one reason though: if a team is losing down the stretch, he can just release all of his marquee players and flood the free agent market with top-tier players. that just ends up skewing the field...so its just a way to keep sore losers from screwing everybody else's results up. I think that we can all be trusted not to do such a thing :)
Sep 05, 2007 03:11 pm Yep, I'm the leader of another league that faced the same problem. It would be fine if it stuck to the top 10 or 20 players but when Ronnie Brown and Todd Heap can't be cut (not that I want to necessarily) then you know you have a problem :)
Sep 15, 2007 08:31 pm so how do i trade players, get rid of players, etc? just wondering, because i'm not comfortable with my two cleveland players, at least until i see what quinn can do once he's in there. my cleveland guys are benched!
Sep 15, 2007 08:34 pm also how does one trade defenses? also how do we know who's "winning?"
i don't understand this crap. most i can do right now is make sure injured guys don't play, also checking to see who's likely to fail given the competition this week.
Sep 16, 2007 06:47 am Can't Cut Option is gone now... I guess I wasn't paying attention. Some commissioner I am.
Sep 16, 2007 10:48 am Who's the manager of the Tritones? I'm playing them this week.
Sep 16, 2007 10:51 am Near the top you will find the add players button. Simply click that button and it will take you to the area to pick a new player to add then simply choose the one you want to drop and click submit.
Sep 16, 2007 10:57 am Looks like I have an empty WR slot this week because all the WRs are injured or unavailable. Or am I doing something wrong?
Sep 16, 2007 11:08 am trade, quick! You have less than an hour...go to "add players" order them by fan points and take the top ones dropping you lamos...
Sep 16, 2007 11:20 am Noize, I sent you a trade proposal.
Sep 16, 2007 11:30 am don't count on him being on to do it in the next few minutes, go get free agents....HURRY.
Well, unless I'm playing you, then take your time :-)
Sep 16, 2007 11:55 am OK, I tried to add a WR, and it said I couldn't because it would put me over my maximum roster size. Meanwhile, I still have an empty WR slot. I guess I'm not getting the hang.
Win some, lose some. Whutever.
Sep 16, 2007 01:17 pm You can only have so many players on your roster. In order to add a player, you have to drop a player to make room. If you go to the "add player" link, after you add the player it'll ask you which player on your roster to drop. Check one and go to the next screen. It'll ask for confirmation and then the transaction will complete.
Sep 16, 2007 03:55 pm dammit. who would have guessed the browns would do that today? i just hurt myself by benching those guys. but can ya blame me?
yeah i wanna swap some players later. no way could i get up in time to take care of this this morning. 830 am wakeup time to get ready and get to the bar on time for east coast games. usually, i've been asleep for just two hours at that time.
whoever asked up above, i'm tritones manager. i'm prolly gonna change the team name if i can, though.
Sep 16, 2007 04:02 pm Man, this Adriane Peterson kid Minnesota drafted is one PHYSICAL runner, he's gonna have a short career, but it'll rock.
Sep 16, 2007 04:54 pm Herb, sorry I'm late on this. Hope you got your position filled. Had a very busy weekend so far and I 'm not even sure I had a full team playing either. I'll have a look at the trade, but I'm already on the bottom and don't know if I can afford to trade away any key players as I have no other higher ranked players at all. And I saw none in the available players list either that I would swap out for. But I'll look and see who your offering.
Sep 17, 2007 05:09 pm And now my defense lost me 3 points I really needed since my other players scored me nothing basically. So I will still probably be on the bottom looking up. Unless my kicker and Santana pull off a miracle tonight.
Sep 17, 2007 05:28 pm Can someone spell out for me, hopefully in one list. Who is who in this league :)
I am Hit Show (terribly funny pun on the Home Made Hit Show and a hard tackling linebacker).
FYI, from a position of experience running a money league. The league works better with less subs and 1 less receiver. It leaves more players in the pool to pick from and makes roster shuffling a skill.
This league has settings that result in ridiculously low scores. In my other league the scores are typically 140-120 in this one they are mostly less than 90. All more fun with the criteria loosened :)
Sep 17, 2007 05:30 pm I am the Drought Dawgs...named optly after the type of summer we had.
Sep 17, 2007 05:38 pm My team is called.... no wait, if you can't guess, you can't play.
Sep 17, 2007 05:39 pm Zek's Decoys should be obvious...
Sep 17, 2007 06:07 pm Hey Noize, I just got your trade proposal rejection.. I don't blame ya.
It's OK, man. I can handle <sniff> rejection...<sniff>
Sep 17, 2007 06:33 pm I handle it every night of my life, ain't nothing the internet can't...oh, never mind, TMI.
Sep 19, 2007 03:21 am i wish someone could explain some things in a bit more detail. i don't understand why, if my one receiver got 70 yards, he only earned three fantasy points. he didn't fumble.
i also bet that trades rarely if ever happen, isn't that so?
i don't even know if this league is playing head to head or just by points, and i don't know what each entails.
grr!
Sep 19, 2007 11:36 am It's head to head. Trades rarely happen. I once traded Peyton Manning for two decent running backs because I had nothing, so they can happen but rarely does anyone want to give up anything.
In this league you get 1 point for every receiving 20 yards so 70yds gets you 3 points.
The points are listed below
Passing Yards (50 yards per point)
Passing Touchdowns (6)
Interceptions (-2)
Rushing Yards (20 yards per point)
Rushing Touchdowns (6)
Reception Yards (20 yards per point)
Reception Touchdowns (6)
Return Touchdowns (6)
2-Point Conversions (2)
Fumbles Lost (-2)
Offensive Fumble Return TD (6)
Field Goals 0-19 Yards (3)
Field Goals 20-29 Yards (3)
Field Goals 30-39 Yards (3)
Field Goals 40-49 Yards (4)
Field Goals 50+ Yards (5)
Point After Attempt Made (1)
Sack (1)
Interception (2)
Fumble Recovery (2)
Touchdown (6)
Safety (2)
Block Kick (2)
Kickoff and Punt Return Touchdowns (0)
Points Allowed 0 points (10)
Points Allowed 1-6 points (7)
Points Allowed 7-13 points (4)
Points Allowed 14-20 points (1)
Points Allowed 21-27 points (0)
Points Allowed 28-34 points (-1)
Points Allowed 35+ points (-4)
Sep 19, 2007 12:22 pm ah, good, thank you for the scoring table.
question though: overall points are being tallied, it looks like, so what exactly does going head to head do as far as the main competition and the overall points? i'm not clear on how head to head works.
Sep 19, 2007 01:54 pm Each week you start the required number of players. Add up all the points they get and you have a total. If that is better than the other teams total then you win.
In the standings, if two teams have the same record then the total number of points (only for starters) decides who is above who.
So right now I am 2-0 but I am 3rd because my starters have scored 127 points but the two above me have a total of 147 and 172
Week 15 the top 8 teams go into the playoffs with each game a single elimination head to head game, winner moves to the next round.
Sep 19, 2007 01:58 pm Now I see the Tritones are you so you are doing fine.
You have a very solid team. I think Winslow is a better starting TE and you only have one backup RB who is currently injured.
What I usually do is look at the projected stats for the week and also the NEWS AND EXPERT ADVICE button which nearer the weekend will give you x out of 5 star ratings for each player based on their opponent etc.
Sep 19, 2007 04:15 pm i benched winslow simply because cleveland had major problems in week one and their qb situation was up in the air. and they were playing cincinnati. i expected cleveland to do poorly last week. i will check out that advice button this week, and thanks for the explanation.
Sep 19, 2007 07:43 pm Tony, I'm the Intimidators.
And ya, I am sucking wind big time right now. I don't have squat for players that are doing anything and my D cost me 3 points in our match up.
And ya Herb, sorry but the story is laid out in black and blue there. I can't afford to even let that slouch go right now.
Sep 21, 2007 09:22 am This was in the News and Notes for one of my wide receivers:
FOXSports.com reports police found a rental car reported stolen was found in the driveway of suspended Cincinnati Bengals WR Chris Henry Wednesday, Sept. 19. He told investigators that his car was stolen in Louisiana and he rented the car from Hertz.
I was thinking of benching this guy, but if we bench all of our players who have legal troubles, there'd be no NFL...
Pretty funny.
Sep 21, 2007 09:43 am if he's suspended, I think i'd bench him :-)
Sep 21, 2007 09:46 am Hey thanks, eagle-eye. I overlooked the word suspended in there. Nice catch.
Sep 21, 2007 09:47 am Yeah Chris Henry is suspended for the first 8 games this season...he's not going to score you any points at least for another 6 weeks.
Sep 23, 2007 07:44 pm Noize, are you the The Intimidators?
You're getting smoked mate!
Sep 24, 2007 12:57 pm Who's Ron Mexico's Dog? Great name.
Sep 24, 2007 12:59 pm Never mind, shepherdsam. Just saw that.
Sep 26, 2007 06:46 pm notice for anyone keeping tabs: the tritones team is now called 'grandpa's thundercane'
Sep 26, 2007 06:47 pm "Who's Ron Mexico's Dog? Great name."
i like that name too. i want it to be ron's mexico dog, though.
Sep 26, 2007 07:25 pm Just a heads-up...a few teams have a bye this week, and so some of your regulars may not be playing. You'll want to go to the bench or maybe pick some other players up off of waivers.
Sep 26, 2007 08:32 pm Yes indeed Bleak, I am getting my a** handed to me and its not on a silver platter either. I just plain got crap for players. Either they are not getting played at all or they just plain suck. Oh well.
Sep 27, 2007 07:07 am Thanks to your crappy team, Noize, my crappy team got its first win!
Sep 27, 2007 07:40 am Hahaha, thanks Herb.
Sep 28, 2007 11:12 pm Ya Jim, everyone will get a win when they play me. I tried scouting for some new players and there isn't crap to be had right now. I had to dump Green (RB) as he is hurt and now it sounds like they don't really know when he'll be back and I can't take any chances.
I believe Herb will be the crushing blow though as it looks like he will beat me by more then I got beat the first week.
Sep 28, 2007 11:26 pm Noize, if a footbally-challenged (do you like that term?) newbie like me can win at fantasy football, anyone can.
Tip: I won't be wearing a cup this week. Aim low.
Sep 29, 2007 09:50 pm Ya, problem is I got crap for players and can't get any picked up that are worth a dang right now. And my only decent other players that aren't injured and may not play this week are all on bye week.
Oct 03, 2007 04:34 am can someone explain trading in a bit more detail? how do you do it? it seems that some are happening, if i'm reading the league page correctly...
i'd like to maybe make a trade. it doesn't seem like trades would ever happen, though, as everyone knows who's good. do peeps ever trade two players for one?
Oct 03, 2007 10:11 am I've never had much success with trades. Yes, you can trade multiple players for one player. That's really the only way to make it work, because (as you say) everyone knows who is good, and they're not going to trade away a good player for a not as good one.
The only other thing is that you can look to see if someone has an abundance of Wide Recievers (for example) and try to trade for one that they don't use.
My best success at switching up the roster has been adding and dumping players off of waivers.
(My team still sucks though.)
Oct 03, 2007 01:04 pm You can't really trade 3 for 1 because of the max roster size. The guy who received the 3 players would first have to cut two others, in which case he might as well have just traded 3-3
I'll be boring and repeat what I've already said.
There is a probably too many teams in this league and it spreads the talent to thin. With this many teams rosters should be much smaller, maybe 1RB, 1WR and 1 RB/WR (choose either), with less reserves.
That, above, would be an example of a guest telling the host what to do :)
Oct 03, 2007 01:07 pm My other league is twelve teams, we drafted 13 rounds I believe, smaller lineups, but the league is much more even than this one is as far as records go...games are closer generally.
Still, this is fine, it does spread it thin, but it's all good.
forty, I have never actually traded before with a signed player, only drafted free agents, which I do frequently.
Oct 03, 2007 06:11 pm what do you mean adding and dumping players off of waivers? i dont even understand the add drop. is there a pool of unused players or something? why are drafted free agents easier to trade? me no understand...
Oct 03, 2007 06:16 pm forty, click the add player button and it will take you to the page were you can search either a certain player type or simply all players. I have the burden of having to forage through them due to many players hurt or just plain sucking wind.
Oct 03, 2007 07:26 pm free agent drafts are easy cuz nobody owns them, they are undrafted players. Click on Add Players and select to see only free agents and the position, it'll then show you the available players, if you want one, click the plus sign, then it'll take you to a screen to select which player of yours you wanna dump for him...
Oct 03, 2007 08:40 pm oh, i see. free agent in the game means they didn't make the draft.
yeah, those peeps don't look very good!
Oct 03, 2007 09:13 pm But sadly it is all we have to choose from forty. I managed to scrounge a couple decent un hurt players for this weekend.
Oct 03, 2007 10:18 pm The trick is to pickup the backups when the starters get hurt
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