Veterans FFB?

[Walker]

I don't care which way we do it, and I *think* that I can change it after the season starts.

Having 80% of the teams make the playoffs seems like a bit much though.

Oh, I was just joking. I probably wouldn't make the playoffs if you allowed 10 teams in.

4 teams, 2 weeks is fine with me.

 

[the_bird]

Four seems like too few... but better than eight. Doing anything else requires bye weeks... ugh.

I guess I'd rather have four teams make the playoffs. Think it was two seasons ago, I was kicking ass all year but had one really, REALLY bad week, first week of the playoffs and got beaten by a team that was a lot worse than mine all year. I know, thems the breaks... but I'd rather that the teams making the playoffs are those that have done well all year. Regular season's basically irrelevant if more than half the teams are going to be in, regardless.

 

[the_bird]

How about waiver rules and free agents and stuff after tonights draft? Are we going to have time to make adjustments, post-draft? Are they going to let us pick up free agents before tomorrow night's game? Can we/should we suspend the day-or-two delay for the waiver process, just for this week?

 

[JohnnyO]

Jesus Crispies. I forgot about the draft. And hence, forgot to warn the wife that I would be incommunicado after 8:30. Oh, and I started drinking already. Dammit.

Go Football!

 

[Walker]

FYI: I won't be available for the draft. I coach my son's football team M and W evenings.

Fingers crossed for a good set of auto-picks.

 

[marubozo]

Jesus Crispies. I forgot about the draft. And hence, forgot to warn the wife that I would be incommunicado after 8:30. Oh, and I started drinking already. Dammit.

Go Football!

Hey, you're with me. I forgot to tell my wife I had a draft at 6:45 AND 8:30, and I've been drinking since the first pick of the first draft.

 

[JohnnyO]

Waiting for the draft page to finish loading....

 

[Walker]

logged in RIGHT at the end there. looking over my team now, and wondering why yahoo auto-picked a guy for D that was released from his team last week and has not been picked up by anyone. ?

 

[the_bird]

Last year, one of the defensive players Yahoo! picked for me not only had been cut at the end of camp.... he was out of the league entirely the year before. No idea how they pick individual defensive players; alphabetically by mother's maiden name, some random-number generator... no idea.

EDIT: Two years ago, 2008. Matt Stewart. Round 11 (four picks after Aaron Rodgers). Hasn't played since '06, and even then he only had twenty tackles and one sack (28 tackles/0 sacks in '05). WTF?

 

[the_bird]

You know, I was feeling pretty good about my team, at least relative to what I started with last year.... and then I remembered that we were only ten teams this year and if my team WASN'T better, I was going to be in trouble...

 

[Walker]

damnit.... this is literally the only year I have ever gotten a primo RB in the draft, and Peterson needs to rip things up in the 2nd half tonight.

 

[Bearcat Brewmeister]

Did any player in tonight's game beat their Yahoo projected point total? 23 total points in the game - I thought the loser would have scored at least that many.

 

[Walker]

I can assure you that both the purple D and adrian underperformed. I have Jared Allen as an individual D player in another league, and he got shut down tonight.

sucky evening for me.

 

[the_bird]

Wow. AP didn't break a run for more than fourteen yards, didn't get in the end zone, didn't crack 100 yards.

Walker, I think you should trade him

I almost drafted Jared Allen, I've owned him in previous years but he does tend to either be phenomenal or have nights like last night, where he collects like two individual tackles and nothing else.

 

[marubozo]

Did any player in tonight's game beat their Yahoo projected point total? 23 total points in the game - I thought the loser would have scored at least that many.

I had Pierre Thomas. He exceeded his projected point total by about 3 points. :rockin:

 

[the_bird]

I tell you what, I almost **** my pants yesterday morning. Went into a buddy's office to discuss our fantasy drafts (he'd had two the same day as ours), told him that Brady was my QB...

"Did you hear he got into a car accident?"
"**** you! Don't even joke about that!"

Just imagining what would have happened to that ****er who ran the red light, had Brady gotten seriously injured...

... and of course, the day ends with a contract extension

 

[Walker]

Jay....

another friendly wager for the bengals/patriots game on Sunday?

 

[the_bird]

.... was wondering about that.

Teams seem to be about as evenly matched as they've been in a long while. Whatcha thinking? I can't make any promises about homebrew, the pipelines are a little light but could score some good commercial stuff.

Sixer?

 

[Walker]

Sure... A 6er works. Either homebrew or commercial... Something the other person cannot get themselves.

It's on...

 

[Walker]

by the way... I wasn't tuned in while all of the league set-up stuff was happening, but why are our benches so deep? 7 bench slots?

 

[the_bird]

That's how it was last year, I think. Doesn't leave a lot of options for free agents, even though we're only a ten-team league.

 

[Walker]

ahhhhh.... there's nothing quite like watching your favorite team embarrass themselves for the first half of the game and dig a hole they can't get out of.

Or, getting your ass smoked in both of your fantasy leagues.

Or, having your QB rack up some negative points and then sit out the second half with a concussion.

@&^%

 

[ohiobrewtus]

by the way... I wasn't tuned in while all of the league set-up stuff was happening, but why are our benches so deep? 7 bench slots?

After all the whining and bitching that went on last year about points, roster spots, blah blah blah... It was finally where everyone was happy (last year), so I kept the exact settings for this year.

We still need to address the playoffs. 8 teams in the playoffs in a 10 team league seems silly to me, but majority rules.

 

[Walker]

After all the whining and bitching that went on last year about points, roster spots, blah blah blah... It was finally where everyone was happy (last year), so I kept the exact settings for this year.

Sorry! I didn't mean to come off as bitching and whining. My apologies (I wasn't in this league last year.)

We still need to address the playoffs. 8 teams in the playoffs in a 10 team league seems silly to me, but majority rules.

I agree that 8 teams is too many. 4 teams with a 2 week playoff is find with me. Or 6 teams with a 3-week playoff and the top two getting a bye (like bird suggested) is fine with me.

I'm cool with either of those decisions.

 

[the_bird]

Epic.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Sorry! I didn't mean to come off as bitching and whining. My apologies (I wasn't in this league last year.)

Oh, I know you weren't in it last year..

I agree that 8 teams is too many. 4 teams with a 2 week playoff is find with me. Or 6 teams with a 3-week playoff and the top two getting a bye (like bird suggested) is fine with me.

I'm cool with either of those decisions.

I changed the playoffs to 6 teams in weeks 14, 15 and 16. We've usually avoided week 17 playoffs in the past due to teams sitting star players. The league is trying to curb that this year by having all week 17 games be division games, but I still think it's probably the best way to do it.

 

[Walker]

Epic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeq2_Of3cHU

that was hysterical.

 

[Walker]

who is the manager for Drinkin Dawgz?

You're about to go into the second week and you still don't have a full team on the field.

 

[riverfrontbrewer]

True - DD, you need a D player.

 

[Walker]

Yup... and last week you had Michael Bush in your lineup, and I believe he was out for the game.

Didn't really matter... you still kicked my butt last week, even though you were short a couple of people