Fantasy Football
 

anyone here play?

If so..who are your top five prospects do you have on your list?

Who are your sleepers?

Who do you think everyone will pick up that will be a bust?

We should totally start a GC League if there's not one already.

That would be great -- I'm in! My husband and I used to participate in a league but haven't for the past 3 years or so; I miss it!

We typically have had one the past couple of years (at least)...since I saw that you could create a league, I signed up for a GC league.

Details:
Yahoo! League ID #: 84395
password: greekchat

Specifics:
** Live online draft this year: Aug. 11 at 10 am (U.S. West Coast time) - we can change this if it doesn't work for most of you

** Right now, there's openings for 6 more individuals - we can either open it to more, or create additional leagues, depending on interest

** This should be fun! :)

is it on yahoo? if so....let me know so I can join

Yes, it's on Yahoo (I'll go back and fix the "original" post of information)

The Chicago Zoob Turtles are in again. :D

The Yuccaneers are in the league...beware... :) Anyone know the history behind the name?

The Moors Redeux

Any additional players want in on the action?

Current players, if you haven't checked the league site recently, please check it - I've posted a note on there to ask for some input from each of you :)

I have a question about drafting...do we all have to do live draft, or can I opt out and choose auto draft? I'm not really around the computer much during non-business hours, so I don't know that I could commit to a live draft.

if you dont plan on partaking in the draft then set your auto ranking and the computer will do it for you...the only minus is, you may not get all the players you want.

Yeah we did auto draft in the past, but I didn't know if everyone had to do it, or if some could do live and some could do auto. Yahoo lets you rank who you want and they try to base your auto draft off of that...I'll just take my chances.

I've never been the "commissioner" for anything like this before, so I'm not sure how it works - I know the last few years we did auto draft, and not everyone was happy with it and wanted to try live draft.

Would an afternoon time for the draft work better for everyone? That way if you're typically on the computer around work time, you can still participate, and others who have some flexibility in their schedules to be on the computer could participate, as well?

I'm just trying to throw out options here :)

polarpi...I run at least 4 leagues a year...if you need advice, you can IM me later and we can discuss...for now...what you can do is:

1. set your draft time and make sure it's agreeable...so far I like when u have it set up

2. Set your draft rankings (random or ordered)

3. check your stat settings...which is what we can discuss also

I can't do a draft from work. Weekend afternoons are okay, just not weekday afternoons.

I did a live draft in the Yahoo league I commish last year. Not everyone was able to make it so the computer picked for those who weren't there based on their player rankings and who was available.

yeah...if u gonna do a draft and u gonna do it live, u have to do it on weekends...

You are college educated, could you please use whole words and not net or leet speak.

I don't understand why it would be to much harder to add two additional letters, especially for "you".

ms gwyn...when you are in a position to feed, finance and F**k me, or I am paying you as my English teacher...then you can tell me how to post....otherwise step off...if it bugs u that much....turn the channel...trust it's not that difficult.

What next...u gonna do spell check on my siggy????

I'm not going to get in a war with you, your reply tells me the type of person that you are, which is an idiot.

Proper English shouldn't be all that difficult for a college educated individual.

I am not the greatest speller and I sometimes have difficulty with grammar, but at least I make an effort....

edited to add:
Honey....TRUST, I wouldn't fuck you, finance you or teach you....you don't have the skills nor the paper

Nobody asked you about your grammatical efforts so who the hell are you to question me about my post??

Last I checked I wasn't in school anymore either... I do have a job and one of the things I DON'T get paid to do is to go behind each and every last post to see if 'idiots' are crossing thier "T"s and dotting thier "I"s...and proper English is from England.


*** Listen....it's the sound of the SPELL CHECK PO' PO'....RUNNNNNNN!!!.....HIDE YOUR RUN ON SENTENCES!!!!!! ***

You wanna advise me about my grammar...u can be my sex and song advisor...whenever I need some f**kin' advice on a post...I'll whistle for you.

TRUST....someone already does a mganificent job already and nowhere near a nag like you are attempting to be Miss Spelling Bee....

You ever thought to yourself that this may have been one of those good times to keep your thoughts about other people's posts to yourself?

Then you wouldn't be here 'warring' with me over words.


since the edit button is your best friend...why don't u use it to delete your posts and we can act like this never happened...

ANYWHO...getting back on point
 

Had 2 drafts over the weekend...here is what my teams are looking like.

1st Team:

QB D McNabb
WR Torry Holt
WR Javon Walker
RB Shawn Alexander
RB Maurice Jones Drew
TE Chris Cooley
WR/RB Carnell Williams
K Jeff WIlkens
DEF - Seattle


2nd Team: (Had a good draft...was 2nd overall)

QB - Matt Hasselbeck
WR - Marvin Harrison
WR - TJ Housmandzedeh
RB - Ladanian Tomlinson
RB - Clinton Portis
TE - Vernon Davis
WR/RB - Plaxico Burress
K - Robbie Gould
DEF - Baltimore

Anyone else do thier drafts yet? Post your results!

*** New Draft Time ***

All right, just because it came to me today, seeing as many of us are preferring a weekend draft, what about either THIS Saturday or sunday (Aug. 4-5), or three weeks later (Aug. 25-26)? I'm unavailable next weekend, and I believe possibly the following weekend as well (and we're coming up soon to the beginning of the season!)

Post here, discuss, whatever - let's just keep it fun! :)

So I just joined the league this evening. Hope that's not a problem.

I'm actually moving (cities and states!) in about 12 hours so it would be *lovely* not to do the draft this weekend. I'll need the time to finish putting the new place together. And I'll be without internet much of Saturday unless it's before noon Central Time. If it must be, it must. Although I'd really love to not have to Autodraft.

And sorry I was so slow at joining the league. Between the Bar Exam and moving places, I've been a little behind on my greekchat checking.

Sunday would be good....

Deadbear, if we all agree to do the draft this weekend and u aren't available, just set your pre draft ranks and the system will draft as proxy for you...just make sure you set it deep so that way you get a good portion of players that u want!



**Looking around for spell check cops**

Any time during the weekend is good for me when it comes to the Draft....

I really enjoy live drafts...this will be fun

Just did my first draft on ESPN and this is what I'm looking like.

Starters
QB - Tom Brady
RB - Willie Parker
RB - Carnell Williams
RB/WR - Warrick Dunn
WR - Torry Holt
WR - Anquan Boldin
TE - Vernon Davis
D/ST - Ravens
K - Neil Rackers

Bench
Matt Leinart
Donte Stallworth
Mike Bell
Mark Clayton
Steelers D/ST
J.P. Losman
Daniel Graham

Quoting myself, but anyways...:)

My conflicts for next weekend changed - does everyone want to keep the original time (Saturday at 11am PDT) or even switch it to next Sunday (the 12th)?

I apologize for the lack of communication - I meant to post this last night and time got away from me :o

The original time works fine for me (and better than the 12th in fact).

If we have an odd number of teams, are you going to make a dummy team? I don't think we can do head-to-head without an even number.

don't do it...I have one more that wants to play...commish if you need the e mail addy I can get it for you!!! Please send her an invite!

Go ahead and send me the address - like I said, if there's more interest than available teams, we can add teams if needed, or start a new league, too.

I forgot to put this in the last message - please let me know by this Thursday (8/9) if you want to do the draft this weekend at the original time or sometime on Sunday. Thanks! :)

I am completely unavailable this Saturday, I'll be at a convention. Sunday may work. Later would be better for me. :D

***Draft Update***

According to Yahoo:
Your live online draft is set for Sat Aug 11 10:00am PDT [ Add to My Calendar ], which is 1 day, 19 hours, and 44 minutes from now (test your system). Please arrive at least 10 minutes early since your draft will start promptly at the assigned time. You can rank your players up until 45 minutes before your draft.

The draft order will be randomly determined approximately 30 minutes before the draft begins.

Your Head-to-Head league will not be able to start the season if it contains an odd number of teams.


Currently, we have 9 teams, so we need at least one more team to play. Deadbear - would a late afternoon time on Sunday work for you, just thinking that way (I think) all players can participate in the live draft.

If it doesn't work, then we may just stick with the normal time, and I apologize for the conflicts :(

Unfortunately, no. On Sunday I'm taking my sister to lunch and to see Wicked, so I will pretty much be unavailable from about 12 noon Central Time on. It's her birthday, so we're also joining our parents and our brothers for dinner. Which means I won't get home until at least 9 PM.

The Saturday time still works well for me.

All right, we're going to keep the normal draft time - so tomorrow at 10am PDT is when the draft begins.

Best of luck!

(DaemonSeid, if you still have someone to play, let me know - or anyone else does, for that matter. We need one more player!)

Quoting to reiterate this fact - if we don't get another player before 9 am (PDT) tomorrow, I'll create a "dummy" team so that we have an even number of teams.

I think if anyone knows of anyone interested, all you have to do is get the league info from the first page of this thread, rather than an email invite - I'm shutting the computer down for the night, but will be up early tomorrow if an email is needed :)

Best of luck to all players!

My team looks tight considering I didnt get to the pc until the 5th round....LOL

Marc Bulger - eeeeehhhh
Masrvin Harrison
Randy Moss
Terry Glenn
LT
Clinton Portis


yeah......


Hey commish...question....why do we have 3 WR slots? most leagues use only 2...

You know, I've always been of the opinion that fantasy football or fantasy baseball (or whatever) was just dungeons and dragons for the people who always thought they were too good to play dungeons and dragons, but secretly always wanted to...

Ummmmm yeah....whatever you want to believe....