It's my fantasy

[Kermit]

I realize that sports talk is generally "Dugg Down" here... but I'd just like to say that our fantasy football draft is in 4 days and it's a great excuse to get together with the boyz, drink, play cards and bullshit.

And if you are one of the people here that is in our league, your team sucks.

See you Saturday.

[Fitty]

fal, tai and I think a few others have fantasy football teams.

[Tai]

*sigh* you bastards have a league and didn't tell me?

My draft is Sunday and I haven't even looked at the lists yet - see how easy it would be to beat me?

[Snake]

Get Marion Barber the 3rd, touchdown machine.

[LogRoller]

i'm in three leagues. i predict total disaster for all of them.

[jenn68]

My husband's draft is the same day as our son's christening - somehow I was supposed to remember that's it's every Labor Day... Anyway, I have him until 2 ... & at least it's not at our house this year....

[Kermit]

*sigh* you bastards have a league and didn't tell me?

There is no Bastard's league official or otherwise as far as I know, but that could always change...

Specifically, the league that I'm in (and was referring to) is made up of old high school and college buddies and we get together at our Alma mater to drink and play cards. Orion and Sperril are in it. I don't think any of the Cartel that live outside of Milwaukee would know any of the other guys.

[Tai]

Is there interest in a Bastard League? I guess 8 would be the minimum although six might work for shits and giggles...?

[Tick]

I'd do a Bastards league. I'm in a league with my brother and some friends, this is our 5th or 6th season, I forget...we're having our 3rd annual live draft Sunday, and this is our first year allowing keepers (you get to hold up to 3 players from your previous year, and sacrifice picks 1, 2, and 3 in order to keep them). I'm hoping to spend some time tonight getting myself ready for it.

[Falhawk]

I'd play

[Kermit]

I'm not seeing anyone stepping forward to commish this thing. I can do it but I'll need some quick input. I know Yahoo used to have a free site.. does anyone have a preference for the site?

Otherwise I'll keep it simple. A very basic league, team D's, no keepers, no cash (pride in winning has to be enough). Here's a list of the interested:
-Falhawk
-Tick
-Tai
-Kermit
-Loggy?
-Snake?
-Fitty?
-Orion (he's on vacation but I can twist his arm, he'll say yes, but it will take some sort of farm machinery to fit around the forearm)

I'd say we'd need 6 minimum, 8-10 is prefered, and we need some sort of penalty for failing to update your roster. Maybe requiring the guilty party to take a picture of themselves eating a generic Pop-Tart?

We would also need to get our butts moving on a draft. The first games are only 2 weeks away.

[LogRoller]

i would like to do this, but i don't think i can manage yet another team. count me out this year, i think.

[Kermit]

It's just for fun, but this is the open invite. Feel free to jump in (http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/TheMartians).

The password is "volleyball".

I'll give everyone till Monday to get all signed up. Then I'll have my co-worker/brother-in-law draw names out of a hat for draft order (it's fair because he really doesn't like me all that much) and we'll make a new thread here for draft picks.

[Tai]

The link doesn't work for me :( I'll try to find it through the regular interface....

[Tai]

oh, we need the ID#, not the name to find it.

[Kermit]

Hmmm that's kind of crappy. Try this (http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/554421).

The league id should be 554421

[Tai]

The link still didn't work but I got in via the Join Custom League route using the ID#. :thumbup:

[Falhawk]

gah yahoo!

blarg, their fantasy fotoball software is unbearable

[Tai]

You like to complain a lot, don't you? I'm good with it Kermit, no fears.

[Kermit]

I'm not seeing anyone stepping forward to commish this thing. I can do it but I'll need some quick input. I know Yahoo used to have a free site.. does anyone have a preference for the site?

I am still WAY open to suggestions.

[Falhawk]

CBS has the best I've seen

[Tai]

I'm fine with any, as long as we get cracking so that I can pressure everyone into signing up.

[Falhawk]

You like to complain a lot, don't you?

no, not really

[Orion]

I'm in. signed up as the waterboys. I'm still on vacation, but found a local bar with wifi. I'll be in Point for the draft this weekend and online some then, too.

[Kermit]

I started a league on CBS's site just to reserve the name... we can argue later about which one to use.

Edit: The "Commissioner" (read pay) site looks pretty good, but the free one does not have much for changeable options.

[Tai]

I started a league on CBS's site just to reserve the name... we can argue later about which one to use.

Edit: The "Commissioner" (read pay) site looks pretty good, but the free one does not have much for changeable options.

So we're back to Yahoo, or should I make a sportsline account?

[Falhawk]

ah shit I forgot that cbs' free one is restrictive

ok yahoo it is!


live draft or auto draft?

[Tai]

It says offline draft. I presume that is what the aforementioned "Draft Thread" implies.

[Kermit]

Assuming we get 6-8 persons, I'll come in to work on Monday morning, put all the names in a hat and my brother-in-law will draw them out. If we have enough by Saturday, I'll put them all in a hat and have Sperril draw them out while Orion is standing by watching.


I'll start a new thread with the draft order and we'll each take turns posting our picks. I'll upload them all when we're done. Autodrafts suck. You might as well just have Ned pick a number between 1-8 and whoever gets the closest wins.

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[Tai]

nice tail you got there :) I take it you don't want to try to do the online live draft thing?

[Kermit]

We can try, but it's going to be hard to find a time that everyone can get together for a couple hours straight.

[Tai]

Quite true.

[FoeKilla]

I'm in. And for the first time ever, FoeKilla was not available as a handle. I was completley stumped as to how to proceed... I'd like to assume it was me that registered it at some point, but none of my generic internet passwords managed to work:confused:

[Kermit]

Do they have a password recovery system? Foe just wouldn't be Foe without the Killa.

[Falhawk]

does yahoo support a multiple day draft? i know CBS has an option for it.

that way we could use the draft room to manage players etc

[Tai]

I think it is hardcoded for 60 seconds between picks, I could be wrong.

[Tai]

We had our live draft last night. It is hard coded for 90 seconds per pick. With 8 people in the league, and one person absent it took one hour and five minutes. We all had preranked our lists though, so in most cases it was a matter of comparing your list to who was left and choosing appropriately. And calling the other coaches names when they snagged your desired pick. =P

I think the chat window on their draft app is too small (of course), and it didn't seem to carry over my DB and DL rankings (we play with individual Defensive players), but other than that it went quite well. :)

[Tai]

Looks like we have 6 at the moment. I would think Postal and Q would be signed up too, but it looks like they are scared. ;)

[Tick]

Q only plays fantasy hockey, he doesn't follow football at all, iirc.

[Q]

Tick is correct. Let me know when you guys start a hockey league :p.

[Tai]

Is everyone aboard who is coming aboard? :)

[Falhawk]

a 6 man league is a tad small

we're all going to have powerhouse teams

[Tai]

Well, maybe Loggy will decide he can shoulder a 4th team, and we can twist Postal or Snake or someone to sign up....

[Kermit]

What do you guys think... Should we wait and try for two more, or have the Uber League of 6 superstar teams?

[Tai]

We can't wait long, especially if we are doing the offline draft thing stretching out over days. I would prefer 8 players, but will smash along with 6 if that's what we've got.

[Falhawk]

i'm cool with whatever

[Tai]

Okay, I'm good with your post Kermit (scoring and lineup). Someone wake up Foe and get this thing rolling :)

[Tick]

I'm going to work in less than an hour so I don't think drafting will be very active for me today...hopefully we can get most of it done tomorrow.

[Tai]

I see Foe, Orion and myself are around, but I think Tick is at work again.

[Orion]

Dammit tick, get your priorities straight!

[Falhawk]

I wonder if we'll have the draft finished by the first game.

[Kermit]

If not we can come up with a draft time in the evening to do it live and finish it up.

[FoeKilla]

tell me if I understand this correctly.

after the "starters" are fleshed out, we have 6 more rounds to fill up the bench?

If I got it right, we may want consider cutting that to 3 rounds of double picks in the interest of saving some time. If each bench spot gets its own round we're only half way there...

[Kermit]

That might work.

Otherwise, we shouldn't actually need the bench in the first week. Nobody is on byes, and all the preseason games are over, so nobody should be getting hurt.

The first game of the season is this Thursday right?

[Kermit]

Also, just for the record, you do not have to fill up your starters on the first 9 rounds of the draft. You can double, or even triple up on one position and save your last pick for a single kicker or defence or whatever.

Point being... Can we finish this thing out on Wed night or should we start doing doubles or just ride it out?

[Tai]

If we are going to push it I need a headsup, I might not be near a computer wed night.

[Falhawk]

i can do either tonight (tuesday) or tomorrow night (wednesday)

[Tai]

After sleeping on it, I for one would prefer to just ride it out since we will have our starting lines pretty much set.

[Falhawk]

I'm ok with that too as long as we have our starters drafted. There's only one game on thursday and we should have the backups done by sunday

[Kermit]

My vote counts for 2 (since I said so) which means the motion carries 4-0-3 (three absentees).

I'll get everyone's drafts-to-date entered in on Thursday and you will be on your own to set your lineup by Thursday night (especially for any of your starters that are playing that night). The rest of your slots will be listed as "empty" and everyone will be responsible for logging in and picking up your pick as a "free agent" after you have posted his name in the official draft thread.

[FoeKilla]

I vote double picks which would mean that Fal is free to steal Orion's last pick as his second.


I am voting this way only becuae I want to thwart Orion*


* not really**


** ok, really

[Tai]

I really do not want to do the double pick thing. it completely screws people over.

[Kermit]

Official-type vote posting:

puddle pirates (Foe) --- 2 picks
Makin Bacon (Kermit) --- 1 pick
Cosmic Hippos (Tai) --- 1 pick
The Spooners (Tick) --- ?????
Waterboys (Orion) --- 1 pick
Cobra Kai (Falhawk) --- 1 pick

The current tally is 4-1-1 in favor of single picks.

Post your vote (or change of vote) and do so quickly please.... Tie breaker will be solved by arm-wrestling. (or a coin toss)

[Orion]

single pick

[Tick]

I'm on the single pick bandwagon as well.

[Falhawk]

i don't care really

whatever everyone decides (although I'll have to drop my last pick)

[Tai]

Go drop your last pick, looks like the voting is done. :)

[Tai]

Is everyone picking up their own picks or do you want me to enter them so as not to screw up the waiver order? Vote in the other thread.

I picked up Driver yesterday and it went through today. I figured you had already done enough and it was easier to see available players. I don't care though and will bow to the majority.

[FoeKilla]

call me stupid, but I couldn't figure out how to pick up new players:(

[Kermit]

Stupid*

Click on the "players" tab and then click the green "+" sign next to any available player to add him to her roster.

*I don't really think you are stupid, but I will bow to peer pressure if you tell me to call you just about anything.

[FoeKilla]

thanks

I got it fingered out

[Tai]

Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Let's get down to the serious business of football! :wavey:


Hope you're okay :)

[Kermit]

I just double checked and I cannot add players to your draft any longer. I'm not sure if it is because the first game already took place or if it's because I started the draft and then "ended" it.

In either case, you are all on your own. Add your picks and edit your lineups... we are less than T-12 hours from kickoff.

[Tai]

Did anyone else get the Onion's Fantasy Football email? This is it: funny email (http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/letter_sample.jpg).

[Tai]

Someone call orion so Foe can depart with a calm mind. :)

Is anyone else using that StatTracker thing? It's a pretty nifty app. I am watching the Patriots kick some booty (in addition to being a Massachusetts boy (old man?) I have 5 of their players plus their D among my two teams :) ).

[Tai]

Hey, Foe, do you want to send someone your ranking list so that we can make sure you get your preferred choices?

[FoeKilla]

I'll do that if I find time between packing and loading

[Tai]

K, best of luck the next 4 weeks.

[FoeKilla]

my wish list for my remaining picks...

I'd like a defense, 2 wide receivers, and 1 running back, in that order

all picks in order of preference:
DEF: Jacksonville
DEF: Pittsburg
DEF: Carolina

WR: Andre Johnson
WR: Chris Chambers
WR: Randy Moss
WR: Laveranues Coles
WR: Deion Branch

RB: Ahman Green
RB: Caddilac Williams
RB: Marion Barber III
RB: Jamal Lewis
RB: DeAngelo Williams

[Tai]

Coach Tai wishes Foe a safe journey, but regrets to inform him that the puddle pirates are going to go 0-2 this week. Check out the Cosmic Hippo cheerleaders!

http://www.againsttheherd.com/images/sigs/yahoo.jpg

[Tai]

I'm not sure what happened, Kermit logged in, but didn't make his pick. What time do you leave for work today Tick? Does anyone want to try to finish this thing off tonight?

[Tick]

Tai, it's your pick. O picked for Foe, who's away.

Also, I have no work today, but will be out from 6 to 9 or so.

[Tai]

Tai, it's your pick. O picked for Foe, who's away.

Also, I have no work today, but will be out from 6 to 9 or so.

Kermit goes after Foe, not me. :bg:You need more sleep grasshopper.

[Kermit]

I logged in, but didn't have time to make a pick... I'll do it now.

It's been a busy couple of days. I'll explain later..... maybe.

[Tai]

I logged in, but didn't have time to make a pick... I'll do it now.

It's been a busy couple of days. I'll explain later..... maybe.

It's all good, I'm not going anywhere :) I hope everything is okay.

[Kermit]

Everything is fine. We were caring for my brother-in-law and the family dog for the last 10 days while my In-laws were in Germany. My brother-in-law is a great kid, but a lot of work to look after. We officially dropped him off at home last night.

Also, we've been busy at work. Not hellishly hectic, but busy.

[FoeKilla]

yay me!

[Tai]

Congrats Foe! :) And Fal and Tick for their second and third place wins. :)

My other league has one more week to go, and I'm in the Superbowl against my arch nemesis of 7 years. Everyone hope the Patriots have a monster game and don't sit Brady and Moss and Welker at the half?

[Tick]

This sort of makes up for my going 1 and 13 in my more serious fantasy football league.