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Hey. It's almost time for us to pretend to draft people who don't know anything about us, then get mad at them, and then gave them get hurt! Woohoo!
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I've renewed the league and set a (tentative) draft date and time of August 26th, Saturday, at 1:00 PM ET.
It's unclear if we'll have 12 or 14 or whatever this season, and some owners have suggested they prefer some configurations enough that they'd play in one but not the other, so please let me know if you want to play ASAP so we can figure things out as quickly as possible.
When replying, please confirm whether you're available for the above time. Bonus points for confirming whether you're available the following day, the 27th, as a backup. If you don't confirm your potential availability for the draft time, you are not confirmed to participate. Every single year people skim this post (even though it's bold, and in red) and fail to do this.
What even is this?
The members on this site play in a fantasy football league. This will be its sixteenth (!) year, and it's a pretty great league. We play with 12-14 teams, and even though there's no money on the line we have a very high retention rate. This league is almost exclusively populated by competitive, engaged owners. I buy the winner a trophy each year (with the caveat that they have to post a photo of themselves with it):
http://www.movieforums.com/community/resize/phpThumb.php?src=/upload/trophy2010_med.jpg&w=600
Can I play?
Maybe. As I said, we have high retention, and some years we only have a slot or two open. This is a Movie Forums league, so heavy preference is given to people who are active on the forums, and this applies even to returning owners. We also give some preference to returning owners, since that kind of continuity is cool, but we lean a little more towards the first criteria. So if you're a regular you stand a decent chance of nabbing a spot. And even if you're kinda in-between, hey, it doesn't hurt to throw your helmet in the ring, provided you can pass concussion protocol after.
How do I sign up?
Just reply in this thread and say you'd like to play, and you'll be considered based on all the stuff I mentioned above. You may or may not get in, but there's no shame in asking! And asking and not getting in one year will be considered the next year as a possible tiebreaker, too.
Interested/Responded:
Holden Pike
TONGO
Wylde
jiraffejustin
seanc
PW
Spaulding
raul
Hey Fred
Sedai
Also, the sooner we confirm the teams, the sooner I can draw randomly for draft slots so people can prepare/mock at their slot.
I was planning on drawing for SLOT choice, again, which is to say if you come up 1st, you get to choose your slot first, and so on. We did this last year and we did it with baseball and everyone seems to like it. Lots of strategy where there previously was none, but literally exactly as fair as before.
Also, you can absolutely trade draft slots if you want, but only if you trade slots for the entire draft (I have no way of trading picks from specific rounds). That said, I think that's probably unnecessary based on the choice option mentioned above, unless someone picks a slot and then regrets it immediately or something.
Yes I'm in.
Saturday 8/26 does not work for me, ill be working. This far out though I will be able to ask for Sunday 8/27 off of work and could attend the draft then.
Wyldesyde19
08-06-23, 02:57 PM
In, and that date works for me.
Hoping to improve on my finish last year.
Sundays are historically very tough for people, including me. If we have multiple conflicts we can take a look but I also hoped giving everyone three weeks notice would be enough to maybe move a shift around, or what have you.
Sundays are historically very tough for people, including me. If we have multiple conflicts we can take a look but I also hoped giving everyone three weeks notice would be enough to maybe move a shift around, or what have you.
Sigh. Well I'll try and see if I can get 8/26 off, but I'm always scheduled on Saturdays. Let's make sure 8/26 is the date that works for everyone before I make the request.
jiraffejustin
08-06-23, 03:32 PM
I'm in
Wyldesyde19
08-06-23, 03:47 PM
I'm in
* Politely points the red bolded part of Yoda’s post along with the rest of the paragraph so Yoda doesn’t have to do it*
I’m game to get back in if there is a spot open.
Draft time works for me.
Powdered Water
08-06-23, 07:34 PM
In please. Draft time is cool with me. I have such a weird schedule now I may end up auto drafting. But we'll see. If I smoke enough meth I may be able to stay awake. Kidding of course... only smoke crack!
only smoke crack!
You know, I missed this.
Captain Spaulding
08-06-23, 08:30 PM
Date/time works for me.
Several people -- Yoda included, IIRC -- expressed interest in last year's thread about switching to an auction draft this season. Although I'd prefer we stick to the standard snake draft, the prospect of an auction draft is intriguing. Should we put it to a league vote once all teams are decided?
I am definitely in for an auction draft, though I usually don't volunteer it or push for it just because I figure no more than a few owners would want to try it. Which I can understand, as it takes like twice as long, at least.
jiraffejustin
08-06-23, 11:22 PM
date/time is fine with me. Would also be interested in an auction draft.
Wyldesyde19
08-06-23, 11:59 PM
I’ll vote no on the auction.
Holden Pike
08-07-23, 02:04 AM
I am good for the draft date and time. Do not like the idea of an auction draft.
Powdered Water
08-07-23, 06:49 AM
Since I'm faced with the prospect of missing the draft I'd say no to the auction. Just because it seems like the sort of thing you really couldn't even do on some kind of auto draft. But if an auto draft is also available in auction form I am down. Especially if the consensus here us to do one. It would just be something new to learn. Can't imagine it would be to hard to learn.
rauldc14
08-07-23, 07:36 AM
I'm in. Sunday would work a lot better though for me. If not, it's a third shift alarm clock scenario unfortunately.
Powdered Water
08-07-23, 08:52 AM
You know, I missed this.
It's a helluva drug brother!
Hey Fredrick
08-07-23, 09:02 AM
I'm in and, as of today, the dates and times are fine for me. Auction, snake, doesn't matter.
Since I'm faced with the prospect of missing the draft I'd say no to the auction. Just because it seems like the sort of thing you really couldn't even do on some kind of auto draft. But if an auto draft is also available in auction form I am down. Especially if the consensus here us to do one. It would just be something new to learn. Can't imagine it would be to hard to learn.
It’s available, but setting money limits would be of great importance. Auto with auction is less than ideal for sure.
I'm in, but will most likely miss the draft, as I am on vacation and out of town from the 26th on. Slight chance I can pop in and out on my phone, but I will be driving, so probably not.
If like half the league can't do the date, then yeah, obviously we'll discuss moving the date. Stand by, I'll see what I can figure out.
I think we might have to look at a week day evening, though. Or something RIGHT before the season, which isn't ideal...
Please don't change it on my account, as I really don't mind having the auto-drafted team! I do the FFB draft more to hang out and shoot the shit with the MoFos these days.
We never change it for one or two people, simply because any day we pick, one or two people miss it (even if they RSVP that they can do it). But if like four or more people can't, which is about where we're at, that's different.
Hm! It seems some will miss Saturday, and some will miss Sunday. Maybe we could think outside the box and try it on a weeknight for the first time, like say a Thursday? Just an idea, any thoughts?
I just suggested that two posts above, as a matter of fact. :)
I think Friday would be the one to shoot for, though, personally.
I just suggested that two posts above, as a matter of fact. :)
I think Friday would be the one to shoot for, though, personally.
Yeah but I say it so much more clearly :D Such is the advantage of low I.Q.s
I was thinking everyones home on a Thursday night, Friday not so much.
Wyldesyde19
08-07-23, 01:51 PM
I currently work nights, but I’m hoping that changes soon. Just interviewed for a position on first shift last week. If need be, I can do Sunday. Or if it needs to be moved to another weekend.
If it is moved to a weekday, I’ll see what I can do to make it.
I could do Sunday the 27th, in the early evening.
Anyone have a conflict there?
Wyldesyde19
08-07-23, 02:15 PM
Not me. Sunday works well
That would work better for me, yes.
Does "work better" mean you'd be able to make it, or does it mean you might not, but it's just more likely?
Does "work better" mean you'd be able to make it, or does it mean you might not, but it's just more likely?
Ill make it.
Was just kidding about the speaking clearly earlier, but it fell flat.
rauldc14
08-07-23, 03:37 PM
Sunday 27th is a guarantee for me
jiraffejustin
08-07-23, 06:14 PM
I am good with whenever, so the 27th works for me.
Holden Pike
08-07-23, 06:25 PM
Sunday is slightly problematic for me. My other league is drafting that day, 2:00pmEST. I can probably make "early evening" work. But Saturday was perfect for me.
Yeah, by early evening I mean at least like 5-6 PM, so you should have time. Assuming you can handle that much hot fantasy football action in one day.
Saturday seems like a conflict for at least a third of the league, so I think that's pretty much out already.
Hey Fredrick
08-08-23, 10:44 AM
Sunday evening would be the best for me
Good for Sunday, the 27th, 6PM ET: Yoda, Hey Fred, justin, raul, TONGO, Wylde
Still confirming? Holden Pike, seanc, Sedai, Powdered Water, Captain Spaulding
That date and time works for me
Good for Sunday, the 27th, 6PM ET: Yoda, Hey Fred, justin, raul, TONGO, Wylde
Still confirming? Holden Pike, seanc, Sedai, Powdered Water, Captain Spaulding
I would just count on me missing the draft, with a slim chance I can jump in from my phone if I am available. As it stands, I just won't know if we will still be out and about or back at the cabin we are staying in, and really, I have no idea what sort of reception I will have, anyway.
Wyldesyde19
08-08-23, 02:02 PM
So we’re just missing Fabulous (Empire)?
Oh, right.
Yeah, seanc, I think you skipped last year? So that's tentative, at least, depending on whether everyone comes back or not. Fabulous.
I'll talk to Adam, too, but he's almost always in.
Oh, right.
Yeah, seanc, I think you skipped last year? So that's tentative, at least, depending on whether everyone comes back or not. Fabulous.
I'll talk to Adam, too, but he's almost always in.
Correct
Captain Spaulding
08-08-23, 02:50 PM
Good for Sunday, the 27th, 6PM ET: Yoda, Hey Fred, justin, raul, TONGO, Wylde
Still confirming? Holden Pike, seanc, Sedai, Powdered Water, Captain Spaulding
Any time that weekend is fine with me.
Holden Pike
08-08-23, 04:24 PM
Yes.
Fabulous
08-08-23, 08:18 PM
Oh, right.
Yeah, seanc, I think you skipped last year? So that's tentative, at least, depending on whether everyone comes back or not. Fabulous.
I'll talk to Adam, too, but he's almost always in.
I won't be taking part this year.
Wyldesyde19
08-08-23, 09:28 PM
Exit Empire, enter Beantown Champs?
Haven't heard from Pete for awhile, kind of assumed he was moving on. seanc I think you're in after all. PM me your email and I'll send the invite.
Wyldesyde19
08-08-23, 11:01 PM
Oh. I thought Sean C was Beantown Champs! My bad
Well my boss wouldn't give me Sunday the 27th off, but scheduled me to leave at 5:45pm. So barring a customer walking up to the window, which would mean I'd have to stay regardless of schedule, I'll be there. Sorry, it's just out of my control.
Holden Pike
08-09-23, 09:07 AM
Ready for another campaign.
88786
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM7cNdvT2bA
Oh. I thought Sean C was Beantown Champs! My bad
Seanc tries to kepp his feelings about beantown sports low key from fear that Cricket may go gangster on him.
Powdered Water
08-09-23, 11:42 AM
Oh sorry, did the day move? I'm good for either day as I'll most likely auto draft. 3pm my time I'll be asleep. I may be able to stay up but that's kinda right in the middle of my night time so I'll probably be passed out. Might be a good thing. I've been pretty mediocre over the years at this game. Perhaps Yahoo will do a better job than I can.
Oh sorry, did the day move? I'm good for either day as I'll most likely auto draft. 3pm my time I'll be asleep. I may be able to stay up but that's kinda right in the middle of my night time so I'll probably be passed out. Might be a good thing. I've been pretty mediocre over the years at this game. Perhaps Yahoo will do a better job than I can.
I'm almost of the same mind, but I'd be loathe for Yahoo to auto draft Jonathan Taylor for me. What a shtuking' I took last year from that pick.
Re: autodrafting. It's not plausible to setup your entire draft, but you can pretty easily rank the first few dozen players, at least, to make sure you get the guys you'd prefer in the first several rounds and avoid injuries or busts or whatever that the ranking system hasn't updated for.
jiraffejustin
08-09-23, 03:42 PM
Every year I set up my draft ranking for the first 125ish spots so if something happens and I have to auto draft for a bit, I at least get what I consider the best available players left on the board. I’m assuming auction is off the table now? I don’t know if you can manually assign dollar values to players so you auto draft based on that or not.
Wyldesyde19
08-09-23, 03:52 PM
Seanc tries to kepp his feelings about beantown sports low key from fear that Cricket may go gangster on him.
So which team was yours? I’m so bad at matching players with their teams.
Every year I set up my draft ranking for the first 125ish spots so if something happens and I have to auto draft for a bit, I at least get what I consider the best available players left on the board. I’m assuming auction is off the table now? I don’t know if you can manually assign dollar values to players so you auto draft based on that or not.
Yeah, several people objected, which, like the draft day conflicts, is enough to scrap it.
Worth bringing up each year but I think we need, like, 10 out of 12 to be on board to make a switch.
So which team was yours? I’m so bad at matching players with their teams.
I didn’t play last year and don’t remember before that. Wide Right is me.
Sean was the Mud Dogs. He played most years, I think, but I think stopped after like 2017.
Sean was the Mud Dogs. He played most years, I think, but I think stopped after like 2017.
Should have guessed that but I have been using that name in another league forever, so didn’t think I used it here too.
Wyldesyde19
08-09-23, 05:51 PM
Ah ok. Yeah, that was before I joined. I was thinking maybe he was Iron City Chuggers or The Paper Curtain. Hadn’t seen them since my first year
No objections to the evening of Sunday the 27th?
I'll give it through the weekend and then draw draft order.
Wyldesyde19
08-11-23, 07:37 PM
No objections to the evening of Sunday the 27th?
I'll give it through the weekend and then draw draft order.
None here. I’m usually home during Sunday nights anyways, since I have work the next day.
No objections to the evening of Sunday the 27th?
I'll give it through the weekend and then draw draft order.
https://youtu.be/Z0YIJQ1jgEI
;)
Order drawn! I'll start sending PMs requesting draft slots. Please reply ASAP. If someone takes a day or more to reply they may be skipped over until they get back to me, since we can't really proceed otherwise.
Wyldesyde19
08-16-23, 05:10 AM
Are we still waiting on some people to reply to your pms?
Im 8th,
Mock 1
Qb J Allen
Wr A Cooper
Wr B Aiyuk
Rb S Barkley
Rb D Henry
Te G Kittle
Flx M Williams
So after getting Barkley and Henry in the 1st and 2nd round, I'm immediately reminded the impossibility that this will happen on draft day. No matter how many mocks I do, I'm always surprised to floored by how different it ends up being for the real thing. Yet I know I'll do those mocks. Why? Boredom, mm not so sure. I think subconsciously I actually enjoy the shock factor come draft day, and the more I try, the greater the shock ;)
Draft order set!
Holden (Love Brokers)
Adam (Whentheleveon)
jiraffejustin (Bustin Justin's Bad Boys)
raul (Titletown)
seanc (Wide Right)
Hey Fred (Parrotheads)
Sedai (Can You Diggs It?)
TONGO (North Dallas TONGO)
Yoda (11 Angry Men)
PW (Return of the Dark Decade)
Spaulding (Censored Clowns
Wylde (Wylde's Wolves)
Holden Pike
08-16-23, 01:38 PM
Wow! I'm number one! I'm number one!
Wow! I'm number one! I'm number one!
Who ya gonna pick?
Wyldesyde19
08-16-23, 09:04 PM
Most public leagues I’ve joined it usually went either Jefferson-Chase-CMC, with some variations in that order. I think one person went with Ekeler 3rd over CMC, and once CMC went first.
I like my spot. Not sure how this season will go, but it would be nice to improve on my 7-7 finish.
Holden Pike
08-22-23, 11:14 AM
Is it Sunday yet? :)
Guess I should start doing some prep, huh?
We're a long ways from 2009 or whatever, where I literally did 50 mocks before the draft.
Holden Pike
08-22-23, 11:30 AM
For the last few years I have done close to a hundred each season. Only done a dozen or so, so far.
Starting one now...
Believe it or not I've done less than 5 so far. Probably because I think I still have a shot at winning the FBB season. If it's mathematically impossible for me to win it then please someone tell me so I stop chasing my tail.
....which could be a ruse to get me to stop trying to win, because I can. Ah Ha! I got you.
Wyldesyde19
08-22-23, 03:44 PM
I’ve done a few over the past week. Pretty happy with who I have been able to grab so far, as it’s almost always the same first four players. This won’t happen in our league, of course.
Powdered Water
08-25-23, 03:05 PM
Draft is here already... I think I mean this. I hope you all get terrible players and yahoo's auto draft gives me the greatest team in the history of sport. Due to inflation I no longer can afford crack so I just don't think I'll be awake to participate in the draft. Have fun everyone and here's to hoping yahoo doesn't draft me 2 defenses and 2 kickers!
Draft is here already... I think I mean this. I hope you all get terrible players and yahoo's auto draft gives me the greatest team in the history of sport. Due to inflation I no longer can afford crack so I just don't think I'll be awake to participate in the draft. Have fun everyone and here's to hoping yahoo doesn't draft me 2 defenses and 2 kickers!
If it does, I hope my two defenses and two kickers are just as good!
There was a year, a few years back, where I did very little prep until right before the draft and ended up winning, so I'm going to decide that's an actual strategy rather than dumb luck/unlikely to repeat.
If I end up with Cooper Kupp, Jonathan Taylor, and Alvin Kamara that means I had to work late and missed the draft.
Oh, and if I end up autodrafting Deshaun Watson ill kick his ass to the curb
. So there
Holden Pike
08-26-23, 01:14 PM
Due to inflation I no longer can afford crack so I just don't think I'll be awake to participate in the draft.
You won't be awake at 3:00 in the afternoon? Aren't you still in Washington?
Tonight's the night bros, 6pm est, be there or beware.
Been doing mocks the past few days. You can definitely tell 12 team is the most popular option, and getting a middle slot in there seems the hardest.
Wyldesyde19
08-27-23, 01:47 PM
Visiting my dad for his birthday in Pa. Which means two hours there, a few hours with him, and then two hours back.
I’ll probably end up drafting a few rounds from the car, provided I can connect.
Holden Pike
08-27-23, 02:03 PM
My other draft is in 57 minutes. We get our order randomly assigned a half hour before it begins.
Holden Pike
08-27-23, 02:10 PM
Been doing mocks the past few days. You can definitely tell 12 team is the most popular option, and getting a middle slot in there seems the hardest.
I love being either first or last. I know you have to wait a hell of a long time between turns but to get your top two choices free and clear each time makes me happy. I hate having to choose between two and then invariably whether I have to wait two or seven turns somebody takes my second choice.
Holden Pike
08-27-23, 02:39 PM
I drew ninth out of ten teams for my other league. We'll see how it goes. See you all around 5:30 in the draft room.
Playing in a softball championship game at we speak so I might end up starting from my phone. Here's hoping I get back in time.
Wyldesyde19
08-27-23, 06:20 PM
Playing in a softball championship game at we speak so I might end up starting from my phone. Here's hoping I get back in time.
Nothing personal but I hope you have horrible service and auto draft Players like Kenyan Drake, James Robinson(both without teams as of today!), Baker Mayfield, and so on…..
Although auto drafting seems to have worked well for others in the past few years…..
😜
rauldc14
08-27-23, 06:45 PM
Playing in a softball championship game at we speak so I might end up starting from my phone. Here's hoping I get back in time.
I imagine you trying to catch a fly ball and draft at the same time.
Powdered Water
08-28-23, 08:08 AM
You won't be awake at 3:00 in the afternoon? Aren't you still in Washington?
I'm working nights now so yeah, daytime stuff is an issue. Probably not gonna do it for much longer tho. I really don't like the schedule but I needed work and it was available quickly.
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