Fantasy football

[Gators312]

Perhaps Putin hacked yahoo but pending an investigation, evidently I won by .02 points (yes, the decimal is in the correct place) which is the smallest margin of victory possible.

.02 points. One passing yard. Ba Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha  Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. Sorry, just needed to get that out of my system.

Clearly I shouldn't have underestimated my teams heart.....it is a heart of a stallion. (this is where the Rocky theme starts quietly)

Bell puts up 54(!) points against me? Can we get up off the mat? I think we can...our glove just reached for the bottom rung

Forte leaves the game with an injury a goes <1 point? Don't worry...we've got this....standing 8 count

Stafford Pick 6?  He Runs in the game winner himself! (Theme getting a little louder)

Gano with ice in his veins and 4 FG! A couple of jabs...

Eifert scores twice! (Theme really kicking in now).

Hilton and Sanders explode in the 2nd half! Starting to work the body...

Sunday Night Football.Down Goes Dak! Ding... Ding... Ding

Putin! Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutin! Puuuuuuuuuuuutinnnnnnnnnn!

Clearly my luck still has a little life and I have too much time on my hands.

Just win baby!

Just consider it an early Christmas present that I decided to put on my Gene Smith hat this week and try to show everyone I'm the smartest guy in the room by swapping kickers this week.  Had I kept Sturgis (Gator) instead of Hopkins (herpes riddled deadbeat) it would have been a moot point.  Not luck, just arrogance on my part.  And it even occurred to me -- what am I doing putting a nole on my team -- and I still didn't change it. 

No one to blame by myself.  Overcame injuries all year and rode my workhorse Le'von on a nice winning streak.  Thought I would do one game better than last year's runner up finish but it wasn't to be.

Let's hope for a stat correction to come in late tonight!

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Damn did I get crushed this week.
I may have set a record for most pathetic performance in a semi final. So At least I have that going for me....

It was probably the F'ing Russians.

And I'm back to my regular season dominating form, but it's a game too late.

I'm in the champion$hip$ in the 2 league$ that count for more than bragging right$.

[tufsu1]

Congrats to one of MJ's founders, Steve Congro, for taking home the trophy this year. 

I will note that his Congrotastic team got by the venerable Jack B. More team last week by less than a point for two very frustrating reasons:

1. The Bucs couldn't get even one first down late against Dallas and Zeke Elliott got nearly 20 cheap yards just running out the clock
2.  Jack B. Moore's owner did too much thinking - and started Philip Rivers over Drew Brees.  Brees had back-to-back awful weeks, but outperformed Rivers by more than 20 points (41.36 vs. 20.24).  In fact, Jack B. Moore's bench outscored Congrotastics's bench 87 to 11.

[Steve]

(taking a bow)....

Thanks guys! Enjoyed as always. I noticed thelakelander has been awful quiet in this thread.....

[thelakelander]

Lol, you guys let Congro win? You all suck! Especially, Jack B Moore's pathetic team.

[tufsu1]

Lol, you guys let Congro win? You all suck! Especially, Jack B Moore's pathetic team.

umm...where did the EbonyStud finish again?

[thelakelander]

Lol, you guys let Congro win? You all suck! Especially, Jack B Moore's pathetic team.

umm...where did the EbonyStud finish again?

Would have finished a lot higher if I hadn't lost all my RBs to injury the first half of the 1pm games in week 2. Took me a few weeks to recover but ended up going 6-1 down the stretch and had the same record as Congro when the season ended. All I needed was your lousy team to win in week 13 to move to the six spot and you blew it!

[riverside_mail]

Another fun season. Congrats Steve on your championship.

[Gators312]

Congrats Steve.  I concur, fun season once again.

[Lucasjj]

Howdy Folks! We have moved into the month of August and fantasy football is back on the mind. We will assemble for our 8th season to once again go through the motions of losing at fantasy football, or at least that is my experience. I have sent out invites to everyone who played last year. I used the default email address Yahoo provided. I assume it is whatever you used last year to sign up. If you didn't get your invite, send me a DM with an updated email address. If you are not coming back, let me know so I can work to find a replacement.

More of you need to be like TUFUS1. He signed up immediately. He has the kind of hustle the rest of you should aspire for.

I will look at the calendar and put out more detail on possible draft days/times and keeper deadlines.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

One question on  the keeper, do you lose the round that you drafted the player last year or do you lose one round better?

If it's your first year keeping him, you lose the round he was drafted.

If it's the second year or more you're keeping him, you lose the round of his ADP for the current year.

[thelakelander]

Team Ebony Stud will solidify its position to have its way with the rest of you very soon. 

In recent years, we've gotten away from selecting players who force their reckless abandon for everyday life into the violent game of football. With this in mind, our new president of football operations and now free man, Cecil "The Diesel" Collins, will help bring fear back to this league.

In addition, new coach Clubber Lang and coordinators, Bill Romanowski and Richie Incognito will be assisting in establishing proper gamesmanship on the field and culture in the Team Stud's locker room. With that said, Coach Lang has already issued his prediction for losers lining up against Team Stud on Sundays:



Other than that, have a good time in your race for second place.

[Lucasjj]

Here is the draft order and last year's keeper list.



As NRW said, keeper value is based on where the player was drafted last year, by you or others. If the player was undrafted, they have a 14 round value. If they are being kept for a consecutive year, their value is determined by Yahoo ADP. You can see your year end roster by clicking the "year" drop down under the league name on the Yahoo page and changing it to 2016. You can also see last year's draft results that way. Keepers will need to be in several days before the draft. So we will know that deadline once a draft date is in place.

With that said, week one begins Thursday September 7th. The weekend prior to that is Labor day weekend, which may not work for people. That pushes us back to the 26th or 27th but that leaves a lot open in terms of possible injuries or position battles since games are still being played. Our drafts are typically quick (1 to 2 hours) so doing them on a weekday works. I am flexible, so if anyone has any preferred dates/times due to schedules, let me know.

We haven't gotten together in person in several years. I am down for meeting up somewhere with beer, food and WiFi and doing some drafting whether it is the weekend or weekday.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Clubber Lang? Wow, I am impressed that you may have found someone who talks more trash than NRW.

[JaxAvondale]

I (West Ham United) didn't get an email.