This can be the thread where we discuss general fantasy football topics before we all spread out into our seperate FF threads for each league. You can discuss anything here - from your regular league, to who should be the #1 pick this year, to proposing leagues and scoring systems, whatever.
I usually run a lot of NFL-related SDMB threads and leagues and this year will be no different. I plan to continue our invite only/high participation SDMB All-Pro league (last year’s thread) for the third year. Reliable players from last year (I think we had 10 or 11 regular participants) are automatically invited - if we have slots left open I’ll post about it.
We had the auction league for 8 of us last year (thread) which was a lot of fun. The draft was on the slow side but worked well enough. Having learned from the experience, I’m going to break the draft responsibilities up into multiple roles and ask for volunteers to help run it. I was hoping to grow the league a bit this year beyond our 8, so you guys are welcome to join us.
There’s the salary cap league (thread) which was a little different - each player has a dollar value associated with their performance and you fill all your positions with a set amount of salary space trying to get the best value. If your player rises in value, you get to keep him for the low price, so finding sleepers is critical. Since multiple people can own the same players you can have as many players in this one as you want.
Then there are of course the pick 'em and survival leagues (thread). We had 3 pick 'em leagues - straight up, confidence, and spread. I’ll be doing the same again this year.
And if that’s not enough, I plan to give some new stuff a try if there’s interest. We often post the betting lines on games we discuss in the weekly threads, and some people will discuss which bets they like - I figure we can turn that into a competition. We’ll give participants X number of betting units in fictional money, agree on which lines/book to use, and all make our fictional bets and keep track of our totals. We may be able to use wagerline.com for that purpose - they essentially do that very thing… but I’m not sure if they have private league type setups or how that works. Has anyone ever used the service?
I also wanted to try a new kind of FF league of some sort that’s different and challenging in some way. For example - an extreme depth league with 16-20 teams where every team has a significant amount of starting slots so that you might be facing the decision of whether to start Tampa Bay’s third down back or Houston’s 4th receiver in your flex spot. Not sure if we can get 16-20 people interested in that idea though. Or perhaps an efficiency league where you subtract points for every pass/rush attempt/etc thereby rewarding the best per-play performance from players rather than the raw numbers. Or maybe a zero bench league where if you want to switch what starter you have on your roster, you’ll have to cut your current one. I’m open to ideas.
So let’s get this ball rolling. Any FF topic is fair game.
