Woops, that last post was meant for the dynasty interest list thread.
How do you guys manage fandom across multiple teams?
Back in 2004, I went kinda nuts with the FF and joined like 6 leagues. It ended up being unsatisfying because you own half the damn league by that point and there aren’t many specific players you’re watching.
Over the last few years I’ve done two teams - it seems a reasonable number - sometimes there were conflicts where I was rooting for a guy of mine in one league and yet he was playing against me in the other, but it was reasonable to keep track of.
This year I’ve gone a little nuts and joined 4 leagues, and I’m concerned I may end up diluting the experience.
Having access to live scoring may change that - I’ll have my ipod touch with me at the sports bar and I can see in real time what’s happening. I can then look at my closest, most important games and pay attention to those players I suppose.
What do you guys think about the issue?
I just keep the two separate. On Sunday afternoon I don’t pay much attention to my teams. For Sunday and Monday nights, however, I’ll have checked my teams and should have just a handful of players to root for and against.
But generally fantasy football is something I do Tuesday-Saturday.
Ah, but the whole point IMO is the enjoyment it adds to watching all the games Sunday. Well, not the whole point, but a big part.
The other part, of course, is beating Jules Asner like 9 times a season.
I am in 5 this season - mostly yours (:D) - and I have already determined that I will be rooting for my players in my longtime college league and the HHM league first, then for others in order of how well i’m doing in each league.
I’m with VarlosZ on this one. I used to only draft Giants and Jets players so I never had to deal with the conflict of interest you describe, but the New York teams don’t generally field enough talent in any given year to win a FF league.
Nowadays I pretty much ignore FF on Sundays while watching the games. Understand that I’m in a unique position in that I watch home teams play all Sunday afternoon. Usually it’s Giants at 1:00pm and Jets at 4:15pm, so I need no external juice to keep the games I watch meaningful. Though I admit I will check the FF leagues to make the SNF and MNF games meaningful.
I used to bet on NFL games every week, using the exact same guidelines as I fake wagered here in various SDMB threads over the years. It certainly helped get me through the lean years of the 90s when the Giants sucked and I hated the Jets, but I think it also derailed my fandom of the Giants quite a bit. I rarely kept up with Big Blue during the offseason, and even sometimes watched other games instead of the Giants if I had money riding on the other game.
Nowadays I have my priorities more in line, where only my beloved NY teams matter on Sundays. Fantasy is a fun diversion for the rest of the week, but that’s it. That’s one of the reasons I’m such a huge proponent of waiver wire systems that prevent “closest to the computer” races during Sunday games.
I will probably do 3 or 4 leagues this year. I’m already in the big league and put in an interest in the dynasty league. I’m not sure if my old job’s league is going to be reactivated this year and if I’ll be allowed to continue as an honorary owner. I’m also probably going to try to find a PPR league on ESPN.com.
I find managing fantasy football to be the easiest since I"m not dealing with many weekday games. I’m backing down on the number of fantasy baseball teams I manage next year as 5 has been too many for me to handle without being able to access at work.
I don’t cheer for my fantasy players on Sundays, I’m an Arizona Cardinals fan on Sunday. Once I’ve set my lineup, I"ll follow on ESPN’s live scoring if I’m at home, but most of my attention is on the Cardinals. During the week, especially Saturdays, I"ll pay attention to my fantasy teams.
Hmm, I came across an interesting idea for a league that I hadn’t considered before:
Survivor Leagues can utilize any type of draft, however, they usually use a standard or auction type. Systems of scoring can vary as well, but what makes a survivor league unique is that the team scoring the least amount of points in a particular week is eliminated for the remainder of the season.
So in essence, on a weekly basis all a fantasy owner needs to do is avoid having the lowest score of all teams in the league. Of course, as the weeks go by and the number of teams drop, it becomes increasingly difficult to do just that.
The last team remaining after all others have been booted is the survivor and is crowned league champion.
I guess in that case the ideal would be a 17 owner league where one owner gets eliminated each week for 16 weeks? I don’t think they let you do a live draft with an odd number of owners, though, so either 16 or 18.
What happens to the roster of eliminated owners? Do they drop all their players into the free agency pool or are those players just off limits going forward?
It didn’t elaborate any more than that on the page, but I think having the players go up for waivers whenever a team is eliminated would be a mess. Makes more sense just to have them keep their rosters but become inactive. Or even active, and they can keep scoring just to see how they’d do, but on the official results list they’d be eliminated in whatever week they were the lowest scored. Sounds like it could be interesting.
We have pre-draft trading of draft picks available in the all pro and league this year. I was wondering - is it bad form to send out multiple offers at the same time and take the best one?
I’ve sent out a few offers in one of the leagues involving the same picks, and I realize now it may annoy someone if they reply “sure, I’ll make that trade” and I say “oh, sorry, the other guy accepted my offer and I like that deal better”. Is that bad form on my part?
The alternative is asking people one by one and waiting for their reply, which given that some people don’t check their PMs/e-mail on too regular a basis may mean it takes days for me to make the offer to multiple people if I’m turned down.
The most polite thing to do is to say that you are offering the same player(s) to other teams, and inform them quickly if you decide to take a different offer.
Sorry to spam, but we’re hoping to get one more Doper into this year’s NFL 1-On-1 Pool. Sort of “best of version” of pick 'em pools and fantasy football.
We’re restructuring this season to put particular people into particular divisions, and we currently have only three people in the SDMB division. One more would fill things out nicely, if anyone wants to take a shot. E-mail address is on the site.
This is how I do it in the HHM league. Just be sure to notify people if the picks you offered them are also offered in other deals. I’ve always included a note that my offers are on a first come first serve basis, so if they like the deal they should accept it sooner rather than later. Helps to speed up response.
And yeah, when I send out offers for just picks I usually send out a half dozen or so involving the same picks.
Ok, let’s talk some draft strategy. Who do you think will have a better year, Steven Jackson or LT? LT’s 30, has had some injuries and is on a good team. Jackson is only 25 (I think,) has had some injuries, is on a bad team, but will be the focus of the offense.
ETA: I’m looking at spot 6 in a 10 team draft. There are other options too, but these guys intrigue me.
I have no idea what to do with LT this season. He’s at the age where RBs usually really slow down, but he’s also a freak out nature who puts in a crazy amount of effort into his training to stay the best.
I’m way down on Tomlinson. Not that I’m particularly high on Jackson either, though. In fact, I’m not really high on any RBs, so I’m at a crossroads when it comes to draft strategy. Normally I like to take three feature backs in my first three rounds, but in the past couple years weak WRs and QBs have really killed me. For the first time I’m considering de-emphasizing RBs at the top of the draft and looking at QBs and WRs as more consistent point machines.
I know the dropoff on QBs isn’t as large as with RBs, but after last year’s draft (Joseph Addai?!) I’m gunshy about investing such a high pick on a stud RB which is almost by definition less of a lock than a stud QB or stud WR.
I haven’t made up my mind yet. More than likely I’ll adopt different strategies in different leagues depending on how the respective live drafts end up shaking out.
I got burned by Addai in the first round last year too. If you took Fitzgerald with your first pick I think you could get a Ryan Grant-type in Round 2 and not have that much of a drop-off. I’m not sold on Jones-Drew as a top-4 guy either, but that’s where he’s going almost every place I’ve seen.
LT all the way. Jackson has had one big year and has been ready to have that second big year for three (four) straight seasons.
His upside is higher, but his downside is much lower.
ETA: Fitzgerald is hugely overrated. His success depends on the health of a 40-year-old quarterback who has had durability issues almost his entire career. SY, getting a #1 back isn’t the issue- it’s getting a #2 back. If you take your #1 wideout before your #2 tailback, you’re virtually assured of getting a time-share guy.
I’m not sure I can remember a season in which there was as much debate and uncertainty about the order of the 2-6 picks. After AP there’s a ton of guys who could easily be argued the 2nd best RB and some people’s 2nd guy might be 6th, 7th or worse on another person’s board. Consider that conventional wisdom is shifting towards valuing QBs and WRs in the middle of the first round and you could have some peoples 2nd ranked player out of other peoples first round. It’s nuts.