Off the top of my head we’re missing Meek, John Corrado, Jarbaby and Lady Ice from last year. I know that at least one of these was signed up, another was interested to play but didn’t want to play in Sandbox and I think the other one or two may have come in after the league had filled. If this bump doesn’t help I’ll check and help to e-mail whoever hasn’t yet come over from the Sandbox league.
Munch, do you actually live in Shelbyville or is that a sly Simpson’s reference?
Of course, “JCWhite” is the real-life alias for the rock also known as Pantellerite.
Indeed, Pantellerite.
Shibb, it’s just a sly Simpsons reference. Mainly because I can’t spell “Albequerque”. But there is a Shelbyville nearby Indy.
I joined Munch’s football league. I didn’t have any success in the Yahoo baseball, so maybe I’ll have more luck here.
From Gazoo, on another board:
“I’ll have to stop over at the SDMB this weekend so I can get in on a league (maybe - I’m in 6 already this year), or the pick 'em (for sure). Tell everyone Gazoo says ‘Hi’ and will be stopping in soon.”
Have a good weekend everybody. Let’s try to set a date before Labor Day weekend, just in case anyone’s going on vacation.
Hey folks…thanks to mouthbreather I’m back. I’d like to be in the pick 'em. Where’s Omni? I have a big…ok HUGE…pick 'em pool going. It’s almost a pyramid thing, but we’re trying to make it bigger.
Basically, you can get a free entry for recruiting 10 people. $1 off the entry for every person you recruit.
If interested, just respond to the thread. (or e-mail bigbeagle@core.com )
No predictions this year as I’m in 5 fantasy leagues (10 teams, 12 teams, 14 teams, 14 teams, and 32 TEAMS!).
I need to find a way to make some serious jing from fantasy football. I really have no reason knowing Leonard Henry’s name…
I’ll start a thread later on good sleepers for you all.
Are there any spots left? My league went kaput after NFL.com wanted money for their formerly free service (my friends are cheap) so I have time to devote, now…
I’ll lurk around and check back.
Looks like I left a couple things off of my list of preferences. Just to keep it unambiguously unanimous:
Playoff weeks, NO
Reception pts, NO.
er, Playoff Weeks, 2.
How embarassing. I’ll just say that my brain works faster than my fingers and hope people buy it.
That’s okay, Spiritus, we don’t expect you to be involved in the playoff weeks.
Ooooo – how sharper than a ShobbOleth’s tooth. . .
Let the smack begin!
[sub]Also, let teh draft date be set, please.[/sub]
spits and adjusts extra large cup
I had to return for football season folks. And the fact that I’m currently unemployed helps, although a good chunk of my workday last year went to football related stuff…might explain why I got laid off…nah.
Gazoo, I’m definately in for whatever you are setting up. I haven’t had the chance to read up on all the current football threads yet, so I’m not sure where I’d be wanted or needed. Needless to say though, that I’m in on everything I can find.
Gotta tell you that I’m gonna really miss your predictions. I figure that I’ll be doing my Pick 5 league again this year, and since I’m pretty wide open on my free time, I’ll probably keep doing my little babble about my picks weekly. Perhaps I can get threads going each week and you (and anyone else interested) could follow up with something brief (or not so brief). The group predictions were a good time.
I’m sure you all have noticed that I snuck into the yahoo league, and there’s quite a few names I remember whipping last season. Good times. Currently I see 11 teams signed up.
Its late, so I’m not gonna post too much more. But I’ll be sure to stay in the loop this week, and offer my opinions on the league’s stats and other threads out there., welcome or not ;).
Good to be back and have football to obsess about.
Alright, who is Team Og? That’s the best name ever.
Three Angels and Three Messages*
Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, and he had an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language, and people, Yea even those who dared join the SDMB Fantasy Football league. He declared in a loud voice: "Fear Og and give him glory, because the football season of his judgment has arrived, and worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water, who also is, on occasion, called as **Hamlet**.
A second angel followed the first, declaring: "Fallen, fallen are the Fighting Ferrets, last year's victor. **Milo** had Marshall Faulk and a modicum of talent, but rather an injury to the Edge won him the season, and he drinks of the wine of Fate's immoral passion."
A third angel followed the first two, declaring in a loud voice: "If anyone doubts the power and abilities of Hamlet, they shall bear the the mark on his forehead or his hand in bright Fushia "I got my ass kicked by Hamlet and all I got was this lousy Mark of the Beast. Those who dare challenge Hamlet will also drink of the wine of Og's anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb.
OG SMASH!!!
Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this:
‘Blessed are the Fantasy Footballers in the SDMB league, for they shall see the glory of Hamlet."
*[sub]with apologies to St. John[/sub]
Damn, man – that’s a class smack.
It won’t stop me from whippin’ Og’s wish-fulfillment butt from here to materialist epistemology, but I’ll feel a tinge of regret before wiping the residue of your flaming letters off my boot.
Okay, it looks like there was some confusion with some new people that signed up who are looking for the predrafting area. I think with 12 teams (and room for 2 more), organizing us is going to be tough for a live draft. So, we’re left with the following options:
Live Draft, Off Site
Positives: most mock draft sites have a 12 hour clock per pick which would allow everyone to have an opportunity to draft
Minus: can’t find a mock draft site, AIM/ICQ could be hard to organize
Antsports dropped their mock draft as expected, so if there are any alternatives down that route, throw them in the ring.
Live Draft, On Yahoo
Positives: predrafting, its live
Negatives: ?
Probably our best bet. There are limited times, which I’ve outlined below. All times are Pacific time, so plan accordingly. The bonus of doing it through Yahoo is that we can predraft, so those unable to attend will have some modicum by which to rank their players.
Early AM: 6:00-9:00 (Pacific)
Morning: 9:00-noon (Pacific)
Afternoon: noon-3:00 (Pacific)
Late Aft: 3:00-6:00 (Pacific)
Evening: 6:00-9:00 (Pacific)
8/24: all
8/25: early, morning, afternoon
8/26-9/2: all
I’ve currently signed us up for 8/30 at 7:10 Eastern Daylight Time. I have no idea why they translated it to EDT, or how to convert that over to your local times, as I live in Indiana, the land time forgot. This time is changeable, I did it to allow everyone to put in a predraft list if they want.
Auto Draft, by Yahoo
Positives: instantaneous, would be fair to those who can’t get on the live draft
Negatives: You could possibly draft 8 QBs, would be less fair to those dedicated to get on the live draft
Have Munch Pick Players Out of a Hat
Positives: No predrafting
Negatives: How the hell did Munch get Faulk, Garcia, Harrison and Ahman Green?
I don’t really recommend this one…
Munch, I am fine with your option 2 at the time you have now.
Hamlet, I am pretty sure that I had Faulk last season. But lost out in the playoffs, regardless, since my opponent had a stellar day and most of my studs were no-shows. I think that Terrell Owens and Terry Holt both went batshit on the same day, IIRC. But otherwise a fine and literary smack-down in your own particularly dramatic idiom.
It really comes down to a matter of interpretation of the original Lombardist translation found in the now infamous “Picky, Picky Scrolls” which were found in 1546, in a cave outside of Green Bay. The original term “fntsystd” was interpreted by most most scholars as “Marshall Faulk.” However, as you so rightly point out, the more proper interpretation is “Whoever the hell he had that made him so damn lucky,” which, incidentally, was the translation originally proposed by St. KissMy from Assisi at the turn of the century.
And I left out the final passage:
And naught but WOE shall come to the Talentless Scythers (or in some translations, the Unskilled Hacks), who is the Destroyer of Humor, the Retentive Devourer of Jokes; for he shall face a fate most terrible. Most likely involving pudding and Carrottop, but we’re not really sure.
I had Owens, Shib (he was my one constant performer). You must be thinking of somebody else, cuz I missed the playoffs on a tiebreaker.