# First Annual SDMB Fantasy Football Guillotine League - Cecil’s Chopping Block **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [August 6, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749 "2025-08-06T00:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/81 "2025-09-01T16:43:27Z")
If anyone is interested, we have one or maybe two open slots in the He Hate Me keeper league that drafts tomorrow night. PM me for details, or check out the thread! ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/82 "2025-09-01T18:36:16Z")
Interesting analyses, @Hamlet. Enjoyed your thoughts. This is my first guillotine league AND my first auction draft. If I survive two weeks per your prediction, I’ll consider it a success. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/83 "2025-09-02T01:13:08Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Omni-Wan Kenobi > > Best Pick: I love Kenneth Walker at $22, but only if you can get Charbonnet to back him up. Oh, wait. You did that. Great job. > > Worst Pick: Doubling down on injured WRs. Aiyuk and Godwin, while great when healthy, will eat up a much needed roster spot while you wait for them. I will say that the curse of 370 made me ever owning a piece of Saquon an impossibility, let alone spending $69 on him. > > Overall: I’m intrigued. This team has a nice balance of floor and ceiling, and a bunch of upside that could help it make a really deep run. That Saquon Barkley scares me, as does a current God awful WR corp though. I honestly am interested in seeing how this works out. It was a conscious choice. My theory is that loading up on RBs and a rushing QB will keep me away from the guillotine in the early weeks by keeping my floor high. During the season when stud WRs start popping up on the waiver wire as teams get eliminated, I’ll fill that WR hole. Also, I stacked Egbuka and Godwin, and I knew I could stash Godwin and Aiyuk on IR for a grand total of $5. If Saquon falls off hard, well, it was nice knowing you, but I figure if anyone figures out the load management for Saquon it’ll be the Eagles. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/84 "2025-09-02T18:49:38Z")
OK, help out an ignorant fantasy newbie here… I was just looking at the League Transactions. There have been a couple of player moves. Can somebody explain the difference between acquiring a player as a Free Agent vs claiming (and dropping) a player on Waivers? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/85 "2025-09-02T19:04:45Z")
After the draft all the players go on waivers. You can submit a claim (like Omni did for Thornton, with a $0 bid). After waivers clear, you can pick players up at will. It’s first-come, first-served, so if you want someone, go get him. Once a player’s game begins each week, he goes on waivers (so you can’t pick up a breakout player in the middle of his game). All game-induced waiver wire players will have their waiver period expire Tuesday night. At 11:59 pm Tuesday (or whenever it is, I think it might be midnight PDT), Yahoo runs waivers (highest bid wins a player, ties go to a continually rolling priority list). If someone drops someone mid-week, they go on a 1-day waiver. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/86 "2025-09-02T19:50:57Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > You can submit a claim (like Omni did for Thornton, with a $0 bid). OK, so how did Wilson pick up Mason Taylor as a Free Agent? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/87 "2025-09-02T23:24:14Z")
He made the transaction after waivers went through. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/88 "2025-09-02T23:47:24Z")
Plus, he’s a super genius. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/89 "2025-09-03T21:44:08Z")
I hope during the games that yahoo stat tracker shows our team versus whoever the lowest scoring team is, since that’s our real competition. It currently works that way in the web display because Justin has the lowest projected score, and so I think he’s registering as everyone’s opponent. I just hope that also works dynamically during the games too. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/90 "2025-09-03T22:08:46Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > I just hope that also works dynamically during the games too. I certainly agree with this sentiment. I would also hope that whoever is currently in last would be ‘matched’ against the team directly ahead of the last-place team. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/91 "2025-09-04T00:13:39Z")
Knowing enterprise software development, I would bet not. It will come eventually but as this is the first year it’s available on Yahoo they will have probably just reused the existing UIs for the MVP launch. Would love to be proven wrong on that. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/92 "2025-09-04T20:37:18Z")
Heh. Makes me wonder if Yahoo is Agile or Waterfall… ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/93 "2025-09-04T22:27:33Z")
I know that was tongue in cheek, but Yahoo was one of the early advocates for Agile back in the early 2000s. They claim they still are, but considering how far that company has fallen I wouldn’t be surprised if the bloated middle managers insist on 3 year roadmaps and fake “Agile” lip service. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/94 "2025-09-06T13:57:35Z")
Javonte Williams went off, and like 70% of fantasy football owners, I’m kicking myself for leaving him on the bench. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/95 "2025-09-06T14:19:45Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > I’m kicking myself for leaving him on the bench. Yeah, well, I started Xavier Worthy, who left the game after 3 plays. Meanwhile, Keenan Allen languished on my bench, where I left 16.30 points. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/96 "2025-09-06T14:49:20Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Yeah, well, I started Xavier Worthy, who left the game after 3 plays. Meanwhile, Keenan Allen languished on my bench, where I left 16.30 points. Worthy is a heartbreaker. My Dynasty League team is already on life support. But good for Justin Herbert. I think he’ll keep me off the chopping block for now. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/97 "2025-09-08T00:11:58Z")
@Justin_Bailey is currently being led up to the platform where he will be asked to confess his treasons. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/98 "2025-09-08T01:02:30Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > @Justin_Bailey is currently being led up to the platform where he will be asked to confess his treasons He only needs another point to overtake Frosty Snow Joke, who has no active players left. And Baily has Mark Andrews tonight and Jordan Mason tomorrow night. Or am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/99 "2025-09-08T01:02:36Z")
Nvrmnd ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/100 "2025-09-08T01:08:38Z")
No. I misread the standings I should have said @Frosted_Glass. I was more concerned with phrasing my joke than checking my work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749.md?page=6)