# 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:** 6
**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 8, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/101 "2025-09-08T01:41:08Z")
We can still behead Justin Bailey if there are no strong objections ---
**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 8, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/102 "2025-09-08T04:57:51Z")
[I still function!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uXtehH_abRQ) ---
**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 8, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/103 "2025-09-08T17:27:39Z")
Is there a reason we changed the waiver time from 2 days to 1 day? It’s probably not a big deal but with how much strategy will go into the waiver wire I’m not sure it makes sense to cut down the time ---
**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 8, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/104 "2025-09-08T17:40:22Z")
Yes, because 2 days cuts it really close to Thursday games. ---
**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 9, 2025, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/105 "2025-09-09T07:59:03Z")
What the hell? Why did I get chopped? I had 65.82 points and Frosted Glass had 58.52 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 9, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/106 "2025-09-09T09:18:40Z")
Oh good, Yahoo chopping the wrong team appears to be a thing. > **[Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball/comments/1ncdjre/did_anyone_else_have_yahoo_guillotine_league_drop/)** ---
**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 9, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/107 "2025-09-09T12:12:47Z")
Looks like we’re all back to normal. Get outta here, Frosty! ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/108 "2025-09-09T16:01:16Z")
This was fun! I was going to pretend that everything was okay. I was hoping I could wear a @Justin_Bailey disguise next week and no one would notice. Auction draft is definitely the way to go for this league. Snake would have been fine but I feel like we’re more invested with an Auction since you can get chopped right away. I look forward to future seasons of shocking people with my first bid and then getting knocked out before the weather gets cold 😆 ---
**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 9, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/109 "2025-09-09T17:56:14Z")
Handling the FAAB is the part that is fascinating to me. How much should I bid? Should I save most for later to really get the best after people blow their wad early? Who is going for what FAAB? Should be intrresting … ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/110 "2025-09-09T18:43:11Z")
Yeah, I got no clue how much to bid. Part of me just wants to bid $999 for Chase and be done with this thinking stuff for the rest of the year. Narrator: He did not bid $999. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/111 "2025-09-09T18:47:27Z")
Apparently there is an IR spot available, for others who have a star down momentarily. Thank you, George Kittle. ---
**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 9, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/112 "2025-09-09T18:58:07Z")
George Kittle comes with an automatic IR slot when you draft him as that’s where he spends the whole season ---
**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 9, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/113 "2025-09-09T19:08:29Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > I got no clue how much to bid. Good to know I’m not alone. > [@Chisquirrel](#): > > there is an IR spot available The player has to be listed as “out” or “IR” by the team, correct? ---
**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 9, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/114 "2025-09-09T19:52:03Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > How much should I bid? $1. You should bid $1. ---
**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 9, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/115 "2025-09-09T20:26:10Z")
Thanks @Munch. In this dog eat dog/do whatever you can to win world of fantasy football, it’s nice I have someone who will be honest and give me the information I need. Thank heaven I trust you implictly. ::Goes to waiver wire to change bid on Jamarr Chase to $1. ---
**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 9, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/116 "2025-09-09T22:45:57Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > What the hell? Why did I get chopped? > > I had 65.82 points and Frosted Glass had 58.52 points. Now I don’t feel so bad. ---
**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 10, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/117 "2025-09-10T02:32:46Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Handling the FAAB is the part that is fascinating to me. How much should I bid? Should I save most for later to really get the best after people blow their wad early? Who is going for what FAAB? > > Should be intrresting … I’ve got a strategy. I don’t know if it’s a very good strategy. But there’s at least a small bit of logic behind it. ---
**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 10, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/118 "2025-09-10T07:15:20Z")
I’m super curious to see how this waiver wire shakes out but yahoo still processes waivers overnight like they did 30 years ago when they had a UNIVAC in a warehouse somewhere working furiously overnight to process waiver claims across a million leagues. The calculations are so simple that I would think even a desktop PC could do millions of waiver claims processed in like 5 minutes. ---
**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 10, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/119 "2025-09-10T10:36:04Z")
They ran, and that was pretty interesting. It managed to ignore the 2 other claims I had for Warren dropping different players (I had prioritized dropping Rashee Rice first). I’d like to reverse that if there aren’t any objections. Did anyone else with a winning claim get the right drop? ---
**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 10, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/120 "2025-09-10T11:20:11Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > It managed to ignore the 2 other claims I had for Warren dropping different players So if I understand you correctly, you submitted a waiver claim for Jaylen Warren, with Rashee Rice as the player to drop if you won the bid. Then you submitted another waiver claim for Warren, with a different player to drop, and then finally another waiver claim for Warren, with Trevor Lawrence as the player to drop. Is that correct? I won a waiver claim, but I had dropped a player prior to submitting the claim, because I didn’t know what I was doing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749.md?page=7)