After all the wrangling trying to figure out who I was going to start at RB2, it turns out my RB’s didn’t drop the ball. It was, as usual, my WR’s, and an unexpectedly poor showing from Indy killing Vinatieri’s scoring opportunities. Now I get to hope that Chitown’s porous D can hold Asiata and Thielen to a combined 10 points or less. Yeah, good luck with that.
Close to my lowest score ever in 13 years of playing FF. (I had a score in the 60’s once.) And it’s not looking any better for next week. Granted, in addition to a decimated RB corps I had some pretty crappy matchups this week, but it turned out that they weren’t as bad as expected.
I over-stacked my roster again. I took too many good keeper candidates.
I need to keep David Johnson in the 5th next year, obviously. So that only leaves two slots for: Martavis Bryant in the 12th, who I drafted just to keep next year, Jay Ajayi in the 6th who, unless he was somehow a complete illusion, seems mandatory. Terelle Pryor in the 12th. And Dion Lewis is ready to light up the second half of the season and has keeper eligibility in the 9th next year. And McKinon might be the guy in Minnesota next year, too. I may end up having like 7 worthwhile keepers.
So, since I can’t keep all these players, I’m willing to trade them for a more productive win-now player with no keeper value. So if you want to exchange a guy you took high, who’s good, but not keeper eligible next year, or not worth keeping in the first or whatever, trade him to me for one of my guys that will give you keeper value next year.
Feh. Lost by 0.63. If I’d put Ebron in instead of Clay, I would have won.
So I’m 2-6 and going nowhere. Pretty much everyone on my roster is available if someone wants them to help this year, except Crowell (and I guess Ebron). Of course I’d want keeper potential back.
Obviously the big target is Tom Brady. Alshon Jeffery is also available, as are the rest of my middling WR corps. Can’t imagine anyone wants Mark Ingram at this point.
I should clarify - Tom Brady has both huge win-now value and some keeper value (he can be kept in the 2nd next year). It would take a huge package to get him, but I’ll definitely listen to offers.
I don’t remember what settings this league usually has, but in all my leagues I set the trade deadline to the latest possible date. Yahoo defaults the public one relatively early because they’re concerned with collusion or other malfeasance in public leagues. But obviously that’s not going to be the case for our league. So does anyone object if I bump the trade deadline back 2 weeks?
Okay, so RNATB and I were working on a trade down to the deadline, but now we’re a few hours too late to make the trade to take effect this week. In the leagues I run, I normally do commish approval - the 48 hour trade period is mainly designed for yahoo public leagues to prevent some sort of funky stuff going down like lopsided trades. But since we’re all a friendly, competant, decent group, no one is going to make trades of that nature - and in the other leagues, people trust me as commish to prevent anything funky, so there’s no reason not to do commish approval on trades. They have other benefits like being able to negotiate over the weekend when you have time to get a trade deal done and the latest news regarding injuries and such. But I never actually brought the issue up this year when I took over as commish, I forgot about it and we had other proposals I was focusing on.
If you’ve played in my other leagues, you’d know I try to accomodate these sorts of things when it doesn’t hurt anyone, and I don’t see how this hurts anyone in particular. And we’ve actually had no in-season trades this year, so the lack of it didn’t apparently affect anyone going back But I don’t want you guys to think I’m using my authority to change the rules in my favor.
So does anyone object if I use commish approval for trading like I do in my other leagues, to allow people longer to work out trade deals that are still eligible to go through that week? Obviously everyone else would receive the same benefit for any trade they wanted to do now. I should’ve brought this issue up before the year started.
Alright, so no one objected. I hope that doesn’t seem shady - I’ve been doing that in all my leagues for years now, I just forgot about it in this one until trade talks started. Oddly enough we’ve had no in season trades at all in this league, which unfortunately feels kinda like low participation. In any case, we agreed to this trade 46 hours before the game starts, so we only jumped the default process a little bit.
I give up:
Latavius Murray, Dion Lewis
RNATB gives up
Greg Olsen (and drops Maclin)
He wins the deal in pure value, especially as Lewis is a valuable keeper and the only keeper involved in that trade, but I have a big gaping hole at TE that needed to be filled and I have David Johnson and Jay Ajayi as my starting RBs so I can afford to lose some.
Well, maybe. Murray scored three touchdowns last week but seemed to be on the verge of losing his job the week before that. And Lewis isn’t quite as valuable in this non-PPR format, even assuming he returns to early 2015 Lewis. But I have a rash of RB injuries and didn’t need Olsen, so it works for me.
It’s s my first year here, so I’ll ask: Is it bad form, or otherwise prohibited, for me to leave guys on bye in my lineup? I don’t really want to drop keeper prospects for one-week fill-ins, especially in a year where I’m not going to make a run anyway.
No - I’ve done it. I think one year I even weighted my draft slightly in favor of drafting players heavily from one particular bye week, and fielding a team that barely scored any points that week. This differs dramatically from my team this year, which fields a team that barely scores any points every week.