# SDMB All-Pro Fantasy Football 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 6, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439 "2018-07-06T22:43:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [August 26, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/21 "2018-08-26T23:48:54Z")
All of these options are good with me. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2018, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/22 "2018-08-27T04:57:05Z")
Did someone who was in the league leave the league? We were at 11/12 before, now 10/12. I’ll try to settle in for a final draft plan tomorrow. I’m simply failing to get anyone new in any fantasy leagues this year - we may end up having to run this league as a 10 man league this year. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/23 "2018-08-27T20:43:30Z")
Alright guys, draft day is almost upon us and I can’t seem to squeeze any more recruits from the SDMB stone. I don’t know what else to do - I’ve advertised to the other leagues, asked some people if they wanted to run in another league, asked people to invite friends, started a recruitment thread - just not happening this year. This is true of the other leagues too. So here’s where we’re at. We’re currently sitting at 10 players. We could run the league at 10 teams this year. Not ideal, but doesn’t really hurt anything. But we’d have to draft on Tuesday. Sir T-cups is one of those 10, and isn’t available Wednesday. And Thursday doesn’t work for a few people in this thread. And it’s too out of the norm to ask people to draft on a weekend or holiday, and the HHM and big leagues take up Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, with Thursday being opening night. But the shitty part of that is that not everyone chimed in if they were available Tuesday, and I’d be changing the draft date to… tomorrow. I was holding out to make that decision because I’d hoped some of my last minute recruiting would work, but this is the best we can do. So I’m going to PM/e-mail everyone to try to confirm that people will be able to attend the draft tomorrow at the normal time. I hope no one thinks this change is sudden or unexpected, as I’ve been asking people for a week whether they’d be available or not on Tuesday. Unless anyone objects because they can’t make Tuesday (at which point we’ll come up with some sort of emergency plan) or has any better ideas, I’m going to PM/e-mail people to confirm the Tuesday at 8:30 draft time. Sorry for all the runaround, doing my best in a tough situation here. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/24 "2018-08-27T21:08:06Z")
No worries dude, everyone recognizes how much effort you put into these leagues. I don’t think its specific to the boards either, in one of my money leagues we had a hell of a time getting a replacement and in previous years we’ve had dudes clamoring to get in. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/25 "2018-08-27T21:13:37Z")
I think maybe fantasy football interest across society peaked somewhere around 8-10 years ago, when everyone was into it, and maybe overextended themselves into too many leagues, and now are looking to cut down some. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/26 "2018-08-28T11:45:25Z")
That shouldnt be a problem. Sorry for being MIA. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/27 "2018-08-28T14:21:54Z")
> [@Ol\_Gaffer](#): > > No worries dude, everyone recognizes how much effort you put into these leagues. This over and over. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/28 "2018-08-28T14:24:06Z")
So my Uverse completely went down over the weekend (no internet or tv) and they won’t be out until tomorrow. I’ll attempt to do the draft on my phone, normally not a big deal but it being an auction will make this more difficult. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/29 "2018-08-28T15:15:56Z")
Thanks for the appreciation guys. Sorry you’re stuck on your phone. Do you maybe have a tablet/laptop (plus phone tether or coffee shop wifi or whatever)? It might be easier. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/30 "2018-08-28T15:46:11Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Thanks for the appreciation guys. > > Sorry you’re stuck on your phone. Do you maybe have a tablet/laptop (plus phone tether or coffee shop wifi or whatever)? It might be easier. I’ll come up with something. Phone works fine, just hard to dig into research on the side. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/31 "2018-08-28T15:47:47Z")
Fair enough and sorry about the timing, just had to scrape together what I could this year. Draft is in about 9 hours. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/32 "2018-08-28T17:03:56Z")
Alright, I’ve been trying this the last few years, with some leagues it works out, some it doesn’t, but I created a persistent discord chat channel for SDMB dynasty leagues. Discord is a social messaging application that can be run right through a web browser and it’s easy to get set up. So if you want to chat (voice or text) during the draft, you can use this channel. But this year I’m also going to leave the channel open throughout the year. I created seperate sub-channels for each of the SDMB leagues. Messages you send on these channels are persistent - when people log in they’ll see everything that has been previously said on that channel. This gives us both a place to talk live during football sundays and to drop little messages whenever we want. I’d encourage you guys to try it tonight at the draft. Even if you don’t have a microphone setup, you could listen to others who have and keep up with the conversation via text. [This link](https://discord.gg/v4snvEM) should be all you need to get set up. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/33 "2018-08-28T20:41:37Z")
So, I’m just double checking here. It’s an auction draft and we have $200 for the entire team/bench? Or just 200 for the starters and bench is an additional 100? I’m thinking it’s the former, but I’m juuuuust making sure ---
**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:** [August 28, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/34 "2018-08-28T22:14:48Z")
Holy shit yahoo added a 15 second to nomination time. Merry Christmas. (Options used to be 30/45/60) Draft in 2 hours. Everyone except RNATB has been on the boards since I made the draft switch announcement. I did e-mail the league the same message I think, but I’ll resend it to him just to be sure he got 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:** [August 29, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/35 "2018-08-29T00:15:02Z")
Draft room is open. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/36 "2018-08-29T02:54:12Z")
Sorry you missed the draft RNATB. I hope the late switch wasn’t what caused it. You had said it was okay with you earlier. But apparently you’re in good shape anyway because your team is on top of the power rankings, which is the projected total points scored from yahoo. Crazy. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/37 "2018-08-29T21:05:33Z")
Also RNATB, you owe Chisquirrel a beer. They prevented you from drafting both Gronk and Kelce. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/38 "2018-09-03T21:10:54Z")
Well, shit. I couldn’t find the thread and I assumed the draft was going to move because the league page kept saying we didn’t have enough teams. This is why I wanted to drop a couple of leagues this year, but I guess the autodraft worked okay. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/39 "2018-09-04T05:18:51Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Also RNATB, you owe Chisquirrel a beer. They prevented you from drafting both Gronk and Kelce. I like Spotted Cow. Or Dragon’s Milk. Or a Belgian dubbel with strong flavors of chocolate and bananas. ---
**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 4, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439/40 "2018-09-04T06:56:27Z")
Does anyone happen to want to play in the [big league](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=859030) this year? We’re up to 17 - I’d at least like to get one more to put us at 18 so we can run a head to head league normally. Draft is on Wednesday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-all-pro-fantasy-football-2018/817439.md?page=3)