Sorry 'bout that SenorBeef…I was still smarting over Ryan Grant’s total lack of inclusion in the Green Bay point explosion.
Court Jesters has an 11 point lead over me with Eli Manning and Tynes still to play. I need to make up that gap with Matt Ryan and Roddy White.
Frosted Lightning needs more than 20 points out of Bradshaw and Henery to beat The Gridbirds.
Isotopes has a 7 point lead and McCoy over Taz’s Nicks and Eagles D
New York Fanboys needs to make up a 13 point gap plus Josh Brown with DeSean Jackson and Michael Turner.
Great Old Ones needs Vick to outscore the Giants D and Tony Gonzalez by 19 points to beat Chitwood.
Lots of close games this week.
I’m rooting against you, of course, but I could also use a big day by Ryan tossing to White and Jones in various leagues. So I hope for lots of successful passes (like White’s touchdown as I type this) but also lots of sacks and interceptions to Ryan to offset.
Rooting for fantasy teams can become extremely specific if you’re in a few leagues.
As it stands now, I need 15.5 points out of Bradshaw to take down The Gridbirds (brianjedi). Charles going down definitely hurt my chances but Britt and Keller had huge games that really helped me out.
On a side note, if anyone is hurting in the QB department and you have starting RB’s to go around, feel free to send an offer my way. I will be browsing through the options later this week or next week. I figure between Cam Newton and Phillip Rivers, there should be some interest in a QB-RB trade.
Wow. I only had a 20 point lead over Eli Manning and Lawrence Tynes, and I figured I was doomed, especially with all the points the Giants had, but since Tynes only scored PATs, and Manning didn’t have to pass in the second half, I squeaked out a 2 point win.
I had I 30 point lead or thereabouts in the Dynasty league and held on comfortably against the Fanboys who were startng Eli, Manningham and Tynes. I was nervous but it worked out surprisingly.
You got your halves reversed. Eli started the game 2 of 11 for 18 yards, then finished the game something like 16 of 18 for 180.
True, but by mid-3rd quarter, they were almost all run, understandably so. I was actually hoping for a field goal rather than a BJ touchdown (or maybe a play action pass).
Hell, if Manning doesn’t underthrow that one pass early in the game, I win.
Fucksticks.
With the adjustments, I lost by 0.60. That’s a tough loss to stomach.
I won’t be at a computer before game time so I have a conditional request to make.
If Hillis is active, I want him in my RB slot. If he’s not, I want Mike Tolbert.
Incidentally, something I’d like to clear up now - the requests can essentially only be things that you’d be able to do yourself if you were at a computer. You can’t, for instance, say that if someone from a 4pm game is inactive, you want to start a certain 1pm player retroactively, because you wouldn’t have had that information yourself if you were around the computer before 1pm. In this case I’m just fulfilling conditional requests for stuff that you could do yourself if you were able to be at the computer at the time.
Currently (at 12:45), you have neither Hillis nor Tolbert in your RB slot. You have Ben Tate there. So I guess it’s Tate and not Tolbert. So you can’t complain if Tolbert goes off and scores a lot.
That’s the problem with conditional requests. When you change your mind about what you actually requested.
I should’ve said something. I saw Hillis was inactive 2 hours before gametime before I left so I made the change. Technically I guess I could be forced to start Tolbert I suppose but Tate was intended.
0.47?? Really? Damn, I hate this game.
All right Taz…it’s down to you and me for the Tidy Bowl. May the least offensive deuce emerge!
Regarding my botched conditional. What happened was that I knew I’d be leaving here early Sunday morning with no computer access, so I said to start Hillis if he’s active, and if not, Tolbert.
I logged on around 10:30am Sunday before I left, and I saw that both Hillis and Arian Foster were out, and I switched Hillis to Tate because of that.
I failed to come on this thread and state my conditional was now invalid and that I’d arranged my roster.
So I screwed up on this one. You could make a case that I could be forced to start Tolbert since my conditional was met (If Hillis is out, and he was, then start Tolbert), or we can recognize that I later changed my mind via actually changing my roster and it slipped my mind. I’m willing to take the lower of the two scores since I screwed up, I just wanted to clarify what happened.
And we have evidence why this conditional thing is a bad idea.
Alright, I’ll just try not to do favors for anyone ever again then.
Your martyr act isn’t compelling. You really did screw the pooch on this one. You can’t make a conditional pick, then change your mind without telling anyone, and then expect everyone to just go along with it.
Were this the keeper league I would have adjusted your roster to your conditional pick, with a reminder that binding decisions are binding.
I don’t really think it’s a big deal, but your snarky response in the previous post bugs me.
The only way there’s a problem here is if you assume I’m untrustworthy and I tried to game the system somehow. I would’ve thought after years of doing this shit without doing anything inappropriate, and even going out of the way to make sure I take the punishment in any controversial situations, I’d have some credibility.
There’s no doubt what my intent was, since after posting my conditional I went in, read the news, and changed my mind. I wouldn’t have switched to Ben Tate if I had intended to abide by my original conditional request. The only way you can read this situation as a problem is if you assumed I did this on purpose to see who did better first, and then tried to claim whatever worked best for me. I fucked up by not clearly stating my intentions, but as to what my actual intentions were, we know for sure, unless you assume I’m lying.
Besides that, I go out of my way to try to make our leagues as well run as possible, including stuff that doesn’t typically come as part of a fantasy league. I goofed up this one, but not a consequential goof up, just a communication goof up - but this extra flexibility is something that helps and enhances the league. But do I ever get any credit for generally running the leagues well? No one notices or cares when things run smoothly, but if something doesn’t run smoothly, then I get shit for it. That, combined with the implication that I’m untrustworthy (because the only way this action has deleterious effects is if I’m lying), made me a bit cranky.
Edit: For what it’s worth, I would’ve taken whoever scored lowest just to make sure everything was super ultra kosher, even if it meant that I’d have lost the game. I always make sure to take the losing end of this sort of thing to make sure I’m not giving the appearance of abusing my power as commish.
That was an overreaction on my part, because there probably wasn’t an implicit accusation there, just showing what could potentially go wrong.
I still think it’s worthwhile to have the option, because it sucks to be out of town or away from the computer Sunday morning without being able to make routine roster adjustments based on active rosters, but we could apply a high level of scrutiny - the conditionals would have to be exactly clear and correct and unambiguous or the rosters would just be left as-is.
So like “I have X in my Y spot. If he’s inactive, I want Z in that spot”, and make sure X is actually in that spot, and that the player is only making a decision that he could figure out himself based on the pre-game news (ie so that Z isn’t from an earlier game than X), etc.