His dominance isn’t as strong as Taz last year, who won every single game going into the championship, 16-0, but lost the very last one to me. Don’t give up your hopes yet.
Also, football starting at 10am is absurd.
My prediction? He has a sub-par day, scoring fewer points than me, taunting me that if it hadn’t been for you winning by 0.3 points, I’d have won the championship 
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Also, football starting at 10am is absurd.
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Hahaha! When I took time off from school and was living out in Vegas, that was one of my biggest complaints. Pre-game shows start at 8 in the morning and the actual games kick off at 10. I never adjusted. It was also strange when Monday Night Football ended before 930. I could actually watch MNF and then go out somewhere instead of just going to bed.
I have a very difficult time not being a night person. I cut my sleep short yesterday so I’d be tired last night, and it didn’t work. Think I slept from around 5:45 till 8:10, ugh.
Last week half my offense was in a blizzard. This week, half + 1 will be in 20-30 mph winds with 50 mph gusts. Both my receivers now. And my first round pick may sit half the game.
Been a pretty crappy playoff schedule for me.
[QUOTE=SenorBeef]
Don’t give up your hopes yet.
My prediction? He has a sub-par day, scoring fewer points than me, taunting me that if it hadn’t been for you winning by 0.3 points, I’d have won the championship 
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I’ve had two touchdowns vultured from me so far, and none of my players are having good games. His TE is going to outscore my entire team. Eh, 2nd isn’t so bad.
What a horribly frustrating way for that Browns game to end. Ugh.
OK, with LT and Peterson to go, I’m down 27.32. The Jammers still have Denver’s tight end left. Barring that tight end being Shannon Sharpe, I’m optimistic about my chances for taking home the Chuck Lombardi Trophy.
Could have used a little more production from Palmer, and I wish I’d had Holmes in over Berrian, but I’m still positive.
I knew I’d have a good championship day just to rub it in my face that I could’ve won if I’d have gotten that far. Blah.
Sometime this week I’ll calculate the total scores throughout the playoffs to come up with what the results would’ve been in a non-head to head playing system… just for a hypothetical.
Here’s the scoring at the end of the regular season. The number before the name is the actual yahoo rank, while the list is sorted by points. Last number is draft position.
1. The Gridbirds 9-4 1515.23 1
2. Exploding Pancakes 9-4 1430.47 7
4. Tazmanian Devils 8-5 1358.28 6
5. The Opposites 8-5 1307.46 10
6. Frosted_Lightning 7-6 1213.52 9
8. Isotopes 5-8 1207.12 11
7. The Concussions 7-6 1158.76 4
9. Court Jesters 5-8 1158.14 3
3. Quentin's JAMmers 9-4 1129.22 8
10. New York Fanboys 4-9 1072.55 12
11. chitwood 4-9 1043.86 2
12. No Use For A Name 3-10 1008.59 5
Our champion was the 8th place scorer during the regular season, remarkably enough. He was surrounded by 5-8 teams above him and 4-9 below him.
The actual finishing order, including the playoffs, with their finishing position last year in paranthesis:
I’ll do the total season scores, including the playoffs, when I get unlazy enough.
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Our champion was the 8th place scorer during the regular season, remarkably enough. He was surrounded by 5-8 teams above him and 4-9 below him.
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Haha. I saw in my inbox that there was an updated listing of every team’s final scoring output for the season, and thought to myself, “Here comes the jab about my team never scoring any points!” Is this the fourth or the fifth one? 
In retrospect, I had a bad draft, a really lucky first half of the season, a not-so-great second half, and an insanely lucky playoffs. It’s the mirror image of my season last year, except that I didn’t have so many gut-punch close games last year. Either I lost a close game, usually to something inexplicable, or I improbably won when I didn’t really have a good week. Most times I only won those close games AFTER I had gone through my bitching routine, tempering any excitement I had for winning in the first place. “I won? Awesome! Wait… now I feel like a douche for what I said… Damnit.” Thanks for the kick in the ass Chitwood, wish I listened sooner.
And now, because I’ve made such an ass out of myself all season long, I give this gem up as penance:
In refernce to my preseason rankings of every team’s RB tandem:
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10-Gridbirds. Yes I rank Tomlinson this low, but not for his lack of trying. I just don’t think Peterson is a capable #2. He isn’t a starter, and even if he DOES start, is Tomlinson and 10 weeks of Peterson splitting carries with Taylor enough to be better than two quality starters? I don’t think so.
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Happy New Year everyone!
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Haha. I saw in my inbox that there was an updated listing of every team’s final scoring output for the season, and thought to myself, “Here comes the jab about my team never scoring any points!” Is this the fourth or the fifth one?
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I don’t mean that in a mocking way, more in a “well that’s unusual” sort of way. You’ve been the most active player and one of the more social ones throughout the year, and that’s something I encourage so I’m not rooting against your success (except that your damn .03 win kept me from winning again :P).
Yeah, I remember early on when you felt like you were really unlucky, but the way the year’s played out - quite the opposite.
You said you got an e-mail with the final scores. From yahoo? I didn’t get one. Did you have to set an option somewhere?
So what do you guys think we should do to improve the league next year?
Overall I’m generally happy with our scoring system. 12 players with a 6 man playoffs is ideal to me. I’d look into adjusting the rosters next year, adding more starting spots. I was thinking, although it’s unusual, we might add another flex spot, and with our partial PPR/return yards/etc league give people more flexibility in building teams. So it’d be WR/WR/RB/Flex/Flex.
Return yards might need a bit of a tweak, depending on how everyone feels. It gave a little extra value to players like MJD, but I’d like to see really good returners who are 3rd and 4th WRs have at least some value as 3rd or 4th string guys. That’s just my opinion though.
The most dissapointing aspect this year has been the lack of social interaction, whether it be commentary on other people’s strategy, smack talk, whatever. Part of what makes this more fun than playing in random public leagues is that we all know each other and can be socially active. Not sure what we can do about that.
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So it’d be WR/WR/RB/Flex/Flex.
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That sounds excellent.
The only tweak I’m thinking of is to tailor the sack penalty to the average yardage lost. I have all the sacks and sack yardage stats yahoo offers, so I’ll be able to calculate with accuracy what the average yards lost per sack is. I think the sack penalty should reflect that in some way.
ETA: As of last offseason (when I trawled yahoo for the data), they listed 27,722 sacks for 189,119 yards, which means each sack loses an average of 6.82 yards.
[QUOTE=Ellis Dee]
That sounds excellent.
The only tweak I’m thinking of is to tailor the sack penalty to the average yardage lost. I have all the sacks and sack yardage stats yahoo offers, so I’ll be able to calculate with accuracy what the average yards lost per sack is. I think the sack penalty should reflect that in some way.
ETA: As of last offseason (when I trawled yahoo for the data), they listed 27,722 sacks for 189,119 yards, which means each sack loses an average of 6.82 yards.
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Do we count them as rushing yards or passing yards, though? Counting them as rushing yards seems too punitive since it would require twice as many passing yards to make up, and counting them as passing yards actually gives us -.34, which is .07 more than our current penalty.
I’m waiting on adding up the end of season numbers pending EsotericEnigma explaining how yahoo sent him the end season stats. Or if you’d like just post them yourself, since I’d have to go through and add them all up and you seem to already have them.
The top finishers at every position (rounded scores):
Brady - 423
Romo - 335
Manning - 312
Brees - 288
Anderson - 286
Brees seemed worthless early on - I bet lots of people cut him - but made a strong finish. Anderson is pratically the only member of the Cleveland offense that I didn’t grab, and I had to deal with Kitna who somehow finished 14th in that offense. 3800 yards, but few TD passes, lots of ints and sacks.
Moss 306
Owens 265
Edwards 240
Wayne 238
Housh 215
I drafted 3 of the top 7 receivers (Fitz was 7th) in the 3rd, 4th, and 7th round. I’m surprised the gap between Moss and everyone else isn’t bigger. Partially the cold weather slowdown of the NE offense. If they played in a dome, Brady probably would’ve set the TD record weeks ago.
Tomlinson 325
Westbrook 310
Peterson 255
Addai 251
Jones-Drew 224
Jones-Drew’s value is aided by his return yards, which is fine, that’s the sort of added value I intended when proposing that scoring. Tomlinson managed to remain on top despite the slow start, although he scored 100+ less than last year. Westbrook is a monster if he stays healthy all year.
Jamal Lewis finished 7th despite the slow start and mid-season injury. I was telling people I expected at least 1200/9 out of him this year, and his stats so far, even missing games in mid-season, are 1176/9 (and 247/2).
Remarkably, Willie Parker is only the 15th best scorer despite being the #2 rusher. Ouch. He has 20 points more than Ronnie Brown, who went out in mid-season. I missed Brown, by the way - Addai, Brown, Edwards, and Housh were tearing the league up early on. Chatman was never a good replacement.
Witten 191
Gonzalez 179
Gates 175
Winslow 166
Clark 149
Gates doesn’t take the TE crown this year. I never want to touch Gates personally, I feel like he’s always drafted at least a round too high (although late 3rd isn’t too bad, sometimes he goes higher) and you can get players that will only be a little behind much later in the draft. In this case Witten is a 6th rounder, Gonzalez 5th, Winslow 6th, and Clark 11th.
Crosby 165
Bironas 155
Gould 153
Folk 148
Hanson 147
I’m starting to wonder if kickers even belong in fantasy football. The same ones are rarely at the top, it’s difficult to predict performance game to game, there’s not much strategy to it… they seem for the most part to just add a random element to matches.
New England 205
Seattle 205
San Diego 202
Minnesota 189
Indianapolis 173
Indy has gone from a joke of a defense to one of the best remarkably quickly. Gotta give credit to Dungy there.
The mighty Baltimore defense is 23rd in fantasy points, right next to San Francisco.
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counting [sack yardage penalty] as passing yards actually gives us -.34, which is .07 more than our current penalty.
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Sounds perfect to me. Obviously it’s up for debate, but IMO .34 is very close to what I’d normally vote for, and since it mirrors the actual (average) impact of a sack, sounds like a no-brainer to me.
I will of course have updated sack totals next offseason to include the 2007 numbers, but basically I’ll be thinking along the same lines: Base the sack penalty on the average yards lost per sack relative to whatever scoring system we use for passing yards.
I only have up through 2006 stats. And I am almost positive EE was referencing the thread subscription email. As in, the stats he saw in email were the ones you posted to this thread.
[QUOTE=SenorBeef]
I’m starting to wonder if kickers even belong in fantasy football. The same ones are rarely at the top, it’s difficult to predict performance game to game, there’s not much strategy to it… they seem for the most part to just add a random element to matches.
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hehheh. Most veteran fantasy players adopt the Chitwood paradigm when it comes to kickers: “Yeah I drafted him in the 16th round, because there were 16 rounds. If there were 30, I’d’ve drafted a kicker in the 30th.”
I like having kickers because it’s fun to troll free agency looking for the most favorable matchup each week. It also adds in a little roster strategy if you end up with a good one. No big loss to lose them altogether, but I like the wrinkles they add.
In the early half of the season I’m looking over everything each week, but in the second half the rosters are mostly locked in, other than deciding who starts. Kickers (and defenses) still give you incentive to add/drop right down to the final week.
[QUOTE=Ellis Dee]
And I am almost positive EE was referencing the thread subscription email. As in, the stats he saw in email were the ones you posted to this thread.
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Ellis is right, I was referring to the subscription email from the Dope, which had a preview of the contents of the thread.