Was it the talk about the fantasy gods that tipped you off?
I know for a fact none of those players started Hasselbeck as part of that three, and none of them started both Housh and Burleson. They all lost anyway! Rule holds true!
You’d certainly have the best roster if you had a QB you could play without hesitation. At least with Garrard (you’re welcome) you can play matchups and have an even shot at getting a good game out of your QB. If you guess right most of the time, you have the best roster in the league.
If there’s a bright side to your season in this league, it’s that absolutely nobody has separated themselves from the pack. I think every 3-1 team lost, so your road back into a playoff spot is only a couple weeks long. You’ll still easily earn a spot, and probably mine since I can’t see my team winning another game this season.
Once in the playoffs, you have the best chance. Good luck!
Well, I guess that may be Hasselbeck. He’s been healthy for 2 games and he’s put up like 55 points between them. So I probably should just start him until he gives me a reason not to.
The whole point of Garrard is that he’s steady with a high floor, right? He doesn’t put up 4 point games. EXCEPT WHEN I START HIM apparently.
But it wasn’t just Garrard or even Garrard/MJD/Lewis. My entire team failed epically.
I went through every projected/actual score in our league so far (60 of them) this week I had both the highest projected score so far in our league and it became the third lowest actual score of any of those games. The failure truly is epic. And to add insult to injury, I was facing the guy who started the second lowest scoring team, who I’d have been able to beat if only one of my players even half-lived up to expectations.
Thanks good buddy!
I guess this is the league to have a bad start in, with half the players making the playoffs. I guess I won’t be making a first round bye, but I can still make the playoffs. I looked ahead - my team’s projected score next week? 120. I’m going to set the new highest score projection record two weeks in a row. I guess my actual scoring output will be… 40?
This may be the first, last, and only time I get to say this, but 4-1 (despite being 8 of 12 in points) and on top of the league! The match-up gods have favored me so far.
Having now bragged, one game into the 2nd quarter of the season, next week I will probably drop into 7th place. But I didn’t figure to have bragging rights at all, and I don’t expect to hold onto them, so I decided to use them while I have them.
As always, I’m looking to move some of my depth. I’m still looking for a good QB, but since there are few people with a backup QB that’s an upgrade over what I got and they don’t want to budge, that’s not likely. If you’ve reconsidered the issue now that I have Hasselbeck or Garrard to offer in a trade (and Hasselbeck has averaged like 27 points or something in the games he finished), feel free to contact me. But if not I’m pretty content to ride out Hasselbeck for a few weeks and see how it goes.
The only area on my roster where I could really use an upgrade is TE. So if you have a good TE I’d be willing to trade a running back or maybe RB/receiver combo (and you can take Finley as part of the deal). I’m still looking to move Barber (not straight up for a TE), Moreno, McCoy, Henderson, Massaquoi, Harrison, and Maclin.
Edit:
In general, if you’re open to a trade I suggest using the league’s trading block feature, to let others know who you’re looking to move and what you need.
Looking back through the previous season for our league, I didn’t realize how much Tazmanian Devils has kicked my ass. We’ve met 5 times in the regular season, and he’s 5-0 against me.
We’ve met one time in the playoffs, the championship game of the 2006 season after he’d gone 14-0, and I did win that one. (I may have mentioned that before). So that’s 5-1.
Barring the very unlikely, I’ll be locking up a win. But ffs I’m bad at quarterbacks.
Okay, so Trent Edwards has 2 20+ games to start the season, so I trade for him. He sucks massively, scoring like 8 points total for the next 2 games. So I dump him for Garrard, whose lowest scoring game this year was like 16 points or something, who put up 30+ the last week. He then put sup a negative score. Meanwhile, Hasselbeck puts up 4 TDs and looks great, and he’s playing the league’s worst (302 yards per game) passing defense. So, easy call there … except then Hasselbeck puts up negative fucking points. Gah. I have gotten one useful productive day out of my QB this year.
I’m looking to trade for a reliable starter. Look over my roster and see what you like and make a proposal.
Quentin’s Jammers gives up Mario Manningham and Green Bay
Frosted Lightning gives up Miles Austin and Pittsburgh
“Hasselbeck posted a career-low 32.5 quarterback rating Sunday…” says my little news page. INDEED. I wonder how many other QBs I can get to have career low days for me.
I never thought I would see Thomas Jones come through for me with anything even approaching 30 points but I love good surprises. I am also happy to see my receiving core not completely suck. Having some depth is new to me and I think I like it.
Quentin’s JAMmers 4-2-0 640.13
Frosted_Lightning 4-2-0 607.54
Kid_A 2-4-0 578.11
Omni’s Omnipotents 3-3-0 571.06
No Use For A Name 3-3-0 569.73
New York Fanboys 2-4-0 563.25
Isotopes 3-3-0 549.00
Court Jesters 5-1-0 546.10
Tazmanian Devils 3-3-0 542.05
The Gridbirds 3-3-0 533.94
Exploding Pancakes 2-4-0 525.40
Last Place 2-4-0 518.02
SenorBeef did this after week 3 so now would be a good time to update the standings. Court Jesters is 5-1 and he even admits that he’s a lucky bastard. I feel like my team is slowly falling apart but I’m still 3rd in points…maybe things aren’t as bad as they seem.
The FFL scheduling gods have indeed looked kindly upon me thus far. Unlike last week, when I could have fallen way down, I can only fall into 3rd place next Sunday. It’s only a matter of time before my ‘strategy’ implodes, and it certainly won’t stand up in the playoffs, if I even make it that far.
I have overhauled my team pretty massively since the draft.
My original drafted team was
QB Hasselbeck
RB Jones-Drew
WR Steve Smith (CAR)
WR Anthony Gonzalez
W/R Marion Barber
TE Shiancoe
K ___
D Cleveland
BN Ray Rice, Moreno, Moore, McCoy, Henderson, Cribbs, Harrison
and now it’s
QB Roethlisberger
RB Ronnie Brown
WR Randy Moss
WR Reggie Wayne
W/R Pierre Thomas
TE Finley
K ___
D Philadelphia
BN Hasselbeck, Barber, Massaquoi, Maclin, McCoy, Harrison, Moreno
I guess my RBs suffered a decent sized downgrade, but my WRs have gone from a WR in a disfunctional offense and a dude with a gimp leg into Moss/Wayne, and that’s a pretty huge change.
My thinking in accepting this trade was that Jone-Drew/Boldin for Brown/Wayne was pretty close, with the advantage to me (though, as I told SenorBeef, I might be undervaluing P. Manning here). Garrard for Roethlisberger favors Exploding Pancakes, though its unlikely that Big Ben continues on his current pace. I don’t think I’m giving up much production at year-end playing Manning if both stay true to form. It helped that I’ve already played EP and don’t play them again. If I’m going to stay on top (HA!), I need EP to pick up some wins against those teams with two losses - just not too many, as there is no way that I win by points in the case of a tie (for the last playoff spot, which is where I might be contending come season-end).
I’m probably giving up the best in this trade, to be honest. I’m probably overreacting to Hasselbeck’s bad day, since he’s probably a good starter from here on out. But FFS, I went with Edwards, and he put up a career low, so I went with Garrard and he put up a career low, and I went with Hasselbeck and he put up a career low. It’s ridiculous. It made me trade for a QB that has yet to have a bad game.
No one would move a competant backup QB for Barber or Pierre Thomas, which is what I tried extensively at first, so I had to involved MJD in the deal to get interest. I could’ve snagged a better deal at QB for MJD, but I wouldn’t have been getting back a RB replacement as good as Ronnie Brown in the deal as the players with the top QBs didn’t have the RBs to spare. I guess I could’ve gone that route - traded MJD for a great QB and started Thomas/Barber from here on out. Oh well, we’ll see if it works. If Roethlisberger has a career low day now (which is what will happen when I start him), maybe I’ll try to package him and Ronnie Brown for an elite QB…
As for the rest of it, Boldin is a bit of a question mark right now but I honestly think he’ll get over being banged up - he always does - and return to top 5 points per game production from here on out. But he’s riskier than Wayne. But… with Boldin possibly being top 5, probably top 10 at least from here on out, MJD being the #1 overall player (who has put up 30+ points in 2 of his 6 games so far), and Garrard being a steady backup, I think Jesters gets the better end of the deal and I’m making a 2-4 team desperation move that may pay off.
At a quick glance, I’d say SenorBeef pretty seriously mismanaged this team. You should have MJD and Ray Rice entrenched as your two RBs all season long. Suiciding Hasselbeck just killed you in this league and the attachment to those superfluous bench RBs meant you couldn’t react when Steve Smith, Gonzalez and Moore all struggled early on the waiver wire.
This trade alone favors the Jesters just because I think MJD is such a goldmine in this league, but when looking at the way the players fit into the rosters it’ll probably help the Pancakes more since he filled more holes.
Predicted that Ray Rice, with an ADP somewhere in the 6th round, would be a top 3 back and not traded him, even though you said I have superfluous RBs.
Predicted that Hasselbeck would’ve missed a few weeks with an injury unrelated to any previous injuries, and hence, spent more effort to secure my targetted backup QB who went 2 picks before my pick (Trent Edwards)
Then I could start Trent Edwards in week 3 and 4 after Hasselbeck went down… which I did anyway after I traded for him, at which point I would’ve given up on him and picked up the best QB available… which happens to be exactly what happened anyway, and hence, nothing would’ve changed.
And how does “the attachment to those superfluous bench RBs meant you couldn’t react when Steve Smith, Gonzalez and Moore all struggled early on the waiver wire.” make sense? Gonzalez “struggled” because he was hurt and out before he ever caught a pass. And what did I do to fix my WR situation? I traded Moore and Rice for an upgrade in Boldin. I traded one of my “superfluous” RBs to solidify and upgrade my receiver position.
So you’re criticizing me for not trading my RBs, at the same time criticizing me that I should’ve figured out that Ray Rice would be better than Barber or Thomas or Moreno (so far) and not traded him even though the person who wanted to deal with me specifically wanted Rice and I had RB depth to spare.
No predictions should have been necessary. If you’d have had a safer QB situation you wouldn’t have needed to trade anyone. Making trades in the first weeks of the season is a pretty clear indication that you mismanaged the draft. Because you didn’t have a secure backup QB situation and didn’t have adequate backups at the WR position you ended up moving one of the truly elite players in the league this year. You made risky choices and you drafted too many RBs. You didn’t add a WR in free agency when Gonzalez was hurt, you didn’t add a WR in free agency when Moore started slow.
Any time holes in your line up force you to trade away what turns out to be an elite RB saying you mismanaged the team is a safe bet. A team with Ray Rice and MJD ought to be close to first place. That’s all.