We are currently recruiting 1 member. We had 2 empty slots last year and had to run the league 10 handed. I’ve already recruited one replacement (D_odds who I know to be reliable from other leagues). I’m assuming the other ten will be back, but if I haven’t heard from them by early August I will look to recruit for their slots - I don’t want to wait too long and then have to run the league short handed like last year.
We’ll proceed as if we expect the NFL season to begin on time, since there’s not really anything else to do.
I picked the same relative day as we drafted last year - the Tuesday a week before the regular season opener. Tuesday, Aug 30, at 9:45pm eastern. We went to later starts last year to help west coasters get home from work, and the east coasters didn’t seem to mind starting late, so unless there are objections I plan on using the same draft times as last year. If there’s a problem with this, speak up now so that we can still get a good draft slot at the right time before they’re all booked.
I plan on using the sunday through tuesday waiver system for free agents that we used last year. Yahoo automatically puts all players on waivers as of 1pm Sunday, so you can submit a claim rather than having the person closest to the computer pick them up as free agents. We’ve done this for a while now. The added rule is that if there are any games that start before Sunday at 1, you can’t pick up those players after their game has begun - you have to wait until they go into the waiver pool on Sunday and put in a claim for them.
I also plan on doing the FAAB waiver system where you start with 100 to bid on players plus whatever leftover money you had from the draft.
I’m also going to keep the commissioner approval on trades for all the reasons I outlined last year. I will automatically and quickly approve any reasonable trade. If there’s something fishy about a trade we’ll discuss it, but there’s no real chance of a trade being rejected in this league - we’re all serious players, no one will say “fuck it” and throw their season, we all know enough not to get ripped off, and as we’ve proved, people tend not to want to rock the boat and vote against trades anyway.
Practically, this means you have later in the week to work out trades. Previously if you worked out a trade on friday evening, that trade wouldn’t go through by the time Sunday’s games started, so you’d be screwed if someone got hurt late in the week or if you just didn’t have time to conduct the negotiations. Now you can make trades up until Sunday morning and still get them through before the game starts.
I’m usually around early Sunday mornings to push trades through, but if you make a very late trade on Saturday night or Sunday morning, I may not be able to approve it in time. If that happens, both of you should make your intent clear “I plan on starting player X I just traded for in place of player Y” and I can retroactively make the rosters reflect that.
If there are any problems with these policies, feel free to voice them and we’ll discuss it.
Yahoo has some new scoring metricsavailable, so we should discuss if we want to use them, and generally any other tweaks we want to make to our scoring system.
Our historical standings:
2007:
- Omniscient
- Boozahol Squid, PI
- LOUNE
- SenorBeef
- VarlosZ
- Chuck (from off board - the roomate)
- Ellis Dee
- Kiros
2008:
- Hamlet
- It’s Not Rocket Surgery
- Mike (the random dude in our mock draft on ESPN who became part of our league)
- SenorBeef
- Kiros
- Boozahol Squid, PI
- Spiritus Mundi
- Ellis Dee
- Chuck
- VarlosZ
- Omniscient
- RNATB
2009:
- Exploding Pancakes (SenorBeef)
- New York Fanboys (Ellis Dee)
- The One Man League (It’s Not Rocket Surgery)
- Orlando Rage (RNATB)
- Quentin’s Jammers (Jules Andre)
- Overly Sentimental (Chuck)
- Show me your TDs (Mike)
- Varlos’ Zzzzzz (VarlosZ)
- Last Place (Kiros)
- The Jackson 4 (Hamlet)
- Chicago Cutlery (Omniscient)
- Cobra Kai (Boozahol Squid, PI)
2010:
- New New York Benders (It’s Not Rocket Surgery!)
- Quentin’s JAMmers (Jules Andre)
- Exploding Pancakes (SenorBeef)
- Varlos’ Zzzzzzz (VarlosZ)
- Overly Sentimental (Chuck)
- New York Fanboys (Ellis Dee)
- Chicago Cutlery (Omniscient)
- Show me your TD’s (Mike)
- Crowley’s Bentley (Hamlet)
- Phoenix Redbirds (dalej42)