It gets to be a slog usually after one’s first 3-4 position players. You get one QB, one RB, and one WR, and then your lucky to maybe pick up another 3 $10-$12 players and the rest are $1-$2 players.
Alright, we’ve got 16 people signed back up. Missing are RNATB, Werekoala, and tds1273, with Munch indicating he won’t be back. Munch is going to be replaced with Lel, assuming he comes back to sign up. I sent him a PM to set up an invite.
RNATB hasn’t signed up for any leagues. He’s been around and hasn’t indicated that he’s dropping any leagues, but he’s not taking his invites. I sent him another PM but he hasn’t been around for a few days.
Werekoala hasn’t been on the boards since last year. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t received his invite, but PMing him isn’t going to get anywhere. If he doesn’t take his invite in a few days I’ll have to replace him.
tds1273 hasn’t been around for a month, so same deal with him.
Ideally we’ll also replace Oak simply because I don’t know if you can produce a viable draft in this league with an auto-draft, but we may end up needing to try if we don’t get enough recruits to cover the people who are leaving this year. It really helps to know where we stand sooner - the later in the season we go the harder recruiting becomes.
If any new players are interested in playing in this league this year, post to the thread.
I understand. Can I put in a claim for first substitute next year if there’s an opening?
Yeah, you’d be first up.
In the event that we can’t get enough recruits to fill missing slots, I’d still be okay with you doing an autodraft simply due to the lack of better options. But if you don’t want to play on a contingency like that, I understand. I’m going to start heavily recruiting soon now so I should have an answer within a few days hopefully.
RNATB has confirmed to me that he won’t be participating this year, along with Munch. Lel was supposed to replace munch, but hasn’t been on the board for 2 weeks to accept his invite.
tds1273 and werekoala are both unresponsive. werekoala hasn’t been on the boards for a year, and tds1273 for about a month. They’d have enough time to sign up. I’m going to start trying to recruit to replace them. I’ll replace the people we know are leaving first to give them a little extra time if recruits are slow to show up, but I can’t put recruiting off until too late in the season, by then people have too many commitments and the recruiting pool dries up.
I put up a recruiting thread to try to fill up our league. I want to give it a few days to fill it up with all SDMB players, but if you have a friend you think may be interested in this league, see if they’d be interested, we may end up needing them. We’ve had to use off-board friends as last minute fill-ins for this league a few times and most of them have been welcome additions to the league and a few still play with us.
As it stands now, we have 16 teams. As we recruit we should make sure that we at least end up with an even amount of teams. Even if that means we stay at 16.
Yeah I would accept people in pairs. It’s not practical to do otherwise.
Oak, if you’re still interested in doing the prerank thing, I’m amenable to letting you try it. It’s not ideal compared to have a a drafter in attendance, but it beats having a smaller league because recruiting is getting tougher. Up to you.
Things have been really tough in terms of recruiting on the SDMB lately. There simply aren’t many new people signing up, and old people leave for various reasons - left the boards, contracted their amount of leagues, stopped playing FF, whatever. It’s been getting tougher every year.
I’ve tried posting a recruitment thread, recruiting to the other SDMB leagues, and today I sent out PMs offering former players the chance to come back - any of which we may still get a response from, but so far it’s not looking pretty.
So I’m willing to open some of those slots to off-board friends you might have. Ideally they’ll sign up and participate here with on the boards, but all we really require is that they can attend the draft and participate enough to set their best roster from week to week.
So if you’ve got any friends who might be interested in playing this year, go ahead and ask them.
Check your PMs, SenorBeef.
After a two-year hiatus, I’m up for a return to Fantasy Football. The draft time works fine for me.
Welcome back, mhendo.
It’s Not Rocket Surgery! is also going to be coming back this year. He’s “Steve’s Neat Team”
That puts us at 18, but that includes Oakminster if he’s still willing to pre-rank an autodraft. I originally told him that I’d prefer against that, since this league is extremely hard to pre-rank for, but that was before I knew we’d end up needing more replacements than usual. I’d rather have someone pre-rank draft than to have to run the league at less than 20 players.
I’ve exhausted most of my recruitment options - it’s mostly a matter of whether someone who hasn’t been attentive on the boards lately happens to come back at the right time. Short of that, I’d look into recruiting from other sources. Someone’s friend who’d be interested in the league… maybe even randos from fantasy sites who are looking for a league who seem serious about it.
If you’ve got friends you think might be interested in playing this league and can make the draft, go ahead and invite them. I can even stick them in your division.
Also, if anyone is interested in having one more league, we have one opening in the He Hate Me keeper league.
Unfortunately Oak won’t have time to set up extensive pre-ranking now, so he’s going to drop from the league this year and be first up for replacement next year, which leaves us at 17.
If we can get one more, running at 18 players for one year wouldn’t be devastating, but obviously I would prefer it to be full since the size is the main difference with this league and others. If we get into the final week without filling it up with SDMBers and friends, I’ll make a final push to recruit unknown people from fantasy football forums who seem like they’ll take it seriously. In the meantime, do your own recruiting, see if you can find anyone you think would be interested and capable of playing.
I just bumped your recruitment thread back to the top, in case there’s anyone who missed it the first time and who might be interested.
I hadn’t seen it before, and i didn’t know about the Big League vacancies until you PMed me, so maybe a bump will attract some attention.
I can’t make the draft time, but I could definitely pre-rank 150-200 players if you’re truly desperate.
Thank you Justin, that’s a very nice offer. I’ll end up taking you up on it if we end up sitting on an odd number of players (either 17 or 19) and we need someone extra to make it even so we don’t have to remove anyone.
OK, let me know as soon as possible so I can get a good list going.
Actually, if it’s possible to drop me later if you don’t need me, you can add me now and I can start making a list tomorrow.
Good news. Wilson, who spent 2 years with us previously, will be coming to fill one of the remaining slots. We now sit at 19, needing just one more player for the full league. Hopefully someone from the SDMB turns up, but as I said, feel free to ask around among your other FF players/friends/family/hookers to see if someone would be interested.
tds1273 (Curry Porkrinds) accepted his outstanding invite he received as one of our players last year. Which means we’re full, at 20.
But he hasn’t participated on the boards or in these threads in a long time, and I wanted to confirm with him that he can attend the draft, so I sent him an e-mail and haven’t heard back yet. I expect I will, but just to be clear, I would strongly prefer he specifically confirm he can make the draft date rather than just accepted the invite without looking closely.
If you still need someone, I can come back in. I’m just a glutton for punishment.
Let me see how it shakes out and I’ll try to let you in. I haven’t gotten confirmation from tds1273. He hasn’t posted on the boards in years and he has attended every draft, so he’s probably reliable, but I wanted to make sure he didn’t just accept his invite without really confirming his availability.
And we might also have a last day cancellation due to emergency that you could replace.
Or maybe you could replace Justin. He was nice enough to volunteer to fill in the gap, but would have to do a pre-ranked autodraft. Obviously live drafters are much superior. If everyone else was going to live draft, I definitely prefer all 20 doing it.