Others I already know:
SenorBeef – Las Vegas, NV
Justin_Bailey – New York, NY
dalej42 – Phoenix, AZ (roughly; AZ, anyway)
I’m sure a bunch of these are in our location fields. Mine says New England, but more specifically I’m in the greater NYC area in Southwestern CT. (My main network broadcasts are out of NYC, but I also get Hartford.)
You’d think so, but no. I just looked in everyone’s profiles yesterday to get the post count data, and *maybe *three people (including myself) had a real, specific location listed. Didn’t think to write down the ones that did.
I suppose between those two options, posts per day would be the more logical grouping option - we all have pretty old join dates and all joined in a relatively short time span, so you can’t really get the oldies vs newbies feel.
And by post count, we’d at least know one division might be chatty enough to form some rivalries 
I guess a west/central/east division setup could work if the locations work out that way. After all, we want to minimize travel time for our fantasy teams.
From profiles:
RNATB: Florida (Central Florida implied).
RetroVertigo: St. Louis, MO
furt: Maine, assuming he’s being serious when he says “south of Katahdin” (didn’t think that was a real thing when I read it yesterday).
Petey: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Ok, a little more info in the profiles than I thought.
Provisionally, it might shake out something like this:
**VarlosZ **-- New York, NY
Justin_Bailey – New York City
**Ellis **Dee – SW Connecticut
**furt **-- Maine
**Petey **-- Ft. Lauderdale, FL
**RNATB **-- Florida
**SenorBeef **-- Las Vegas NV
**dalej42 **-- Phoenix (?), AZ
RetroVertigo, in St. Louis, could probably be shoehorned into either of the latter two as needed. Of course, depending on where Hamlet, Stringer, and **TheMadHermit **live, we might have to get cute with the alignment (or come up with another sorting criteria).
Screw it, I’ll send PMs to the to the last three.
Just had an idea. It won’t help us make divisions this year, but next year we could redo the divisions by the end of year standings. The first division would have seeds 1-4 (playoff teams), second division would be the 4 middle teams, and last division would be the worst finishers. This would give parity of a sort - at least one team from the last place division will make the playoffs, and each team will be playing teams that finished similarly to them last year twice. There’d be some prestige/bragging rights rewards too since the top finishers could be in the Elite Division and last place could be the Scrubs.
I like it, Beef.
TheMadHermit almost certainly lives in the greater Pittsburgh area.
furt posted his whereabouts; I think he’s down south. Lemme see if I can dig up that post…here it is. Currently in Orlando, moving soon to DC.
EDIT:
So maybe…
VarlosZ – New York, NY
Justin_Bailey – New York City
Ellis Dee – SW Connecticut
Petey – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
RNATB – Florida
furt – Orlando/DC
SenorBeef – Las Vegas NV
dalej42 – Phoenix (?), AZ
TheMadHermit – Pittsburgh
RetroVertigo – St. Louis
Thanks, Ellis.
I would think that Pittsburgh fits more with the Northeast than with the West/Midwest, no?
Interesting idea, Beef, but I don’t know that I’m in favor. I like the idea of continuity (though not necessarily rigidity) in the alignment, and I’m not wild about going out of our way put lesser teams into the playoffs at the expense of better teams. That said, if team quality proves too static for our tastes I could very well be singing a different tune down the line. I also might be intrigued by a half-measure: not total realignment every year, but maybe moving just a few teams according to record, similar to relegation in the EPL.
Pittsburgh would be a little out of place in a western division, but if the other two end up being firmly northeast and deep south, out west would be the best fit.
The people of Pittsburgh use “yinz” as the second person plural of you, and they’re no strangers to sisterhumping. I say group him in with the Floridians.
I like it. A lot. In one fell swoop you seem to have completely fixed the parity problem people were worried about.
Also, for the record, I don’t like in New York City. I live in upstate/western New York. I’m not sure where people keep getting this idea (you’re not the first to think I live in NYC), but I’ve never even visited New York City unless you count wandering around JFK for a half hour.
I am in Phoenix, AZ. Right smack in the center of the city, in fact.
Should we consider making the starting rosters a little deeper considering how deep our benches would be? Maybe adding a flex spot or something. It would add a bit more balance to the currently productive vs expected future production equation.
I’m 100% in favor of a flex spot. Works great in my keeper baseball league.
Now that’s dominance.
Hope Lib doesn’t take up fantasy football.
I’m in Oviedo, Florida, by the way- essentially a suburb of Orlando.
I’m definitely in favor of an additional flex spot.
If we add a flex, can we make it a WR/TE spot? A RB/WR flex, on top of the two RB positions, would make RBs too important, IMO. A team with three legitimate starting RBs would just be too powerful.
OTOH, I’m entirely in favor of a WR/TE spot.
Strongly opposed to adding a roster spot. If the bench is too deep for the roster, the best solution is to shrink the bench, not grow the starting lineup.
I wouldn’t mind changing the TE to a TE/WR, but based on the HHM keeper league, allowing teams to field 3 RBs at a time is a bad idea. If you like flex a lot, maybe change one of the RBs to RB/WR.
Specifically, I’m thinking:
QB
RB
RB/WR
WR
WR
TE/WR
D
K
12 bench spots
Ditch one of the WRs in favor of adding WR flex option to two positions, and shrink the bench by 4 spots.
I doubt everyone will jump on board, but that’s my two cents.