If I had went with any of my other WR/RB besides Torry Holt, you would have needed 20. I’ve got to learn to stop using projected scores as the tiebreaker for my flex spot.
Grumble, Yahoo, grumble…
That’s what you get for stealing my handcuff!
I know. I was punished by just getting 17.2 points out of a spot starter.
It was actually a future pick more than a handcuff pick - I thought Cedric Benson was going to remember that he sucked, and Scott is a guy that Cinci has been high on, who has good talent.
Even after Benson firmly established him as the starter, I still used roster space for him since there’s a chance he’s the future starter after they run Benson into the ground.
(Ha ha, I see you have Brian Leonard)
Anyway, he’s yours if you want him. You just have to give me anyone on your current roster named Jackson.
Nioce try. How about a nice touchdowny Robert Meachem?
Nah, Meachem will always be in the mysterious NO offensive puzzle. Scott is either nothing or great - either he’s not the starter and I can safely sit him, or he is the starter and has very high upside. He’s great dynasty depth with some future starter potential.
I was about to offer you Carson Palmer for Scott and whoever you backup is (since he’d presumably not be as good as Palmer) and then I realized you only have one quarterback.
How did you end up with one quarterback in a league with 25 roster spots?!?!?
Well, I did have Trent Edwards and Derek Anderson and… it turns out my roster is better with one quarterback.
At least he’s a good one!
Maybe you should pick up Vick. He seems to have more of a future than those no-hoper 4th string tailbacks you’ve got.
Yeah, I haven’t given it much thought. But since the trade deadline hits in a few days, if Rodgers were to go down with injury, I’d be looking at Bruce Gradkowski as my QB.
Problem is you can only trade to a team with three viable quarterbacks, and there aren’t many of those. Varlos’ team is looking like a who’s who of quarterbacks drafted in the first two rounds recently, but the only one out of his five guys I’d even consider starting is Matt Ryan.
Isotopes needs a boost to secure the wild card… you might be able to pry Joe Flacco away from him in a “win now” trade, though I doubt it.
If it makes you feel any better, We Do HGH is in even worse shape than you, QB-wise. He’s got Cutler.
Justin Bailey has McNabb, Favre and Kyle Orton. He’d probably give up Orton cheap.
You’ve got a little time. I purposely made the trade deadline as late as possible, so it doesn’t hit until December 4th (the Friday before Week 13). I figured the main purpose of the earlier deadline doesn’t really apply to us (teams that are out of it making trades that are totally meaningless to them but not to their superior trade partners), so why not take advantage of a league set-up that will really give us buyers and sellers?
For the record, I’ll announce now that any trades that are agreed to just before the deadline, without enough time to be reviewed and processed in the normal fashion, will be pushed through by me provided I don’t see them as potentially controversial. Normally I don’t do this, since (A) there might be times that I won’t be around to push a trade through before Sunday, which would lead to an unfair situation in which some owners get their trades pushed through and some don’t, and (B) it’s potentially irksome to a trade participant’s opponent if he has to face a suddenly augmented roster because the commish deviated from standard operating procedure – there was recently some unpleasantness in the All-Pro league about this, right? We can discuss changing the policy on pushing through trades for next year, but for the remainder of this year be advised that a trade has to be agreed to at least 48 hours prior to kickoff for the the players involved to play for their new teams that week. (I am, however, willing to update rosters for owners who don’t get a chance to do it, provided they’ve made their intent clear.)
On a more personal note, it’s almost frustrating that I’m doing so well the past two weeks. I had basically decided that I wasn’t making the playoffs and that I could be an unabashed seller, but I’ve just had two big, high-scoring victories, and now I should be the leader of the wild card race after tonight and I’m kinda regretting shipping off Sidney Rice.
Also note that Matt Ryan could well have a big stretch run. The Falcons are coming off a ridiculous series of road games: 4 out of the last 5, and 7 out of 9. So now he’s home for 4 of the last 5 games of our season (and all 3 games before the playoffs), where he’s got a passer rating of 92 (as opposed to 73.6 on the road). He’s got TB’s crappy pass defense, followed by likely shootouts against Philly and New Orleans. If I catch a couple of breaks, I could actually win out and get my ass into the playoffs.
Heck, if Rob Bironas can kick five field goals tonight you might even win your division. 
I was behind 14.84 points with Steve Slaton still to play against a crappy defense.
Slaton scored 14.80.
I lost by .04 points.
Whee.
Fun fact - I have scored 119 points or more in every game this season, except the one in which I played Hamlet.
I am still in shock that I won by .04 points. I mean, holy crap, I won by a measly .04 points! Maybe it’s karma for losing by .3 points a few weeks ago.
That win also keeps me in the playoff hunt (well, barely in the playoff hunt). But I’m still in it.
Is anyone looking to trade a QB? I’m We Do HGH, and Cutler is killing me.
You can have Carson Palmer and Owen Daniels for Cutler and Colston, if you like.
As someone who’s likely headed to the consolation bracket, a thought occurs to me: the competition within said bracket is going to be awfully dull if most or all of the participants would rather lose their games and therefore move up a spot or two in the draft. So I would suggest having the consolation bracket function as a sort of tournament for the 5th pick in the draft. The four teams involved would still take up the 5th-8th draft picks, but teams could actually improve their position by winning. Bracket winner takes the 5th pick, runner-up takes 6th, and the other two teams get 7th and 8th according to W-L record/points scored.
Any objections?
We discussed that a bit a few weeks ago when Ellis Dee proposed that the winner of the consolation bracket gets the first overall pick, as they do in his other league.
I personally thought this ran a bit too counter to the primary balancing mechanic in the league, which was the draft order. So I suggested that we do our own loser’s bracket, where we (manually, since it won’t be in a bracket on yahoo) hold a consolation bracket in the last 4 picks for the #1 overall pick.
I would support this in conjunction with the idea that you just posted, which would result in:
Pick 1: Winner of manual consolation tourney between 9-12 seeds
Pick 2-4: In order of lowest remaining seeds out of bottom 4 (9-12) bracket
Pick 5: Winner of consolation bracket between 4-8 seeds
Pick 6-8: In order of lowest remaining seeds out of 4-8 seeds
Pick 9-12: In order of playoff finish
This would give everyone something to play for during consolation weeks while still keeping the top pick among the bottom 4.