# SDMB Fantasy Football Auction League **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 13, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836 "2008-08-13T13:05:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/21 "2008-08-25T04:30:06Z")
Signed up. ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/22 "2008-08-25T20:33:59Z")
Is there room for one more? My normal auction league disintegrated this year and I woudl hare to actually regain some tiem for friends and family. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/23 "2008-08-25T23:29:48Z")
Sorry, I hide my address sometimes, I don’t sometimes, I always forget. Sending PM now. Tuesday the 2nd sounds good to me. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/24 "2008-08-26T00:33:07Z")
[QUOTE=Spiritus Mundi] Is there room for one more? My normal auction league disintegrated this year and I woudl hare to actually regain some tiem for friends and family. [/QUOTE] Sure, I invited you. Anyone who still wants in is welcome. I want to try to get an even number of teams so we can do a head to head format, and I’m not sure how that’ll work out considering there’s a decent chance someone will miss the draft anyway. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/25 "2008-08-26T15:49:41Z")
I’d like to join too, if I may. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/26 "2008-08-28T23:08:54Z")
PM me the e-mail address you’d like to be invited under and I’ll send it out. Currently there are 2 invites out that weren’t accepted - Trevor (that’s LOUNE, right? I’m bad with names…) at a gmail address. And Overly Sentimental at a yahoo address. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/27 "2008-08-29T02:04:09Z")
I joined and sent you an email SenorBeef. Now I just have to get off my lazy ass and do some research. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/28 "2008-09-02T15:47:33Z")
Hey, I can post again. Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/29 "2008-09-02T19:33:27Z")
I’m not sure if ESPN will have a pre-draft lobby that will show who’s logged in like yahoo does. We need some way to determine whether or not someone is logged in before the draft starts - I would rather not allow anyone to autodraft (there’s a lot more planning and finesse needed in auction drafts and auto-drafters would screw up the dynamics I think) and only play with people that are actually there. LOUNE hasn’t accepted his invite yet but he PMed me that he would sometime today. If he hasn’t done that by 8 or so I’ll have to boot him or the draft won’t run. Everyone else appears to be signed up. We have 13 members right now. I’m guessing someone will miss the draft but maybe not. If everyone shows, we’ll have to either play a points only league or someone will have to volunteer to step down so we can play a head to head league. I’ll go either way - I prefer a head to head league but if everyone here is enthusiastic about playing I won’t force anyone to leave. Please stay posted to this thread around 8pm eastern. In the event that we don’t get a pre-draft lobby where we can see who’s logged in and who isn’t, I’m going to ask everyone who is there and available to post to this thread. Anyone who can’t be confirmed to be logged in one way or the other by 8:50 or so will probably be booted from the league in order to prevent the computer from autodrafting. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/30 "2008-09-02T21:54:53Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Please stay posted to this thread around 8pm eastern. In the event that we don’t get a pre-draft lobby where we can see who’s logged in and who isn’t, I’m going to ask everyone who is there and available to post to this thread. This board is currently a big steaming pile of shit, with timeouts and severe lag all afternoon. This is the last place you want to have to post to in a time-critical situation. I’d recommend using the yahoo league forum instead. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/31 "2008-09-02T22:11:41Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Please stay posted to this thread around 8pm eastern. In the event that we don’t get a pre-draft lobby where we can see who’s logged in and who isn’t, I’m going to ask everyone who is there and available to post to this thread. This board is currently a big steaming pile of shit, with timeouts and severe lag all afternoon. This is the last place you want to have to post to in a time-critical situation. I’d recommend using the yahoo league forum instead. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/32 "2008-09-02T22:12:53Z")
It just hung for 17 minutes as evidenced by the timestamps on that double post. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/33 "2008-09-02T22:13:56Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > We have 13 members right now. I’m guessing someone will miss the draft but maybe not. If everyone shows, we’ll have to either play a points only league or someone will have to volunteer to step down so we can play a head to head league. I’ll go either way - I prefer a head to head league but if everyone here is enthusiastic about playing I won’t force anyone to leave. If everyone shows up, I have absolutely no problem stepping down. And I think Ellis is right, the yahoo messages are more likely to work. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/34 "2008-09-02T22:21:52Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > If everyone shows up, I have absolutely no problem stepping down. > > And I think Ellis is right, the yahoo messages are more likely to work. I hope we are able to recruit one more before the draft. Does anyone in the many other leagues want in? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/35 "2008-09-02T22:27:10Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I hope we are able to recruit one more before the draft. Does anyone in the many other leagues want in? I only see 12 players in the espn league. “Team 4” has no owner listed if you click on it. Can we nix that spot and just go with the 12 we have? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/36 "2008-09-02T23:38:37Z")
I vote for that. What happened to the quick post box? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/37 "2008-09-03T00:01:21Z")
Team 4 is the unaccepted invite extended to LOUNE. He said he’d accept it tonight, but if it isn’t within the next few minutes I’ll have to boot him in order not to have our draft cancelled. That will leave us with 12, but there’s no guarantee everyone will show - if one person doesn’t make it we’ve still got an odd number. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/38 "2008-09-03T00:03:48Z")
Ah, crap, I had totally and blissfully forgotten that this was tonight. I’ll be there for sure if I don’t forget again in the next 57 minutes. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/39 "2008-09-03T00:11:59Z")
Are we going to port everything to Yahoo or stick with ESPN? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-auction-league/459836/40 "2008-09-03T00:12:06Z")
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