Obvious homer is obvious. Jones likely would have been there at 2.12 but last year three QBs came off the board from like 2.06 through 2.11, so 2.12 was perfect but not guaranteed. At least I didn’t take him in the 1st like Mayfield at 1.05 last year.
Jerk.
2.06 JJ Arcega-Whiteside, WR, Phi
Edit: I was 100% taking Jones here if you wouldn’t have. PM Sent.
Nice! That’s the first perfect value pick I’ve made in years, if not ever.
Starting next year, would it make sense to not keep DEF at all, since they aren’t humans who age out of the league and force you to draft a replacement?
I have no idea what round people might draft them, but it could be interesting. Especially since you’d only be drafting them for a single year in the same draft that you’re picking rookies to hopefully keep for years.
Our scoring rules put DEF on par with TE, but there’s not a ton of variance other than the Bears being miles ahead of #2, so maybe Chicago early then the rest in round 4 and later?
Logistically it would add at least 20 picks to the draft, which is massive. This year’s draft is only 45 picks total, so maybe this idea is better in theory than in practice.
EDIT: I could see this as an argument to remove DEF from our teams altogether. Low variance, and they don’t age out. At least kickers get cut or retire.
Count me as a hard no on that one.
I would have dropped both my D/ST except that I need one and I’ve got a list of sleepers that might still fall to me.
2.07 P. Campbell, WR, IND
PM sent
Here’s an updated list as we close out page 3:
1.01 Petey - Josh Jacobs, RB, Oak
1.02 Beef - David Montgomery, RB, Chi
1.03 Justin - Miles Sanders, RB, Phi
1.04 Overly - Darrell Henderson, RB, LAR
1.05 Justin - Kyler Murray, QB, Arz
1.06 Omni - Justice Hill, RB, Bal
1.07 Gaffer - N’Keal Harry, WR, NE
1.08 Retro - Darwin Thompson, RB, KC
1.09 RNATB - T.J. Hockenson, TE, Det
1.10 Hamlet - Devin Singletary, RB, Buf
1.11 dale - Tony Pollard, RB, Dal
1.12 dale - Damien Harris, RB, NE
2.01 Petey - D.K. Metcalf, WR, Sea
2.02 Beef - Deebo Samuel, WR, SF
2.03 Justin - A.J. Brown, WR, Ten
2.04 Overly - Alexander Mattison, RB, Min
2.05 Ellis - Daniel Jones, QB, NYG
2.06 Omni - J.J. Arcega-Whiteside, WR, Phi
2.07 Gaffer - Parris Campbell, WR, Ind
2.08 Retro -
2.09 RNATB -
2.10 Hamlet -
2.11 RNATB -
2.12 Ellis -
3.01 Petey -
3.02 Beef -
3.03 Ellis -
3.04 Overly -
3.05 Jules -
3.06 Omni -
3.07 Gaffer -
3.08 Retro -
3.09 Jules -
3.11 Jules -
3.12 dale -
4.01 Petey -
4.02 Beef -
4.04 dale -
4.05 dale -
4.06 Omni -
4.07 Gaffer -
4.11 Jules -
5.06 Omni -
5.11 Jules -
6.06 Omni -
I vote we skip Retro starting at noon. He’s been on the clock 10.5 hours so far, and if he’s still in Australia, he went on the clock at 2pm his time and right now it’s half past midnight. By noon our time it will be 2am in Australia and a 10-hour overnight wait may just be starting.
It’s also possible he’s traveling today, I suppose, but flights from Australia to the US are very long.
This is a hard one and I again thank everyone again for their patience with me when my job loss news hit me right before a ‘holiday’ weekend.
I’ve done a decent amount of international travel and it sucks for fantasy purposes. You’re in a country where the sport isn’t popular , dealing with time zone differences, plus you spent a decent chunk of change to get there, so you don’t want to be on your phone 24/7. Yesterday was cutdown day, so that may also be a factor. I know all the NFL cuts but I was watching college football all day yesterday and just had to minor tweak my draft list.
Let’s try to be as flexible as possible but I understand we only have until Thursday to get through the draft. The later rounds often run quicker, since there’s often D/Sat taken and a late round flier isn’t as costly as a bad 1st round pick.
Technically, we have until the 9th because yahoo will let you backdate week 1 lineups if your draft runs long.
As for skipping Retro for being on the clock now 14 hours (and right now it’s 4am in Australia), it may be moot anyway. RNATB is next on the clock and for all we know he may be under 20 feet of water down there in Florida. He posted about the Hurricane upthread:
Right next to that post I see Retro responded to this comment from me:
Once they both got back online we really should have gotten preranking lists from both of them: Category 5 Hurricane barreling down on you and being in Australia are both excellent, bullet-proof excuses, but that’s only further reason we should probably have taken measures to mitigate the delays.
Can we use our late round draft picks on practice squad guys? Not sure I will but there are a couple of guys I kinda liked in preseason.
We’re at the mercy of yahoo for that. If yahoo lists the player, you can draft him. If not, then no.
Neither RNATB or Retro sent me any pre-rank lists. If you’re going to be gone for an extended period, please do that.
We should (obviously) get this draft done before the NFL season starts and this is definitely the slowest we’ve ever been. We’re at risk for not finishing if we continue to allow 12+ hour delays.
So, yes, as much as I hate to skip anyone, and out of necessity, let’s say that RNATB is now on the clock. Mostly I’m doing that so that RNATB’s countdown isn’t just starting later today if we give retro another 8 hours, because then we’d be looking at spending 2 full days on 2 picks.
So either Retro or RNATB can make the next pick, whoever gets back first. Since it goes Retro, RNATB, Hamlet, RNATB, that means that RNATB should send me a pre-ranked list for that next pick too.
Yup, he’s on Yahoo and was kinda a surprising cut, in my opinion. Actually there’s two guys that got cut that surprised me.
My pick will be posted in two minutes.
2.08 Miles Boykin WR Bal
Unfortunately RNATB has 2 of the next 3, making skipping him more costly to him. And he’s probably also in a hurricane, so, you know, that sucks to punish him more.
But on the other hand, we really need to get this draft moving, and he had the option of submitting a pre-ranked list.
So… give him until, I don’t know, midnight? It seems like if he’s not on by then, he’s not going to be on anytime soon.
Edit: Sorry, that’s midnight pacific, since it’s about 12 hours after I said that RNATB can make his pick around noon pacific.
Meh, I say give him until noon Eastern on Monday. Morning picks aren’t really our bag; we make our best progress from noon to midnight. Seems pointless to skip him at 3am only to make a few picks between then and noon.
The rest of this post was written before your most recent post, as it was time consuming to research the timing of picks.
Since you only have one pick left, and it’s 12 picks away, maybe prerank 12 players and send it to to Beef so he can just choose the first one on the list not taken and announce it as soon as you get back the clock.
RNATB hasn’t been on the SDMB for 23 hours, which was during the five hour delay yesterday afternoon waiting for pick 2.04. His next pick was 6 picks away from that, which is reasonable to assume we’d get to within the next 24 hours.
I’m thinking he lost power and has no cell service. How long do we want to wait for him? These two picks of his at 2.08 and 2.10 are his last two picks, and if we skip him, I suspect we could cover a lot of ground, greatly reducing the value of his two second rounders when he finally gets back online.
This draft has been super frustrating. If we go by the original idea of the 12-hour window, we’ve shattered that window five times and counting:
1.04 took 15 hours
1.05 took 21 hours
1.09 took 18 hours
1.11 took 36 hours
2.08 took 18 hours
2.09 ???
I’ve been only a couple picks away (or the very next pick) for several of these, such that I’ve been stopping in to check the dope every 15 minutes or so for days on end. (I literally refreshed this thread every 15 minutes for the entire 36 hour window waiting for pick 1.11, at least for the 28 or so hours of it when I wasn’t sleeping. That was brutal.)
I’m so ready to not think about this draft until noon tomorrow. Can I have a night off? I two picks left – 2.12, 3.03 – and both are in the next 8 picks, but it feels like neither of them will never come… (Preranking for two picks is rough in that you have to include conditionals.)
I agree the pace has been frustrating and it’s been a horrible combination of my job loss, Australia, and a major hurricane on top of a holiday weekend.
Once we’re into round three, is it likely that anyone drafted then is going to be a week one starter? Both the Packers and Bears D/ST are owned and I can’t think of a single non-drafted Packer or Bear that I’d be starting on Thursday, so we’re not in a horrible situation.