SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 12

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Agreed.

I think my core objection was that if someone mortgaged their future to win now and it blows up in their face, it could damage the league overall by making them less invested or even no longer interested come the next year when they have no picks of consequence. And then a replacement owner takes over and starts with no picks? That would suck.

I was also concerned that it could cause logistical issues but like you say, it hasn’t yet and doubtful it ever will. So that concern of mine was proven moot, at least.

I continue to believe that trading away next year’s first rounder is a tremendous fun-sapper. For example, this year Overly’s first pick was 2.12. That’s gotta suck.

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Actually, I think I did manage to convince the league to only allow trading next year’s picks, not multiple years out.

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My first pick last year was in the 3rd round, and it was among the better drafts I’ve had. Working within constraints breeds creativity.

This is the only dynasty league I’ve heard of that only allows pick trading a single year out, and that is probably for the best. I think that was a fine and worthy compromise

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Agreed, I think it has turned out pretty much perfectly in the end.

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Yeah, I wouldn’t want to allow pick trading any further out, there’s been times over the last couple years where I seriously doubted the SDMB would survive. Or, the mods really get harsh with the ban hammer and we lose someone

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This league is strong enough to survive the death of the SDMB, we’d just have to move over to another medium. Maybe giraffeboards, since that’s probably where SDMB refugees could go, but we could even manage it from within yahoo, or any sort of message board/communication system.

Sorry for the delay. I have two picks in a row and they’re my last picks. I’m definitely working on them, but I had a lecture I had to attend that put in a big delay.

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Yeah, I wasn’t super-thrilled that my first pick this year was 2.10, but I flipped my first rounder from this year to grab Kyler Murray in the draft last year, and I’m very happy with how that trade turned out.

So on balance, I think it worked out.

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Sorry for the delay. RNATB snatched one of my guys the pick before me and I had 2 picks to make.

4.01 KJ Hamler WR Den
4.03 Chris Thompson RB Jax

@dalej42 is up. The draft pick list didn’t reflect that Jules and Dale swapped 3.08 and 4.08.

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I actually don’t like Hamler very much. He has the prototype “fast guy that can’t actually play football” written all over him. He can’t track the ball well in the deep field, can’t fight for the ball, has a penchant for body catching. He pretty much has nothing but speed.

But I drafted him because it was a lottery ticket in the 4th round, and he has a very high draft position (first half of the second round) which means he’ll be given every chance to succeed with scheming designed around him. He’s going to get much better opportunity to realize his (high) ceiling than the rest of the 5th or later round options I was looking at.

Still, I think he probably won’t be successful at catching many deep balls and will become a Tavon Austin style gadget player doing quickouts and bubble screens. Oh well. No one can count on a 4th round pick amounting to anything, may as well roll some higher value dice that at least have the chance of coming up big.

I think he’ll bust, but he’s a good lottery ticket with a good ceiling if he doesn’t.

Chris Thompson is the back to own in Jacksonville this year before he breaks sometime around week 8. They’re going to be playing catch up in garbage time and he’s quite good at that. When he breaks, I’ll drop him and then pick up one of the other late round fliers I would’ve picked here instead.

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I was eyeing Thompson with my last pick. As you said, the Jags will likely be playing from behind a lot, and Thompson can get those garbage yards. Plus, he’s reunited with Jay Gruden, so the familiarity is there.

I owned him in a different league in 2017, and I really like him as a player. I just don’t think I’d ever trust him enough to start him. Sure, it’s nice to be guaranteed 7 or 8 points a game in PPR, but I’d much rather start someone who could get me 0 or 26. But, as you said, he’s completely droppable to pick up whomever is a hot waiver wire add.

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I’ll have the pick in before bed. Just finished He Hate Me draft.

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Show first two rounds

1.01 Omni - Clyde Edwards-Helaire, RB, KC
1.02 Jules - Jonathan Taylor, RB, Ind
1.03 Beef - JK Dobbins, RB, Bal
1.04 Ellis - Cam Akers, RB, LAR
1.05 Jules - Jerry Jeudy, WR, Den
1.06 Gaffer - D’Andre Swift, RB, Det
1.07 Retro - CeeDee Lamb, WR, Dal
1.08 dale - Henry Ruggs III, WR, LV
1.09 Petey - Justin Jefferson, WR, Min
1.10 dale - Tee Higgins, WR, Cin
1.11 RNATB - Zack Moss, RB, Buf
1.12 Hamlet - Brandon Aiyuk, WR, SF

2.01 Beef - Jalen Reagor, WR, Phi
2.02 Hamlet - Joe Burrow, QB, Cin
2.03 Omni - Antonio Gibson, RB, Was
2.04 Ellis - Michael Pittman Jr., WR, Ind
2.05 Jules - Bryan Edwards, WR, LV
2.06 Gaffer - Laviska Shenault Jr., WR, Jac
2.07 Retro - Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Mia
2.08 dale - Joshua Kelley, RB, LAC
2.09 Petey - A.J. Dillon, RB, GB
2.10 Justin - Chase Claypool, WR, Pit
2.11 RNATB - Justin Herbert, QB, LAC
2.12 Overly - Rob Gronkowski, TE, TB

3.01 Omni - Denzel Mims, WR, NYJ
3.02 dale - Darrynton Evans, RB, Ten
3.03 Omni - Antonio Gandy-Golden, WR, Was
3.04 Ellis - Lamical Perine, RB, NYJ
3.05 Jules - Van Jefferson, WR, LAR
3.06 Gaffer - Anthony McFarland Jr., RB, Pit
3.08 Jules - Eno Benjamin, RB, Ari
3.09 Petey - Cole Kmet, TE, Chi
3.11 RNATB - James Robinson, RB, Jac

4.01 Beef - KJ Hamler, WR, Den
4.03 Beef - Chris Thompson, RB, Jac
4.08 dale -

5.08 Justin -
6.08 Overly -
7.08 Hamlet -

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Ok, maybe I’m crazy but I’m taking Lynn Bowden WR/RB Miami. Probably the biggest flyer in this league, but why not with a 4th rounder?

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There’s nothing wrong with that as a lottery ticket pick. It’s weird that he was already traded, but he might now be in a better situation since there’s no long term answer in Miami.

@Justin_Bailey is up. We should be able to finish up on time. Nice recovery, everyone

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The Seahawks are “impressed” by him and his name has a nice “90s Direct-To-Video Action Star” vibe.

5.08 DeeJay Dallas, RB, Sea

@Overly_Sentimental is next.

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Okay, so yahoo wants me to have the draft done tonight if we want to start the scoring in week 1. I’m pretty sure that even if we don’t complete it tonight, I could still go back and manually set it to start scoring week 1, but just in case that causes any sort of issue I’m just going to finish the draft and start it tonight. We only have 2 picks left, so I’m just going to fill those last 2 slots with dummy players and then manually add whoever you two want to actually draft to your rosters.

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Okay, our league is now live. You’re going to have to set your starting lineup for tomorrow night. The 6.08 picks and 7.08 picks can still be made, I’ll just put whoever you decide to draft on your roster.

Remember that everyone else who was unowned at the end of the draft goes on waivers for a couple of days, just like after game time every week. You can put in FAAB bids if you want to pick anyone up.

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Additionally, we removed the -2 point penalty to missed PATs as discussed earlier, and I added 4 IR slots to the league. These extra IR slots are only to be used for COVID-related IR. Yahoo lists Armstead as being out with IR-COVID so I think yahoo is going to label them clearly. You can use the first 2 IR slots for any reason, but you can’t use the additional IR slots for normal non-COVID-related IR slots this year. These will (hopefully) be phased out next year. It’s just a temporary measure to keep people from having to drop valuable players due to the potential wave of covid-IR issues we’ll be having this year.

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I set the FAAB budgets according to our rules that we add $2 for each spot in reverse order of finish, after the champion.

Make sure to set your lineups as it is possible that Yahoo emptied your rosters when the league was finalized.

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Here’s our preseason power rankings, according to Yahoo. I also included last season’s for reference. It looks Like Yahoo thinks this league will be even tighter than last season, when it was an insanely packed year. The 10th overall team finished 6-8, and no team had more than 9 wins.

2020 preseason Power Rankings:

  1. Moridwon (Hamlet) 2228.13
  2. HungryHungryHaruspex 2205.08
  3. New York Fanboys 2080.70
  4. Exploding Pancakes 2019.11
  5. Ides of Martz 2015.26
  6. No Use For A Name 1964.66
  7. Warner’s Brothers 1960.22
  8. Isotopes 1933.85
  9. JB’s Gusterrhoids 1866.96
  10. Nine Inch Neils 1845.73
  11. Overly Sentimental 1839.37
  12. The Great Old Ones 1822.15