SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 12

The Game Room
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Highest scoring player isn’t the right metric, highest projected player is. Highest scoring player means you’re playing a mini version of best ball - if some unexpected player blows up for a huge week you get a free start to all those points to someone you wouldn’t have started otherwise. When I’m calculating optimal rosters for people who have abandoned their teams in other leagues, I just plug in the highest projected player.

I am receptive to conditional rosters that we post on here. Posts like: I’ll start Patrick Mahomes if the game happens, but otherwise I will start The Legend Sam Darnold. Then we can just retroactively adjust the rosters depending on whether a questionable game happened or not.

I don’t like the idea that we plug in future weeks results retroactively into earlier weeks. Like if a team was originally meant to play week 4, but then gets scheduled to week 10 because of a bye readjustment, I wouldn’t want to wait for week 10, see what they score, and then plug that score back into week 4. No one here has proposed that, but I’ve seen a few leagues on other forums talking about it and that would just become a huge clusterfuck really fast.

So tentatively I would suggest this: if there’s doubt as to whether a game will end up being played, we can state conditional roster decisions. If this game happens, start X. If not, start Y. In the event that there’s a very late cancellation that’s unexpected, like on gameday, we’ll go back and start the next highest projected started on that person’s team (using pre-game projections), not the highest scorer.

342

I substituted Breida for James White, this week is so bad I’m completely hosed anyway. But I want White’s points if the game is played.

343

I’m playing c. Kirk over s. Watkins. But to be clear I preferred watkins if there’s a game. Unless Kirk goes off…

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I assume this is a joke. Preferring Watkins but starting Kirk is fine. If that game happens this week (if yahoo considers it part of this week’s score, which they say they will if it’s played by Tuesday) then we’d sub in Watkins. You definitely can’t change your mind based on Kirk’s performance, though.

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I’m not worried about Breida going off, I’ll take the points from White assuming the Pats play and White is active. If Breida outscores White, that’s fine, it’ll be a good problem to have in future weeks since Breida is just lost in that Miami offense now

346

I mean I’m halfway joking but really who the fuck knows what’s going on? Otherwise I’m supposed to make a legitimate decision between two players based on all this? We’re all a day at a time right now…

347

I’m starting Joe Burrow, but if the KC game is played this week, I’d start Pat Mahomes.

And I agree. It would be ridiculous to try and change rosters weeks from now. If it’s played, it’s played this week. If not, you’re outta luck.

348

If Kansas City plays, my starters are:

TE Travis Kelce (KC)
K Harrison Butker (KC)

If Kansas City gets postponed, my starters are:

TE TJ Hockenson (Det)
K Dan Bailey (Min)

I have slotted in the non-KC guys for now.

349

I’m fine this week thanks to my bizarre depth at TE*, but starting those Jets on Thursday makes me wonder:

Imagine you end up short and can’t fill a starting roster because you left several Thursday players on the bench but then on Saturday a game (two teams) gets postponed taking 4 of your starters with it.

If the only two options are dropping postponed players (with full rights to reclaim) just to fill spots with free agents, or allow you to retroactively start your Thursday players, I think I kind of like starting Thursday guys better.

*I have three tight ends, all startable: Kelce, Jonnu, and Hockenson. Jonnu was already postponed, and it’s looking like Kelce is about to be, but god dammit, TE3 is actually pretty solid! heh.

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Saints/Lions might be at risk too with a late positive test

351

Oh Jesus Christ. Not Hockenson too!

I freed up a roster spot moving Sterling Shepard to IR so I didn’t have to drop anyone, and signed Greg Olsen (TE-Sea) as a stopgap. My TE1 position should then retroactively be:

  1. Travis Kelce if the Chiefs play
  2. TJ Hockenson if the Lions play
  3. Greg Olsen

I slotted Olsen in as my starter. I had three good tight ends and all three could be rescheduled! (Jonnu already was.)

352

Pretty messy week after sailing pretty smoothly for almost a month of games. If this season actually gets through 16 weeks, and if every week is as wild and unpredictable as this one, literally anyone can win this year.

I’m starting Preston Williams over Tyreek Hill in case Hill doesn’t play this week.
I’m starting Dion Lewis over Alvin Kamara in case Kamara doesn’t play this week.

353

The positive test on the Lions players likely was a false positive. Game on.

354

Alrighty then, Hockenson back in.

355

I adjusted my lineup in case of a NE-KC cancellation.

Larry Fitzgerald is currently in at WR, but if NE plays, he should be replaced by Julian Edelman.

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Aaaand there goes Austin Ekeler, out with an injury in the first quarter.

357

Well, I guess I picked a ‘good’ week to have a bad week, since No Use for a Name is projected at 180 points. No Connor/Henry/Mostert and a big fat zero for Cooks.

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New England is scheduled to play Monday night. If that actually happens, I’m glad I made this clear, because Fitzgerald is clearly out of gas.

359

I’ve barely seen the Cards this year with bars mostly closed and none of the open ones paying for the NFL package. But, as big of a fan as I am of Larry, it’s really time for him to hang ‘em up.

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I actually dropped him after Week 1 and then picked him back up after being overcome by some “But He’s Larry Fitzgerald!” nostalgia. I’ve always liked him as a player, but that was a mistake, and he is definitely done.