That’s so strange! I’m looking at the same site and it looks like there is a special section specifically for fantasy! How bizarre that it doesn’t say, at all, what you claim! You must have some weird malware that converts numbers and facts specifically on your computer to the nonsense you “spout off about.” Go ahead and run a virus scan and check again. Scroll near the bottom. There it is, the Fantasy section! Good boy. He finished 7th in 2016 and 12th in 2017.
You might wonder why no one takes your bets. “Stats and stuff” my rear end
Jesus man. Put the keyboard away and take a break. I’m afraid you’ll pull something if you have to stretch more, or have a heart attack from being wrong. Maybe a nap?
This is actually something that drives me a little nuts because “WR1” can mean like 4 or 5 different things based on context. Sometimes people mean the single best scoring WR (or prospect) overall. WR2 would be the second best single WR in the whole league, etc. Sometimes they mean worthy of being the top X player adjusted for league size, so a 16 team league would have 16 WR1s. Sometimes it’s not size-adjusted and just means WR1-12 in scoring. Sometimes people just mean the best WR they have on their team, even if they’d be considered WR3s by the above standards. Sometimes people refer to actual football attributes, like the player has the body type/skill sets to be a #1 WR, compared to another guy who is probably suited to be a slot player
I tend to play it by ear on this. How much time is left in the draft, how early a pick it is (we’d give more time for someone to make their first round pick than their third round pick), what time of day the window of their pick started, whether they’ve been slowing down the whole draft, are we ahead or behind the pace needed to complete the draft, etc. We had a bunch of quick picks made yesterday so I think we were fine on pace, so I wasn’t going to start a countdown timer until this afternoon if he wasn’t around.
We’ve always finished the drafts on time (although some have drug on unacceptably long in the later rounds) and rarely have to skip anyone’s pick so it works out. I don’t want anyone to feel like they’ve been screwed for years because some life circumstance denied them the chance to draft a player they really wanted.
On the other hand, we cannot be infinitely patient, so we will skip people if needed, especially towards the later parts of the draft where the picks aren’t as important.
On the timing - as the new guy let me ask whether the league has contemplated anything like a chess timer? Everyone gets a set amount of time to make all of their picks (based upon number of picks - not the same for every team. It could either be teh full amount of time or “overage time” that counts down when the 12 hour clock expires. Might be too much administrative headached for the commissioners, but does allow for leniency up to a point and then an objective standard for “your slack is gone.”
On another note: @Jules_Andre - nice pick. When teh RB run started us off I had fleeting dreams that he might fall far enough for em to take a stab at him.
So you could make the case it’s a much weaker draft than the one he was drafted in, so it makes sense that he’s more valuable relative to draft picks now, and that TEs take a few years to develop, so trading for one just as you expect them to break out makes sense, but… yeah, I don’t see him as being worth the 1.06, I see him as being a career TE8-12 type of guy. I would take the pick end of that deal.
I do factor in how much time a player has taken previously in a draft (and how often we tend to be waiting on them for years) into my subjective calculation for when we need to move on. We’ve never really considered a chess clock specifically. It does make a certain amount of sense, but it’s also complicated and we’ve more or less got the job done without it.
Thanks! I’m convinced he’s going to be a WR1 within the next 4 years.
Just kidding. Jameson did score higher in my grade than I expected, and he’s the only WR this year with a 95th percentile grade in my rating. That’s the benchmark I use to try to be aggressive in acquiring the player. But his situation is a big concern with the team, offense, and the injury. I’ve been burned ignoring that in the past. So he wasn’t part of my plans and I wasn’t actually planning on trading Hockenson. Then dale seemed disinterested in the pick at this spot, and he seemed to need a TE fairly bad. The need matched up with my surplus, so I jumped on it. It wasn’t my plan. We’ll see
1.06 in general? Probably not. But this 1.06? I dunno. Would you trade Jameson Williams for Hockenson straight up if you needed a tight end? I think I would. Weren’t people saying that this was a draft of WR2s anyway?
I pick again in three picks, but I’m leaving and will be unavailable for the next 3-4 hours or so. Just a heads up. If I’m on the clock when I get back I’ll make my pick around 8:00 pm Eastern.
I’m on vacation and I only have access to email in the evenings, so I’m going to PM Beef my list of options in case we get to me early tomorrow. Beef, if I haven’t posted again by the time my pick comes up, assume I won’t be on and make my pick.
I’ve been thinking about this choice since Omni made his pick and I think I’ve convinced myself that I prefer Cook over Pierce. At the very least, Cook is in a better situation.
@EllisDee is up (though I agree with Jules, his clock shouldn’t officially start until the morning).