SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 18

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Welcome back to year 18 in one of the oldest dynasty leagues in the world. Fortunately it would appear that we will have no ownership changes this year so another year of stability.

League Dates

Hall of Fame Game opened preseason on July 31
Cuts be due either Mon Aug 24 at 12 noon eastern or Aug 30 at 7pm eastern, pending discussion and a vote. I will address this later.
Draft begins 1 minute after the cut deadline, depending on where we set it.
NFL Season opener: Wednesday, Sep 9
Trading is open all year except the day of the final game of the regular fantasy season until the championship game. Which is to say there’s no trading in the playoffs.

2025 Final Results
  1. Moridwon (Hamlet)
  2. Exploding Pancakes (SenorBeef)
  3. New York Fanboys (Ellis Dee)
  4. HungryHungryHaruspex (Jules Andre)
  5. Formerly Sentimental (Spiritus Mundi)
  6. No Use For A Name (Retrovertigo)
  7. Nine Inch Neils (Really Not All That Bright)
  8. Peteys (PeteysPart2)
  9. The Great Old Ones (Ol’Gaffer)
  10. Gusterrhoids (Justin Bailey)
  11. Ides of Martz (Omniscient)
  12. Warner’s Brothers (dalej42)
Hall of Champions

2025 Champion: Hamlet
2024 Champion: Retrovertigo
2023 Champion Hamlet
2022 Champion: PeteyPart2
2021 Champion: SenorBeef
2020 Champion: Jules Andre
2019 Champion: Hamlet
2018 Champion: Ellis Dee
2017 Champion: VarlosZ
2016 Champion: SenorBeef
2015 Champion: VarlosZ
2014 Champion: Stringer
2013 Champion: VarlosZ
2012 Champion: Hamlet
2011 Champion: SenorBeef
2010 Champion: Stringer
2009 Champion: Really Not All That Bright

Points leaders by year

Includes weeks 15-16

2025: PeteysPart2 2009.30
2024: PeteysPart2: 2156.65
2023: Jules: 1966.95
2022: Jules: 2244.04
2021: SenorBeef: 2016.78
2020: Jules: 2131.96
2019: Hamlet: 2190.75
2018: Hamlet: 2204.75
2017: RNATB: 2095.71
2016: Petey: 2018.97
2015: VarlosZ: 2183.64
2014: Stringer: 2177.27
2013: SenorBeef: 2132.81
2012: Stringer: 2095.83
2011: Stringer: 2229.75
2010: Stringer: 2167.03
2009: Hamlet: 2207.00

2026 Draft Order
  1. Warner’s Brothers (dalej42)
  2. Ides of Martz (Omniscient)
  3. Gusterrhoids (Justin Bailey)
  4. The Great Old Ones (Ol’Gaffer)
  5. Peteys (PeteysPart2)
  6. Nine Inch Neils (Really Not All That Bright)
  7. No Use For A Name (Retrovertigo)
  8. Formerly Sentimental (Spiritus Mundi)
  9. HungryHungryHaruspex (Jules Andre)
  10. New York Fanboys (Ellis Dee)
  11. Exploding Pancakes (SenorBeef)
  12. Moridwon (Hamlet)
Trades affecting this year's draft

Justin’s 1st for Jules 2nd
Jules’ 1st and Justin’s 1st for Omni’s last two
Petey’s 1st for Jules’ last
Jules’ 3rd round pick for Mundi’s second

Previous Threads
Year Thread
2009 SDMB Dynasty Fantasy Football League (recruiting)
2009 SDMB Dynasty League: Year One
2010 SDMB FF Dynasty League: Year Two
2011 SDMB FF Dynasty League: Year Three
2012 SDMB FF Dynasty League: Year Four
2013 SDMB FF Dynasty League: Year Five
2014 SDMB FF Dynasty League: Year Six
2015 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year Seven
2016 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year Eight
2017 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year Nine
2018 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY league: Year Ten
2019 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 11
2020 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 12
2021 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 13
2022 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 14
2023 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 15
2024 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 16
2025 SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 16

The NFL has been changing the preseason schedule and the 53 man roster cuts over the last few years. They cut out the 4th preseason game entirely. This year the season launches on Wednesday (Sep 9) rather than Thursday, which gives us one less day to complete the draft.

So before we set a date for cuts and the beginning of the draft, I’m going to hold a vote. Would you rather draft at the end of week 2 of the preseason (starting Monday Aug 24 at noon) or after the third preseason games and after the 53 man cut deadline? That would be Monday Aug 30 at 7pm eastern. 7pm because the NFL deadline to cut down to 53 man rosters is 6pm, and we’ll give people a little time to finalize their cuts. (Most NFL teams shouldn’t go down to the deadline, but just in case).

If we set the draft on Aug 30, that gives us 10 days to complete the draft, if we’re willing to run right up to the beginning of the first game. Aug 24 gives us 6 more days of breathing room and most likely lets us have a waiver wire period after the draft is complete but before that first game of the week starts. The downside to starting earlier is that you don’t get to see players play in preseason 3 week, and it’s possible you might keep a player that gets cut after you keep them.

In the event that we choose the Aug 30 date, I will likely have to be stricter about enforcing the 12 hour pick window rule and in general we will have to pick up the pace.

  • Cut deadline and draft on Aug 24
  • Cut deadline and draft on Aug 30
0 voters

It was also proposed that you could designate a player as one you wanted to retroactively cut if they don’t end up making their team. In other words, you’d keep a player, but say “if he gets cut by his team by the 53 man cut down date, I would like to retroactively cut him” - that team would then get one more draft pick at the end of the draft, the same as if they had cut that player originally. That gives relief in the case that they keep a player who ends up getting cut later because our cut date was before the NFL’s 53 man roster cut down date.

This poll will only be relevant if we decide to start the draft on Aug 24. Otherwise it won’t matter because the draft will start after the 53 man rosters are set.

  • Allow players to be designated as retroactive cuts if they do not make their team’s 53 man roster
  • Do NOT allow players to be designated as retroactive cuts if they do not make their team’s 53 man roster
0 voters

Bylaw update/codification. We’re not going to re-litigate the balanced trade rule, but we discussed last year whether the “and their last” should be their natural pick they started the draft with or their last pick at the time the trade is executed. Jules made a very compelling argument that if we go with the former, a manager could only make as many trades as they had draft picks, which is a needless limitation. So we’re going to go with his proposal that it’s the last pick that a team owns at the time the trade is executed, and trades are executed in sequence from when they were announced. You guys shouldn’t concern yourself with this, it’s just a bit of bookkeeping, and whatever pick you get back is a freebie anyway. If you’re concerned about how exactly your trades are balanced, you can always specify exactly what balances them in the trade (ie “my 2nd for his 5th”). I’m just putting it here for transparency. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry your pretty little head, this is how we’ve been doing it and it has been working smoothly so far. This is just official codification after discussion last year.

This is a situation that is not likely to come up, but we had a discussion if a manager drafted a player, but a player decided to go back to college and re-enter the draft, we agreed the manager who drafted that player would retain the rights and would just get him added to his roster the next year. This is so unlikely to matter and uncontroversial enough that it will become a bylaw without an explicit vote.

Spiritus Mundi suggested that two way players (who play offense and defense) should get scoring for scoring defensive plays like an interception or especially an interception return for TD, and I agree with that, but I don’t think it’s possible to add that to the league scoring without having IDP scoring. There’s just no category for it outside of D/ST scoring to add those points to individual players. It’s likely very minor - it’s extremely rare that a player plays both ways and Travis Hunter will probably be put on offense without his injuries, but I tried to see if it was possible.

There were a few other rule proposals or potential rule proposals in last year’s thread, but I will post about those in a future post. This is enough for now. Feel free to propose your own rule or bylaw changes if you can think of any you had in mind.

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Thanks for starting the thread @SenorBeef.

I voted for the earlier draft date and no to retroactive cuts for the same reasons: to reward well prepared teams. I’m pretty ambivalent either way, but I do want to complete the draft sooner rather than later. I’m going to be waiting for 11 picks either way. Did I happen to mention I won the league last year? I’m not sure if I have yet…

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Scoring champ here reporting for duty. I voted for the later date. It really shouldn’t take 12 hours plus to make a pick so I think we can finish on time. I think

Watching the 3rd preseason game is helpful for final decisions.

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Luckiest team in the league checking in. I voted for the earlier draft date since reading the offseason and making roster decisions accordingly is one of the few parts of this game that isn’t force-fed to players by the fantasy industrial complex. Unless you pay for the Yahoo Plus subscription. I imagine it will completely play the game for you. Yahoo Plus: Pay us to take your fun from you! (Ideally, we should be drafting in the spring after the NFL draft, but alas.)

I also voted against the retroactive cuts because we had a supplemental draft before and voted it to be removed. That’s what this proposal is: bringing it back. I don’t see any evidence that we made a mistake getting rid of it.

I’ll have more to add closer to the draft. But don’t forget to reach out if you want to swing a deal. The H³ Trading Emporium™ is always open for business. First come, first served! Who will be the first to get one over on me like Omni did last year? Step right up and try your luck

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Please get in your vote for the draft date, I’m going to declare the winner tomorrow so we know if it’s going to be the 24th a few days ahead of time.

Again my apologies for the slow rollout this year. I took a while to get the thread going and then another while to address leftover discussions from last year.

So, a few issues that people discussed last year that we mentioned might be things to discuss this year.

Omni proposed an enforced scarcity of defense. Around posts 40-60 from last year’s thread. Since defenses are unique in dynasty and you can hold on to them indefinitely, unlike regular players who can be drafted as rookies and who can retire, which creates natural churn. He proposed we should have separate rules on defenses like capping the number of defenses we can own at any time at two or making all defenses free agents at the end of every year and forcing everyone to take whatever defenses they want in the draft. I will ask the question as to whether people think we should keep the current system or vote on changing it. If vote on changing it gets the majority, we can then propose the exact rule change to vote on. So I’ll do that poll now, to see if people are interested in exploring that rule:

  • Keep defense ownership as it always has been
  • Impose a new restriction on defense ownership (specific proposals to be voted on)
0 voters

PeteysPart2 understandably wants to look at how we seed the playoffs after having been the top scorer 2 years in a row but not made the playoffs. Well, at least, he was unhappy about it. He didn’t make a proposal but I think there was one that may be implicit, so I’ll just make it. If we changed the rules, we would use the yahoo system for determining playoffs without divisions - record, then points as a tiebreaker. So you could still hypothetically miss the playoffs even as a top scorer, there’s just one less path for that to happen.

  • Division winners go to the playoffs (current system)
  • Top ranked players get into the playoffs regardless of division
0 voters

When people have put an injured or otherwise non-playing starter in a starting slot for a game that has already started (and therefore they cannot remove them from that slot), I have offered to un-start that player (drop them from the starting slot) so that a player from a later game can start in that slot instead the manager taking a zero for that slot. To be clear, I am not giving them a chance to start someone else who played at the same time or earlier in their place, only removing the player who didn’t play from the slot so that they could insert someone else themselves. As if they left that starting slot empty rather than started a non-playing player. I realize this is above and beyond the normal workings of a fantasy league and the vast majority do not do this, but I’ve always tried to correct things to help people when the correction is unexploitable / relatively harmless. But some people had a problem with this, so I want to put it up for a vote.

So the rule would be this: In the event that a game has already begun and a non-playing player (a player who has OUT status, but not a bye week player) is in a starting spot, the manager can request that player be unstarted. If timing is critical, they can also request another player be put in their place so long as the declaration is before the game involving that player has started. This never allows the insertion of players who have already started a game. Only players who have not yet started a game.

  • Allow non-playing players to be removed from their starting slot
  • Do NOT allow non-playing players to be removed from their starting slot
0 voters

I tried to be thorough and cover things we discussed last year as needing a later resolution, but it’s possible I missed some concerns. If I didn’t cover anything you wanted to discuss from last year or you’ve got some sort of new rule proposal or some sort of rules clarifying issue for this year, please propose/discuss it.

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Now, I’m speaking as a manager and not as commish, so I’m not trying to put my finger on the scale but just responding to the proposals in my personal opinion to explain my vote.

We’ve always given everyone absolute control over their rosters. No limited years you can keep a player, no salary cap, you can keep your whole roster every year if you want to. I don’t like making a special rule that forces a change in roster composition out of the control of the manager. I understand the logic of it - that D/STs are fundamentally different kind of assets than regular players, it does make some sense, but it doesn’t reach the threshold I would want to introduce a rule forcing managers to be restricted in how they manage their roster.

On the issue of division winners going to the playoffs - I support the current rule. I think divisions have become a part of what defines this league after having pretty consistent divisions for the better part of two decades now. Yes, it’s sort of unfair when a worse division winner gets a playoff spot over a team that has more success. But the same thing can happen with head to head matchups. PeteysPart2 even pointed out that three of the top scoring teams didn’t make the playoffs (which is a pretty extreme and fairly silly result) but only one of those was division seed related - the other two would’ve still happened because we use head to head record before total points scored, as the vast majority of fantasy leagues do. Overall, I like what division races have brought to the league and I don’t want to weaken it.

On the OUT players being un-started, I’m fine if you guys don’t like the rule. It’s one of those sort of above and beyond rules I thought it would be nice to have, but if it’s controversial, it’s less work for me to just get rid of it. I don’t want to do “nice” things that are controversial because if I’m pissing off as many people as I’m helping there’s no point.

I will remind you that we do already have a rule that says you can make conditional starts ahead of time. Like if you’re not going to be available to check injury reports before the games, you can declare “if X is out, start Y” in the thread and we’ll make that happen. That rule covers a lot of the same ground as this one would, but the manager has to be more proactive.

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I was going to suggest division realignment for balance but when I sat down to analyze it, our divisional balance is good.

(Mainly I would start by putting Hamlet, Jules and Peteys into the three different divisions, which is how we have it. Then I’d put last year’s top three left in three different divisions, so Ellis with Jules, Beef with Peteys, then Neils (or any of the 7-7 teams) with Hamlet, and hey, we’re already good on all counts.)

It’s mainly a factor of losing head to head games, and I don’t think I’m ready to abandon that for pure scoring. Head to head is fun.

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Because of the time sensitive nature of the vote, and the fact that it is currently 6 to 2, I’m going to declare Aug 24 the start of the draft. So cuts will be due by August 23 at 11:59am eastern, and the draft will begin at noon.

On the issue of the retroactive cuts, we are currently at 4 to 4, a tie. A tie generally means the proposal fails and a majority is needed for the rule to be implemented. Last year was sort of an ad-hoc provisional implementation, so I don’t think it counts as an established rule, and therefore, because of the tie vote, and the complications that need to be discussed I’m going to talk about next, I’m going to say no retroactive cuts this year and no supplemental draft. We’ll talk it out, vote again once we’ve worked out the exact details, and implement it next year if it passes.

And here’s a long explanation as to why this proposal is more complicated than it sounds at first. You can skip the rest of the post if you don’t really care about the 53 man cutdown retroactivity rule proposal, but if you are, I invite discussion as to how exactly we’d manage it.

I realize now that I explained the proposed rule poorly. I said “that team would then get one more draft pick at the end of the draft, the same as if they had cut that player originally.” That’s somewhat ambiguous as to whether I meant “at the end of the draft” as in a supplemental draft, or “as if they had cut that player originally” sounds like you’d get a 4th round pick if you originally cut 3 players and had one as a conditional 53 man roster cut. This is absolutely my bad and bad legalistic writing. Sorry.

We voted on this question last year, and it was a tie, but two of the no votes said no to getting a draft pick in the normal draft order, but yes if it was a supplemental draft. I considered that to be the “natural pick” retroactive cut version failing, but an end of draft supplemental draft version still being up for discussion, and that’s what we ended up implementing ad-hoc last year pending an official vote this year. This also averts a potential problem: depending on how fast the draft goes, and how few draft picks certain managers have, you could run into a situation, if they retroactively got a natural pick, where they’d regain their natural pick after it had already been passed up in the draft, which is obviously unworkable. A supplemental draft fixes that problem.

So here’s the clear, updated proposal that I’d like to open up for discussion. Because of the timing (my fault), this, or whatever version of this we settle on if any, would begin to apply next year.

A manager can mark a player as a retroactive cut in the event that this player doesn’t make their team’s 53 man roster. This cannot be undone and is simply binary - if that player later gets cut from their team, the player is removed from that manager’s roster. They don’t get a choice at the moment of the cut. In the event that any players are retroactively cut in this way, there will be a supplemental draft at the end of the draft for anyone who has had a player retroactively cut. For each retroactively cut player, they will get one draft pick in each round. The draft will proceed in the same draft order as the regular draft.

To give an example, let’s say player X is drafting 1st overall, Y is drafting 2nd overall, Z is drafting 3rd overall. Player X has 1 player that was a retroactive cut, Y has 2, and Z has 3. The supplemental draft would be X1, Y1, Z1. Y2, Z2. Z3.

I originally thought that players who were cut by their teams would re-enter the draft at the point of the supplementary draft, but that’s potentially unfair. Having them re-enter the draft at the time they were cut, too, is unfair. Imagine a player gets cut and then signs with a team that actually increases his value - then whoever happened to be up in the regular draft could snatch them up because they just happened to be up in the draft at the time. Or a player could hypothetically stall their own pick so it occurs during the 53 man roster deadline to get that (small) advantage. But if that cut player re-enters the draft at the start of the supplementary draft, only managers with supplemental draft picks get a chance to grab them, which is also a little unfair. It’s unlikely this is going to be league-breaking because these are players who couldn’t even justify a roster spot on their team’s rosters, and their managers were ambivalent about keeping them, but I’m trying to write the rules in a way to prevent any sort of unfair situation coming up.

So if we did implement the rule, I think we’d have to do it such that all retroactively cut players enter the post-draft waiver wire so everyone would get an equal shot at them. We could still have a supplemental draft, but the retroactive cuts wouldn’t be part of it. Which is… awkward, because there’s no other situation where you couldn’t draft an unowned player.

I realize that any time we’ve tried to add any sort of custom rule that adds flexibility, it tends to work fine 90% of the time but allows unusual cases that are going to piss people off. I’m more averse to creating such rules now and now that I actually tried to define the exact rule we’d have to play by, I realize it’s more complicated than it sounded in the first place. Please bear with me on these things. I know some people get pissed if they feel like they were on the wrong end of one of these rules but I’m genuinely trying to give everyone the best and most fair experience.

The amount of writing I’m spending on this is probably disproportionate to the chance that these edge of roster guys end up mattering at all, but I’m trying to forsee problematic cases ahead of time and make sure we’re completely fair and unambiguous.

TLDR:

Draft begins on Aug 24, get your cuts in before noon eastern
No retroactive picks for players who don’t make the 53 man roster on their team this year, pending discussion for next year. Just enter your list of keepers and cuts like you normally would.

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I’ve always been a “yes, but not strongly” for the supplemental draft, so I’m one of the four yeahs.

I never really cared about the supplemental draft for guys on the bubble who fail to make the team. I care about real players you might actually care about having a career-ending injury in the final preseason game two days after you drafted him in the second round or some shit.

I don’t even really care about them having just been drafted. I remember when Cam Akers tore his first achilles (dude tore both!), it was preseason going into his second year, where I had drafted him 4th overall the previous year. That happened in July, though, so I just straight-up cut him before the deadline and got a proper normal pick for him. But if it had happened at the end of August, it would have felt the same as if it were a guy I just drafted a couple days prior.

It’s never occurred to me that a player could gain value after entering our supplemental draft because I typically view those players as “career over.” Akers did come back and prove me wrong, but like I said, poor dude tore his other achilles two years later with the Vikings.

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I’ll start the keeps and cuts. All cut lists are provisional up until the deadline - you can make a change to your list up until then.

Kept:

Josh Allen QB BUF
Drake Maye QB NE

Devon Achane RB MIA
David Montgomery RB HOU
Rhamondre Stevenson RB NE
Dylan Sampson RB CLE
JK Dobbins DEN RB

Parker Washington WR JAX
Brian Thomas Jr WR JAX
Deebo Samuel WR SF
Jayden Reed WR GB
Rahid Shaheed WR SEA
Jayden Higgins WR HOU
Josh Downs WR IND
Kayshaun Boutte WR NE

Colston Loveland TE CHI
Kyle Pitts Sr TE ATL

Brandon Aubrey K DAL

Denver DST
Dallas DST
LA Chargers DST

Cuts:

Cedric Tillman WR CLE
Greg Dortch WR DET
Kyle Williams WR NE
AJ Barner TE SEA
Jake Tonges TE SF

If I know how to count that should leave me with 4 draft picks

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Tentative roster:

  1. Joe Burrow
  2. Jared Goff
  3. Bryce Young
  4. Bucky Irving
  5. Rico Dowdle
  6. Kyle Monangai
  7. Brian Robinson
  8. Braelon Allen
  9. Emeka Egbuka
  10. Tee Higgins
  11. Zay Flowers
  12. Christian Watson
  13. Isaac TeSlaa
  14. Keon Coleman
  15. Trey McBride
  16. Cade Otton
  17. Ka’imi Fairbairn
  18. Chase McLaughlin
  19. Lions
  20. Seahawks
  21. Ravens

Cuts

  1. J.J. McCarthy
  2. Alvin Kamara
  3. Tyler Goodson
  4. Jawhar Jordan
  5. Kendre Miller
  6. Mack Hollins
  7. Calvin Ridley

Which should leave me 4 draft picks.

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I swear to God, I was going to cut him. Despite leading the San Diego Chargers in receptions last year. Despite scoring more fantasy points than Brian Thomas Jr, Rome Odunze, Christian Watson, and Xavier Worthy. Despite being my beloved who was inexplicably drafted after Christine Michael and Joseph Randle, Keenan Allen was going to be a roster rebuild casualty. Plus, it would be kinda cool to have the great Tom Brady as the longest tenured player ever.

But then the Colts signed him. With Michael Pittman traded away and Alec Pierce still injured, I am hopeful he’ll give me a high floor flex play based on matchups.

I can’t quit you, Keenan.

I certainly can cut:

Devin Neal
Emmanuel Wilson
Marcus Mariota
Ben Sinnott
JaTavion Sanders
Jake Bates

That leaves me with this:

ROSTER

Patrick Mahomes
Sam Darnold
Michael Penix

Omarion Hampton
Kyren Williams
Javonte Williams
Jordan Mason
Chris Rodriquez Jr
Tyrone Tracy Jr

Chris Olave
Ladd McConkey
Romeo Doubs
Travis Hunter
Ryan Flournoy
Brandon Aiyuk
Elic Ayomanor
Chimere Dike
Keenan Allen

Tyler Warren

Cameron Dicker

Bills D
Buccaneers D

That leaves me with a roster of 22, so I should have 3 draft picks this year.

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I have mellowed out about the divisions. I’m due for some good luck where I’m not a high scorer but still make the playoffs.

I would also advise tagging everyone that didn’t vote as I don’t think they have seen the new thread yet, and there is not much time left before the draft starts. There’s no notification, I just got curious and went into The Game Room on SD and found the Season 18 thread.

And although I lost the vote on not starting the draft on the 24th, I urge everyone not to use the early draft date as an excuse to take 24 hours to make a pick. It’s not fun when you’re waiting literal days for action to occur.

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Also I’m officially putting up Davante Adams and D.K. Metcalf on the trading block. I’m mainly looking for picks, send me your offers.

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Fair point. I would presume everyone is subscribed (“watching” in discourse terms) to the year 17 thread and I did post a link there.

I actually can’t see who voted what. When you create a poll you can either list the names next to a vote or keep it anonymous. I chose anonymous and can’t see who voted what as the creator of the poll. I didn’t really put a lot of thought into it, I suppose there’s no reason the voting couldn’t be public, unless people are worried about being called out for their vote. In the future, should voting be anonymous or should we see who voted for what?

But fair point - I’ll make sure everyone is attending this thread. The people who haven’t posted in this thread yet are:

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright @Justin_Bailey @dalej42 @Omniscient @Ol_Gaffer @RetroVertigo

If you voted but haven’t posted to the thread yet, sorry for the redundant ping. Just want to make sure no one else missed the new thread.

I agree - I will try to be more strict this year for enforcing time. I will be more permissive early on in the draft, where each pick is more likely to generate trade discussion and where the impact of a high draft pick can be big, but once we’re through the first round I’ll be more strict and willing to skip people, especially if the same people are responsible for long delays more than once.

On the other hand, we’ve always got the draft done on time. Despite some perhaps too permissive slow periods, we’ve had enough fast periods to offset them. I don’t want to end up having someone carrying a years-long grudge because they didn’t get some first round pick they wanted because they got trapped under a boulder in Utah and had to eat their own foot off. Though I will remind people that if your your pick is coming up, and you want to pre-rank some players and send me a list in order of preference, I will wait till it’s your turn to look and then proxy draft on your behalf. That way you’re covered in case you forsee a period where you’ll be unavailable when your pick is due.

I’m concerned about Omniscient. He hasn’t posted since April. I think he’s a fairly regular poster to the boards, not a guy who only drops by during fantasy season, so I’m not sure if something happened with him. I did send him an e-mail yesterday in case he wasn’t checking the boards, but so far no reply. We may have to consider perhaps getting someone from outside the league proxy draft for him until he’s available and perhaps looking into replacement if he, for whatever reason, can’t manage his team anymore. Hope he’s doing okay.

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I’m here and already voted, just hadn’t posted to the new thread yet.

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I’m here and alive, catching up tonight and tomorrow morning.

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Omni’s absence has become a critical issue. He had posted in the year 17 thread a few months ago with no indication that he didn’t expect to play this year. I hope that doesn’t mean something unexpected happened to him. But I’ve sent him PMs and e-mails through the league and I don’t know any other way to contact him with no response, and the draft is starting tomorrow unless we decide to delay it. Does anyone else have any way to contact or otherwise get information on him?

We have a few ways to handle it. I could ask someone who has a solid history in the SDMB leagues but hasn’t played in this league to draft for him - make his cuts, make his picks. I think I can find someone that will do a good job. We could just draft for him by some sort of consensus rankings, which will probably be easy to do by the draft but not so easy with deciding who to cut, or we can start the process of replacing him. I have a few people I could think about asking because of their long and good history in SDMB leagues but I don’t currently have an interest or waiting list so I don’t know who might be interested.

We also have the option of delaying the draft until the other proposed date, Aug 30, to hope Omni shows up and if not, give us more time to recruit replacement candidates.

I’ll start putting out some feelers without committing to anything yet, I want to see how you guys would like to handle this.

19

That would suck if he’s out. Just when the Bears were getting good.

I have no problem putting the draft off a week if we had any idea he’d show up in time. And it would give us time to find a replacement. I’d prefer a replacement owner to a consensus build.

20

No idea what to do about Omni. Could we push the start of the draft back to Wednesday or so?

But if the draft does proceed as planned on Monday, here’s tentative cuts for Gusterrhoids:

Jacoby Brissett Ari - QB
Nick Chubb Hou - RB
Will Shipley Phi - RB
Tyler Higbee LAR - TE
Tutu Atwell Mia - WR
Daniel Carlson LV - K

That leaves me with 21 players and four picks.