# SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year Eight **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 30, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259 "2016-07-30T04:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/481 "2016-10-11T04:05:50Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Gah! Two of my “questionables” ended up being out, and I wasn’t online in time to fix it. That’s two complete zeroes! Not being able to substitute those TWO players cost me…8.10 points. I still would have lost by double digits. > > (One of them wouldn’t have mattered, as all three TEs on my roster were out with injury this week.) If it makes you feel better, since Jennings was in your RB slot and in the Sunday Night game, you didn’t have a player you could have possibly swapped him with. The only waiver add you could have made to earn points, I picked up before the games began. Maybe there was a fullback or something from the Sunday Night or Monday game that could have given you a point or two. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/482 "2016-10-12T10:20:59Z")
Sunbelt division has 3 of the top 5 seeds now. This is how it was last year too. We’re a tough division to win and the wildcard usually comes from us. I’m not digging Bailey’s newfound success. Our pick swap was my best chance of drafting outside the bottom 4 in a while and now it looks like I may not even swap. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/483 "2016-10-12T11:49:26Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Sunbelt division has 3 of the top 5 seeds now. And three of the 4 lowest “points against” scores. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/484 "2016-10-12T12:01:45Z")
That trend should continue this week as I project my opponent to add minimal points against me. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/485 "2016-10-12T12:32:32Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > That trend should continue this week as I project my opponent to add minimal points against me. Ouch. Nice one. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/486 "2016-10-12T13:11:29Z")
I demand a division realignment! ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/487 "2016-10-13T00:28:02Z")
_Sigh_. Eric Decker goes on season ending IR. I’m so fucking sick and tired of this crap that I don’t even have enough energy to rant about it. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/488 "2016-10-16T19:18:48Z")
Gronk is back. This may be Jay Ajayi’s breakout game. Cameron Meredith might be a thing and should never have been available to pick up for free off waivers. I missed putting in waiver claims due to a busy Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/489 "2016-10-16T20:03:40Z")
I will consider trading Lamar Miller for LeSean McCoy. I think I probably have to find a way to start Terelle Pryor every week. I don’t think I can start him over Robinson/Thomas/Nelson even though Robinson is having a slow start this year. I guess I can start him over Benjamin. Ajayi is sitting on my bench with 33 points, Pryor with 22, Meredith with 16. Meh. ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/490 "2016-10-16T20:15:38Z")
There is to be no happiness on Sundays. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/491 "2016-10-16T22:24:47Z")
Yeah, I’m gonna lose with like 80 points sitting on my bench because apparently Aaron Rodgers just sucks now. This is pretty dire. ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/492 "2016-10-16T22:45:38Z")
Well, at least you have players who can total 80 points. My entire team took a shit at the same time (again), and every start/sit choice I made was wrong. Fun! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/493 "2016-10-17T00:12:57Z")
Another day, another game for first place. I think I have Justin covered but the way last week’s late games went I’m not counting any chickens. Sent from my LG-H830 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/494 "2016-10-17T04:42:43Z")
I’m just waiting until Brandon Marshall and/or David Johnson go down with a season ending injury. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/495 "2016-10-17T08:47:27Z")
Well this has been an eventful week for me. My game is actually pretty close - I’ve got a 16 point lead over Hamlet with Catanzaro still to play, against his Brandon Marshall and David Johnson. Yahoo predicts it as 54% in his favor but I think that’s underselling it slightly, I think it’s more like 2:1 in his favor. I have to hope for stalled out Arizona drives that turn into field goals. My optimal lineup this week was 180 with a kicker still to play. So that hurts. But other than maybe Terelle Pryor over Travis Benjamin, what could I have done? I don’t think I could start him over Thomas/Nelson/Robinson, nor could I start Meredith over them. And Ajayi over Ryan Mathews seems far fetched given that Miami seems to hate running backs and Mathews has been solid all year. Who could’ve started Cody Kessler over Aaron Rodgers? So I can’t really beat myself up on this one, but it’s so frustrating to have that many bench points. RNATB and Petey likely won their games, bringing them both to 4-2. If I lose, I will be too, and RNATB beats me on tiebreakers. Is this a breakout game for Jay Ajayi? After having high hopes for him in the offseason with Miller gone, it seemed like Miami was determined to continue their RB-hating ways. They favored Foster, and even when they couldn’t do that due to injury, they seemed determined to minimize their RB production and spread it around. But Ajayi has been productive in spite of this, and it’s hard to keep him out of the loop after a 200 yard, 2 TD game. But if anyone can, it’s Miami. Speaking of Miller, he finally had a good game. Yay. Kessler looks surprisingly good. I have my doubts he’s a long term starter, but he looks way better than a rookie late round pick who took third team reps in preseason and who has a useless and banged up offensive line protecting him should. The comparisons have been Andy Dalton because of the Hue connection and the physical profile and limitations, and I guess I’d have to be happy with that result. He’s a guy I just picked up to have a starter on Rodgers’ bye, I didn’t expect to keep him, but I’m going to see how this one plays out. Cameron Meredith appears to be a thing. I’m not sure if that’s talent or just a thing he’s got with Hoyer, but I’ll take it. I hope in a few months this will be one of those “how did that happen?” things when I picked him up for free. Gronk appears to be as good as ever. Rodgers appears to be as bad as last year. Robinson is off to a slow start this year. He doesn’t seem to be any less good from the couple of Jacksonville games I saw - they’re just shifting all their coverage his way. Still, concerning. Pryor is actually significantly better than his production. He’s been pretty productive this year, but he’s been held back by the designs of the offense catered to making almost entirely short ranged, simple throws for Kessler. Pryor is just blowing by DBs or manhandling them and would probably be catching endless 50 yard bombs if RG3 was still the QB. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/496 "2016-10-17T10:48:40Z")
It looks like no one’s breaking away from the pack this season. A few games could still flip after Monday Night, but it looks likely that we’ll have a tie in the Northeast, and 3-way ties in the Midwest and Sun Belt, and the top six or seven teams will be bunched together very tightly in points scored. (Don’t forget, though, that the first tiebreaker for division titles is W-L record within the division; I wish we could change that, but I don’t think we can.) Early returns on that big three-team trade are really good for me, since LeSean McCoy looks amazing, while Doug Martin has been hurt and Lamar Miller has been busy but inefficient. McCoy – along with Greg Olsen and (to a lesser extent) a surprising Michael Crabtree – has been carrying my team. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/497 "2016-10-17T13:48:13Z")
I’m still not very comfortable about this week. 44 points seems like a lot to ask of two players, but in this format it really isn’t. Especially when one of them is Larry Fitz, who can go off for three TDs seemingly at any time. Whatever happens, you and I and Justin will be bunched fairly closely in points scored (I will most likely be first regardless of what happens) but we should be about 50 points clear of everyone else. > [@SenorBeef](#): > > My game is actually pretty close - I’ve got a 16 point lead over Hamlet with Catanzaro still to play, against his Brandon Marshall and David Johnson. Yahoo predicts it as 54% in his favor but I think that’s underselling it slightly, I think it’s more like 2:1 in his favor. I have to hope for stalled out Arizona drives that turn into field goals. I thought it was going to be a total walk for him until Miller went off last night. I think 50/50 is probably pretty close to the mark. The Jets are terrible against the pass, but good against the run, which suggests that they’ll be giving up a lot of short field goals _and_ limiting Johnson. And the Cards are good against the pass, too. To be honest, if I had known how productive Brandin Cooks and Marvin Jones would be this year (I knew they’d do well, but not that they’d outproduce Nuk Hopkins) I would probably have traded Hopkins instead of Miller. But I’m still happy to have Doug Martin, assuming his hamstring issue doesn’t nag him all year. I’m pretty happy to be leading the league in scoring with my #1 RB missing all but one game so far and my #4 guy on IR. My weekly points finishes so far this season: 2nd, 7th, 3rd, 2nd, 9th, and (most likely) 1st, with the week 2 result being the result of Doug Martin going down after two carries. Though of course it doesn’t hurt that Spencer Ware is a thing. **Hamlet** seemed surprised that I didn’t want to give him up for Tim Hightower in a handcuff-for-handcuff swap during the offseason. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/498 "2016-10-17T23:06:24Z")
Fun fact: I have the second, third and fourth ranked tight ends in the league (Greg Olsen is #1). Does anyone want to trade for Martellus Bennett or Zach Miller _now_? Sent from my LG-H830 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/499 "2016-10-18T00:35:14Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Fun fact: I have the second, third and fourth ranked tight ends in the league (Greg Olsen is #1). Does anyone want to trade for Martellus Bennett or Zach Miller _now_? Oh, hush, nobody likes a smartass. (Besides, I took back what I said about Bennett in the same post that I said it, and Zach Miller is still gonna wind up being useless!) ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259/500 "2016-10-18T01:35:32Z")
Well David Johnson is a a real thing. At least it helped me win my HHM league I guess. I’m 1-4 overall in fantasy week, my first non-winning week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-eight/761259.md?page=26)