… you pick up all unrostered GB wideouts. And that’s not an unreasonable strategy. But you can’t tell me it was anything but luck that he turned into a productive player at another position.
Agreed. I think we all have a ton of guys like that.
I knew my team would be on the down slope this year, but I can’t believe the number of points I’m leaving on my bench (20.70 from Jason Witten… argh!).
I mean I make good moves to roster players who show signs that they might be breaking out. You can say any individual success is “luck” but I’m making good bets.
I almost snagged Tyreek Hill away from you the same way, but you beat me by like $2 FAAB.
But what the rest of us are saying is that we can all say we make good bets.
I picked up Michael Vick for nothing during our first year with the express purpose of flipping him for a sure thing RB, which I did. Matt Forte is still on my time and I’ll likely be starting him most of the year.
Barring a scoring adjustment, I’m going to back into 2-0. I have no reason to deserve this, though I think I’ve made some decent start/sit choices.
My star QB is again putrid. Seattle is the absolute worst team in the league to watch. Chicago is sabotaging Jordan Howard, which is almost making me regret trading away Gurley. Of course, it makes my decision to draft someone who had the highest floor and most consistent usage projection a very prescient one. If I had drafted any of the other players I looked at (Kareem Hunt wasn’t on my radar with 1.01), I would have started 0-2 or 1-1. My elite WR doesn’t look to be able to endure the Colts’ terrible backups. This has not been a 2-0 team by any reasonable standard.
At least my draft picks have at least met my expectations so far, so there’s that. This three year plan might work out.
Woot. Highest score this week despite Jordy Nelson putting up 0. I’m playing RNATB next week and we have (at the moment) the two highest projected scores. It’s a pretty high stakes game - if I start 3-0 with two division wins over RNATB and Petey that’ll be a pretty big lead for the division.
(lowest points against)
I mean, why does that matter? I would’ve beaten anyone else in the league this week.
Tough week. There was no combination of players which would have allowed me to beat Stringer, and I would have had to make some boneheaded moves even to get close. On the bright side, Jermaine Kearse might prove to be an asset unless the Jets do something silly like starting Hackenberg, the clock is ticking down until Doug Martin returns, and Ameer Abdullah looked like a thing last night.
I got a crap trade offer for Mark Ingram which was predicated on Alvin Kamara taking his job. If anything, though, Ingram is still the head of a reasonable RBBC, and I expect him to be just fine once AP is cut or traded (admittedly possibly not until the offseason).
A simple no would have sufficed. Or, Og forbid, a counter offer.
Sometimes I dislike this league.
I wasn’t criticizing you. I was just saying I didn’t think it was a very good offer. It isn’t like I was insulted by what you offered; just that it was a marginal player at a position where I already have excellent depth. At this point, my team is in a place where I’d only trade for every week starters or future QB1s, and I thought it was unlikely that you’d give up David Johnson or Patrick Mahomes.
It’s relatively uncommon to have 130+ projected points and both RNATB and I have that this week, ahead of everyone else. Plus big divisional implications. Game of the week material.
Josh Gordon. Sep 29.
I’ll never lose again.
I’m surprised you held onto him this long. It’s been almost 4 years since he last scored a TD.
I will hold onto him until 5 years after he retires. He still has 200 TDs left to go in his career.
Given the requisite intervening suspensions, he’ll still be on your roster in 2044 then.
I’m at peace with that. As far as I’m concerned I have 24 roster spots and Josh Gordon.
The Rams defense didn’t do me any favors in the Early Season Matchup of the Century last night, but I suspect Houston’s defense will do me even fewer against New England.
Back from my honeymoon and starting to get back into the swing of football after missing the first 2 weeks pretty much entirely. I wanted to respond to this critique, with the concession that my notes would have been more meaningful before real games started up.
Taking these together. So, first off, you need to see where my team is at. I have Luck and Bortles at QB and nothing else. I really like Trubisky, and while I may be wrong, I see him as my backup QB for the future. I’d have liked him better in the 2nd round, and if there would have been a top flight RB available I’d have totally taken them, but there just wasn’t. Whatever happened, I was walking out of this draft with a QB and Trubisky is the only one I really like.
The Glennon pick is an unfortunate throwaway, but a necessary one. Knowing that Luck is still out indefinitely and Bortles at the time looked ripe for a week 1 benching, I had to have a starter for 3-4 weeks. There were other low-end starters I could have probably grabbed, but I figured between him and Trubisky I’m assured a starter until Luck is back. Plus there’s was a chance Glennon is actually decent…though after 2 weeks that hope is looking silly.
This one after 2 weeks looks really good. Cohen is the real deal, one of the most productive rookies. Other than Carson, none of the other RBs left on the board are even close.
Got lucky he lasted this long. In retrospect, I’d have rather had Carson since I’m suffering with Rawls as my second RB, but he’s the highest scoring rookie WR thus far. Home run.
We’ll see. So far he’s on the field and getting work, but isn’t a primary target. I guess a guy averaging ~50 yards is better than a guy on the bench, but I may need to wait for Mahomes to see if he’s ever got a chance to start for me.
So Varlos hasn’t been on the boards in over two weeks. He also hasn’t adjusted his roster since Greg Olsen went on IR. Absent owners giving out free or easy wins in this scenario is bad for league balance, so in this scenario as commish I would typically fix a player’s lineup. I’m not commish in this league, but Varlos did make me assistant commish before he disappeared, so it seems reasonable for me to step in to correct this issue.
The only question is - do I simply swap out the IR player for his next best TE, zach ertz? Or do I re-arrange his whole lineup to be the best projected (by yahoo) lineup which is the best objective measure we have for fielding a competitive team?