Dion Lewis signing with the Titans has to put a bit of a damper on the Derrick Henry excitement.
That would be, uh, negative. It’s Dion Lewis. They aren’t going to give half the carries to a 5’8" back who has never stayed healthy.
Alright, so I’m not sure what’s going on with Varlos.
He last posted to this thread on 9/05, then disappeared from the boards. After that, he logged in sometime in late October (checking the last login date on the account), and hadn’t been on the board for 6 months.
His account logged on last week. No activity, but that’s the last login date listed now. It’s possible it wasn’t him - maybe someone else has his computer and checked out his history with the account still logged in, who knows.
I’m friends with him on steam - I saw his account on a couple of times and tried to ask if he was alive or what, and got no response. I figured maybe someone inherited his account, but he’s bought a few games in recent months which are the sort of games he tended to buy. I tried to ask whoever was on the account to tell us what happened and if he was alright, but never got a reply.
I was worried the worst had happened to him, but you would think that if a friend or relative got his computer they’d at least tell people what happened, especially since I specifically asked. Of course if it’s him logging in sporadically but not talking to us, that’s also very weird.
So I’m hoping he’s okay and he’s got some weird story like he went undercover in a Malaysian human trafficking ring, but I have no idea what’s up with him. If he doesn’t check in within a couple of months we’re probably going to have to replace him unfortuntaely. Obviously I’d prefer not to do that, so I hope somehow he makes it back.
I forgot to mention that a few weeks before leaving, Varlos made me co-comissioner, which makes me wonder if he anticipated not being around. He didn’t say anything about it.
Related, yahoo opened up leagues for renewal but it doesn’t appear that as co-commissioner I have access to that function. Shouldn’t be a show stopper - if I can’t figure out some way to do it, then we can re-create the league with the same rules and rosters and stuff manually if need be. Or maybe there’s some alternative method.
Not a huge deal, but in this league having access to the history and everything is helpful. May be worth sending a query to Yahoo! support to try and get yourself promoted to commissioner. I would guess that this is something that’s happened before.
Hopefully he re-engages during the draft this weekend and we can get some clarity…
There is always the possibility that its not undercover.
You didn’t even know if Trubisky would be starting from Weeks 8-16 though.
Yes I did. It was a practical lock barring injury. I didn’t pick the rookie who started the most games on accident.
No. You picked the rookie who threw for over 200 yards in just 3 games and had 7 tds and 7 interceptions on the year.
Yes I did. You’re not entitled to your own facts, who do you think you are, Trump?
I also did this. Which still makes him the most productive rookie QB.
As I said before: “What is amusing though is that Watson, despite playing in 5 less games, still scored more fantasy points than Trubisky.”
Some proposals to make this league more competitive and easier to manage.
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Lower the roster size from 25 to 20. This will make FAAB and trading a lot more interesting I think.
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Instead of managing the rookie draft where you have to cut down to the number of picks you want, have 2 cut dates. The first cut date before the rookie draft you must get down to at least 20 on the roster. Then we do a 6 round rookie draft where everyone gets the same number of picks and then we cut down again to 20.
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Do the draft order based on points scored for non-playoff teams, and final finish for playoff teams. I cannot keep track of the way our draft order works at all.
I vote no on #1, though I’m not opposed to slimming down the rosters slightly.
Instead of #2, why don’t we do what the NFL does? Instead of released players going into the draft pool, they go into free agency, and everyone can bid on them with a pre-set budget based on the draft order. Then we have the draft as usual.
Totally on board with #3.
The goal of #2 is to significantly reduce complexity surrounding the draft. It eliminates the requirement to swap last round picks, eliminates extra picks for IR designation (schedule the final cut date after the NFL IR date), and gives us a very straightforward draft that is easy to manage on the boards. Any counter-proposal which adds extra drafts or complexity is a total non-starter for me.
I feel very strongly about reducing roster size, I truly hate this league with the rosters at their current size. It is BORING.
I like our rosters - a lot of leagues have a taxi squad, but we essentially have that built in by simply keeping players you like in the long term on your roster. It’s interesting to me to keep a guy you don’t think will be too good this year but might be good in a year or two - much more interesting than waiting for that player to break out and then being the guy who snatches him off the waiver wire. But if we were to cut down roster sizes, I think 5 in one year is way too big a jump. It’d be easier to introduce reducing the roster sizes 1 or 2 slots a year for more than one year than to make a big leap like that at once.
I also think our draft of all FA and rookies in one go, filling up as many slots as you have at draft time, is quite elegant. I know you don’t like the potential complexities of trading future picks - but we could always get rid of that without totally changing our draft system. We can simply take future draft pick trading off the table to simplify things if that’s what people want - and then the drafts aren’t complicated at all. We know the draft order and number of players each team is drafting and everyone who isn’t on a roster is available.
I can’t remember how we do draft order now, I’d have to go look it up. I’m fine with the proposal.
Reducing roster sizes is an adamant, absolute no vote from me. How does this league need to be more competitive? My team has finished 3rd, 10th, 2nd, 12th in the last four seasons. There’s plenty of parity to move up and down. And trading needs to be more exciting? I don’t have to explain why I, specifically, think that is absurd.
This change would would not only go against the spirit of a dynasty league, but could spoil the competitive balance of the league. Roster turnover is the antithesis of a dynasty league. It’s not really a dynasty league if you just pick up and drop players as they become useful, but don’t have enough roster space to stash someone for more than half a season. Plus, it’s a solution without a problem. Every single season multiple rising star players become available from the waiver wire. Making players more available isn’t the issue when players are already plenty available.
I spent two seasons holding on to players like McKinnon and Garoppolo while they did almost nothing. That’s what makes a dynasty league fun, not FAAB lotteries. I’m heading into a draft where I might not be able to get even 3 picks. Forcing me to drop 5 more players would be devastating. Reducing roster sizes by 1 would even be a problem.
It sounds like without proposal #1, proposal #2 doesn’t work. Our draft is too complicated, as has come up in the past two years, But it’s overcomplicated because we don’t bother paying attention to the timing of events as they become important. We can solve all the problems by enforcing a calendar and posting results here.
I’m fine with proposal #3.
FYI, Beef, I will be dropping out of the SDMB leagues except for this one and the All Pro league. I just don’t have time for six leagues anymore.
If something has to change, and we’re voting, that’s my vote.
I argued against trading future draft picks, and still don’t love the idea but to be honest I don’t really mind it anymore. But I view the change of “no trading future picks” as much less harmful to the spirit of a dynasty league than “not enough roster space to stash longterm prospects.”
Note: For me personally, I’m trying to calculate just how many years of 1st through 3rd round picks I need to package to trade for the #1 overall pick to acquire Saquon Barkley, so it would very much simplify my life if I weren’t allowed to even go down that road.
We’re running out of time to wait for Varlos. I’m going to get the league ownership sorted and start asking around about a possible replacement. If you’ve got suggestions as to who, feel free to PM me.
I have reasons to suspect he’s not permanently gone, which is why I’ve been waiting for him to make a reappearance, but it hasn’t happened yet and we’re 2 months from the draft so we’re going to have to move on soon.
I’m for sure out of this league, sorry everyone. The rules are so bad and nobody wants to change them so it’s best if I move on, good luck.