# SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year Seven **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 28, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425 "2015-07-28T22:42:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**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 6, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/381 "2015-10-06T18:31:37Z")
Why wait? I’ll give you pretty much anyone you want except DeAndre Hopkins for Brown. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/382 "2015-10-06T18:36:02Z")
How much for ODB? ---
**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 6, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/383 "2015-10-06T18:37:50Z")
On principle, you should refuse to trade any more NY players to Ellis. ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/384 "2015-10-06T18:40:02Z")
ODB and Brown are my only two players I won’t trade soooooo ---
**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 6, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/385 "2015-10-06T18:44:36Z")
Well, fuck it then. Ellis, you want to trade? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/386 "2015-10-06T19:12:27Z")
What would you want for Shane Vereen? ---
**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 6, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/387 "2015-10-06T19:21:05Z")
Quite a lot. He’s a depth player rather than a hold-and-hope guy. Tavon Austin would do it. Or I’d swap him and someone else (and possibly a draft pick) for Carlos Hyde. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/388 "2015-10-07T15:34:49Z")
**JB’s Gusterrhoids Gets** Mike Wallace (WR - Min) 2016 Draft Pick - Fightin’ Quakers Last Pick **Fightin’ Quakers Gets** Ka’Deem Carey (RB - Chi) 2016 Draft Pick - 2nd Round ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/389 "2015-10-07T18:18:59Z")
**suspiciously eyes the guys from his division who just made a trade** … you guys are trying to screw me over somehow, I know it. ---
**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 7, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/390 "2015-10-07T18:20:41Z")
You can always get back at them by trading with me. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/391 "2015-10-07T18:34:49Z")
Could. I’m not opposed to trading Doug Martin if that’s still what you have in mind, even after his good game, but numbers are an issue (might need Duke Johnson to come online in order to be able to trade away a RB). ---
**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 7, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/392 "2015-10-07T18:45:23Z")
We could always do a straight-up trade. You want Lamar Miller? It’s not a firm offer, I’d have to think 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 8, 2015, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/393 "2015-10-08T10:05:59Z")
Haven’t done this in a while. Here are our historical standings 2009 1 RNATB 2 Stringer 3 Hamlet 4 JB 5 furt 6 Dale 7 Varlos 8 Petey 9 Retrovertigo 10 Spiritus Mundi/Omni 11 Ellis Dee 12 SenorBeef 2010 1 Stringer 2 Ellis Dee 3 SenorBeef 4 Petey 5 Hamlet 6 RNATB 7 furt 8 JB 9 Varlos 10 Omni 11 Retrovertigo 12 Dale 2011 1. SenorBeef 2. Stringer 3. JB 4. Retrovertigo 5. Petey 6. furt 7. RNATB 8. Varlos 9. Ellis Dee 10. Hamlet 11. Omni 12. Dale 2012 1. Hamlet 2. furt 3. SenorBeef 4. Stringer 5. Petey 6. JB 7. Varlos 8. Omni 9. Retrovertigo 10. Dale 11. RNATB 12. Ellis Dee 2013 1. Varlos 2. Hamlet 3. SenorBeef 4. JB 5. Stringer 6. RNATB 7. Petey 8. Omni 9. Retrovertigo 10. Dale 11. Ellis Dee 12. furt 2014 1. Stringer 2. Petey 3. SenorBeef 4. Ellis Dee 5. JB 6. Varlos 7. RNATB 8. Omni 9. Dale 10. Hamlet 11. Retrovertigo 12. furt Which means our overall average standings are: 1. Stringer 2 1 2 4 5 1 = 2.5 2. SenorBeef 12 3 1 3 3 3 = 4.1 3. JB 4 8 3 6 4 5 = 5 4T. Petey 8 4 5 5 7 2 = 5.1 4T. Hamlet 3 5 10 1 2 10 = 5.1 6T. Varlos 7 9 8 7 1 6 = 6.3 6T. RNATB 1 6 7 11 6 7 6.3 4. furt 5 7 6 2 12 12 = 7.3 5. Ellis Dee 11 2 9 12 11 4 = 8.1 6. Retrovertigo 9 11 4 9 9 11 = 8.8 7. Omni 10 10 11 8 8 8 = 9.1 8. Dale 6 12 12 10 10 9 = 9.8 Stringer is further ahead of me than I thought, although I’ve only really had one bad year - a disastrous last place start. But at least that afforded me the chance to draft… Ryan Mathews. Blah. I’ve finished top 3 for the last 5 years. That’s something, right? I had a couple of years where I’d have won the championship round easily but the guy who faced me in the semi-finals had a ridiculous game. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/394 "2015-10-10T05:26:49Z")
It’s obvious just from looking at [the standings](http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/170803), but we’re off to a pretty bizarre start to the season. The big one is that is that everyone is 2-2, except for four teams that are 3-1 or 1-3. Overall scoring is up considerably compared to this time last year: from 110.9/ppg up to 115.4 (presumably this is a fantasy-wide phenomenon instead of just being about our league). Apparently, though, it’s where those extra points are distributed that explains our weird standings. Here are the points per game through four weeks for each team, ranked lowest-to-highest, last year side by side with this year: ```auto Through Four Weeks 2014 . . 2015 Stringer 128.8 -- 136.9 Hamlet Varlos 124.6 -- 131.7 Varlos Omni 120.0 -- 124.8 Justin Hamlet 118.6 -- 116.4 RNATB dale 118.4 -- 115.9 dale Petey 118.0 -- 114.4 Beef Beef 114.7 -- 112.2 Retro RNATB 111.4 -- 111.3 Ellis Justin 102.7 -- 110.2 Stringer Ellis 95.4 -- 106.5 furt furt 94.4 -- 103.4 Omni dale 83.9 -- 101.6 Petey ``` So this year the guys in the middle have scored a little less, while the guys at the top are scoring somewhat more, and the bottom of the league is scoring _a lot_ more (from 94.1 to 105.4/ppg for the bottom four teams). I don’t know how to explain it except that the bottom four teams are actually mostly _good_ teams that are off to slow starts, so there’s only so bad they can perform. That still begs the question of why there aren’t any “bad” teams below them. Optimistically, I’d say parity is kicking in, and no one is too far from contention in any given year. Or it could just be a giant fluke. Also interesting is the points scored per division. The Northeast is the top scoring division (118.6/ppg, MW 115.7, SB 112.1), and of course last year it was by far the lowest scoring (both after four weeks and at the end of the season). Sun Belt is the lowest scoring, while last year it was easily the highest. Anyway, I look forward to our apparent Championship Game between **Ellis** and **dale**. Should be fun. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/395 "2015-10-10T07:10:58Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#): > > That still begs the question of why there aren’t any “bad” teams below them. Optimistically, I’d say parity is kicking in That’s certainly been the case for me. The three big acquisitions I’ve gotten over the past couple seasons have been Tavon Austin (#1 overall), Carlos Hyde (#2 overall) and Big Ben (via trade.) Austin is finally starting produce, and while Hyde doesn’t look so hot anymore, he did well in the first few weeks. EDIT: Donte Moncrief is my other big acquisition, who I got by trading away Antonio Gates last year for Stringer’s (successful) title run. ---
**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 10, 2015, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/396 "2015-10-10T07:13:46Z")
Drafting bottom 3 every year has been tough for me. RBs go so high that I never get a shot at a top prospect. It’s been tough finding any. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/397 "2015-10-10T16:34:29Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#): > > Optimistically, I’d say parity is kicking in, and no one is too far from contention in any given year. > > Or it could just be a giant fluke. It’s probably a little of both. I definitely feel like we’ve got the whole parity thing down as even the “bad” teams don’t stay bad for long. On the other hand, my scoring is way up almost solely due to Devonta Freeman’s monster season so far, and that definitely seems flukey. I’d love it if he kept it up all year (I’d cruise to a championship), but I very much doubt that’ll happen. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/398 "2015-10-10T16:46:44Z")
It is truly amazing the number of top drafted running backs that have flamed out. Monte Ball and Trent Richardson completely out of the NFL. ---
**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 10, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/399 "2015-10-10T18:39:43Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Drafting bottom 3 every year has been tough for me. RBs go so high that I never get a shot at a top prospect. It’s been tough finding any. > [@dalej42](#): > > It is truly amazing the number of top drafted running backs that have flamed out. Monte Ball and Trent Richardson completely out of the NFL. Yeah, drafting at the top isn’t that helpful. Not if you take RBs, anyway. I acquired both of my starting RBs by trade, as well as my projected #3 (Vereen). Matt Jones is the only RB on my roster who I drafted. ---
**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 10, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425/400 "2015-10-10T21:14:09Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > It is truly amazing the number of top drafted running backs that have flamed out. Monte Ball and Trent Richardson completely out of the NFL. Guys like Keenan Allen, DeAndre Hopkins, Jordan Matthews, Brandon Cooks, and Kelvin Benjamin fall in our drafts thanks to the premium on drafting lottery ticket RB’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-seven/726425.md?page=21)