SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year Seven

The Game Room
381

Why wait? I’ll give you pretty much anyone you want except DeAndre Hopkins for Brown.

382

How much for ODB?

383

On principle, you should refuse to trade any more NY players to Ellis.

384

ODB and Brown are my only two players I won’t trade soooooo

385

Well, fuck it then. Ellis, you want to trade?

386

What would you want for Shane Vereen?

387

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.

388

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

389

suspiciously eyes the guys from his division who just made a trade

… you guys are trying to screw me over somehow, I know it.

390

You can always get back at them by trading with me.

391

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).

392

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.

393

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.

394

It’s obvious just from looking at the standings, 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:


        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.

395

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.

396

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.

397

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.

398

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.

399

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.

400

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.