# SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY league: Year Ten **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 16, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742 "2018-08-16T18:02:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**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:** [December 12, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/481 "2018-12-12T10:43:10Z")
**SDMB-Dynasty League - Week 14** \*\*Rnk Week 14…Actual…Rnk Season…Actual 1. Jules +6…167.60…01. Hamlet…1959.25 2. Ellis…144.80…02. RNATB…1890.14 3. Hamlet -2…135.65…03. Jules +1…1834.62 4. Omni +4…127.93…04. Omni -1…1799.88 5. Beef -1…122.78…05. dale…1723.35 6. Retro +4…122.26…06. Ellis +3…1709.40 7. RNATB -4…112.37…07. Retro…1699.37 8. Justin +3…103.53…08. Gaffer -2…1675.67 9. Petey +3…76.87…09. Overly -1…1643.00 10. Overly -5…74.10…10. Justin…1577.47 11. Gaffer -2…72.79…11. Beef…1501.44 12. dale -6…57.90…12. Petey…1197.13\*\* \*\*Rnk Week 14…Potential…Rnk Season…Potential 1. Jules +7…204.28…01. Hamlet…2335.65 2. Hamlet -1…164.45…02. RNATB…2171.73 3. Ellis -1…155.50…03. Jules +2…2166.21 4. Omni +3…152.43…04. Omni…2146.16 5. Beef +1…140.20…05. dale -2…2127.65 6. Retro +5…135.46…06. Retro…2092.52 7. dale -4…129.95…07. Ellis…2046.39 8. RNATB -4…129.32…08. Gaffer…1982.80 9. Justin +1…124.21…09. Overly…1949.12 10. Overly -5…119.25…10. Justin…1897.14 11. Petey +1…109.80…11. Beef…1883.36 12. Gaffer -3…100.69…12. Petey…1578.13\*\* \*\*Rnk Week 14…Coach…Rnk Season…Coach. 1. Ellis +7…93% A…01. RNATB…87% B+ 2. Retro -1…90% A-…02. Jules +2…85% B 3. Beef +1…88% B+…03. Gaffer…85% B 4. RNATB +3…87% B…04. Overly -2…84% B 5. Omni +5…84% B…05. Hamlet…84% B 6. Justin +5…83% B…06. Omni…84% B 7. Hamlet -4…82% B-…07. Ellis +2…84% B 8. Jules -6…82% B-…08. Justin…83% B 9. Gaffer -3…72% C-…09. Retro +1…81% B- 10. Petey +2…70% C-…10. dale -3…81% B- 11. Overly -6…62% D-…11. Beef…80% C+ 12. dale -3…45% F…12. Petey…76% C\*\* The playoff teams are ranked 1, 2, 3 and 6 in actual points scored and 1, 2, 3 and 7 in potential points scored. These final two weeks have moved me up to reasonably passable as a playoff team, though still definitely the clear underdog. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2018, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/482 "2018-12-14T09:26:21Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > It is so nice not having a major injury, or an actual series of injuries, derail a promising year. I fucking knew it. I go all fucking year not mentioning my injury luck and the second I do, Keenan Allen goes down with an injury and puts up a goose egg. Fuck this game ---
**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:** [December 14, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/483 "2018-12-14T09:57:37Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > I fucking knew it. I go all fucking year not mentioning my injury luck and the second I do, Keenan Allen goes down with an injury and puts up a goose egg. In other news, I finally found a replacemement for TJ Yeldon by signing Damien Williams (RB-KC) as a free agent on Wednesday, and he promptly put up 27.30 points last night, woohoo! Good thing, too, as my other two starting Chiefs (Travis Kelce and the kicker) underperformed. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/484 "2018-12-14T10:36:19Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > I fucking knew it. I go all fucking year not mentioning my injury luck and the second I do, Keenan Allen goes down with an injury and puts up a goose egg. > > Fuck this game That was a really tough blow. I thought I was done for after my only healthy QB got hurt, but Allen’s 0 and Mahomes having a pedestrian game gave me a slim chance. As it is, you have the better match ups, and I’m forced to start a waiver QB in the playoffs. I don’t look forward to trying to win it all with free agent QBs. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/485 "2018-12-14T15:30:03Z")
Tyfreek didn’t do much, and losing Spencer Ware turns out to have been a double tap (since Ellis has Damien Williams). ---
**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:** [December 16, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/486 "2018-12-16T09:13:08Z")
Does anyone remember if we ever made a rule covering whether we’d be able to trade outside of the trade deadline? Yahoo has a mandatory trade deadline, but we may have discussed in the past allowing people to make trades beyond that point using manual player moves. Before I dig back through tons of threads, I figured if anyone happened to remember if we ever discussed this. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/487 "2018-12-16T12:24:02Z")
In previous years we agreed that all trades had to be completed before the last game of the regular season. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/488 "2018-12-16T23:06:17Z")
And there goes Tyler Boyd. I forgot how much I hated this league. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/489 "2018-12-17T00:13:42Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Does anyone remember if we ever made a rule covering whether we’d be able to trade outside of the trade deadline? Yahoo has a mandatory trade deadline, but we may have discussed in the past allowing people to make trades beyond that point using manual player moves. Before I dig back through tons of threads, I figured if anyone happened to remember if we ever discussed this. I’m fine with allowing trades at any time. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/490 "2018-12-17T07:06:35Z")
What a weird playoffs, not just for our league but for everyone. There are a ton of top seeded teams who are up there because they owned all the players who’ve been hot and consistent up until last week, and who all laid an egg in the playoffs. I had what might be the best team the big league has ever seen and got creamed by getting a bad week out of all of my players, especially Gurley, who put up like 3 points after averaging 28 or somewhere about there. All 4 of the top seeds in the big league lost, and it looks like the 4 remaining highest seeds may have lost this week. This year has to be one of the biggest disconnects between regular season and playoff performance we’ve ever seen in fantasy. So, both of our games are going down to the MNF game. Hamlet needs 13.86 points out of Michael Thomas to beat Jules, something that yahoo thinks is 56% likely to happen. Ellis needs 15.81 points out of Christian McCaffery to beat RNATB, something yahoo thinks is 61% likely to happen. Definitely very close. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/491 "2018-12-18T13:18:28Z")
Yay McCaffrey! That TD pass put me comfortably over the top to win my game and advance to the championship. It should be noted, however, that except for McCaffrey, every clear starter on my team significantly under-performed across the board. Compared to projections: Big Ben -9, Jarvis Landry -6, Christian McCaffrey +1, Tavis Kelce -5, Sterling Shepard -4, David Njoku -3, KC Kicker -6. The only reason I won this game was the stellar 27.30-point day from Damien Williams (RB-KC) who I signed as a free agent (after the waivers period) on Wednesday afternoon while setting my lineup. If I hadn’t signed him, I would have actually scored 82.35 and lost by 20 points. Even with perfect prediction, my max potential would have been 90.45 and still lose by 10. (My only other option at RB2 was TJ Yeldon, who scored 1.6.) All this to say that I also suffered the same “guys who were hot all season totally collapsed in the playoffs” as everyone else, but somehow I miracled a last-minute win from the free agent pool. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/492 "2018-12-18T16:58:33Z")
I think the part that bugs me the most was the hope I had. I should have known better than to expect not to get fucked by injuries, but being relatively healthy for most of the year was such a shock, I guess I forgot. Still, most points in the league and a solid roster going forward isn’t a bad season. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/493 "2018-12-24T16:18:16Z")
Man, Jules called it in his playoff analysis - Ellis definitely peaked at the right time. That was a pretty good run, riding waiver darling Damian Williams to the promised land. Congrats. Fun season gentlemen. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/494 "2018-12-24T23:59:35Z")
Yay, finally my first FF championship ever, in any league, woohoo! I have finally overcome sleeping through the first three rounds of the inaugural draft, which is absolutely brutal in a dynasty league. (I planned to take Aaron Rodgers in the first round, and he was available, but because I didn’t pre-rank, yahoo autodrafted me the 30-year-old about-to-retire Brian Westbrook instead.) I had been secondarily rooting for dale during the season; I’m happy to represent the perennial doormats with this win. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/495 "2018-12-25T01:22:29Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Yay, finally my first FF championship ever, in any league, woohoo! > > I have finally overcome sleeping through the first three rounds of the inaugural draft, which is absolutely brutal in a dynasty league. (I planned to take Aaron Rodgers in the first round, and he was available, but because I didn’t pre-rank, yahoo autodrafted me the 30-year-old about-to-retire Brian Westbrook instead.) > > I had been secondarily rooting for dale during the season; I’m happy to represent the perennial doormats with this win. I’m happy I won the consolation bowl, and I came damn close to making the playoffs this year. I’m eager for next season. Congrats on the win. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/496 "2018-12-25T16:21:55Z")
Congratulations to Ellis Dee, our champion this year. 1. New York Fanboys (Ellis Dee) 2. HungryHungryHaruspex (Jules Andre) 3. Moridwon (Hamlet) 4. Nine Inch Neils (Really Not All That Bright) 5. Warner’s Brothers (dalej42) 6. Idles of Martz (Omniscient) 7. The Great Old Ones (Ol’Gaffer) 8. No Use For A Name (Retrovertigo) 9. Overly Sentimental 10. JB’s Gusterrhoids (Justin\_Bailey) 11. Exploding Pancakes (SenorBeef) 12. Isotopes (Petey) Thanks everyone for playing this year, and I hope to see you all back next year. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/497 "2018-12-25T16:41:22Z")
Reminder that I’d like to revisit the missed extra point scoring next year. Having thought more about it, I think a missed extra point should either be worth 0 or -1, preferably 0. Definitely no worse than -1. Here’s my thinking: 30-39 yard FG +3 success -2 miss Make 1 Miss 1 Total: +1 Extra Point +1 Success 0 Miss \<=== my recommendation Make 1 Miss 1 Total: +1 I originally said make it the same -2 on a miss as a 30-39 yard FG, but that’s clearly uneven because a successful extra point is only worth 1, not 3. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/498 "2018-12-25T16:45:46Z")
I’m fine with going back to standard kicker scoring or eliminating kickers altogether for an extra bench (or active roster) spot. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/499 "2018-12-25T18:59:33Z")
I’m fine with either eliminating kickers or reverting to standard scoring. I spent a lot of time researching rookies this season for the draft, but I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s no way to pick a kicker except for maybe they play for an indoor team or in a warm weather city. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742/500 "2018-12-26T06:46:05Z")
Congratulations **Ellis Dee**. I said it would have been well-earned if you managed that miracle, and you did. Well done for consistently putting in effort every season and turning around that inaugural draft. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-ten/819742.md?page=26)