Right?
You can lose, Beef! I have every confidence in your ability to lose! Goooooo, Beef!
Trade. I know it won’t take effect this year but whatever, it’s agreed to and official, I think, so it’ll go through at the end of the year.
RNATB gives up Andre Ellington
I give up James Fucking Jones
My team used to be balanced, but I’m way too WR heavy right now. I think Richardson may rebound somewhat next year with an offseason with the new team under his belt, but right now I can’t count on him for shit. McCoy is possibly the most valuable player in the league (he’s still 25, look that shit up sons), but and recently Mathews has been a servicible RB2, but what with Daryl Richardson losing his job and Richardson busting, what looked to be a well balanced strength to my team has become very thin.
On the other hand, I’m pretty deep at WR. Demaryius Thomas/Josh Gordon/Jordy Nelson is a ridiculous starting three. Cordarelle Patterson is looking like he’ll work out, and he’s probably going to be my flex player most of the time. And I have some promising WR depth - Marvin Jones, Stephen Hill, Kenbrell Thompkins, Andre Holmes… may end up developing into something. On the RB side, I’ve only got Dennis Johnson.
I was trying to turn a top end WR into a top end RB, but I didn’t get any offers that were too compelling. I still may do that, but in the meantime, I’ll turn a fairly productive WR I’m not going to use much into a gamble at RB.
Ellington is a scatback type who probably will never be the lead back in Arizona. And it’s concerning that after he put up a bunch of productive games on few touches in the middle of the season, his opportunities actually shrank rather than expanded. But I feel like I can take a gamble on him.
James Fucking Jones, I’ll miss you. Your 14 TDs in 2011. All the rage you’ve inspired. We go way back, me and you. Good luck on your new team.
Not bad. Jones is in the final year of his contract with Green Bay, and with the return of Randall Cobb and the development of Jarrett Boykin, I’m not sure he’ll be back. They may keep him again if they can sign him cheap enough, but I’m not sure what value he would have on another team without Aaron Rodgers throwing to him. Neither of these guys will likely be more than a flex play anyway, but I do like Arrington’s upside.
Rodgers is optimistically about a 1/3rd chance to play. I really need him this week. He’d be at Dallas in their dome against the 2nd worst defense in the league defending the pass. He’d put up 30 points, and Nelson would put up 15+. If Rodgers starts, I think I win.
Unfortunately I think I’m going to be forced to start Fitzpatrick and it’s going to be a much closer game.
No one else but Hamlet bid on Josh McCown. Strange. I’m out of FAAB dollars, I blew my load on a few week rental of Mike James.
The projected totals for all 4 playoff teams are crazy high. If they’re accurate, this might be the highest scoring playoffs we’ve ever had. I really need Rodgers and I’m pretty sure I’m not going to get him. Can Josh Gordon pull yet another 30+ point game out of his ass? What about McCoy?
My projected score of 141 is remarkable, but they’re counting Rodgers as being available. Most likely you can shave 10 points off that projection and 15 points off a real game with Fitzpatrick instead.
It’s kind of funny, mid season the middle division was looking like a monster. Hamlet, Stringer, and Omni were amongst the top scorers, but only one ended up finishing with a winning record. Surprisingly, the combined scores of all 3 divisions fall within 300 points. It’s hard to say which is strongest.
FWIW, my points against ended up at 1756.01, highest in our league history. I would’ve been pissed if I hadn’t made the playoffs.
I am pretty desperate for WR help, although Julian Edelman has suddenly turned back into a viable option. I didn’t realize Jones was going to be a free agent; I thought they had just signed him to a long term deal a few years ago. I assume he’ll get a shot to be somebody else’s #1, though, which probably means more catches if not more overall production (I have no illusions; he’s never going to score 14 times again).
As for Ellington, with Gio Bernard, Danny Woodhead and Shane Vereen I’m pretty much all set for scatbacks, so he was very expendable. I’m willing to move Lamar Miller or Woodhead for the right price.
Alrighty! The same caveats apply now as the last time we did this. Namely:
“Waiver Wire” is used here as a catch-all term for any roster moves that are not trades. I should emphasize that a lot of the “bad” decisions weren’t actually bad at the time, but merely wound up being so because something unexpected happened with the player in question. I’ve almost certainly missed a few notable moves, so if you did something – good, bad, or just meaningful in some way – that you think deserved mention, bring it up and maybe we’ll post an updated list later.
That having been said, let’s take a look at some of what went down this year:
Notable Drops
– Prior to the draft, **Omni **cuts WR Doug Baldwin. Baldwin is 25 years old and the 41st-ranked WR. It remains to be seen whether he’ll be useful once Sidney Rice comes back.
– Prior to the draft, Justin Bailey cuts WR Nate Burleson. Kinda surprising, since he was penciled in as the #2 WR on a good Detroit passing offense. Burleson was injured most of the year, but averaged over 10 points/game when he played.
– 9/26, **Stringer **drops RB Rashad Jennings, who would have a stretch as a really valuable starting RB as Oakland’s RB corps got shredded by injuries.
– 10/9, **Ellis **drops TE Travis Kelce, his 2nd Round pick this year.
– 10/16, **Hamlet **drops Rashad Jennings. See above.
– 11/7, **RNATB **drops Tampa Bay’s DEF, currently 10th for the year. Surprising since he’s a Bucs fan. Perhaps largely due to disgust since they’d just lost their 8th game in a row, and had given up an average of 30 ppg over their last four.
Notable Adds
– 9/5, **Justin **takes back WR Nate Burleson as a FA (see above).
– 9/11, **VarlosZ **adds Carolina’s DEF. Currently 2nd in the league, I’ve started them almost every week.
– 9/14, **RNATB **adds WR Doug Baldwin (see above). He’d later use him in a trade with dale, netting RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis.
– 9/22, **RNATB **adds TE Jordan Reed. Reed had a really nice rookie season when healthy, and figures to be valuable going forward.
– 9/25, **Justin **adds the Saints’ DEF, which is actually pretty good now (11th on the season).
– 9/25, **furt **adds WR Ace Sanders, a rookie who’s come on for Jacksonville lately and looks promising now that human suck machine Blaine Gabbert isn’t running the offense.
– 10/20, **Beef **adds WR Marvin Jones. A week later, Jones goes for 8/122/4 against the Jets. Mostly due to that game, Jones is the 36th ranked WR.
– 11/7, **RNATB **adds Rashad Jennings. Christ, enough already with the Rashad Jennings.
– 11/14, **Ellis **adds WR Tiquan Underwood. Two weeks later he goes for 108 yards and 2 TDs.
Notable Waiver Claims
– 9/5, **RetroVertigo **spends $35 on WR Donnie Avery (only other bid was $5). In 13 games, Avery has averaged 6.2 points.
– 9/5, **RetroVertigo **balances the scales by spending $11 for WR Terrance Williams, Dallas’ 3rd Round pick this year, somewhat surprisingly undrafted in our league. He had a nice little rookie season (46th ranked WR) and stands an excellent chance of being an asset in the future.
– 9/11, **dalej42 **spends $26 on WR Harry Douglas. This was almost entirely the result of Julio Jones and Roddy White being banged up for huge stretches of the season, but Douglas was the 29th ranked WR this year.
– 9/18, **Stringer **pays $40 for RB James Starks (next highest bid $32 from Hamlet) after he has a huge day against the Redskins. Worth a shot, but Starks winds up doing fuck-all for the rest of the year (214 yards and 2 receptions spread over 8 games).
– 9/18, Justin Bailey spends $5 on TE Charles Clay. How did no one else bid on Clay after he had two strong games to start the season? Clay is the 5th ranked TE this year, and just 24 years old. Crazy.
– 9/21, **VarlosZ **blows $85 on RB Willis McGahee following the Trent Richardson trade (next highest bid: $50, by Justin). I was still really thin at RB at that point and thought I might actually start McGahee a half dozen times. Total waste, never played him once.
– 9/25, **Omniscient **spends $14 on WR Jason Avant, an 8-year veteran who’s never been worth anything in fantasy (or the NFL, really). He wasn’t worth anything this year, either (336 yards).
– 10/2, Hamlet spends $13 to re-acquire RB Rashad Jennings (see above, thrice).
– 10/16, **Petey **spends $16 on WR Kris Durham. I had to look up who Kris Durham is, and of course he’ll probably never turn into anything, but in a “gotta spend your money on something” kinda way this was a good buy: he’s young, he’s on a good passing offense (Detroit), and he’s been targeted almost 7 times per game this year. Good teams use every day roster roster churn as an opportunity to keep low-level prospects like this in stock.
– 10/23, **SenorBeef **ponies up $68 for RB Mike James following a couple Buccaneers RB injuries. It doesn’t work out so well for him: Jones has a huge game (158 yards) against the Seahawks in Week 9, but of course he was on the Beef’s bench. This prompts him to start James in his Week 10 game against me, but James gets carted off the field on the Bucs first drive and puts up only 4 points. Ryan Matthews, who presumably would have gotten the start without James, put up 12.6 … and **Beef **lost the game by less than 3. Still, the claim netted a RB who was capable of putting up that one great game against a good defense, so we’ll leave this neutral.
– 10/26, **RNATB **spends $8 on Houston’s DEF. **RNATB **has a serious problem at DEF. Houston has been terrible, and yet for much of the year they were his best (or only option). He’s started them every week since claiming them (so in that sense he got his money’s worth), but they’ve averaged barely 5 points per game in that time, and they’re the 28th ranked fantasy DEF on the year. (They could easily be worth having next year, but still.)
– 10/30, Justin Bailey commits $25 to James Starks, but James Starks commits to staying James Starks.
– 10/30, **Petey **spends $22 on WR Dexter McCluster (next highest bid is $20, by Justin). McCluster has had some semi-useful games since being picked up, and he’s still young enough that he’s worth holding onto just in case. OTOH, he hasn’t had more than 74 yards from scrimmage this season, nor more than than 522 in either of the last two seasons, nor more than 6 TDs total during his four-year career. He’s not getting RB carries any more, and it feels like we know who this guy is by now.
– 11/3, **Justin **spends $25 on RB Brandon Jacobs. Jacobs actually had a 100-yard running game earlier in the year, but it was against the Bears, so it doesn’t count. There was no chance Jacobs was going to prove useful for any but the most RB-needy fantasy team. (Then again, Justin’s 3rd RB is the aforementioned James Starks, so perhaps I shouldn’t judge too harshly.)
– 11/6, **dale **spends $52 on WR Riley Cooper (surprisingly, no one else put in a bid). Cooper is currently the 30th ranked WR, and may continue to get a lot of chances in Chip Kelley’s offense going forward.
– 11/27, **Varlos **spends $11 on RB Brandon Bolden. Since then, he’s had 2 yards on 3 carries and been a healthy scratch.
– 12/11, **furt **spends $101 on WR Da’Rick Rogers (next highest bid is just $2, by Hamlet). Hey, gotta spend it on something, and Rogers is as good a lottery ticket as you’re gonna find on the waiver wire at this point. I applaud his initiative.
– 12/11, **Hamlet **spends $38 on QB Josh McCown. Makes sense given how well McCown has been playing, but, amazingly, **Hamlet **has McCown slotted in as the starter for this week’s playoff game against **SenorBeef, **over Robert Griffin and Philip Rivers. Seems like this will therefore either be a *really *good move or a *really *bad move, and we’ll find out which on Sunday. For now this is purple, the universal color of indecision.
I made that move more to keep McCown away from Beef more than to add him to my team. I don’t like McCown’s longterm potential, but I also didn’t want Beef to scoop him up and start him against me. Had I been thinking, I would have realized Beef didn’t enough FA money left to grab him, so I wouldn’t have to spend that much on him though. But for this one week, he’s worth more to me by not being on Beef’s team than being on mine.
I hereby pronounce myself King of the Free Add/Drops!
Pretty much. :mad: I’m not entirely sure what I was thinking since I knew there was a great nucleus there and this is likely to be a top 10 defense year in and out for a few years.
It was mostly a next-year move. Once Jonathan Joseph and Brian Cushing get healthy they should be close to dominant again, particularly once the running game is working.
That’s actually pretty clever. Let’s retroactively call it green.
Just so there’s a list in the thread that doesn’t get lost, these are the pieces from next year that have been traded (so far):
– Justin Bailey’s 2nd Round pick goes to dalej42.
– Varlos has the option to swap 2nd Rounders with Omniscient.
– Justin Bailey’s 1st Round Pick goes to RNATB.
– Stringer’s 1st Round Pick goes to dalej42.
– Ellis Dee’s 3rd Round pick goes to SenorBeef.
– SenorBeef’s 1st Round pick goes to Ellis Dee.
– RB Andre Ellington goes from RNATB to SenorBeef.
– WR James Jones goes from SenorBeef to RNATB.
As you said, I needed a 3rd RB for a bye week and Starks was a decent fill-in choice. And he put up 9 points, not too shabby I’d say. Especially for James Starks.
He’s also the clear backup to Lacy, which could be big next year with Lacy’s injury history. Unfortunately, Starks also has a huge injury history, so he’s really hard to rely on.
I’m in a weird spot with Reggie Bush this week. He’s questionable, and he’s been very valuable when healthy, BUT even as the starter he’s in a partial time-share with backup Joique Bell, whom I also own. If he plays, who knows how much of the workload he’ll actually get? Even if the other option was that Bush is 100% healed by kickoff, probably the best thing for me would be if Bush doesn’t dress at all; that way Bell would be the unquestioned feature back. Rarely does one root for his own player to be injured, but there it is.
Yeah, but I really doubt he’ll be the primary backup next year. He’s never been very good, doesn’t bring any unique skill to the team, and is past the age where meaningful improvement could be expected. I bet you Jonathan Franklin (or someone else) is way ahead of him on the depth chart in 2014.
God damn it.
If it’s any consolation, I don’t think I started Steve Smith at all this year.
Can you explain how that is decided? From what I see I’m a whole spot suckier than RNATB.
Yep, you’re right, I put the wrong name in.
I realized something last night. I have found myself reaching the point in fantasy football where my reactions to games/performances/and wins and losses have become like my reactions when playing poker. As long as I made the best decision I could based on the information I had, I’m fine with the result. Sure it sucks when my AA gets cracked by a 10-J suited, just like it sucks to lose by .5 points when some throw away middlin’ player on the opposing team goes off for 30 points. But as long as I’m happy with my decisions when I made them, I’m finding myself worrying less and less about the outcomes.
It’s a whole lot different than when I first started fantasy football and I’d get too agitated or get pissed at myself for starting Roddy White when he had a bad game and I had David Gettis put up 180 yards and 2 td’s on my bench. I’ve built a good team, I’m happy with my starters, and beyond that is beyond my control.
But I still want to win.
Too late! The pick is MINE!