Houston’s Defense is averaging a little over 12 points a week this year. It’s certainly possible and I’d feel a lot better about my chances if Gore had managed to find the end zone.
I’m not sure how I feel about furt’s idea. I like it, but my team is composed of not-great-but-productive players who I stream, so it would hurt me. I love the Rule 5 draft idea though it will take a lot of tinkering.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I never owned Jordy. I’d remember that.
Yahoo says I’m going to lose by 0.43, but I started Houston in almost every league this week (I have them in 3 of 4 SDMB leagues) because I expect them to be very productive against Pittsburgh. Roethlisberger is surprisingly awful historically in primetime games and their offense looked like a warmed-over turd last week. A loss would drop me all the way to fifth and out of the playoff picture, since Beef and Petey are obviously going to win.*
It figures that Hoyer would pick the one week I actually need him to fail to score a single touchdown (or do anything else). I’ve been pretty lucky in this league otherwise so I guess I can’t complain.
*Unless division record comes before points in tiebreaker order. That always confuses the shit out of me.
I don’t have ENOUGH roster spots, I keep having to drop productive players…
Division record is the tiebreaker for the division win, but points is the tiebreaker for the wildcard.
Well that sucks.
It does not. I’m sure there’s a whole list of tiebreakers, but Points is really the only one that matters in the Wild Card race between two teams that have the same record because what are the odds two teams would have the exact same number of points after a 14-game season?
I’m also down for a Rule 5 draft to help parity.
If I lose this game, my one consolation is that nobody on my bench did anything so the most I could have done is increased my score by ~5 points. Of course, that will probably wind up being the difference.
I object to any changes that removes owners having complete control of their teams. That’s the defining trait of this league.
I think any sort of parity measure should be giving underperforming teams more resources with which to acquire unowned (waiver or draft) players, not by forcing teams to drop players or forcing them to relinquish players to other teams.
Yup. I know people have been saying that Gore was going to crash for years now, but it’s weird to see it actually happen because he held up all those years. Before the 49ers game, I was hoping to be up by 20 (and almost guaranteed a win) instead of up 12 (and expecting a loss).
I wouldn’t say he’s crashed. He’s run for ~420 yards on ~100 carries on the year, and he has a better per-carry average than Carlos Hyde. All that’s happened is the 49ers are no longer committed to running the ball*; they seem to spend more than half their time lined up five-wide now. This time last year Gore had 4 games with 20+ carries; this year he’s had one (he had exactly the same YPC on the year as he does for this year, interestingly.)
Another parity idea: the bottom 4 teams can poach a player or two from the pre-draft cut lists of other teams, with reverse order of standings as the waiver tiebreaker order. They’d pay by having one fewer draft pick, the one at the end of their draft.
So team A, who finished 10th, cuts 5 players. He looks over the cut list of everyone else. He decides that two of those players are worth more than his 4th and 5th round draft picks, so he submits claims. So long as the players who finished 11th and 12th don’t claim the same players, he gets them, and his draft is now 3 picks long.
There’s no reason you couldn’t let everyone have a chance to grab someone, using the reverse order of standings as a waiver order, but I wouldn’t want to end up creating a second draft. Those players will already be feeding back into the draft as-is. This would just be a special claim period only eligible to the bottom 4 teams (or bottom 4 average teams over 3 years, or however we decide).
It doesn’t take away anyone’s control of their roster - those players were cut anyway - but gives the lowest ranking teams a special opportunity to make a roster move that they see as beneficial, especially since sometimes players are dropped that are worth more than a late round draft pick.
I think we’d have to start privately submitting cut lists all to be revealed at once if we did this, otherwise it’d be too tempting to hang onto your cut list, see who other people are cutting, etc.
I don’t think that will do much to help parity. Looking back at the cut list the only guys worth picking up were pretty speculative adds. I think Joseph “underwear bandit” Randle was the only guy who was definitely going to be added to somebody’s roster.
I’m getting more interested in trading a player to get a first round pick for next year’s draft. My first round pick for next year was traded away for Maclin.
Thanks Varlos for setting up the schedule how we’ve got it. Playing division teams early then again to finish out the season makes the division races pretty interesting. This is the first year I’ve noticed it so much since my division hasn’t been as competitive in the past, but this year it’s nuts. Going into the final 2 or 3 weeks with those division games will probably determine the winner, very dramatic.
RNATB lost this week, which is nice. Despite a 4 game winning streak, I’m still a game behind Isotopes, and behind on the tiebreaker to both of them. Isotopes does have the hardest remaining schedule in the division, so I’ve definitely got a chance to catch up.
I do have a solid grasp on the wildcard spot at the moment. RNATB is the only team with as many wins, and I’ve got 100 points on him. Everyone else who’s not a division leader is at least a game behind, and I’ve got the points tiebreaker on anyone.
My core team has been very productive these last few weeks, with the flex spots being pretty inconsistent, but I’m hoping I can get a pretty big win streak going.
Midway through the second quarter last night everything was coming up roses for me. Then Le’veion Bell had that long catch-and-run on third down AND EVERYTHING FELL THE FUCK APART. I went from winning comfortably in this league, HHM and the Big League to losing in all of them. After Vereen’s big game on Thursday I figured I’d go at least 3-1 this week (rather than 1-3, since I won in the All Pro League.)
Still, at least the schedule softens up here. I basically played every playoff contender but Varlos over the last five weeks; I’ve only played two teams with (current) losing records and one of them was Hamlet, who is sixth in scoring. I get last place teams the next two weeks, then Varlos, then Ellis.
You like me! You really like me!
I was going to type that I faced last place teams in three of the next four weeks but I was a little surprised to see you weren’t a last placed team. No offense.
ETA: dale, did you have anyone in mind?
Our appeal is becoming more selective. We don’t find it necessary to try and compete in *every *game.
So, you ever start looking at putting in waiver claims, talking yourself into how other people will bid the guy up, so you should probably add another $5, nah, another $10… then the waivers get processed and it turns out no one else even put in a bid? That’s how most of my remaining waiver budget just went.
Bryce Brown is going to get a chance to start at Buffalo and they apparently think so much of him that they traded for him despite being pretty good at RB. That seems like one of the best mid-season pickups that are going to be available.
Montarvis Bryant is a size/speed guy, but he had a good night for Pittsburgh and it wouldn’t take that much to unseat Markus Wheaton.
I guess I thought there’d at least be some bids for those guys.
Brown has been a healthy scratch nearly the entire season. I expect Anthony Dixon or whoever it was that finished out last week’s game will be getting the carries.