AAARGH. Down by 0.06 points.
You’re welcome Beef.
Fudge.
3.46 points from going 4-0 across my leagues this week.
Good, that only puts me 1 loss behind RNATB. I wish points was the first tiebreaker but it’s division games, and he’s one ahead of me in that category. I do get to play him again, so I guess we can settle that there.
I think the wildcard will probably come from our division. The other divisions have one clear leader - Justin Bailey’s 7-2 vs 3 teams at 4-5, and Stringer’s 7-2 against 5-4, 3-6, and 3-6. Both Isotopes and I have a better score than our record would indicate, giving us a likely tiebreaker, and RNATB is a win ahead of anyone else that would be in the wildcard race.
I’m actually a 141 to 98 projected favorite of RNATB for our rematch. I’ve actually got huge projections for the rest of the season - I’m a 30+ point projected favorite in every single game, so there’s a chance I win out. Unlikely though, and I actually have started to have a susperstitious fear of a huge projected lead, because I seem more likely to lose if I’m a 40 point favorite than if I’m a 10 point favorite.
The huge projected win will just make it extra delicious when I destroy you.
It’s time for regression to the mean - and the mean has me destroying you.
I’m just gonna beat you by 98 in the playoffs again, Beef.
My team has just got to take it one game at a time. You know, show up and make sure you improve every single game. Just get out there and execute.
Don’t forget to stick to the game plan.
Seriously, though, my team is way strong except at quarterback- but when Andre Johnson comes back, you’re all fucked.
You’re right. Andre Johnson is a beast. His return to action will be a thing to behold.
He’s available, too.
I am looking to trade for a top-tier WR and I’m willing to give up youth to get one.
Looking for a young QB? I’ve got Christian Ponder and Blaine Gabbert, two QBs who could be very good someday and are putting up decent numbers today.
Looking for a young RB? For the right price, I’ll give up Ben Tate. Brandon Jacobs (who has said he’s likely finished with the Giants and still has some life left in him) is also available.
I want Tate but not sure our teams match up for a trade. Take a look and let me know?
I got an offer for Tony Gonzalez. I’m not too enthusiastic, but with my TEs running so deep I’m not going to be starting Gonzo (even though maybe sometimes I should, by the matchups) so I’ll take someone I might actually use someday.
But it wouldn’t take too much to move me off the offer if anyone wants to do better. I’ll give it today and if I don’t get any better offers I’ll make the trade.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s going to work. TO EVERYBODY ELSE: Brandon Jacobs is getting the start this week with Bradshaw out and he’s available for the right price. I think I have too many starting RBs. Although, that’s not a bad problem to have. Except when you leave big points on the bench.
ETA: Also, I just realized I posted this in July about my RBs: “For the record, I have an awesome RB unit.”
Got an issue. Omni and I are trading Josh Cribbs for Tony Gonzalez. He made the offer early in the week, but I wanted to give people a final chance to make offers and held off on accepting the trade until Saturday, figuring that if Omni wanted the trade to go through, I’d just approve it as per usual in my leagues. Except I forgot that I’m not the commish of this league, and I’m not sure if it’s set up for commish approval, so I’m not sure if Varlos can push it through even if he’s around.
I don’t want Omni to get punished by me forgetting the situation and waiting too long, and he wants to start Gonzo this week. So is there some way we can get the trade pushed through, or at least retroactively fixed? If Omni states exactly which position/player Omni would start over Gonzo, Varlos can go back and switch it after the games start.
Anyway - not sure when Varlos will be around next, but I’ll send him a PM.
shrug I kind of think pushing trades through should be a once-in-a-while thing rather than an every-time thing. If you want to trade players for a given week, make the trade in time.
I don’t have a problem with it being pushed through, though.
Most people do their fantasy roster management on the weekend, so not allowing trades to go through is pretty limiting. There’s not really any downside to allowing them to be pushed through.
I’m sure trades have been pushed through early before. And Josh Cribbs for Tony Gonzalez is not crazy enough to require any discussion (it’s downright normal for any trade Beef is usually involved in).
Yeah, it’s automatic in my other leagues (if both players make it clear they intend for the trade to go through) so I didn’t even think about it. The 48 hour thing is designed for public leagues or other generally hands-off leagues that might require player intervention in those sorts of matters and who may have an absentee or biased commish. Also, SDMBers don’t like to object to trades and I don’t remember having a trade voided by anyone in our long history, even with some lopsided trades. None of us are going to dump players when our season is over or otherwise ruin the league, so we’re not really the people that the default 48 hour system is designed to protect against.
Otherwise you have to get trades down before 1pm ET friday morning for them to go through, which is kinda rough when maybe you don’t know the injury status by then, maybe a player got injured late in the week, maybe you’ve been negotiating with the other owner for a few days and it’s already friday, etc etc. I just like to give people the max amount of time available to work trades.
What I would personally do, since Varlos may not make it back in time, is to have Omni declare his intent (who would be benched in favor of Cribbs) and have Varlos fix it retroactively. But it’s not my league, so it’s up to him.
FWIW, it doesn’t matter to me a bit as far as self interest because I’d bench both of them. I just don’t want Omni to get screwed if he was expecting the trade fast as per standard procedure in the other leagues.