The league is full, all 12 reupped. There’s a chance someone will have to quit before the start of the season, but otherwise we won’t be recruiting. We simply can’t - all of the useful players in the league are on someone’s roster, so it’s not like we can add a team or two.
There are other SDMB leagues you might be interested in that will be recruiting soon enough, look at the general FF discussion thread.
Oh, I know the league’s full. I’m just hoping to keep jogging people’s memory in case some does quit the league (if I find out where any of you live I may have to go Nancy Kerrigan on someone’s kneecaps).
For the record, I have an awesome RB unit.
I was looking over an “expert” early mock draftto see what people are thinking about this year. Pre-free agency, some players are hard to place. But overall it seems mostly reasonable to me. It’s a PPR draft, so take that into account.
Other than WR, my roster ends up looking pretty good based on their values. My QB is their #1 QB at pick 22. My RBs are #4 (McCoy), #18 (Matthews), #39 (Blount) and #87 (Starks) overall. I have 2 of the top 3 TEs, with Finley (#51) and Graham (#68).
My WRs suck though, with the highest being Bess (#85), Knox (#94), Moore (#112) and Edwards (#136)
I wonder if that high rating for Graham is a fluke or people are really big on him this year. There’s a lot of hype amongst experts.
Cedric Benson got arrested for beating up his family, and under the new CBA he’s going to be a free agent, so good job getting signed now dipshit. Then again, if any team would resign him after a new criminal record, it’s the Bengals.
Anyway, I wonder if that means it’s Bernard Scott’s time to shine.
I doubt his arrest stops the Bengals from trying to re-sign him.
I was super pissed, too, because I knew missing those first several rounds was going to haunt me for years to come. I didn’t even prerank.
The plan – without a moment’s hesitation or doubt – was to take Aaron Rodgers with the 8th overall pick. I think I was gonna pick up a couple young stud WRs in the 2nd and third and just bank on an aerial assault year after year. Oh well, Brian Westbrook notwithstanding (worst first round pick ever) I just had to adjust to a RB focus. At the end of the day, Stevn Jackson and Pierre Thomas isn’t the worst duo in the world.
Still would much rather have had Rodgers.
I was willing to spend my high 2nd rounder on Rodgers but I didn’t think it was necesary. I’ve been extremely high on Rodgers pretty much his whole starting career. I’ve overpaid for him in a lot of drafts. But in 2009 he’d only played one year and it wasn’t clear he was going to be a star yet, so I thought I’d be able to wait till round 3 to snag him. I remember waiting for those last few picks hoping no one would jump on him ahead of me.
If we were to hold the 2009 draft in retrospect, who do you think would be the top 10 picks? I think Rodgers might have a chance of going #1 overall… I mean, to have a young QB who you know is going to be top 3 (possibly #1 for most of them) for the next 10 years… that’s dynasty gold.
Yep, exactly. I was as high on him as you were, but more importantly I was higher on him than any other young player in the league as a consistent, longterm top-tier talent. I would have taken him #1 overall if I had the pick and was at the keyboard.
Savvy of you then, that sucks about missing the first few rounds - it stings for years.
The sick thing is that I almost traded for Vick last year when he was injured early on and his value was still low. I was given a choice of Vick or Orton. This was before Vick went nuts and it was even clear he’d be a starter, but yeah, ouch on that. I could have Rodgers and Vick, which would’ve been crazy. Now I’ve got Orton who may not even be a starter.
Of course choosing between Rodgers and Vick every week might’ve been difficult, but I could’ve then traded Vick for a great WR.
Jesus. It’s sad to say, but that set me off laughing for a good five minutes. Dynasty leagues sure are a different beast. I’m starting to feel a little sad I passed on this one.
… and then I see some of the rosters. Good God.
Fascinating stuff, though!
Reminder before you make cuts: Keep at least one player at every position if there’s any chance at all you’ll miss the draft. It will draft to fill up your roster before it takes your pre-rank list into account. So if you have the #1 overall pick, and you’ve got a certain player pre-ranked as #1, but you have no kicker, it’s going to draft a kicker with that #1 slot. We had that happen last year who got screwed over.
Of course the easiest way to avoid that is to attend the draft, but if you can’t for some reason, keep that quirk of the autodrafter in mind.
1.) Thursdays and Fridays are bad for me (actually Thursdays are impossible, but I can try to make Friday work if needed). Given the choice I’d rather have an early weekday draft, but majority rules.
5.) I think two IR slots would serve our purpose.
Also if anyone is interested in the #2 overall pick, I’d listen to offers (I’m looking for WR’s or RB’s) just send me a PM. Although I won’t be rushing to make a decision, I’d like to see all the offers I receive, so don’t get upset if I don’t respond instantly.
So I’d be willing to bet on my RB corps blooming into something really good. But for trade purposes I think people might undervalue everyone but McCoy as unproven.
But McCoy is proven, young, and in one of the best offenses in the league. And I’d be willing to consider dealing him and gamble that the rest of my RB corps will bloom. He’s #5 on yahoo’s big board - and that’s just for the immediate term. Considering he’s young and a well established starter, he has even more fantasy value than that. He’s one of the best dynasty players available.
So I’d move him, but I would need a significant upgrade to my WR corps to do so. McCoy is worth more than any single WR, so I’d have to either get some RB value back or more than one WR. Or some other combination.
Just letting you guys know I’ll hear the offers. I mean, I’ll listen to offers on my other RBs too, I just don’t think they’re currently regarded for their real value, so I suspect the offers would be below what I was willing to accept.
I originally proposed a division system that was based on the quality/finish of the teams rather than the rather arbitrary system we have now. We’d have a one-year realignment that grouped the divisions by placing the top 4 finishers in one division, the middle four in another, and the bottom three in another.
It has a parity effect to some degree (you fight other teams with similar strengths, and at least 1 guy from the bottom 4 will make the playoffs next year), a prestige effect (everyone in the top division has tougher competition, but it’s an honor to be there), and a rational/meaningful reason for having divisions at all rather than the arbitrary matches we have now.
We could either realign every year based on results, or after one initial realignment we could use a relegation system, where the winner of each division moved up a slot, and the loser of each division moved down a slot.
I’d just like to say that while there were protests that it would be too tough on the successful teams - if we reorganized based on last year’s results, I’d be in the tough division, and I’m still 100% behind the proposal
I suppose that since we have 2 years worth of results to work with, we could do the initial realignment by averaging the results from those two years. Either way works for me.
Anyway, just floating it up there since it’s my personal #1 wish for this league.
I’m still strongly against divisional re-alignment based on standings. The divisions are already quite even (6129, 6291, 6246 points-per-division in 2010), and it seems silly to me to punish teams for performing well. Giving the 9-12 teams top draft picks AND gifting one of them a guaranteed playoff spot doesn’t sit well for me in a competitive league.
It’s not as if we have 4 juggernauts hogging all the playoff spots, only one team has made the playoffs in both seasons (ahem.) Hell, Beef himself went from 12th to a playoff spot in one year, it’s not like anyone is stuck in the mire for good.
No, but I just don’t see the point of having divisions otherwise. They’re arbitrary and without much meaning. This at least gives them a logical purpose.
That is a fair point, the divisions certainly are arbitrary.
But I don’t think the current divisions are broken (total division points are relatively even), and I don’t like throwing the whole playoff system we have out the window simply to give the divisions more meaning.
I would much rather the league go completely divisionless than have a relegation system.
You can’t will a rivalry into being. It has to happen over time. Look at my division, the Northeast Corridor. I’m 9-3 against division opponents over the league’s two years (the best in the league in intradivision play, woo me!). Don’t you think Ellis Dee, furt and Varlos want to stomp me for a little payback?