Did I say Gore? I meant Moore. Yeah, Mewelde Moore.
I just told Rodgers to let Ryan Grant have a few TDs cause I’m already 100 points ahead. I am a fucking wrecking ball. WHO WANTS ME IN THE PLAYOFFS?
I’m loaded at QB so I might consider some unbalanced trades.
Can I face you with my team from the first half of the year. We were much more evenly matched then. It’s mostly the same players, but I was somehow 6-1 in the first half of the year and I’ll likely end up 2-5 for the second half.
I’d probably be interested in Cammy Cam next year but I’d want to see how free agency for Tolbert and Rice work out first.
Justin Bailey locked up the northeast corridor division with the lowest score in the division.
Stringer has had the midwest for a while, with the highest overall score.
SenorBeef wins the sunbelt division by 3.5 games despite the horrible head to head start - 8 game winning streak. Second in points.
RetroVertigo wins the wildcard.
I also crushed Isotope’s playoff chances. Or he did, by scoring so low, if Retro ends up losing.
- Stringer
- SenorBeef
- Justin Bailey
- Retrovertigo
A lot of big talk from a guy who won’t even be top 3 in scoring for the week!
Well, the die has been cast for the Ides of Martz for the season in this league. This will be the first in a series of post-mortems that I’m going to complete for my legion of leagues.
The Ides of Martz are probably going to finish in 11th place in spite of a truly dominant final week victory over division rival RetroVertigo in which I scored the most points in the league, this will be my only Midwest division victory. On the scoreboard it’s been a really difficult year for my boys, we’re finishing dead last in the Midwest division with the 2nd worst record and the 3rd worst total points. However, when looking a bit closer there’s a ton of reason for optimism.
Let’s take a moment to review, I inherited this team which was frankly in dire straits 2 years ago. In a dynasty league you’re going to be an a bit of trouble when your 3 best players are Terrell Owens, Clinton Portis and Hines Ward, which was the case entering the 2010 season. I did myself few favors in the subsequent season with a terrible draft and some short sighted roster decisions, particularly clinging to some under achieving veterans in hopes of winning in the short term while bypassing some potential rookie role players on the wire. This year was dramatically better in this regard.
First off, I entered the draft fully admitting that this would be a rebuilding year. I was very aggressive in my cuts before the draft to ensure I had as many bullets in my gun as possible. I avoided the temptation to hang onto Owens in hopes of him latching on somewhere, which wasn’t a crazy thought back in August. The only cut I regret is Jabar Gaffney, but I don’t think his performance this year is likely to be a long term thing. I entered the draft with a league most 9 picks.
Here’s my brief draft review. For the most part I was spot on. The big wins were obviously my first 2 picks in Julio Jones and DeMarco Murray. Huge value for the long term. I’m personally very excited about having Locker on my roster as well. It’s going to be a long time before I’m ready to turn the page on Big Ben as my starter, but with what Locker has shown so far it’s clear he’ll have a shot to become a starter. There’s virtually no chance that he disappears quietly as a career backup which is exactly what I’d hoped, I think his upside is better than all the QBs taken after him in the draft with the notable exception of Dalton, though Ponder is worth watching. When Kenny Britt returns he could be a fantasy beast if he starts next season. I had higher hopes for the back end of my draft, especially Rudolph. Also this was before we knew the severity of the Manning injury so having Addai/Brown as a RB combo wasn’t completely useless and honestly, it might be useful again next season with Luck or Manning.
Where I really excelled this season was in my managing of the waiver wire. I added a ton of young impact players to my team that will pay dividends in the future. Obviously Jones and Murray should give me the star power that I desperately needed if they don’t fall off a cliff, but the players that will take be from the cellar to the podium in the future will be Torrey Smith and Doug Baldwin along with a few nice poker chips in young backup RBs Ware and Scott. None of these guys are a sure things, but would it be a complete shock to see a viable starting lineup of Locker, Murray, Scott, Jones, Smith, Gonzo and Baldwin in the flex in, say, 3 years? I probably need to find some more reliable options at RB to complement these guys in the future and at least one of those WRs is likely to flame out but I’m really happy with my keepers going into next year. Oh yeah, I was able to get Tony Gonzalez in a trade to insure Dallas Clark’s uncertain future.
I’m still a long ways from being a title contender and there’s a bunch of uncertainty, but the number of players whose best years are behind them is shrinking on this team and I’ll actually have some difficult choices to make come draft time.
Exploding Pancakes year review:
Still have Aaron Rodgers? Check.
Edit: I guess my made fun of tight end squad is actually probably more responsible. Two WRs that produce like #1 WRs is quite a potent tool. On the MVP page - the one that shows the most common players held by the best team - I have 4 of the top 5, and 1 more in the top 10. And every single one of them is entering the prime of their careers.
Further edit. Just noticed McCoy is the top RB too. My team is some awesome.
Gronk is 3 points behind Welker in our scoring system, 15 points ahead in standard.
On my Dynasty Page:
“No Games Scheduled.”
Third in total points and I couldn’t even qualify for the consolation bracket. Good Luck in the playoffs.
I congratulate you Justin Bailey. Winning your division with the 15th best score in the league is quite a feat… of luck. No shame in losing to the eventual champion though. Might want to start drinking early this week.
It’s doubly impressive considering there are only 12 teams in the league. 
But like I said, my team now is much different than my team in the first half of the season. In the first 7 games, when I went 6-1, I was #3 in scoring with 810 points. In the last 7, I went 2-5 with only 630 points. If I kept up that pace, you’d be begging to play anyone else in the first round.
I almost won our division with an even lower score. My Dynasty league team only outscored my HHM team by 57 points.
Weirdly, I went 5-2 in the first half and 2-5 in the second half but my average score over the first 7 weeks was only 5 points more.
And I hate you both.
Don’t look at me. I didn’t want to realign the divisions.
We never realigned the divisions. They’re the same as they were during the first season. And please don’t take this as a knock on my divisionmates, but I love playing the same people multiple times a year. It makes it feel like a real league.
Yeah please, nobody wants to be in the Midwest division with me.
I could have sworn we ended up with almost everyone but me in favor of realignment so I just assumed we did realign. :smack: I think Beef’s move from worst-to-first shows I was right, at least.
I’m not sure how my rise proves you were right. I still think (strongly) realignment every year based on results would be the funnest way to run this.