Well if anyone’s interested in draft pick trading, I’ll have 2 or 3 picks in the 5-8 range. Any and all offers considered.
V-Jax is available for the first or second pick!
I’m confused. You mean you’re dropping up to 8 guys from your roster?
I’m dropping 2 or 3 guys and all my picks will be either in the 5, 6, 7 or 8 slot depending on how I do in the consolation bowl. Obviously, it wouldn’t do any good to talk trading of picks until we all know where we land in the draft.
Jackson’s three touchdown game really reminded me of what I’ve been missing all season.
Stringer wrecked me.
Ellis Dee is actually going to upset Petey to make it to the championship game.
The advantage of getting blown out is that you don’t have to second guess your roster choices. I was traveling today. I couldn’t find a fantasy “expert” who would give a decision on Brandon Lloyd. I benched him, but it didn’t matter since I loss by 50.
Go Eli!
sobs
Good chance it’ll be me and Hamlet in the consolation bowl in a rematch of last year’s championship game.
“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.
Ok, without further ado…
Notable Drops
– Prior to the draft, Ellis Dee’s Fanboys dropped Peyton Hillis. Obviously this was the single “worst” drop of the year, but, again, it wasn’t apparent at the time: Hillis wasn’t taken in the draft even though he was available, and was only picked up off waivers after scoring a TD in Week 1.
– 9/5, dale (Warner’s Brothers) dropped TE Mercedes Lewis; he’s the 3rd highest scoring TE this year.
– 9/29, Justin Bailey (Gusterrhoids) drops WR Arrelious Benn; he didn’t have a productive year (88th), but he is a rookie drafted high in the 2nd Round, exactly the type of player most teams want to find a spot for. It just raises eyebrows, you know?
– 10/17, Ellis drops K David Akers. He’s the top scoring kicker this year.
– 10/24, Ellis drops WR James Jones. This one’s already been discussed ad nauseum, so I’ll just say that, while I’ll be very surprised if this comes back to bite him on the ass, there were a few players who were definitely better candidates for the scrap heap.
– 10/30, Stringer drops RB Anthony Dixon. Four days later he pays $6 to pick him up off waivers.
– 12/5, SenorBeef (Exploding Pancakes) drops WR Josh Cribbs. A little piece of him dies in the process.
Notable Adds
– 9/29, Varlos adds RB/WR Danny Woodhead. 29th ranked RB this year (36th WR, if it matters), and should see a small boost to his production in coming years.
– 10/22, Beef adds TE Jacob Tamme. He’s averaged 12.5 fantasy PPG since then, second only to Antonio Gates. Long-term utility is questionable at best, but still: damn.
– 11/5, Petey (Isotopes) adds David Akers. See above.
Notable Waiver Claims
– 9/10, furt (Fightin’ Quakers) adds Kansas City’s DEF for $1. They’re a respectable 15th in the rankings this year and a good candidate for further improvement, and furt will later use them as a chit in a trade (with me).
– 9/15, Petey picks up RB Peyton Hillis (2nd among RBs) for $31. Arguably a rip-off at the time, but let’s grant the benefit of the doubt and say it was prescient. In any case, it turned out to the be the best roster move of the year by a lot.
– 9/15, Petey also picks up WR Brandon Marshall (2nd), for $26. Again, this turned out to be a frighteningly good deal for him. This would be the *second *best roster move of the year.
– 9/22, RNATB spends $15 on TE Mercedes Lewis. I’ve explained before why I don’t think Lewis is going to be valuable after this season, but I could be wrong, and there’s no denying his utility this year, especially on a team that traded away a bunch of good TEs only to have it’s remaining blue-chipper (Owen Daniels) murder by injuries this year.
– 9/22, Stringer adds Mike Tolbert for a whopping **55**. This isn't red because Tolbert, overall, is the 17th ranked RB and has had a respectable per game average of 12.25 since the pickup. This isn't green because Tolbert has cracked Stringer's starting lineup exactly twice all year (for two underwhelming performances), which means Stronger blew most of his FAAB on a guy he never used and who probably won’t get a lot of carries (anywhere) in future seasons.
– 9/29, RNATB (Nine Inch Neils) purchases RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis for $25. Since then he’s scored 11 TDs in 10 games; he’s the 20th ranked RB.
– 9/29, Beef picks up Lagarrette Blount for all of $6. He did nothing for the next two games, but in the 8 since he’s put up a line of 679/4.9/5TD. A probable starter going forward.
– 9/29, Stringer nabs RB Ryan Torrain for $9. Very useful when active, though, since it’s Washington, they’ll probably bring in someone that will keep him on the bench going forward. But who know.
– 10/13, Omni (Awful Offals) squanders $13 on TE Andrew Quarless; since then he’s had 10 catches for 104 yards and 1 TD.
– 10/13, RNATB takes TB’s DEF for a lone $1. They’re 16th among DEFs and mostly young, so they’re well worth having on a roster.
– 10/20, Justin Baliey throws $24 at Seattle’s WR Mike Williams. By most objective measures this should actually be green – he’s 52nd in WR scoring, his per game average when healthy since the pickup is 11.9, good for roughly 26th – but I just don’t get the hype for this guy and think he’s going to be a bust all over again next year, so I’m leaving this black (neutral).
– 10/27, Varlos talks himself into spending $11 on Kicker Nate Kaeding. Two weeks later he drops him.
– 10/27, Beef adds WR James Jones (53rd) for $45. Close to neutral given the price tag and Jones’ well documented mediocrity to this point, but he is a relatively young receiver on an excellent passing offense who may be in line for a promotion of Donald Driver is done. You gotta spend your money on something, so it may as well be this.
– 11/3, Varlos spends a silly $36 on QB Jason Campbell, a mediocre player on a mediocre offense who will never ever be used.
– 11/3, Varlos doubles down on that spectacular Oakland offense by wasting $13 on WR Darius Heyward-Bey. Since then, he’s caught exactly 1 pass for 20 yards.
– 11/3, Stringer corrects a mistake (see above) by spending $6 on RB Anthony Dixon. Worth it. Gore’s going to leave or break down or something pretty soon, and Dixon has good buzz.
– 11/10, Ellis blows his entire wad on WR Jacoby Ford – $105. He could’ve had him for a little less, I’m sure, but I like it. It’s late enough in the season that you’ve got get what you can for your money, and Ford sure *looks *like a football player. He’s like Darius Heyward-Bey, except with talent.
– 11/10, Hamlet stumbles home drunk and makes a funny joke by bidding $58 on QB Derek Anderson.
– 11/17, Omni scores some tainted meth and angrily bids $73 for QB Tyler Thigpen.
– 11/24, dalej42, still a little loopy from the nitrous and the dentist’s office, decides to waste $25 on QB Jake Delhomme.
– 12/1, RNATB spends $57 on RB Brian Westbrook. Eh, what the hell. It probably won’t net him anything, but it was worth a shot. Call it a wash.
I picked up Mike Goodson for $19 and while he’s been bumped back down to second string, I think it was a good move.
But my pickup of the year was grabbing Ryan Fitzpatrick off the Free Agent wire, spending $0 on him in the process. That’s gotta be worth a green in my opinion.
As for Benn, I have no idea why I dropped him (over Laurence Maroney of all people!), but it seemed like a good idea at the time. I’ll probably be kicking myself next year I’m sure.
Great writeup!
I wasn’t even aware I did this. Was he on Cleveland or Denver at the time? If he was already on the Browns, and James Harris was still on the Browns, then I put the blame 100% on Beef’s shoulders for brainwashing me into thinking Harris was the second coming for the previous two years. hehheh.
I really had no idea I ever had Hillis. I wondered why his name seemed familiar early in the season. Drat.
He was on a bye and kickers never even enter my consciousness. Point taken, though. I’ll give kickers more credit going forward. (My strategy for the last two seasons has been to drop any kicker on a bye, sign the guy projected to score the most in the very next game, then leave him there until he has a bye or the season ends. heh. Even worse, if I sign a guy in one league I automatically look for him first in other leagues, so the bad decisions propagate.)
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I did hold onto $15, btw. My strategy was to bid $1 higher than the guy immediately behind me had. That way I was guaranteed to beat anyone with less money than me and still be able to scrounge around for $1 picks later in the season. Which I never, ever do, but hey, it’s nice to have the option.
I was thrilled with this pickup particularly because I didn’t have a single starting receiver on my team. Pairing Ford with Santonio Holmes (brought in via trade) really rounded my team out.
If only I’d held onto Hillis…
And further in my defense, Benn went undrafted, so nobody else was really thinking about his future potential at tht time either.
Yeah, we’ll go with that.
Speaking for my own moves, in addition to the ones listed I had:
10/6: Steve Johnson, Buf WR $5, Todd Heap, Bal TE $5.
For the negative, I drafted 7 players, and none of them started a single game for me.
I also picked up Joel Dreessen, Hou TE for $11, and dropped him before the week was over.
I also dropped Jimmy Graham, NO TE. I could have used his 2 TDs this week. Not that it would had made a difference.
Having a bad draft may have helped me, because I had no qualms about dropping the bad players and doing moves like picking up a 3rd kicker.
I needed Kitna for 1 week and I was pretty sure I could sneak Dixon on and off the waiver wire when Gore was healthy.
Love me some Mike Tolbert and if one of my RBs had gone down with injury this year he would have been totally worth the $55.
Traded him for Zach Miller and don’t regret it.
I think you mean Brandon Lloyd.
Yikes, that’s a pretty big mistake. Yes, of course it’s Brandon Lloyd.
I also dropped Lance Moore early on (I’m crazy deep at WR and he was my 6th or 7th option as a starter), and Beef picked him up. Moore ended up having a nice year (WR24) if you started him in the right games.
I picked the right time to bench Johnny Knox.
What’s that I hear? Orton’s dynasty value crashing and burning? 
Give me back Eddie Royal.