Stringer is going to be our champ.
I’m surprised I have a decent shot at winning the third place game. I have a 13 point lead, Moore, McCoy, Gonzalez and the Falcons vs Petey’s Shockey and Akers.
Congrats, Stringer. You are a fantasy wrecking ball. You’re the reality that Beef boasts himself to be.
I’m glad to bring home the title that the fans of We Do HGH so richly deserve after our bittersweet 2nd-place finish last season.
Also VickVickVickVickVickVickVick.
Give me a break. I lead all 3 leagues I drafted this year in scoring, two by a huge margin. I’ve never said I was a wrecking ball in this league - in fact I’ve commented all year that it seems like I shouldn’t have done as well as I have. Across the board, I’m going to have the best multi-league fantasy season anyone has ever had in the history of the SDMB leagues by quite a bit, with 3 leagues lead in scoring (the only thing you can really control), along with an actual finish of a 1st out of 20 finish, a 1 or 2 out of 12, a 3rd out of 10, and a 3rd or 4th out of 12.
Edit: Not trying to steal credit from Stringer, who has a great team in this league, but implying I’ve done nothing to boast about this year is ridiculous.
I implied no such thing.
Well, if you’re talking about this league, I’ve never boasted that I’m a wrecking ball. If you’re talking about the other leagues - I may end up winning 2 out of 3 with a third place finish in the other, in which case my boasting is fairly accurate.
I (Warner’s Brothers) had a great time in the league this year and can’t wait until next year. My #1 draft pick will be available in trade for a decent RB.
YOU’RE WELCOME.
Before I trade Vick away, he’s putting up a very good 21.59 points a game. But he was hurt for four of the first eight games.
After I trade him to the champ, he stays healthy and ups his average to 29.5 points a game. That’s just insanity.
But I’m still very happy with Matt Forte, and I think he gives me a better shot next year.
The funny thing is that Vick only made a difference in the 142.75-142.14 win I had over Varlos in week 10. I could have rolled with Cutler and been fine.
Congratulations to Stringer. He rode the prescient trade for Michael Vick (and the resultant 9-game win streak) to a justly deserved championship. During his streak (including playoffs), while the league average points per game was 113, he put up a whopping 147.54. He’s got the the #4 QB (likely to be #1 after Tuesday), 4 of the top 24 WRs (7th, 8th, 16th, 22nd), and an amazing 3 out of the top 8 RBs (1, 5, 8), each of whom should be excellent once again next year. It’s a scary good franchise if Vick has another great year in 2011 (if he totally collapses, it’s merely an excellent franchise).
A final word on the Vick trade. Even if, for the sake of argument, we were to assume that **Stringer **just got lucky – i.e., that he traded for good but brittle fantasy QB who just happened to turn into the most valuable fantasy player in the league over the second half of the season – it was still a very savvy move. His roster was superb everywhere but QB (where he had Jay Cutler and David Garrard). In exchange for the (superfluous) Matt Forte, he filled the only big hole in his roster with a player who had the potential to be excellent. Upgrading from the 15th best QB to, say, the 8th best (a Cassel/Schaub type) would have helped, but only to an extent. He added variance where it was needed – a great move.
ETA: On preview, well, sure, the Vick trade didn’t *literally *help him win a bunch of games, but it did make his team great instead of “just” good enough … and I’ll be damned if I’m gonna go back and rewrite this post.
Once again, **Hamlet **gets the shaft. He scores the 4th most points, but under-performs in the Wins department because of bad opposition luck; he had the most points scored against him by far. Compared to the team with the second-most points against (champ Stringer), **Hamlet **had to overcome an extra 7.12 points per game. Compared to the team with the least number of points against (Beef), he had a handicap of over 30 points per game. That’s fucking bananas. (Last year’s difference between most and fewest points against was just under 17 per game.) Only once all year did a player fail to crack 100 against him.
Looking at his roster, he’s going forward with Philip Rivers, Adrian Peterson, and then a whole bunch of declining veterans and iffy prospects. Fate may have cost him his window.
Average points scored by division (season/game)
NE Corridor – 1532.95 / 109.5
Midwest ------ 1573.37 / 112.4
Sunbelt ------- 1562.01 / 111.6
Looks pretty balanced to me.
Average points scored per week
- 104.9
- 113.2
- 118.2
- 101.3 (4 teams on bye)
- 106.3 (4)
- 109.8 (4)
- 113.5 (4)
- 108.1 (6)
- 108.3 (6)
- 117.7 (4)
- 123.3
- 113.0
- 112.8
- 106.3
Taking into account the bye weeks, scores tended to rise over the course of the year. I assume this has to do with us figuring out which players are or are not worth using. I don’t know what the decline at the end was about – Injuries? Random noise?
In my case I think it was a little of both:
** Ryan Fitzpatrick fell back to earth over the last few weeks.
** The Giants defense got routed this week and last week.
** I lost Frank Gore for the season in week 12.
** And the Giants still can’t decide who’s the starter between Jacobs and Bradshaw.
After putting up the 3rd most points in the regular season, this perfect storm of crap really caused me to limp through the consolation round. But I’ve got a solid core of players and I think I’ll be back in playoff contention next year.
Just a heads up for everyone: AFAICT, roster moves are still allowed. Right now all players are on waivers until tomorrow, as usual. I won’t be manually shutting down add/drop until the (NFL) playoffs start, though I imagine that Yahoo will end it before then. So, last chance to pick up someone you’d like to keep next year, and all that.
Looks like I’ll bump him from fifth place in the pillowfight of the year, unless the Minnesota offense puts up a lot of points.
I just noticed this year’s thread has 18 pages! Pretty amazing considering this league’s thread was only 6 pages last year, and I couldn’t find any SDMB league thread in the past 2 years that had more than 9 pages.
Just wanted to say this is my favorite league and it’s a pleasure to play with all of you. Now I get to spend the next 9 months obsessing about my roster and next year’s draft…
Seconded. I love this league.
And is anyone else already thinking about their cuts and having a tough time of it? I’ve got nine sure things, four rookies I don’t want to give up on yet, six guys who are on the cusp and four declining veterans who still might have something in the tank for 2011.
I’ve got one sure cut and a spare kicker that I’ll probably dump before the draft. And every 2011 rookie draft report I’ve read (yes, I started reading them weeks ago) has no clear cut favorites after the top three (Luck, Ingram, Newton).
Depending on how camp goes for my army of bench RBBC guys, I might not cut a single guy for next year’s draft.
Also AJ Green if he declares.
I’m also really enjoying this league, and have also already tried to figure out where I’m gonna cut. I only have one definite (Heyward-Bey), but there are four other various values for “maybe,” so I should get at least a few draft picks.
And I’m absolutely certain that, with the 4th pick next year, I’ll wind up having to take AJ Green to add to my preposterous group of young WRs (Megatron, Fitzgerald, Dez Bryant, Crabtree, Britt, Mike Williams [TB]). I’ll fucking do it, too, so don’t count on him sliding, whoever wins this week’s 5th place game.
And while I’m on the topic, anyone who needs young WRs and has a spare young RB should look my way. I’m not opposed to a 2-for-1 type trade, so you could add a ton of value to your WR group for years to come.
Oh, and as far as offseason trading goes: it won’t be technically allowed until Yahoo opens it FF site for next year (at the earliest), but in the meantime no one is officially discouraged from having trade discussions or agreeing-in-principle to trades. Just know that no agreements will be enforced or made official until both sides have confirmed the trade *after *the official start of our offseason trading period (probably some time in early-mid July).
And I’m really looking forward to our first three-team trade. I can feel it coming, maybe not next year, but by the year after next.