# Yahoo fantasy football signup now open... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 5, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152 "2005-07-05T17:02:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/241 "2006-03-23T17:59:14Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > See my above post. You could trade LJ and your #15 for a #1 and #2 pick (or whatever.) Your incentive to trade is having four picks in the first two rounds. I would think trading LJ for the #1 overall straight up would be incentive enough. If it weren’t, then your original trade makes no sense. The second year out involved trading LJ for a second rounder. The only way that evens out is if the #1 overall this year is _more_ valuable than LJ. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/242 "2006-03-23T19:57:08Z")
> [@Ellis Dee](#): > > I would think trading LJ for the #1 overall straight up would be incentive enough. > > If it weren’t, then your original trade makes no sense. The second year out involved trading LJ for a second rounder. The only way that evens out is if the #1 overall this year is _more_ valuable than LJ. Then again, as was just pointed out to me, the incentive of trading LJ to include a 2nd rounder next year (rather than a 1st rounder) takes into account the possibility of injury. WD would have shored up a free pick, regardless of LJ hurting himself. **Dave** , **Munch** has tried to e-mail you a couple times, but it seems like you’re not getting them. Spam filter, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/243 "2006-04-26T07:30:57Z")
1. Does Ricky Williams have to submit to random drug tests while he’s suspended for all of next season? Because if not, I see some good times in his future. 2. Is anyone planning on not resubscribing to this board? Just curious. Because I was thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/244 "2006-04-26T09:54:44Z")
According to ESPN as of last night, Ricky has to submit to random testing if he ever wants to return. His coach is disputing the test that he failed, but the appeal was denied. Some think Ricky is getting a raw deal. I’m still considering whether to re-up myself, but I would stay just for the league. Are we still into it? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/245 "2006-04-26T22:50:31Z")
> [@The Mad Hermit](#): > > I’m still considering whether to re-up myself, but I would stay just for the league. Are we still into it? I am, as may be obvious. I actually re-upped primarily for this keeper league, despite the fact that I’ve been posting a lot lately. Mostly I’ve lost interest in the boards in general, but find that the most interesting sports discussions are to be found here. Team boards blow chunks, and there really aren’t many interactive sports-themed boards worth reading. So it’s a downer that some of our precious few sports fans are leaving, IMO. If we do lose a bunch of the managers, but want to still keep the league going, I’d recommend the FFL forum at [giants.com](http://giants.com), as it’s free and uses the same VB tags as here. But really, any free board would do. (Preferably one that doesn’t mask profanity, unlike the giants boards.) As the yahoo group has been lost, if anyone is leaving who doesn’t have a publicly-viewable email in their profile here, please send me an email if you’re still into it. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/246 "2006-04-26T22:57:55Z")
If you need a new person in the league, I’m in. Looks like I’m the one that’s going to carry on the sports tradition of the Dope, me being youngest (possibly) and all. I woulda done baseball, but my computer died and my replacement doesn’t run java (I’ve got NO clue why). I’ll have access to a computer that DOES run Java, though, so I’m in if need be. ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/247 "2006-04-27T00:20:22Z")
I have not been active on the boards for some time, but I still subscribe because I long ago promised to support the Reader for the many hours of pleasure I received during the days of the free intellectual exchange. Has the tenor/quality of the boards changed recently that some of you are considering dropping your subscriptions? ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/248 "2006-04-27T01:29:46Z")
I waited for months after the pay to post went into affect so I won’t have to reup until I think November. I love you Ricky! Thanks for the great value you’ve given me over the past 2 years!! ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/249 "2006-04-27T02:19:31Z")
> [@Spiritus Mundi](#): > > I have not been active on the boards for some time, but I still subscribe because I long ago promised to support the Reader for the many hours of pleasure I received during the days of the free intellectual exchange. Has the tenor/quality of the boards changed recently that some of you are considering dropping your subscriptions? Not by much. The problem is that the subscriptions reduced the new membership to a trickle. In most threads I open, the _vast_ majority of posts are from Charter Members, and about half the non-Charter members have join dates from before pay-to-post was instituted. Thus, there is virtually no new discussion on the boards with the exception of entertainment and current events, but even the latter often reduce to the same posters getting into the same old arguments that may only be tangentally related to the current event in question. Basically, the ever-dwindling membership is showing signs of becoming too incestuous to bother paying for. That’s my take, at least, and I suspect this is part of the reason **furt** and **Neurotik** are likely to let their accounts expire. What’s the one thing you can’t find on the SDMB nowadays? A fresh point of view. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/250 "2006-04-27T02:20:39Z")
> [@BabaBooey](#): > > I love you Ricky! Thanks for the great value you’ve given me over the past 2 years!! hehheh, might this have something to do with the OP of this thread? Worst. Pick. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/251 "2006-04-27T04:08:41Z")
Actually it was a pretty good pick. It was the trade that turned out to be ill-advised (well, not so much for me, actually.) In my defense, it certainly seemed like Ricky was on the road back to bargain keeper there for a while. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/252 "2006-04-27T07:01:54Z")
> [@Spiritus Mundi](#): > > Actually it was a pretty good pick. It was the trade that turned out to be ill-advised (well, not so much for me, actually.) In my defense, it certainly seemed like Ricky was on the road back to bargain keeper there for a while. Don’t remember that far back, but I assume that you’re the one I traded Harrison & Rudi to for Ricky? I hereby declare a jihad upon you. The Bears defense as a 12th (I think) round keeper will make me dominant, and by dominant I mean better than last year when my first two picks gave me about 8 games total production. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/253 "2006-04-28T04:29:51Z")
Yeah, ok. I’ve decided not to re-up. Part of it is that I just don’t have much time for the board, and the other part is that I haven’t been browsing the boards much these days, and they’re just too stale to maintain my interest. I was on the fence last year when I resubscribed, and the board has gone all downhill since then. Y’all guys are the only reason I even considered paying for another year. I am pretty sure the board will continue to decline and become even more incestuous over the next year. The BBQ Pit, my formerly favorite forum, is already a wretched pathetic shell of its former self. I do look forward to participating in the keeper league next year though, and my email is in profile. Excelsior, neuroman ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/254 "2006-04-28T05:17:51Z")
I’ll be back and I’ll be spouting off on all things sport on a regular basis. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/255 "2006-04-28T05:25:38Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > my email is in profile. For real? It looks fake beyond belief… ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/256 "2006-04-28T06:18:06Z")
Ok, I’m an indecisive sheep drama queen and I changed my mind. The search function alone is probably worth 60 cents a month. Free beer for everyone! p.s. Yes I got your email Ellis. That listed address is to foil spam fwiw. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/257 "2006-04-28T06:56:48Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > I got your email Ellis. That listed address is to foil spam fwiw. I’m so confused; I sent it to the address listed. If you received it, how does it foil spam? I may just be confused because my head is swimming from just running across the greatest goddamn free draft info site ever devised by man: [2006 NFL Draft](http://www.usatoday.com/sports/graphics/nfldraft06/flash.htm) I’m officially on draft information overload at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/258 "2006-04-28T07:55:25Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > Ok, I’m an indecisive sheep drama queen and I changed my mind. The search function alone is probably worth 60 cents a month. Free beer for everyone! You know, considering what the big sports sites charge to provide a structured fantasy football league I figure the $15 is worth it just so I can keep playing in what have to be the most competitive and reliable groups of fantasy players I’m liable to find. Even my IRL friends are flakes compared to you guys when Week 13 (or August for MLB) rolls around. Shit, the overlooked and ignored SDMB fantasy basketball league featured a rigorous battle to avoid finishing last. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/259 "2006-04-29T21:30:21Z")
> [@Ellis Dee](#): > > I’m so confused; I sent it to the address listed. If you received it, how does it foil spam? Well, actually all it functions as is a throwaway email address. It forwards to my actual email, but if it were ever ‘compromised’, I could just turn it off and I’d never receive any further emails. Whatever UBB software the SDMB uses to protect email addresses from spambots works pretty well though, because I haven’t reall ever received any spam. I too am eagerly following the draft, but with a mostly impartial eye because the Redskins have exactly one pick in the first three rounds after their recent insane FA spending spree. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152/260 "2006-04-29T23:17:47Z")
Damn, I had no idea this thread was active for the past couple of months. Count me as another one who’s re-upping with the boards mainly because of SDMB FF leagues. Thanks for the commish nomination, Ellis, but I must decline. I’m a quite disorganized guy, and commishing that other league was mostly a huge chore for me. Also, I’ll probably be commishing it again, and heading two leagues that require an active, attentive commish is definitely over my threshold. I think you’d do a fine job, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152.md?page=14)