IH Fantasy Football 2013-2014
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When is the draft?
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Technically we could do a running draft. People would just post their next selection here. Kinda like the NFL Draft; you'd be on the clock for 24 hours max or I would autodraft for you. If we did that, we would probably want to do it about a month out to make sure we have enough time before the season starts
I really don't want to do an autodraft for sure
On a side note, BEAST MODE is in!
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BTW, whats a tye? I remember the Yanks getting a lucky draw but I have no idea what a tye game is?
Haha. Yes! Let the smack talking begin!
Mega, a tie is when your nation's best athletes play our nation's bottom-of-the-barrel athletes and everyone decides to go home because they're evenly matched.
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In all seriousness, I'm really excited for this league. bagz, I think the rules you've outlined are great. I especially like your defensive scoring system. Hopefully, the fractional yardage isn't too complicated, because I've only ever played one point for every 10 yards gained. I like trying something new, though.
Any thoughts re: flex positions, how many QBs you have to play, etc.?
I prefer deeper drafts, but I suppose we need to wait until we determine how many players we have.
The drafting concept is new to me, also. I'm not sure how plausible it is. ~15 players per team, and let's say 10 teams for now (I think there will be more than that, too) equals a 150 day draft. We may just have to do an online draft and, unfortunately, mess with some people's schedules.
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Fuck you Yankees make sports complicated :o
Can't I just pick some dudes, and if they're any good I win, and if they're not I don't. Thats the way our Fantasy Football (the REAL football) works
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One idea (and feel free to poke holes in this concept) for the members that can't fit the online draft into their schedule, is to send bagz a list of their top 200 or so NFL players with their first pick being #1 and descend from there (there are all sorts of FFL rankings lists, so it's not as difficult as it sounds).
bagz could draft for you based on your list; picking the best available player according to your "big board." The only issue I foresee with this is a team being left with too many players of one position, and not enough of the other; so roster judgement may come in to play. This judgement could be reduced by stipulating with bagz how balanced you would like your roster to be (WR dominated, etc.). Also, it doesn't necessarily have to be the commissioner drafting for some else. A member could choose who they want to draft for them.
Just spitballing over here…
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Fuck you Yankees make sports complicated :o
Can't I just pick some dudes, and if they're any good I win, and if they're not I don't. Thats the way our Fantasy Football (the REAL football) works
Haha. It really is that simple. There is a saying in the US that, "Football is a simple game made complicated by ego." Same can be said for FFL.
If you pick players that play well, you will win. The scoring is all done for you, so it's not really that hard. Also, with ESPN, there is all sorts of FFL rankings and analysis that are updated on a daily basis. The uninitiated can consult the "experts" rankings and very easily decide what lineup to go with that week.
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In all seriousness, I'm really excited for this league. bagz, I think the rules you've outlined are great. I especially like your defensive scoring system. Hopefully, the fractional yardage isn't too complicated, because I've only ever played one point for every 10 yards gained. I like trying something new, though.
Any thoughts re: flex positions, how many QBs you have to play, etc.?
I prefer deeper drafts, but I suppose we need to wait until we determine how many players we have.
The drafting concept is new to me, also. I'm not sure how plausible it is. ~15 players per team, and let's say 10 teams for now (I think there will be more than that, too) equals a 150 day draft. We may just have to do an online draft and, unfortunately, mess with some people's schedules.
The hope is that people will do them quicker than 24 hours, that would just be the max before I would automatically select someone and move on to the next person
I can play with the number of players on each teams as well as starters but want to see how many we get first. A 2 QB league has been fun in the past. I've also done an IDP(Defensive player) league before and that was interesting.
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One idea (and feel free to poke holes in this concept) for the members that can't fit the online draft into their schedule, is to send bagz a list of their top 200 or so NFL players with their first pick being #1 and descend from there (there are all sorts of FFL rankings lists, so it's not as difficult as it sounds).
bagz could draft for you based on your list; picking the best available player according to your "big board." The only issue I foresee with this is a team being left with too many players of one position, and not enough of the other; so roster judgement may come in to play. This judgement could be reduced by stipulating with bagz how balanced you would like your roster to be (WR dominated, etc.). Also, it doesn't necessarily have to be the commissioner drafting for some else. A member could choose who they want to draft for them.
Just spitballing over here…
What I would do in this case is just use the standard ESPN rankings and they would get the best available player. If you end up with 5 QB's on your team, thats the chance you take for not drafting yourself. Then again, thats pretty significant trade bait. Having to keep up with everyone's individual rankings would def be cumbersome
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Fuck you Yankees make sports complicated :o
Can't I just pick some dudes, and if they're any good I win, and if they're not I don't. Thats the way our Fantasy Football (the REAL football) works
For the most part Gav, they have rankings and columns every week that will tell you who to play once you've drafted.
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How embarrassing is it gonna be if Gav wins this thing?
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Exactly. It kind of raises the stakes a bit I think. If some limey tosser wins this thing, I'm sure they will never let us live it down. If they did fail to appropriately rub it in, I'd be extremely disappointed.
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I got introduced to football about 5 years ago as my best mate is American and have followed it since.
For my sins, I'm a Bengals fan..Bless you haha! The only bet you might win with the Bengals is the over/under on how many of their players will get arrested during the season
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Cool, Alex. Good to know. True, the Bengals have had their struggles, but they are actually on the cusp of big things, I think. I'm betting the Ravens will take a step back this year, and the Steelers D isn't what it was. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Bungles win their division this year. This is actually one of the greatest strengths of the NFL. Teams have the ability to turn things around with solid management, drafting, and coaching. Baseball, for instance, is mostly dominated by large market teams with fat TV contracts.
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Yeah all joking and bias aside I completely agree with you about them winning the afc north this year. With the players the ravens have lost, and the way the steelers played last season, is make them early favourites. Hopefully the apparent reliance on rookie offence this season will pay off..
Who do you guys all support?
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To give you my history of involvement with NFL, I loved the Raiders after they were featured on an episode of Knight rider in 1985, used to watch them constantly when the UK Channel 4 had the rights to broadcast NFL matches, when that ended so did my brief career as a Raiders fan…..that was 1993.
Has much changed since?
