fantasy football: a league of our own

sweetcell wrote:
brees is such a fantasy STUD.  358 yards, 6 TDs, 1 INT, 37 fantasy points… is that a record?

Oh yeah he is – no idea about the record, but he's relieving my doubts about taking him 3rd round.

sweetcell wrote:
good grief.  i'm being crushed by the philly defense - they're currently putting up 29 points!  don't think i've ever seen a score that high by a D.  hope carolina starts scoring.  fast.

conundrum: start anquan boldin (barely healthy but will start, he's less than 100% but still #2 receiver on a pass-happy team up against SF, breaston is inactive so boldin should see a number of attempts), or go with SDG's vincent jackson (also #2 but on a less pass-happy team, rarely stellar but dependable)?  i'm going with jackson for now.

I think it's Vincent Jackson – you have to avoid the injury-related zero.  I'm going with a healthy Driver over a questionable Welker.

following in the steps of the other commish, i've added a commissioner's note detailing how to pay your league dues.  please pay asap, deadline is start of week 4.

crevers wrote:
Oh yeah he is – no idea about the record, but he's relieving my doubts about taking him 3rd round.

with those kind of numbers, i'm surprised no one took him sooner. 

crevers wrote:
I think it's Vincent Jackson – you have to avoid the injury-related zero.  I'm going with a healthy Driver over a questionable Welker.

indeed, the cautious approach wins the day for me - boldin put up 1 fantasy point last night.  would be hard for jackson to do worse.  looks like boldin might be a dude for the first few games of the season, if not longer.  and he's on my no-cut list…

looks like going with driver might not have been the best move for you, although there might not have been a lot of points to chose from either way.

sweetcell wrote:
brees is such a fantasy STUD.  358 yards, 6 TDs, 1 INT, 37 fantasy points… is that a record?

nope - Chris Johnson (Ten - RB): 197 rush yards, 2 rush TDs, 87 reception yards, 1 receptions TD = 45 points  ;D

goddam clark.  i needed payton to pass to anyone except him.  because he did, i scored more points this week that EVERYONE except the one team i was up against!  not fair.  pout pout.

this was the first weekend that i got t watch as much football as i wanted - any NOTHING went my way.

time to pay up, folks - please see the commissioner's note for instructions on how to pay your league dues.  teams that are unpaid as of next monday (Oct 12) will be penalized and/or named :D 

first off, last call for the two teams who haven't paid up yet… the sooner you pay, the sooner you'll stop hearing my whining.

second, did everyone see how BookerT won this past week?!?  three of his players scored 0 points (including DEF, which he opted to not start NYJ.  good move since they scored -1).  all that, and he still won by a point (making his non-start of NYJ DEF that much more important).  this is is unbelievable.  he must be stopped.

oh yeah, i asked a question on the league's internal messaging system… please read.

this stuff tends to balance out, y'know? last week i was the second highest scoring team and lost. this week i got three goose eggs and squeaked out a win. i should've gone 1-1 in those games and i did. but yeah, pat on the back to me for sitting the jets defense.

anyone know any snipers in new orleans?  i need someone to take out drew brees.  please PM me.  thx.

sweetcell wrote:
anyone know any snipers in new orleans?  i need someone to take out drew brees.  please PM me.  thx.

How did you not come to me with this right away? I know just the guy. PM me.

i have sorely underestimated you, sir.

Oh, my humblest apologies. You said "sniper," not "snifter." Sorry!

i have rivers and jackson in tonight's game, and i need 12 points to win my match this week…

say hello to your new second-place team.

comin' after ya, bookerT.

You guys will appreciate this.  I was 0-4 to start the season in a deep 14 team, relatively high money league ($100+$5 per transaction) league despite being 6th in total points.

I won the next two and moved up to 4th in total points, but only 12th overall in record.

So tonight I had a 1 point lead over the 1st place team with a 94-93 advantage (the average score being around 78).  He had Brent Celek and I had nobody going  (more bad luck I figured).

Celek caught a pass in the first quarter for 8 yards, raised his total to 12 yards early in the second quarter to tie me at 94 points, then lost 4 yards on a screen to go back down to zero points.

Never caught a pass after that.

It's nice when your luck turns around…. 

anyone know how to get in touch with retrospec, manager of team salty?  he's failed to pay his dues so far and i'm about to lock him out if he doesn't pay up in the next 24 hours.  i've tried PMs and e-mails, no reply so far.

retrospect, if you're reading this: please pay up.  thanks.

question: is there any way of knowing if another team has put in a request for a player on waivers?  or does one blidly put their bod in, and only finds out once the waiver period ends and the player is assigned to the team that "won" the waiver?

(p.s. retrospec, please see my note at the bottom of the previous page…)

yet another reason why i'm glad he's on my FF team:

Chris Johnson offers cars for yards

"It's really a goal of the offensive linemen because I told them if I get to 2,000 yards I'd buy them all a car. They want me to get 2,000 yards more than I want to get it.''

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091105/SPORTS01/911050372/2072/SPORTS

fantasy footballer #1 has an 7 point lead going in to tonight's game, and has PIT DEF.

his rival is behind by 7, but has Ward and Mendenhall.

who would you bet on?

edit: consensus seems to be that this will be a low-scoring, defense-heavy affair… therefore, advantage seems to be with FF#1.  dammit.

sweetcell wrote:
fantasy footballer #1 has an 7 point lead going in to tonight's game, and has PIT DEF.

his rival is behind by 7, but has Ward and Mendenhall.

who would you bet on?

edit: consensus seems to be that this will be a low-scoring, defense-heavy affair… therefore, advantage seems to be with FF#1.  dammit.

PIT DEF put up a ridiculous 21 points… but FF#1 still lost.  as FF #2, i had given up on winning this one until hines' last-minute touchdown.  in fact, i had given up as soon as PIT returned the interception for a touchdown.

the R'n'R Outlaws have to feel a bit robbed.  sry.

In a possible preview of the playoffs, Carls are beating Killsaly, and Barebacks will need an above-consensus performance from Chris Johnson (22+ points) on MNF to beat T-Bars.

Granted, the real-life matchups will be different in Weeks 15 & 16, but those do look like the 4 playoff teams, barring collapse by Killsaly and a surge from Ian Curtis / RNR.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!