fantasy football: a league of our own

sweetcell wrote:
yada - please try again, i've added 2 spots. 

former managers - please accept or decline your invites as soon as possible.  looks like we have a folks who would like to join, but can't.

aspiring new managers: if you can't sign up right away, please wait a little.  spots will open up as last year's managers retire.  i suspect that several of them won't be making decisions until tonight/this weekend.

I'm either non internet savvy or I don't have an option to join the league. Maybe because I"m already in another Yahoo league?

nah, being in one league won't stop you from joining, so that's not the issue.

GOT IT: if you're already in a league, you need to join through this page: http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/signup (otherwise, you're taken to the page of your other league)

sweetcell wrote:
nah, being in one league won't stop you from joining, so that's not the issue.

GOT IT: if you're already in a league, you need to join through this page: http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/signup (otherwise, you're taken to the page of your other league)

IN

one semi-major rule change worth considering – set it so all free agents are on waivers from the time the week's first game starts through the monday night game. this will prevent someone from scoring a hot free agent pickup just because they happen to be at a computer at 145pm when a star running back gets injured. this really levels the playing field.

BookerT wrote:
one semi-major rule change worth considering – set it so all free agents are on waivers from the time the week's first game starts through the monday night game. this will prevent someone from scoring a hot free agent pickup just because they happen to be at a computer at 145pm when a star running back gets injured. this really levels the playing field.

I have dropped out of more leagues than I can count because they don't adopt this rule.  However, I would set it for kick off of that teams games.

For example, when the 1 o'clock games kickoff, all of those players are locked.  When the 4 o'clock games kick off, they're now locked and so on.

That way if you have injury concerns about the 4, Sunday night or Monday night game, you can still make moves to grab a back up.  Nothing worse than needing one point from Marshall Faulk on a Monday night to tie, 2 to win and finding out that he isn't playing 15 minutes before kickoff, especially when the fullback and third down back of the Rams were available.  I'm not saying this happened in 2001 or anything….

bookerT - i think that's a very good rule.  i believe this is the setting i need to tweek, previously it was set to "None":

Weekly Waivers:
Use these settings to give everyone in the league a fair chance at picking up players. "Sunday - Tuesday" means all unowned players will be placed on waivers at 10:00am PT (1:00pm ET) each Sunday with the claim period ending at 11:59pm PT on Tuesday. "First game of the week - Tuesday" means all unowned players will be placed on waivers at the start of the first game for that week with the claim period ending at 11:59pm PT on Tuesday.

so is "Sunday - Tuesday" the way to go?  unfortunately yahoo doesn't seem to allow vansmack's preference of team's kick-off.

FYI, we're up to five teams including Brian W's "I Hate Pink Floyd" ;D

yeah this is the best way to do it. it's not quite as perfect as vansmack's preferred system, but in a scenario like that you are still able to replace with someone on your own bench, so all is not lost.

Shadrach wrote:
Are we doing this? Where's my invite?

are you doing this?  i sent you your invite ;)

Shadrach wrote:
I'd like to suggest a couple minor rules changes, like allowing percentage points.

fractional points have been implemented, as has the no-sunday-to-tuesday-waiver-claim rule.  any other suggestions/requests?

everyone still OK with draft on Monday, August 29 at 8:30 pm?  i'm happy to change to another date and/or time if folks have a preference, constraint, etc.

I'm confused by the waiver thing.  I'm sorry.  I'm thick.

Suppose you have Ray Rice on your team.  1:00 game, 5 minutes in, he blows out his knee and is done for the season.  Ricky "Puff Puff Pass" Williams (who wasn't drafted by anyone) comes into the game and rushes for 200 yards and 3 TD before halftime.

How is it determined who gets Ricky Williams?  First come, first served?

Brian

am i too late to get in?  i'm getting a "league full" error message

Brian_Wallace wrote:

I'm confused by the waiver thing.  I'm sorry.  I'm thick.

Suppose you have Ray Rice on your team.  1:00 game, 5 minutes in, he blows out his knee and is done for the season.  Ricky "Puff Puff Pass" Williams (who wasn't drafted by anyone) comes into the game and rushes for 200 yards and 3 TD before halftime.

How is it determined who gets Ricky Williams?  First come, first served?

Brian

in your scenario, you would not be able to pick up williams.  all players are put on waivers from sunday 1 pm until tuesday midnight, at which point all pending claims are processed according to the waiver priority list.  we use a continuing rolling list (see http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/details/waiver_type).  this allows everyone a fair crack at williams, not just the one or two who happened to be watching the game.

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
am i too late to get in?  i'm getting a "league full" error message

either last year's managers aren't declining their invites, or the system isn't making their spaces available to new joiners.  i added two spots and they're been taken, so i'll need to add more in the morning.

I signed up, guys.  Hope everyone is cool with a semi-newbie joining the fray!

Stillwater wrote:
I signed up, guys.  Hope everyone is cool with a semi-newbie joining the fray!

welcome! 

this is what the league currently looks like:
- New Jersey Barebacks (sweetcell)
- Pigskin&Pigtails6949
- BookerT-Bars
- Rock N Roll Outlaws (Shadrach)
- TBD (Yada)
- Hoya Paranoia
- I Hate Pink Floyd (Brian Wallace)
- We Are Both Carls (crevers)
- Crump's Brother (jeffml)
- Stillwater

we're at 10 teams, which i think is the perfect size: good competition while allowing for some low-level talent to remain in free agency. should we lock down the league at 10?  or allow for 12 teams?

I know it is tough to schedule a draft time that is good for everyone, so if no one else has a problem with the current time, I'll work with it.  Otherwise I would be ok with changing it.

Forgot to add that I would be good with 10 teams.  Makes it a little easier to maneuver especially if you can't make the live draft.

jeffml wrote:
I know it is tough to schedule a draft time that is good for everyone, so if no one else has a problem with the current time, I'll work with it.  Otherwise I would be ok with changing it.

if you had a choice, what would be your preference?

as mentioned before, i'm completely flexible - whatever works best for the group.

I like the draft time.

are we doing another survivor/knockout football pool?

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
are we doing another survivor/knockout football pool?

i certainly hope so - hey smackie?

sweetcell wrote:

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
are we doing another survivor/knockout football pool?

i certainly hope so - hey smackie?

Survival pools have far surpassed fantasy football on my enjoyment scale.  I'll set it up later this week.