fantasy football: a league of our own

Stillwater wrote:
Well, this is a year where I didn't really want the #1 pick… figures

I'll trade you.  Can we do that?  Wouldn't you LOVE the intriguing….number…SEVEN pick?

Brian

Stillwater wrote:
Well, this is a year where I didn't really want the #1 pick… figures

With 12 teams in the league, that's your ticket to a championship.

Brian_Wallace wrote:

Stillwater wrote:
Well, this is a year where I didn't really want the #1 pick… figures

I'll trade you.  Can we do that?  Wouldn't you LOVE the intriguing….number…SEVEN pick?

Brian

Don't see why not, seen it done before.

It's a little hazier this year because you have one top tier running back with a hamstring injury that could be nagging (Foster), another, maybe SLIGHTLY lesser running back (only if you believe the idiots at ESPN) who could be holding out for a long time (Chris Johnson), another possible hold-out (Frank Gore) and a top 5 quarterback who is dealing with nerve regeneration in his neck (!) (Manning.)

Plus, a lot less wear and tear on the bodies.  Now this could be good (gives body chance to heal, more refreshed) or bad (out of football shape.  more injuries trying to get into football shape quicker.)

Brian

Although I guess being able to grab the only back without question marks (whether that be hamstrings, holdouts or idiot coaches) is a good thing.

Shadrach wrote:

Brian_Wallace wrote:

Stillwater wrote:
Well, this is a year where I didn't really want the #1 pick… figures

I'll trade you.  Can we do that?  Wouldn't you LOVE the intriguing….number…SEVEN pick?

Brian

Don't see why not, seen it done before.

yup, it can be done - but only by the commissioner. 

so if you're serious about it, you need to let me know ASAP.  both of you should send me an e-mail or a PM within the next 30-40 minutes.  after that, i'll be out running an errand and might not be back in time to make the sitch before the draft start.  i believe that a hlaf hour before the draft, everything gets locked down and order can't be changed anymore.

I'm fine.  Unless, Stillwater REALLY wants to trade the No. 1 pick.  Come on, Stillwater….you could probably get Michael Vick………

Brian

I think I'm good. I appreciate your willingness to help to me unload it though.

This isn't about fantasy football but rather something briefly discussed during the draft.  There are a lot of good undiscovered writers out there.  And there are a lot of great topics to write about.  But, hey!  What the world REALLY needs is some retarded statistical analysis of Adele's performance on VMAs and where she ranks on the diva scale!:

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/33325/adele-adele-why-her-vmas-performance-was-a-disappointment

That's a PERFECT example of how awful this Klosterman/Simmons/Diablo Cody/Entertainment Weekly crap is.  Seriously.  The tide is turning against this quasi-meta-pop-culture bullshit.  It will be going away very soon.  And then what will you do on the internets?

Welcome to Grantland.  In a year it will be closed and turned into a Five Guys.

Brian

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:

vansmack wrote:

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.

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That Vick in the first round pick is going to take me to the top!!

he won me last year's championship in large part… and he wasn't even drafted, i got him as a free agent in like the 3rd or 4th week.

sorry i am posting here . . . but i love d&d, and roleplaying games, and all aspects of what i think fantasy sports is all about.  is it difficult to just learn, and how does one learn it.  is there a wonderful website that will teach me, or is it best to just find people who are doing it in real life and ask them.  it seems so overwhelming and so much to constantly keep up with.  and i have negative field/court advantage, because i don't even have cable or sat.

walkonby wrote:
sorry i am posting here . . . but i love d&d, and roleplaying games, and all aspects of what i think fantasy sports is all about.  is it difficult to just learn, and how does one learn it.  is there a wonderful website that will teach me, or is it best to just find people who are doing it in real life and ask them.  it seems so overwhelming and so much to constantly keep up with.  and i have negative field/court advantage, because i don't even have cable or sat.

I'm sure you love playing roleplaying games, but I'm calling bullshit.  You've never played Dungeons & Dragons in your life.

Brian

walkies: if you want to learn how to play fantasy football, i'd suggest googling "fantasy football 101".  it'll point you to several sites with good introductions.

in a nutshell, fantasy football involves choosing which players on your vitual team will "play" for you that week (you have more players than starting spots, so some "play" for you while others sit on the bench).  you get fantasy points based on how well the player does in real NFL football.  note that you can have players from different NFL teams, you pick who is on your team during the season-starting draft.  after that you can add and drop players throughout the season.  it's not quite as immediately interactive as D&D - you make choices, then set back and see what happens.

unfortunately it's too late to join the League930, we've already held our draft.  but every purveyor of fantasy football services (yahoo sports, espn, cbs sports, sports illustrated, etc) allows you to join a public league (or get some friends together and start a league).  consider this year a practice run and join us next year.

Brian_Wallace wrote:
You've never played Dungeons & Dragons in your life.

what makes you say that?  he's got an over-active imagination, he's into conspiracy theories, he spends a lot of time online… sounds like the modern-day hallmarks of a former D&D'er to me.

yeah . . . what he said.  thanks the info.

;D

i remember i learned dungeons and dragons in the sixth grade, in a small town, in a house that was haunted, probably by something evilish.  i'm sure it helped me become very skilled in it from obsessive play that borderlined on–i'm sure–obnoxiousness to every one around me who wasn't playing it.  fantasy football just seems so radically different because it is mainly played by alpha male dominate brute force kind of guys (not that there is anything wrong with that type of man) that take it super serious to a level that . . . wait a minute, i think people who play d&d are sometimes mentally unstable and cold kill you, and no not just your character, for things done within the game, so maybe fantasy football isn't bad.  perhaps i too will be able to play in next year's vansmackarama.

walkonby wrote:
perhaps i too will be able to play in next year's vansmackarama.

to be clear, vansmack doesn't play in our fantasy football league (he claims we're below him, or some such B.S.)

what smackie organizes (here) is the survivor pool, a different NFL-related game.  in survivor, the goal is to pick one team per week that will win.  once you've picked a team, you can't choose that team again.  sounds easy, right?  i've never been in a survivor pool that has lasted all the way through the season.  once the obvious choices - patriots, colts, packers, etc - are taken, you're left trying to pick raiders/seahawks or bengals/bills… just making it halfway through the season is an accomplishment.

if you think you're good at picking winners, there is still time to join.  $5 is all it will cost ya, and if you out-pick everyone else you keep everyone else's $5.  there are also $100 and $1000 pools, if you wanna roll high.

I played d&d for a brief stint in the 5th or 6th grade and while my memory of it isn't vivid, I do recall it's essentially a dice rolling game. Fantasy football on the other hand is more about analyzing statistics and trends. They are both games of chance and neither of them require a great deal of skill, the main difference being that fantasy football, while using the word "fantasy," is actually based on reality.

Of course I think the comparison was intentionally made to poke fun at fantasy football players…