Fantasy Football 2014

thoughtomator said:
Last week of the season... playoff field is almost set. Only 2 teams currently on the outside looking in have a shot to make it - No Money Big Mouths has a reasonable shot, if it wins and J&J or NH Free Staters lose. BrianEllisTrustFund can make it in if it beats the Big Mouths in this week's matchup, J&J loses, and it outscores J&J by more than 15.4 points this week. The six teams sitting at 9-4 or better are all locks for the playoffs; even though 9-4 technically doesn't yet clinch the spots, they all have more than enough season points accumulated to win the tiebreaker against the Big Mouths if they all end up at 9-5.

Several teams are on a major roll with some really strong scores in the past few games, the playoffs ought to be highly competitive this year. I'm going to need a ton of luck to repeat as champ.
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Their fortunes turned for the better and mine went down the toilet. I really think cutting Odell Beckhem from my team was the fatal flaw. He literally could've been the difference in me winning another 3-5 games. Instead of fighting to finish 7-7, I could've had double digit wins.
 
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Bastiat's The Law said:
I bet your football knowledge has increased several fold since playing though. Baseball is the same, you start off a newbie and before long you acquire new knowledge.
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That's true ,but I actually do occasionally watch football and I don't watch baseball. I might still give it a shot depending on time committment. Do you have to set lineups every day?
 
FreedomFanatic said:
That's true ,but I actually do occasionally watch football and I don't watch baseball. I might still give it a shot depending on time committment. Do you have to set lineups every day?
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There's more too fantasy baseball, but its also more rewarding IMO. I'll watch my favorite baseball team or highlights on MLB channel, but you don't really need to watch games because you're so in tune with your baseball team you basically know everything that's going on. And there's certain tweaks/shortcuts you can do if you don't want to micromanage your team. Like doing your entire lineup for the week and then you can just check it throughout the week if an injury or something comes up, but it's almost on autopilot.

That's what I love about fantasy baseball. It can be whatever you want it to be. If you want to dig deep into stats and players you can certainly do that and get hours of enjoyment from that every week (this is what I do). Or you could opt to just take 15 minutes, all depends what you want to do with it.
 
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Bastiat's The Law said:
Their fortunes turned for the better and mine went down the toilet. I really think cutting Odell Beckhem from my team was the fatal flaw. He literally could've been the difference in me winning another 3-5 games. Instead of fighting to finish 7-7, I could've had double digit wins.
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I remember when you cut him, it was after weeks of him sitting on your bench unplayable due to injury and you needed space to deal with bye weeks. Nobody knew he would develop into a WR1, he hadn't yet played a NFL snap.
 
Injuries are killing me... can't believe how many players I've lost this season.

Today I get to add Jerrick McKinnon to the IR out-for-season list which already had on it: Brandin Cooks, Eric Berry, Patrick Willis, Justin Durant, Paul Poluszny, and Trumaine McBride on it. That doesn't include guys who didn't go on formal IR: Chandler Jones, Ronnie Hillman, and now it looks like Julius Thomas. Then there's a bunch of others who have sat multiple games with injury: Jimmy Graham, Fred Jackson, Lavonte David... and the crazy part is that not one of these guys was considered a major injury risk.

I'm literally starting only 4 guys that I originally drafted, one of which I had traded away and was dropped by another team after a multiple-game injury, and two more of which are playing through injuries right now. Looking back on this, I have no idea how I made the playoffs at all. The only player on my whole team who I drafted and is still playing and not injured is Matt Stafford!
 
Looks like the playoff field is set as both the NH Free Staters and Johnson & Johnson claim the final two spots. A valiant last-ditch effort by No Money Big Mouths is going to come up short.
 
Unless my math is wrong, here are the first round matchups

(1) Voluntaryist Victory vs.
(8) Johnson & Johnson

(4) Jesse Benton's Corpse vs.
(5) Longbombs

(3) Philadelphia Martyrs vs.
(6) NH Free Staters

(2) One Percenters vs.
(7) Ratchet Hoez


Good luck all*!


* offer of good luck does not extend to Ratchet Hoez or anyone else with a playoff matchup against me at any point in the next three weeks
 
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I got cockblocked on a waiver claim by a team that doesn't play any more games this season (ISIS)- I'm a bit baffled as to the reasoning behind submitting that waiver claim.

If there's a setting to turn off the ability to pull waivers from teams who are out of the playoffs (and thus aren't going to actually get to play the claimed players in any games), it should probably be turned on.
 
thoughtomator said:
I got cockblocked on a waiver claim by a team that doesn't play any more games this season (ISIS)- I'm a bit baffled as to the reasoning behind submitting that waiver claim.

If there's a setting to turn off the ability to pull waivers from teams who are out of the playoffs (and thus aren't going to actually get to play the claimed players in any games), it should probably be turned on.
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I had a claim too. I think I have priority over you. He should have been mine!
 
Looks like I may be the only one of the top four seeds to survive the first round... I won't be upset to see two of my three perceived-most-dangerous matchups fail to make the cut.
 
Well my season here has come to an end. It's been another fun year. I appreciate how competitive this league can be.

On another note, I'm going into the superbowl for my pay league next week and have a chance to win $300 :)
 
and that's all she wrote for me, folks - all four top seeds down in the first round! A new champ will be crowned this year. Good luck to the winners!
 
thoughtomator said:
Injuries are killing me... can't believe how many players I've lost this season.

Today I get to add Jerrick McKinnon to the IR out-for-season list which already had on it: Brandin Cooks, Eric Berry, Patrick Willis, Justin Durant, Paul Poluszny, and Trumaine McBride on it. That doesn't include guys who didn't go on formal IR: Chandler Jones, Ronnie Hillman, and now it looks like Julius Thomas. Then there's a bunch of others who have sat multiple games with injury: Jimmy Graham, Fred Jackson, Lavonte David... and the crazy part is that not one of these guys was considered a major injury risk.

I'm literally starting only 4 guys that I originally drafted, one of which I had traded away and was dropped by another team after a multiple-game injury, and two more of which are playing through injuries right now. Looking back on this, I have no idea how I made the playoffs at all. The only player on my whole team who I drafted and is still playing and not injured is Matt Stafford!
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I'm still surprised you drafted Stafford.
 
brandon said:
Well my season here has come to an end. It's been another fun year. I appreciate how competitive this league can be.

On another note, I'm going into the superbowl for my pay league next week and have a chance to win $300 :)
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Good luck with your money league!
 
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