Fantasy Football 2005!

[EddieMcD]

Wow... it seems like every year, fantasy football registration comes earlier. Anyhow, football season is coming! Okay, it's over two and a half months out, but for some of us, that's not soon enough. So, for the athletically inept, the statistics geeks, the fanboys/girls, and the people like me who are just too darn lazy to go out and actually play the game, there is the third FIRST Robotics Football League. Koko's X-Cats were unable to defend their 2003 title, but will the 2004 champion Philly Cheesesteaks be able to repeat? I suppose it's too early to tell. Link: http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1 League ID#: 3714 Password: deankamen

Of course, everybody's welcome. This year should be interesting as always. Now if only I can find a team to root for...

Keep flying,
-Eddie

[Jones571]

As eddie has the auto draft feature i have created a league were there will be a live draft please check for the post

[xzvrw2]

why is the auto draft feature on?

[EddieMcD]

Because not everybody can set aside time for a live draft, making it extremely unfair to them. I make the rule that it must be 100% unanimous for the live draft to happen.

[Alex Cormier]

are you gona block people from talking and not allow trades just like ur stupid baseball league?

[santosh]

I definetly want to be able to trade if I am going to do this. Otherwise there is not point at all.

[EddieMcD]

Don't look at me on the trades issue. It's the league that votes. If the people think the trades are unfair, then it's up to them to vote to veto it.

[Ian Curtis]

Why are you all complaining about it not being a live draft? You can still pick the order you want to draft players.

[Adam Richards]

Why are you all complaining about it not being a live draft? You can still pick the order you want to draft players.
Probably because of the situation in which their 1-4 draft picks are chosen, so they don't want to use their 5th for their original pick, so they'd rather use their 7th or something, because of some random statistic...

[Jones571]

Probably because of the situation in which their 1-4 draft picks are chosen, so they don't want to use their 5th for their original pick, so they'd rather use their 7th or something, because of some random statistic...

haha basicly with a fantasy draft you dont know when diffrent position's will start to go and if you miss the run on Qb's or something you will be really hurt for the season

[Cory]

Why are you all complaining about it not being a live draft? You can still pick the order you want to draft players.

Because you don't know who is left when. Even making out a list of who you want doesn't help much, because depending on what order people pick in, you would change your picks. You don't have the opportunity to pickup any late round steals either.

I've won 3/4 leagues I've lived drafted in. I've made the playoffs in 1/2 leagues that have been auto.

[Jones571]

here is something better to complain about those stats are WACK!

[EddieMcD]

Okay, the stats thing I won't argue about. Let it be known that I am in need of input for that. The constant that I am 100% settled on though is 6 points for an individual TD. Also, what I am trying to accomplish is keeping the scores even for each position, so (for example) if you draft a bad QB, while it will put you at a disadvantage, it's still possible to win if your other players perform. In previous years (especially if you had a bad QB), this was unlikely. Like I said, I'd like help on it this time. E-mail, PM, IM me, or even post here if you have any ideas.

Anyhow, there's 6 spots left for anyone interested.

[Cory]

Okay, the stats thing I won't argue about. Let it be known that I am in need of input for that. The constant that I am 100% settled on though is 6 points for an individual TD. Also, what I am trying to accomplish is keeping the scores even for each position, so (for example) if you draft a bad QB, while it will put you at a disadvantage, it's still possible to win if your other players perform. In previous years (especially if you had a bad QB), this was unlikely. Like I said, I'd like help on it this time. E-mail, PM, IM me, or even post here if you have any ideas.

Anyhow, there's 6 spots left for anyone interested.

The strategy of making the game easier for those who draft poorly is slightly backwards, in my mind.

Although I'm willing to concede that point since you can't expect a significant parallel between your predraft rankings, and actual picks, with the autodraft.

[Elgin Clock]

Sports talk: The next thing to be banned on CD. :ahh:

Next on Fox: When good posts go bad. :rolleyes:

[EddieMcD]

The strategy of making the game easier for those who draft poorly is slightly backwards, in my mind.

Although I'm willing to concede that point since you can't expect a significant parallel between your predraft rankings, and actual picks, with the autodraft.

Depending on how you define "poorly", it's not that I want to make things easier. It's that I want to give them a fighting chance. The game should not come down to one player, it should come down to the entire team. If the entire team can't perform, there's nothing to be done about that. But say you have a QB on a relatively bad day (Manning, anyone?) that scores twice as much as every other player on their good days. If the opponent doesn't have a QB (or any other player, for that matter) that can compete with that, then it's over, even if he scores more in every other category. It's my goal to make the scoring so that the person who's team takes more categories has a better chance of winning than a person who's team has one outstanding player (or DEF, depending on the team) accounting for half their score.

Though I do agree that my scoring system needs some work, I'm just letting you know my plan for it.

[Koko Ed]

Depending on how you define "poorly", it's not that I want to make things easier. It's that I want to give them a fighting chance. The game should not come down to one player, it should come down to the entire team. If the entire team can't perform, there's nothing to be done about that. But say you have a QB on a relatively bad day (Manning, anyone?) that scores twice as much as every other player on their good days. If the opponent doesn't have a QB (or any other player, for that matter) that can compete with that, then it's over, even if he scores more in every other category. It's my goal to make the scoring so that the person who's team takes more categories has a better chance of winning than a person who's team has one outstanding player (or DEF, depending on the team) accounting for half their score.

Though I do agree that my scoring system needs some work, I'm just letting you know my plan for it.
If I were you folks in Eddie's league you'd better pre rank your defensive players. Once again Yahoo has done an absolutely crappy job ranking defensive players (Terrence McGee is the top rated defensive player? Only if his kickoff returns count). Just to be fair ( I pre ranked mine).

[Koko Ed]

here is something better to complain about those stats are WACK!
btw we need one more team to join up Jonesey's league (I hate byes).

[Jones571]

Yeah koko we actually need one before we can draft period if any one knows some one who is interested in playing have them email me and i can make the adjustments to let them in if not i will have to boot the last person who joined

[Koko Ed]

Yeah koko we actually need one before we can draft period if any one knows some one who is interested in playing have them email me and i can make the adjustments to let them in if not i will have to boot the last person who joined
Just put in a "pleacebo" team to give to someone later.
Don't boot anyone.

[Cory]

Eddie, when is your draft going to be?

[EddieMcD]

I made a rather large Commissioner's Note covering a lot of stuff. Anyhow, the latest date for the draft is the 28th, but I'd like to get it done by the 20th.