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EconDad posted:Just did an auction draft where we could keep "up to" four keepers. I'm sure glad i kept four, since my tentative drafting came through yet again. I really like you, so I'm going to be blunt: In a PPR where you can start 5 wrs and you are strong at RB, rostering just 7 WRs total vs 7 bench RBs is not going to give you the gas you need down the stretch. Ditch those RBs for WR depth. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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Scruffy the janitor posted:I know it's PPR but chubb and jacobs coming all the way back is insane. How many teams? 10 teams Went: 1- JJ 20- Chubb 21- Jacobs 40- Allen 41- Andrews Feel like I got some great value this draft.
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We're looking for 2 more goons to complete our 12 team 0.5 PPR Yahoo league! $30 buy-in. Draft is on the 4th @ 9:30 EDT. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4039331 
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Aug 30, 2023 14:58
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$300 for auction budget? Isn’t the standard $200?
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Ornery and Hornery posted:$300 for auction budget? Isn’t the standard $200? Looks like they made 24 selections. I think 16 is the most common? Which if it is, would make the $300 make sense since 24 is 150% of 16 and $300 is 150% of 200.
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Aug 30, 2023 15:08
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Chernabog posted:10 teams What the gently caress?
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darkspider42 posted:2 spot have opened up for Tier B in the Goon Tier - Still looking for 1 more!
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Tier B is hell. But don't give up hope - I was in Tier A once. There were flowers and trees and lakes and little critters everywhere! Splendid! But I couldn't escape the curse of Tier B and I was dragged back down by the maw of a football demon..I pine for freedom and one day I'll have it yet again.
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Aug 30, 2023 16:44
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Is there an easy way to copy/paste a plain text version of your team from ESPN?
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Aug 30, 2023 16:56
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Anti-Hero posted:My keeper league does this, and I agree it seems pointless. The thread moves fast and I'm sure this got missed. I'm leaning hard toward Hock for my fourth keeper. Again, this league is set at 4 keepers, they replace your first 4 picks, and you can't opt out of keeping and get that draft pick back. Next year we go back to full redraft. My WRs aren't great, but I'm confident Godwin, Higgins, Cooper, and others of that tier will be available during the draft. After Hock the TE value drops sharply.
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My team: QB: Jalen Hurts RB: CMC, Josh Jacobs, Breece Hall, Zeke Elliott, Jeff Wilson, Gus Edwards, Donta Foreman WR: Diontae Johnson, Terry Mac, Michael Pittman, Zay Flowers TE: Evan Engram 12-team league, our scoring is half-PPR and the only slightly non-standard thing is that we start 2 RB / 3 WR / 1 TE / 1 Flex. Everyone in the draft was going hard on WR's (we do start 3) and I felt like at my spot, I kept getting presented with better RB value. So I ended up with a pretty great starting RB corps but super weak WR's. There is a team with the opposite problem who has offered Amon-Ra St. Brown for Josh Jacobs. That definitely thins me out at RB, but creates a more balanced team. Thoughts on Josh Jacobs for Amon-Ra in half-PPR?
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I joined a new league to reconnect with some college buddies, and the commish has gotten real weird with the settings. I find this all kinda dumb but it's a free bragging rights league so whatever. Notable changes from Yahoo defaults: 0.5 PPR (normal, just including for context) 6 point passing TD (default is 4) 1 point per rushing or receiving first down 0.5 points per pass completion, -0.5 per pass incompletion (applied to the QB) -2 points per interception (default is -1) 1 point per 25 return yards (default is 0) Pretty much doubled all DST scoring as well as the penalty if you give up a ton of points Significant penalties for missed FG/PAT 12 teams, 1QB / 2RB / 3WR / 1 TE / 1 FLEX / 1 DST / 1 K / 5 Bench There's enough moving parts that I'm having trouble thinking through the implications. I should make this into a drat spreadsheet. I did try plugging this into the Football Absurdity beer sheet but there's no first down scoring. A top QB seems mandatory between the buffs to passing and point per rushing first down. Mahomes' and to a lesser extent Burrow's low rushing stats are somewhat offset by high passing TD and completion totals. Daniel Jones actually pops too as an emergency option. Very top end unicorn RBs like CMC and Bijan(???) are boosted by double dipping on rushing and receiving first downs, otherwise it seems to mostly help WRs and RBs equally. It does make top end players at either position even more valuable. Kelce becomes even more of a golden god. Are the DST buffs enough to justify actually investing a mid round pick on one? Which teams will be good and bad is so random each year it still seems questionable. I have no idea if the other people in the league are paying attention to this. It's a mix of fantasy degens and "take Tom Brady first overall cause I'm from Boston" folks so the draft should be pretty funny regardless. But it makes it very hard to know if I can expect guys to go around their normal ADP or if I need to take Josh Allen in the first cause there will be a run on QBs. Appreciate any insight. Drunk Nerds posted:What the gently caress? Yeah how does this team happen lol. This is like when I see people on twitter complaining that they got in an Underdog room with 9 bots all deliberately taking poo poo teams to boost someone up Docjowles fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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Docjowles posted:Yeah how does this team happen lol. This is like when I see people on twitter complaining that they got in an Underdog room with 9 bots all deliberately taking poo poo teams to boost someone up I had 5th pick in my casual family league and ended up with Chase and Tyreek. Sometimes it just happens, but yeah that starting lineup is absolutely stacked.
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I have Cole Kmet and Roshon Johnson so I feel you guys. We're all winners here.
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Docjowles posted:Appreciate any insight. This is sort of like my work league, except we use standard rosters and don't subtract points for missed 50+ yd FGs. The way it was explained to me is that it tries to find a balance between classes of RB/WRs and to reward efficient QBs, to make it closer to "regular football". Whether it actually does that or not is another story. It definitely changes values though, and adds drama since weeks have been lost when a QB throws incompletions in garbage time. Making a spreadsheet will help, because you'll definitely want to track things you don't normally track (1st downs gained, incompletions thrown, return yards). I kinda like the league because it lets me value players differently, but I can totally understand people being annoyed that they can't use the same valuations they use in their six other leagues.
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It's a 10 team so you get better teams overall, but 3-4 of the the owners are bad at drafting and a few more said they didn't have time to prepare this year. Also, they always panic when a QB is taken early by one of the bad owners so they go on a QB run which frees up value at RB and WR. This draft went my way too because Andrews was still available at the 4-5 turn so then they went on a TE run after I picked him, freeing even more value to come back to me.
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Aug 30, 2023 19:04
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Where should Jonathan Taylor be ranked now with him missing the first 4 weeks of the season?
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I know exactly where JT should go: Someone else's team
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RCarr posted:Where should Jonathan Taylor be ranked now with him missing the first 4 weeks of the season? I've got him around RB18, and at the top of a large tier of high uncertainty deadzone backs. So like the same general tier as Kamara, James Conner, Dalvin Cook, and Miles Sanders. I'd say the uncertainty around his return to play should really have him below those guys though.
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Aug 30, 2023 19:58
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I passed on Taylor to take Mahomes in the first and was laughed at by my league. 
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internet inc posted:We're looking for 2 more goons to complete our 12 team 0.5 PPR Yahoo league! $30 buy-in. I’m collecting leagues like infinity stones so if you still need a slot filled I’m in
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Drunk Nerds posted:I know exactly where JT should go: You could not loving pay me to draft Taylor this year. I don't have many hard and fast rules for draft but a big one is "don't draft someone that doesn't want to play football."
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Yeah, he was on my "do not draft" list as well.
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I still can't even tell if Taylor is actually injured or he's on the PUP because Irsay is trying to punish him to make a very stupid point the rest of us aren't high enough to understand Either way, yeah, I don't want any part of JT. Unless he falls so far that the opportunity cost is minimal but someone else will definitely scoop him up before that happens.
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I feel like the universe will correct itself with all the JT hate and he’ll be the top scoring RB from Weeks 5-17 because that’s how the Fantasy Gods work. In our 4-player keeper league where basically each team has at least 1-2 solid studs kept, one guy kept JT, London, Pickens, and Pierce and we all laughed at him. He’ll probably loving sweep.
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Anti-Hero posted:The thread moves fast and I'm sure this got missed. What pick do you have? I'd keep Higgins if it were me. Sure TE drops off quick but you can put something decent together via streaming (or draft Hockenson depending on where you pick) but if you miss out on Higgins your WR core could be dire. If you really feel like getting nuts in a PPR league, drop Henry and keep both Higgins and Hockenson probably don't do this
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My 10 team PPR draft was a rollercoaster. Lots of dart throws. Panicked after drafting three WRs to start. QB: Dak Prescott WR: Ja’Marr Chase WR: Amon-Ra St Brown WR: Jaylen Waddle RB: Alexander Mattison RB: Breece Hall TE: TJ Hockenson Flex: James Conner Flex: James Cook Flex: Brandin Cooks BN: Jeff Wilson BN: Zay Jones BN: Donovan Peoples-Jones BN: Justyn Ross BN: John Metchie
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MakaVillian posted:What pick do you have? We won't know our draft order until it opens, so no clue. Higgins was my first gut choice as a keeper over Hock, I just started looking at draft sheets and saw how TE just drops after Hock (whom I got two years in a row via draft and it was nice never worrying about that position) and got nervous. Higgins hosed me a lot last year with boom/bust and injuries.
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Anti-Hero posted:We won't know our draft order until it opens, so no clue. Redraft leagues where the commish doesn’t do some fun way to determine draft order at least a few days before the draft are shenanigans. Doing endless mocks for days leading up to the draft only to have your unpredictable idiot buddies throw your plans completely off the rails is half the fun.
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Whoreson Welles posted:
Our commissioner has always done a “write names on slips of paper and draw from a hat” draft order thing a week before but this year got hold of a wheel of fortune and we did it right at the start of the draft I did way less mock drafts not knowing my pick # which was good because like you said once people start doing weird poo poo your strategy might change in a hurry I drafted 2nd in a 1 QB snake draft and QBs started flying off the board late second round
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Whoreson Welles posted:Redraft leagues where the commish doesn’t do some fun way to determine draft order at least a few days before the draft are shenanigans. My first home league draft of the season is tomorrow and I am picking 11  Except I couldn’t get too mad cause the commish had his adorable daughter clumsily pick and read names out of a hat  My much more degenerate league always does something very dumb like drinking games or asking 40 year old slobs to do feats of athleticism
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Docjowles posted:My much more degenerate league always does something very dumb like drinking games or asking 40 year old slobs to do feats of athleticism This is 1000% times better than any stupid luck of the draw method.
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Anti-Hero posted:We won't know our draft order until it opens, so no clue. How many WRs do you start? If it was Kelce/Andrews absolutely, but Hock is at the top of the TE blob which  .Don't necessarily project injuries from last year onto this year.
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Whoreson Welles posted:Redraft leagues where the commish doesn’t do some fun way to determine draft order at least a few days before the draft are shenanigans. Yeah my league got way better when our Commish started dressing up like a ref and doing lotto ball picks a few weeks ahead of time. It's just better when you've got a silly announcement. Speaking of, does anyone know anything about simulating/recording a Mario Kart race?
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Just do a clown race https://www.online-stopwatch.com/clown-race/
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MakaVillian posted:How many WRs do you start? 1QB/2WR/2RB/1TE/1FLX/1K/1DST I think you've convinced me. I'll blame you when I invariably get stuck with streaming TE nobodies. If that happens I think Musgrave will go off.
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I make likenesses of the league members I'm WWE2K19 and stream a royal rumble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ3o06tBKtc The best part is it requires 20 wrestlers so I make all these weird characters like a Yeti and no one knows who's going to run into the ring until the name is called.
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Anti-Hero posted:I'll blame you when I invariably get stuck with streaming TE nobodies. As you should. I'm drafting the hell out of Gerald Everett as a late round TE fwiw
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In all fairness "TE nobodies" is like 90% of the league.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I really like you, so I'm going to be blunt: In a PPR where you can start 5 wrs and you are strong at RB, rostering just 7 WRs total vs 7 bench RBs is not going to give you the gas you need down the stretch. Ditch those RBs for WR depth. I like the bluntness. One other thing to note though is… receiving yards are capped in terms of value. Rushing yards are at 0.1 per and receiving at 0.07. So it’s … sort of nuanced.
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