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(Most of OP shamelessly pilfered from Spoaenk's 2022 OP) A way to get even angrier about numbers than looking at a US hospital bill! Free League Hosting Services
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Twitter Follows Here's an updated twitter list for fantasy: Beat Writer Aggregator @32BeatWriters Real NFL Guys @AlbertBreer @gregcosell @mortreport @AdamSchefter @rapsheet Football Guys @Sigmundbloom - Produces the excellent "Audible" podcast. My favorite follow. @MattWaldman - Writes the Rookie Scouting Portfolio. I'm not sure he sleeps. @JeneBramel - MD and Football Guy, excellent for injury updates on gameday morning and IDP advice Not Dov Kleiman The Fantasy Footballers - some people don't like them (too much fluff) but they are insanely accurate @JasonFFL @AndyHolloway @ffhitman CBS Sports @DaveRichard - might be the nicest guy in fantasy @JameyEisenberg - doesn't sleep @HeathCummingssr - contrarian takes @CTowersCBS - mix baseball/football @AdamAizer - Trash takes ESPN @MikeClayNFL - The only one worth your time on their godawful analysis network @StephaniaESPN - ok, Stephania Bell is good, too. NFL @GreggRosenthal - Former Rotoworld writer, great real life football knowledge @AdamRank - Fantasy Analyst @MarcasG - Fantasy Analyst @MichaelFFlorio - Fantasy Analyst NBC Sports Edge (current and former) @LordReebs @JoshNorris @EvanSilva - The GOAT @RotoPat - The guy who writes the funny Rotoworld blurbs @CDCarter13 - FF #taeks and owning the ilbs Yahoo! @scott_pianowski @AndyBehrens - boring @LizLoza_FF @MattHarmon_BYB - The Reception Perception guy. @YahooNoise - Accurate/ballsy, but can take over a twitter feed Misc. Writers/PFF Guys @friscojosh - The Airyards Guy. Kind of an rear end in a top hat but has great WR insight @LateRoundQB - JJ Zachariason, Editor-in-Chief at Fanduel & Numberfire @ChrisRaybon - DFS Expert, but gives some good insight @ScottBarrettDFB - Head PFF Fantasy Analyst, extraordinarily good info @MikeTagliereNFL - lead NFL Writer, Fantasypros (RIP Tags) @Allinkid - Lead Writer, The Athletic Fantasy @4for4_John - from 4for4, most accurate guy the last couple years @TJHernandez - DFS Director, 4for4 @HarrisFootball  Introduction - lifted directly from Beer because this is all good stuff! Fantasy football does something amazing for sports fans in that it can make any game interesting. Two 0-5 teams across the country from you squaring off? Well if you have one of their quarterbacks, you will be pounding the table and screaming at the game until they kick you out of the bar. Basically, you put together a team of individual players from around the league, then score points based on their performance on the football field. Lots of stuff can score points, like gaining yards and catching passes, so there's room for excitement during every single play. The cycle of an NFL week provides a great framework for fantasy football. Most fantasy leagues are set up where each player plays another every week, and whoever has the highest total once the Monday night game ends gets the win. The playoffs happen during the last few weeks of the NFL regular season (although week 17 is a severely unpopular week for fantasy championships, because playoff-bound teams often rest their best players.) Pretty much, if you like football and watching football, you will most likely love fantasy. If you never have before, give it a try. The Basics A league consists of several owners (typically 12), one of whom is the commissioner who manages the league. At the beginning of the season each owner drafts a roster of players. Rosters are typically fifteen players and consist of starters and a bench of reserve players to replace starters who are injured or on bye weeks. A typical starting lineup that will mirror NFL positions and consist of 1 Quarterback (QB), 2 Running Backs (RB), 3 Wide Receivers (WR), 1 Tight End (TE), a Place Kicker (PK), and a Team Defense/Special Teams (DST). Each week your players will score points for your team according to their performance. Scoring can be very simple or incredibly complicated depending on the league, but many leagues use a standard scoring system where passing provides 1 point per 25 yards, 4 points per passing touchdown, and -1 point per interception and receiving and rushing gain 1 point per 10 yards, 6 points per receiving/rushing touchdown. Field goals are typically worth 3 points, and team defense scoring depends on a number of factors including sacks, interceptions, points allowed, defensive touchdowns, etc. Many leagues will use different scoring systems depending on the preferences of the players. One significant difference is PPR, or Points Per Reception, where wide receiver are awarded a set number of points (typically 0.5 or 1) for every reception. The league season will go for a set number of weeks during the regular NFL season. Typically the last two to four weeks of the regular season are reserved for the playoffs, and most leagues end on the sixteenth week because many NFL teams will sit their star players in Week 17 if the outcome doesn't matter. Variations There are many roster variations that different leagues will use. Many leagues use a flex position where different positions can fit into a slot. The most common form of flex position replaces the third WR position in the standard lineup above with a WR/RB/TE flex position. That means that any Wide Receiver, Running Back, or Tight End player could be used in that slot. Leagues where that flex position allows a QB are typically called "2 QB leagues" because quarterbacks typically score far more points that other players. Other leagues utilize IDP or Individual Defensive Players instead of Team Defenses. IDP players score points for tackles, sacks, interceptions, touchdowns, etc. Many leagues are several years old and include rules to provide continuity between seasons. In contrast to a redraft league where every player is drafted at the start of each season some leagues use keepers where team owners are allowed to keep a set number of players per year. Other leagues are dynasty leagues where the entire roster is kept from year to year. Typically dynasty leagues use much deeper benches and include a rookie draft. The Draft Every league starts with a draft, where team owner pick their players. There are two major types of draft; the snake draft and the auction draft. A snake draft is where every owner receives a draft position and then picks a player in order for a number of rounds equal to the roster size. It's called a snake draft because the order "snakes" back and forth each round. In other words the owner who picked last in the first round will pick first in the second. Auction drafts are where each team owner has a set budget and they bid for each player until everyone's roster has been filled. There are numerous drafting strategies out there, but ultimately the goal of any draft is to get the maximum amount of value for your players. Trades and the Waiver Wire While drafting is essential, the most successful teams typically win by taking advantage of the waiver wire and trades. Trading is precisely what it sounds like; players offer each other trades that are accepted or rejected. Many leagues incorporate an approval process to prevent collusion where two players will deliberately stack one team and then split the winnings; there is no universe where Adrian Peterson is worth Mark Sanchez. Depending on the league trading may either be nonexistent or commonplace. Many leagues will end trading several weeks before the playoffs begin. The NFL has hundreds of players and most of them will not be on a team roster. As players are injured or fall out of favor team owners will be forced to pick up free agents to replace them. To do this they use the waiver wire. Each week individual players are locked the moment their team starts their game. For the duration of this "waiver period" owners who wish to claim a free agent submit a "waiver claim." Owners who wish to make more than one waiver claim must indicate the priority of their claims. At the end of the waiver period (typically a day or two after the beginning of the new week) the league software checks the standings of the teams. Going in reverse order (worst standing to highest) the teams get their highest priority claim. If multiple teams have submitted waiver claims for the same player it will go the team with the lowest standing, and the other teams will get their lower priority claims. After the waiver period has en`ded every player is available to be claimed immediately. The waiver wire is extremely important. Alfred Morris, the 5th ranked running back of 2012, was a free agent in most leagues until the first week. Many owners use the waiver wire to "stream" defenses and other players based on that week's match. Advice: Know your drat league settings and make a plan before the draft. Does your league give a point per reception? Raise your valuation of pass catching running backs and those low-highlight receivers that get a bunch of targets. Are you in a league that gives bonus points for drafting players that are literally the worst human being? Whoever is quarterbacking for Tampa Bay should get a boost. So many times, people sit down at a draft and ask, "is this 4 point or 6 point passing TDs?" Don't do that: If you're going to do no research beforehand, just get a Beer Sheet and follow it, that's exactly what they're invented for. A very special rant about auctions: Don't take auction advice from analysts who primarily do drafts. Auctions take longer and how they go is greatly dependent upon the people involved. So analysts only have time to get in a few auctions each season, and it's usually with the same batch of other analysts they work with. This means that often the advice they give has only been shown to work a few times with a pre-set group of owners. If you're looking for some tips as a first-time auctioner, or you're wondering how the meta has shifted for this year, don't Google it. Just hit us up here in the Armchair Quarterback. I've already started my mocks and analysis for 2023 and am always happy to share everything I've learned. A WAY TO GET BETTER ADVICE ON KEEPERS FROM THE THREAD Put as many rules as possible in your questions. Include league size, keeper rules (cost, how long can you keep, etc), rules (4 points for TD, PPR, etc) That should be everything.
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gently caress yeah! New thread!
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May 6, 2023 02:02
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Football for the football gods
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May 6, 2023 04:24
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Fantasy football is a mental disorder that runs from September to December. Like seasonal depression but dumber.
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May 6, 2023 04:55
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Thanks to my fellow mental issues fantasy idiots. It's not a waste of a life if it brings you joy. Still waiting on that joy but confidence is high, I repeat confidence is high
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May 6, 2023 06:35
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kiimo posted:Thanks to my fellow mental issues fantasy idiots. It's not a waste of a life if it brings you joy. Is it Justyn Ross again this year or someone else?
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May 6, 2023 06:46
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Ross may not make the 53. But holy poo poo do I hope he does. This year it's UDFA running back Deneric Prince, who is clearly going to be even better than Darwin Thompson, the true Prince That Was Promised.
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May 6, 2023 07:15
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I think it's because I just need to scratch the itch, but I've contemplated starting up a dynasty league in place of my best ball one. I don't think I will (because I'm already in one dynasty league and the other players like the set it and forget it aspect of best ball), but it's tickling the back of my brain. The one thing I think I'd like to experience is a heavy trash talking league. All of my current leagues are fun, and there is some light hearted ball busting here and there, but for the most part, everyone is chill. That's a good thing, don't get me wrong. I'm not looking for drama, but I guess a little more back and forth interaction would also be fun.
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May 6, 2023 15:02
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My home league started our own goddam podcast so that we could get drunk and trash talk more, and make sure the people who moved away still get to hear how bad they suck. I love what absolute animals we’ve become. In conclusion Quiet Feet posted:Fantasy football is a mental disorder that runs from September to December. Like seasonal depression but dumber.
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May 6, 2023 15:22
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Silly Burrito posted:I think it's because I just need to scratch the itch, but I've contemplated starting up a dynasty league in place of my best ball one. I don't think I will (because I'm already in one dynasty league and the other players like the set it and forget it aspect of best ball), but it's tickling the back of my brain. I've had an idea for the last couple of years of creating a SF TEP IDP dynasty league. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll get a chance to do it this year, but I'm hoping to set it up next year. It'll be formatted so that defensive players have equal value to offensive players. It will be the last dynasty league I do because I'm already in too many lol.
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May 6, 2023 15:33
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Sataere posted:I've had an idea for the last couple of years of creating a SF TEP IDP dynasty league. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll get a chance to do it this year, but I'm hoping to set it up next year. It'll be formatted so that defensive players have equal value to offensive players. It will be the last dynasty league I do because I'm already in too many lol. God bless you if you get it up and going. I tried an IDP league one year and having to keep up with the defensive players and the scoring was just too much for me. Team Defense is enough of a crapshoot by itself, much less breaking it down.
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May 6, 2023 15:58
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Silly Burrito posted:God bless you if you get it up and going. I tried an IDP league one year and having to keep up with the defensive players and the scoring was just too much for me. Team Defense is enough of a crapshoot by itself, much less breaking it down. I loved IDP when we had the league. It definitely requires a hardcore love of fantasy football
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May 6, 2023 16:00
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Silly Burrito posted:The one thing I think I'd like to experience is a heavy trash talking league. Way to lose to drunknerds in the playoffs this season. He hasn't checked his team in like three years.
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Poque posted:Way to lose to drunknerds in the playoffs this season. He hasn't checked his team in like three years. It’s ok, I beat him in the Super Bowl two years ago. At least when I make it to the big dance, I go home with the prom queen.
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May 6, 2023 17:10
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Silly Burrito posted:It’s ok, I beat him in the Super Bowl two years ago. At least when I make it to the big dance, I go home with the prom queen. Joke's on you, I have the second pick and I only have to fill every position on my roster!!!
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May 6, 2023 17:18
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Poque posted:Way to lose to drunknerds in the playoffs this season. He hasn't checked his team in like three years. I actually might kind of care about dynasty now. As I said in the other thread, yesterday I was on the clock in a SF league and Stroud was available. Going back and forth with all the interested owners to engineer the best trade back possible (I traded 1.05 & 2.05 for 1.09 and DJM because all I wanted was a WR and the top 4 were still on the board). That awakened something in me. I'm going to check this team Poque is talking about, now. Edit: Holy cow, I need to win now. Or do I need to trade Cook and Henry to a team that needs to win now for some building pieces? Or has that window past? Am I doing dynasty thoughts right? Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 17:36 on May 6, 2023 |
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May 6, 2023 17:22
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You still have to trade your fifth to Quiet Feet now, it’s a tradition.
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May 6, 2023 17:38
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All 7-7 teams have to compete in a bidding war for Aaron Rodgers to. It's tradition
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May 6, 2023 18:05
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Silly Burrito posted:You still have to trade your fifth to Quiet Feet now, it’s a tradition. Yeah!  Also my 1st and 2nd rounders are on the block in that league!
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May 6, 2023 20:03
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Near the end of the last year's thread some people gave me some input on doing a dynasty dispersal draft so I wanted to follow up to say thanks to those folks and to whomever it was that pointed me at the Football Absurdity Discord, where I got some additional good input. Here is how the first 2/3 or so of the dispersal draft ended up (I'm on the right): I'm really happy with it, because my plan is to Crash for Caleb (by having no starting QBs on the current roster and I'll draft a QB with 1.02)(I also have dogshit WR depth behind the great starters). I could have done a few things differently but overall it worked out how I had hoped. I should not have waited on Hollywood so long, but I did because the guy had already (over)drafted DHop. I should not have let Everette sit, even though I dont really believe in him and he will not be as productive this year with a 1st round rookie WR on the roster. I probably should have bothered with Boyd because he's a WR3 and not very trade-able. I'm currently working on trying to trade Kupp and Chubb. Something that someone shared on the Football Absurdity discord that I thought was fascinating about Chubb:  Before/After Watson being the starter.
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May 6, 2023 20:19
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Yeah the drop off for Chubb when Watson came back is really stark. Who knows if that will continue or if they will return to giving one of the best backs in the league the ball again but it is concerning. Also I wouldn’t sweat missing out on Everett too much. You have several picks that could be used on a rookie TE in a good class if you’re so inclined.
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May 6, 2023 20:32
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That's some good ol fashioned Stefanski play calling. It works, don't do it. They'll never see it coming!
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May 6, 2023 20:38
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That Nick Chubb bad data aside, what picks would you guys ask for him in PPR dynasty? I want him off my team because I'm trying to tank so considering his usage last year and his age I think I'd be ok with like.... a third this year and a second next year. I'm also debating what pick to ask for if I send a guy Cooper Kupp for Marquise Brown. Ches Neckbeard posted:That's some good ol fashioned Stefanski play calling. It works, don't do it. They'll never see it coming!
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May 6, 2023 22:09
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You're selling absurdly low if we're talking dynasty. Thanks to Stefanski being a moron he doesn't have the same level of wear for someone his age and can produce despite him. Also holy poo poo Anthony Richardson is really getting the Trey Lance treatment Ches Neckbeard fucked around with this message at 23:37 on May 6, 2023 |
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May 6, 2023 23:34
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Ches Neckbeard posted:You're selling absurdly low if we're talking dynasty. Thanks to Stefanski being a moron he doesn't have the same level of wear for someone his age and can produce despite him.
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May 6, 2023 23:49
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:That Nick Chubb bad data aside, what picks would you guys ask for him in PPR dynasty? I want him off my team because I'm trying to tank so considering his usage last year and his age I think I'd be ok with like.... a third this year and a second next year. Dynasty, Kupp and Chubb need to be for a minimum first. First plus a young player is where I move. He really is, but he is also way more athletic than Lance was on tape against much better competition. He's still the QB3 for me in dynasty, but I get why guys wanna just shoot for upside.
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May 7, 2023 02:22
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Kupp had arguably the best season EVER by a WR two years ago, and has been amazing for years and years. He should get nothing short of an absolute haul if you trade him.
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May 7, 2023 02:24
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RCarr posted:Kupp had arguably the best season EVER by a WR two years ago, and has been amazing for years and years. He should get nothing short of an absolute haul if you trade him. He's also 30, which limits the return you'll get unless he starts going off. Drunk Nerds posted:I actually might kind of care about dynasty now. As I said in the other thread, yesterday I was on the clock in a SF league and Stroud was available. Going back and forth with all the interested owners to engineer the best trade back possible (I traded 1.05 & 2.05 for 1.09 and DJM because all I wanted was a WR and the top 4 were still on the board). That awakened something in me. I love how I said I'd need a week, so we did a slow draft. The minute I was on the clock, three different people were like "hey man, not sure if you noticed, but you're on the clock"  I SAID I WAS TAKING A WEEK! You fuckers are lucky I got done with my top 15 grades early!
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May 7, 2023 02:28
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Sataere posted:He's also 30, which limits the return you'll get unless he starts going off. Agreed, but I’ve seen firsts sent for worse players all the time. I traded Hopkins for a first last year. Kupp is still a league winner and will absolutely fetch a first and more pretty easily, I’d think.
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May 7, 2023 02:39
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RCarr posted:Kupp had arguably the best season EVER by a WR two years ago, and has been amazing for years and years. He should get nothing short of an absolute haul if you trade him. Is this sufficient
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Silly Burrito posted:Is this sufficient edit: also Kupp really took off with Stafford. He was really good before but not supernatural like he was with Stafford. And I dont expect Stafford to last any more than another year, maybe 2, so I'd rather have a younger guy like Marquise, who did really drat well with Kyler before they both got hurt last year. AAAAA! Real Muenster fucked around with this message at 02:55 on May 7, 2023 |
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May 7, 2023 02:43
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Quiet Feet posted:Yeah! I'd like to CRUSH Quiet Feet in a dynasty league.
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May 7, 2023 07:06
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Silly Burrito posted:Is this sufficient 
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EconDad posted:I'd like to CRUSH Quiet Feet in a dynasty league. I'm perfectly capable of being crushed without you. Silly Burrito posted:Is this sufficient I'll own it. Kupp had one top-10 finish prior to this trade, had two years in the mid-20s, and then the injury year. I was 2-2 at the start of 2021 after a couple of lackluster season and figured I should just sell off pieces and try to rebuild. Didn't think he would keep up that pace through the rest of the season!
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May 7, 2023 15:07
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Quiet Feet posted:I'm perfectly capable of being crushed without you. Absolutely nobody knew. Except Steve Smith, I suppose.
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May 7, 2023 16:37
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:Absolutely nobody knew. Pepperidge Farm knew
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Ches Neckbeard posted:You're selling absurdly low if we're talking dynasty. Thanks to Stefanski being a moron he doesn't have the same level of wear for someone his age and can produce despite him. I'm doing a dynasty startup draft with some industry people and he went 2.02 
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Fantasy is great because it the beginning the weather is nice and you’ve got your shiny new team and then in December the weather is miserable and depressing along with your team Thanks for the new thread!
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Was listening to PFF and apparently they think the 40 times for WR and DB were messed up. Said the splits and 10s and 20s didn't line up with the 40 times and they went so far as to call it "mathematically impossible". Also they suspect something was going on with the laser. I know Doltos mentioned that as well. So I looked up my team's WR pick and I recommend you do the same if you have one.  The 40 sticks out like a sore thumb. For some guys like Hyatt or Addison who were dinged in the draft for slower than expected 40 times uhhhh that may be bullshit. Draft accordingly.
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