@ABWorsham:
I may pick up the hobby next season. I already watch 15-20 hours of football a week. What’s going on in your mind whenever one of your players is playing opposite of your favorite team?
It’s not that bad. Most of the time, you make it a point to pick up a home team player (for me, Ochocinco), so you’ll always be rooting for the home team to give you stats. Plus, Someone like Drew Brees on my league earned crazy high stats, but he still lost. So, many times it doesn’t matter whether they win or not. You’ll find yourself saying things like, “C’mon Campbell, give it to McFadden, not Bush!” (McFadden is my RB) instead of, “Please Oakland win!”
That being said, usually when someone is playing your home team, you hope your team wins and the other team’s “individual players” gives some solid stats.
GG
@ABWorsham:
I may pick up the hobby next season. I already watch 15-20 hours of football a week. What’s going on in your mind whenever one of your players is playing opposite of your favorite team?
Unless you’re a diehard fan, you can usually separate it. I’ve always had at least 1 person from my favorite team. I think there is more pressure with that for them to do well.
That said, Brady made me and killed me in 2 leagues. The one I lost in was ridiculous.
I’ve been playing for a while and I’m usually in 2-3 leagues a year. One league is what I’d consider my “real” league and that I play with my old college buddies. But the others I do mainly for fun.
Don’t worry about your defense all that much. Statisically speaking there isn’t much difference between good defenses and avg defenses. Oak is decent. I will typically play the matchups and add/drop defenses almost weekly and just try to find a defense that is playing a really bad team.
(10 team League) My Team is:
QB: Rodgers, GB
RB: MJD, Jax
RB: S. Jackson, St.L
WR: Wallace, Pit
WR: Austin, Dal
Flex: Boldin, Balt
TE: Finley, GB
Def: SD
K: Viniteri, Indy
BN: Bradford, St.L (QB)
BN: Benson, Cin (RB)
BN: Addai, Ind (RB)
BN: Tomlinson, NYJ (RB)
BN: L. Evans, Balt (WR)
BN: S. Smith, Car (WR)
BN: B Edwards, SF (WR)
This week, I’m trying to pick up C Williams from St.L on the waiver wire since it looks like Jackson is hurt. I’ll be dropping Addai for now. Indy right now isn’t good, and they play Pit in week 3 so its not like I’d be starting him the next two weeks. I’m starting Benson in Jackson place.
@ABWorsham:
I may pick up the hobby next season. I already watch 15-20 hours of football a week. What’s going on in your mind whenever one of your players is playing opposite of your favorite team?
I used to worry about this when I started but it doesn’t bother me at all now. I do usually try to draft 1-2 players from my favorite teams (Pit or Chi). I also will always root for my favorite team regardless of fantasy numbers b/c frankly too much can change from play to play or game to game to worry about fantasy points. I just sort of set my line up and let the chips fall where they may. And being in a couple leagues now that means there is so much cross over it really doesn’t matter so I just always root for my favorite team. I mean in this League I have Rodgers, so I’d want him to do well, but in my two other leagues I’m going to play against him at some point. So, I don’t really worry about it anymore. Every week I root for the Pack to lose and the Bears to crush him when they play, but in reality he’s going to be putting up 250-300 yds, and 2 td a game. It doesn’t change much from my rooting perspective.
One last thing, you do want to like your team and have fun, and if that means picking a few more of your home town players by all means do it. In one of my for fun leagues, we are serious (but its still just for fun) but because we are all in Chicago that means Bears players go a bit higher then normal and its nice to root for a home town player.
That’s a nice lineup, DM. How many in that league? Also, why don’t you start an RB in flex rather than a WR? I also had Steve Smith on my bench, hahahaha.
GG…how’d your game go? He’re my scores:
20 team: (Me)105.25 vs. 73.97
8 team: (Me) 102 vs. 87
As for the 12 team league, I’m going to let the pic speak for itself (still a chance stat corrections could change it). I am Tecmo in that league. I couldn’t effing believe it.
My League is a 10 team league, so everyone seems to have decent teams.
I had the 7th pick and went Rodgers in Rd 1, then MJD in Rd 2.
Outside of the top 4-5 RBs I felt there were a lot of guys that are kind of the same and could be drafted in the middle rds, so I went with an Elite QB. I normally go RB in rds 1-2 but I haven’t been doing well the past few years, so I just went #1 QB. Plus QBs do well in our league (we get a point for every 5 completions and 6 pts for tds.). So yeah, like you said, good reminder for knowing the scoring system for your league.
We can only start a Maximum of 2 RBs. Our Flex guy is actually just an extra WR/TE spot.
Yeah tough to see Smith put up 30 on the bench, but if he (and Cam) do that against GB this week, then I’ll have some tough calls to make. In a good way. lol!
Edit:
Oh man, losing by .3! Brutal!
That’s a nice lineup, DM. How many in that league? Also, why don’t you start an RB in flex rather than a WR? I also had Steve Smith on my bench, hahahaha.
GG…how’d your game go? He’re my scores:
20 team: (Me)105.25 vs. 73.97
8 team: (Me) 102 vs. 87As for the 12 team league, I’m going to let the pic speak for itself (still a chance stat corrections could change it). I am Tecmo in that league. I couldn’t effing believe it.
Jermo, he killed me (see below). I did do one stupid thing, I started Jared Cook instead of Tony Gonzalez (the latter had 72 points in our league), but it wouldn’t have mattered. I have a feeling I’ll have a better match against Kyle Orton next week.
GG
BTW, I have this thing for making jest concerning hipsters, hence the beanie kitten as my pic and the team name in reference to them… And, here’s next week line up.
GG
Also, for my bench, I was able to acquire Scott Chandler (for Bernard Berrian). Sadly, I didn’t get Grossman or Early Doucet (would have ditched Cook and Andre Roberts).
Oh man, losing by .3! Brutal!
It’s not even really that. I mean, sure, I agonized that if Jacoby Ford (he was the last player to play for both teams, needed only 1 point) hadn’t fumbled I’d have won, or if Vick rushed for 2 more yards, or if Dwayne Bowe caught one more pass…
None it was that. I was leading by more than 100 points going into Monday with a WR to play. She had Brady, her kicker, and a couple defense players. The thing that killed me is that BRADY SCORED 76 POINTS!!!
I mean, he had an INCREDIBLE game (and saved my ass in my money league). He should be top scorer. But he scored triple on Vick, and Vick had a good game. He get 30 bonus points (more points than all but 2 quarterbacks in the league for the day) for simply passing for 400 yards. 5 at 300, 10 at 350, 15 more at 400. It doesn’t make any sense. I even looked at it before we started and assumed it was either/or/or but not cumulative. A QB in our league can garner 34 points by passing 101 yards after 299. It’s absolutely absurd. I don’t even know why there are bonus points…the kickers, IDPs, and Def/ST don’t get any bonuses, and they actually could use help to score. Tom Brady was nearly half the teams points, and that’s not right. i’m just hoping stat adjustments change it in my favor.
Oh, and just to put it more into perspective:
Brees and Rodgers had nearly identical games, both over 300 yards, 3 TDs, no fumbles, no interceptions. Brees was sacked 3 times while Rodgers was sacked twice. Brees had 107 yards more than Rodgers. Yet, Brees scores 63.56, Rodgers scores 34.58.
Are you seriously telling me that Brees deserves 28.98 points more than Rodgers for throwing only 100 yards more than him? A QB that only throws 100 yards gets 4 points (8 points at 200 yards, 17 points at 300 yards, 29 points at 350 yards, 46 points at 400 yards). (cut and paste from my post to the league)
As it turns out the league head thought it was incremental and not cumulative, and hoped it helped against ties, which they had many last year.
@Guerrilla:
Jermo, he killed me (see below). I did do one stupid thing, I started Jared Cook instead of Tony Gonzalez (the latter had 72 points in our league), but it wouldn’t have mattered. I have a feeling I’ll have a better match against Kyle Orton next week.
GG
Well don’t sweat it, it wouldn’t have mattered and you know better. I’d consider dropping Cook altogether, but that’s your decision. I think you’ll do fine this week, giving your matchup a cursory glance.
I am going to drop Cook if he does nothing this next week. I should figure that “Hassle” wouldn’t throw worth anything in Tennessee. Right now, I am working on getting Marion Barber off waivers. Someone dropped him cause of the injury and hopefully I’ll nab him in place of Delone Carter.
I dropped Andre Roberts for Emmanuel Sanders, and I am thinking of dropping him for Brandon Lafell, but that’s putting a lot of faith in the golden arm from Auburn.
GG
@Guerrilla:
I am going to drop Cook if he does nothing this next week. I should figure that “Hassle” wouldn’t throw worth anything in Tennessee. Right now, I am working on getting Marion Barber off waivers. Someone dropped him cause of the injury and hopefully I’ll nab him in place of Delone Carter.
I dropped Andre Roberts for Emmanuel Sanders, and I am thinking of dropping him for Brandon Lafell, but that’s putting a lot of faith in the golden arm from Auburn.
GG
Marion Barber should have an upswing year, especially if Forte needs to sit. I always liked him but his production had gone downhill in Dallas. I think the O-Line is part of the blame there. I also dropped Carter knowing if he does show up later he’ll be available from waivers/FA. I still have Daniel Thomas and am unsure what he’ll do and may need to trade him out for someone else.
Also, as of right now, I’m leading the game I previously lost with the new stat corrections by .6 points (instead of losing by .3).
@Guerrilla:
I am going to drop Cook if he does nothing this next week. I should figure that “Hassle” wouldn’t throw worth anything in Tennessee. Right now, I am working on getting Marion Barber off waivers. Someone dropped him cause of the injury and hopefully I’ll nab him in place of Delone Carter.
I dropped Andre Roberts for Emmanuel Sanders, and I am thinking of dropping him for Brandon Lafell, but that’s putting a lot of faith in the golden arm from Auburn.
GG
Marion Barber should have an upswing year, especially if Forte needs to sit. I always liked him but his production had gone downhill in Dallas. I think the O-Line is part of the blame there. I also dropped Carter knowing if he does show up later he’ll be available from waivers/FA. I still have Daniel Thomas and am unsure what he’ll do and may need to trade him out for someone else.
Also, as of right now, I’m leading the game I previously lost with the new stat corrections by .6 points (instead of losing by .3).
I think so too… That’s why, even though he is a “Q”, I am keeping Barber on my lineup.
Haha, pwnage due to kneeling. That’s amazing. You couldn’t ask for anything better between a Brady/Vick game. I’m rooting to see those two squads in the superbowl again.
Question: I got Mike Williams and Brown/Sanders in my list of back up receivers. But considering Ocho’s #s last week, and I have a bad feeling that SD’s secondary will chew up a bit of NE’s production, I am thinking he will have the some sub-par week. Pittsburgh is mad off the loss from Baltimore and they are going to be fighting the “mighty” Seattle Seahawks, but I am dealing with the 3rd and 4th tier receivers. In your opinion, is it an equal bet whether I start Emmanuel Sanders or Ochocinco, or is one gonna be better?
GG
Start Sanders. He and Mike Wallace are the now and future in Pittsburgh, and Ocho has to compete with Welker, Branch, Gronkowski, Hernandez, and others.
@Guerrilla:
I am going to drop Cook if he does nothing this next week. I should figure that “Hassle” wouldn’t throw worth anything in Tennessee. Right now, I am working on getting Marion Barber off waivers. Someone dropped him cause of the injury and hopefully I’ll nab him in place of Delone Carter.
I dropped Andre Roberts for Emmanuel Sanders, and I am thinking of dropping him for Brandon Lafell, but that’s putting a lot of faith in the golden arm from Auburn.
GG
Marion Barber should have an upswing year, especially if Forte needs to sit. I always liked him but his production had gone downhill in Dallas. I think the O-Line is part of the blame there. I also dropped Carter knowing if he does show up later he’ll be available from waivers/FA. I still have Daniel Thomas and am unsure what he’ll do and may need to trade him out for someone else.
Also, as of right now, I’m leading the game I previously lost with the new stat corrections by .6 points (instead of losing by .3).
Sure Barber has anything left? Soilder Field is the thickest grass in the NFL, that’s not a good combination with a guy that has thought to have lost a step.
Well, looks like Jamaal Charles is gone for the year in 2 of my leagues, which sucks because I lost my top RB last year early in the season (1st game, 5 minutes in). I already have Dexter McCluster in one league and will pick him up in the other…he ought to do well and hasn’t been bad as a #2 RB or flex. Thomas Jones will get some more carries too, but I think most of it will go to McCluster.
Sorry I didn’t get a chance to respond to your question, GG, but you got a good one anyway, so hope it worked out for you.
@ABWorsham:
Sure Barber has anything left? Soilder Field is the thickest grass in the NFL, that’s not a good combination with a guy that has thought to have lost a step.
I watched him in the preseason and he looked good. Watching the current Dallas RBs compared to last year makes me wonder if it’s not so much Barber has changed, but the O-Line and offensive play calls due to coach change.
Thanks Jermo, it worked out. Sanders nabbed 59 points for me, which wasn’t bad. I’m gonna drop Mike Williams for Brandon Lafell. He continues to rise in stock, and if the golden arm from Auburn keeps it up, he will be the perfect W/R.
This week I lost (Malcom Floyd went down, Desean had his “half-a-game” injury" and my opponent had Vincent Jackson, Mr. 222 fantasy points), but I did have the best TE of the week in Tony Gonzalez. Who says you can’t have a bounce back?
I am sorry about Jamaal. I think you’ll have a perfect back up though. It’s rough, cause I know if Jamaal had not gone down, he would have been carrying more of the load that Cassel is unable to carry. Dexter does have 116, so in view of Jamaal’s #'s this year, you’re already ahead.
GG
Yeah, I’m sure I’ll be fine, but I do have some other injuries to worry about. I’ve only lost one of six games so I guess I can’t complain too much. 8-)
Well, I finally pulled a win out of somewhere. McFadden was a beast, Schaub was actually good. I think DeSean is pretty much finished, and I might be correcting my previous statement about the Eagles being a contestant in the Superbowl.
Oh, and I’m never trusting Cam Newton’s arm again…
GG
It’s still very early. Cam is kind of an unknown but he’ll put up more nice numbers. Desean will too…he was kinda slow last year but had some great games. Then the occasional one like last week where Vick only hit Maclin. He’ll get a couple returns for TDs though, and he’s still the #1 receiver so don’t drop him. McFadden is awesome…I picked him up early last year when someone dropped him as I had Ryan Grant go down in the first 5 minutes of the season. Run DMC put up great numbers…some were really absurd. He’s off to a great start this year.
I lost my 2 Yahoo games as I have only Romo in one, Vick didn’t produce in the other, forgot to hit submit from my lineup change in the second which would have given me a win, and both were without Jamaal Charles. The bright side is that I have a few unknowns really working it like Daniel Thomas. Glad I hung onto him.
On the other hand, I utterly DESTROYED in my ESPN league against my friend, 125-57. I scored the most points and he scored the least. Brady, Ravens D/ST, Run DMC, Mike Wallace all had phenomenal games, and Daniel Thomas did pretty good too. My brother and I are the only ones undefeated right now, and I hope to keep it that way, but I have Arian Foster, Miles Austin, and Knowshon Moreno all out for most of the season. I dropped Knowshon for Ryan Grant as I think he still has some ability.
i have 5 teams. my best record is 2/1
Worst week. Terrible game… Guess Freeman finally found his man card. That being said, someone just dropped David Nelson, and I’m not sure whether it’s better to pick him up or Jacoby Ford, who seems to have seized the starting spot in place of Moore.
GG
