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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:19 am

Badmike wrote:
The draft will happen sometime before Sunday night...or so the site says...
I assume the autodraft will have the "best" players as the starters...so hopefully they will be scored accordingly even if the draft happens after Thursday night's game. Hpefully it will happen before then, but it's up to Yahoo I guess....

Mike B.

The draft went through last night..

Talk about loaded teams...I have a backfield of LT and Willis McGahee...with Maurice Drew Jones grabbing bench because there's NO WHERE TO PUT HIM :roll:

Some other teams in the Luddite League are similarly stuffed with pro bowlers. I predict some insanely high scoring affairs in this league...

In contrast with my Acaeum League team, which I will be hoping might muster double digits each week if the wind is at their backs for most of the game....geez......

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:20 am

well mike, you will just have to use SHREWd tactics to make the team better

Are we nearly there yet?

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:06 am

FormCritic wrote:Dateline: Freeport, City of Adventure

Mark, do you realize how high you have raised the bar for reporting game results?

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:14 am

I hate autodrafts

The damndable program drafted my starting roster first.... Fine Im ok with that and in fact I fully expected it. See my post above.

However ALL but one of the remaining picks it made for me were WR's.
There are only 16 spots on the entire team!!

EIGHT WR's were drafted for my team. What kind of IDIOT running a team during a live draft would draft 8 WR's for a 16 spot team?

I shall now have to hit the waiver wire hard to make up for the automatic drafting programs stupidity. At least we have unlimited free agent pickups available, since im gonna be using them all year long.

I suspect my team is the worst in the league. How could it not be with NO backups at ANY spot except WR?

Ida done better not making ANY choices and letting it do its own thing. Obviously I dont know how to setup an autodraft.

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:43 am

Aneoth wrote:I hate autodrafts

The damndable program drafted my starting roster first.... Fine Im ok with that and in fact I fully expected it. See my post above.

However ALL but one of the remaining picks it made for me were WR's.
There are only 16 spots on the entire team!!

EIGHT WR's were drafted for my team. What kind of IDIOT running a team during a live draft would draft 8 WR's for a 16 spot team?

I shall now have to hit the waiver wire hard to make up for the automatic drafting programs stupidity. At least we have unlimited free agent pickups available, since im gonna be using them all year long.

I suspect my team is the worst in the league. How could it not be with NO backups at ANY spot except WR?

Ida done better not making ANY choices and letting it do its own thing. Obviously I dont know how to setup an autodraft.

SHEESE..................

Annie;

You did good, I believe you were the only one who manipulated the draft enough to only get one Def and Kicker.....congrats!

In contrast, I moved a lot of RBs up.....and the cupboard for WRs is bare for the Tegel Shrews. I have 98 year old Hines Ward holding down a spot on the starting lineup....only 3 WRs overall...sheesh.
Don't worry there's some real talent on the waiver wire, the result of only having 8 teams....I see players there that were taken in very early rounds in my face to face fantasy league, so don't despair.

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:46 am

Aneoth wrote:
EIGHT WR's were drafted for my team. What kind of IDIOT running a team during a live draft would draft 8 WR's for a 16 spot team?

.....

In our face to face league this year, one team took FOUR Tight End spots.....and none of them are very good....in a 20 spot team (one fifth of their team)! And it wasnt' even the team owned by the stoner, it was the team owned by last year's champions...go figure!

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:50 am

Badmike wrote:
I have 98 year old Hines Ward holding down a spot on the starting lineup.....

98??? Wow, I'd stil l take 1 Hines Ward over 2 TOs any day of the week on my team, fantasy or not. As a matter of fact Hines Ward is 3 years younger than MeO.

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:06 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:Mark, do you realize how high you have raised the bar for reporting game results?

I can't help myself. It seems to be a compulsion.

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:16 pm

I took Hines Ward last year, and took a load of crap from everyone, until they realized that Ward is the one who catches the endzone passes for the Steelers.

If you hit a Rowsdower, you get to keep it.

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:38 pm

bclarkie wrote: 98??? Wow, I'd stil l take 1 Hines Ward over 2 TOs any day of the week on my team, fantasy or not. As a matter of fact Hines Ward is 3 years younger than MeO.

Except that last year TO had more yards, receptions, and twice as many TDs as Ward. When it comes to Fantasy Football you have to leave your loyalties at the door...it's all about the stats!

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:04 pm

Except that last year TO had more yards, receptions, and twice as many TDs as Ward. When it comes to Fantasy Football you have to leave your loyalties at the door...it's all about the stats!

Pretty good considering he missed a game one where he broke his finger in the first quarter and almost died on a bye week.

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:08 pm

Badmike wrote:Except that last year TO had more yards, receptions, and twice as many TDs as Ward. When it comes to Fantasy Football you have to leave your loyalties at the door...it's all about the stats! Mike B.

You got dat right.

I hate the fact that TO plays for Dallas. I cursed Jerry Jones for doing it too. His action when Emmittt Smith almost kicked his arse alone was worth not wanting him on the team. (For those unaware, TO scored a TD while playing in Texas Stadium for SF (I think) and then he ran all the way back to the Star in the middle of the field to spike the ball on it and dance his jig, waving to the outraged Cowboy fans..... Emmitt Smith had a HUGE problem with that, as did EVERY Cowboys fan on the planet) Emmitt Smith was one of the most laid back football players of all time and he never had fights. Until that incedent.

I think TO is a sorry excuse for a human being (Not EVEN just for the star incedent either).

HOWEVER: as a Football fan, he is DA MAN at the WR spot... Well one of about 6 of em anyway.

Hines Ward WAS a great WR too, age has caught up to him to the point that now he is more middling than great. But he DOES get the TD's.

WHY?

His MANY years of experience allow him to fool the kiddies covering his old arse when he is inside the 20 yard line. And the QB knows it. The Defenses all seem to think he cant run at all, even 20 yards, yet he does it time and time again.

Mike, I have a half dozen extra WR's if your shopping......... :lol:

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:01 pm

Aneoth wrote:I hate autodrafts

The damndable program drafted my starting roster first.... Fine Im ok with that and in fact I fully expected it. See my post above.

However ALL but one of the remaining picks it made for me were WR's.
There are only 16 spots on the entire team!!

EIGHT WR's were drafted for my team. What kind of IDIOT running a team during a live draft would draft 8 WR's for a 16 spot team?

I shall now have to hit the waiver wire hard to make up for the automatic drafting programs stupidity. At least we have unlimited free agent pickups available, since im gonna be using them all year long.

I suspect my team is the worst in the league. How could it not be with NO backups at ANY spot except WR?

Ida done better not making ANY choices and letting it do its own thing. Obviously I dont know how to setup an autodraft.

SHEESE..................

I ended up with 5 QB's!!! WTF!!! One of them is on IR!!! I was wondering if anyone ended up with Michael Vick, I saw that he was eligible and put him in my DO NOT PICK column.

SH60B's quote of the weeK!!

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:18 pm

I thought I was being smart, moving people around in the draft rankings. Unfortunately I decided I didn't want to draft a defense, figuring I could pick one up from the free agent list, and so moved them all to the EXCLUDE list.

At least I thought I moved them all - but instead I moved the top 25 defenses to EXCLUDE, and didn't notice there were 7 more lurking on the next page.

End result, I drafted Tennessee and Cleveland. Such is life.

Regards

Mike

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:59 pm

LOL

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:15 pm

mdr003 wrote:I thought I was being smart, moving people around in the draft rankings. Unfortunately I decided I didn't want to draft a defense, figuring I could pick one up from the free agent list, and so moved them all to the EXCLUDE list.

At least I thought I moved them all - but instead I moved the top 25 defenses to EXCLUDE, and didn't notice there were 7 more lurking on the next page.

End result, I drafted Tennessee and Cleveland. Such is life.

Regards

Mike

Funny! But I've never been in a draft when I didn't wait until my last pick or so to take one. Just too many variables. Hell Cleveland or Tenn might end up being top ten, every year some unknown sneaks up in the rankings.

Mike B.

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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:56 am

First game is in the bag - I expect Colts' owners are feeling pretty pleased, Saints owners less so.

Myself, with Reggie Wayne on the roster, I'm pretty satisfied with his outing. I only hope the other players take note of his example and play similarly.

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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:54 am

mdr003 wrote:First game is in the bag - I expect Colts' owners are feeling pretty pleased, Saints owners less so......

I traded for Duce with another manager the same day as the draft.
I had Drew Breez and Duce Mac starting. Duce got more points than Drew did and Duce only got 5..........So, does this mean we should start calling them the Aints again?

I figure Mr. Vick will get more scoring than that while in prison. The most pathetic QB fantasy scoring I have ever seen.

And thats saying something. My first year playing FFB was when I picked up the Magic Man from the Waiver Wire as my starting QB after the 5th or 6th week when I took over the team that was in last place at that point.
The Magic Man had a banner year that season, in fact a carreer year.

Later I will tell you who the Magic Man is. You cannot imagine how many years ago that was.

mdr003 wrote:I only hope the other players take note of his example and play similarly.

OMG dude DONT SAY THAT!!!!!!!!!

Have I said how much I hate Autodrafts? :evil:

Well I do.

I know........ the autodraft had nothing to do with Thursday night football and the Saints sucking so horribly. Still I know ida had a completely different team (After the first two picks anyway) if I had been given the choice on WHO I took and WHEN. :roll:

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