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Open Forum => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Captain Kirk on July 20, 2010, 02:54:40 PM
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is that time of year again. It is time to put on your lucky socks and paint your face. Fantasy Football is around the corner!
We had a great turnout last year, with 18 team competing for the title. We ran three divisions, with the top team from each division making playoffs and the top 5 other teams filling in the wildcard spots.
Falmouth Floggers won last year, followed by Matt Archibald's crustpopes' crushers and Scott Stamp's 49ers. (my apologies to Falmouth, I forget his real name!)
I went ahead and set up the league again. I e-mailed Redemption players who were in the league last year (except the two who never did anything (aka Nathan Voigt and Ben Arp ::), much love to you guys!)
If you were not in the league last year, post here and I will PM you the details! I am giving the returning managers a chance to grab their spots before I make it completely open to join, lest they miss out on getting back in.
I want some input on settings. I thought it worked well last year with our scoring and rosters. But suggestions are welcome!
Don't worry, if there are more than 20 teams interested, we can make another league.
*After everyone signs up, we will set a suitable draft time. The current one was just haphazardly picked.
Looking forward to another great season!
Commissioner Captain Kirk
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You're just mad that I didn't trade you those players you wanted!
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Lies. If you want to check your lineup more than once, you can play again this year. ;)
Kirk
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Well you know that I'm interested Kirk ;)
I vote for inviting back then putting the other spots up, since some of us don't frequent the boards often.
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I'm definately in again.
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I figured that would be the best option. I will just invite everyone via e-mail and give them a couple weeks to join. Then I will extend the option for additional players to join.
If you are interested in playing in the league but weren't in it last year, go ahead and post to let me know!
And check your e-mails, Alex and John.
God bless,
Kirk
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Hey Kirk,
Give up my spot....I never did get back into my yahoo account. I would have to create a completely new one for even the hopes to play.
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I am in Kirk. Pm me!
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I want to do it but I have no clue what it is. :-[
PM me!
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Hey Kirk,
Give up my spot....I never did get back into my yahoo account. I would have to create a completely new one for even the hopes to play.
Jonathan,
You can create a new account, or I can make a new one for you and e-mail you the details. Or do you just not want to play?
Gabe,
PM sent.
The M,
Before you join, I just want to make sure you understand the underlying concept of fantasy football. Then if you like what you hear I will shoot you the details! You pick players from various NFL teams to collectively form your own "fantasy" team. You get points for your team every week based on how well each of your players performs in their actual NFL games. The players give your team points if they get a certain amount of yards or touchdowns or whatnot. It is alot of fun! Are you game?
Kirk
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I would rather play. It is kind of fun and ironically I do better at Football then Baseball when I know the sport of Baseball better.
Let me know which is easier: me creating a new account or you creating one.
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Falmouth Floggers won last year, followed by Matt Archibald's crustpopes' crushers and Scott Stamp's 49ers. (my apologies to Falmouth, I forget his real name!)
That's ok, I haven't really been much of a poster on here. Anyway, I am back to defend my title!!
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I would rather play. It is kind of fun and ironically I do better at Football then Baseball when I know the sport of Baseball better.
Let me know which is easier: me creating a new account or you creating one.
If you can, you should create one so that you know your security questions, birthdate, etc more easily.
I will just PM you the league info.
And JM, it is great to have you back!
Kirk
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Hey Kirk,
Give up my spot....I never did get back into my yahoo account. I would have to create a completely new one for even the hopes to play.
Jonathan,
You can create a new account, or I can make a new one for you and e-mail you the details. Or do you just not want to play?
Gabe,
PM sent.
The M,
Before you join, I just want to make sure you understand the underlying concept of fantasy football. Then if you like what you hear I will shoot you the details! You pick players from various NFL teams to collectively form your own "fantasy" team. You get points for your team every week based on how well each of your players performs in their actual NFL games. The players give your team points if they get a certain amount of yards or touchdowns or whatnot. It is alot of fun! Are you game?
Kirk
sounds good to me. Is there any money in it?
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No, we play for free. :D
Kirk
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It sounds interesting can you PM and tell me what exactly it is? ::)
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No, we play for free. :D
Kirk
good I'm saving for the new discliples set and a Ipod charger
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Me and Warrior are saving up for an anti-spam blocker.
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Me and Warrior are saving up for an anti-spam blocker.
Shaef approved ::)
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Hey Kirk, I didnt get that email. can you send it to my gmail account? matthew.lee.archibald@gmail.com
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Matt,
I sent you an e-mail.
12 spots filled so far! Who else is interested?
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16 spots filled so far! Any more interest?
Kirk
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I would like to join. PM for e-mail if you don't have it.
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Coullegde verson? EDIT:*College*
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After Sean joins, we are at 17. Who wants the last three spots?
Kirk
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wow, this is going to be a big league!
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How long does yahoo take to send the invite e-mail? You had the correct e-mail as far as I know but I haven't received an invite e-mail from yahoo yet.
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I have no idea how long it takes. I PM'd you the details to join. Let me know if you have any more problems.
And Matt, we had 18 last year, so I am hoping we can at least repeat that!
Kirk
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This is SK's brother, if there is still a spot I would like to jump in.
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Two spots left! ;D
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idk wbhy i even bothered to post that fantasy football league thread
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idk wbhy i even bothered to post that fantasy football league thread
Did you not see this one? Kirk has run a league for the past several years. Why dont you join this one?
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as a matter of fact i did, crusty.
it's just im really upset by the situation of when someone else posts a fantasy football thread after i have, they get players and i don't!!!
IT'S NOT FAIR TO ME!!
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Raven, Chill. I saw yours after I saw this one. Plus Kirk has done this multiple years in a row. And no one is saying you cant run a league, but as commissioner, YOU have to be the one to invite people and get them interested.
I am facing the same problem with some of my leagues. I have a church league and a friends league and I am running a little light on members for each league.
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it's just im really upset by the situation of when someone else posts a fantasy football thread after i have, they get players and i don't!!!
IT'S NOT FAIR TO ME!!
Raven,
Matt brought up a number of good points. Many people only look to join one or two leagues a year. I have run this league for several years, so a number of participants choose to play in this league again each year because it is fun to play with many of the same people from year to year.
Also, if you had posted your thread earlier in the summer, you may have found more interest by being the first to post a thread. I posted this thread a week before you posted yours, so a numbers of players decided to join this league before they even knew you had a league. As it gets closer to the regular season, there very well might be more people interested in playing in a league.
This league is not about me, it is simply about fantasy football. I just happen to be the person who presses the "renew season" button and "invite players" to get it started each year. Why don't you just join this league and play with us?
Kirk
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cause i already have 2 leagues i'v joined and im waiting for people to join mine
and plus, i only play facebook fantasy football
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Well it seems like your choices are to cancel your league and join kirks or stop complaining that people have joined kirks and go do your own recruiting. Since you have facebook you should try recruiting with that.
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cause i already have 2 leagues i'v joined and im waiting for people to join mine
and plus, i only play facebook fantasy football
"i only play facebook fantasy football"
epic fail man.
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Thats unnecessary M. To each their own. If he doesnt want to play here then let it be.
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ok
(grumble)
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I added a message to the Yahoo league ledger. I'm thinking with 20 teams that 4 divisions would be better.
Kirk, do you think we should take a vote?
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Hey Kirk guys I forgot the ID I used to join the league... Can you guys post a list of people I might be? lol =)
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Can we start a new thread whose first post has a list of our board names coinciding with our team name? The rest of the thread can be for smack talk, gloating, etc...
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Sorry guys I was gone to Boston and didn't get a chance to check this for awhile. I am going to switch it to 20 teams. I also want to make sure everyone can make the league draft and had just thrown out a random date after nationals to set up the league. Would it work to draft in 2 weeks on Wed, Sep 1 at 9:30 pm EST?
I can create a new thread with the list of teams on it.
Kirk
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I won't make a draft tonight - anything after next thursday I can gurantee I will make (yay college).
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Deist, your Yahoo ID you used is gcaban505.
Changed to 4 divisions (randomly picked teams with random.org) and set draft in two weeks.
Below is a list of all the teams in league with the team name first and board name in bold. I will fill in which I think people are from the boards and I need you guys to fill in the rest.
49ers - STAMP
Bay State Titans - southpawkev
Bieber Fevers - sk
Blazers - alpal455
Bucklers to the max! - Alex_Olijar
Falmouth Floggers - _JM_
Fire Boy - Sean
Hiroshima Blaze - DonnieBall (CA Redemption player who might not be on boards)
JBU Golden Eagles - Captain Kirk
Last Place Losers - soul seeker
M&K RAIDERS - FLETCH (CA Redemption player who might not be on boards)
Orange Demons - Ron77s
Red Dragon Tribe - Red Dragon Thorn
Shiba - Deist
Sixburgh Steelers - uthminister
The Mighty - Who is this?
The Resistence - ejberkenpas22
WBB - tripleplayman99 (CA Redemption player who might not be on boards)
crustpopes Colts - crustpope
type2 - Type2
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This is gonna be sweet...hey Crustpope...I will trade you my 12th pick for your 1st and 2nd pick... ;D
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ejberkenpas22 is Eric's board name, but I don't believe he logs on here anymore.
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This is gonna be sweet...hey Crustpope...I will trade you my 12th pick for your 1st and 2nd pick... ;D
wait, is that the draft order? UGH! I got stuck next to last again!!!
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Would it work to draft in 2 weeks on Wed, Aug 1 at 9:30 pm EST?
Sure, I'll have to dust off the old time machine though.
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September 1st...that works for me...
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Draft order is determined randomly 30 minutes before the draft starts, so don't pay any attention to it at the moment.
Good catch Sean, the draft is Wed, Sep 1 at 9:30 pm EST. ;)
Kirk
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Time to get my Draft on! Oh YEAH!
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Hey Kirk, I would be interested in playing! I didn't read through this thread, but adotson85 will be interested too (if he hasn't told you that yet!)
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My first Yahoo Fantasy football team! My friends league drafted tonight!
QB Aaron Rodgers
WR Reggie Wayne
WR Sidney Rice
RB Maurice Jones-Drew
RB Jahvid Best
TE Dallas Clark
W/R Ronnie Brown
BN Steve Smith
BN Percy Harvin
BN Robert Meachem
BN Donovan McNabb
BN Willis McGahee
BN Tim Hightower
K Rob Bironas
DEF Pittsburgh
BN Baltimore
What do you think? ;)
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I want to draft with your friends.
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lol they are all a bunch of fantasy rookies. I should have a pretty good year this year in that league!
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you signed me up but im not doing it... ???
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you signed me up but im not doing it... ???
Are you saying that you cant do it anymore? Then PM Kirk and let him know. There is a waiting list for people to take your spot. You will also need to delete the team that you created.
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i never was doing it i never created a team or anything.
i already PM'd him too.
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Chris,
Unfortunately the league is full at 20 players right now. My apologies. There might be enough interest to start another league, but I am not sure.
The M,
I just assumed the team "The Mighty" was you, but I guess not?
Who is this team, does anyone know?
Team name: The Mighty
Yahoo name: Ben S
E-mail: chithunder@yahoo.com
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I'm commissioner of a 12-team NFL.com league that has one manager who's definitely looking for a replacement, and another who would prefer a replacement manager but will try to manage as best he can if none can be found.
I also am commissioner of a 20-team Yahoo league that has a manager who wishes to leave. There are some Redemption players in this league.
In each instance, the draft has already occurred. If you are interested PM me and I'll PM the roster details of each team to you.
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How long will the draft take?
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Its a 20 team league, so it'll take a couple of hours.
Also, any of you who have skype should totally chat with me during drafting :) We can do a joint room and everything.
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Its a 20 team league, so it'll take a couple of hours.
Also, any of you who have skype should totally chat with me during drafting :) We can do a joint room and everything.
LOL! Well if you set up a separate chat in addition to the draft room the draft will definitely take AT LEAST a couple of hours.
More like three. You east-coasters will be drafting until tomorrow!! :rollin:
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What's your skype?
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Sorry, not chat, physical speech :) audio+visual if we wanna be really cool.
Searching for my board name will find my skype.
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I don't know how many people are interested, but I've recently fallen in love with the Auction Style draft, eliminates all complaints about draft order,
So I've created a small league:
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/redemptionauction (http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/redemptionauction)
hopefully 9 of you decide you want to do this,
password is BANTGT
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What is the name of the league I cannot go to that page because I dont know how to register for that league. sorry
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hmmm... odd. its: Redemption Auction League (ID# 699115)
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I'll give this a go, always wanted to try an auction draft.
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Wow, I tried one of the practice auction drafts, and that was intense. You definitely don't want auto draft on for these... two computer players fought into the $60-range over Jamaal Charles.
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Lol, ouch. I've seen the exact opposite also, where they set the values so low that the auto didn't draft anybody until everybody else was just about done.
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Hey Guys,
For those of you who joined the Auction league that I made, we ARE drafting tonight, in 20 min, so now would be a decent time to show up :)