scottlaroc 0 Posted August 21, 2006 We actually had someone draft a dead guy! I can't remember the players name but he died in the offseason. Might have been Fred Lane. We had somebody draft him a month and a half after he died. Here's the really big surprise, dude was drafting out of a magazine! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mkuz 0 Posted August 21, 2006 running a league this year. got a lot of solid ff players who know what they are doing. BUT 2 of the 10 guys in the league are first timers, one did well and the other...ummm.....just look 1.9 r. bush 2.2 t. brady 3.9 r. wayne 4.2 here is the big one AMANI TOOMER after that one i pulled him aside and talked to him and suprisingly he ended with a decent team, if bush has a big year that is. could not believe that pick, amani toomer??? i almost felt bad for him, but didnt. he'll learn. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted August 21, 2006 Coming soon to Draft 2006: Some ###### took Reggie Bush in round 2.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ras66not99 0 Posted August 21, 2006 running a league this year. got a lot of solid ff players who know what they are doing. BUT 2 of the 10 guysin the league are first timers, one did well and the other...ummm.....just look 1.9 r. bush 2.2 t. brady 3.9 r. wayne 4.2 here is the big one AMANI TOOMER after that one i pulled him aside and talked to him and suprisingly he ended with a decent team, if bush has a big year that is. could not believe that pick, amani toomer??? i almost felt bad for him, but didnt. he'll learn. Why Amani Toomer's not a good fantasy option ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MahSoonerz 0 Posted August 21, 2006 O yea teh first year I was in a guy picked Mike Alstott 4th... No wonder! He must've been quite distracted. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted August 21, 2006 running a league this year. got a lot of solid ff players who know what they are doing. BUT 2 of the 10 guysin the league are first timers, one did well and the other...ummm.....just look 1.9 r. bush 2.2 t. brady 3.9 r. wayne 4.2 here is the big one AMANI TOOMER after that one i pulled him aside and talked to him and suprisingly he ended with a decent team, if bush has a big year that is. could not believe that pick, amani toomer??? i almost felt bad for him, but didnt. he'll learn. I took Daunte Culpepper in Rd 1 last year (start 2qb), and Ahman Green in Round 2... Anything can happen... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JMaximus12 0 Posted August 21, 2006 the worst we saw was a guy who took Warrick Dunn with the 4th overall pick in the 1st round. not as bad as some of these, but pretty friggin bad. last year someone drafted Frisman Jackson. then FJ had ONE good game, and he didnt even start him...started him like the next 10 weeks though, saying that Fj was "Due" to blow up again. btw- just a note. did you notice how everyone on here says "We had this guy who..."...its never "I", its "This guy who"...someone out there is that guy! SHOCKING that no one is "That guy". i know I'm not! it really was "Some guy who..." in our league. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ras66not99 0 Posted August 21, 2006 I took Daunte Culpepper in Rd 1 last year (start 2qb), and Ahman Green in Round 2... Anything can happen... In a Qb heavy league I took McNabb 1st and Owens 2nd.... P.S. - thank god for Larry Johnson in the 8th he helped me hang on to 2nd in the overall so I at least made a few bucks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
norseman 0 Posted August 21, 2006 Several years ago, we had an owner drafting in the 11th spot in a 12 team redraft. In Round 1, he took a QB. Then, in Round 2, he took another QB. And they weren't even stud QBs -- I wish I could remember who they were, but I think it was, like, Bledsoe and Aikman, something like that. We start 1 QB, and they get 4 pts for TD throws. And this wasn't even his first year of playing FF. The sad thing is, the guy ended up getting lucky later on in the draft and did okay during the reg season. He didn't win any money, but he ended up in the middle of the pack, instead of in the basement where he belonged. That's FF for you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jrokh 608 Posted August 21, 2006 I was helping my buddy with his draft yesterday and some dude on auto draft picked Bettis and Marshall faulk, not to mention rod smith with his second pick! Awful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aggiewildlife 0 Posted August 21, 2006 A guy in my league picked Tom Brady with the 4th overall pick. Switching to fantasy baseball, a couple years ago I was in this league with 2 odd drafters. One guy picked basically an entire team of dudes who were great in the 80's. His first pick was Greg Maddux and his second was Benito Santiago and so on. It was horrible! And then this other dude picked 2 catchers in rounds 1 and 2 (Posada was his 1st round draft pick), then two 1B's in rounds 3 and 4, and so on. I'm guessing he didn't know what he was doing, but it was pathetic to watch. I was like the whole draft.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JackARoot 2 Posted August 21, 2006 I think it was three years ago, a guy picking at 1.12 and 2.13 took Kurt Warner and Rich Gannon back to back! (I guess he had the QB spot covered!) Also, the league joke is about a guy who picked Warren Moon the year after he retired (wasn't in the league then, but we still hear about it). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikeso 0 Posted August 21, 2006 my first year playing FF, i thought i knew football and didnt do any research on FF. picked marvin harrison and peerless price first two rounds...thought WRs get the most pts.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tiggo25 4 Posted August 21, 2006 Had a draft yesterday in 12 team keeper. One bonehead drafted Rackers (AZ Kicker) in round 3....Nice huh? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darb33 0 Posted August 21, 2006 I've got a good one from last year. In a 10 team 3 keeper league the guy with the #1 pick took Ricky Williams. He left Poris and D Davis on the board as well as all the rookie running backs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mobb_deep 920 Posted August 21, 2006 I drafted Barlow at 2.5 in 2004 A buddy of mine in our friendly league drafted Hass in the 2nd, Stevens 3rd, Burleson 4th, and SEA D in the 5th this last weekend. He then posted on the league message board that he forgot about the draft and had just pre-ranked all the Seattle players first so he could keep track of them. I ofcourse drafted DJax a pick before him in the 4th and being the good friend I am offered him DJax and McGahee for Larry Johnson and Mush. At this point he might as well just get as many SEA starters as possible and roll with it. Fittingly his team name is Seattle Fan. He's gonna have fun on the SEA bye week (as if he'll be anywhere near a contender anyways). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dixie Chicken 0 Posted August 21, 2006 A buddy of mine last year looks up from his magazine during a work league draft and proudly annouced the newest addition to his team, Eddie George. A few minutes later he groaned in agony when he realized the article he was reading was about all time great fantasy football players and not current year players. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
De Novo 0 Posted August 21, 2006 2002 (pre-TO)... 1st overall.... Donovan McNabb Same guy took Jerry Rice in the 2nd round Duce Staley in the 3rd Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leena 0 Posted August 21, 2006 Had someone take Shockey 1st overall in one of my crap free leagues with friends. And the worst part is that he seriously defends the pick now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StayFlyTilAddai 0 Posted August 21, 2006 The year Mike Vick broke his leg my friend drafted him 2nd overall in a 16 team league a week after it happened... ...he then followed that up with ashley lelie in the 2nd round...I don't know which was worse Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zhinz 0 Posted August 21, 2006 I had my 12 team draft last night. Some of the surprises.... Priest Holmes, Curtis Martin, and Koren Robinson were all drafted. We had C-Mart and Koren Robinson drafted. Not Priest though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sportslitter 0 Posted August 21, 2006 This year a rookie in our league drafted Tatum Bell with his #2 pick ... something like 2.05 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark_it_8_Dude 0 Posted August 21, 2006 We actually had someone draft a dead guy! I can't remember the players name but he died in the offseason. Was it Fred Lane? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prof Dr Hase 0 Posted August 21, 2006 All this talk about who the best picks would be, how about worst in drafts past. I'm in a 12 team league (more like 9 people who know what they're doing and 3 people who "think" they know what they're doing) Three years ago with the first pick in the draft a guy in our league took (drum roll please) : the tampa bay defense. It's been an ongoing joke ever since, just thought I'd share the laugh. Any crazy picks??? OK, well, 2003 (the black out year) First round pick Emmitt Smith (his first Arizona year) at No 6, on the way back, Tiki Barber. Pretty bad. 2006 - 4th round pick: Neil Rackers! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mack Daddy 0 Posted August 21, 2006 In a ten team league that is fairly competitive, we have one guy who gets lit up at the draft each year. His stellar pick last year was Michael Vick at 1.8. Yes 1.8! My worst pick ever was Mark Brunell in the first round back in the mid 90's.... I did come back with Garrison Hearst at my next pick, but the Brunell selection killed the rest of my draft for me. I saw Brunell as the next coming of Steve Young. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prof Dr Hase 0 Posted August 21, 2006 Ha, this year, we had Marshall Faulk go in the 9th round. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ras66not99 0 Posted August 21, 2006 My worst pick ever was Mark Brunell in the first round back in the mid 90's.... I did come back with Garrison Hearst at my next pick, but the Brunell selection killed the rest of my draft for me. I saw Brunell as the next coming of Steve Young. he looked like the next coming of Young after that run they had when they beat denver in the playoffs that year... can't fault yourself too much Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eliplaxshock 0 Posted August 21, 2006 In a league that my father was in about 10 years ago, with the second pick in the draft took deion sanders...another guy in one of my leagues with the number one overall pick took jim harbough...to this day he still says it was the best pick of the draft Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dalie 2 Posted August 21, 2006 Last year.... Culpepper #1 overall...we all know how his season went and ended.......he finished last, hmmm go figure! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lesman 1 Posted August 21, 2006 Quite a few years ago we had a guy take Natrone Means number 1 overall. Remember when he blew up in the playoffs while he was on the Jags. It was the very next year he took him #1 overall in a redraft league. Now why that was a very crazy pick at the time, and is still the joke of the league. This next guy takes the cake. We're now a keeper league. This year we had a guy give up the number 1 overall pick n the draft to keep Reggie Wayne. Keep in mind there are alot of Stud Backs like Tiki and Edge available, which he has Zero stud backs as keepers. Plus all the stud WRs like Fitz, Harrison, Johnson are all available. He then gave up his 2nd round pick (Non-snake draft) to keep Mushin Muhammed. For his 4th round pick he takes Alge Crumpler. The kicker is that we don't have a seperate TE slot. All TEs play as a WR. Worst Draft I've ever seen... but the guy seriously thinks that Both Wayne and Mush will be top 3 WRs. And he thinks that Alge will put up Gates type numbers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bigtraine 30 Posted August 21, 2006 In my first ever Fantasy draft I picked Bledsoe with the second overall pick and then smugly picked up Elway in the second round. Yeah, I was "that guy". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raider 84 29 Posted August 21, 2006 San Diego took Ryan Leaf #2 overall a few years back. It's hard to top that fantasy or not. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aggiewildlife 0 Posted August 21, 2006 I have a question. How is it even possible to draft players who are retired or dead? I thought in most leagues you could only select players on active rosters/ What, do they have right-in candidates or something? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erb047 0 Posted August 21, 2006 Back in the day with the Broncos a kid made Bubby Brister his #1 pick. Pretty solid. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rebooters 1 Posted August 21, 2006 Was it Fred Lane? this happened in an old league that im still in. i hadnt joined the league yet so i cant describe how funny it was. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RedzoneMonster 107 Posted August 21, 2006 Last year my 1st rd pick - Jamal Lewis Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
prostollo 0 Posted August 22, 2006 How about JJ Arrington 8th overall in a 14 teamer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stopper 0 Posted August 22, 2006 No wonder! He must've been quite distracted. I'm stupid. I finally got this and had a good laugh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoyLoomis 0 Posted August 22, 2006 Our league started in '95 and a newbie joined a couple years into it and drafted Eric Biehenemy in like the 6th round. All of us were laughing and then clammoring to find in our magazines if he was still 3rd string for the Bengals. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krizay 0 Posted August 22, 2006 The year Yancey thigpen retired. My buddy took him with the #3 pick in the 1st round. 3rd overall for a retired WR who at no point in his career was worth a 1st round pick. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
