marksy68 0 Posted December 22, 2009 12 team Partial keeper league: For me there were a few moves. Prior to the draft I traded away my 2nd rounder for Rice and then I traded away Portis for the 4th overall pick (used it to get Pierre). Then about 4-5 weeks ago, I traded away Flacco and McCoy for Schaub, McGahee (to back up Rice) and a 2nd rounder next season. Lastly, I moved Steve Smith (Car) for Vincent Jackson I am now on my way to the final. I am hoping for a good showing, here are the probable starters: Me - Schaub, MJD, Rice, Thomas, AJ, VJax, Clark, Carpenter, Cardinals Him - Romo, ADP, Gore, LT, Mason, Welker, Gates, Akers, Ravens We played each other twice this season, he won one, I won one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_future420 3 Posted December 22, 2009 In my keeper league, my best move was drafting Chris Johnson last year in the 7th round. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ravenwood 1 Posted December 22, 2009 Getting DJax in my auction and getting J Finley off the waiver wire when he got hurt and trading Reggie Bush for Ryan Grant. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chiefs04 0 Posted December 22, 2009 12 team redraft. Picking up Sims-Walker and Ricky. Beat the Ronnie Brown owner with Ricky the night he had 3 TDs after Brown went down, and the owner refused a trade right before the game...lol. Been starting him since. Who would have thought Ricky would be a big part of my championship contender. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigMilk 40 Posted December 22, 2009 10 team league where I drafted Jacobs, Slaton and McFadden with 3 of my first five picks. Decided early I wasn't going to make any trades all year and just work the wire. Clinched tonite; keys for me were 1) emergence of mid-round players like DJax and Ced Bens, 2) plucking guys like Celek, J. Charles, Steve Smith and Mendy off the wire, 3) Romo and Nate Kaeding. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marksy68 0 Posted December 22, 2009 10 team league where I drafted Jacobs, Slaton and McFadden with 3 of my first five picks. Decided early I wasn't going to make any trades all year and just work the wire. Clinched tonite; keys for me were 1) emergence of mid-round players like DJax and Ced Bens, 2) plucking guys like Celek, J. Charles, Steve Smith and Mendy off the wire, 3) Romo and Nate Kaeding. Wow, nice work..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dvikingsfan 0 Posted December 22, 2009 Wow where to begin...12 team redraft...started the season like this...after you see this lineup you will be amazed at my record... QB's: Schaub and Palmer WRs: Fitz, Moss, Bowe, Edwards RBs: Slaton, Buckhalter, Wells, Lynch, Ward TE: Carlson Def: Arizona K: Nick Folk After some wheeling and dealing...including a pickup of miles austin when he had his good game..and getting rid of players before they crapped out...i.e i traded for westbrook for reggie wayne before he got hurt..miles austin, steve slaton and braylon edwards for ray rice and shiancoe..right before steve slaton was put in the dog house and the week before austin got shown up by roy williams..traded bowe before he got suspended..and some good waiver wire pickups my championship lineup now looks like this...13 and 2 record btw... QB's: Schaub or Alex Smith... WR's: Wayne, Moss, Housh, and Fitz RBs: Hightower, Rice, Charles, Ganther, Forsett...(loved the wire this year) TE: Davis and Shaincoe DEF: Packers K: Garrett Hartley Not bad for all the ###### that happened to the players I got rid of in the nick of time.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
granta_05 3 Posted December 22, 2009 Drafting Ray Rice and adding Jamaal Charles. I started the year with DeAngelo Williams and Ronnie Brown as my starting RB's. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shatterproof 0 Posted December 22, 2009 14 Team PPE (everything), The Draft...just killed it. Got (round drafted) Farve (14) Ced Ben (7) R Rice (3) D Jax (6) R Wayne (2) V Jax (4) On The Bench LT (1) since week 1 S Rice (15) 10 - 3 record in the finals against some stiff competition...one of the guys who beat me and he sits beside me at work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coalter 0 Posted December 22, 2009 Ray Rice Vernon Davis Mike Sims Walker(hasn't helped lately but helped get me get in the playoffs) Going out on a limb and starting Gennings this weekend despite his lack of production Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tom_Brady's_feet 0 Posted December 22, 2009 I made it to the Big Show with lots of luck: Drafted Hasselbeck, Trent Edwards, Bulger...had Sanchez at one point, will start Vince Young Thursday. Peterson and Grant at my RB core...Julius Jones and McFadden on the bench. Drafted Colston, TJ, Avery, Jenkins..picked up Sims-Walker and Meachem DALLAS CLARK has been my MVP! Crosby and Houston's kicker Brown got the job done. currently 9-5 in a 10 teamer My league hates me! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kevinv86 1 Posted December 22, 2009 Drafting rice was a big help 14 team re draft start 1 qb 1 rb 1 wr 2 rb/wr 1 te team i drafted and hated after draft... orton/ryan d will/rice/ bradshaw White, MArshall, Holt Celek, Finely <--- yes i drafted both of them team now orton ryan d will rice charles white marshall burleson celek finely My biggest moves are the ones my oppents turned down!! week 3 offered rice for slaton week 11 offered or whatever week was right before turner got hurt marshall burleson charles for turner week 12 offered ryan, marshall, charles for brady, mendenhall all three trades got rejected by my oppenents and thank god... been rolling with the Rice D will charles marshall starting line up the past 3 weeks and its been working like a charm... this week i will most likely have to sit d will due to injury and start white but atleast i got to the ship even though my match ups are looking bad... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RLLD 3,553 Posted December 22, 2009 10 team, 3 player keeper, redraft 11 more players. Kept Aaron Rodgers, Steven Jackson, Andre Johnson - All keepers were legit, and crucial Drafted Round 1 - Ronnie Brown at 1.09 ~ eventually hurt, but important all season long Round 2 - Dewayne Bowe at 2.09 ~ helped, but fell below expectations Round 3 - Antonio Gates ~ Pivotal in securing a few wins, very important pick Round 4 - Knowshon Moreno ~ has been useful, but overall...meh Round 5 - DeSean Jackson ~ Likely THE most important pick of the draft for me Round 6 - Jerricho Cotchery ~ my "what if" pick stepped up on a few occasions I speculated in the FA market to get the likes of Caddy Williams and Pierre Garcon to fill in here and there and was rewarded as pure luck found me starting them on the only weeks where they actually put up good points. I also worked the WW like a madman to pickup defensive teams a week or two before a juicy match up, sacrificing depth at other positions to get some extra points, which worked surprisingly well. At the end of the day(season) I did make "good" decisions, but I was more lucky than the other teams, that's all.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Next Generation 10 Posted December 22, 2009 The draft. Drafted well and didn't need to make any huge FA moves (although I did get J Charles and R Mendenhall via FA to go w/Turner, R Rice and Benson). Also, in another league which I lost this past week, the FA moves that KILLED me where the other guy nabbing M Austin (right before he blew-up) and J Charles. Those 2 moves cost me the SB and probably the overall pts title. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Boston_Diablo 0 Posted December 22, 2009 Working the waiver wire on a weekly basis and like never before after Ronnie Brown went down, looking for any extra point or mismatch I could find, as I had not depth after him and MJD and my WRs were suspect. Week 11 - J Snelling: 18 pts Week 12 - J Forsett: 20 pts Week 13 - R Meacham: 32 pts Week 14 - BUF D/ST: 19 pts, Q Ganther: 18 pts Week 15 - CLE D/ST: 25 pts I exceeded our transactions cap and have to kick in an extra $30 to the pot, but I made it to the championship. Now... to search for this week's mismatch. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
XRage 0 Posted December 22, 2009 My best move of the season was trading Leon Washington and Marshawn Lynch for Frank Gore right after Frank Gore got hurt. I lost the next 2 games but it paid off in the long run as Washington went down with a broken leg and Lynch sucked so much that the guy I traded him to dropped him a couple of weeks before the playoffs started. Another good move was picking up Kaeding off the WW after someone cut him during his bye week. I know its only a kicker, but having him paired up with Philip Rivers has been a very nice combo and has gotten me points every time San Diego drives down the field. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JackARoot 2 Posted December 22, 2009 My most important moves were MJD at 1.3 and Ray Rice in the 6th. Also, picking up MSW off of waiver helped to make-up for the loss of AGonzo in week 1. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cribdog 0 Posted December 22, 2009 Letting auto-draft pick my team and then working the waiver-wire to finish it off. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frank M 181 Posted December 22, 2009 Early in the year, it was picking Mike Sims-Walker on the waiver wire, later on it was Jamaal Charles. Bets move was drafting Schaub in round 10. I don't think he'll fall that far next year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
We Tigers 71 Posted December 22, 2009 In my 14-team league, I drafted very well and took value whenever it fell to me. This league doesn't trade much and is pretty deep, so I knew I'd have to nail the draft. Schaub as the 10th QB off the board, DeSean in the 5th, and Clark in the 6th were my biggest value grabs. Almost none of my later round picks paid off after a pile of injuries, but Steve Smith NY did, and he was a fixture of my lineup from week 2 forward. In the semis, it was actually a kicker change that got me to the dance. Someone who'd been carrying Bironas and Gostkowski dropped the former a couple weeks back, and I decided to start him in place of Crosby, my usual guy, because of Heinz Field being awful and Bironas being money since VY got in the lineup. Bironas had 10 points, Crosby 2, and I won by 1.8. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gszaszko 0 Posted December 22, 2009 Draft (12-team PPR) was very solid (Sjax (keeper), AJ, Colston, D. Clark, Warner) but the moves that pushed me over the edge were pick-up of MSW in Week 3 and Ricky Williams in Week 4. Every other pickup or trade (except a DST here and there) have been garbage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
potts17 4 Posted December 22, 2009 Picking up Miles Austin the week before he blew up against the Chiefs. Another owner drafted him, but dropped him after week 2. Lineup McNabb Gore Tomlinson Austin Ochocinco Housh Garret Hartley/Kris Brown Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
socalsprinter 0 Posted December 22, 2009 Alot of moves for me my draft class was extremely weak at WR(R. Williams and A. Bryant /puke) and TE. Made some trades and picked up G. Jennings( wish he had a better year but has been picking it up) and V. Jackson. Then I played the waiver wire like a mad man. My biggest wire pick up was V. Davis in week 3 after his slow start. I also managed to trade for Romo when he slipped. The 2 that helped me that last few weeks were picking up S. Smith(car) and J. Charles off the wire. Ended up 9-4 for the season. And now its championship time! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stosher1 0 Posted December 22, 2009 Handcuffing Ronnie w/Ricky in the 14th round and getting Austin & Rice on waivers! (sometimes it pays to start the season 1-3) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cyclone24 1,836 Posted December 22, 2009 Ray Rice in round 6......Vernon Davis off waivers in week 1.....Sims Walker off waivers Traded Roy Williams and Knowshon Moreno for Boldin and Norwood (dumped Norwood). Reason being i already had Romo and Barber so didnt want to start 3 cowboys. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gemynd 0 Posted December 22, 2009 1.) Off season (pre-draft) trade of Larry Fitzgerald for Chris Johnson (keeper league). 2.) Waiver wire pickups of Miles Austin and J. Finley. 3.) Drafting D. Jackson as my second WR (behind TJ Housh ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
