Joining A Work League After A Decades Old Absence From FF

[5-Points 3,526]

Work league. ESPN. 

Help an old dog learn new tricks. 

 

ETA: "Never bench your studs" isn't a new trick. 

[Strike 5,538]

"ChatGPT, generate a mock draft for my ESPN league "

[5-Points 3,526]

13 minutes ago, Strike said:

"ChatGPT, generate a mock draft for my ESPN league "

This is the kind of stuff that has made this place great over the years.

Seriously, Ive been out of the loop for so long that I would never have considered this. 

That and Im old AF. .

[MikeMatt 82]

Nice. I really do not remember when exactly I quit - was commish for over 20 years. Probably 6-8 years ago. Been thinking about getting back into “the game”. When I quit the league disbanded (hoped someone would have continued it) - will have to find a new league. 

[frank 2,305]

Never bench Stephen Davis. 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,099]

Jumbo Elliot is the consensus #1 pick this year.

[Sandy Loam 99]

McNair!

[Sandy Loam 99]

2 hours ago, frank said:

Never bench Stephen Davis. 

Not even in the off season.

[MikeMatt 82]

I can’t believe Barry Sanders still isn’t taken !

[weepaws 3,191]

6 hours ago, 5-Points said:

Work league. ESPN. 

Help an old dog learn new tricks. 

 

ETA: "Never bench your studs" isn't a new trick. 

Can I join? Looks like easy money.  Oh it’s probably a free league.  

[BeenHereBefore 1,518]

I quit about a decade ago but know most of the good players from doing prop bets.Anyhow you should post your league points rules and will help others to help easier.

[5-Points 3,526]

12 hours ago, MikeMatt said:

Nice. I really do not remember when exactly I quit - was commish for over 20 years. Probably 6-8 years ago. Been thinking about getting back into “the game”. When I quit the league disbanded (hoped someone would have continued it) - will have to find a new league. 

Same. I started a league back when we had to hand calc scores from the box scores in the newspaper. 

Kept the league going into the internet/online era. I just got tired of it so I handed it off to another guy and bowed out. 

It's been at least 10-15 years since I played. I don't even know who the good players around the league are these days. 

I was having some drinks with the fellas after work yesterday and they asked me to fill an open spot. So here I am, trying to play catch up. I should've just handed the commish my $100 and said "take it." 

[Meglamaniac 497]

4 minutes ago, 5-Points said:

Same. I started a league back when we had to hand calc scores from the box scores in the newspaper. 

Kept the league going into the internet/online era. I just got tired of it so I handed it off to another guy and bowed out. 

It's been at least 10-15 years since I played. I don't even know who the good players around the league are these days. 

I was having some drinks with the fellas after work yesterday and they asked me to fill an open spot. So here I am, trying to play catch up. I should've just handed the commish my $100 and said "take it." 

https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/ffl/story?page=nfldk2k12vbd_archive

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

You couldn't pay me to play ffball. I focused on a game for the first time in a few years. Someone got a flag for tackling a guy improperly from the front. Had no idea what that new age sissy penalty was. I'm glad I'm out.

[5-Points 3,526]

25 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/ffl/story?page=nfldk2k12vbd_archive

 

[Nomad99 742]

The no running back no WR method is really gaining traction

[MikeMatt 82]

1 hour ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

You couldn't pay me to play ffball. I focused on a game for the first time in a few years. Someone got a flag for tackling a guy improperly from the front. Had no idea what that new age sissy penalty was. I'm glad I'm out.

One of the reasons I quit was to enjoy the game itself again. 

[SUXBNME 1,499]

12 hours ago, Sandy Loam said:

McNair!

PENNINGTON !@#

[Sandy Loam 99]

1 hour ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

You couldn't pay me to play ffball. I focused on a game for the first time in a few years. Someone got a flag for tackling a guy improperly from the front. Had no idea what that new age sissy penalty was. I'm glad I'm out.

I'm sure the game feels the same way about you.

[5-Points 3,526]

52 minutes ago, Nomad99 said:

The no running back no WR method is really gaining traction

Noted! 

So my strategy of taking a Defense and a kicker in the first two rounds is solid. 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

13 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

I'm sure the game feels the same way about you.

You wasted everyone's time and energy who read your post with the most useless combination of letters this message board has ever seen. Congrats.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

12 minutes ago, 5-Points said:

Noted! 

So my strategy of taking a Defense and a kicker in the first two rounds is solid. 

I'm assuming this strategy is still brining home the trophy like it did for me every year I played.

[Sandy Loam 99]

2 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

You wasted everyone's time and energy who read your post with the most useless combination of letters this message board has ever seen. Congrats.

Why do you participate on a message board where 95 percent of its inhabitants are NFL fans who play fantasy football?

You should go find a better-suited home for your ignorant drivel.

 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

9 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

Why do you participate on a message board where 95 percent of its inhabitants are NFL fans who play fantasy football?

You should go find a better-suited home for your ignorant drivel.

 

Congrats. You have out done yourself. This post is an even more useless combination of letters. I didn't think you could, but you proved me wrong. I really doubt you can break your own personal record again, but I'm willing to be proven wrong again.

[Sandy Loam 99]

12 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Congrats. You have out done yourself. This post is an even more useless combination of letters. I didn't think you could, but you proved me wrong. I really doubt you can break your own personal record again, but I'm willing to be proven wrong again.

You've wasted two posts trying to convince yourself and others of this perspective as well as pop off in a thread about how you're oh so above watching the NFL and playing fantasy football like almost everyone else here. This kind of thing typically is a manifestation of profound insecurity, a hollow kind of thing that makes you feel a little better about yourself.

Perhaps you would feel more at home on a pickleball board or a forum for insecure losers who prop up each other by trying to convince themselves they're oh so much better than everyone else on the outside.

Have a great rest of your day! I'll be mowing the lawn and thinking about my draft-position options for the upcoming season, which I'll thoroughly enjoy with or without your lofty presence.

[5-Points 3,526]

10 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

I quit about a decade ago but know most of the good players from doing prop bets.Anyhow you should post your league points rules and will help others to help easier.

I tried to copy and paste the scoring system but it doesn't want to work. 

12 team league, "standard" ppr scoring. 

Nothing fancy. 

 

[Sandy Loam 99]

2 minutes ago, 5-Points said:

Ladies, ladies, please keep your slap fighting to PM's.

 

TIA

 

No kidding. I'm sure there are plenty of other threads for FBN to flex his hipster-contrarian muscles.

 

[5-Points 3,526]

4 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

No kidding. I'm sure there are plenty of other threads for FBN to flex his hipster-contrarian muscles.

 

I deleted that post because I saw you were trying to squash it.

 

[Sandy Loam 99]

3 minutes ago, 5-Points said:

I deleted that post because I saw you were trying to squash it.

 

I haven't missed a season since I started playing a long, long time ago. There was one year when my big league fell apart, so I just joined a free one on Yahoo just to keep the streak going. For four or five years, I've been in this league with a bunch of blue-collar biker types, which has been fun because the chat gets pretty spicy. I just mostly stay quiet and chime in tastefully in the proceedings. 

 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

30 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

You've wasted two posts trying to convince yourself and others of this perspective as well as pop off in a thread about how you're oh so above watching the NFL and playing fantasy football like almost everyone else here. This kind of thing typically is a manifestation of profound insecurity, a hollow kind of thing that makes you feel a little better about yourself.

Perhaps you would feel more at home on a pickleball board or a forum for insecure losers who prop up each other by trying to convince themselves they're oh so much better than everyone else on the outside.

Have a great rest of your day! I'll be mowing the lawn and thinking about my draft-position options for the upcoming season, which I'll thoroughly enjoy with or without your lofty presence.

I was proven wrong again. You have out done yourself. Congrats. Lots of useless letters to say absolutely nothing.

[Sandy Loam 99]

7 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

I was proven wrong again. You have out done yourself. Congrats. Lots of useless letters to say absolutely nothing.

Originality!

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

3 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

Originality!

Calm down. You are taking this way too seriously.

[Sandy Loam 99]

2 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Calm down. You are taking this way too seriously.

Take it to the pickleball forum.

[5-Points 3,526]

41 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

I haven't missed a season since I started playing a long, long time ago. There was one year when my big league fell apart, so I just joined a free one on Yahoo just to keep the streak going. For four or five years, I've been in this league with a bunch of blue-collar biker types, which has been fun because the chat gets pretty spicy. I just mostly stay quiet and chime in tastefully in the proceedings. 

 

I started doing fantasy neckcar many years ago after quitting ff. It was a change of pace that kind of scratched that itch. I'm sh!tting the bed this year, though.

Back in the day I expected to compete for the FFL championship every year. At this point, I've been out of the game for so long that not coming in last is my goal.

 

[Nomad99 742]

2 hours ago, 5-Points said:

Noted! 

So my strategy of taking a Defense and a kicker in the first two rounds is solid. 

You got it....then TE,TE,TE

[MDC 7,408]

I joined a work league 4 years ago after a 6-7 year absence from FF. It’s great: low entry, no stress, and I get my $ back almost every year (top 3 finish pays out).

Assuming like most work leagues you have a handful of tacos, my advice is to draft for value and don’t get caught up in runs, especially at positions like QB/TE where there’s very little difference between the 6th or 12th player off the board. Don’t draft a backup QB or TE unless your starter is shaky and make D/K your last picks off the board.

Also stay relatively sober and engaged in the middle and late rounds, when league mates lose interest and start trying to fill out their roster instead of taking BPA.

Good luck.  

[5-Points 3,526]

4 minutes ago, MDC said:

I joined a work league 4 years ago after a 6-7 year absence from FF. It’s great: low entry, no stress, and I get my $ back almost every year (top 3 finish pays out).

Assuming like most work leagues you have a handful of tacos, my advice is to draft for value and don’t get caught up in runs, especially at positions like QB/TE where there’s very little difference between the 6th or 12th player off the board. Don’t draft a backup QB or TE unless your starter is shaky and make D/K your last picks off the board.

Also stay relatively sober and engagAlso stay relatively sober and engaged in the middle and late rounds,ed in the middle and late rounds, when league mates lose interest and start trying to fill out their roster instead of taking BPA.

Good luck.  

Sound advice! Thanks! 

 

 

 

[MikeMatt 82]

If Barry Sanders is still available late in the draft pick him. 
 

(This happened in my league where a team - 2 guys - were conferring and couldn’t believe Barry was still available and they confidently “picked him” we all had a good laugh as Sanders name was still on most cheat sheets the year he retired). 
 

The rest of you stop bickering in every freaking thread. Take it somewhere else. Not in a sports thread. Insufferable  

[5-Points 3,526]

4 hours ago, MikeMatt said:

If Barry Sanders is still available late in the draft pick him. 
 

(This happened in my league where a team - 2 guys - were conferring and couldn’t believe Barry was still available and they confidently “picked him” we all had a good laugh as Sanders name was still on most cheat sheets the year he retired). 
 

The rest of you stop bickering in every freaking thread. Take it somewhere else. Not in a sports thread. Insufferable  

                      

 

 

 

[BeenHereBefore 1,518]

12 hours ago, 5-Points said:

Noted! 

So my strategy of taking a Defense and a kicker in the first two rounds is solid. 

Don't forget the eligible offense lineman able to catch a pass in the 3rd.