Fantasy Football Discussion Thread

[Al B. Sure!]

Well being that it's first-come, first-serve free agency, the trade deadline is meaningless. If we so desired to trade Blount for Troy Smith after the deadline, all we'd have to do is agree to both be on at the same time and we just drop and add the relevant players.

[Berzerker]

that'll work

unless the trade sucks and the commish cancels it

[-Jrabbit]

Another fabulous week for my teams. Three games, all projected wins by 9 points or more, but lost 'em all.
Oh, and special thanks to Brett Favre for all he did, actually racking up negative points in the 2nd half against the Bears' yardage-friendly, bend-don't-break Tampa2 defense.

[MRT144]

Another fabulous week for my teams. Three games, all projected wins by 9 points or more, but lost 'em all.
Oh, and special thanks to Brett Favre for all he did, actually racking up negative points in the 2nd half against the Bears' yardage-friendly, bend-don't-break Tampa2 defense.

Dude, I lost by 3 points after Michael Vicks night last night. WTF!

[Al B. Sure!]

I'm in a league with a guy who has Vick, Desean Jackson, McCoy, David Akers, and Eagles D Needless to say even that retarded combination of players from the same team dominated. Most fantasy points scored on the year.

[-Jrabbit]

Dude, I lost by 3 points after Michael Vicks night last night. WTF!

Ouch. That had to be brutal.

[EPW]

Teh Peeled Bananas continue to dominate. The Championship is all but assured.

[flash9286]

Micheal Vick carried my team to victory. I'm glad that I picked him up

[MRT144]

I'm in a league with a guy who has Vick, Desean Jackson, McCoy, David Akers, and Eagles D Needless to say even that retarded combination of players from the same team dominated. Most fantasy points scored on the year.

Is this a homer league?

[Al B. Sure!]

This guy also has McNabb on his team I'm just glad I played him week 1 and not with the Vick-led Eagles.

believe it or not, every year in this league there's one guy who gets everyone from his favorite team (one guy and his Cowboys, now twice it's been Eagles but with different guys each time) and the homer team actually does pretty well every year because their chosen team actually happens to be a powerhouse that year.

You always hear to avoid a bunch of guys from the same team but if the team is high-scoring enough you can do just fine, as an All-Eagles team shows.

I mean the last few years, if you had a team with Manning, Wayne, Dallas Clark, and Joe Addai... you most assuredly made the fantasy playoffs. Brady, Moss, Welker would have been another winning combination, especially in 2007. Aaron Rodgers, Greg Jennings, and Ryan Grant or Favre, Peterson, Sidney Rice, and Shiancoe last year would have done equally as well. Romo, Witten, TO, Barber a few years ago as well or maybe even Romo, Witten, Austin last year.

In 2007, I had a team that included Jamal Lewis, Braylon Edwards, and Kellen Winslow. I won seven straight by complete blow-outs because Cleveland put up monstrous yardage and points that year.

The scary thing is even in a draft league it wouldn't have been all that unlikely to get teams like that and Vick, Jackson, McCoy would have been very easy to draft. Those three alone this week would have gotten someone like what? 90 points in most formats?

[Berzerker]

I never thought of loading up on 1 team, dont really have an uber favorite team and the bye week would be brutal. But thats an idea

[Al B. Sure!]

Well it's risky in that you never know which team is going to dominate (although it doesn't look like you can EVER do wrong with Peyton Manning, Dallas Clark, Reggie Wayne, and one of the receivers) and even if you guess right, whenever they have an off weak or they play a tough defense, you're screwed. Overall, though, I think it can definitely work if you guess right and really, when you look at the top offenses this year...

Chargers, Giants, Eagles, Colts, Broncos... are the first 4 really all that surprising? Those 4 have had top offenses for years now. You wouldn't be going out on a limb by stockpiling those guys.

Philip Rivers, Antonio Gates, Malcom Floyd would be a hell of a fantasy combo and wasn't really shocking at all.
Eli Manning, Hakeem Nicks, Ahmad Bradshaw as well but that wasn't too clear at the start of the season.
I already went into the Eagles and Colts.

It seems like everyone's scared to do it because it has a 'all eggs in one basket' feel to it, but really, even right now, there's a lot of QB-WR-RB-WR/TE combos that would probably dominate in most fantasy formats. It doesn't take much effort to find several teams where stockpiling their players would make a lot of sense.

[-Jrabbit]

I would call the Eagles a bit of a surprise, since the were undergoing a QB change and no one could foresee the Vick thing.

I like having a QB teamed with one other key piece - a WR1, RB1 who catches passes, or dominant TE. But I do that opportunistically. In IDP, I ended up with Cutler-Forte, but that certainly wasn't the plan going into the draft. Having Forte is why I took Cutler (QB10, IIRC), though I still have my regrets on that.

Unless you're picking at the end of a round, you can't count on a one-team build unless you're willing to "reach" on one or two picks. (I'm looking at you, Kenobi.)

Ben K, btw, has done very well with his Chargers-dominated approach the past two years.

[EPW]

"Play every team every Week" Luck Chart - IDP League - Week 10

Team	Wins	Loses	Last Week	Luck-O-Meter*	PCT	Actual PCT	Average Score	STDEV
1. Mountain Goats	75	35	1-10	+2	.682	.600	157.58	21.21
2. KenobilovesLT	71	39	11-0	-1	.646	.700	154.82	22.03
3. Pornhuskers	64	46	8-3	+1	.582	.600	151.89	28.61
4. Dallas Dwarf Tossers	63	47	6-5	+3	.573	.400	144.99	17.83
5. Random Encounter	62	48	10-1	+1	.564	.500	150.52	22.28
6. Topeka Twisters	56	54	0-11	-1	.509	.600	145.58	20.44
7. Teh Peeled Bananas	52	58	9-2	-5	.473	.700	137.96	23.7
8. Deviations	50	60	3-8	0	.456	.400	137.77	18.7
9. Hairball Express	45	65	7-4	0	.409	.400	132.38	36.6
10. Calamitous Intent	45	65	2-9	0	.409	.400	130.59	27.27
11. Forte's Fireman	39	71	5-6	0	.355	.400	127.05	26.18
12. Vicious Rabbits	38	72	4-7	0	.346	.300	135.33	21.94

*Back by Popular demand. "+#" and "-#" in parenthesis indicate difference from actual standings. For example, someone ranked 3rd on this chart but whose 1st in the real standings would get a (-2), or 2 ranks below their actual position. Thus, pluses usually indicates bad luck and and minuses good look.

[Berzerker]

does all that mean you're way luckier than us?