Apolyton Fantasy Football (not soccer damnit)

[Ben Kenobi]

If we're going to do this, here's my proposal:

Tackle Solo 2 pt
Tackle Assist 1 pt
Sack 4 pt
Interception 5 pt
Fumble Force 5 pt
Fumble Recovery 5 pt
Defensive Touchdown 6 pt
Safety 5 pt
Pass Defended 2 pt
Block Kick 5 pt

D'Qwell would have 294 points.

[-Jrabbit]

Personally, I think that is over the top. Way over.

[Ben Kenobi]

Personally, I think that is over the top. Way over.

Well, that's what it would take to get the top defensive players up to about the same as the top Running backs, etc. Even then, you wouldn't see a defensive player in the first 4 rounds.

[Berzerker]

epw aint around and wont be playing

[-Jrabbit]

Well, that's what it would take to get the top defensive players up to about the same as the top Running backs, etc. Even then, you wouldn't see a defensive player in the first 4 rounds.

I understand it was a trial balloon, Ben. Just sayin' I would oppose it.

Re EPW, he didn't play last year either. He agreed to be commish when I resigned that honor. And as last year's commish, he holds the key to restarting the league. Yahoo wouldn't let me do it. Berz, is EPW unreachable? Is so, I'll have to email Yahoo for help. (The IDP league has history going back to '07, so it would nice to continue that imho.)

[SlowwHand]

Damned EPW. He's a constant thorn in my side.

[MRT144]

got room for one more in the auction league. who wants this.

[Al B. Sure!]

When is the draft?

[Sparrowhawk]

When is the draft?

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[Al B. Sure!]

Or I should say auction?

[Demonbinder]

Any idea when the AFC online draft will be held? I am busy the weekend before season starts and hope that we can do it two weeks before (Aug. 25th or 26th). If it has to be 9/1 or 9/2 I can try to make the time, but week before is preferred.

[MRT144]

Or I should say auction?

August 20th 9 PM EDT

And its full now. So too bad.

[Zopperoni]

At risk of being ridiculed for suggesting the bizarre.....it seems that strategy of defensive players is to pick them (largely) after you pick most of your offensive players. I'd like to see us UP the points for defense, and encourage people to take defensive players earlier (and change up the strategy significantly as a result).

/me

This is not a scoring issue IMO. Adjusting the scoring for defenders would benefit the collective, but would completely miss the point of rewarding great players for their performance.

Defenders have a lower priority because there are fewer true top performers.

Here's a performance breakdown of the top 25 RBs and top 25 LBs from 2011 (season point totals):

• RBs: The difference between RB1 and RB6 last year was a whopping 108 points (over the entire season), and the difference between RB7 and RB25 was still 49.85 points
• LBs: The difference between LB1 and LB6 last year was only 16 points, and the difference between LB7 and LB25 was only 30 points.

We're pickier when it comes to offensive players, because there are actual true top performers.

It's also psychological: as long as a defender's expected performance is within a certain range, most of us don't really care who that defender is.

[Berzerker]

i sent EPW a pm asking him to make Koy the commish

[-Jrabbit]

All he needs to do is start the league with same settings as before and let us know. When Koya joins, EPW can go to Change Commisssioner under the Commissioner's Tools tab. (Commish must be a league member.)

Alternately, Koya can just start a "new league" and use the "Use settings from another league" tool, which will offer Poly IDP FF11 as one of the options (since Koya played in the league). But we would lose the Yahoo league history, so it would be nice if EPW made this easy for us.

Thanks for PMing him.