Poly IDP 2012 Draft Thread: No one can replace Ed Hochuli

[Ben Kenobi]

If this was a deliberate strategy on your part (a highly dubious assertion IMO)

I have *always* drafted low-variance. I have consistantly shown willingness to limit upside in exchange for more consistancy week in, week out.

Even if it was possible to draft a team with this intention, I've got to point out that successfully doing so is basically aspiring to mediocrity. WHY WOULD YOU LIMIT YOUR UPSIDE???

To give myself a chance every week in winning.

1. Claiming that you have the league's "highest low score" is a lie. You list your low score as 110.30. My low score to date is 136.45. My guess is there are a bunch of other teams with a higher worst scoring week as well.

And you're first in the league as a result. That was my goal at the outset. Since you're saying that my 'goal' is crap - yet it is a hallmark of successful teams to perform well week in, week out. My goal was to never have a week under 130. I have not succeeded in doing so.

2. Claiming to have never been blown out. Really? While you've never faced a truly high-scoring team (174 is the best you've faced), I see one loss by 30+, and three more by 40

Zero times as 'blowout of the week', and only 4 times have I lost badly.

3. Claiming that 140 points (which you've only managed 7 out of 12 times) is "enough to win." WTF, dude? More like "enough to hope your opponent sucks."

Generally 140 points wins 50/50. 7 times I've made it there, and won once. I should be 4-3, which would place me where I said I was, 4-8 rather than 1-11. If I keep putting up 140-150 points, I am going to rack up wins.

Seriously Ben, why not just man up and admit that this team sucks? There's no shame in it. It happens to everyone. This year, 3 of my 4 teams are likely playoff bound, but the other is 3-9.

This team is *not* a 1-11 team. Look at the roster again. Would you have predicted that the team would go 1-11, barring significant injuries? No. I was told I had a strong team at the outset.

Anyways, if you said my team was weak - something you did not say at the start of the year - I would like to hear what you think I should have done. You've told me constantly 'stick with the draft'.

[Ben Kenobi]

You know what, **** the team cancers.

[Ben Kenobi]

Changes in strategy for next year:

1, Draft a top 5 QB in the first round.
2, Do not bother drafting a WR.

[Sparrowhawk]

Highest Week:
Vicious Rabbits	              238.06
Calamitous Intent             217.57
A Dead Horse	              191.71
Deviations	              182.9
Chiefs                        176.69
Mountain Goats	              172.74
Dallas Dwarf Tossers          171.49
Ice Hawks	              169.15
Blind Squirrels	              167.58
Electric Slide Jedi           153.94

Lowest Week:
A Dead Horse	              138.07
Vicious Rabbits	              136.45
Ice Hawks	              129.66
Deviations	              112.7
Chiefs	                      112.63
Electric Slide Jedi	      110.3
Blind Squirrels	              108.39
Mountain Goats	              105.28
Calamitous Intent	       99.11
Dallas Dwarf Tossers           93.05

[Ben Kenobi]

Not bad, only 2 points out of 4th, despite being dead last in the league. I rest my case for having the lowest variance.

[-Jrabbit]

Generally 140 points wins 50/50.
If I keep putting up 140-150 points, I am going to rack up wins.

This is delusional and not supported by actual point outcomes.

This season, 140 points has a maximum benefit of 43 wins (spread across the whole league) out of 120 total results. And you are actually averaging 133/week.

[Ben Kenobi]

This is delusional and not supported by actual point outcomes.

This season, 140 points has a maximum benefit of 43 wins (spread across the whole league) out of 120 total results. And you are actually averaging 133/week.

Yep, I'm not happy with that. But it is what it is. Anyways, I finally dumped team cancers so the team should do better with reliable performers who put points up. I upgraded at TE and WR.

[-Jrabbit]

Act a week or two earlier and you could have gotten something more than scrap-heap rejects for talents like Fitzgerald and VDavis.

Larry Fitzgerald is WR24 - disappointing but still a starter who must be rostered
Vernon Davis is TE11 - inconsistent, but you replaced him with the TE17

[snoopy369]

Wait, Vernon Davis and Larry Fitzgerald are available in IDP? I'd love to be in that league now just for the waiver claims...

[ColdWizard]

Sparrowhawk picked up Fitz in just over an hour. Davis was available almost 7 hours before -Jr picked him up.

[Ben Kenobi]

Act a week or two earlier and you could have gotten something more than scrap-heap rejects for talents like Fitzgerald and VDavis.

Meh, the waiver wire is better than the offers I did receive two weeks ago for Fitz + Davis. Tried to move them, nothing I wanted/needed. Everyone asked for other players.

Larry Fitzgerald is WR24 - disappointing but still a starter who must be rostered

Nope. Not when I have 4 guys on the bench who consistantly outplay him. Cecil Shorts will hold WR2 down just fine. The team has done quite well with Shorts. Shorts made Fitz expendable. Despite losing Deshaun - who didn't hurt me either as my bench is pretty full, I'll be running with Shorts/TJ/ and maybe Stevie if he holds up. Stevie's the only one in danger of losing his spot. I may end up going with three non-drafted WRs (Nate, Short, TJ), and one non-drafted RB, and maybe one non-drafted QB depending on how Rivers holds up.

Vernon Davis is TE11 - inconsistent, but you replaced him with the TE17

He's cost me 2 games. Fitz has cost me two games. He's done. You get a zero, you're gone. I was close to canning him 4 weeks ago.

[-Jrabbit]

Personally, I think it's very poor sportsmanship. Benching an underperforming but highly-regarded player is understandable, but we have deep benches, so releasing players of this caliber is uncalled-for. Yet another in Ben's string of snit-fits when things don't go his way.

[Ben Kenobi]

Larry Fitzgerald is WR24 - disappointing but still a starter who must be rostered
Vernon Davis is TE11 - inconsistent, but you replaced him with the TE17

Points scored so far this season are irrelevent, JR. I need players who are performing, who are crucial parts of their respective offensive schemes. Fitz and Davis are neither.

[Ben Kenobi]

Personally, I think it's very poor sportsmanship. Benching an underperforming but highly-regarded player is understandable, but we have deep benches, so releasing players of this caliber is uncalled-for. Yet another in Ben's string of snit-fits when things don't go his way.

I kicked your ass in the other league, partially thanks to Davis putting up zero. You're welcome to him.

[-Jrabbit]

Congrats; you had a good week (58 points above projection) and I made a couple bad calls on my lineup. :shrug: It happens. Sometimes guys have a bad week, aren't part of the game plan, or get hurt. Vernon was a top performer the previous week vs. Chicago. First-place teams lose to weaker opponents all the time, both in FF and IRL. Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

The fact that you feel a need to deflect the discussion to a result from a totally different league to justify your actions in IDP is kinda pathetic btw.