2021 Poly Fantasy Football

[Berzerker]

Walrus wants bapays

[SlowwHand]

I know. Slow draft is traditional. I've grown to hate it.

[Berzerker]

I'll submit the draft results and start the league and make my picks, you guys can handle the bapays and lists

if no one wants to commish I guess this will be our last year drafting offline

[-Jrabbit]

Are we doing smart Bapays for everyone, or just Walrus?

Regular Bapays are cruel, but they are predictable, mechanical, and tend to hurt only the manager who didn't bother to pick.
"Smart" Bapays take time, thought, and judgement, resulting in a better team, but potentially screwing other managers by taking their guy.

In the 3rd round, it's really harsh to assign a regular Bapay. Normally, we don't have this issue until much later in the draft. The Commish should make this call.

[SlowwHand]

It has nothing to do with your efforts at all.
I was a little bummed out to pick last, but in retrospect I only have to be monitoring once.
I'll probably get over it, once we begin BAPAYing people's asses.

[Berzerker]

I'm gonna email the league, we'll need to start a clock

4 hours for now starting tomorrow about noon okay?

yes, smart bapays makes sense

[-Jrabbit]

We need to make this a bit more clear. Are you handling Walrus picks? Is the rest of the league handling everything else?

I propose we do "straight" regular Bapays according to the posted rules. Simple and straightforward. You OK with that, commish?

[Berzerker]

everyone can do bapays for everyone else, me too if I'm around and someone needs a bapay

I'm OK with straight bapays, I assume that still means we bapay based on need?

[-Jrabbit]

Yes. First thing we look at is position need. It's tricky in the first 7 picks, since wr/rb/te starters are so important, and what order to grab them is a matter of personal preference.

[SlowwHand]

My first acknowledged stumble of 2021.
I had decided against Godwin, but my gears slipped, and well, he found a home early.

[Berzerker]

I wanted Metcalf but couldn't resist Rodgers, I was planning on waiting for QBs and play match ups

Course Rodgers might just mail it in unless he's looking for greener pastures next year with a different team

[SlowwHand]

In the end, I think he'll be balls to the wall, wanting to make a statement.

[Berzerker]

Kittle is back in the player pool, I forgot to swap him for Murray after submitting draft results

I doubt Cake would want to exchange him for Metcalf but you guys can take him if you want.

[-Jrabbit]

That doesn't affect anything. Everyone knew.

[Berzerker]

I can see the draft results at yahoo but when I bring up the available players list I still see players we've taken. Are you guys seeing taken players on the available players list?

[-Jrabbit]

Yes, everyone is still there on the league's player list.

I strongly recommend not worrying about it.

All of us are literally posting to a list of all players taken, right here. That should be more than sufficient. (Lord knows I never go to Yahoo before picking. I just check the list that's in front of me, right here on Poly.)

[Berzerker]

there's no point updating picks at yahoo then and Kittle was in the player's pool all along. Its just unusual, in the past yahoo would remove taken players from the available players list making it easier for managers to see who wasn't picked yet.

We'll just have to make sure the players we want weren't taken according to our list

[Berzerker]

sorry, I misinterpreted that comment then

[-Jrabbit]

Sorry for my involvement in all the stress.

[Berzerker]

all is well in PolyWorld, stress is being hunted in Afghanistan by the Taliban

[Demonbinder]

I am going out for about an hour but can be reached by text and I have an idea of who I want for my next pick if it gets back around to me.

[Berzerker]

I just looked at the RB rankings by yahoo's panel of experts, James Robinson aint even the top RB on his team. Some guy named Ettienne or something is ranked higher. I should have done more research

thats if this other guy can supplant him, I have to assume its Robinson's to lose.

[-Jrabbit]

Travis Etienne was Trevor Lawrence's teammate at Clemson. JAX drafted them both in R1. It wasn't exactly a secret.
How it plays out remains to be seen.

But if Robinson plays like last year, he should be tough to budge. IMHO.