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On current form, Bills

Good luck with the interview

redrocket posted...

The only other Board Eighter I know who is a MBA is Smartmuffin...... so Im not sure how to feel about this!

I'm sure more have an MBA. I do.

Trying to buy Rays tickets for Monday. Why is it not telling me what time the game is?

I wonder how much dropoff we will see when it's now the season premiere. I'm sure they got a bump from it being the first ever episode but I also wonder what they do if they aren't head to head with NXT

What was TNA doing when head to head with WWE again?

Reg posted...

Somebody in my work league (default Yahoo settings, but full PPR) put up 200 this week.

Wentz, Allen, Hilton, Kamara, Ingram, Kittle, Fitzgerald, Zuerlein and Philly D

Wtf

Edit: whoops, forgot we've also got bonus points (+2) for going over 100 rushing or receiving yards. He doesn't clear 200 without those, but still an absurd score

In week 3 we had a dude with this lineup

Russell Wilson - 400+ yards 4 TDS
Mark Ingram - 135 yards, 3 TDs
Alvin Kamara - 161 yards, 2 TDs
Keenan Allen - 183 yards, 2 TDs
Tyler Lockett- 154 yards, 1 TD
Austin Hooper - 66 yards, 2 TDs
Lesean McCoy - 80 yards, 2 TDs
Justin Tucker - 1 FG, 1 XP

Then we play 3 IDPs instead of a defense but I know that isn't the norm. So if you exclude those 3 from his score he's at 250+ points without a defense

Was going to do write-ups but don't have time right now. Throwing it out there, Hawks are a playoff team and will end up with ~11 wins.

As KCF pointed out, their only loss was because of crazy playcalling. They have knocked off 3 highly rated teams from last season already (2 on the road) and they would only need to take care of business at home against the non high end teams plus pick up road wins against I dunno, Bills and Falcons (sorry guys, on current form you're the weakest 2 road games left for them), to get to 11 wins. Of course we have seen this from the Hawks before they go on a losing streak but I think that may have been injury influenced.

I know Eddv has mentioned he has a hard life in his division but I think this season Ranlom could have just as valid a complaint. Raiders are good, Hawks are looking good and the Broncos are the Broncos who despite looking out of sorts are still 3-1.

1.9m would probably be a dead money low for me in any of my seasons lol. But I get it, you'd be accruing dead money for a shot in the dark who may or may not be better than what you have.

Ranlom posted...

We just don't match up well with the Raiders.

Grier would be gone if i hadn't signed him to a multi-year deal. He better step up his game

I expected this to be a lengthy deal then I checked and saw it was only a 2 year deal with 200k signing bonus.

You could easily kick the tires on another kicker if you wanted. There's 2 recent high projected draft pick kickers in Lutz and Parkey available too

Allowed 26 catches too many. Better do better next season!

Last night KCF said you had 7 TDs for the season and you had more defensive TDs than offensive so far.

Pretty crushing defeat but I'm more worried by my lack of a run game across 3 games than the loss itself. The hope is that once Jamario is back it will fix itself but Jamario and McNeal have never played a game together so we will have to see how that goes (since I assume Kestahn Moore isn't a pure running back given his okayish reception stats). I don't think offensive personnel have changed enough to blame the O-line for the collapse of the run game.

Hopefully get to the bye 3-1 and then get Jamario back for Week 6 and try to make the most of a home heavy run because I probably need to be at 7-8 wins by Week 12 to have playoff hopes.

Come on Broncos, give me some playoff experience. Need that development time!

May as well keep alive for a while

turbopuns3 posted...

Wow that hands to the face call. Wow.

I was just coming in to post what a fucking joke of a call that was and then realized because I'm watching in Hulu I was actually 15 mins behind

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Wasnt this the twist in The Orphan

Yes, article talks about it

We need to set up a bountygate system on the Cowboys

What happens if the Rays tie for the final wildcard spot. Is there a match to decide it or is there a tiebreaker?

Blanking the Broncos on the road has to be one of, if not the, most impressive wins I've ever had. I would have bitten your hand off to be 2-2 going into the Week 5 bye and now that would be the worst case scenario.

It's kinda comical to compare my QB performance too

Turner (in 22 games I think) - 3799 Passing Yards, 56.49% Completion, 18 Pass TDs, 27 INTs, 1 Rush TD
McNeal (in 12 games I think) - 1873 Passing Yards, 983 Rushing Yards, 61.6% Completion, 13 Pass TDs, 6 INTs, 5 Rush TDs

Missed opportunity for him to be called Stanley Stanley

Week 2 where hopes and dreams will be truly crushed by a contender team on the road. Just in time for a double crushing week 3 road loss to divisional rivals

It's comical to see my yards per carry by my RBs to plummet to ~3.5 week 1 after being in the mid to upper 4s for years. Hoping the Jets just have a stout run defense otherwise I'm going go need the defense to bail me out a lot this year (which they seemingly did Game 1)

Sometimes I don't understand people.

* Person whines about getting Cam Newton via autodraft and he's trash
* I didn't pay attention and drafted 2 QBs with same bye week (late season so likely didn't matter)
* I offer the person Cousins for Newton and we can switch a WR or something to balance the trade. They decline
* I drop Cousins for Rudolph (16 team league, QB2 depth sucks)
* Person immediately drops Newton for Cousins on waivers

Like just do the fucking trade and don't waste your waiver order (they were #1 waiver)

I bought a 2000 Pontiac Sunfire for $1400 off Craiglist 7 years ago with 110k miles on it. It was rusted when I got it but I never had problems with it. I replaced it with a real car 2 years ago (Mercedes SLK) but it's still sat outside and functioning now. My ex-wife used it when her car broke and my best friend has used it for a few months when his car broke.

It really depends on the car.

MartinFF7 posted...

Just realized we'll also definitely be getting hunts/quests like in 13 and 15. I could see it being run out of Wall Market, I mean, Cloud is a mercenary too...

I thought Cloud was basically a mercenary in name only and hooked up with Avalanche shortly after arriving in Midgar? Like I can't think of anything that leads me to think that, just that I was always under that assumption

We keeping this alive for a while?

Is week 1 going going to be a live sim?

It was looking good until the 2+ allowed catches per game stat. Whereas Mzero looks like a shutdown CB

htaeD posted...

That one scene in episode 1 is pretty much the most evil and disturbing thing I have ever seen puppets do.
(Or hell any show in general)

Yeah I talked myself into 'Oh it's not that bad because they will surely reverse it down the line, right?'. But nope!

Reg posted...

ShatteredElysium posted...

Reg posted...

https://imgur.com/jTdVfWR

who wins, why is it not my team, and how hard am I going to regret playing Gordon over White or Tyrell Williams? (full PPR)?

I'd marginally favor the team on the right but should be a lot clearer after tonight's game

Yahoo's projections are literally right team by about a point (which is to say, that's where the computers are at too)

but goddammit if the idea of losing that league two weeks in a row doesn't frustrate me. Especially if it comes down to a lineup change I made an hour before games kicked off.

I made a similar mistake that luckily didn't cost me. I sat Aaron Jones 5 minutes before kickoff

UltimaterializerX posted...

If PI is reviewable then its also long past time to make roughing the passer reviewable. That game was quite literally only decided by referees and prevent defense.

And any team dumb enough to run prevent defense, ever, deserves to lose. What a moronic defensive strategy when a team only needs a field goal.

Whilst I don't agree that it should have been roughing the passer, I do feel obligated to point out they were at least consistent. They called it the exact same the other way earlier in the game.

Reg posted...

https://imgur.com/jTdVfWR

who wins, why is it not my team, and how hard am I going to regret playing Gordon over White or Tyrell Williams? (full PPR)?

I'd marginally favor the team on the right but should be a lot clearer after tonight's game

I would imagine that statistically the odds were in the favor of the Broncos on that FG. Sure he made it but I feel like making a 53 yard field goal under final play of the game pressure has a far lower than 50% chance of success

Was loads of time left for us to win that! Boom!

Dr_Football posted...

The Chiefs are gonna win this game having played only 1 good quarter

And 16 yards of rushing at 1 yard an attempt

LeonhartFour posted...

this coming from a guy who roots for a team in the Boston area LOLOLOLO

I mean in his reply to me he cites 2 different NFL teams too.

Also don't act like you wouldn't have been insufferable if that happened to your team Ulti.

Positional limits isn't even our biggest fuck up either. 2 seasons ago this happened.

1. Player A didn't pay his dues until he made the playoffs (which was final week of the season)
2. GM overruled it stating deadline for dues was ages ago and he had been warned multiple times
3. GM inserted Lucky Loser into playoff bracket in his place and adjusted bracket accordingly
4. Lucky Loser beats unbeaten #1 seed on a tiebreaker where they both had highest score in the league for the week
4a. Tiebreaker didn't trigger correctly due to bracket being messed with and #1 seed should have actually won
5. #1 Seed would have won out if not for mishap

Prize for winner was $1200. I was the #1 seed. Mistake wasn't realized until after the following week of play when the tiebreaker did trigger correctly in another tie. (Basically higher seed got +points to effectively win a tiebreaker but he had reset the scores when he reset the bracket)

I didn't complain to the league or make a big scene about it but it took a lot of talking me into returning to that league the following season (I had offered to share the winners prize with the alternative winner as a compromise, it got shot down). He ended up comping my entry for the following years leagues (which was still considerably less than the $1200).

I think you should tell them about this thread.

So through 2 gameweeks the Dolphins are 10-102 on the scoreboard. How many weeks for the Dolphins to score 100+ points as a team? Week 7? Week 8?

EDIT: They have a bye week 5 so it may even be later than week 8 at this rate.

He went off prior to the second quarter ending so fairly certain it's an injury not a benching

Maybe it's just because I play in high money leagues but I can tell you right now nobody would play if it was possible for people to hoard a position.

I remember what originally prompted it was like 5-6 seasons back where people were hoarding 3-4 QB's to deliberately make it so there was no QBs on waivers for bye weeks and then trying to charge ridiculous prices for them in trades (like 1st/2nd round picks for a QB who would never play outside that week). Some teams did it just so somebody would lose and had no intention of trading one away. We had similar situations with RB's where people would have 6+ on their roster and the only ones on waivers would be ones who likely wouldn't take a single snap.

We also had people picking up players/teams purely to drop them so that they weren't claimable via waivers before their game

When the prize pool is $1000+ people were going to be pissed if they miss out on the playoffs due to shady tactics like that. Hard to keep people happy in those scenarios and hard to get them to return to the league the year after.

The argument is that there isn't enough RB's out there to sustain 8 RBs per team in a 10 man league. You can only play 3 each week anyway in most leagues so even if you handcuffed all 3 that's still only 6 RBs.

With the potential for that many to be tied up it's entirely possible that the drop off from an injured RB to the waiver wire is a RB who scores 0-2 points.

turbopuns3 posted...

What's the argument for stricter limits? Everyone has equal chance to draft however they want so I'm curious.

Because RB's are at a premium and the later rounds of the draft shouldn't amount to hoarding as many RB's as you can. In a 10 man league the limit should be 4-5 RB's (I'd lean 5)

I'm in a 10 man, 12 man and 16 man league. All 3 have the RB limit set at 4 which is fine for the 16 man. For the 12 man it's a little bit trickier as you have to pick between drafting handcuffs or drafting for depth but 4 is probably fair so nobody is shafted by injuries. In the 10 man it should probably be 5 which allows you to take 3-4 RB's and 1-2 handcuffs.,

Maybe you mentioned it earlier but is there like a weekly pass for the fair or have you been paying $10 a day every day to go?

turbopuns3 posted...

In one league I'm sitting here with Zeke, Chubb, AP, Royce Freeman, Carlos Hyde, Gio Bernard, Malcolm Brown, and Melvin Gordon. 8 RBs. Just trying to figure out wtf to do with 'em.

I wouldn't touch any league that lacks positional limits. RBs should be restricted to 4-5 per team depending on league size

The only reason I roster 2 QBs is because I'm in deep leagues and I always draft them late so picking up 2 gives me the option to decide who is better on a weekly basis. Also because the league is deep, it's possible to be caught out without a playable QB during bye weeks if you don't hold onto a second one.

In smaller league I'm for sure only taking 1 QB and then just grabbing one off the waivers if they catch fire or I need them in a bye.

It's like Reg says, a lot of fantasy football is about the drop off between the players you have to physically play. Who cares if the QB scores 25+ points a week and your WR2 scores 11 if the drop off to the next QB is like 22 points and the next WR you'd have to take is like 4-5 points. Having depth at RB is especially critical given the high level of attrition. A lot of people get caught up comparing direct scores between players rather than the score between your player and the next best you'd have to play at the position. A solid WR3 or RB3 is infinintely more valuable than a QB2 (or even a QB1 unless you have an elite QB1)

Like for any other team I would say it would sort itself out during the season but for a team like UCF, this sort of early ranking discrepency is exactly what keeps them outside the hunt at the end of the season when it matters.

Their ranking isn't based on reality. It's based on TV/Money which is already BS but even more so when they won't let UCF into a P5 conference despite them deserving it both based on college size and sports performance.

I mean if you want a direct comparison. I watched both games and I would say that UCF looked better against FAU than Ohio State did. That's not a sleight on Ohio State and more speaking highly of Ohio State

I would also say Oregon have no business being above UCF based on Auburn's other result.

I'd say that Florida shouldn't be above UCF either because despite them beating Miami, we have seen than Miami aren't a good team (I.e. if we got UCF vs Miami, UCF would crush them).

Texas are above them based on a defeat to LSU which would be fair enough with a larger sample size but with the small sample size we have now, UCF should be above them.

Or I guess another that is confusing is Utah. Utah are higher based on what? People being hyped about them this year? Why? They haven't done anything on field this year to justify that and they also aren't coming off a strong record last year so it's not even like we can say they are returning a strong team from the previous year.

I could point out more if I wanted to dig deeper

Prime example I can think of.

There is a 0% chance UCF are ranked above Michigan next week even if this result stays the same way. And there is no way on earth you can convince me Michigan have looked better in their 2 games against Middle Tennessee and Army than UCF have looked in their 3 games so far. By end of season sure that could and probably will be different. Based on what we have seen so far though? No way.

And I'm not saying it just because it's Michigan. There's been years before where Ohio State have looked dog shit early on but because of the name we stay in the high end of the top 10 despite other teams looking better.

The way I view ranking is you should be judging the play on the field. Not conference, not future schedule but actual physical play that we have seen. If a team is struggling on offense or defense against lesser opposition then that should be reflected in the rankings instead of just going 'Oh well they won so keep them where they are'

Right and teams above them have struggled against similar level of opposition. Teams are getting P5 rankings boosts before actually playing any P5 games