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ZaziGuado posted...

I've seen a lot of advertising for "Best Ball" leagues and I feel like that defeats a lot of the purpose of fantasy football. I love the idea of not having to agonize over my starting lineup, but I feel like it would make everything hollow and easy to lose interest. Plus it makes inactive owners much more dangerous.

I like Best Ball A LOT for several reasons:

1) Not needing to interact with it on a regular basis allows you to enter into a lot more of these leagues
2) some people love drafting but find the day to day handling to be cumbersome
3) Inactive owners can be more dangerous; I don't necessarily see this as a negative- inactive owners can ruin leagues
4) Creates different strategies (ie "Desean Jackson" types who have a tendency to have 14 bad games and 3 massive games become viable to draft, third down pass catching specialist RBs now have more value because you get their big games, and this opens up your roster construction options)

I'm planning on running a "Best Ball, with transactions" league just to see how that would further change strategy

Oh hey, missed the tags cuz I haven't been in town.

all good.

Unrelated, I'm running a Guillotine league that is drafting tomorrow night at 8 PM EST if anyone is interested

ZaziGuado posted...

Oh that sounds fascinating. Is there a limit to how many people you can grab off waivers or does it almost become like a weekly fantasy challenge by the end?

We set it so that every waiver claim costs $1 of FAAB, so you have to balance blowing your budget on big names early in the season vs having budget left at the end of the year for small / many transactions.

it's the first time I'm playing in one

So, this year I'm in [at least] 6 leagues (1 dynasty and 5 redraft)
-Dynasty League going into Year 4 (12 team HPPR / QB / SF / 2 RB / 3 WR / TE / Flex, 23 bench)
-Work League (10 team HPPR / 2 QB / 2 RB / 3 WR / 1 TE / 2 Flex, 6 bench)
-Friend league with a lot of overlap with dynasty league (12 team PPR with big play scoring, QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, Flex, 12 bench)
-Separate friend league with less dynasty league overlap (8 team, HPPR, 2 QB, 3 RB, 4 WR, 2 TE, 3 flex, 4 bench)
-League with a bunch of guys from a bar downtown (12 team, PPR, QB / 2 RB / 2 WR / TE / Flex, 7 bench)
-Guillotine league (18 team, HPPR, QB / 2 RB / 2 WR / TE / 2 flex / 6 bench)

have only drafted in Dynasty and Work League so far;

Dynasty Roster
QB: Kyler Murray, Trey Lance, Sam Darnold, Kellen Mond, Sam Howell (4.09), Taylor Heinicke, Cam Newton
RB: Jonathan Taylor, JK Dobbins, AJ Dillon, Chase Edmonds, James Cook (1.12), Tyrion Davis-Price (2.12), Isaih Pacheco (3.12), Chris Evans, Darrel Williams, Jordan Mason
WR: Stefon Diggs, Rashod Bateman, Juju Smith-Schuster, Christian Kirk, Devante Parker, Anthony Schwartz, Isaiah McKenzie, Jamison Crowder, Will Fuller, Ashton Dulin, Justyn Ross (4.12)
TE: Austin Hooper, Mike Gesicki, Adam Trautman

My redraft for work:
QB: Justin Herbert (1), Russell Wilson (2), Davis Mills (14)
RB: AJ Dillon (9), Rashaad Penny (10), Isaih Pacheco (11), James Cook (13), Brian Robinson (15), Rachaad White (16)
WR: Ja'marr Chase (3), Ceedee Lamb (4), Mike Williams (6), Allen Robinson (7), Rashod Bateman (8), DeAndre Hopkins (12), Will Fuller (18)
TE: Kyle Pitts (5)
DST: Denver (17)