Board 8 > The Best Board 8 Fantasy Football league 2017 part 3

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Immediately after the draft in my league this year, I set my team name to Future Playoff Champions.

Seeing that at the top of the standings is more satisfying than the actual luck it took to get me there, lol.
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My team name was Playoff Runner-Ups for years after I failed to make the playoffs one year, but then scored more points than every team in the playoffs except the eventual winner.

Last year I was the actual runner up in the league. Self-fulfilling team name prophecy is real.
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aaand Zeke is back on suspension again!

Any guesses how long it lasts this week? 12 hours? 48 hours?
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So now my decision to not drop Morris this week to fix my bye week problems is looking a lot smarter.
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Football
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tomorrow
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boy my whole team is shitting the bed right now

who knew the colts would apparently stop Pittsburgh cold
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I'm not doing any better. Apparently I like to give wins to the basement dwelling teams in the league.
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yeah Im not even keeping track of scores anymore this week. I had 7 players playing at 1:00 and they got me 53 points. duke johnson jr. is the only player I have that met his projection this week.
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The Mana Sword posted...

yeah Im not even keeping track of scores anymore this week. I had 7 players playing at 1:00 and they got me 53 points. duke johnson jr. is the only player I have that met his projection this week.

Welcome to my season. I usually have one player (outside of IDPs) that have met their projection for any week.
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Yeah this week I had a couple players on bye but didnt feel like making moves

Oh well guess I can start going back to normal next week, even if my RBs kinda suck all of a sudden
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My non-offense positions have outscored my offense positions 38-28, with only Cam Newton yet to play. And I'm down by 70 points.

...I got this, right?
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lol and of course the giants would get wrecked by SF this week

pile it on
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The Mana Sword posted...

lol and of course the giants would get wrecked by SF this week

pile it on

I had 3 giants at the start of the season. I got off that train ages ago.
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I mean I know theyre bad but I was hoping their defense wouldnt lose this bad SF

at least Im done with byes after this week
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It's nice to win my fantasy match before the sunday night game even starts

azuarc posted...

The Mana Sword posted...

lol and of course the giants would get wrecked by SF this week

pile it on

I had 3 giants at the start of the season. I got off that train ages ago.

Engram and Darkwa are still very good, and both beat their projections this week!
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My opponent and I both have players tonight and tomorrow.

Right now, we're projected to tie. ._.
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I gotta say, its nice to be free and not care about the Monday match this week, even if it is because of a horrific loss.
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If my opponent hadn't benched Diggs and Sanders my matchup would have been a slaughter.

But I'll take what I can get. Right now that 2nd Brady TD made me feel a little better. I need a game script where CJA doesn't get very many carries.
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azuarc posted...

My non-offense positions have outscored my offense positions 38-28, with only Cam Newton yet to play. And I'm down by 70 points.

...I got this, right?

Ya
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Knowing your luck, yeah, maybe. Cam just needs to throw for 300 yds and 4 TDs while rushing for 100 with 2 rushing TDs and...that's still 20 shy. Okay, okay...so he needs to get 400 yds, 5 passing TDs, 150 yds rushing, 3 rushing TDs, and that'll be 69 points. That'll be just enough.
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football tonight
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beavis666x2 posted...

football tonight

yawn
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I have a feeling I'm going to be on the bubble for the entire rest of the season
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I'm trying to get up to the bubble

beating the 2nd place team this week is a good start towards that
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I'm on the bubble for a first round playoff bye
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if projections hold it looks like there will be five 6-4 teams going into next week, for four playoff spots
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after this week my league should be

8-2 (me)
7-3
7-3
6-4
5-5
5-5
5-5
5-5
4-6
4-6
2-8
2-8

I still have to play one of the 2-8s too, so that should be an easy win (barring a repeat of this week)
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FFDragon posted...

if projections hold it looks like there will be five 6-4 teams going into next week, for four playoff spots

And I get the *fun* schedule left, as I have you, Suprak, and finally Arti or I could play spoiler for each other.
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Arti posted...

beating the 2nd place team this week is a good start towards that

Pity I can't capitalize on that, since, y'know, I'm running a charity.
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Well, Cam did his job.

I'll still take offers for Cam (or Carson, with the caveat that I need him this week.) WRs are my focus. Last week was pathetic.
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azuarc posted...

Well, Cam did his job.

I'll still take offers for Cam (or Carson, with the caveat that I need him this week.) WRs are my focus. Last week was pathetic.

Trade deadline was the 11th.
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oh well, guess I'm stuck with crappy receivers then
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I've been stocking up on people coming off of IR to hopefully help my shit receiving core.
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Ive got a glut of medium-high receivers and no good RBs

If only you could trade cross-league!!
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Well I had Jordy Nelson.

But Rodgers got killed.

And I had Will Fuller.

But Watson killed himself.
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yeah Ive been extremely lucky this year to completely avoid any major injuries. had one or two guys out for a week or two, but thats it.
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Geez. My opponent last week made me sweat a bit. Up until Saturday his starting lineup consisted of Tom Brady, Julio Jones, Moncrief, and Ted Ginn. That's it, everyone else was on bye. He's been getting shit on all year for not really setting his lineup or just dicking around (he played Kaepernick during Brady's bye instead of Cutler which I think cost him a win). Then he realized that the bottom 4 teams are all eligible to take the ACT (our punishment for coming in last) instead of just whoever finishes last during the regular season.

And I dunno what devil magic he used but everyone he picked up worked for him. He moved Burkhead from his bench to his starting lineup. Picked up Latavius Murray, Ed Dickson, and TB Defense (all of which scored 10+ points) and the Jets Kicker who got him 5 points. Then I lost Freeman to injury and my TE scored less than 1 point so I was basically playing down 2 players. Luckily the rest of my team picked up the slack and everyone scored 15+ points (except McKinnon) to get me the win. But still.

This week is rough as I'm down my starting RB's. Freeman is looking like he'll miss this week and McCaffrey is on bye leaving me with just McKinnon. Was hoping I'd be able to get the Packers RB off waivers but I ended up with Austin Ekeler instead. Also picked up Woodhead so I'm hoping he is able to return this week otherwise I'll have to trust that Ekeler is going to have a repeat performance or at least a decent one...

Just traded Robert Woods away to get Carlos Hyde.


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Football tonight
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I'm starting 2 patriots running backs this week

is that crazy?

it's crazy right?
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yes
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=(

but they were worth a combined 25 points each of the past two games somehow
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ya go my Antonio Brown

this is a nice start to the week. Im nearly halfway to my entire teams point total from last week!
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A few days until more football
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Hm. Looks like Woodhead was activated. I need another RB with Freeman out and I feel like the obvious play is to just play him even if it's his first game back coming off a torn hamstring. But this Austin Ekeler dude ran circles around Gordon last week and gets Buffalo who have been putrid against the run the past couple weeks. Or I guess I could bench Sanders and just play both. *shrug*

The Mana Sword posted...

ya go my Antonio Brown

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I had space on my roster so I decided to grab Zeke off waivers (he got dropped after the suspension) on the off chance he gets off early, or potentially for the finals, assuming I make it.

No idea if thatll pay off but well see.
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I think I will win.
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well so much for that 46 points from brown on Thursday

keenan allen just ruined my week. ugh, fantasy foot is the worst
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