Board 8 > NFL Discussion Topic - Week 13

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glad I took a chance on Marshawn Lynch today

of course he's still got a ways to go to make up for me benching Morris for him but it's a start
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ya go my Kamara

what a monster
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Despite losing 5 weeks in a row in one of my leagues, it looks like I'm going to finish 7-6 along with about 5 other teams, which means there will be 6 of us tied for the final 3 playoff spots.

The only instance of me getting into one of those spots is if a specific match-up goes my way. Right now the team I need to win is projected to win by 5 points, so that's what it comes down to.
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Started 0-6 in one of my leagues. Still going to make the playoffs and in the last 3 weeks I've scored the highest score out of anyone so am entering the playoffs as a low seed but likely favored against anyone

Making the playoffs in all 4 of my leagues though. Played fantasy football for 4 years now and I've never missed out on the playoffs. This looked like the year it would happen!

I only play one league. I tried playing two leagues one year and didn't really enjoy it.

I tend to alternate making and missing the playoffs every year, so this is the year I miss, it seems.
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I was I think 4-1 at one point, lost several straight, gonna finish like 5-8
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Yeah 4 is for sure too many. One of my leagues I don't care about though as it isn't a money league.

I think 3 is the sweet spot for me. Next year I might dropout of the non money league because they are non-PPR and give bonus points to QBs too. It sucks, there was 2 WRs in the top 40 scorers when i checked but they don't see it as an issue. I hate it as WRs are irrelevant and RBs and QBs generally don't see much waiver wire movement due to being all tied up. So the waiver wire is dull and matches are low scoring because most WRs score low single digits

Two leagues is the sweet spot for me. It's not too difficult to focus on two waiver wires and match-ups at once, but anything more would be kind of tough if you play like I do where I'm constantly keeping up with things.

Two is also good because if one of your teams manages to have a disaster of a season, you still have a reason to stay relevant in fantasy.
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The hardest part of multiple leagues is when they have different scoring systems. And all 4 of my leagues do.

The funnest league I'm in is one that did away with defence and instead you play 2 defensive players. And we changed the scoring so that they would score in line with WRs and RBs. So Bobby Wagner is the number 1 player right now with 226 points, Antonio Brown has 268 for reference. So there's always tons available on the waiver wire and defensive players tend to have boom or bust potential

LeonhartFour posted...

Blocksby posted...

Man the Ravens are actually gonna be a playoff team aren't they

With the Bills loss and who knows if Tyrod will be healthy to play, yeah, I dunno who else is even in contention now. AFC feels kinda wrapped up unless the Ravens just never win another game

which could happen who knows

the playoff machine is showing the Ravens beat the Bills in a tiebreaker, but i believe the Bills actually win that. if they tied at 9-7, they'd have the same conference record. and assuming the Ravens two losses aren't both to the Steelers and Browns, and the Bills win all the non-Patriots games, they'd have the same record in common games as well (they'd both be 4-1 against the Dolphins, Raiders, Bengals, Colts). so it'd come to strength of victory in which the Ravens have two wins against the winless Browns. i have to think the Bills win that.
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yeah but you might be stuck with Nathan Peterman for the foreseeable future
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hey a least peterman didnt throw 5 ints this week

hes improving!
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although really the AFC Wild Card is technically wide open, but you just can't see most of these crappy teams putting together a serious charge

The friggin' Dolphins are only two games out and they had a point differential comparable to the Browns before today
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Who needs Eli Manning when you've got Geno Smith.
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this is the first NFL week in 20 years that didn't have a Manning starting a game somewhere
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i made my fantasy league playoffs because my opponent this week started tyrod taylor instead of alex smith. Luck baby
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LeonhartFour posted...

this is the first NFL week in 20 years that didn't have a Manning starting a game somewhere

i think that streak broke during the Giants bye week last year
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yeah should say first time in 20 years a Manning wasn't a starting quarterback
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Xuxon posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

this is the first NFL week in 20 years that didn't have a Manning starting a game somewhere

i think that streak broke during the Giants bye week last year

Wouldn't it have then broken during the bye week of the year Peyton was injured?
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well I guess technically that would have to exclude a lot of bye weeks when only one of them was playing
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plus there's a chance that they both had the same bye week once or twice so whatever
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davidponte posted...

Xuxon posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

this is the first NFL week in 20 years that didn't have a Manning starting a game somewhere

i think that streak broke during the Giants bye week last year

Wouldn't it have then broken during the bye week of the year Peyton was injured?

maybe, but there was a player on the Texans named Danieal Manning who started 13 games. i didn't check whether he started during the Giants' bye that year.
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Geno gonna Geno
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LOL Panthers

punter literally just dropped the ball before kicking it
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if anyone needed any more reason to hate joey flacco



here's him eating a W
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LeonhartFour posted...

punter literally just dropped the ball before kicking it

If that's not the proper order of events in a punt, maybe I should go back to football school.
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yeah I should've said "without" not "before" but even that wouldn't make complete sense
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also why would Flacco eat a W if they weren't playing the Bucs and making fun of Winston
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aw yeah Kamara
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Apparently the Panthers also have to play the refs today.
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Didn't get to see it live so only saw it now but Jets/Chiefs sure was a "game."

it had everything

jets allowing themselves to get burned by long td passes about 4 times. if you broaden it to "long passes" the number increases to like 26
alex smith rush for 70 yards
jets converting on 9th and goal
a flag thrown into the stands
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LeonhartFour posted...

also why would Flacco eat a W if they weren't playing the Bucs and making fun of Winston

because winstons thing was that bad that he had to make fun of him anyway
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@FFDragon god bless the Ravens Defense (and Justin Tucker)
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So now that Seattle's a home dog and everyone is picking the Eagles this is a fitting time for Seattle to win a big one.
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So...how about them eagles?
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This Eagles offense sure seems determined not to score today
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I'm hoping this isn't a preview of what the playoffs will be.
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Wentz falling back down to Earth? Who could have predicted this?
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crazygamer999 posted...

I'm hoping this isn't a preview of what the playoffs will be.

this game won't be in Seattle so don't worry too much
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ya go my Agholor
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yeah Philly not challenging that pitch by Wilson might end up being the big difference in this game
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So
yea
I was kinda worried about this

Then again, that hilarious drive in the beginning of the quarter has me hoping

mostly, though, this will hopefully be a wakeup call

also, yea, that missed challenge was a problem
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Your #1 seed Minnesota Vikings.
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Don't count your chickens early, boy.
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So I did some playoff machine tinkering

Atlanta/Carolina were playing each other for the last spot in the NFC.

The more interesting thing is I just noticed while we were all assuming 8 wins would probably get a wild card in the AFC just a few weeks ago, both my wild card winners have 10, despite having both the Ravens and Jags losing next week...

Though the Ravens have an insanely favorable last three games. At Cleveland, vs. Indy, vs. Cincinnati.

Have the Jags losing to the Seahawks and Titans, but beating the Texans and 49ers.

How did this happen?

Also why does Minnesota still want to bench Keenum so badly that they're waiting for him to have one bad game so they could throw in Bridgewater, even though we know he's nothing special?

Is Ziggy Wilf really this dumb?

Oh wait isn't it Zygi? Or am I high
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crazygamer999 posted...

Don't count your chickens early, boy.

well they are currently the #1 seed
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crazygamer999 posted...

Don't count your chickens early, boy.

Minnesota is currently #1.

With Case Keenum as QB.

And an owner that desperately wants to bench him for someone who's never been that good.

IT MAKES NO SENSE.
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...I'll admit, I'm not much for football past my own home team.

Lots of stupid stuff, though.
I'm just hoping that tonight is a one-off.
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It's amazing that anyone would want to bench keenum after the last few weeks. He is playing very very solid quarterbacking and making almost no mistakes. As long as he continues to do that, there is almost no way for the vikings to lose a game.
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Bob McAdone

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