Scumleague FF 2017 (1 ACL and counting...)

Rob14 · Post Post #40 (isolation #0) » Sun Aug 06, 2017 12:20 am

I will /in conditional on two games with Agar so I can push his shit in twice.

Rob14 · Post Post #191 (isolation #1) » Sat Aug 19, 2017 4:19 am

That is the best draft order ever.

Rob14 · Post Post #315 (isolation #2) » Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:56 pm

ELLIOT SUSPENSION DELAYED TO NEXT SEASON BASED ON INJUNCTION! FANTASY SEASON SAVED!

Rob14 · Post Post #328 (isolation #3) » Mon Sep 11, 2017 4:28 pm

Fuck Wilson. Broncos, get a damn sack so I can pull out a win.

Rob14 · Post Post #329 (isolation #4) » Mon Sep 11, 2017 4:58 pm

The interception puts me up 1.5 points... one more fumble recovery or interception would probably seal it for me. Otherwise, I need the Broncos to hold the Chargers to no more than 6 points for this half.

Rob14 · Post Post #334 (isolation #5) » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:21 am

In post 330, Yiley wrote:
In post 329, Rob14 wrote:The interception puts me up 1.5 points... one more fumble recovery or interception would probably seal it for me. Otherwise, I need the Broncos to hold the Chargers to no more than 6 points for this half.
That blocked kick... Ugh.
Let you win by half a point.

Yuuuup. 0.48 point win. I'll take it (at least until a stat correction comes out...).

I feel pretty good with where my team is despite the autodraft SNAFU. I got 87ish points, but Russel Wilson only got 8 points. He'll clearly improve. Neither McCoy nor Elliott scored. That will change. TY Hilton had a terrible (<4 point) game with Luck out, which will persist for a couple weeks, but that will improve eventually. I think by the time playoffs roll around, I'll be doing good. I was especially happy that Amendola had such a large role. He'll make a great WR3/4 taken in a very late round if that usage persists, at least for the weeks he's healthy. Shepard was the #1 with OBJ off the field, and he didn't exactly perform. I think he'll improve once OBJ comes back and defenses aren't focusing on him. The fact he played ahead of Marshall is very promising.

Overall, I think my top 3 WRs will improve to average once Luck is back (with serious upside in Hill). My RBs are the best in the league by far. My TE isn't elite, but he's not really a weakness either. My kicker/defense are solid almost-every-week options and I won't have to stream much. My biggest question mark is Wilson behind his O-line, but if he remains inconsistent, I'll start rotating Wilson and Big Ben as a matchup-dependent committee.

If my team stays healthy, I think I have a great chance to get back to the playoffs for the first time since 2014. I've finished in 5th place two years in a row, and I'm pretty damn tired of doing that (especially since I picked teams that would perform well in playoff weeks ... and they did).

Rob14 · Post Post #340 (isolation #6) » Sat Sep 16, 2017 12:15 pm

Agar: No, I finished something like 8th place in the regular season, but then did great in the "consolation playoffs" to finish in 5th. I wasn't a serious contender last year.

I actually don't think the suspension is the big risk. It's Shady McCoy getting injured. They're saying outright that they plan to ride him until he breaks, which makes it unlikely he'll play a full season. He's already got groin and wrist problems after one week. I don't have depth at RB.

Speaking of, both my star RBs have BYEs in Week 6, as does Russell Wilson. Whoever I play that week is going to face the fearsome threesome of ... Big Ben, James White, and probably Chris Thompson. That will be a definite loss for me unless I get very lucky with my defense and WRs.

Rob14 · Post Post #342 (isolation #7) » Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:04 pm

Nah, I'm in League 1.

Rob14 · Post Post #348 (isolation #8) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:42 am

In post 345, Nero Cain wrote:Rob beat me to Tobert. I do not have good RBs this week.

Sorry, needed the handcuff to Shady.

Rob14 · Post Post #349 (isolation #9) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:42 am

My fantasy team has imploded this week.

Rob14 · Post Post #358 (isolation #10) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:48 pm

What the fuck happened? McCoy and Elliott combining for 6.5 points? Fucking hell. My WRs also shit the bed, but if my RBs had delivered just 25 points combined I'd at least have been competitive...

Rob14 · Post Post #373 (isolation #11) » Sun Sep 24, 2017 3:36 am

I think the schedule in L1 is fucked. I'm playing someone from out of division twice and not playing one of my division opponents twice. Can you look into this zoraster? You can probably fix this by just changing the final week opponent for a few people to make sure we're all playing our division opponents twice as should be the case.

Rob14 · Post Post #379 (isolation #12) » Sun Sep 24, 2017 12:03 pm

In post 376, T-Bone wrote:No one leaves fantasy points on the bench quite like T-Bone does...

I benched T.Y. Hilton (21.30 pts) for Kendall Wright (0 pts). So show a little respect, for I am Rob13, lord of the idiots.

Rob14 · Post Post #381 (isolation #13) » Sun Sep 24, 2017 12:34 pm

I don't know what players you have on your bench. I just think in hindsight my choice was spectacularly bad. Hilton without Luck against Cleveland was way better than Wright with no QB worth talking about on the team against the Steelers. No clue what I was thinking.

Rob14 · Post Post #383 (isolation #14) » Sun Sep 24, 2017 3:15 pm

I have a trade offer for whoever Baboon is. Who the hell is that?

Rob14 · Post Post #385 (isolation #15) » Sun Sep 24, 2017 4:02 pm

I figured it out; it's IS.

Rob14 · Post Post #391 (isolation #16) » Mon Sep 25, 2017 5:28 pm

Thank you Elliott for that TD.

It's been an ugly 2-1, but a 2-1 start nonetheless. Wilson saved my week with his absurd second half. I'm excited about Thompson's solid performances; maybe my McCoy/Elliott double BYE week won't be so bad.

Rob14 · Post Post #407 (isolation #17) » Fri Sep 29, 2017 4:12 am

Yeah, Wentz is obviously a great value QB this year....

Rob14 · Post Post #424 (isolation #18) » Mon Oct 02, 2017 8:31 am

What I did to Agar this week was brutal

Rob14 · Post Post #433 (isolation #19) » Wed Oct 04, 2017 3:20 am

The Yahoo recap said Agar was free falling like Tom Petty. Brutal...

Rob14 · Post Post #441 (isolation #20) » Sun Oct 08, 2017 12:16 pm

I had

three

injuries this week. Christ. DeVante Parker, Charles Clay (who I just picked up!), and Sterling Shephard all injured in the first halves of their respective games. I'm going to win this week, but this is bad. I have a super BYE next week (four starters out) and I can't carry a bunch of injured players through that. I want to hang on to Clay, but I don't know if I can. I'll definitely have to drop Shephard.

Rob14 · Post Post #444 (isolation #21) » Sun Oct 08, 2017 4:31 pm

Nevermind, didn't see OBJ got injured badly. Now I need to keep Shephard because he'll be the #1. Fuck if I know how I'm going to manage that. Maybe start one of my players on BYE, with the acknowledgement that I wasn't going to win anyway because I have my two best players out?

Rob14 · Post Post #455 (isolation #22) » Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:10 am

Shepard was behind Marshall on the depth chart, Nero, but he was getting just as much work and more near the goal line. He had a better start to his fantasy season than Marshall by a lot, and I don't think that relative position changes with OBJ out.

Of course, now Marshall's done for the year, so it will be the Shepard show. They simply have no-one else to throw to.

Rob14 · Post Post #482 (isolation #23) » Mon Oct 23, 2017 5:23 am

Did we ever solve the schedule issue in league 1? That's kind of a big deal. We need to fix the last week.

Rob14 · Post Post #498 (isolation #24) » Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:28 am

In post 486, Nero Cain wrote:
In post 482, Rob14 wrote:Did we ever solve the schedule issue in league 1? That's kind of a big deal. We need to fix the last week.
no but I feel like the damage has been done so no point in fixing it.

1) No damage has been done so long as we all play each divisional opponent twice.

2) Massive damage happens with divisional tiebreakers if we don't fix it, because the first tiebreaker is divisional record. In that scenario, some teams would make it in (or not) based only on whether they have one extra win from happening to face an easy divisional opponent twice. Big no no.

I'll prod zoraster about it again.

Rob14 · Post Post #510 (isolation #25) » Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:04 am

I grabbed Hunter Henry off waivers in like Week 4 and he's been solid for a TE. Not Ertz/Kelce/Gronk level, but definitely above average.

Rob14 · Post Post #568 (isolation #26) » Sun Nov 19, 2017 6:06 am

If I win and the other two guys in my division lose, I think* that locks me into playoffs?

*Unless the schedule fucks me over because we

still

haven't fixed the issue where I'm playing in only 5 divisional games....

Rob14 · Post Post #602 (isolation #27) » Sun Dec 03, 2017 1:51 pm

I'm locked to playoffs with a top 2 seed. Neato.

My best year in L1 was my autodraft year. That makes me feel just great about my drafting skill.

Meanwhile, Josh Gordon got 85 yards against a solid passing defense in his first game back. I think I have to insert him into my playoff lineup, given that my three starting WRs this week were Tyreek Hill, TY Hilton, and Sterling Shephard. We'll see how that goes for me.

Rob14 · Post Post #632 (isolation #28) » Mon Dec 04, 2017 3:00 pm

In post 607, Nero Cain wrote:10 teams is so much of a fucking joke. Just draft better and make smarter wire pickups. If anything, I'd argue to reduce the bench size before axeing two teams.

The bottom 4 in L1 (9, 10, 11, 12) go to L2

Top 3 in L2 go to L1.

last place in l2 goes to L3

Winner of L3 goes to L1.

I think bottom four in L2 go to L3 and #2-4 in L3 go to L2? It's definitely not true that the only way out of L3 is to win and get put in L1.

Rob14 · Post Post #695 (isolation #29) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:13 pm

Keeper leagues are super impossible the way we have this structured.

Todd Gurley just dropped a deuce on my playoff chances. Four touchdowns ... yikes. It's a pity, because I'm definitely in it to finish with more points than both teams in the other matchup, and I would get Elliott back next week. His suspension's timing kind of boned me. I also really fucked up leaving the Baltimore D on my bench and choosing Gordon/Sanu over Shepard in the game he finally went off.

Oh well, hopefully I'll win next week and finish third.