Scumleague Fantasy Football 2019 (March to the Scumbowl)

[Nero Cain]

I sent Mith a pm a week or so ago so I assume he's just busy so I'm get the ball rolling. I'll be commishing L1 and L3 (if we even need it)

/in below to play.

Rules:

• Don't join unless you will participate for the entire season. Failure to do so may result in relegation or banning from the league.
• All moves should be made with the intent of improving your team. Collusion is not acceptable.
• See the Yahoo! rules for more information.

Rosters and Scoring:

• Rosters: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 D/ST, 1 K, 6 BN, 1 IR; Scoring is Yahoo! standard except no PPR.

League Setup:

• We will have one or more leagues of 8, 10, 12, or 14 depending on the number of players signing up.
• Invites will go out to the previous year's participants based on order of finish, in order to form League 1.
• After signups have been open for week or two (or maybe a bit longer, since signups went up early this year) and the player list is somewhat stable, I will fill League 1 and assign remaining players to League 2 (and 3, if needed).
• Don't start a league to "help out". I will select a commish for the other Leagues once I know who is going to be in the leagues.

1.Nero
2. Rhinox
3. racefan

4. d3

5.Internet Stranger
6.PenguinPower
7.T-Bone

8.Talitha

9.Panzerjager
10.PokerFace

11.xRECKONERx
12.entreri

13.Yiley
14.pablito

15.kmd
16.sharon

17.pickemgenius
18.Jahudo

19.Gammagooey
20.TheDominator37

21. Mith
22. Aronis

L1

racefan
peg
rhinox
panzer
pabs
tally
jahudo
kmd
nero
sharon
yiley
dom

L2

t-bone
poker
penguin
IS
mith
aronis
gamma
entreri
d3
reck
bro
Charles

[Nero Cain]

Xalxe
pickemgenius
Kmd4390
PokerFace
T-Bone
Panzerjager
TheDominator37
PenguinPower
brassherald
xRECKONERx
Yiley
Internet Stranger
Jahudo
Wraith
Talitha
hasdgfas
Snakes
Rob14
entreri
BROseidon
ZachRulez
Aronis
AGar

is the list I used to send invites. If I missed anyone or you think anyone else would be interested tell me or send them a pm.

[Nero Cain]

for auction-viewtopic.php?f=10&t=80200

[Nero Cain]

reminder to self the entreri sent me a pm and inned

[Nero Cain]

Could someone in l2 tell me what the standing were last year?

[Nero Cain]

thanks bro

[Nero Cain]

sorry you guys, my home internet was down. I'll get all this stuff done tonight.

[Nero Cain]

So firstly we have 22 sign-ups. So l1 will be 12 and L2 will be 10. (unless we get 2 more) We have 7 players returning from L1. So my proposal is that the top 5 from l2 are promoted and that would be kmd, sharon, panzer, t-bone and whoever is David nGOATku (reck?)

[Nero Cain]

so

L1

Nero
tally
Jahudo
pab
peg
rhinox
racefan
panzer
kmd
sharon
t-bone
reck?

L2

Yiley
poker
penguin
IS
mith
aronis
gamma
entreri
d3
dom

yes?

[Nero Cain]

or we can keep Yiley in L1 and promote the 4 from L2. opinions guys?

[Nero Cain]

or do I just decide w/e?

[Nero Cain]

I mean, that's the thing. We aren't following the traditional promotion/regulation patterns b/c so many ppl are not coming back and whatnot.

I mean we COULD promote entreri to L1. While he didn't win L3 he's the only non-dupe that's back.

And in L1, there's only 7 of us coming back. Both Yiley and IS would normally be in L2 this year.

So do I keep Yiley so its the normal 8, get the top 3 from L2 and entreri?

or do we let Yiley go to L2 and promote the top 4 from L2 and entreri?

or do we put entreri in L2 this year and we just promote the top 5 in L2?

I'm leaning the last one but I didn't want to be a dictator about it. *shrugz*

[Nero Cain]

L1 #1-racefan
L1 #2-peg
L1 #3-rhinox
L1 #4-did not return
L2 #1-panzer
L1 #5-pabs
L1 #6-tally
L1 #7-jahudo
L2 #2-kmd
L1 #8-nero
L2 #3-sharon
L1 #9-did not return

ok, so I guess I'm stealing Yiley And Dom

[Nero Cain]

man, I hate this (not your fault bro)

[Nero Cain]

or one of formerfish or Desp (or both!) might play if I ask nicely. Or if they only have time for 1 or something then I'd volunteer for L2 unless someone else besides me wants it.

[Nero Cain]

Haven't heard from Dom and no one's schedule allows for everyone to be there but Saturday, August 24th @ 4pm CST/5pm EST/2pm PST is looking like the most promising so that's gonna be our tentative draft time. If that doesn't work for you or something send me a pm.

Also, 2 open slots in Auction.

[Nero Cain]

that is literally the time you gave...

[Nero Cain]

you could have double-clicked and erased the green by accident? I mean its no biggie just send me an updated one


unless I'm getting trolled...

[Nero Cain]

I did not edit your form.

[Nero Cain]

ok.

On both Wednesday, August 28th and Thursday, August 29th @ 9 pm all but 3 people are unavailable. My apologies to Sharon, Yiley, and PEG. Perhaps, knowing the draft time Yiley and Peg might be able to make room in their schedule or something. I am going to set it for Thursday but if there is a large majority of you that rather do Wednesday just pm me and I'll change it if I need to.

[Nero Cain]

our time zone. Central.

[Nero Cain]

We still have a spot open in L2!

yeah, L2 is now a full 12 with

t-bone
poker
penguin
IS
mith
aronis
gamma
entreri
d3
reck
bro
Charles

[Nero Cain]

burn rubber

[Nero Cain]

Are we doing anything special for draft order?

[Nero Cain]

this is full and there's not really a point in running an L3 for 1 person (unless you really wanted me to, I'm sure several others would pull double duty so you could play.) Although, Mith had said that not everyone had signed up for L2 yet, dunno if that's been fixed but if there's still an open slot you could fill in there.

Regardless of what happens, I'll make sure to add you to the reminders list next year.

[Nero Cain]

I guess my suggestion would be to see if those other 2 join L2 by the 24th and if they don't send invites to Khan and Sharon's brother and the first two to join get the slots.

[Nero Cain]

Also, there ARE two spots in auction if anyone wants those.

[Nero Cain]

14 players are too much. 12 is that sweet spot but im also not in L2 so you guys can feel free to run a 14 if you want.

[Nero Cain]

we already drafted, don't you remember?

[Nero Cain]

make sure Barkley falls to me @ #9

[Nero Cain]

I’m assuming I’m “bro?” Lol

you aren't in this one. You are in the auction league and we don't have draft order. I guess we kinda do for noms but that gets randomized.

[Nero Cain]

Oh gotcha. Didn’t realize there were 2 leagues. My bad!

technically 3. And sometimes a 4th but we don't have enough to run/to justify an L3 this year.

[Nero Cain]

be sure to draft Brady in the 10th

[Nero Cain]

Aw shoot. I would have liked to participate in this

Does anyone do weekly write ups for the leagues?

we do not. I could though I guess.

I'll be sure to add you to the pm list next year.

[Nero Cain]

its gonna start Thursday, September 5th.

[Nero Cain]

no pads. this is a HARDCORE league.

[Nero Cain]

imagine leaving out

the best time zone

in the reminder pm.

this is blasphemy!

[Nero Cain]

just finished L1 draft. Panzer was awarded best draft but Tally's draft grade is higher than his.

[Nero Cain]

not worried. prob gonna eat into some Williams carries but I don't think he'll be unseated.

[Nero Cain]

unless Williams blows this year then maybe but I think it's his job to lose.

[Nero Cain]

I do it and I think Pabs does it too. There's a mini-game in our fantasy league called league pickem, where you literally just pick the team to win. I think it might be fun if we all did it and see who got the most correct at the end of the season.

[Nero Cain]

What did the saints do to my kicker?!?

[Nero Cain]

good job

[Nero Cain]

I don't feel like we should be vetoing trades unless they are so obviously lopsided that its tanking or one side it

CLEARLY

being taken advantage of and I don't think either of those apply here. It goes without saying but alts shouldn't be trading. Hell, alts shouldn't be in our leagues. And I mean two accounts from the same person, not someone playing on an alt in lieu of their main.

For those not in L1 and want to know what the fuss is about...

Team A is trading Julian Edelman and Dalvin Cook to team B for Todd Gurley and DeAndre Hopkins.

Team A being Jahudo's Jaguars and Team B being Flash Gordan Baby who is Dom (i think)

My initial reaction was much like Panzers ("oh poor Jahudo.", he remarked)

Barring injury, Dalvin Cook is going to be a beast. Minnesota is going to feed him until he's stuffed. Trading a top 10 RB for a RB2 and a WR1 that had one big week and then two eh weeks doesn't make that much sense. Unless the Rams start using Gurley more and Hopkins returns to ball hog status this trade is in favor of Flash Gordon. But I think that's what Jahudo is doing here. He's trading his best player in hopes that Gurley and Hopkins rebound and that's exactly what a trade is for. I mean sure there's the risk that it blows up in his face and Gurley stays an RB2 and Watson throws the ball around so much that Hopkins never hogs the ball ever again but dems the breaks.

Just to look at the roster as a whole with the trade in mind:

Jaudo is going to have his 3 wide set be Cooks, Hopkins and M. Williams. And his backs are Conner and Gurley.

Flash Gordan will have Evens and Gordon. I'm not sure who he envisions as his third wide b/c he has Ross and Boyd and Edelman. So he might even start Boyd and just use Edelman as depth. At RB he'll have Cook and ???. OBV this week he's using Ekeler but once Gordon comes back I guess he plans on using White?

Now maybe, he should have listed Cook on the trade block so others could have an opportunity to trade for him and seen what the best offer he got but that seems more like a missed opportunity on Jahudo's part.

At the same time, props are in order for Dom for taking the initiative and landing a really good RB. Though I could see the argument that he's cannibalizing the roster of a bottom-feeding team.

I enjoy the discussion though.

[Nero Cain]

I said no alt trading, Jahudo!

[Nero Cain]

Did anyone in L2 draft the pats D?

[Nero Cain]

prob shoulda just started the Chiefs backfield

[Nero Cain]

this has been a horrible day

[Nero Cain]

y?

[Nero Cain]

the pats D is single-handedly keeping me in the game. As I was typing the giants just scored but eh.....

I think I'll be ok.

[Nero Cain]

GIVE. MICHEL. GOALINE. TOUCHES.


FFS

[Nero Cain]

this rams game is very depressing.

/in to commish L2 next year

[Nero Cain]

auction is prob a little more fair

[Nero Cain]

Dear Jets,

pls throw a pick 6.

[Nero Cain]

man, if I would have started McCoy I'd have won by .02 points

[Nero Cain]

I. CANNOT. WIN.

[Nero Cain]

man, shoulda started the pats D

[Nero Cain]

im bad and stoopid

[Nero Cain]

i meant to pick up winston but I forgot. oh well.

[Nero Cain]

bottom 4

[Nero Cain]

I mean Mith had already said bottom 4. Mith is still in charge so I guess that makes me second in command, not that I really care about titles or power.

Who is going to commish L-1 next year?

[Nero Cain]

you're 0th in command. you command nothing.

lol whatever you say guy

[Nero Cain]

If the standings in League 2 hold, the 7th highest scoring team that would typically finish 7-7 is about to be the #1 seed. At this point getting the wild card would be preferable to winning your division, because you'd get to play them. This is easily one of the worst instances of head to head randomness that I've seen.

H2H is just massively swingy. EVE and/or points forced are much better indications of team performance than your H2H record.

[Nero Cain]

from the Voodoo division comes racefan.

from the Division of Death is Yiley

from ith's envy is Sharon

and our wildcard spot goes to Rhinox.

[Nero Cain]

I'm not in L1 next year but I'm sure that the new commish can.