ILNFL™ Dirty Dozen: 2014 Fantasy Football Thread

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Twelve will enter, one will leave victorious*. The live draft is currently scheduled for Monday September 1st at 9p EDT. When draft day gets closer, we'll get a better idea of whether or not that day and time works for everybody.

*It won't be me.

i've gone w/out fantasy football for too long. i'm in this year.

Cool. Welcome back!

I kept the stats pretty much the same as in the last few seasons, except qb interceptions and fumbles now take away -0.5 per incident. Also, I shaved it from 3 IDPs to 2 and reduced the bench spots from 8 to 6 so we're not just left with scrubs to pick from in the final rounds.

Goody.

Ayo

so is it pre-naming everyone's team "X's crazy team" or is there some kind of algorithm at work here?

lol that's just you

4 slots left.

Make that 3.

Sorry guys, the 1st is a really bad day for me. I can just autodraft, right?

I hate seeing people have to autodraft. We can decide on an alternate date once we fill the league up.

Still 3 slots available.

ok im in

*high five* *butt slap*

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hello I joined

Yay!

One spot left.

is there still space, gents?

yup, jump in

rockin.

draft on Monday?

9am ET

i am looking at the point settings. it looks like if there is a rush or rec TD over 40y you score an extra 7pts?!

also, i think those IDP point changes must be new this year right? roll that shit back imo.

Mon Sep 1 9:00pm EDT

I couldn't figure out the 40y thing when I set it up, but now I get it. I zeroed it back out.
Scaled back the IDP points a touch...

Truth or Dareus (Johnny Fever) Scoring Categories (Offense) changed from 'Pass Yds,Pass TD,Int,Rush Yds,Rush TD,Rec Yds,Rec TD,Ret Yds,Ret TD,2-PT,Fum Lost,Fum Ret TD,Pick Six,40 Yd Rush TD,40 Yd Rec TD' to 'Pass Yds,Pass TD,Int,Rush Yds,Rush TD,Rec Yds,Rec TD,Ret Yds,Ret TD,2-PT,Fum Lost,Fum Ret TD,Pick Six'

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Rec points changed from '2' to '1'

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Truth or Dareus (Johnny Fever) Rec Yds (Bonus 1) changed from '4 points at 125 yards' to '4 points at 150 yards'

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Truth or Dareus (Johnny Fever) Sack points changed from '2' to '1'

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Force points changed from '2' to '1'

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Truth or Dareus (Johnny Fever) Int points changed from '2' to '1'

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btw, Yahoo! is having HUGE problems with drafts this season: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/fantasy-football/SLN24810.html?impressions=true

that's not encouraging

sorry, i should've been more specific about IDP scoring. i was questioning tackle and tackle assist points. so right now we have:

Tackle Solo 1.5
Tackle Assist 1
Sack 1
Interception 1
Fumble Force 1
Fumble Recovery 1

i am pretty sure tackles/assists have always been 1/0.5 and that seems better to me. it is hard to weight the other things correctly but maybe sacks at 1.5 and ints at 2? forced/recovered fumble getting 2 point overall seems fine.

The league that you were trying to join is already full! If you would still like to join, let the commissioner know they should raise the maximum number of teams.

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!

The award for best team name this year goes to johnny crunch.

is draft set up? i can't fiugre out how to access it

Just got an email from Yahoo! saying the draft at 9edt is off due to technical difficulties. The earliest next slot for tonight is 11pm. Or we can do it tomorrow night. Comments? Suggestions?

yahoo is the worst

i can't do it tnite at 11pm, but i think i could do it 8pm tmmrw

wtf dumb. rather do tomorrow or after

wow

I have another draft tomorrow at the same time

It's not letting me select any future time either tonight or tomorrow night. Ugh, fucking Yahoo!

yea im not avail tomorrow night but if thats best for everyone else then go for it

yea i saw on the draft page it changed it to classified as an 'autopick draft'

11 PM is ok for me tonight, i guess

what the

what the fuck is wrong with yahoo

i would think if it autodrafts yahoo will undo it or something considering its their fuckup

Yahoo! says their engineers worked through the night to get the problem fixed and they claim leagues drafting Monday and beyond should be OK.

This has been an ongoing problem this season sitewide. You'd think they'd have fixed it this close to the start of the season, though.

oh that's an older story, from like six days ago. fuck yahoo.

i left a labor day BBQ for this!

it was a terrible one but still!

xps haha fire them and get better engineers

I just completed a draft with another league and had zero problems. Crossing my fingers for this one.

so are we doing this i guess? is everyone on?

Somehow I ended up with the highest draft grade. Looking forward to a delightful middle-of-the-pack season!

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plz give me advice for my money-league. started vincent jackson at WR1 (blah). i've got 2 WR slots left and the following to fill them: golden tate, steve smith sr, cecil shorts III, aaron dobson, s. bailey. i'm thinking golden tate + steve smith sr are the right moves here but then again i'm the genius who started jackson.

smith seems to be flaco's favorite target at the moment.

yeah you have the 2 right dudez mordy

Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell · 3h
Aaron Hernandez is starting in 0.3% of ESPN fantasy football leagues.

Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell · 2h
Randy Moss and Chad Johnson also starting in 0.3% of leagues. Tim Tebow at 0.4%. More than actual starting Cardinals TE John Carlson (0.1%).

I wonder if those are reverse-points leagues like we tried one year where the lowest possible score is the winner.

in our low score league you had to play (poorly) to score points.

Oh that's right.

those are leagues where people don't know football and are going on last year's stats and name recognition

those 10/12th men who were dragged in by a buddy to fill the league out

aaron hernandez gets 0.25 points for every successful shanking

btw sure glad I benched the previously uninspiring rashad jennings for al blue, gj me.

None of those four guys had any stats last year

except shankings

in 2007 my friend drafted curtis martin in the 1st round, 2 years after he retired, and a decade after he played for NE, which was the reason he knew the name. 2nd round he drafted tom brady. brady had a decent year and my friend won that league.

to be fair, i question why curtis martin was still on the system to draft, but even so.

I think they keep "stars" around in the machinery for a couple seasons so they're available in case they un-retire. see: Tony Gonzalez, Brett Favre, etc.

devin hester or golden tate at WR 3?

this is a league that counts return yards which makes hester plausible

gotta go with hester in that case

WTF I lost by 2 hundredths of a point! 126.13 to 126.11

DAMMIT

I didn't watch MNF, but I just read Percy Harvin had THREE tds nullified by penalty. FUCK FUCK FUCK if even one of them would've counted, it would be a win.

God I hate fantasy football.

wait a day and see what the numbers shake out as. short victories like that often get erased by stat correction.

You may be right, but I haven't blown up with rage about anything else today. I had to find something.

who woulda thunk andrew luck would be carrying me to 5 and 1
i'd like to thank my agent

Hey for next season I think we should maybe consider tinkering with the pt values for receiving yds/receptions and return yds. right now that a random return dude who gets 130 return yds is way more valuable than a WR who gets 130 receiving yds off of 8 receptions for example.

Or for another example I was just looking at my team and spiller had a pathetic 19 rushing yds and 50+ return yds, and he scored more pts for me than reed at TE, who had 8 catches for 92 yds. Not trying to rock the boat, and maybe it was discussed before and I missed it. And maybe there's a totally defensible reason for the way it is (I mean I kinda do like having random return dudes be heroes for a day.). I'm just putting it out there for 2015.

i've been so terrible in the ilx league but 2nd place in my local money league so plz help the winning streak continue:

At WR: Allen Robinson or Vincent Jackson?
At RB: Trent Richardson or Boobie Dixon or Antone Smith?

currently set to robinson + dixon

100 points and rodgers still to play? i guess i'm winning today!

56 pts you say?

HMMMMMMMMM

good luck

Jeff Saturday: I'd never call him myself to bug him, because I'd hate to call in any friendly favors, but hopefully this article gets back to him so he knows I need him to throw it to Double-8s out there -- maybe 20-plus points or so? My team needs to pick it up, so that'd help a lot.

It's funny, though, in my year with the Packers I was in a fantasy league with the rest of the offensive line.

Berry: Wait ... you played while you were still in the league? That's hilarious. Any other Packers on the team or was it just the offensive line? You ever try to influence anything for your fantasy team?

Saturday: We didn't let anybody else in the league. It was our thing, you know? Just a good way for our position group to have fun together. But I had Aaron Rodgers on my team. So in the huddle sometimes I'd say, "Hey, we don't need to run the ball here, let's make sure we throw it in. My team needs some points!"

Berry: That is fantastic. Did Rodgers ever listen to you?

Saturday: Nah, he never would. This is our business we're talking about. But we did have fun with that league.

forsett maybe out?

lol @ Saturday

thanks philip rivers

good job dez bryant,

big fan of certifiable "TE1" jordan reed

No one seems to give a shit, but i would like to point out i have been otm on this league.

yeah you killed it this year dude. it has been noted.

My prediction of going middle of the pack was wishful thinking.

flexin thru the bye week in 2nd

annoying I lost that 2nd place spot last minute

I won't be running the league next year, btw. Coupled with growing disinterest in the NFL and my poor fantasy track record, I just don't care enough anymore.

hope you change your mind but thanks for taking care of it to this point either way

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wow tough week for forks

congrats, omar. you won with mark sanchez. i hope it was worth it D:

thanks! though I prefer to think of it as "despite" mark sanchez...

story of my life there
ah well. it was a good season