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Entertainment & Artistry => Sports/Outdoors & Manpoon => Topic started by: charlie on August 05, 2014, 01:42:42 AM
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So we don't have enough people on here to form a full league, and the same is true of other places I frequent. Since I've only been in one football league for the last few years and I'd like to be in two, I finally said fuck it and created this league.
It's a live auction draft, which I have found to be fun in basketball leagues. Otherwise rosters and scoring are Yahoo defaults.
http://y.ahoo.it/y1l9NrmW
Sign up esinkers.
I'm looking at you Cshot. And you PJYelton. kermi, ober, micah, jkim, jake, govt... you guys, too. I don't want to hear anything about girlfriends or husbands or marathons or kids taking up too much of your time. Just sign up and let the chips fall where they may.
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If you want to simulate having me in the league, draft a team for me and then ignore it
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I signed up.
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I signed up.
Sweet!
Hope you can make the draft. The auction thing is weird at first but I really like it.
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You are auctioning off players? 2/3 of whom are black?
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No, we are purchasing the players. Yahoo is the one auctioning them off.
I've been purchasing players for years now, but usually in a serpentine draft format. That format gives unfair advantage to those with the privilege of selecting first. With the auction, if you find a person who you really want to own, you just need to pay a premium for him.
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Wait wait wait... what's the deal with the draft? This isn't the serpentine kind we've always done? I'm not going to pay for players.
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Auction drafts are really popular for baseball leagues. I don't think charlie's suggesting this as a real money league - you get $100 or whatever and people bid on players until the rosters are full.
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charlie, when is the draft?
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Aug 28th, 8:30 EST.
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Yeah... this is a free league, no money, no prizes. Just like we did before.
And yes, it's an auction draft, not a serpentine draft. So you get $200 of fake money to spend on players at draft time.
Auction drafts do seem to be the wave of the future for most sports. I don't mind either way but I've never done one for football so I wanted to try here.
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It's too bad Adrian N Peterson isn't in the league anymore. He would be fun in a league like this, like the multiple Ryan Brauns and Chris Youngs in baseball
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No, we are purchasing the players. Yahoo is the one auctioning them off.
Oh, because that is soooooo much better.
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Thanks for the clarification. I'm good with that.
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I think I'm game...but I really don't want to deal with drafting...
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I think I'm game...but I really don't want to deal with drafting...
Have cheez do it.
Or the autodraft. Which is kinda weird/imperfect but still tends to draft pretty good teams.
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Actually I'd be up for that. The draft is my favorite part.
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Aug 28th, 8:30 EST.
liar
Draft Time: Thu Aug 28 5:30pm PDT
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*massive eye roll*
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:suicide2:
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Actually, we have a customer in Phoenix that we have to meet with a lot. Since they don't do daylight savings time, the number of people who don't know the difference between MST and MDT (and PDT and EST and EDT and so on) actually caused some minor issues.
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I think I'm game...but I really don't want to deal with drafting...
Have cheez do it.
Actually I'd be up for that. The draft is my favorite part.
kermi! Let's do this.
I'd still like at least 4 more teams after yours, but I have more ideas on where to find them.
What about the rest of you all? You used to play, why not play again?
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Maybe tomorrow I'll sign up. Just dragging my feet cause life's hectic and trying not to be dragged in.
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No hurry... just want to make sure you're in. I'll take that as confirmation and you can sign up whenever you like as long as its in time for cheez to draft. :dblthumb2:
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I'm so tempted, but I know I will flake out by week 4. So I will spare you.
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No! :(
We need players. Just a couple more and I'll be happy.
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I'm down!
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Yes!
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That fucker is using us for fantasy football!
Cshot, why you no say nothing else all year long? :-(
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Alright, we have seven (:|), and my backup person to make things even has a conflict on draft night, so we need just one more person...
Where are all the old fantasy football peeps? You know want to join just to show Cshot who's boss. You don't even have to post in here. Just sign up today or tomorrow and we draft Thursday at 6:30 MDT.
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Yah it's been like over 2 years since I posted something. I come on to read every now and then but don't really post anymore though.
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Kermi, we doing this or not? Send me the team info if we are. I'm gonna draft you a team of guys named Josh
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What about Steves?
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I might grab some Steves for the bye weeks
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Shit... we still need at least one more player.
What the hell, where are all the football peeps? We used to have an 8 team league by ourselves.
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you should get a hold of RoD, I'm sure he'll play
I think we just plain don't have that many people anymore
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do they have internet access in prison?
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Well... I might just have to contact him. For some reason one of the players just left the league the day before the draft, so we're back to seven people again.
I'm not really in the mood to fix it but I'll be disappointed if we don't get to do the draft so I guess I'll keep trying to recruit one more player.
:(
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By the way kerm/govt, did you guys get that co-team worked out?
If not we can do it easily with Yahoo. I can transfer the team to cheez and after the draft transfer it back to kermi.
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If kermi hasn't already signed up for a team, I'll register for one, draft, and then you can transfer it.
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He signed up for a team. Send me the email you want me to use and I'll transfer it to you, then transfer it back to him when the draft is over.
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Or help a brother out and just play the full season and let the auto-draft work for the kerms. ;)
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jwcoon81 at gmail and no
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Ok, if you accept the invite the team should be yours. :thumbsup:
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If you still need one more, sign me up and auto draft. jbomba1 gmail
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Yes!!
You're going to have to accept the invitation that I'm sending to that account now. Thanks.
Now go win the league. ;)
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I just got the boot - I assume you found someone more active than me? Sorry, I've been completely slogged down by start of the school year and trying to finish my dissertation...
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I just got the boot - I assume you found someone more active than me? Sorry, I've been completely slogged down by start of the school year and trying to finish my dissertation...
Nope... I just set up govtcheez to draft. You'll get the team back when he's done.
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Jake, I assume there's a decent chance you don't see this or the invite. I'm going to add an eighth team in about 20 minutes and then assign it to you after the draft so I can have the rest of my evening free from worry.
Thanks!
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I probably won't make the beginning of the draft... might just let it auto draft because I'm not prepared anyways.
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Thanks Charlie. I took over the team.
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Sweet.
ober, you should have been there. It was pretty funny towards the end.
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My stupid laptop battery died almost immediately, sorry about that all
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My stupid laptop battery died almost immediately, sorry about that all
So you basically auto-drafted kermi's team. :)
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Except for overpaying for Adrian Peterson because I forgot it was an auction and I panicked, yes :)
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It was an interesting draft. A lot more autodrafts than I expected, and two of the people who were there left. So the autodrafts all spent their wads of cash really early, leaving me and Cshot to basically take whomever we wanted out of the last 50+ players. All we had to do was bid $2 and the auto-drafters couldn't outbid us.
In the end I think the teams are reasonably fair, though, since the autodrafts did get quality guys for each team. It's a little more fun when you're going against real people (and I'm not convinced Cshot isn't just a more advanced bot with a trash talk feature). But hey I wasn't even sure if it would happen so it's all good.
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yes. won my first game! who is "i suck at names"?
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BenD Ober
Wait... you're just winning. It's not over yet. Ellington might play and earn 3 more points than Rivers.
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For some reason my notifications for this thread and your getting rid of the fat thread keep getting sent to spam no matter how many times I tell gmail they aren't spam. I wonder if it's because they're in the Manpoon forum. ???
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Hope none of you guys had Rice.
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I feel I need a stronger RB. Anyone want to trade? see what I have. RED78
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WTF? You have two of the strongest RBs in the league, and only two RB spots to fill.
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I do?! shows you how much I've been following the NFL lately :(
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I do?! shows you how much I've been following the NFL lately :(
I'm just basing that off the ranks. #2 and #5 in the league.
But if you want to trade one to me I'd be happy to do it. :)
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can i have any more injuries on my team?
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Want AP? He's not injured.
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Careful... Jake hasn't been paying attention. He just might do it. :p
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who is destroye merka? I see they dropped off sooner then I did! :p
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He's not from this site. Typical Seahawks fan. :p
He's still going to get more points than my team, though. :(
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Yeah bitches... bow to your king! :nana: :kickass:
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F you kermi. You forget to set your lineup or something (how you left Leveon Bell off for Chris Ivory I have no idea), but Peyton Manning scores 4 points for me and I have my worst week ever. Yay. :(
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Yeah bitches... bow to your king! :nana: :kickass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_c7SbkGaLk#t=35s
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:fu:
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And actually, do what you will. I have the best record in the league and I had a bye week :p
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F you kermi. You forget to set your lineup or something (how you left Leveon Bell off for Chris Ivory I have no idea), but Peyton Manning scores 4 points for me and I have my worst week ever. Yay. :(
What??? I thought I started Bell - I did set it, though in a somewhat carefree manner....Maybe I just had some nostalgia for Ivory at that moment.
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I'm quite proud of the fact that I've barely given a shit my way into the finals!
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Yeah, you started Joique Bell, not Le'Veon. Probably should have started both. ;)
Also, you're not in the finals yet. Although I like how you just completely overlooked your upcoming semifinal matchup with ober.
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:D
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That's how little I've tried. Besides - he didn't invite me to Xmas. That means he must be squashed!
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With that puny little team of yours? Ha! I bite my thumb at you!
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Take care not to bite it off! Have fun in the consolation round!
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Fuck me. My entire team is beat up right now. :(
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And yet... you still have a decent chance of winning this week. Projections are kermi 108 to ober 101.
And shock of all shocks... Cshot is in the finals.
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Yeah, it will be interesting for sure. I doubt it will happen but who knows.
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SO. FUCKING. CLOSE. :(
edit: frankly it pisses me off more that you have a fucking losing record and I lost to you.
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LOL. I considered checking last night because I thought you might have come back, but I dismissed it because the difference was so large earlier.
It should piss you off. I didn't even draft! Govt failed to do it for me so the computer did it! AP first pick! Thanks Govt! Though I did set my lineup most weeks! The football gods just prefer me to anyone from anyplace remotely near Cleveland!
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Funny story, I didn't draft either, but I made a fair amount of changes after the draft.
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Nobody drafted but me and Cshot. And after a couple weeks we were the two last place teams.
Auto-draft is no joke, especially with so few people actually there.
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Haha - yea, our league of 8 really helped the randomness factor...
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I'm hoping maybe we do it again next year, get 10 people, tweak the rules a bit (I prefer a flex position or two and maybe 0.5 PPR) and get more people to actually show up to the auction draft.
Any rules changes you guys would like to see? I just did the default Yahoo settings this last time, but I didn't like it.
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I definitely want a flex. I miss that.
I want a cape too. I miss wearing a cape. Tall people should wear them more often. Mine would be maize and blue.
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I definitely want a flex. I miss that.
I want a cape too. I miss wearing a cape. Tall people should wear them more often. Mine would be maize and blue.
(http://l7world.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Superman-VS-Bigfoot.jpg)
Nine months later... Ober was born. His father passed down his favorite cape. His mother... Well... She had nice eyes.
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*stabs you both*
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:D
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I stand before you humbled...that you bitches lost to my lazy ass! Mwuuuuhahahahaha!
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Nice! I thought I had you until sanders got those 2 TDs. Then again i was trying and you weren't.
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Hahaha. I will admit to checking on the game, being surprised by being down, and then happy when Sanders made the catches...though I can say - I didn't care enough to turn the game on to check...