I’ve set up a Hatrack Fantasy Football league on Yahoo. It’s free. It’s fun. If you’ve never played it’s very easy and you really don’t have to do much if you don’t want to. Basically there is a draft and all the people in the league divide up NFL players onto teams of their own and score points based on their performance. First game is Sept 6th, so there is plenty of time to get in, set up your pre-rankings of your players if you like, have the draft, and do any trading before the season starts. I left the league settings to the same as the public leagues. So here’s the email Yahoo usually sends out with an invite:
You have been invited to join jaytrek25's Custom League in Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football. In order to join the league, follow the link above or go to game front page , click the "Sign Up Now" or "Get Another Team" button and follow the links to "Join a Custom League". When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below. League ID#: 59685 Password: osc We will send you a confirmation with further details once you have completed the registration process.
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I'm in. Shlo never made a league last year...if he is around to make one, I'll just join both.
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Well, me being the forever OSC defender, I would have to say that the "official" one would have to be made by OSC himself! But I'm happy to say that this is a Hatrack league and will be people who sign up from our little piece of paradise of the internet.
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I'm in. Ryoko looks like we're going against each other first round. Wait, it's an autopick? Meaning our players will be picked at random?
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Not random. You pre-rank your players in the order you would draft them, and then the draft is run at a date in the future based on the orders from all the teams.
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Oh I get it. I'm used to live drafts. I wish I could know the order of drafting though so I won't end up picking two quarterbacks or something like that.
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It's usually randomly chosen. The algorithm is smart enough to not overfill you at a certain position. I prefer autopick, as getting everyone online for a live draft is like herding cats. It makes it much more fun after the draft, where you have to trade/waiver wire pick to get the best players.
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I had a lot of fun with last year's live draft, but it was a hassle getting everyone in front of their computers at the same time. AutoPick drafts are infinitely more convenient, but the tension just isn't there.
A couple years ago, the draft order was determined by the order in which people signed up. But then it changed to random. Then we did the live draft. Not that I've been playing every year or anything... Posts: 3932 | Registered: Sep 1999
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If we do a live draft we could just do what seems to be the most convenient time and everyone who can't make it can just pre rank. Live draft leaves it more up to the user and less up to luck, I think.
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Would be nice to make sure it happens before the first week of the season. Last year, we were a wee bit late in starting up.
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Just checking in. It looks like there are only nine people signed up, and the system won't let the draft take place when there are an odd number of teams. We need at least one more person, but preferably three or five more.
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I could give it a try, but I have never done this type of thing before. I am familiar with the basics, as my BIL plays as do some of my friends, but I have never done it myself.
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Okay, when is the draft set to occur? A few days ago, it was warning us that we could have no draft while we still had an odd number of teams. Now that we have ten, what's the holdup?
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We’ll have to set it to ready. But drafting now isn’t really a good idea since pre-season hasn’t even started. It’s still very early. Should we wait till next month to draft?
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It doesn't matter to me, as long as it happens. The way the announcement was worded earlier (i.e. that we couldn't have a draft with an odd number) made it sound like the draft was imminent, or that the date had already passed. I just wanted to make sure we're set up to draft sometime.
I see no reason to wait for the preseason, but I see no reason not to, either.
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If we draft now we’re basically going off of nothing. Where as if we have a few preseason games in we’ll know a little more info about who will be playing. Like for example Ricky Williams, who knows what he’ll do. This also gives us a chance to get our pre rankings in some sort of order.
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I'm in. I'll be following this much more than I've been following the baseball one. I like the head to head matchups.
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I've got it set to 14. 10 is the normal public league, so we might be streached.
Brettly, where is it stopping you? You have a Yahoo ID? Are you in other leasgues? I think Yahoo has a 4 league limit
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How are the playoffs going to be? Is it going to be last two games? I'm not very fond of that method considering last year I went undefeated the whole year until the last week in the championship where I suffered my first loss. I took second place for losing once when the champion had about 5 losses throughout the season...
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3 Time playoff choker (graywolfe) joined in the last slot, so it should be locked in now. Any idea when the draft is? I'm still working on my rankings.
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Heheh graywolfe, read what I said a few posts up. Talk about choking in the playoffs. Undefeated the whole year! First loss came in the championship!
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Jay. Will you open up the league some more, I've got one friend who wants to play, he's never played fantasy football, but he loves football, and the other guy played in the league last year, so should be grand fathered in.
The more people the more fun the more challengeing
please boost the rosters up by 6 spots at least 4
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So can everyone give their in game names? I'm not sure who everyone is in the game. I'm JaimeB. And who's the guy to beat this year? Who's defending champ?
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quote:Originally posted by GaalD: So can everyone give their in game names? I'm not sure who everyone is in the game. I'm JaimeB. And who's the guy to beat this year? Who's defending champ?
Guy? I beg to differ I'm back with my usual team of "The Bombs."
This is, what, our fifth year doing this? I've not failed to miss the playoffs, but last year was the first year I wasn't in the consolation bracket. Terribly exciting.
But I do have to second (third, fourth, whatever) the question: when is the draft?
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Were there really 20 teams? Man, that seems like a lot - I'll give you 16, but I'm not sure if we ever had 20. We've had odd numbers, and I think we had one year with 10 or some ridiculously small number...
We're currently at 14, which is a decent-sized league, IMHO. I'm rather ambivalent as to how many (if any) more teams get in, though Jay, if you're reading this, I would personally like to draft within two weeks, to allow maximum time for roster shifts and trades.
Is anyone thinking of doing another Pick'Em this year? And if so, can we not use ESPN? Last year they stopped recording picks the last few weeks.
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Well, with everyone asking questions... it has been a month since we've heard from him (as of Wednesday). Posts: 2848 | Registered: Feb 2003
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Sorry I’ve been AWOL. Had a crazy couple of weeks. I promise I wasn’t ignoring you all, just really didn’t see the posts. Please feel free to email me anytime though. That gets in no matter what! Again, sorry….
Just bumped it up to 20 people, by popular demand. So get on in and keep’em coming. That gives us 6 spots if we want them, but we have to have an even number to draft.
Also, what does everyone think of setting the draft to ready on the 25th? Gives us one more week of pre season to let some dork break their legs and get our pre rankings ready. Plus we’ll have over a week to trade and what not before the actual draft.
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