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There will be an open call for participants when the league is opened. Could be a while if Shlo went to camp this summer like he did last year, though. I did the Second Half Fantasy Baseball at Yahoo, head to head scoring. After losing badly my first week, I've since roared back to legitimacy thanks to an offensive explosing and pitchers not sucking. Injuries have me down on that side, as I have Tim Hudson, Kevin Brown, and Josh Beckett. Spot starting Doug Davis and Jose Contreras (post familial defection) and the waiver wire grab of Kris Benson are all that saved me.
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Eventually the league and password will be posted and the first 20 to sign up are in, unless we don't reach that number like last year and then you just have to sign up before the draft.
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can you stop talking about crappy baseball? if you want to talk about a crapy sport, try starting a crappy sport thread. first y'all will start talking baseball, and next it'll be the bicycle crap.
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Both will be good, but neither will have the breakout like Anquan Boldin did. I'm curious to see what Lee Evans does opposite a healthy Eric Moulds (with a better offensive coach).
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Antsports.com allows you to practice w/mock drafts. Also has money leagues available.
I'm a big fan of Lee Evans as well, thought he was gonna be huge value on draft day because of the knee issues, wasn't huge value, but still a good pick.
Roy Williams has all word talent but lacks heart, at least up to this point in his career. He just hasn't played up to expectation, the Texas QB situation certainly could have played a role in that, though.
Fitzgerald should be very special, but like KRob, he didn't log enough college time, so he may be VERY raw. Supposedly he's a much smarter and harder working guy than KRob though.
Reggie Williams is a dark horse, picked earlier than expected, he should be very productive, but he may have the lowest ceiling of all the players.
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I had to check 2 sources before I believed it. Wow. The Bills are now guaranteed NOT to finish last, at the very least. Posts: 5422 | Registered: Dec 2001
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Another Bump. I'll be attending drafts on the 15th of August, and the 5th of September, and probably the 28th of August.
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Crying into his beer over the sad state of the Marlins (as I predicted). But take heart, in the knowledge that the Marlins got over BIG TIME at the trade deadline. They may not be winning anything this year, as I expected, but they got some nice assets at the deadline to further build around.
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I Imagine so. Just waiting to hear about it, and keeping the topic on the front page periodically.
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Bump because the first preseason game has passed and I haven't seen Shlomo post for months and months.
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I joined a fried's league. I had, and still have, no idea what is going on. I picked people with funny names.
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Well, we'll keep this up here daily or thereabouts to keep the topic around. I've got enough leagues to play in already, but I like the participation in here, lots of teams (though some seem to take the season off)and an interesting system that's different from my other five leagues last year and my seven leagues this year.
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Sound like a plan. Here's an interesting tidbit...if you ever wanted to play in a Fanball.com Keeper league but hated to pay, you do so for free now, sponsored by AOL. Here's the site, giving access to normal draft and auction leagues for free.
In Bills news, GM Tom Donahoe (and Travis Henry) made some comments recently that lend some credence to the 'trade Henry if McGahee does well' rumors.
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man...if i weren't already in two leagues and a pick 'ums league i would join up. maybe next year.
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We still have some time left. And it is even possible to start the league after the season starts. I would still be willing to just create a league now and turn control over to Shlomo when/if he comes back. At this point though, I'm sure how many people are interested.
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I can tell some people are interested but it doesn't seem like we'll have anywhere close to 20 or even last year's 14. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing, it could just mean more available talent.
I created a league League ID: 536858 Password: ender
If no one joins it or Shlomo comes back I'll just delete it. Don't pay attention to any settings because I plan on changing it to whatever the people in the league want especially since I realize that I don't have the "authority" that Shlomo did although I did have a very large say in the settings last year as I was (if I remember correctly) the only one who listed a preference for every setting last year and everyone else just listed a few major ones or copied mine.
If we could find a good time for everyone I would love to do a live draft either on Yahoo! or offline but if that's not possible I'll be fine with doing auto again.
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I'm signed up and ready to go. I'd be fine with an auto draft as well, mostly because trying to find time for a live one is rather a pain.
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My idea for a "live" draft that I think was proposed last time (not by me) would be to do it on Hatrack over a long period of time. We could set up a thread with a lenient maximum time to post your pick (order determined randomly) and you would be able to change your pick as long as the next person hasn't gone yet.
Unfortunately this might take too long and there could be problems if people delete their posts or something.
Another idea that was proposed last time (again not by me) would be to have a series of mini drafts setting aside smaller time frames but on multiple days. This seems a tad complicated to me but if we could work it out then it would be fine with me.
What I definitely don't want is a live draft where some people can't participate because that puts them at a huge disadvantage and could encourage them to give up and I hate those zombie teams.
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First you need a yahoo! account which is free. The you need to go to sign up for free fantasy football. Then you need to go to join a league, then join a custom league, then follow the directions. You'll need the password and league ID which I already posted.
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I'm in, I prefer a live draft. Just can't see myself setting the pre-rankings again as I'm gonna be really busy. Also may be travelling out of state which could be a problem, but I'll keep you updated.
Come on people, we need more to join, had 20 teams in '02, and 16 last year. Let's have some fun again this year.
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As soon as we either get 20 or a suitable amount with time before the season. People should post what times that they'll be able to take part in a live draft and then we'll see if we have a chance at making it work.
In the mean time I'm going create some settings and people can post whatever they want changed.
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I'm in. One thing I noticed, are players being penalized for fumbles they lose, or just fumbles in general?
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Right now players are punished for fumbles and then extra if its lost. I know in the first season this was a major problem because a fumble was worth like 15 points, but I changed it so that it will only total 4, not be 2 for the fumble plus another 4 for losing it. For those of you who don't understand a player loses 2 points for any fumble. If the fumble is lost he loses another 2 points. If people don't like this I will change it. Like I said democracy rules. Still hope Shlomo reappears soon.
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