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And guess who got the #20 draft position? (Ok it wasn't me, I got 17, but that still sounded cool)
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Hickory Huskers really got lucky when they drew me in week 10, I'll have four starters on a bye week.
Also I made an offer to CM5. Basically I want Harrington as a backup and you need a TE. I'm willing to negotiate, but I can't claim to have much leeway, I have no depth at any position except possibly TE.
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Actually if anyone is interested in either Pollard or Graham I'd be willing to deal for a defense, a better kicker, or real depth at WR or RB.
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Its just that nobody really has much to give up! We can trade our third string guys till we are blue in the face, but every starter for starter trade which doesn't involve the same position leaves a hole somewhere methinks.
But with that said, I happen to have two starting quarterbacks on my team, and I would be willing to let go of Eli Manning if anyone has a decent running back or defense to trade me (or wide reciever I suppose, though I am relatively deep at that position). He may not have done very well last year, but a lot of experts are listing him as a "sleeper" pick at QB. Let me know if you are interested.
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quote:Originally posted by Sopwith: I went with a really different draft strategy and my plan held through it appears until about the sixth round. Not too bad.
I've got some fair players and a few sleepers that I'm happy with, but those last two drafts left me scratching my head. Akili Smith (who won't make the team at TB) and the New Orleans defense?? Both of those lame-os have been released back into the wild.
My plan was simple, in my prerankings, my top 25 players would all be running backs, mostly running backs who catch passes too. Then I'd rank them according to skill. It paid off handsomely, I'm strong at running back (#2 and #17 ranked RB's in Alexander and Lamont Jordan), strong at WR (DJACK, Jimmy Smith and Larry Fitz, three WR's ranked in the top 25 at WR), and I have a very nice high upside TE in Troupe, to go with another high upside TE in Courtney Anderson who stole Doug Jolley's gig last year. I've got decent depth with Mewelde Moore (likely to start week one in Minny and maybe steal the RB job from lacklustre Michael Bennett), K. Curtis (Martz expects him to have Bruce-like #'s this year), and Bobby Engram (caught 8 TD's as a 3rd WR for Seattle last year)to go with newly annoited starter Tim Ratay.
Indeed my only weakness is at QB and Kicker. Rackers was terrible in Cincy before finally getting his head straight in Arizona, and at QB Rattay and Carr don't strike me as world beaters, but I'm set at RB, set at WR with great depth, and set at Defense too with two excellent defenses.
Not to be disrespectful, but it looked like some of you guys and ladies either didn't edit the prerankings, or the computer really screwed you (I tend to think the former as I've never had a bad draft as long as I edited the crazy stupid prerankings in four years of doing this)over. Good luck all. Even though I believe I have the best or second best squad, I never fail to lose in the playoffs so I believe I'll live up to my name, "The Choking Paradigm".
QB: Carr RB: Alexander RB: Jordan WR: DJack WR: J. Smith WR: L. Fitz TE: Anderson/Troupe K: Rackers D: Pittsburgh.
Won't be very easy beating that lineup this year in a 20 team league (5 players ranked in the consensus top 72, not bad for a 20 team league). Btw, I'm in the market for a QB, Engram, K. Curtis and the like are available. Will consider moving starters but only for elite talent/combo trades.
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QB M. Bulger WR J. Porter WR J. McCareins WR D. Stallworth RB R. Droughns RB M. Faulk TE A. Becht K M. Vanderjagt DEF Arizona
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Okay, this is really oddd.... I joined a second league that a friend is running. Guess who got Manning in that one, too? Also got 3 other players and a defense that I have on Hatrack. And that one had a live draft with me absent!
Either it's finally my year to do well or something is going to happen to Manning this season... (knocking on wood that it's the former)
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Cool feature in our league - when you click on matchup, there's a poll at the bottom that you can vote on who'll win. Might be cool to play around with it. The button to click to vote for a manager didn't show up on my screen, but it's just below the helmet in case anyone else has this problem.
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Velly intellestink... I saw the vote links at the bottom of the active roster listings, in case you're still looking for it, Jay. And now I see what the Edit Smack thing is about, we didn't have that in my league last year.
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Heh, I expected to go into tonight trailing(since I have TO, Reggie Brown, David Akers, and the eagles' defense playing tonight), but I'm already ahead. My team rocks.
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Tonight is exciting for me for both of my leagues. In Hatrack league I'm trailing four points with Duckett and L Smith (TE for Philly) left to play with no one playing tonight from my opponent. In my other league I'm up 14 and my opponent has Philly's D and Akers left to play. If Duckett runs in a TD I'll be set in both.
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I also feel kind of bad for the Supermen. It must suck scoring 73 points, but getting beaten by 1 point. He would've beaten anyone else by alot.
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Brettlycrushers?? If you see this soon...I proposed a trade and need to know ASAP because I need that hole filled on my lineup before Sunday...thanks
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(And for the first time in recent history, I'm cheering for the Bears this weekend - I need Orton to have a big day! It's really hard to do, however, and goes against everything I've ever been taught.)
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I've got to say that it's pretty rough being in a 20-team league. If you end up with a couple of clunkers on your team, the pickings are mighty slim in free agency.
But heck, I'm having a great time trying to find some diamonds in the rough. (I'm finding mainly gravel in the rough, though.)
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Carrie: Orton better do bad or I'm going to be very fed up with Baltimore's defense (although they did have a great week last week...which doubled their total points for the entire year...)
I've been going crazy in the free agency for recievers. I started the year with such a great recieving core. Marvin Harrison, Torry Holt, and Braylon Edwards (who was doing great before missing the last 3 weeks because of a bye and then injury). Now I'm picking up recievers and dropping them non-stop. I found a good second rb in Baltimore's second-string rb, who has been doing extremely solid the past few weeks. And hopefully T.J Duckett will start getting those TDs again that gave me so much hope. And Eli Manning better have a bounce-back week this week.
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I realize that most everybody lost interest in this league a long time ago, but I just wanted to mention that it's now over, and that I won. Yay me.
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Hey, do you advertise that you're going to have a league? If possible, I'd like to get in next year.
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