Yes, I waited FAR too long to put up this thread.
I used to be part of Cloudy's NeoGAF Fantasy Football thread (links to previous seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 here), but decided 5 years was enough last year. I wanted to run the show myself, maybe that'll change my luck GODDAMNFUCKING JUILO JONES GETTING HURT IN WEEK 5...
Anyway, putting up an interest thread which will probably become the main thread. The SLAENT Fantasy Football Play or Die League will be a Yahoo 14-16 team League in which 8 will make the playoffs and Top 4 get payouts (getting 4th should get you your initial buy-in back). The buy-in won't be too expensive, I'm thinking $35 bucks sounds fair and manageable unless you guys want to go higher. SLAENT.com members get team priority, so I'm telling most people I invite from Sports-GAF to register here. People who are already forum members PM me for an invite.
I've made some tweaks to the settings. Some are up for discussion, but most are not. I'll try to post some of the big ones here:
Waiver Type: FAAB w/ Continual rolling list tiebreak
Weekly Waivers Game Time - Tuesday
Post Draft Players: Free Agents
Playoff Reseeding: No
Divisions: No
Lock Eliminated Teams: Yes
League Pickem: Yes
Roster Positions: QB, WR, WR, RB, RB, TE, W/T, W/R/T, K, DEF, BN, BN, BN, BN
Although Yahoo doesn't enable fractional scoring for kickers, I've implemented that in the settings. It's about time those flimsy bastards start carrying their weight!
Kickers League Value
Field Goals 0-19 Yards 1
Field Goals 20-29 Yards 2
Field Goals 30-39 Yards 3
Field Goals 40-49 Yards 4
Field Goals 50+ Yards 5
Field Goals Missed 0-19 Yards -0.5
Field Goals Missed 20-29 Yards -0.75
Field Goals Missed 30-39 Yards -1
Field Goals Missed 40-49 Yards -1.5
Field Goals Missed 50+ Yards -2
Point After Attempt Made 1
Point After Attempt Missed -0.75
PS: I'm looking into LeagueSafe but payments will be Paypal. Assuming a 16-teamer with a $35 buy-in and rounding off a few numbers:
Payout:
1st - $262
2nd - $159
3rd - $99
4th - $40
Full List of League Settings HERE
EDIT:
SLAENT Fantasy Football Play or Die League Page
Current List of People in League
The Frankman
Enron
donjeezy
Gabyskra
Uber_Tag
Adam Blade
Cloudy
Phoenix
ScythD
balddemon
diehard
VPhys
peterb0y
knicks
Waitlist
Elrond Hubbard (maybe if another joins?)
[size=200]League Participants [/size]
Long Island Broskis - Uber_tag
New Orleans Phoenix - Phoenix
The Hibachi Grill - donjeezy
ScythD's Team - scythD
Pixel Pirates - diehard
Welkers Molly Dealer - knicks
Faillball am fail - Adam Blade
O.Munn's Tight End - Gabyskra
Measure of a Manning - The Frankman
1% Defense Force - Enron
Seasons - VPhys
Late Drafters - cloudy
Everyone wants KCs D - balddemon
Swangin' Tannys - Peterbrah
I used to be part of Cloudy's NeoGAF Fantasy Football thread (links to previous seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 here), but decided 5 years was enough last year. I wanted to run the show myself, maybe that'll change my luck GODDAMNFUCKING JUILO JONES GETTING HURT IN WEEK 5...
Anyway, putting up an interest thread which will probably become the main thread. The SLAENT Fantasy Football Play or Die League will be a Yahoo 14-16 team League in which 8 will make the playoffs and Top 4 get payouts (getting 4th should get you your initial buy-in back). The buy-in won't be too expensive, I'm thinking $35 bucks sounds fair and manageable unless you guys want to go higher. SLAENT.com members get team priority, so I'm telling most people I invite from Sports-GAF to register here. People who are already forum members PM me for an invite.
I've made some tweaks to the settings. Some are up for discussion, but most are not. I'll try to post some of the big ones here:
Waiver Type: FAAB w/ Continual rolling list tiebreak
Weekly Waivers Game Time - Tuesday
Post Draft Players: Free Agents
Playoff Reseeding: No
Divisions: No
Lock Eliminated Teams: Yes
League Pickem: Yes
Roster Positions: QB, WR, WR, RB, RB, TE, W/T, W/R/T, K, DEF, BN, BN, BN, BN
Although Yahoo doesn't enable fractional scoring for kickers, I've implemented that in the settings. It's about time those flimsy bastards start carrying their weight!
Kickers League Value
Field Goals 0-19 Yards 1
Field Goals 20-29 Yards 2
Field Goals 30-39 Yards 3
Field Goals 40-49 Yards 4
Field Goals 50+ Yards 5
Field Goals Missed 0-19 Yards -0.5
Field Goals Missed 20-29 Yards -0.75
Field Goals Missed 30-39 Yards -1
Field Goals Missed 40-49 Yards -1.5
Field Goals Missed 50+ Yards -2
Point After Attempt Made 1
Point After Attempt Missed -0.75
PS: I'm looking into LeagueSafe but payments will be Paypal. Assuming a 16-teamer with a $35 buy-in and rounding off a few numbers:
Payout:
1st - $262
2nd - $159
3rd - $99
4th - $40
Full List of League Settings HERE
EDIT:
SLAENT Fantasy Football Play or Die League Page
Current List of People in League
The Frankman
Enron
donjeezy
Gabyskra
Uber_Tag
Adam Blade
Cloudy
Phoenix
ScythD
balddemon
diehard
VPhys
peterb0y
knicks
Waitlist
Elrond Hubbard (maybe if another joins?)
[size=200]League Participants [/size]
Long Island Broskis - Uber_tag
New Orleans Phoenix - Phoenix
The Hibachi Grill - donjeezy
ScythD's Team - scythD
Pixel Pirates - diehard
Welkers Molly Dealer - knicks
Faillball am fail - Adam Blade
O.Munn's Tight End - Gabyskra
Measure of a Manning - The Frankman
1% Defense Force - Enron
Seasons - VPhys
Late Drafters - cloudy
Everyone wants KCs D - balddemon
Swangin' Tannys - Peterbrah
Invite PM sent!
The appearance isn't the greatest, but it gets the job done. I was hoping last month the beta thread would've progressed so I could post the league thread there, but no dice. I'm trying to contact alot of the old members of the previous leagues who aren't here, but it's a pain.
The appearance isn't the greatest, but it gets the job done. I was hoping last month the beta thread would've progressed so I could post the league thread there, but no dice. I'm trying to contact alot of the old members of the previous leagues who aren't here, but it's a pain.
Yo Frankman. As long as its not on the 31st I'm down lol. I have 5 drafts that day and already feel overwhelmed by it
Yo Frankman. As long as its not on the 31st I'm down lol. I have 5 drafts that day and already feel overwhelmed by itGotcha. It's scheduled on the first Monday before the season starts, which is September 1st. Invite sent.
Depending on when that draft is, I'd be interested.right now it's Monday September 1st at 9:00pm EDT
Hey Frankman... had to redo my registration to associate it with an E-Mail address that Slaent liked.
Hook me up with the league creds and I'll see what I can do about getting more interested parties sent your way (as another 16-team league would be nice).
Hook me up with the league creds and I'll see what I can do about getting more interested parties sent your way (as another 16-team league would be nice).
Eh… Not sure about it then.Awww come on it's not so bad. At least waivers is FAAB.
I'm trying to put as much balance/randomness in the system as possible. I was going to turn on Draft pick trades but the implementation... little too risky. Also it'd lengthen the draft, and I want to keep Draft Pick Time at 45 seconds.
EDIT: OH SNAP Ubertag is here. So much for my all-Giants team passing by unnoticed. Check your PMs.
Idk just once you do an auction draft it's hard to go back to poverty snake stuff. And in a big league, those at the end are put at even more of a disadvantage. Too much randomness for me.
I'm game if there are spots. Can't guarantee I'll be any good though.Sent you an invite.
Doesn't work for some reason.
Okay once we are full I'm going to start requesting Paypal payments for the league dues. Draft is a week away!
Make sure everyone understood there's money involved before proceeding IMO. I can imagine people getting in touch with you just at the mention of a league without reading the text.
(I'm fine with it of course)
(I'm fine with it of course)
Man, I'd like to but I think 5 leagues would be pushing it too much for me. Good luck to you guys I'll definitely be down to try next year.
Make sure everyone understood there's money involved before proceeding IMO. I can imagine people getting in touch with you just at the mention of a league without reading the text.Gotcha, I'm giving a grace period once we are full.
(I'm fine with it of course)
Man, I'd like to but I think 5 leagues would be pushing it too much for me. Good luck to you guys I'll definitely be down to try next year.Thanks for the consideration, hope you can play next year!
I'm in, but can the grace period be a week after the draft? I only ask because I get paid the ninth and have several class related fees to pay by then.
I'm in, but can the grace period be a week after the draft? I only ask because I get paid the ninth and have several class related fees to pay by then.no problem. Invite link sent.
Well, had a bunch of people back out on me last second which is fun. As of this moment assuming Bishman accepts we'll have 11 guys. I'm trying hard to get people to join but considering I can't post much on GAF it's rather frustrating. We need at least 3 more people before 9:00 PM EST or I'll have to postpone the draft. Ask around the threads on GAF, I'm hitting all my Sports boards to see if I can get a few more guys myself.
You could probably push things as late as Wednesday without too much trouble.
Wouldn't go any later than that, however.
Wouldn't go any later than that, however.
You could probably push things as late as Wednesday without too much trouble.Yeah, game is on Thursday.
Wouldn't go any later than that, however.
EDIT: I guess I could do 12 people, but I'd have to change some of the payout settings and Top 6 would make playoffs instead.
draf on wed now?No i just adjusted it just in case we couldn't get 12. I'll set the e-mail for Tonight at 9 PM.
draf on wed now?No i just adjusted it just in case we couldn't get 12. I'll set the e-mail for Tonight at 9 PM.
Ugh, ok. I hope no one else saw it and was like "Wed? Kay"
Annnnd scratch that. Just got a couple of PMs from guys who can't make it for 9 PM tonight. :cry:draf on wed now?No i just adjusted it just in case we couldn't get 12. I'll set the e-mail for Tonight at 9 PM.
Ugh, ok. I hope no one else saw it and was like "Wed? Kay"
EDIT: okay, sent out a general league e-mail and put up a poll in the League thread viewable here
EDIT 2: I'll probably send out more invites in the meantime to see if we can get to 14 or even 16.
Tuesday at 9 PM EST - 2 votes
Wednesday at 9 PM EST - 5 votes
Either is fine with me - 2 votes
Yeah, it's looking like it MIGHT be Wednesday at 9 PM. In that case I'll see if anyone else wants to join so maybe we get to 14.
Wednesday at 9 PM EST - 5 votes
Either is fine with me - 2 votes
Yeah, it's looking like it MIGHT be Wednesday at 9 PM. In that case I'll see if anyone else wants to join so maybe we get to 14.
Well looks like we now have 14 and possibly 16. Getting alot of PMs now from people wanting to join at the last second. This mean Top 4 will payout instead of 3, so the old pay structure is legit. The only issue is with 14 should I allow Top 8 to make the playoffs and eliminate the Bye? I like the idea of forcing the top seeds to play games instead of waltzing into the Semis (money), so far that's what I set it on.
EDIT: New payout structure with 14 teams:
Payout with 14 teams:
1st: $230
2nd: $139
3rd: $86
4th: $35
EDIT 2: We have a 15th guy, but I can't invite him unless 1 more person joins. Anyone else want in?
EDIT: New payout structure with 14 teams:
Payout with 14 teams:
1st: $230
2nd: $139
3rd: $86
4th: $35
EDIT 2: We have a 15th guy, but I can't invite him unless 1 more person joins. Anyone else want in?
Lock it at 14. Best not try to get people at the last minute in case the 16th bails and then we are stuck with 15 and no live draft in 4 hours.
Lock it at 14. Best not try to get people at the last minute in case the 16th bails and then we are stuck with 15 and no live draft in 4 hours.Yeah I told him I have to lock the league at 6 PM. Trying to avoid some of the Yahoo! draft troubles I've read about.
To be fair, we'd be scrapping for talent in a 16-teams league.
You skeered?
Just not very into drafting TE projecting to not break the 200 yds barrier.
We'll basically have 4 WRs. That's a lot. Is there 14*4=56 quality fantasy WRs in the league? Really not sure. Can't imagine with 16 teams.
Apparently first place is a given according to yahoo lol. Js transfer all the funds to me lol. But in all seriousness the draft went a lot faster then I thought it would. Good luck to all and enjoy the games tomorrow and throughout the week
Nearly There
The top half of the 1% Defense Force roster is one of the strongest in the league (ranked No. 1). However, the bottom of the roster is among the weakest (ranked No. 13).
Full Control Early On
1% Defense Force began things with a bang, nabbing the most projected points in the league during the draft's first half.
Aw yuss.
Yahoo absolutely hated my bottom half draft, though. And it didn't like my Bush/Rice picks either.
2014 SLAENT Yahoo Fantasy Football Play or Die League Draft Grades
Long Island Broskis - B+
New Orleans Phoenix - B+
The Hibachi Grill - B+
ScythD's Team - B
Pixel Pirates - B
Welkers Molly Dealer - B
Faillball am fail - B
O.Munn's Tight End - B
Measure of a Manning - B
1% Defense Force - B
Seasons - B-
Late Drafters - B-
Everyone wants KCs D - C
Swangin' Tannys - C
FootballGuys Rate My Team feature
Long Island Broskis - B+
New Orleans Phoenix - B+
The Hibachi Grill - B+
ScythD's Team - B
Pixel Pirates - B
Welkers Molly Dealer - B
Faillball am fail - B
O.Munn's Tight End - B
Measure of a Manning - B
1% Defense Force - B
Seasons - B-
Late Drafters - B-
Everyone wants KCs D - C
Swangin' Tannys - C
FootballGuys Rate My Team feature
Your receivers are the strongest part of this team. While no team can be expected to be above average at all three core positions (QB/RB/WR), you are in the precarious position of being a bit weak at two of them.
Although you should not be counted out yet, you may need to be active on both the waiver wire and in trades to turn this team into a legitimate contender. The best way to achieve that might be to sacrifice some of your wide receiver strength to gain multiple players than can help your roster now. It's generally easier finding quarterbacks and wide receivers on the waiver wire than quality running backs.
Keep an eye out for quarterbacks like Nick Foles from last year, Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck from 2012, or Cam Newton in 2011. All were available cheap in August, and all contributed to fantasy championship teams. Likewise, running backs like Knowshon Moreno and Zac Stacy could be had dirt cheap at the draft or shortly after. You are likely going to need to land some of this year's top waiver plays, so pay close attention to increased workloads, targets, injuries, etc.
Players we particularly like on this team include Justin Tucker and the Patriots defense. We have both these guys ranked ahead of where they are typically being drafted.
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 75 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 60 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 46 percent chance of making the playoffs.
Maybe You Should Add Tony Gonzalez While You're At Iteff you Yahoo.
Measure of a Manning must have missed the point of drafting a back-up. In Week 10, both Jordan Reed and Garrett Graham will be on bye.