Fantasy Football '10: Revenge of the Festini

ManWithNoName said:
By the way I'm not new to football. So you guys don't need to talk to me like I'm the speacial kid you try to ignor, just for future reference. :)
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you throw a foobooball? a foobooball? awwww, look at the foobooball!
 
TwinkieGorilla said:
god you guys are so nice.

can i take a second to counter that by lmfao about the Cutler thing again? i can? ok: :rofl:
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Haha suck on it. I hope Cutler comes out of nowhere and has an amazing season and gets tons of points and... o who am I kidding, the dude's a train wreck that successfully destroyed any hope of the bears finding anything for several years to come and may have single handedly destroyed my FF career. I'm going to go sit in the corner.

But NoName, in bye weeks, you have to rotate your players out. You will probably want to do that some otherwise anyway because you never know who's getting injured or who has a crappy matchup that you can take advantage of.
 
well you took Peyton Manning as your #1 draft pick which...was...to put it bluntly: dumb.

next time, do some homework. watch some nfl.com fantasy expert videos, tips, yahoo.com articles...shit...just google "Fantasy Football 2010" and you're likely to come up with predictions and newsworthy b.s. it's never too late to start.
 
I want to join in but I'm confused? Passing Touchdowns? Near conversions? This sounds more like Ruggers than footie?
 
It's American Football, also you can't join anymore. Too late.

Also, ManWithNoName's roster is fairly good really. Better than DammitBoy's shit roster at least.
 
Picking Manning high isn't that bad of an idea, he's the most consistent fantasy player the last 10 years and I can't foresee him not throwing 30 TDs and 4000 yards
 
Guiltyofbeingtrite said:
Picking Manning high isn't that bad of an idea, he's the most consistent fantasy player the last 10 years and I can't foresee him not throwing 30 TDs and 4000 yards
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Sure, but any of the top 4 RBs are better choices there, and you could argue Andre Johnson, Randy Moss, Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees would be better picks.

But it's not a bad pick, no. Just not the best pick you could have at that point.
 
ManWithNoName said:
Alright. And were you being sarcastic when you said I was a good drafter?
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For someone who didn't understand the rules fully, you did fine. Watching the year and paying attention to how the scoring works, you should get an idea and you'll do better next year.


And to Guiltofbeingtrite, the problem is supply and demand. People need 2-4 wide receivers and 2-3 running backs for their line-up, only one qb. What's more, the depth in the quarterback market for ten teams means you won't suffer too much by getting say the 5th best quarterback versus the 1st. Whereas with the wide receivers/running backs, having to dig deeper and deeper can be more devastating.
 
SimpleMinded said:
For someone who didn't understand the rules fully, you did fine. Watching the year and paying attention to how the scoring works, you should get an idea and you'll do better next year.
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Yeah, last year was my first year playing fantasy football and while I ended up with a very good team, I just let autodraft pick my team for me and then learned as I went through the season. Ending up 2nd was a nice result.


SimpleMinded said:
And to Guiltofbeingtrite, the problem is supply and demand. People need 2-4 wide receivers and 2-3 running backs for their line-up, only one qb. What's more, the depth in the quarterback market for ten teams means you won't suffer too much by getting say the 5th best quarterback versus the 1st.
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Unless you grab Cutler, that is.

SimpleMinded said:
Whereas with the wide receivers/running backs, having to dig deeper and deeper can be more devastating.
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Oh yeah. I was really scrambling for some backup options at RB at the end of the draft, Hightower was the only real viable option left.
 
Guiltyofbeingtrite said:
Picking Manning high isn't that bad of an idea, he's the most consistent fantasy player the last 10 years and I can't foresee him not throwing 30 TDs and 4000 yards
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not picking an RB first in FF is usually p. dumb as a rule. the difference in Fantasy points between a Peyton Manning and a...say...Kevin Kolb is not *that* much. the only QB who would have made sense in the first round is Rodgers, but that's just because of his previous rushing and rushing td's. pretty big gamble unless you were at the ass end of the 1st round. in fact, many have a golden rule of always using the first 2 picks for RBs. but i go by the rule of RB first, then best player on the board. my only iffy moment was the gamble i took with Fitzgerald. he's arguably the best WR in the game, but the QB situation in AZ is shaky right now. i did a lot of debating about WR situations the night before and decided if Fitz was still on the board i would take the gamble and take him.
 
TwinkieGorilla said:
in fact, many have a golden rule of always using the first 2 picks for RBs.
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This approach is a bit outdated to be honest. It was true when I got in the game 5 years ago, but it's not true anymore now. Too many running-back-by-committee teams, and the passing game's become too bloated. Plus we're a PPR league, which makes not taking guys like Andre Johnson high inexcusable.

Used to be any non-RB pick in the 1st was stupid. And still now picking anything but an RB in the top-5/6 is still pretty silly. But nobody should be thought silly for drafting a top-flight QB or WR in the bottom half of the 1st, and definitely not in the second.

Peyton Manning 1st overall isn't a very good pick, but nor is it very bad. It certainly isn't team-destroying.
 
Sander said:
SimpleMinded said:
And to Guiltofbeingtrite, the problem is supply and demand. People need 2-4 wide receivers and 2-3 running backs for their line-up, only one qb. What's more, the depth in the quarterback market for ten teams means you won't suffer too much by getting say the 5th best quarterback versus the 1st.
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Unless you grab Cutler, that is.
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To be fair though, at that point in the draft, Joe Flacco was still available who could have a very good season. But yes, you definitely have to be cautious at that point, but I think the added players at other positions early help :)

Sander said:
SimpleMinded said:
Whereas with the wide receivers/running backs, having to dig deeper and deeper can be more devastating.
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Oh yeah. I was really scrambling for some backup options at RB at the end of the draft, Hightower was the only real viable option left.
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The wide receiver situation especially in our league is challenging. Because you will pretty much always have at least 3 WR active each week, with potential for a fourth, and we're a PPR league, you definitely start picking players near the end who might be lucky to even get a few touches a game, let alone serious yardage/a touchdown.
 
SimpleMinded said:
The wide receiver situation especially in our league is challenging. Because you will pretty much always have at least 3 WR active each week, with potential for a fourth, and we're a PPR league, you definitely start picking players near the end who might be lucky to even get a few touches a game, let alone serious yardage/a touchdown.
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Except, of course, when your WR corps consists of Andre Johnson, Roddy White, DeSean Jackson, Dwayne Bowe and Malcom Floyd.

Oh yeah

:smug:

Very :smug:

(my team sucks otherwise)
 
Baseball is a lot more fun drafting than football, as there are simply more positions and value of position matters heavily. The top 3 hitting Catchers are more valuable than the top 10 outfielders, even though their stats generally won't match the outfielders, same with Shortstop and 2nd base.

The closest Football comes to that is the Tight End position, which the last 5+ years has a lot more players with good stats than previous years. 10 years ago 500 yards and 6TDs could land you in the pro bowl.

2009:

http://www.nfl.com/stats/categoryst...Category=TIGHT_END&season=2009&seasonType=REG


2000:
http://www.nfl.com/stats/categoryst...ualified=true&Submit=Go&tabSeq=1&d-447263-p=1
 
just so everybody knows I didn't draft Payton Manning First my auto-draft did. I probley would have picked up a better running back because I was debating if I should keep Ronnie Brown or go with someone like Jones-Drew. But I think my RB chocies were good. I didn't really need to worry about getting them early and they always have over a thousand yards each.
 
if you drafted Manning first that means you put him at #1 in your pre-draft rankings, which means YOU drafted him first, pal.

don't worry though...rookie mistake. ;)
 
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