ILNFL™ Dirty Dozen: 2011 Fantasy Football Thread

so is kevin in?

kebya can join as soon as we confirm a 16th. I don't want to let him in and then have to cut someone loose at draft time so we can go ahead.

That's fair - but I went and signed upon the ESPN link, should I remove my team until your prior commitments sign up?

The negative points league is a total different thing.

if someone ends up dropping out of this, i'll take a slot. i'm leaving my pay league this year (i moved, and they're switching to an auction, so i decided not to bother) so i'm available for something new

If you and kebya join, that will take it to 16 teams. I balked at 14 teams last year, but it ended up being fun. I'm slightly and privately balking at 16, but it will probably be fun anyway.

Anyone at all have a problem with 16 teams? If not, I'll open another two slots.

OK - removed myself from the ESPN league, let me know if you open slots 15 & 16 for this league. Thanks Mr. Fever.

Go for it!

Bumped it up to 16 now for Mordy and kebya only. If anyone else tries to sneak in, I'll cut you (with a dull knife)!

the igglite magicians are now registered and ready to play (well, after we draft of course)

i dunno what the availability is like but it would be real handy for me if we could draft late aug instead of early sep.

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, July 25, 2011 7:21 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

pls?

Just moved and I get my home internets hooked up on Thursday, so any night after that is good for me.

Drafted in a second 10-team league last night and worthwhile players were disappearing left and right. Can't imagine how much barrel scraping there is to be done in our 16-team league.

So, can everyone agree on a date?

might be tough 2 coordinate 16 ppl

i could do 8/29 or 8/30

or the current date is actually fine w/ me

i think i'm pre-selecting so whenever is fine

current date is fine by me; it's memorial day isn't it?

Spirals wants it earlier.

Current date is fine with me, but so is any September date.

pre-ranking will be a sad way for me to lose my crown but if current date is working out for other folks that is cool wit me.

One week from tonight! THE DRAFT FROM HELL.

gonna be a tough one. not sure how to study.

there's a zillion ipad apps. should i get the nfl one?

It seems like a waste of money to me.

hey folks, sorry to interrupt your ilx league chatter, but i'm in a league of shithead portland hipsters and we need I think one more team and we're having trouble tracking anybody down whose not already doing twenty other leagues. So here's a general invite to anybody who wants to join a 12 team yahoo league (draft is this wednesday at 7pm pst), just email me at cwsmith @ gmail and I'll pass on the info.

thanks and sorry for the intrusion!

any chance the draft can start about two hours earlier? got a labor day bbq around 5pm PDT, draft starts here at 4:30.

Anyone have reservations about moving it backwards one day to Sunday? That should get it out of people Labor Day plans if any exist (besides omar's).

*people's

don't care, but we really really need to nail this down and then make sure everyone is aware. I'd be ultrapissed if the time got moved and nobody told me.

i'll only do this drunk, so noon on Sunday should work

Fine with me, moving to Sunday!

fine w/ me. also loving drunken drafting idea

i don't mind sunday morning, so if eastcoasters want it around noon i say go for it

lol, just as i was scheming to somehow get available for this, you fucks torpedo me with this sunday bullshit. yall are scared of the champ, i understand that.

That's it. You found us out.

it's the end Roberto

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i am putting a reminder in my calendar for next year - do not 1. move house or 2. have my parents in town at the start of football season

maybe i can get someone to sign onto the computer for me and i'll get the bluetooth headset on my phone while i'm out. problem is, i am pretty sure i don't know a single person that wouldn't ignore me and draft a roster full of retired jets players. curtis martin in round 1 is not ideal but at least he used to play for ne.

I hate for anyone to have to autodraft. What would be the IDEAL day for you to do this?

I can't do sunday morning.

personally i am just foolin around here, don't mind me. after today there is basically 0.01% i could make any time over next 10 days so don't factor me in. i am interested to see what kinda job i make of the autodraft, never had to do before.

I'm not huge on fantasy football and I am already in a league with the drummer in my band, so I won't do the Dirty Dozen (all though I am in the pickem league as that is more my thing).

It's a 10 club league...this is who I got. I think my Qb/WR look pretty good, but my backs are not great. I think Greene might do OK, as he might be the main back for the Jets this year right. I figure Manningham could be the big target with Smith gone from the Giants too.

Philip Rivers QB
Andre Johnson WR
Matt Forte RB
DeSean Jackson WR
Jermichael Finley TE
BenJarvus Green-Ellis RB
Mario Manningham WR
Shonn Greene RB
Daniel Thomas RB
Malcom Floyd WR
Falcons D/ST D/ST
Mike Tolbert RB
Mark Sanchez QB
Alex Henery K
Matt Bryant K

Tolbert/Manningham are legit sleepers imo

Manningham is still going to be second fiddle to Nicks, but you're right that his chances of performing have improved.

original draft time still stands (too late now to change it for fear some people wouldn't get the notification...soz omar)

shit, this is gonna be HARD.

Damn hard - I see us in the 13th round having to choose between Brian Hartline and Kassim Osgood to finish off our teams!

i'm drafting 11 kickers this year

I've never played in a 16-team league before.

so what time are we doing this today?

7:30...right?

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Hate my team. No idea how I have four wins.

This season's a wash for me, but I may be 4-4 in my other league after tonight (if Vincent Jackson gets less than 14). All hope is not lost!

Testimony to my luck this season (besides being the most scored-against team): in a world of negative-point defenses, I pick up a D (Bills) that scores me a whopping 25 points, only to have my opponent's D score 29!

you have definitely drawn a lot of short straws. Still pissed about you getting demarco tho

Then-again, there have been plenty of luckless people this year. Examples include owners of Jamal Charles, Chris Johnson, Peyton Manning (OK, you were forewarned on that one), any Colt WR, any Jet RB, etc. Long live Fred Jackson!

Hester, Burress or Nate Washington this week?
I'm thinking hester just because of the return yards but Burress might just have a big day

i don't know... i'm still really skeptical about burress. touchdowns are really fickle unless you're like megatron or andre johnson and even last week he didn't really do anything outside of the 10 yard line so idk. but it's not like the other 2 guys are that great. i don't see hester doing much on the receiving end vs the eagles.

thing about hester is he'll either unexpectedly drop 27 pts or give you 4 pts. nate wash had those 2 tds but not many catches, right? i think the best receivers will get you good pts even without TDs, wash and plax w/o the tds aren't spectacular. i dunno.

i feel like hester is kinda guaranteed to come through with 7 or 8 points and burress or washington could goose egg or put up 18.

i think you're right about hester being shutdown offensively though i imagine he'll be targeted. i do think he'll put up 100+ return yards tho

yeah i'd go w/ hester. the return yards will be there and he should be able to pick up some receiving yards as well. that's about as solid as you can hope for out of those 3 guys.

hester is the safe bet, plus he might nab a lucky deep td a la devery hendu.

Hey gang, don't know if other people are seeing this as well, but the add/drop seems not to be working. As of 12:05PM NYC we aren't allowed to add or drop players until after this weekend (Nov. 9th). Guess it must have to do with their programming and Daylight Savings Time. I tried to add David Hawthorne and drop Sean Lee (just announced as out) and it won't let me. Anyone else seeing this?

OK, it appears Yahoo screwed up, there are many rants over on the message board. Looks like they did messup on Daylight Savings Time.

had a problem but i kept refreshing the screen until it worked

this was a connection problem btw and not dst

Refreshing still isn't solved it here - all available players are noted as on Waviers (not Free Agents), so they're not available to pickup until Nov. 9th.

JULIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"you're beating BALLS by XXX points"
miller lite u r a traet

For my other league, would you start:

Cam Newton @ Detroit
Carson Palmer @ Minny
or
Alex Smith vs. Arizona

palmer imo, he has scored well in his 2 starts. niners prob won't need to throw. newton has highest upside but biggest gamble. if you are desperate for a result go all in with newton.

Newton's rushing adds so much, that's why I struggle with this.

Last week Palmer outscored Newton 17-14 even though Palmer had a far superior game.

I had to go with Ponder this week in a pinch. I've been riding Brees so long, I'd forgotten he hadn't had a bye week yet.