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zokudu said:
I don't even know, you would think autodraft would have grabbed half of those players but apparently not.
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Yeah, he cheated on the draft. No way if people were on autodraft that he would end up with those players. I do not know the controls for the commish on ESPN league's, but it appears he had the ability to control the whole draft. I am shocked any of you stayed. I hope you informed him that next year the rest of you are starting a league and he is not invited.

Edit: He has 5-7 first round players on his team. Yahoo lets you look at draft results, I would be surprised if ESPN does not have the same thing.
 
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trade:

I give Reggie Wayne
I get Chris Johnson

I am dying at RB. D. Martin and BGJE, and waiver wire filth as my bye fill-ins.

Only problem is, I know the rest of my league will vote it down, and not because it's an unfair trade, but because they are assholes. Pundits everywhere claiming to sell high on CJ because of his one big game; I'm actually on the other end of that. Plus CJ is going up against the Bears and Fins in the coming weeks, but I am choiceless here.
 
Damn Fantasy Football drives me nuts sometimes. The stupid second AT PPR league; I'm 3-4 (8th place) but I'm second, by one point, in points scored with 864.6 but of course second (third place is 20 points behind me) with 865.3 points against. Grrrr.

/vent

KT
 
fenrir said:
Yeah, he cheated on the draft. No way if people were on autodraft that he would end up with those players. I do not know the controls for the commish on ESPN league's, but it appears he had the ability to control the whole draft. I am shocked any of you stayed. I hope you informed him that next year the rest of you are starting a league and he is not invited.

Edit: He has 5-7 first round players on his team. Yahoo lets you look at draft results, I would be surprised if ESPN does not have the same thing.
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Haha, I'm in a league where the commish RADICALLY changed the scoring settings after the first week (and also added two extra bench slots). Normally that would be totally unacceptable, but in this case it doesn't really bother me because it's just some random custom league that I joined for fun.

Want to know how crazy the scoring is? Okay, so you get points for return yards in addition to rushing and receiving yards. But instead of the typical 1 point per 25 return yards, you get 1 point per 10 return yards! That means a typical 25-yard kick return gets you 2.5 points.

And the D/ST scoring ALSO includes return yards with the same crazy scoring! Yes, this has made the Browns the highest scoring D/ST in the league, and the third highest scoring player overall (behind only RG3 and Aaron Rodgers). The Titans D/ST is the 7th best D/ST available because of tons of return yards (because they give up tons of points and thus receive a lot of kickoffs).

This has caused me to do a lot of week-to-week research on touchback percentage. I don't want to play a kick returner against the Vikings, Ravens, or Broncos (at home) because they kick lots of touchbacks.

The league has IDPs that also get points for return yards, including fumble and INT return yards. And they get 1 point per 2 sack yards.

It's actually hilarious and fun, and I find myself researching all sorts of unconventional stuff. I think next year I want to run my own league but try to make it a little more fair and less ridiculous.
 
KeithTalent said:
Damn Fantasy Football drives me nuts sometimes. The stupid second AT PPR league; I'm 3-4 (8th place) but I'm second, by one point, in points scored with 864.6 but of course second (third place is 20 points behind me) with 865.3 points against. Grrrr.

/vent

KT
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I'm in one ATOT league where I have the most points but I'm 3-4. It's a 2 QB league; luckily, both of my QBs (Brees and Ryan) have finished their bye weeks now so I should be able to cruise to a few more wins in a row.
 
chitwood said:
trade:

I give Reggie Wayne
I get Chris Johnson

I am dying at RB. D. Martin and BGJE, and waiver wire filth as my bye fill-ins.

Only problem is, I know the rest of my league will vote it down, and not because it's an unfair trade, but because they are assholes. Pundits everywhere claiming to sell high on CJ because of his one big game; I'm actually on the other end of that. Plus CJ is going up against the Bears and Fins in the coming weeks, but I am choiceless here.
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Why would they vote that down? Yeah you are giving up alot of Chris Johnson but you need an RB bad. I still think you can get a better deal if you shop around Reggie Wayne.

If the people in the league are assholes and vote that down just to screw you over I would not join that league ever again
 
KeithTalent said:
Damn Fantasy Football drives me nuts sometimes. The stupid second AT PPR league; I'm 3-4 (8th place) but I'm second, by one point, in points scored with 864.6 but of course second (third place is 20 points behind me) with 865.3 points against. Grrrr.

/vent

KT
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Shut up, you beat me so be happy with it in league 1.
 
Yup, harsh reality is that luck is a huge part of the game, no matter how good your team.

CBS (which pretty much sucks btw) does a breakdown where they give you your record if you played everyone in the league every week. My breakdown record is 47-30 vs actual of 1-6. The guy alone in first place with an actual record of 6-1, breakdown record 43-34. This is my biggest pay league 🙁 🙁 🙁 hoping I can salvage my fantasy year (and cover the cost of the 1st league) in ATOT league 1.
 
dougp said:
Shut up, you beat me so be happy with it in league 1.
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Sorry bro, I actually thought I was going to lose. Got lucky with CJ this week.

kstu said:
Yup, harsh reality is that luck is a huge part of the game, no matter how good your team.

CBS (which pretty much sucks btw) does a breakdown where they give you your record if you played everyone in the league every week. My breakdown record is 47-30 vs actual of 1-6. The guy alone in first place with an actual record of 6-1, breakdown record 43-34. This is my biggest pay league 🙁 🙁 🙁 hoping I can salvage my fantasy year (and cover the cost of the 1st league) in ATOT league 1.
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Yeah, head-to-head definitely allows for inequities. Kind of why I think Roto Baseball is the truer test of fantasy skill, at least to a certain degree.

KT
 
AstroManLuca said:
I'm in one ATOT league where I have the most points but I'm 3-4. It's a 2 QB league; luckily, both of my QBs (Brees and Ryan) have finished their bye weeks now so I should be able to cruise to a few more wins in a row.
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I'm in a league where I have the second most points by a 10th, about 130 points ahead of 3rd highest team and I'm 3-4 and 5th of 8 teams. The guy who has a 10th point more than me is 6-1 and 1st place.

All you can do is give yourself the best chance to win but in the end it comes down to luck.
 
My D/ST (Texans) are on a bye week so I need to pick up another one. I don't want to drop them but my bench is filled with players I don't want to drop:

C.J. Spiller, Andre Johnson, Desean Jackson, Philip Rivers, Shonn Greene.

I have Carson Palmer and Philip Rivers as my 2 QBs right now. Should I drop Palmer or Rivers for a bye week D/ST?
 
MetalMat said:
My D/ST (Texans) are on a bye week so I need to pick up another one. I don't want to drop them but my bench is filled with players I don't want to drop:

C.J. Spiller, Andre Johnson, Desean Jackson, Philip Rivers, Shonn Greene.

I have Carson Palmer and Philip Rivers as my 2 QBs right now. Should I drop Palmer or Rivers for a bye week D/ST?
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Considering there are probably waiver QBs with similar or better stats I'd drop one of them, probably Rivers.
 
fenrir said:
Yeah, he cheated on the draft. No way if people were on autodraft that he would end up with those players. I do not know the controls for the commish on ESPN league's, but it appears he had the ability to control the whole draft. I am shocked any of you stayed. I hope you informed him that next year the rest of you are starting a league and he is not invited.

Edit: He has 5-7 first round players on his team. Yahoo lets you look at draft results, I would be surprised if ESPN does not have the same thing.
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He says he didn't but looking at the actual draft results makes me think he did something to adjust how the autodraft weighed players because even if autodraft picked highest projected or whatever first the draft would not have played out the way it did. I don't see anything in the league history to confirm though. He is JR 201 Vortex.

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zokudu said:
He says he didn't but looking at the actual draft results makes me think he did something to adjust how the autodraft weighed players because even if autodraft picked highest projected or whatever first the draft would not have played out the way it did. I don't see anything in the league history to confirm though. He is JR 201 Vortex.
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Let him say what he wants. He is a scumbag and obviously cheated, I would quit that stupid league in a second.
 
Espn Faq states:

"New to Fantasy Football is the ability to specify which position the system will draft each round in the case you are either disconnected during a draft or are not able to participate in it. The link for editing your draft strategy can be found on your main Team page before the draft begins by clicking on the "Edit Auto-Pick Strategy" link. Note this page is only available for leagues that use either the Live Snake or Autopick draft type. On the edit page each round of the draft is presented with a pulldown menu to select which position you want to draft during it. The default setting for all rounds is always "Best Available", which means the system will draft the highest remaining player from any position. If you change this to a particular position - ie "Tight End" - the system will draft the highest available player from that particular position."

Clearly he cheated if you go by this. No way did ESPN rank Aaron Rodgers behind Stafford, Eli Manning, Vick, Romo, and Peyton Manning and all the other players beyond the 1st round.

If it was me and I wanted to still play the year out with the other players, I would have made an agreement with everyone else to run with an empty lineup (if allowed) against him, and play normally against everyone else.
 
the first time I saw the team I don't think I even noticed the "bench" players. it's so obvious he cheated it appears he didnt even try to make it reasonable.
 
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