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Fantasy Football - We running some leagues?
Henroid
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This afternoon I was at the store getting a soda when I saw a Fantasy Football magazine sitting right in my face at the checkout counter. Hot damn, it's already mid-July! I realized the NFL season is starting up in a couple months and I feel like jumping in on a Fantasy League with some PA'ers.
It's probably way too damn early for this but I'm still curious. Is anyone up for joining a league, and more importantly, running it? What site services are best for it?
It's probably way too damn early for this but I'm still curious. Is anyone up for joining a league, and more importantly, running it? What site services are best for it?
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and i'm in
I want to play with the big boys this year. We'll see how that goes.
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Edit:
ESPN is best in absolutely every department now. CBS & Yahoo are having a nightmare Fantasy Baseball season and their softwares are really starting to lag behind.
Last year was brutal for me.
And I'll join a Yahoo/other league, if there's room. But I'll happily step aside if other people want in.
I'd be in. I have a CBS baseball league and I gotta say its far superior to yahoo and ESPN. ESPN's functionality is completely unintuitive and their live scoring sucks compared to cbs's. Free is superior though as are their columnists, etc.
Awww come on man, I played CBS last year after all my leagues ran away from yahoo.
CBS fucked up scoring more than once through the season and there was an absolutely ridiculous situation in our league where 4 of the top 5 spots were altered because of the way they scored the make up White Sox vs Minny game without allowing commissioners to decide on it.(probably not their fault, but I'm still bitter about it)
ESPN's live scoring for baseball is not very good in the pop up, but it is superb as long as you use the team & daily standings pages which also update in real time. For NFL, however, their live scoring pop up is easily the best around.
Right now, ESPN lacks only 3 features - minors slots(bases), shortlist & the ability to create stats pages for all teams with statistics of your choice.
I really don't know what could you find unintuitive about the overall design?
Also, yeah, free is probably the best feature they've got.
I've left one of the leagues to you, right? I remember making someone else admin.
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It's good because it allows for more time to think about your picks, and more trash talk, plus it keeps you occupied for a few weeks in the summer.
eh? eh?:winky:
That sounds pretty rad if you ask me.
Also, what's an auction draft?
It starts like this:
Teams are allocated X funds(250$ or similar, this is fantasy money) and instead of drafting, we take turns nominating players on the auction block, where everybody is free to openly bid and the nominee goes to the highest bidder. That way one has a bit more freedom in building a team, but in theory* it's possible that somebody has a huge advantage immediately after the draft.
and it ends like...:
A market of mayhem where we all scream and bid and overpay and then curse because we totally didn't want to get this guy for that much and why the fuck did I click bid at that moment and god damn it whoever didn't show up and the computer auto bids are driving the price up etc.
It's great fun.
*I say in theory, because planning an auction draft simply never works right;o(
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I'm in if there's room. Dammit.
I think at this stage I'd join a fantasy curling league if we had one. I just can't stay away.
ESPN is always laggy as hell. With Yahoo finally catching up with free live scoring this year, I can't see any reason to play ESPN for a basic redraft or keeper league.
ESPN info is always slow, too. Probably because John Clayton needs to hit wardrobe and makeup before they can report anything. All summer they've been getting scooped by Yahoo (Wojo), Fox (Glazer), and practically anyone with a Twitter account.
CBS is alright. Their paid stuff really overshadows their free offerings, though not quite as good as MyFantasyLeague. CBS is really good for office pool-type stuff, like March Madness and Survival leagues.
Last I checked Yahoo didn't even offer auction.
Also, I'm not madly in love with ESPN, but I don't even understand what do you mean by laggy there....news updates?
I mean the site itself is always slow when I use it. And I know Yahoo doesn't do auction, that's why I said a basic league. The basic form of drafting is not auction.
Also, I did a basketball league at ESPN last season, 10 teams. For some reason ESPN decided to institute bye weeks into the schedule, even though there was an even number of teams. So every week there would be 2 teams sitting there doing nothing when they could be playing each other. Baffling.
Oh, right. Picard was the one who took the final spot after I made it vacant.
Also, I would like to have an auction league again. I could run it if noone else wants to.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
So I could crush you beneath my heel.
If you promise to hold my hand and tell me how it all works I will totally join.
i'm with her