Meh Fantasy Football
9Hey there,
I’m starting a new topic as an “official” post asking about interest for a meh Fantasy Football league for the upcoming season. Feel free to post here if you’d play!
You can also vote on which platform we use here:
https://strawpoll.com/ywk37c25
edit:
If you’re not interested, feel free to vote in THIS poll instead:
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I’m playing!!! YES!!!
I don’t care what platform we use, I don’t really expect to do that well, but I think we have been using ESPN so I know how to do that already.
no. no. no. I hated it last year. too many dickheads showed up to sign up and didn’t come back for the draft, or to make roster changes. no.
@capguncowboy So you won?
@capguncowboy if you have a good roster, why change it?
@medz My daughter lost to someone (@carl669 to be exact) with half his players out on bye or injured. We still make fun of her.
@capguncowboy did you just call me a dickhead?
@capguncowboy @carl669
Well I’m a double dick head then.
@carl669 @jml326 We’re all dickheads here
@capguncowboy I want to be in the dickhead league. Can I be in the dickhead league? Please?
@capguncowboy I’m taking my first year off from FF in a decade just to give my poor wife some Sunday respite… but maybe next year we can do a money league? That will help weed out the non-participants.
@woodhouse Can we have a special smack talk league? Being nice has it’s place and all, but this is fantasy football!
/giphy official!
@medz How many edits did it take for that?
@sammydog01 first one! I dare not challenge giphy’s choices.
@spcial_snwflake Time to vote.
I’m in.
Is this also where I can complain about how I’m still waiting on my prize for winning 2 years ago?
@metaphore
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@metaphore Don’t let go of that breath you have been holding, you will probably die.
@mfladd I stopped holding my breath when all the meh-ployees involved with fantasy football that year stopped working at meh.
@metaphore I won a Deals.Woot league in 2011. I’m still waiting on the Golden BOC that was promised when we were discussing the league
@odi- you in?
@bullrocky- you in?
@carl669- you in?
@sammydog01 Also paging @emilyap
@sammydog01 considering i did absolutely nothing with my team last year, i’m thinking i’ll abstain this year.
@carl669 Dragontrainer thanks you.
@sammydog01 why? what happened?
@carl669 You beat her with half your players out. That’s hard to live down. Especially with relatives like me and @spcial_snwflake.
@sammydog01 so what you’re saying is, i’m a natural at fantasy football.
@sammydog01 i’m in!
@woodhouse Did you see @bullrocky wants to play?
Wooo! I’m in. Someone has to lose!
@brendles Football thread posted…
@speediedelivery Thank you! I’M IN!!!
Just in case replies to previous comments don’t count…I’M IN!
@brendles yay!
Sure, sign me up.
Sign me up I habe to defend both my titles from last year!
Sure, I will again do the bare minimum required to be considered a participant
@smigit2002 bare minimum? I think that’s saying you’ll participate, then accepting the invitation. Don’t show up for draft and never adjust your roster. Recipe for success – or at least, the recipe to ruin the league for everyone else.
@capguncowboy I auto-draft because it’s like Christmas- you get stuff you didn’t know existed! And fun new teams to follow! But then I study up and make roster changes every week. Last year I picked up Matt Ryan off waivers I think week 1.
@capguncowboy Nah, I draft and change my roster, I just tend not to partake in banter, trades, etc. In my work league, I actually accidentally auto-drafted because I forgot about it, and ended up taking home the trophy, though that’s probably more a testament to my luck than anything else…
It’s a pretty close race, but ESPN is winning 11 votes to 8 right now.
I’m proud of y’all for not choosing the NFL app, though.
@woodhouse ughh… NFL’s service is abysmal. How can it be so bad? It’s the fucking NFL – but it is absolutely awful.
@capguncowboy I dunno, but I got forced into it one year and it was awful.
I’d be down
I’d like to sign up too if spots are still available.
@elimanningface By my count, we’re sitting at about 10 people who’ve confirmed they would like to join.
@woodhouse thanks, I am guessing you’ll be the commisioner. Do we need to follow-up w/ you or will you post something to the forum when sign-ups are available?
@elimanningface I’ll probably go through when we have a final tally and email all of you guys through the signup thing.
I feel slighted I wasn’t even so much pinged.
I need a firm confirmation here, folks. @DrunkCat @medz need to tell me yes or no, ya goofs
@woodhouse I voted for yahoo. That’s all I was asked to do. I don’t think I’ll participate. Seems too pushy and serious. Thanks, though.
@woodhouse yes or no, ya goofs
@medz
/giphy pushy and serious
@woodhouse @DrunkCat @medz I’ll be in too if there’s still room
@dragontrainer and @spcial_snwflake are both in too.
here’s an article reviewing Yahoo, ESPN, and NFL’s fantasy football apps.
https://www.letstalkfantasyfootball.com/espn-vs-nfl-vs-yahoo/
might help you decide.
I’m interested but it’s fairly likely that I would forget/be too busy to show up for the draft or do a good job of managing my team as the season progresses.
I’m in! (I prefer half PPR if that is even a remote possibility. I’ll go vote for ESPN now.)
I’m definitely interested! But it also sounds like the league is getting pretty full. And having played in 16 team leagues for 2-3 years, that’s not fun at all!
@thejackalope I think we’re at 15 right now (counting you and @christinewas)
@woodhouse Well, if a decision is made to split into 2 leagues, if there’s enough interest, I’m in. (Otherwise, good luck to all who have to start Brian Hoyer at QB bc that’s all who’s left )
Mehbe
May I join as well?
I’m about it.
I’ll play if there is room
We may want to consider splitting into two leagues. As @thejackalope said, we are already at about 15 people.
@woodhouse If we did that, it’d be nice to be able to cut the last week out of the season to allow a cross-league championship of champions for the winners of the two leagues. Facing off with whomever they had on their roster when they won their respective league. But that seems complicated.
/giphy complicated-victorious-fantasy
@thejackalope I’m still vague on how all this works, but can’t we just compared the two scores from the last week to find a winner?
@MrGlass
/giphy good point
@thejackalope Can someone else coordinate a second league? I’ve got 17 names so far.
@woodhouse How hard is it? I probably have time.
@sammydog01 You should just need to set up a few things (draft and some basic rules we can figure out) - I doubt we will require too much commissioner-ing in these leagues.
@woodhouse OK I’ll do it unless someone more competent volunteers.
@sammydog01 It’s really easy. You can always message me if you have any issues/questions. (Especially if we are doing ESPN.) Or, if you are just stepping up because no one else is and you don’t actually want to do it, I’d be happy to manage the second league.
@christinewas That would be awesome if you have time to run the league! I’m afraid I would screw it up.
@sammydog01 haha! I’m confident that you wouldn’t, but I understand how the lack of familiarity could be a little stressful. It really isn’t a problem at all.
@woodhouse I can manage the other league. I’ve done some in the past. Mostly ESPN. I guess you can just let me know when you have a final list and all. It might be good to set some sort of sign-up deadline.
I pinged most of the people I remembered from last year- anyone else to ping?
I forgot @MrGlass.
@sammydog01 OMG almost missed this. I must defend my title
/giphy I’m in
I’ll play once again. Since I won the beginner league, I think I have to move up to intermediate.
Sign me up!
If it isn’t too late, my husband wants in again, too. @bfb62185
We need two more spots to round it out!
@woodhouse Could you post your list so we can make sure no one got left out?
@sammydog01
@woodhouse if there is room, i’m in again…!
@woodhouse Could you please split up snowflake and dragontrainer? They get chippy.
/giphy chippy
@woodhouse I am in if there is still space.
@ConAndLibrarian That should be 24, so we can do 2 12 team leagues.
@woodhouse Yay! Game on!
Edit: No, I still don’t want to join.
Did anyone ask @mfladd?
@sammydog01
It’s ok, I am used to being unloved.
@mfladd I pinged people from my league last year- the beginners.
/giphy sorry
@sammydog01 It’s ok. If I do it I like to do it right and to be honest there is still too much life stuff happening right now. But thanks.
Alright, invites are out for League 1. League 2 going out shortly! League 2 will be commissioned by @christinewas
EDIT: invites are out for League 2!
@woodhouse Where did the invites get sent? I haven’t seen anything…
/giphy did i miss something?
@thejackalope me too! I have not received an invite anywhere, unless I am looking in the wrong places.
@ConAndLibrarian @thejackalope I sent them to your meh account emails - let me know if that doesn’t work
@thejackalope Send that thing to headquarters personally- I bet you would get a fast response.
@woodhouse hmm, still nothing. I even checked to make sure I’d updated my email. But it is showing my current email in “my account.”
@woodhouse Thanks! I found it in the trash.
@thejackalope The only person I’m showing who hasn’t accepted is @ChompyGator - did you find it?
@woodhouse There was a late request from @don If gator guy doesn’t come through.
@woodhouse Found it a little earlier today. I got signed up.
/giphy Thanks!
So is there going to be a chatroom to shit talk in? Whens the draft?
@DrunkCat working on details now
PSA: Draft will be Friday, 9/1 at 10:00 Eastern. Draft order will be randomized shortly before that.
@woodhouse
/giphy bump
/giphy giggity
/giphy just give me the trophy now
@jml326 I like you. I am also gonna take you down.
/giphy domination
@sammydog01 No no no. Bad giphy.
@sammydog01 so I’m LeBron, and you’re a submissive?
@jml326 Let me try again.
/giphy domination
@sammydog01
/giphy Domination
@jml326 Are you threatening to shove a cupcake in my face? Them’s fightin’ words.
/giphy fighting words
@sammydog01
/giphy truth hurts
I know I’m late to the party, but I’d be down to play again (and even commish if we need one/have enough players for a 3rd league). I won the “Advanced League” last year so I know the ropes
@alan21615
/giphy humblebrag
@alan21615 You’ve been invited, don’t disappoint me by not showing up like @ChompyGator
I want in!
It’s draft day!
So excited! I’m gonna autodraft the best fantasy football team ever!
/giphy football bump
Why did i get a draft email that it is completed? Isn’t draft at 10 pm?
@connorbush EST
@sammydog01 blast
My team is so good, you would of thought a computer made all of the pics for me!
/giphy fantasy football
@ConAndLibrarian I only got one suspended player so I’m totally psyched for the season!
/giphy psyched
I am ready for some trash talking! Can we starts already?
Apparently I am facing some @moose week 1.
@ConAndLibrarian uh not this moose
@ConAndLibrarian That might be @bullrocky.
@sammydog01 possibly, it says I am playing “team moose” and the owner is kevin moose.
Speaking of which, players, the first game is tomorrow night (Thursday) and some games have been postponed for weather. So heads up everyone!