Gopher

Sorry... No time for me this year. If things change in the next few days or before you start, I'll let you know.

Mitchell, Elijah SFO RB Perine, Samaje DEN RB

Love the response from Jets punter Thomas Morstead after Hardman went on his rant.... Link

Or, with most of the things on the list, you have no idea how they happened. Half of them I probably did getting out of bed. Literally.

@DMD Requesting moderator access to Any Time, Any Place (BOTH league). Thanks.

Ironically, I tried their contest this year for the first time. Not the $150K payout, but a smaller one. I think the $150K version costs $200.... The one I did cost $50. Wasn't entirely sure I understood the strategy behind it, and it was just a few minutes before kickoff, so I picked the smaller one just to try it. Now that we're a couple of weeks into it, I actually like the format because it's a little different than the ones I've done on RTSports and FFPC (which are usually "pick X players from X teams" and ride them out). This NFFC one was something like.... WC Round - Pick 12 players from 12 different teams Div Round - Pick 12 players from the 8 remaining teams (max 2/team) Conf Round - Pick 12 players from the remaining 4 teams (3 per team) SB - Pick X players from each team (can't remember if it's 4 or 6?). The cool part is that you can sub out each week. Player's team loses, no big deal... You plug in somebody else. That said, there's a bonus for using the same player(s) consecutive weeks, so it serves you well to pick players who advance. A player picked in Week 1 gets double points in Week 2 (assuming you keep them in your lineup), triple in Week 3, etc. The only thing that I found kind of odd was the lineup requirements. I think it's 2QB, 3RB, 5WR/TE, a TMPK, and TMDST. Not a big deal... Just different that there's no TE required, I guess.

Top 4 at worst.

91 this year. One less than last year.

In the process of updating the list, but yeah… I think so. Sorry…. Super busy couple of days with kids playing four sports in four different cities. Been on the move non-stop.

Bump... 48 hours until kickoff. If you are in and paid, I'm tracking that list on MFL (and it's a work in progress). If you are in but not paid, payment instructions are also on MFL. If you need an invite or know someone who does, email me (again, email is on MFL) or just post here if it's easier (tag me if you can).

You can view the SPIT champions here. For whatever reason, though, that stops in 2017. There are at least two of us who have won it twice..... CN won in 2011 and 2018. I won in 2015 and 2019. I've never won the Smackbowl, however, nor have I taken home the coveted socks. The closest I've come is the wolf shirt.

Contest details are in the opening post of this thread.

Bump. Running this again this year. Old-school playoff contest on MFL... No PPR, no flex, no defense. Cost is $25. I believe this is the 25th season, if we go back to what was originally an 8-person contest on an Excel spreadsheet. Now, we're on MFL with around 90 participants last year. All entry $$ goes back to the winners. Pays out top 5 cumulative finishers, plus the top score for each week of the playoffs (small bonus for single-week high score). Invites have been sent to anyone who played last year or the year before. For anyone else, post here or PM me if you want a spot. *You must receive an invite to play. MFL won't allow you to join without one.

Yes and no. If it was all losing, I would have quit years ago. I look at it sort of like golf. It's that 10% of your shots that are really pretty good that keep you coming back, and knowing that the other 90% have the potential of being as good as that 10%. Most of us probably lose more than we win, not in terms of $$, but in terms of literally winning leagues. I've had years where I didn't win a single league (out of 10-20), which is super frustrating. I've had a couple of years where I won close to half of my leagues (still in that 10-20 range), which is unreal. I play for a variety of reasons, but having one of those unreal seasons is a big part of it for me. I don't want to win a league or two... I want to win 5 or 10. Maybe that's unrealistic, but it's similar to wanting to shoot in the 70's every time I tee it up (when a more realistic goal for me is probably mid to upper 80's). But, I've shot in the 70's once in my life, just like I had a season or two where I won WAY more than my share of leagues. That's what keeps me coming back.

I love dynasty leagues, but they're impacted by luck just as much as the others, unfortunately. It's just a big part of the game, regardless of format.

This funny game/hobby we share certainly has its ups and downs. What's hard is, while both are memorable, I think for a lot of us the "downs" stick in the backs of our minds more than the "ups" do. I'm sure I've won leagues as the 5- or 6-seed, but don't even recall for sure. Meanwhile, the times when you come up short as the top seed are hard to forget. I had too many shares of guys who either got hurt when it mattered (Hockenson, Sutton, etc.) or guys who just had really bad games in Week 16. Diggs, Adams, Mahomes, Kelce, Pacheco, Mixon, etc. Really hard to watch.

In one dynasty league, I have Bijan, Allgeier, Pitts, and Jonnu Smith. Things weren't so bad until Mark Andrews got hurt (he was my TE1). After that, it because a weekly nightmare of which Falcon(s) to start. Total crapshoot.

Yeah, it really felt like going for the win was a gutsy call, and maybe the right call, but only for as long as when they had the momentum. In other words, the big advantage of going for the win in that situation is that you've just scored, the defense is on their heels a bit, and they don't have a lot of time to prepare to defend what is essentially a 4th and 2. Once the first penalty happened, it felt like they were pushing it to go again. Not so much about the yardage difference as it was the momentum. Then, the third time, even though it was 3.5 yards closer, it just felt like they were pushing it too far. It felt like someone at the black jack table who should have cashed in their chips but waited a hand (or two) too long to do so. Cut your losses while you're ahead (or, in this case, while you still have the opportunity to tie and go into OT). On the other hand, that's the way Campbell has been all year. If he changes it (and settles for the XP), what does that tell the team? Not saying I agree, but I'm sure that's what he's thinking. It will be interesting to see if things change once they get into the playoffs. Will they remain in "full speed ahead" mode at all times, or will they proceed with caution, at least at times? DET certainly has to feel like they let one get away. Three INT's by Goff, and a failed 4th and goal in the first half. That game easily could have been theirs to win. On the other side, it feels like another game that Dallas won despite McCarthy, not because of him.

What a crock of crap. Russell had his best season in a few years. They actually had a shot at the playoffs. Longshot, but they had a shot.

Those were obviously very unusual circumstances where, in many cases, a split made the most sense.

That's what I was wondering. I don't know. It was like they thought we had plotted against everyone else all year and somehow increased our chances of winning by doing so. Which is laughable in any league, much less a 32-team league with virtually no waivers and very little trading. You're pretty much stuck with what you draft.

That's different. I've done that many times. But only against a bust card.

I've split one pot in my 30+ years of playing. The other owner proposed it to me in a league where we had very shallow rosters, nothing on the waiver wire, and my best player was doubtful to play in the championship. Needless to say, it was a no-brainer on paper, as I was a decided underdog under the circumstances. Long story short, someone in the league got wind of it and several league members were up in arms over what happened. Cries of collusion, not fair, sketchy doings, etc. Which was hilarious because the other guy and I didn't know each other at all and had made ZERO trades during the season (with each other or anybody else). There was absolutely no way we could have been doing anything sketchy, but people still didn't like the idea that we split the $$. I ended up leaving the league shortly thereafter, ironically because I found out that one or more of the commissioners were doing sketchy stuff themselves (blind email accounts that weren't as blind as everyone thought, etc.). I've never split anything since. Not because I think there's anything wrong with it, but it's just not worth the drama (and I'm usually pretty confident that I'm going to win, or at least have a fairly good shot, so why would I split?).

Yes. But the ref did them a favor by asking for clarification (since the proper terminology is to say 'we defer" not "we want defense."). He didn't need to do that, technically. But, the bigger point is that Alexander shouldn't have been out there in the first place. He invited himself, apparently, because he's from that area. Bottom line... I'm sure these teams make damn sure the captains understand the rules, so they don't botch the coin flip. Otherwise, it wouldn't take much for someone to word it wrong and screw their team. I'm sure Alexander isn't the only one who has no clue how it works (or, at least, doesn't understand how to verbalize the intention to defer).

This post-season has been a roller coaster for me. Went 7-1 in Week 15, with another 3 byes. Week 16 was a disaster, going 2-8 even though I was "favored" in more than half of those matchups. Too many shares of guys who got hurt early (Hockenson, Sutton, etc.), as well as guys who just crapped the bed (Adams, Kupp, Diggs, Kamara, Ekeler, etc.). Brutal. So, I'm in a bunch of third place matchups, as well as two finals..... 12-team Local Redraft - This is an old-school league (no PPR, no flex, no TE Required, 3 pts per pass TD) where we celebrated our 25th season last year. I've won it a few times over the years... I believe this would be my 5th (or maybe 6th?) time winning, but most of my championships came in the first 10-15 years (I think I've won it once in the past decade). The cool thing about this one is that all FA pickups are $5, and all of that extra FA $$ goes to the champion. So, while 2nd and 3rd get like $100/50 respectively, the winner's payout can be up in the $600-700 range or higher. Not bad for a $50 entry. I've been known to spend more than my share (some guys in this league are super cheap, drafting two kickers, two defenses, etc.). There have been years where I'm pretty sure my total FA tab has exceeded the rest of the league combined. :LOL: I've got my work cut out for me, as I'm limping into the playoffs with the following (bench in parentheses).... QB - Fields (Geno) RB - J Cook, Z White (Pacheco, Dillon, Spears) WR/TE - T Hill, Nacua, Flowers (Waddle, Doubs) PK - Sanders DEF - BUF (MIN) Just dropped Stevenson to grab White, who I'll start if Jacobs is OUT. If Jacobs plays, I'm probably stuck with Spears, as there isn't much else on the wire. Or Dillon if he's somehow active and Jones is not. Also considering dropping Sanders for another kicker (Bass, Fairbairn, Gay, Havrisik). Just not sure which way I want to go there (my experience this year with "streaming" kickers has been that they are all an absolute crap-shoot). Dynasty Wars III (14-team IDP) - I've been in this league for 15+ years (my very first dynasty league, actually), but it's one of the very few that I've never won. Made a bunch of trades this year (including trading Stroud for Cousins early in the season... Ouch). Guys with asterisks are all guys acquired in the past 2-3 months. Managed to get the top seed and a bye, and a couple of upsets in the playoffs have set it up where I'm facing the 5-seed @cmath52 in the final (a team that had to grab Easton Stick this week just to have a starting QB). That said, I know that absolutely anything could happen in this final, and his team is solid across the board, with Saquon/Mixon and Jefferson/Kupp/Moore, as well as a bunch of studs on defense as well. I'm not taking anything for granted in this one. In fact, given that I've never won this one before, I'm probably more nervous about it that anything else. QB - Prescott* (Mayfield) RB - Mostert*, B Robinson, R White* (Allgeier*, Moss*) WR - Lamb, Metcalf (Doubs, Osborn, D Robinson) TE - Engram* (J Smith, Trautman) PK - Gay (Badgley, Dicker) DL - Cooper, Mack* (Autry, Madubuike, Jennings, Karlaftis) LB - David, Okereke, Spillane (Edwards, D Campbell*, J Campbell, Takitaki, M Walker) DB - Gilman, Owens, Melifonwu (Byard, Simmons, H Smith) Watching the Mostert situation closely. I sort of like the Doubs and Osborn matchups, particularly if Reed/Watson and/or Addison don't play, so we'll see. At LB, I'm always trying to pick three between the foursome of David/Okereke/Spillane/Edwards. And, while they're "studs" on paper, Byard/Simmons/Smith have been below-average DB's fantasy-wise, so they'll probably stay on the bench unless someone like Owens has an injury issue. Good luck to all.