What's the best trade/waiver job you've ever done to improve a crappy team?

[MTSuper7]

Ok, so I felt like tooting my own horn a little, but I wanted to gauge just how active Huddlers are in improving their teams when the draft goes wrong and/or injuries strike.

 

I think I've outdone myself this season... In my main local this year, I managed to turn this (bolded players are the ones who I dumped / added)::

 

QB: Romo, Cutler

RB: DeAngelo Williams, Pierre Thomas, Matt Forte, Marion Barber, Donald Brown

WR: Randy Moss, Hakeem Nicks, Santana Moss, Santonio Holmes, Laurent Robinson

TE: John Carlson, Fred Davis

 

Into this:

 

QB: Orton, Shaun Hill

RB: Felix Jones, Fred Jackson, Torain/K. Williams, Shonn Greene, LeGarrette Blount

WR: Andre Johnson, Hakeem Nicks, Santana Moss, Santonio Holmes, Louis Murphy, Seyi Ajirotutu

TE: Marcedes Lewis, Jacob Tamme

 

I drafted crap in the first three rounds: (Randy Moss, DeAngelo Williams, Pierre Thomas), and crap at RB across the board. I've churned my entire RB corps. My team was so bad that only three of the original players I drafted are still on my roster (Nicks, S. Moss, and Santonio Holmes). Somehow, I'm 6-4, division leader, and total points leader (by a wide margin). I find myself playing matchups with my wide variety of 2nd rate RBs, and it has worked for the most part. All I need are two good matchups amongst this motley crew and I'm good.

 

What sort of magic have you all been able to spin on your dying rosters?

[moopyjiggles]

we have a bid system with $1000 . I got tamme for $1 as soon as Clark went down. I also got James Jones for $1 and started him his career week.

[dbforbes]

In 2008, I had numerous excellent RBs, including that I can recall rookie Chris Johnson (11th round), Clinton Portis (2nd or 3rd round) and at least one other stud. But I had Brady (1st round mistake) as my QB - and we know how that turned out - and a sad backup (can't for the life of me remember who it was). When he started the first couple of weeks on fire, I traded Clinton Portis for Jay Cutler. Prior to the trade I lost all but one of my games. Sure enough, true to form, Portis collapsed from a fantasy standpoint later in the year, but I still managed to get to the championship riding on the tail of Cutler and the essentially RB-less Broncos offense. To get to the championship, sure enough, I got the opportunity to trounce the Portis owner. May not seem like much, but boy it felt swell.

[buddahj]

I'll let you know in 3 weeks.

[i_am_the_swammi]

4-5 years ago, I added rookie Julius Jones to a mediocre team, and he alone carried me to a championship.

 

Julius Jones

[MustOfBeenDrunk]

Derick Mason for Colston ( his rookie year )

The league tried to veto the trade because I was trading Mason for an unproven rooking ( dynasty league )

I took 1st. place and that trade is still used as a reference when ever someone wants to veto what looks like a uneven trade

[cre8tiff]

Picked up some unknown backup QB named Kurt Warner to fill my backup slot after Trent Green went down in 1999.

[MustOfBeenDrunk]

Oh forgot about grabbing Priest Holmes off the waiver wire week 1 his 1st. year with KC on a hunch

[muck]

YEARS ago, in my very long-time quasi-dynasty league, career ending injuries had completely gutted my team. The only player I had left was Lamont Jordan after his rookie year. Back then, some still had real high hopes for him.

 

I was able to parlay him into Stephen Davis (one year before he fell off a cliff) and a WR or two ... who I was then able to trade (after having made a couple of decent waiver wire moves) ... and by the start of the second season after my team was gutted, I was able to be competitive again.

[Tripleshot]

In 1998 I started 0-2(and horribly) in one of my STATS fantasy football leagues, which gave me first shot for free agents the first two weeks. I grabbed Fred Taylor(his rookie year) and Randall Cunningham(Moss's rookie year and Cunningham's one huge season with the VIkings) and didn't lose the rest of the season.

[Sunday Couch Potatoe]

Warner pick up in 99 brought me to a championship( Faulk wasn't bad either) Then to top it off picked warner up the day they named him starter when there was no word a couple years ago whether Warner or Leinart would start before our draft. Needless to say I love me some Warner as he was a huge reason for me winning championships in both of those years!!

 

 

Kurt where have you gone my teams suck without you

Edited November 18, 2010 by Sunday Couch Potatoe

[montster]

Picked up some unknown backup QB named Kurt Warner to fill my backup slot after Trent Green went down in 1999.

 

We had a 10-team work league. The lowest scorer from week 1 got first waiver pick. I had the second-lowest score. My opponent had the lowest. He grabbed Warner and coasted. Never have I regretted a win so much.

 

I won the following year without making a single waiver move all season.

[Chargerz]

I got Vick in one league this year for $10 in week #2. That turned out to be a good investment.

[Ramhock]

Last year in a TD only league, picked up NO D. We get a pick after weeks 3, 6 & 9. Don't have to drop anyone & these are the only waiver activity, anything else needs to be a trade. Picked them after week 6. Rarely does anyone bother with a 2nd D, because in TD only, there is more luck involved. I was extremely lucky after that.

[FantasyKing1]

my staters after the draft were

kolb

addai

portis

AJ

evans

calcin

witten

 

NOW:

big ben

AP

ray rice

micheall turner

AJ

maclin

witten

and now have fred jackson and ronnie brown on bench, so by far my best year in trades and aqquisitions

[ffb]

First time playing and took over my 12 year old cousin's team who doesn't care about football and only played to make the league even.

I didn't want to play at first, but now I'm hooked.

 

The team after the draft:

QB: P. Manning, Ryan

WR: Lloyd, Bowe, Marshall, Crotchery, Holmes

RB: Gore, Benson, Bush, Jones

TE: Celek

DEF: MIA, NYG

 

Free Agency Pickups:

Vick (twice)

Roethlisberger

Hilis

Mcfadden

Blount

Tamme

 

Trades:

Peterson for Gore

Jennings for Lloyd

Nicks for Mcfadden

Jackson for Blount

MJD for Roethlisberger/Benson

 

Trade deadline is this week and the trades I'm working for:

Hilis, Marshall, Harvin for Chris Johnson (other team WR: Boldin, Hester, Smith (CAR))

Manning, Jennings, Manningham for White, Schaub (other team WR, QB: White, Collie, Crabtree, Rice, Schaub, Flacco)

Edited November 18, 2010 by ffb

[The Next Generation]

I've never had a crappy team. But, the best waiver wire move I ever made was grabbing Kurt Warner right after Trent Green got hurt for the Rams in preseason. We had just drafted and then Green went down. I immediately snatched Warner off of the waiver wire and destroyed the league that year and the next (1 player keeper league)

[MTSuper7]

16-team dynasty PPR... I traded away all my players from last year with 2010 1.02 + 2.02, all of next years draft picks, and all my league FA 'cash' and went from:

 

QB: Rivers

RB: Forte, Mendenhall

WR: Bowe, Kevin Walter, Jacoby Jones, James Jones

TE: Cooley, Scaife

 

to this:

 

QB: Schaub, Cassel

RB: Gore, MJD

WR: Miles Austin, Roddy White, Brandon Lloyd

TE: Witten, Winslow

 

 

Some in my league are still pissed at me for pulling this off *cough*electricrelish*cough*

 

I forgot you had Forte originally... It's amazing looking at your WRs from last year. Mortgaged your future big time, but holy crap dude! Just remember, you had Arian Foster last year too.