ironicpirate

First I just want to say I'm not trying to find something better because I'm bitter about my team this season. I sucked this week (the last couple weeks have been rough) - everything went south on me at once and sometimes that happens. I'm just wondering if there is another way? I really don't want to turn this into an argument over what a "better" team is. But I do think you can look at the season records as some kind of guide. We had three teams all finish over 100 points ahead of the other teams. These teams weren't a ref's call or a Phil Dawson goal post bounce better. The number one seed (with Brady, Moss, Braylon Edwards and Willie Parker among others), was a little over 100 points ahead of the number two seed (I was in second). None of those teams are in the SB game. Who do we have in the championship game? The two last teams that snuck in. One actually has a decent enough team, he got a lot of bad draws and didn't have a great record. But as for the other team? We have the possibilty of having to hand over a fairly big check next week to someone with a team that features a starting WR line-up of: A Randle El, Muhsin Muhammad and Greg Jennings (he does have Lee Evans who he sits most weeks) O Daniels at TE (okay he's not that bad) Lendale White and up until yesterday Justin Fargas at RB (middle of the road type RBs) P Manning Chargers Def Matt Stover as a K To me, that team is the definition of mediocre...Jennings has had a breakout year, but he's basically putting out two WR's every week that do nothing. Is there anyone out there that has a team with a worse duo of WRs that is still playing? His K is nothing to write home about. His RBs are okay, but do they really excite anyone? Manning is still a stud, but he's not having an incredible year (I think he's 4th in QB points in our league and well behind Brady and Romo). He got the last playoff spot in a tie breaker where he won a game 37-35 early in the year. If this was a once in a while thing, I think it would be kind of cool. Anyone can win; you have to keep playing! But would people really like the NCAA tourney if every year the Final Four featured seeds 7 vs 9 and 6 vs 11? Do we want to see Boise State beat Oklahoma in a big Bowl every year? Maybe we've just hit one of those streaks as a league. But it is getting harder and harder to get guys to cough up a few hundred bucks to play, when you draft a really good team and you get beat because of some fluky weather conditions (in two cities) or Jessica Simpson shows up at the game wearing your stud QB's jersey. And I only posted the question because it sounds like we're not the only league having this happen.

I think there are good reasons to have a playoff - for example, to allow the occasional surprise team to win it all; or at least advance a round. We need competition and we don't want the teams that have had at least average years quitting because they realize they can't get one of the first couple playoff spots. But what we see in our league, and what I read on a lot of posts here, is how often the best team (the team ranked 1st, 2nd or maybe even 3rd) doesn't win or gets knocked out in the first round. So I guess what I'm asking does anyone have a system that allows an advantage to the higher seeds that is significant, but not so totally out of whack that a lesser seed couldn't pull of an upset from time to time. Say something the equivalent of a home field advantage in the real game.

If you play on CBS, there are times you can't get to CBS! ...But you can get to the internet. Or with a Thursday game, I know a couple guys can't access the internet at work for Football, but have email access.

Let me clarify, if someone had commissioner powers, CBS doesn't reset from year to year so that only the new commissioner has this access. You have to go in and manually do that...Or as you said the commissioner can grant the access to someone. When I took over our league - there were a ton of other people with access, and a couple teams had multiple owners. So in our league we could have had up to eight people do something like what you described. But that's all out the window if he's the only one with access - he's the only one who could have made the move after the game started. Does he have any idea who this mystery person is, who apparently gets some kind of thrill from secretly removing Clinton Portis from his FF line-up? That's a real specific fetish! As for the "we don't allow moves within five minutes" line of logic...this boy has a future in politics, because that's about as ridiculous an argument as I've ever heard. We don't allow stealing - since you caught me, I'll just put the money back and we'll call the whole thing even.

A CBS commish doesn't login separately as the commissioner and then for his own team (at least I don't). Just by having the commissioner privileges my screens look a little different than a "regular" league member (I have a few more buttons I can push). Here's the thing before it gets ugly. Has anyone in your league ever been the commissioner other than the current guy? If so, sometimes CBS doesn't remove the commissioner powers from previous years. In that case, someone else could have made the move and there is no way (that I'm aware of) to prove who made the move - it's just a "commissioner" transaction.

Just wondering if people use other systems instead of single elimination for the playoffs? Three of the last four years we are going to have a bottom seeded team win our league (we have #5 versus #6 playing for the title next week). We're playing for fairly decent money and it just seems with late in the year "happenings" (like weather and teams resting players) - the best (overall) teams aren't winning the title in a lot of leagues. For full disclosure, I was one of the guys who got screwed over this year, but I also won a year I shouldn't have (and I also mentioned at that time it didn't seem right). I've heard about leagues letting the teams on bye be able to use their high score from either the bye week or the week of their first game - Does anyone else do anything different?

Make the deal - who knows what will happen with Williams down there. The Dolphins are awful and i wouldn't count on anyone from that team the rest of the year.

I hate these big deals because they always get complicated, but he threw out an interesting name so I have to consider the deal. I get Travis Henry, Selvin Young and Andre Johnson (Texans WR) I give up Fargas, Warrick Dunn and Boldin... Ordinarily I stay away from Denver RBs and I know Young got nicked up last night. But I figure the RBs are just a trade of my goo for his goo...Given Boldin still having issues with his hip - isn't Andre Johnson a major upgrade? If we knew Peterson (Minn) was coming back for the playoffs, this is a no-brainer - but who knows what's going to happen there. Thanks for any help! Ironic Pirate Rest of my team : 2nd place in my division - 2nd best record in the league/2nd in total points QB - Romo, Garrad RB - Addai, AP (Vikes), Keith (Indy), Dunn, Fargas WR - S. Holmes, C. Henry, Boldin, R. White (Atl) TE - G. Olsen, Scheffler (Den) K - Reed, J Brown DST - Jags, Cowboys