Once again it is time for Huddlers to step up to the challenge of joining the Team representing the Huddle Boards in a competition between 8 to 10 Fantasy Football Web site Message Boards. In 2008 participant boards included:

TheHuddle, Footballguys, FFToday, The Sports Outlaw and KFFL in IBL Division 1

The Whiz, FFToolbox, Pigskinsanity, Fantasy Guru and The Starving Brain in IBL Division 2

Each website picks 12 members from their boards to represent the website in a competition against each other. That’s right fellas and ladies, 60 teams in 1 league, the ultimate in competition and football acumen. So how does it work you might ask?

In each division of 5 boards, there are 5 separate drafts. Each of these 5 drafts have a minimum of 2 participants from each of the 5 boards with the max from anyone 1 board being 3 participants from any 1 board. These 5 drafts are spread out over a 3 week period and the draft is through MFL and a slow draft (timer between 8 to 12 hours).

What makes this league unique is the fact that you can trade in and out of your original draft. The only rule being that you can not own 2 of the same player (you can’t own 2 Adrian Peterson’s of the Vikings). There is a possibility that you could be drafting in all 5 drafts based on your trades. It is also possible that the Huddle Team could own all 5 Adrian Peterson’s as with 5 drafts means there are 5 Peterson’s to be drafted.

Each Huddler owner drafts whom ever they want and you will be playing 4 teams each week (1 each from the other boards) once the season begins. However, as much as FF is an individual sport, this league is not just an individual accomplishment you are part of the Huddle Team.

In the 9 years of existence The Huddle team has won the Team championship more than any other board in this league (we have won 3 times).

The 2008 representatives of the league were:.

MikesVikes – Not returning this year (been on the team for at least 6 years)
Usual Suspects – Not returning this year (been on the team for at least 6 years)
peepinmofo – Not returning (been on the team for 2 years)
Randall – Not returning – (Been on the team for 2 years I think)
Urlacher – Not returning – (been on the team for 2 years)

Perch – Has not responded yet
Wolverines - Will be returning
Budlitebrad (Those Guys) – Has not responded yet
StormChasers – Will be returning
LosGatos – Will be returning
REZ – Will be returning
Memphis – Has tentatively stated he will be returning

There is no fee to join this league, what is required is that you are able to dedicate a fair amount of your time, particularly between the last week of July and the last week of August. The 5 drafts run during this time and you will want to dedicate a good amount of time to seek out trades, make trades and make your picks. Additionally, this is a team and we have our own private posting boards to discuss strategy, players we like/dislike and help each other to get all 12 of our teams as strong as possible because in the end we want to kick the sh!t out of every other board and win the championship for the Huddle boards.

So far these players have expressed an interest:

Soaring Eagle
Washington D
TFord
Tazinib1
Clash of the Titans

I am would love to have some serious FFers on this team and extending an invite to those that I have played against for years. This is your chance to compete against very knowledgeable FFers from other boards and stop kicking my a$$ . This is also the chance to show the FF world that The Huddle has the best knowledge on the web. To give you an idea on some of the competition, FBG has some of their writers on the FBG team. This would be like playing against DD or WW from The Huddle.

Post your interest here and e-mail me at sbard29770@aol.com with the subject titled (I am interested in IBL for the Huddle). In your e-mail just let me know what you Huddle SN is just in case I can't figure it out from your e-mail address.

If you’ve been boasting that you are a great FF player and you think you’ve got the knowledge to compete against the best, than we want you on this team.

Please feel free to ask any addition questions you might have and I will answer them for you. Oh…scoring is basic scoring with PPR (we just added PPR last year).

StormChasers