Subject: 2011 Poliboard Football discussion thread
Posted by: Tree
- [41512710] Fri, Jul 29, 2011, 10:04
Baldy posted the keeper thread, might as well get this party started right.
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 03:45
Really, walk into a bar and accuse ALL of them of being pedophiles. Don't just accuse people who you know won't punch you in the nose.
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 04:57
So I have Peyton manning as a keeper in my other keeper league and Garcon in both.
So Peyton props up his broken neck long enuff to happy talk himself into a megacontract...and now his team refuses to take him off the active roster.
It's like these guys are all on speed dial with Mike Shanahan figuring out how to do the most fantasy damage.
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 10:20
Really, walk into a bar and accuse ALL of them of being pedophiles. Don't just accuse people who you know won't punch you in the nose.
not what i'm doing, not what i did. never accused you of being pedo, never accused everyone in your entire religion of being pedos. i've used the word S-O-M-E plenty of times, but not A-L-L. they are not interchangeable, despite your insistence that they are.
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Great One
ID: 268281023 Sun, Sep 11, 2011, 19:26
Doug Baldwin is already up to 43rd on the all time Seattle Seahawks list they re-voted this afternoon.
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Sun, Sep 11, 2011, 22:47
If this is really this important to you, get on the twitter account of someone who played with him and have them explain it.
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Sun, Sep 11, 2011, 23:02
Efren Herrera dropped a few spots.
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Pancho Villa
ID: 597172916 Mon, Sep 26, 2011, 09:50
Someone refresh my memory. How do we work waiver claims in this league? Last I remember we emailed MBJ or some such nonsense.
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biliruben
ID: 59551120 Mon, Sep 26, 2011, 09:51
It all runs through Yahoo now. Just put in your claim, and yahoo figures it out who should get it.
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 20:10
Doug Baldwin moved up to 41st today, as he went for a personal best 84 yards.
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 06:08
Andre Johnson out so Foster will get all my #1QB's points.
The Bear's just found out their OL that can't pass block can spring Forte for 200 yards. A win with my #2QB netting 102 pass yrds/1-int/0-TD. Yech!
At least I have keeper Peyton Manning my #QB2-Fitzpatrick in my other fantasy team chewing up the NFL so I might get some fun this season.
You think this is easy?
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 23:04
Nailbiter, bili! I'm winning by one Mathis sack and bili's Mike Williams is on pace to beat me so far.
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biliruben
ID: 59551120 Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 23:39
3 one-hundredths back.
I like my chances, but you never know.
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 23:43
Considering you have two guys going to my one, yeah.
Can my DL outscore your LB and TB's best wideout for a whole quarter? It would take quite a momentum change.
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Tue, Oct 04, 2011, 00:24
I get a miracle win which I won't actually count until I see no blue asterisks later this week. Very close.
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biliruben
ID: 81382416 Tue, Oct 04, 2011, 00:35
Yeah. Nothing for a quarter. Congrats!
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 08:12
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 22:27
saw Baldwin's comment on his yahoo team page about having to take a zero for Addai today because of our skinny bench.
while i agree our bench is a bit skinny, you didn't have to take a zero - you CHOSE to take a zero.
you've got a backup QB and a back up TE on your bench. i would have dropped one of them - especially the QB - to not take a goose egg.
your starting QB doesn't have a bye until week 11. there are currently a half-dozen QBs on the waiver wire that are putting up numbers similar or better to your back up, and about 10 starting QBs hanging out on the waiver wire.
no idea why you kept a guy like Jay Cutler when doing so could make the difference between winning and losing this week.
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 22:31
I like Tony Gonzalez and Cutler a lot better than anyone on the WW. I think TG has proven that already. If the Chicago O-line plays anything like they did today, the rest of the year, you'll see why I kept Cutler too.
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Pancho Villa
ID: 597172916 Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 22:38
I've had a bit of a family crisis this week. Turns out I spaced setting my lineup. Sorry bout that.
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 23:21
you still can't play two QBs at once.
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 09:32
And you can't play matchups with just one.
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biliruben
ID: 358252515 Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 12:48
Vick or cam a available for a top 10 WR.
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Boldwin
ID: 35615181 Tue, Oct 25, 2011, 11:03
If Robbie Gould had just kicked two field goals without missing Sunday, he would have been the all time most accurate kicker in NFL history.
He choked.
Robbie Gould has been dropped by 10921 teams in Yahoo! leagues
Man, people are fickle.
But at least he's pullin' down a couple million a year. He has a twin brother who can kick just as accurately as Robbie but who isn't employed.
Man, life is fickle.
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 14:50
it's pretty amazing watching the live scoring/stat tracker.
if the season were to end right this very second, there would be FIVE teams tied for first place with 9-4 records, but B7 would take the regular season crown with a fairly large PF margin.
but the other four teams? 23.25 points separate 2nd place from 5th place.
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Boldwin
ID: 261149414 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 16:12
Look at bili go this week!
In retrospect I should have traded him Dwayne Bowe for a QB.
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Boldwin
ID: 261149414 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 16:15
Of course bili would have been screwed when Vick went down but he offered Newton for a keeper WR and as much as I like Bowes 29pt games I'll prolly be keeping Gronkowski instead.
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Pancho Villa
ID: 597172916 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 17:14
You could have had Reggie Bush for Bowe.
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Boldwin
ID: 261149414 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 17:28
Reggie Bush is exactly the kind of player I love in real life who has always burned me in fantasy sports. The super-talent who for some reason teams feel they can't expose to full-time use. I know he's doing well, but I couldn't keep him and I don't believe it will last.
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Pancho Villa
ID: 597172916 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 17:49
I don't believe it will last.
Me neither. That's why I wanted to trade him.
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Boldwin
ID: 261149414 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 17:57
I respect that.
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Myboyjack
ID: 36452617 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 18:02
Meanwhile, I'm going to wind up with the 2nd most points in the league and miss the playoffs.....
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Boldwin
ID: 261149414 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 18:18
Kinda makes ya wonder why this format is more fun than straight cumulative fantasy points, doesn't it? And yet it is.
If you hadn't pointed out that, I would have, MBJ.
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Boldwin
ID: 261149414 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 18:32
Astade had Payton Manning, and PV...
Can anyone honestly say looking at PV's team at the start of the year that that could possibly ever be a last place team? Rivers/Gates/Fitzgerald/Gore/Plaxico/Bush/Julio Jones?
I stand by my tagline, 'best league parity I ever saw.'
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 21:35
Meanwhile, I'm going to wind up with the 2nd most points in the league and miss the playoffs.....
same thing happened to me last season. third most points, missed the playoffs.
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biliruben
ID: 59551120 Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 23:58
Didn't you already clinch last week, MBJ?
I sure have a knack for winning the meaningless games. Reel off 4 straight wins make sure I screw up my draft position for next year.
Generally I like to hit my stride going into the playoffs, but I have to actually make the playoffs...
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Building 7 Leader
ID: 171572711 Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 14:28
This league is always tight. The waiver system causes parity. Always letting the last place team go first should improve those losing teams. Every week, two or three players emerge due to injuries, playing time, matchups, suddenly becoming good, etc.
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Boldwin
ID: 4111685 Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 08:41
The emergence of Gronkowski and Antonio brown should have made my team unstoppable but with the Schaub injury, Chris Johnson taking the year off, Ahmad Bradshaw unusable...It's amazing I'm in the playoffs at all. Especially in this league.
I lost Bradshaw and Peyton Manning in my other league and made the playoffs but there is a much much weaker lower half league there.
Crazy as it sounds, I'd love to see what Favre could do with these Bears WR's. They are much better than they've shown due to OL/QB injury/youth growing pains/OFF coord-QB mismatch.
At least Bears avoid the QB controversy if that would still be possible with Favre.
I've got to wait late to see my fate. A Romo/Witten/Victor Cruz combo I'm facing could spoil my season late tonite. And Rice vs Indy. Yikes.
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Boldwin
ID: 4111685 Mon, Dec 12, 2011, 08:14
Congrats Taxman. Big numbers.
398
Building 7 Leader
ID: 171572711 Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 18:06
Good luck to everyone still in the playoffs. There were some big scores last week.
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biliruben
ID: 59551120 Mon, Dec 19, 2011, 09:49
A huge day for Zen's ghost. Is building 7 haunted?
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Mon, Dec 19, 2011, 11:33
this was a hard week for me. several players on a league i'm in that pays very well for making it to the championship game, were on my team in that league, but but my opponent's team in this league.
as much as i wanted to win this league, i'll take the money league any day.
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Boldwin
ID: 58112185 Mon, Dec 19, 2011, 12:07
I would like to know who on my team sent the 'suck for Luck' memo.
402
Building 7 Leader
ID: 171572711 Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 17:33
Good luck this week to everyone still in the playoffs. Tree, your team deserved a better fate. 186 points should have been enough to win.
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 19:44
thanks B7. it sucked having that many points - in fact, the second highest point total in the playoffs (the first being to the team that beat me) and my third highest point total of the season.
it was that team's highest score of the season by nearly 20 points, and only their third total over 175 all season.
but, that's the breaks, and good luck to the both of you!
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clyde
ID: 3111331823 Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 00:14
Congrats B7
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Boldwin
ID: 321121173 Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 03:20
Very strong way to finish the season, B7.
I just lost the championship game in my other keeper league and my playoff games were disappointing enuff to have me considering drafting purely for the post-season schedule. Ugh!
Do you?
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Building 7 Leader
ID: 171572711 Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 09:07
Not really. I just try to stockpile good players, so you have some choices in the playoffs. Plus teams that you think will be bad on defense in August, can be good in December....Houston, Denver, Seattle, etc. and vice-versa. I used to do draft that way in RIFC, but it didn't work well for me. First you have to make the playoffs.
In the finals I benched Aaron Rodgers, Beanie Wells, Brandon Lloyd, and Mike Tolbert. Picked up Kahlil Bell and Matt Moore and used them. Benching Rodgers could have backfired, but it worked out OK. I didn't want to take the chance he only played one half or not at all.
When you get to this level, the playoffs are a lot about luck about karma. All the coaches are good in this league. Posts 398 and 402 went a long way in helping me win the title.
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 09:36
i agree. luck plays a HUGE role in the playoffs. obviously, you need to have a good team to get there, but luck - good or bad - can be a difference when it's one loss and you're out.
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Biliruben
ID: 358252515 Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 12:46
Congrats b7. You had an awesome team.
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Boldwin
ID: 321121173 Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 16:35
My son was religious about drafting only players with great playoff schedules. He crushed one year but that was because he was also religious about beating us to the waiver wire. Otherwise I could usually beat him so I didn't take play-off schedule seriously until now. I'm really soul-searching this post-mortem season.
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