Fantasy Football Disussion Thread

[KrazyGlue]

Fantasy Football Discussion Thread!!!

Above photo is Walter Payton, in 1984.




Alright, it's about time the pool room gets a fantasy football thread! Discuss trades, make predictions, ask for advice, brag about how your team rocks, whatever. No real specific rules except, of course, for the Pool Room rules and the SWF Global rules.​

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[SuperStar21]

This will be my first year in fantasy football and my draft decisions may not be wise but here goes...
QB - Tony Romo, Brett Favre, and Joe Flacco
HB - Felix Jones, Leon Washington, and Tashard Chioce
WR - Roy Williams, Jerricho Cotchery, Darrius Heyward-Brey, and Patrick Crayton
TE - Jason Witten, and Martellus Bennet
K - Nick Folk
DST - Cowboys

My teams name is Cowboys in the My Creation league. Go figure

 

[KrazyGlue]

Yeah, that's a pretty Cowboy-themed team there.

Alright, I have two teams on ESPN, listed below. Both of them are in public leagues with ten teams, and use the default head-to-head scoring settings.



Team one:

QBs: Matt Ryan, Matt Cassel
RBs: Frank Gore, Pierre Thomas, Thomas Jones, Reggie Bush*, Ricky Williams**
WRs: Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson***, Braylon Edwards, Donald Driver, Ted Ginn Jr., Dominic Hixon*
TEs: Jason Witten
Defense: Titans
Kicker: Jason Elam

*Probably going to trade these two
**Probably going to pick up Chester Taylor and drop Williams
***Some fool in my league dropped Calvin Johnson, and I was number one on the waiver order. What luck


Team two:
QBs: Matt Schaub, Joe Flacco
RBs: Maurice Jones-Drew, Clinton Portis, Pierre Thomas, Leon Washington
WRs: Andre Johnson, Wes Welker, Hines Ward*, Santonio Holmes*, Steve Breaston*, Ted Ginn Jr.*
TEs: Dallas Clark, Dustin Keller
Defense: Titans
Kicker: Kris Brown

*One or two of these recievers will probably be traded


Questions? Comments? Advice?

 

[JLynn943]

Yeah, that's a pretty Cowboy-themed team there.

Alright, I have two teams on ESPN, listed below. Both of them are in public leagues with ten teams, and use the default head-to-head scoring settings.



Team one:

QBs: Matt Ryan, Matt Cassel
RBs: Frank Gore, Pierre Thomas, Thomas Jones, Reggie Bush*, Ricky Williams**
WRs: Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson***, Braylon Edwards, Donald Driver, Ted Ginn Jr., Dominic Hixon*
TEs: Jason Witten
Defense: Titans
Kicker: Jason Elam

*Probably going to trade these two
**Probably going to pick up Chester Taylor and drop Williams
***Some fool in my league dropped Calvin Johnson, and I was number one on the waiver order. What luck


Team two:
QBs: Matt Schaub, Joe Flacco
RBs: Maurice Jones-Drew, Clinton Portis, Pierre Thomas, Leon Washington
WRs: Andre Johnson, Wes Welker, Hines Ward*, Santonio Holmes*, Steve Breaston*, Ted Ginn Jr.*
TEs: Dallas Clark, Dustin Keller
Defense: Titans
Kicker: Kris Brown

*One or two of these recievers will probably be traded


Questions? Comments? Advice?

Your first team is ridiculous. How in the world did you pull that off? lol

Anyway, I just drafted today. I had the 12th spot (out of 12), which I had never done before. It's kind of interesting. It was frustrating how people were drafting though. The top 7 quarterbacks were gone by the end of the 3rd round. I usually try to draft some good RBs and WRs in the early rounds, so I was a little screwed over for QBs.

Here's my team:

QB: Jay Cutler, Jake Delhomme
RB: Chris Johnson, Ronnie Brown, Reggie Bush, Joseph Addai
WR: Larry Fitzgerald, Terrell Owens, Steve Breaston, Kevin Walter, Derrick Mason
TE: Jermichael Finley
DST: Green Bay
K: John Carney

I know Finley is a reach at TE, but I really think he's going to have a break out season.

 

[Deleted member]

I facepalmed so hard when I accidentally took the Saints defense when Jones-Drew was on the board.

QB: Kurt Warner, Eli Manning
RB: Steven Jackson, Steve Slaton, Jamal Lewis, Tim Hightower, Willis McGahee
WR: Reggie Wayne, Hines Ward, Mushin Muhammad, Santonio Holmes
TE: Jason Witten, Dustin Keller
Defense: Ravens, Saints
K: Rob Bironas, Robbie Gould

 

[KrazyGlue]

Your first team is ridiculous. How in the world did you pull that off? lol

It certainly helped that some fool dropped Calvin Johnson and Matt Ryan right after the draft. Before that, I had Kevin Curtis instead of Johnson and Jason Campbell instead of Matt Ryan.

Here's my team:

QB: Jay Cutler, Jake Delhomme
RB: Chris Johnson, Ronnie Brown, Reggie Bush, Joseph Addai
WR: Larry Fitzgerald, Terrell Owens, Steve Breaston, Kevin Walter, Derrick Mason
TE: Jermichael Finley
DST: Green Bay
K: John Carney

I know Finley is a reach at TE, but I really think he's going to have a break out season.

Good team for the most part; great wide recievers, and Carney is a reliable kicker imo. You have good depth at RB, too. You might wanna see what defenses are still avainlable though, Green Bay isn't too good. Yeah, Finley is a slight reach, but he's having a great preseason, so he has a decent chance of beating out Donald Lee. Lee could be a drain though. Overall, it's good for a 12 person league.

I facepalmed so hard when I accidentally took the Saints defense when Jones-Drew was on the board.

Ouch... that sucks...

 

[Proud_Smash_N00b]

QB: McNabb, Schaub
RB: MJD, Knowshon Moreno, Leon Washingtion, Ray Rice, Julius Jones
WR: both Steve Smiths, Donnie Avery, Ted Ginn Jr.
TE: Gates
K: Folk
Def: Packers

I know I have 4 RB's with the same bye week so I asked my friend to trade Julius Jones and Donnie Avery for Sammy Morris and Nate Washington
This was my first year in Fantasy Football and I kinda felt rushed during the draft

 

[Mota]

St Kilda will win the AFL Premiership Cup :D

 

[Corka Cola]

Got Ben Roethlisberger, Kerry Collins, and Brett Ratliff at QB.
Got Adrian Peterson, Jamal Lewis, Brian Leonard, and Kevin Faulk at RB.
Got Wes Welker, Derrick Mason, and Muhsin Muhammed at WR.
Got Tony Gonzalez and Bo Scaife at TE.
Gt Jeff Zgonina, Cliff Avril, and John Thornton at DT.
Got Gaines Adams, Kevin Carter, and Calvin Pace at DE.
Got Barrett Rudd, Channing Crowder, Larry Foote, and Derek M. Smith at LB.
Got Aaron Glenn and Walt Harris at CB.
Got Eric Weddle and Sean Jones at S.
Got Ryan Longwell at K.
Got Dustin Colquitt and Dirk Johnson at P.

Co-LM of Dr. Amazement 2 League on ESPN.

 

[KrazyGlue]

Alright, I'm wondering whether I should drop Ricky Williams for Chester Taylor.

Current RBs: Frank Gore, Pierre Thomas, Thomas Jones, Reggie Bush, Ricky Williams

I'm leaning towards Taylor, but I want to be cautios. Jamaal Charles, Sammy Morris, and Michael Bush are the other decent RB options.

I'm also considering Bo Scaife, since I currently have no backup TE for Jason Witten's bye week.

 

[Matunas]

This will be my first year in fantasy football and my draft decisions may not be wise but here goes...
QB - Tony Romo, Brett Favre, and Joe Flacco
HB - Felix Jones, Leon Washington, and Tashard Chioce
WR - Roy Williams, Jerricho Cotchery, Darrius Heyward-Brey, and Patrick Crayton
TE - Jason Witten, and Martellus Bennet
K - Nick Folk
DST - Cowboys

My teams name is Cowboys in the My Creation league. Go figure

You are screwed on your bye week.

 

[KrazyGlue]

You are screwed on your bye week.

Yup lol. I don't think his team is intended to win any leagues, unless he's in a league where your starters all have to be from the same team.

 

[Proud_Smash_N00b]

Should I get Glen Coffee from waivers?
or what RB should I get from waivers taht doesn't have a week 9 bye?

 

[KrazyGlue]

Should I get Glen Coffee from waivers?
or what RB should I get from waivers taht doesn't have a week 9 bye?

Well, what other RBs are available?

 

[Proud_Smash_N00b]

LOL I just found out that Sproles was on waivers and I took him XD

 

[Raider 88]

I facepalmed so hard when I accidentally took the Saints defense when Jones-Drew was on the board.

How was he even available past the 1st round? And how did you not take him before then???



My draft was supposed to be Friday Night, but got moved to Sunday night. Can't wait for the season to start!

 

[Proud_Smash_N00b]

Who's a better starter, Leon Washington or Darren Sproles?

and I have a friend who has some WR problems and I'm thinkin about trading Knowshon Moreno
so far he has Housh, Harvin, Desean Jackson, Derrick Mason, and Nate Washington. Which one should I go for?

 

[Peeze]

I got two leagues
ESPN League:
QB-Brees
RB- R.grant/L white/R mendenhall
wr- r wayne/ wes welker/s holmes
te- D clark
k- R. bironas
dst- titans
pretty good, except my rb's.

Yahoo league:
QB P.manning
rb - m turner/l. johnson/r mendenhall
wr- r. white/b. berrian/ d. driver
te- d. clark
k- r. bironas
dst- minnesota
pretty good except receivers.

 

[Raider 88]

My team is as follows:
QB: Jay Cutler
TE: Dallas Clark
RB: Turner/Bush/Benson
WR: Andre Johnson/Greg Jennings/Colston/A. Gonzalez/Chris Henry
K: Bironas
DST: Baltimore

I'm not really liking my RB situation, but in our league we have 4 RB/WR flex spots instead of 2 RB 2 WR, so I can run out Turner/Andre/Jennings/Colston every week. Still...I always grab at least 2 RB's in the first 3 rounds but strayed away from that this year....and now I wish my RB's were better. Oh well.

 

[the melon!!!!!]

I wasn't there for my draft, but I didnt' get much bad

QB: Donovan McNabb, Chad Pennington
HB: Michael Turner, Marion Barber, Fred Taylor
WR: Anquan Boldin, Brandon Marshall, Braylon Edwards, Lance Moore
TE: Dustin Keller, Heath Miller
K: Rob Bironas
D/ST: Jets, Redskins

Not bad, tho I am worried about Brandon Marshall and his crap with the Broncos.

 

[KrazyGlue]

Who's a better starter, Leon Washington or Darren Sproles?

Well, Sproles has already proven his worth as a good RB, and Washington is unhappy with his contract. Then again, LT is a bigger threat to Sproles' value than Thomas Jones is to Washington's.

It's a tough decision, but Sproles should probably be your starter at first. That said, if Leon Washington starts getting the bulk of carries for the Jets (especially if Thomas Jones stages a contract holdout), put him in.

and I have a friend who has some WR problems and I'm thinkin about trading Knowshon Moreno
so far he has Housh, Harvin, Desean Jackson, Derrick Mason, and Nate Washington. Which one should I go for?

Probably Housh; he's the most reliable of the bunch and is definitely going to be the Seahawks' number 1 reciever. Not going to have any AMAZING games though.

Derrick Mason would be my second choice; he's a great receiver with great hands, but he's old (35), which limits his speed and makes fatigue, retirement, and injuries all issues.

The other ones aren't reliable at all, although Harvin has a chance for a breakout season.

 

[XACE-K]

Who's a better starter, Leon Washington or Darren Sproles?

I would pick Washington because I'm a Jets fan but if I had to start one, I'd still pick Washington.

I don't know much about fantasy football, but if it's only based upon how the perform as a RB, I would go with Sproles because LT's getting old so he will get carries. Washington has to get carries along with Jones (whose still the Jets #1 RB on thier depth chart) and Greene (even though he's a rookie, he'll probably get some carries every now and then). But if it's based upon everything, Washington can run, catch & return.

 

[KrazyGlue]

I would pick Washington because I'm a Jets fan but if I had to start one, I'd still pick Washington.

I don't know much about fantasy football, but if it's only based upon how the perform as a RB, I would go with Sproles because LT's getting old so he will get carries. Washington has to get carries along with Jones (whose still the Jets #1 RB on thier depth chart) and Greene (even though he's a rookie, he'll probably get some carries every now and then). But if it's based upon everything, Washington can run, catch & return.

For RBs:

1 point for every 10 rushing yards
1 point for every 10 receiving yards
6 points for rushing and receiving touchdowns

Also some leagues award a point for every reception. Returns don't count unless they score a touchdown.

 

[JLynn943]

hmm, someone just dropped Jonathan Stewart in my league.

I've got: Chris Johnson, Ronnie Brown, Joseph Addai, Reggie Bush

Do you think I should drop any of them to pick him up? (I can only start 2 RBs in my league btw)

 

[Proud_Smash_N00b]

Sadly, my league is so inactive. Only 6 people showed up for the draft and i dun think they care about it as much as I do so idk if I can pull off a trade.

Out of the following, which WR would be best to pick off waivers
Mark Clayton
Justin Gage
Michael Jenkins
Devery Henderson
Miles Austin
Domenik Hixon
Limas Sweed
Chansi Stuckey
David Clowney

and would it be best to drop Knowshon for one of these guys? I have 5 Rb's when I can only start 2 ><

n for week 1 should I start Avery over Steve Smith (***)