Anybody ready for some (fantasy) football?!? **UPDATE**

[wannabmama]

Hey GKU...anyone interested in a fantasy football league? We did it last year and it was fun. We played for pride and even if you've never done it before, it's not hard and makes football Sunday's infinitely more interesting! Plus...smack talking with your favorite internet friends is just so much fun.

If we have enough interest (8-12 teams is usually perfect), I'll set up a league. Unless someone else wants to do it, I'll do it on Yahoo, which will require you to have a yahoo email account, I think. And we'll have to schedule a draft. If you can't make the draft, you can auto draft and the computer will do it for you. You have plenty of chances to trade and change your team all season do it's usually not a big deal.

Anyway...leave a message here if you're interested and I'll try to put it together if enough people are in!

**UPDATE**
I created our league, but will need email addresses to send invites.  Create a fake account or whatever you want to do and PM me with it and I will send you an invite!!

Tagging those I think have shown interest and haven't yet responded so you see this!!
******,PepperPottsJ,rooskie,TheEleventhHour,dashook,diamondsndaisies,

[PepperPottsJ]

I'm in!!

[rooskie]

I'm game.

[RajahMD]

I'm game. What's one more league, right?

[Deleted]

Sounds like fun!

[irish14]

Innnnnn.

ESPN > yahoo by a mile. I'm fine with whatever, but if we want ESPN I can look into it. But either will work.

[RajahMD]

Aug 29, 2016 16:14:57 GMT -5 irish14 said:

Innnnnn.

ESPN > yahoo by a mile. I'm fine with whatever, but if we want ESPN I can look into it. But either will work.

Either ESPN or the NFL one. I am definitely not a fan of the Yahoo one.

[TheEleventhHour]

I will join in this year! I am not huge on football but DH loves it so this will get me more involved/interested lol.

[RajahMD]

Do we have enough peeps?

[TheEleventhHour]

Also I have never done a draft myself but I know DH's leagues always use ESPN or CBS.

[wannabmama]

I'm way more familiar with Yahoo but don't really feel strongly about it. I'll be in front of a computer tomorrow and can set it up. Do folks who have used ESPN in the past know if I need people's emails to invite them or if I can send out a link? I think we have 8 teams now and could take a couple more if anyone else wants to join. I'll update the thread tomorrow once I set up the league! (If anyone has name ideas for the league, I'll take those, too )

[RajahMD]

Aug 29, 2016 18:05:48 GMT -5 wannabmama said:

I'm way more familiar with Yahoo but don't really feel strongly about it. I'll be in front of a computer tomorrow and can set it up. Do folks who have used ESPN in the past know if I need people's emails to invite them or if I can send out a link? I think we have 8 teams now and could take a couple more if anyone else wants to join. I'll update the thread tomorrow once I set up the league! (If anyone has name ideas for the league, I'll take those, too )

I'm pretty sure you can just send a link. Maybe send it via PM.

[rooskie]

wannabmama - I think you need emails to set up ESPN. Also, pick standard draft not PPR.

I think rablissful played last year too.

[dashook]

If you're looking for a few more peeps, I'd be down!

(Assuming grads are welcome?)

[diamondsndaisies]

I have never done a fantasy football league. Ever. so I am willing to give it a go.

[irish14]

+1 for standard, not PPR. Hate PPR.

[wannabmama]

Aug 30, 2016 10:29:17 GMT -5 irish14 said:

+1 for standard, not PPR. Hate PPR.

Don't worry, me too!!

[irish14]

Aug 30, 2016 10:29:43 GMT -5 wannabmama said:

Aug 30, 2016 10:29:17 GMT -5 irish14 said:

+1 for standard, not PPR. Hate PPR.

Don't worry, me too!!

whew.

If you need any help w/ the ESPN I'm in my office today.

If we need emails we could all just go make fake free email accounts? I already have like ten emails, what's another one?

[irish14]

Not that I don't love you all but I also like my skin.

[wannabmama]

OK, I set up our league, but I do need to invite you by email. If you would like to PM me an email address to send the invite to, I will send them out. We need to have an even number of teams and I think we will cap it at 12 (which is I think all we have interested anyway), but send me an email to use when you get a chance and the first 12 in, are in!

We need to pick a draft date and time, too.
Here are a few suggestions to get us started:

Monday Sept. 5 (Labor Day) 8pm (all times are Eastern)
Tuesday Sept. 6 at 7 or 8pm
Wednesday Sept. 7 at 7 or 8pm

I am way more flexible than just these times, just trying to see what people's general availability is. Also, you can auto draft, which means the computer will pick for you, if you cant make the draft time (or just don't want to do it).

[irish14]

I think you can pick an avatar on ESPN. Would be fun if we used TCF avatars to keep everyone straight, if you already have an ESPN screen name that doesn't match your name here

[irish14]

Aug 30, 2016 10:25:24 GMT -5 diamondsndaisies said:

I have never done a fantasy football league. Ever. so I am willing to give it a go.

its soooo fun! Gives you a stake in games you otherwise don't care about, too, so I've found it makes football season more interesting

[irish14]

Hey wannabmama - I highly recommend doing no divisions. Looks like we have east/west right now. It messes with scheduling in a weird way sometimes. Also, if you don't do divisions, it will be just the best overal records that go to the playoffs - if your best people are all in one division, at playoff time some people can get f'ed. I think if there's no option to lose the divisions, you can just put everyone in the same one.

Unless anyone else has an opinion on this?

[wannabmama]

Aug 30, 2016 12:01:38 GMT -5 irish14 said:

Hey wannabmama - I highly recommend doing no divisions. Looks like we have east/west right now. It messes with scheduling in a weird way sometimes. Also, if you don't do divisions, it will be just the best overal records that go to the playoffs - if your best people are all in one division, at playoff time some people can get f'ed. I think if there's no option to lose the divisions, you can just put everyone in the same one.

Unless anyone else has an opinion on this?

Thanks, I wasn't sure about the divisions since there aren't any in Yahoo...and if anyone has other suggestions for things to modify in terms of the league rules or scoring or anything, let me know.  It's very customizable, I just don't know which things should be customized, ha!

I will go try to turn off the divisions now!

[rooskie]

Monday Sept. 5 (Labor Day) 8pm (all times are Eastern)
Tuesday Sept. 6 at 7 or 8pm
Wednesday Sept. 7 at 7 or 8pm


I am free Monday all day, or 8pm Tuesday or Wednesday.

(It's month end at work next week so I'll probably still be at work at 7pm eastern/6 central)

[irish14]

Aug 30, 2016 12:07:38 GMT -5 wannabmama said:

Aug 30, 2016 12:01:38 GMT -5 irish14 said:

Hey wannabmama - I highly recommend doing no divisions. Looks like we have east/west right now. It messes with scheduling in a weird way sometimes. Also, if you don't do divisions, it will be just the best overal records that go to the playoffs - if your best people are all in one division, at playoff time some people can get f'ed. I think if there's no option to lose the divisions, you can just put everyone in the same one.

Unless anyone else has an opinion on this?

Thanks, I wasn't sure about the divisions since there aren't any in Yahoo...and if anyone has other suggestions for things to modify in terms of the league rules or scoring or anything, let me know.  It's very customizable, I just don't know which things should be customized, ha!

I will go try to turn off the divisions now!

the only other thing that we sometimes customize is playoffs. Right now you have a 4 team (2 round) playoff, where each game lasts 2 weeks, so a month of playoffs. Some people like the 2-week format, some don't. I'm sort of ambivalent, though I think it takes some of the one-week fluke chance out of playoffs, which I like. An alternative is you could do a 3-week long 1-week each playoff with 6 teams, where the top 2 teams get a bye. If anyone feels strongly about this, I'm fine with whatever.

Is there an option for random draft order selection? Right now it says manual by league manager. You want the computer to auto-set the order, but I'm not sure if that's the right setting.

[irish14]

This thread has made me realize how much of a nerd I am.

[dashook]

Aug 30, 2016 11:52:18 GMT -5 irish14 said:

I think you can pick an avatar on ESPN. Would be fun if we used TCF avatars to keep everyone straight, if you already have an ESPN screen name that doesn't match your name here

I like this idea!

[irish14]

FYI, if you put in your name when you sign up for ESPN (or you use an existing account) it will show your name. If you want to stay anonymous you will need to make a new account and not put your real name in at signup

[TheEleventhHour]

Aug 30, 2016 11:38:59 GMT -5 wannabmama said:

Monday Sept. 5 (Labor Day) 8pm (all times are Eastern)
Tuesday Sept. 6 at 7 or 8pm
Wednesday Sept. 7 at 7 or 8pm

Monday would be best for me!