FF13: Fantasy Football 2013 catch-all thread

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(Thread formerly titled "FF2013: Pre-season fantasy football open thread")

If it's not specifically about one of the GWJFFL leagues, you're in the right place.

To talk about the GWJFFL, the official fantasy football league of GWJ, go here.

You're missing the part where you remind everyone that this isn't the sign-up thread.

This looks like it's going to be a great year in the GWJFFL...

I'd love to sign up for one of your leagues.

*Strolls in like a boss*

Until Football Outsiders comes out with their almanac, my football knowledge is lacking. Who do people have as their top 3 picks as of right now?
Mine:
1. Adrian Peterson
2. Aaron Rodgers
3. I have no idea, maybe Calvin Johnson?

I'm having trouble coming up with premier running backs who aren't going to lose touches this year due to a committee.

I would have Peterson #1, Foster #2. Not sure who I would have #3, but I have to imagine Megatron is going to take a step back from last year. Granted, he will have a good year, but not a #3 overall year. technically, I can say the same thing about AP, but I think he'll still have a hell of a year to keep him #1 overall. Losing Jennings may have an impact on Rodgers' season (note I said "may"). I'm am going to go with Jamaal Charles. 2nd year back from injury and Andy Reid loves to use his RBs in the passing game.

Yeah, I like it:

1. Adrian Peterson
2. Arian Foster
3. Jamaal Charles

I think Marshawn Lynch deserves that #3 spot, maybe even #2. The addition of Percy Harvin to the seahawks, and Russell Wilson's emergence as a pretty darn good QB should open it up even more for Lynch.

<--- oh and I have that bias too.

After starting off 2-7 in GWJ Dynasty and then stringing off 5 wins in a row to make the playoffs, I'm very optimistic that my team will improve and make a strong case to dethrone Legion.

News yesterday is that Miami named Lamar Miller the starting RB after the departure of Reggie Bush. So that leaves my RB roster as:

Arian Foster
Maurice Jones-Drew
Alfred Morris
Lamar Miller
David Wilson
Isaiah Pead
Jacquizz Rodgers

1. Marshawn Lynch
2. Russell Wilson
3. Percy Harvin

I love it when my fantasy team starts matching my real team!

Minase wrote:

1. Marshawn Lynch
2. Russell Wilson
3. Percy Harvin

I love it when my fantasy team starts matching my real team!

It makes the disappointment double.

Hey now the Seahawks aren't the Cowboys.

Wooooo fantasy football. I was just starting to get the itch and saw the thread for it When do the prices for our keepers get calculated?

Any chance on activating the Dynasty league, Grumpicus? There's some fools I have to cut from my roster.

FSeven wrote:

Any chance on activating the Dynasty league, Grumpicus? There's some fools I have to cut from my roster.

By request, I've activated the Dynasty (D) league. I've also done the same for K, P, and I (formerly G); links in my sig. I'll leave II (formerly S) and III (which would have been Bronze but we didn't have enough interest last year) on ice until I'm sure we have enough participation. As usual, official signups will open around the time that training camps do.

Was it ever decided how the dynasty league is going to work?

ukickmydog wrote:

When do the prices for our keepers get calculated?

Eh. Some time later this month, probably. You can get in the right ballpark by going with $4/40% though that's mostly on the high end for all but the biggest stars.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

Was it ever decided how the dynasty league is going to work?

I've pretty much left that up to *Legion*.

Grumpicus wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:

Was it ever decided how the dynasty league is going to work?

I've pretty much left that up to *Legion*.

The idea that we had discussed before the draft was setting the number of keepers to 80% of the active roster size, which rounds to 18 players. (Which is a number we came down to from the 90% someone said is used in their other dynasty league).

So, everyone has to let at least 5 players go, and more than that if they have players shelved on IR, as we're not including IR spots in the 80% calculation.

I think throwing back 20% of your roster (plus your extra roster spots from IR stashing) is a sensible amount of roster turnover for a dynasty format.

I was happy with this idea, so if there are no objections, I submit that this should be the rule.

*Legion* wrote:
Grumpicus wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:

Was it ever decided how the dynasty league is going to work?

I've pretty much left that up to *Legion*.

The idea that we had discussed before the draft was setting the number of keepers to 80% of the active roster size, which rounds to 18 players. (Which is a number we came down to from the 90% someone said is used in their other dynasty league).

So, everyone has to let at least 5 players go, and more than that if they have players shelved on IR, as we're not including IR spots in the 80% calculation.

I think throwing back 20% of your roster (plus your extra roster spots from IR stashing) is a sensible amount of roster turnover for a dynasty format.

I was happy with this idea, so if there are no objections, I submit that this should be the rule.

Seconded.

*Legion* wrote:
Grumpicus wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:

Was it ever decided how the dynasty league is going to work?

I've pretty much left that up to *Legion*.

The idea that we had discussed before the draft was setting the number of keepers to 80% of the active roster size, which rounds to 18 players. (Which is a number we came down to from the 90% someone said is used in their other dynasty league).

So, everyone has to let at least 5 players go, and more than that if they have players shelved on IR, as we're not including IR spots in the 80% calculation.

I think throwing back 20% of your roster (plus your extra roster spots from IR stashing) is a sensible amount of roster turnover for a dynasty format.

I was happy with this idea, so if there are no objections, I submit that this should be the rule.

Sounds good. I was just curious because I thought I remembered some talk of budgets.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

Sounds good. I was just curious because I thought I remembered some talk of budgets.

We kicked around some crazy ideas, as we are wont to do, but this seemed the way to go.

One day, I'll get to do my "restricted free agency" keeper league idea.

Exciting!! I'm very ready for this.

I really want to get down on a GWJ league this year for serious folks. I've done won my friends and coworker league 3 out of 4 years and I want some more challenging competition!

I'm already in full FFL mode. I'm coming off a season where I won 2 leagues, took third in the other, and won my Survivor pool. I have to temper my expectations, but I think the key to last year's success is that I didn't obsess with the waiver wire or pull my hair out on Sundays while the games were on. I kept myself very zen after many complaints from my wife the previous year.

I've started doing a few mock drafts, and boy, if RB isn't thin as a rake. Especially mocking for my 12 team PPR, it's very tough to find anything that's not a complete dice roll with low upside after the third round. Fortunately, WR is incredibly deep. Same with QB. You're not seeing guys like Matt Ryan, Russel Wilson, or RG3 go off the board til the 5th or 6th round, and guys like Romo or Eli you can pretty much wait til the end (as long as you don't have a ton of autopick guys in the draft, which frequently draft 2 QBs and 2 D/ST). Although, in the real thing, I think once people see Rodgers and Brees go, there will be a run at QB. But in a 12 team, there are 12 totally servicable QBs out there to choose from. In a 10 team, unless you have your heart set on one of the top 3, you really can wait til the end of the draft to take someone.

So apparently training camps start tomorrow (rookies don't count*). I guess it's time to dig up my GWJFFL Registration Thread boilerplate.

Soon...

[size=8]*Neither do the Dolphins or Cowboys, apparently. ;-)[/size]

Grumpicus wrote:

So apparently training camps start tomorrow (rookies don't count*). I guess it's time to dig up my GWJFFL Registration Thread boilerplate.

Soon...

*Neither do the Dolphins or Cowboys, apparently. ;-)

I was just thinking that last year's thread was put up the last week of July

I felt last year was thin, and I was amazed when some people in all 2 (3?) leagues still avoided getting 2 running backs for 4 or 5 rounds. I had a pretty good year because of it.

ukickmydog wrote:

I was just thinking that last year's thread was put up the last week of July :)

July 29th to be exact. I've still got a couple days...

Man, watching NFL Fantasy show on the NFL Network and getting pretty pumped!

Whatever your opinion of the guy's prowess, you can't deny that's he's turned this "silly game" into a career. Lifehacker just did a "How I work" profile on him.

Jolly Bill wrote:

I felt last year was thin, and I was amazed when some people in all 2 (3?) leagues still avoided getting 2 running backs for 4 or 5 rounds. I had a pretty good year because of it.

All my leagues last year drafted late on RB. I drafted RB heavy and people were making fun of me during the draft, but it paid off. In one league trading Reggie Bush for Reggie Wayne (PPR and my other 2 receivers were Green and Marshall) and in another I dealt DMC for Brees. Had Alf Morris in both leagues.

I'm actually a big fan of just drafting the heck out of RBs, especially in leagues with flex positions. It's gonna be even crazier this year. Doesn't mean there won't be potential value later. Watch for some of the falling RBs in mid rounds... guys like Chris Ivory, Giovani Bernard, Leveon Bell, and Shane Vereen. People are making runs on WR in the mocks I'm doing at that point and passing over these guys, who could be great in flex or as trade bait if they realize their upside. There are some options farther down too, like Ben Tate, who's supposed to be getting a lot more time on the field this year as Houston ratchets down Foster's carries.

Grumpicus wrote:

Whatever your opinion of the guy's prowess, you can't deny that's he's turned this "silly game" into a career. Lifehacker just did a "How I work" profile on him.

I like Berry. I don't always agree with him, but I like his honesty. I'm reading his book right now and it's thoroughly entertaining, if a bit ego-centric. I was interested to learn he was once screwed over by Crocodile Dundee.

I've been kind of thinking lately about how fantasy football scoring may need to adjust in the near future to more closely reflect NFL value.

It's weird for fantasy football to be so RB dominant as the league itself further and further devalues that position.

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