The Syndicate

DharmaHelper wrote:R.I.P Dirk you got straight up merked. Nobody can stop the Sinestro Corps.

You look like a goddamn genius drafting Tyler Eifert. I think you have the team to beat this year

Would you have drafted differently if there was fractional points? :P

It's not changing anything essential though, like changing QB TD's from 4 to 6 points... it just makes the scoring more accurate. I do understand the sentiment of not wanting to change anything though.

I made a new poll so everyone can voice their opinion on this important issue

And I hate bullshit penalty calls too... unless they go my way

Sidenote, apparently I didn't enable fractional points for yardage... must have been an oopsie because I usually like playing with fractions so that every yard counts. What does everyone else think? This is something I don't mind changing if the overwhelming majority of the league is in favor of it.

Quite a few close matchups this week. Tannehill and the Miami offense let me down but at least they didn't poop the bed completely. Looks like Kelce will fulfill the prophecy of being a mini-Gronk this year, but he's currently carrying my entire sadsack team. My WR corps is in trouble with injuries and apparently I haven't learned my lesson to never draft a Jag. I'm gonna need a huge game from Peterson tomorrow night.

The marmot probably made changes because he auto-drafted. I guess Jay just wanted a different kicker. I probably pounced on C. Michael too early but I bought into the hype and I'd rather be too early than too late.

wataboutit

You can call it close all you want, but that garbage time Antonio Brown TD was bullshit *grumble grumble*

*is facing Aces this week*

Epignosis wrote:How's Wheaton vs. Gronkowski working out for you, leggy?

That's not a fair fight, Gronk isn't even human

DharmaHelper wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:I can't wait to drop him

Should have picked a kicker earlier in the draft.

Thanks coach but there's still plenty of kickers on the wire :P Zurlein, Novak, friggin Janikowski...

leggyorlyb wrote:He might get better!! Maybe.

Meh. Kickers are a weekly crapshoot. I usually pick a different guy each week.

I can't wait to drop him

My kicker missed the first field goal of the season. Off to a great start.

The Thursday night game is the start of each fantasy week. The Monday night game is the end of the week. All other games are on Sunday, so that's generally when you need to have your roster set if none of your guys play on Thursday.

Sunday games will either be at 1pm EST (majority of games) 4:25ish pm EST (a few games) and one prime time game at 8pm EST.

Once a player's game starts, they are locked into wherever they are on your roster. Additionally, any undrafted players will be placed on "Waivers" when their game starts. If you want to add these extra players to your team, you need to place a waiver claim for them. Waivers process on either Tuesday or Wednesday, I'm actually not sure, we'll see after the first week. All waiver claims go through and then these extra players become "free agents", and then it's a first come first serve process to add them to your team.

So your routine each week should be something like:

Thursday: check for any players playing, decide to Start or Sit them.

Sunday: Set the majority of your lineup before 1pm games start.

Monday: check to see if there are any players you want to add through the waiver system.

Tuesday/Wednesday: check to see if there are any free agents you want to add.

Christine Michael to Dallas HYPE

BigDamnHero wrote:So I kinda wished I looked over the league rules a bit closer before the draft. I knew we were a .5 pt PPR but I didn't know that our QBs only get 4 pts for a TD....That might've made me wait on a QB a few rds later.

Okay, but what's your excuse for drafting Vernon Davis? You must like goose eggs every week.

Also I told Rico to wait on TE and QB, so he did the exact opposite of what I told him to do :P

I went with half-PPR because in a 14-team league, the RBs like Bell or Forte who catch a lot of passes are insanely valuable and there's not enough of them go around.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:So I've never played with an IR slot before. How does that work? What injury status is required for a player to be stashed there, and can that player be pulled back out the moment they're healthy?

The team has to put him on IR and then you get an extra bench slot. You can reinstate him immediately but you'll have to drop someone.

I changed the amount of teams that make the playoffs from 4 to 6, and the top two seeds get a Bye during the first round. This way everybody plays each other once during the regular season, then three weeks of playoffs.

Hope you fools are ready

The team logo choices from ESPN are simply awful.

Epignosis wrote:Obviously you're more likely to win in the DUs and 50/50s, but I find the bigger tournaments more appealing. I like the thrill of getting lucky that one time.

I agree In that case the 50-50s are a good way to sustain your bankroll so that you can afford to keep enterting the ones with bigger prize pools.

I should say that in 50-50's you want to try and draft the players that you think everyone else will have too. In the bigger tournaments you try and go against the grain more.

Epignosis wrote:Off-topic:

Has anyone ever played any of those weekly fantasy games where you pay an entry fee, pick a team, and try to get like in the top 25%-50% of the players for a payout? Fan Duel is perhaps the most advertised, but Yahoo has rolled out their own version of this, and I think it might be something I would enjoy.

Any experience with this? How is it?

I've played on DraftKings before and had decent success. If it's something you're interested in, I'd start out with the 50/50's or Double Ups, where you beat half the field and double your money. It's tough to make money in the larger tournaments.

It's just like drafting in a season long league; you want to find the undervalued guys and then use the extra salary space on more studs, and then pray those studs perform.

BigDamnHero wrote:so ESPN doesn't have a SINGLE mock draft room for 14 teams...what. The. HELL!?!?!?

That is weird I know there's some dedicated mock draft websites that will have them though.

Sidebar, Mister Meeseeks is an amazing team name.

1. Mister Meeseeks Dirk Simpson
2. Team Brown Robert Brown
3. Team Smith Smee Smith
4. Team Turnip Joshua Marcum
5. Aerie's Assassins Jamie Lamb
6. Team Dillehay Michael Dillehay
7. Team Sock Alex Browne
8. Team JayJayJay Jay Wimsatt
9. Metal Marmots Holden Marsh
10. The Tornado Tim Chandler
11. Team Ricochet Rico Halloway
12. Team Coffee Juliet Coffee
13. Maryland Murder Bots Sebastian Schauer
14. Sinestro Corps Dharma Helper

BigDamnHero wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:Holy shit 14 teams.

I know, right! This is gonna be epic....I feel sorry for whoever ends up drafting #1 and #14

Well then the draft order that I just randomized is especially hilarious.

BigDamnHero wrote:I'm fine with the weekly reset....that's right peeps...I"M IN THIS BITCH!!! Y'ALL JUST BEEN PUT ON NOTICE!!!

!!

I'm so stoked that we were able to squeeze BDH in here. This is gonna be a hoot.

That means we're going to have 14 teams, so plan your draft strategy accordingly. I'll see if I can randomize the draft order soon so everyone knows what they're doing.

I want to talk about something that I feel may become relevant as the season goes on. The default setting for the waiver wire system is that it resets pick priority every week according to the inverse of the current standings. I typically play with rolling waivers where it doesn't reset weekly. Does anyone have an opinion on this?

(For those unfamiliar, the waiver wire is how you acquire players after the draft is over. Players who have been recently dropped by a fantasy team, or who just played a game, will go on "waivers" for a few days and anyone can try to claim the player. The team with the highest waiver priority will get the player, and then you drop to the lowest waiver priority.

After a few days, if nobody claims the player off waivers, he becomes a "Free Agent" and whoever wants to add him can do so without using a waiver priority.)

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

juliets wrote:Metalmarsh you can set up an auto draft. Turnip Head will know how to do it.

Thanks. I'll do that. I just wanted to say no time works for me, so I don't care when it is.

I'll draft a team for ya

You can also draft from your phone if you're using the app; you would only need to be present every ~10ish minutes to make your pick.

Bass_the_Clever wrote:So I was all set up to draft and realized I still had a week to wait. Epic fail.

Lmao, sorry Bass.

juliets I haven't set the draft order yet, I want to make sure we're not adding anyone else before I lock everything down.

Ricochet wrote:I'm not sure. Sounds complicated.

There's definitely a learning curve if you've never played before and/or don't follow football, but you'll get the hang of it within a couple of weeks. It's not terribly complicated. As long as you don't completely tank your draft, and you keep up with injury news for your players, you'll be okay.

I do have one alternate player waiting in the wings if you decide you want to play, Rico (since we need an even number). Sockface has no idea what he's doing either, so you'd be in good company :P

juliets wrote:TH we left out our IR position one year by mistake. Would you please ensure we have that?

Good call, I added it.

DharmaHelper wrote:THREE WR's and a flex? Wat.

I am most likely going to change it to 2 WR's + Flex now that we have a few more teams, but that's how I usually play in 10-man leagues and it's never a problem, WRs are everywhere. We also have a short bench so that will help.

I'll take a look at tweaking the settings during the next couple days; I'll communicate any changes to points/roster sizes here in thread and you'll be able to see changes on the league page as well. I won't be making any changes after we draft. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

Epignosis wrote:I prefer Yahoo. I think the ESPN interface sucks.

In browser mode it's fine, but Yahoo's mobile app is totes lame.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Remember when we tried to set up a fantasy baseball league and only you and I signed up? :P

Haha, yes, I remember that :P I don't blame anyone though, fantasy baseball is less fun and way more time consuming.

We are at 12, which is pretty much the perfect league size. Ace and timmer need to register their teams, and I'm waiting for JJJ and MM to send me their e-mail addresses so they can register.

Timmer is the only one who's not sure if the draft time will work for him, so... hopefully it works for him :P

I'd like to keep it at 12, but if anyone else would still really like to play, please PM me... I'll see what I can do

We currently have 10 which is enough to start (waiting on a few to confirm). I'll keep adding room for anyone who wants to join.

Juliets specifically requested we use ESPN so I'd like to try it. I normally use Yahoo but I'm not crazy about their app interface.

Everyone from the PA league is welcome to join, but I'd like to make this a yearly Syndicate tradition

We're halfway full

Also there's a new poll. Please vote.

I have no idea what Epi just said but I wholeheartedly agree with him.

Epignosis wrote:I'm Robinosis on ESPN FF. Can you add me there?

I just tried but I'm not sure it worked.

Epignosis wrote:

juliets wrote:Makes it sound like you won't because I signed up . And yeah Epi, you know how this goes. It doesn't take that much time.

I didn't say I won't.

And it does take me more time than the average participant. I study things.

Well PM me your e-mail address and I'll send you the invite, what you do at that point is up to you but I think we both know what the correct choice is

Maybe I'm intentionally giving you bad advice

Well the good news is you really only need to check your team once a week to set your lineup. Pretty low maintenance

Epignosis wrote:I might. Depends.

Depends on what? Juliets has signed up - does that help?

DRAFT IS AT 9PM EST ON SEPTEMBER 5TH

DRAFT ORDER
1. Mister Meeseeks BigDamnHero
2. Team Brown Epignosis
3. Team Smith AceofSpaces
4. Team Turnip Turnip Head
5. Aerie's Assassins leggyorlyb
6. Team Dillehay reywaS
7. Team Sock MovingPictures07
8. Team JayJayJay JaggedJimmyJay
9. Metal Marmots Metalmarsh89
10. The Tornado timmer
11. Team Ricochet Ricochet
12. Team Coffee juliets
13. Maryland Murder Bots Bass_the_Clever
14. Sinestro Corps Dharma Helper

UPDATED
I created an ESPN league here: http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffi ... sonId=2015

If you'd like to join, PM me your e-mail address and I'll send you an invite. We currently have 10 teams but the more the merrier.

There will be a live draft, currently set for September 5th at 8pm EST. Please vote in the poll so I know what time works for you.

Pretty standard scoring, but a few tweaks: .5 PPR (point per reception) and bonuses for big yardage games. Check the scoring settings and let me know if you have any concerns.

CONFIRMED TEAMS
Turnip Head
juliets
Epignosis
Bass_the_Clever
reywaS
Metalmarsh89
DharmaHelper
Leggyorlyb
JaggedJimmyJay
AceofSpaces
timmer
MovingPictures07
Ricochet
BigDamnHero