The Syndicate

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

I might. Depends.

Epignosis wrote:I might. Depends.

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

Turnip Head wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I might. Depends.

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

I don't care to spread myself too thinly in my online activities and lately I've been doing just that.

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

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.

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

I know how to play fantasy football. I'm in one league already.

And I don't just "check my team once a week" for "pretty low maintenance."

Maybe I'm intentionally giving you bad advice

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.

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

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

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

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

If Aces doesn't start up our usual league I'll jump in this one

Epig and TH, I just had TH email me the invite to the email account where I registered for espn and then I clicked join. Now the syndicate league appears with my other two.

DharmaHelper wrote:If Aces doesn't start up our usual league I'll jump in this one

Botha y'all oughtta sign on for this one.

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

I want in on this.

We're halfway full

Also there's a new poll. Please vote.

I'll join.

Just another thought, we could merge with the Prog Archives fantasy league if they're interested? BWT, myself and Epignosis (and I think Elohcin as well) are all already registered in that league.

But the PA league is on Yahoo.

Also, votes are changeable in this poll.

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

ME ME ME!!! I wanna join!!!

5th is good with me -- i'd prefer evening. Thanks for the invite Turnip.

I will join this league.

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.

10 already! That is awesome!

So... I've never played fantasy football before. I know practically nothing about football. I am really busy as well, but I'm going to be taking a break from mafia for a little while after Recuritment IV and Angry Birds, since I think I've been overdue an official actual break, and it's been requiring so much emotional energy from me that I need to funnel back through my PhD work.

I still obviously really want to do something recreational with you folks that doesn't require nearly as much energy. How much do I need to know about the sport to have fun with this, do you think?

MovingPictures07 wrote:So... I've never played fantasy football before. I know practically nothing about football. I am really busy as well, but I'm going to be taking a break from mafia for a little while after Recuritment IV and Angry Birds, since I think I've been overdue an official actual break, and it's been requiring so much emotional energy from me that I need to funnel back through my PhD work.

I still obviously really want to do something recreational with you folks that doesn't require nearly as much energy. How much do I need to know about the sport to have fun with this, do you think?

It doesn't matter what you know- Arian Foster will pull his hamstring, Cam Newton will get in a car accident, and Adrian Peterson will beat the shit out of his kid.

MovingPictures07 wrote:So... I've never played fantasy football before. I know practically nothing about football. I am really busy as well, but I'm going to be taking a break from mafia for a little while after Recuritment IV and Angry Birds, since I think I've been overdue an official actual break, and it's been requiring so much emotional energy from me that I need to funnel back through my PhD work.

I still obviously really want to do something recreational with you folks that doesn't require nearly as much energy. How much do I need to know about the sport to have fun with this, do you think?

I've won two years in a row with absolutely zero knowledge of football. You'll do just fine.

Sweet! I'm in then.

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

Turnip Head wrote: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

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the the Yahoo interface either, but we've been using Yahoo for PA for awhile now.

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

I prefer Yahoo. I think the ESPN interface sucks.

THREE WR's and a flex? Wat.

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.

Oh it was set up for 10 teams :P

I'm not sure. Sounds complicated.

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

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.

I follow the NFL very closely and have a lot of knowledge of its players.

So I'll finish in last place.

TH have you done a draft order yet?

I would have participated if I wasn't already doing one fantasy football draft while on holiday. One can only push your wife so far!

Have fun guys.

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

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.

Thanks TH. I use my draft order to run through a couple of mock drafts before the real draft. I understand though why you are waiting.

So I've had something come up that may conflict with the time of the draft on Saturday. What I want to know is: How much of a presence will I need to have during that time? Is it something I can do on my phone sporadically, or do I have to be here at my computer for a solid chunk of time?

MovingPictures07 wrote:So I've had something come up that may conflict with the time of the draft on Saturday. What I want to know is: How much of a presence will I need to have during that time? Is it something I can do on my phone sporadically, or do I have to be here at my computer for a solid chunk of time?

You will either need to be present for about an hour, or you can set up an auto-draft where you rank the players in the order you would want them and, if available, you'll draft those players.

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:So I've had something come up that may conflict with the time of the draft on Saturday. What I want to know is: How much of a presence will I need to have during that time? Is it something I can do on my phone sporadically, or do I have to be here at my computer for a solid chunk of time?

You will either need to be present for about an hour, or you can set up an auto-draft where you rank the players in the order you would want them and, if available, you'll draft those players.

Noted, thanks!

That's doable.

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.

I used to do fantasy football back in the day. Not enough time to keep up with individual players. Maybe next year I'll jump in. I'll be too busy with the baby mid-season this year.

I'm trying to run a simplified fantasy football game myself here. If I don't get at least 8 people to sign up though, I'll scrap it and try again next year.