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[Insurrection]

Everyone Good To Go?

[Nate River]

Everyone Good To Go?

No.

It's just loading.... and loading....

EDIT: Going on like five minutes. Should it be taking this long?

[Insurrection]

No.

It's just loading.... and loading....

EDIT: Going on like five minutes. Should it be taking this long?

Are you still loading?

[Nate River]

Yeah.

[Insurrection]

Yeah.

Sam Adams?

[Nate River]

yeah

I was in then it rebooted on me. So loading again.

[Insurrection]

yeah

I was in then it rebooted on me. So loading again.

You have 1 minute before it autopicks on you. I'm trying to get the word out.

Too late you drafter A Foster.

Edited by Insurrection, 21 August 2011 - 10:45 PM.

[Nate River]

Crap. Not sure what to do. It's still loading for me. Refresehed several times. It won't let me in and has gotten stuck at the same place every single time. Sounds like it's took late, and I'm stuck with a CPU team? I've been trying to get in for nearly 20 minutes.

[Insurrection]

Have u updated flash?

[Mik3]

Thanks to everyone for showing up for the draft. Feel free to discuss trades and etc amongst yoursleves, see you when the season starts.

[Nate River]

Hey Burning, I didn't se you pick Kasay, but a heads up...Carolina released him. He has no team at this point and I think there is a respectable chance he will retire. I don't like the 4 autopicks, but i think this team is more balance than last year's where it sink or swim a lot.

EDIT: I meant I didn;t like the autopicks as a matter of principle, not the actual players. Would have preferred to do them myself.

[Zatren6]

Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I got caught out during the draft. I guess someone had to autodraft this year

Time to make some adjustments and still kick some ass

[Insurrection]

Alright who picked up Plaxico Burress? 66 yards and a TD.

Edited by Insurrection, 22 August 2011 - 04:44 AM.

[roninmedia]

All from the footballguys.com

Straight Cash Homies
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 85 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 75 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 63 percent chance of making the playoffs.

The Golden Thumbs
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 85 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 75 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 64 percent chance of making the playoffs.

The Gama Warriors
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 75 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 65 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 50 percent chance of making the playoffs.

Leatherbacks
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 85 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 80 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 68 percent chance of making the playoffs.

Sam Adams Patriots
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 80 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 65 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 53 percent chance of making the playoffs.

Sparky McRandomsons
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 90 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 85 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 80 percent chance of making the playoffs.

Zatties!
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 90 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 80 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 73 percent chance of making the playoffs.

Tokyo Raiders Overview:
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 80 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 65 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 51 percent chance of making the playoffs.

The Wulfpack
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 55 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 30 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 1 percent chance of making the playoffs.

Ellicott Thundercats
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 80 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 70 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 55 percent chance of making the playoffs.

All we do is lose
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 85 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 75 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 62 percent chance of making the playoffs.

Reavers!
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 55 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 35 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 7 percent chance of making the playoffs.

[Nick Soapdish]

All from the footballguys.com

Leatherbacks
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 85 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 80 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 68 percent chance of making the playoffs.

What if I have below average inseason management?

[True]

GM True: Alright, we’ve drafted our new players for this 2011 season. We feel like we got some great players to contribute to the starting lineup, some good depth options, and even some sleepers. We'll take questions now.

Reporter: True, do you think it was worth taking the risk on CJ in the first?

GM True: oh absolutely, we’re talking about a top 5 RB dropping all the way down to #9? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? <Deion Sanders voice> At that point we felt it was a medium risk and huge reward. We’ll take it.

Report: How do you feel about your starting lineup?

GM True: This might be the strongest unit we’ve drafted in our 3 years here. If you remember during our championship year we built our team through the waiver wires, making the most moves in the entire league. This year we feel like we have some great players to help our team from the get go.

• Matt Schaub is a low end top 10 QB who has great statistical numbers with a strong offensive supporting cast. Getting him in the 4th round was excellent value.
• Roddy White is an absolutely monster and with Julio Jones opposite him we feel like his numbers won’t drop and he will continue to produce at a high level and be our #1.
• Brandon Marshall is an excellent WR who puts up good numbers despite great QB play. How can we complain about having a #1 WR as our starting #2?
• Steven Jackson is a workhorse back and that’s exactly what we wanted for our second running option. With the development of Sam Bradford defenses won’t stack the box allowing Jackson to reap the benefits.

Reporter: You picked up Jason Witten in the 6th round; some would say an absolute steal, your thoughts?

GM True: As we continued to watch him drop we were shocked that he wasn’t gone by the time we got to pick. We got a great TE who is top 5 at his position in later rounds and quite honestly we feel like we got away with high way robbery!

Reporter: Could you give us a quick recap on your depth options?

GM True: After building our starting lineup with the first 6 picks we started to acquire help and backups. We got our 3rd feature back in Cedric Benson and have a strong RB group. Sidney Rice to us was a low risk / high reward #1 WR option pick in the 8th round. Malcolm Floyd and Lee Evans are solid #2 WRs on their teams and could be good flex options. Todd HEEEAAAPPP is a solid contributor behind Witten and Donovan McNabb is a good backup for Shcaub. Overall we feel like we have a solid team all around.

Reporter: Any final thoughts?

GM True: We have a lot of great teams in this league and we expect every one of them to be highly competitive and fight to the bitter end. However, we have confidence in our squad and coaching staff to take this team back to the top and reach that pinnacle we achieved our first year. We wish all the best to our fellow competitors and we’re coming for you!

[Insurrection]

All from the footballguys.com

Reavers!
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 55 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 35 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 7 percent chance of making the playoffs.

Those damn autopicks screwed me.

[Nate River]

Sam Adams Patriots
Bottom line:
With great inseason management, we think you have about a 80 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With good inseason management, we think you have about a 65 percent chance of making the playoffs.
With average inseason management, we think you have a 53 percent chance of making the playoffs.

My odds are that high? Really? But looking at the comparisons, I probably have a below average team.

QB (Matt Ryan, Colt McCoy): Matt Ryan doesn't suck and given that I didn't get to make a pick of my own until this point, it's not a bad pick for the last choice of Round 4. That said, unless they really let loose with the passing this year, Ryan's a bit pedestrian for a fantasy performer and I'd rather have "pedestrian" at some other place than QB. However, given my draft location I was getting a top flight RB or QB, but not both and with what I had planned as my first pick (Peterson), something like this was destined to happen. It was either Ryan, Manning, or Freeman. Manning turns it over too much and I think Ryan has a more consistent track record, and arguably, more weapons at his disposal than Freeman. I think if I had gotten to choose on my own in Round 2 or Round 3 I would have had a better QB at that point, but under the circumstances, Ryan was my best bet and someone I had an eye on as a backup if there was a run on QB's.

I like McCoy as a 14th Round pick. Little risk that low in the draft and if he turns out to be real good I can start him. If not he can bench warm as planned.

RB (Arian Foster, Shonn Greene, Frank Gore, Thomas Jones): Pissed off to no end. Arian Foster was fantasy king last year and I can't complain about having him despite having my eye on Peterson because of his consistent track record. Reports from preseaon are that he looks good, so I'm crossing fingers he is not a one-hit wonder, which was my primary concern. After that, not so happy.

My computer just kept loadings and would never log in. I refereshed multiple times, but recieved no errors or messages that I was missing any software it just did nothing for 30 minutes and I had to use a 5 year computer to log in to find I had made three autopicks for players I wouldn't have made. I still don't understand what the issue was. Greene is supposed to be RB1 for a run first offense, but I fear LT getting more goaline touches and him screwing me as hard as he screwed the True Mircales last year.

Gore is in a contracrt dispute and is injury prone. I'd have been happy picking them in Rounds 4 and 5, but not 2 and 3 when there were still high level receievers available. The plan was to take the WR's and take the risks at RB later since I think the drop off is less. I was screwed with injury prone Moreno last year and I didn't want another injury prone back.

I suspect it's sink or swim here. They perform up to fantasy expectations I think I do very well; they perform like last year and I sink to the bottom. My gut says perform like last year. Ultimately, I feel completely cheated by Yahoo. I hate feeling that way because this is supossed to be fun.

Again, it as much about principle than performance. If my teams going to suck, I'd prefer it be more a function of my crappy drafting than getting jobbed by a computer.

WR (Mario Manningham, Santana Moss, Lance Moore, A.J. Green, Michael Crabtree): Considering the circumstances, and not getting to pick one until Round 6, I can't complain. I had Manningham targeted about that point especially with Smith gone and him being a clear cut No 2 with a QB who throws alot. Moss on Round 7 wasn't bad, I think I gambled a bit considered what may have been available and because the Redskins well...aren't that good. If he performs like last year then, it should be okay.

I like my backups in Moore and Green. I debated between Green and Jones, but Jones shared a bye week with way too many players and I don't like having multiple people for the sames teams because one bad game can do tones of damage. Green's a risk, but I think a fair one to take for the bench. Moore has decent TD totals and is in a good offense. Crabtree for Round 15...outta good ideas by that point.

TE (Jermichael Finley, Zach Miller): An autopick I deserved because I couldn't make a decision. An ultimate swing for the fences. Antonio Gates production potential with Dallas Clark injury potential. I was debtaing between him Davis, Lloyd, and Marshall. Unsold on taking TE this early for Davis. I was concerned about Marshall because Henne is still the QB and Lloyd is going to play in a run first offense for a notoriously conservative coach (see Steve Smith the last couple of years (though Denver has a better QB than we did) and, I don't was going to repeat to the level of last year. Just hope he doesn't get injured and Rodgers likes him in the endzone.

DEF (New Orleans): Run on them before I got to pick. Do I get 09 or 10 NO defense? Dunno.

K (Sebstain Janikowski): It's the kicker and he's pretty good.

[Jwolf0]

Draft results by round: http://football.fant...00/draftresults
Draft results by team: http://football.fant...s?drafttab=team

This draft was much less random than last year's, but that's to be expected with no true Fantasy Football rookies among us this time. As a result there weren't TOO many headscratchers this time.

With more people chiming in on the results I don't see a reason to provide blurbs on each team's draft, although I will if you want. I will give you mine, however. Because, you know, no one asked for it.

(Starters underlined)

QB (T. Romo, R. Fitzpatrick): Tony Romo fell to exactly where I wanted him. I saw him as the last of the "elite-level" QBs on the board and pulled the trigger in the 4th, gambling that his collarbone is healed. Ryan Fitzpatrick is quite serviceable depth - hard to complain about him in the 14th round.

RB (R. Mendenhall, L. McCoy, J. Best, M. Tolbert, R. Jennings, R. Helu): I knew that I wanted to treat the flex position as a 3rd RB spot. I've run "spread" offenses (2 RB, 3 WR) in Fantasy Football before and it sucks. I placed a premium on getting quality and quantity at this position, snatching Mendenhall, McCoy, and Best with 3 of the first 5 picks. I am VERY happy with the depth behind them in Mike Tolbert and Rashad Jennings; Tolbert especially. Roy Helu is a flier on a player I like coming out of college, but he may not have space on this team.

About taking Mendenhall when CHRISJOHNSON was still on the board: I REALLY wanted to go for CHRISJOHNSON. But above all else, I feel your first round pick has to be guaranteed. Who knows how long CJ's holdout will take or how close to game shape he will be in when he does report? I'm not a huge Mendenhall fan, but he will get the yards and double digit TDs.

WR (S. Johnson, A. Collie, M. Thomas, M. Williams): Well, something had to give here. Focusing on other areas meant I was staring at a group of wideouts that included Austin Collie, Mario Manningham, and Stevie Johnson by the time Round 6 came along. I thought about taking Brandon Marshall in Round 5 but Jahvid Best was too good a value to pass up, especially with Mikel Leshoure already out for the season. So I lost my chance at Marshall, and took the full amount of time to flip a coin on Johnson and Manningham. After that, it was scrambling for players. I imagine this is where the majority of my waiver-wire work will be.

TE (A. Gates): Taking Gates in the 3rd boiled down to one very simple reason- If you have a player you really want, take him even if seems like a slight reach. Gates was that man for me. I felt he was far enough ahead of the other players at this position that he was worth snagging early and if it caused a run on TEs, so much the better. (Alas, the run didn't happen for another 3-4 rounds). He is still clearly the focal point of the Charger offense, and regularly puts up stats that resemble a WR2 player.

K (G. Hartley): Meh, it's a kicker. At least his team puts up a lot of points.

DEF (NY Giants): Hopefully Osi recovers well from his surgery and is pissed enough to record 345871 sacks. Solid group, but nothing special. That's all I ask from my defense - just be solid.

[Nate River]

Draft results by round: http://football.fant...00/draftresults
Draft results by team: http://football.fant...s?drafttab=team

This draft was much less random than last year's, but that's to be expected with no true Fantasy Football rookies among us this time. As a result there weren't TOO many headscratchers this time.

With more people chiming in on the results I don't see a reason to provide blurbs on each team's draft, although I will if you want. I will give you mine, however. Because, you know, no one asked for it.

(Starters underlined)

QB (T. Romo, R. Fitzpatrick): Tony Romo fell to exactly where I wanted him. I saw him as the last of the "elite-level" QBs on the board and pulled the trigger in the 4th, gambling that his collarbone is healed. Ryan Fitzpatrick is quite serviceable depth - hard to complain about him in the 14th round.

RB (R. Mendenhall, L. McCoy, J. Best, M. Tolbert, R. Jennings, R. Helu): I knew that I wanted to treat the flex position as a 3rd RB spot. I've run "spread" offenses (2 RB, 3 WR) in Fantasy Football before and it sucks. I placed a premium on getting quality and quantity at this position, snatching Mendenhall, McCoy, and Best with 3 of the first 5 picks. I am VERY happy with the depth behind them in Mike Tolbert and Rashad Jennings; Tolbert especially. Roy Helu is a flier on a player I like coming out of college, but he may not have space on this team.

About taking Mendenhall when CHRISJOHNSON was still on the board: I REALLY wanted to go for CHRISJOHNSON. But above all else, I feel your first round pick has to be guaranteed. Who knows how long CJ's holdout will take or how close to game shape he will be in when he does report? I'm not a huge Mendenhall fan, but he will get the yards and double digit TDs.

WR (S. Johnson, A. Collie, M. Thomas, M. Williams): Well, something had to give here. Focusing on other areas meant I was staring at a group of wideouts that included Austin Collie, Mario Manningham, and Stevie Johnson by the time Round 6 came along. I thought about taking Brandon Marshall in Round 5 but Jahvid Best was too good a value to pass up, especially with Mikel Leshoure already out for the season. So I lost my chance at Marshall, and took the full amount of time to flip a coin on Johnson and Manningham. After that, it was scrambling for players. I imagine this is where the majority of my waiver-wire work will be.

TE (A. Gates): Taking Gates in the 3rd boiled down to one very simple reason- If you have a player you really want, take him even if seems like a slight reach. Gates was that man for me. I felt he was far enough ahead of the other players at this position that he was worth snagging early and if it caused a run on TEs, so much the better. (Alas, the run didn't happen for another 3-4 rounds). He is still clearly the focal point of the Charger offense, and regularly puts up stats that resemble a WR2 player.

K (G. Hartley): Meh, it's a kicker. At least his team puts up a lot of points.

DEF (NY Giants): Hopefully Osi recovers well from his surgery and is pissed enough to record 345871 sacks. Solid group, but nothing special. That's all I ask from my defense - just be solid.

I think you should. That's half the fun. Only thing about Hartley...I had him last year only to watch Sean Payton bench him for missing a short yard field goal. Hope the NO kicking game is more secure than last year.