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BeerSheets (Much of this shamelessly pilfered from Beer's 2019 OP)  This Thursday, the NFL turns on their draft spigot, dripping lifesaving water into the parched throats of sports fans, everywhere. That means we can finally start speculating about fantasy football to fill the long hours we had planned to use watching the Olympics or going outside or talking to our families.  Free League Hosting Services
Spoeank posted:Here's an updated twitter list for fantasy: Podcasts
 Introduction Fantasy football does something amazing for sports fans in that it can make any game interesting. Two 0-5 teams across the country from you squaring off? Well if you have one of their quarterbacks, you will be pounding the table and screaming at the game until they kick you out of the bar. Basically, you put together a team of individual players from around the league, then score points based on their performance on the football field. Lots of stuff can score points, like gaining yards and catching passes, so there's room for excitement during every single play. The cycle of an NFL week provides a great framework for fantasy football. Most fantasy leagues are set up where each player plays another every week, and whoever has the highest total once the Monday night game ends gets the win. The playoffs happen during the last few weeks of the NFL regular season (although week 17 is a severely unpopular week for fantasy championships, because playoff-bound teams often rest their best players.) Pretty much, if you like football and watching football, you will most likely love fantasy. If you never have before, give it a try. The Basics A league consists of several owners (typically 12), one of whom is the commissioner who manages the league. At the beginning of the season each owner drafts a roster of players. Rosters are typically fifteen players and consist of starters and a bench of reserve players to replace starters who are injured or on bye weeks. A typical starting lineup that will mirror NFL positions and consist of 1 Quarterback (QB), 2 Running Backs (RB), 3 Wide Receivers (WR), 1 Tight End (TE), a Place Kicker (PK), and a Team Defense/Special Teams (DST). Each week your players will score points for your team according to their performance. Scoring can be very simple or incredibly complicated depending on the league, but many leagues use a standard scoring system where passing provides 1 point per 25 yards, 4 points per passing touchdown, and -1 point per interception and receiving and rushing gain 1 point per 10 yards, 6 points per receiving/rushing touchdown. Field goals are typically worth 3 points, and team defense scoring depends on a number of factors including sacks, interceptions, points allowed, defensive touchdowns, etc. Many leagues will use different scoring systems depending on the preferences of the players. One significant difference is PPR, or Points Per Reception, where wide receiver are awarded a set number of points (typically 0.5 or 1) for every reception. The league season will go for a set number of weeks during the regular NFL season. Typically the last two to four weeks of the regular season are reserved for the playoffs, and most leagues end on the sixteenth week because many NFL teams will sit their star players in Week 17 if the outcome doesn't matter. Variations There are many roster variations that different leagues will use. Many leagues use a flex position where different positions can fit into a slot. The most common form of flex position replaces the third WR position in the standard lineup above with a WR/RB/TE flex position. That means that any Wide Receiver, Running Back, or Tight End player could be used in that slot. Leagues where that flex position allows a QB are typically called "2 QB leagues" because quarterbacks typically score far more points that other players. Other leagues utilize IDP or Individual Defensive Players instead of Team Defenses. IDP players score points for tackles, sacks, interceptions, touchdowns, etc. Many leagues are several years old and include rules to provide continuity between seasons. In contrast to a redraft league where every player is drafted at the start of each season some leagues use keepers where team owners are allowed to keep a set number of players per year. Other leagues are dynasty leagues where the entire roster is kept from year to year. Typically dynasty leagues use much deeper benches and include a rookie draft. The Draft Every league starts with a draft, where team owner pick their players. There are two major types of draft; the snake draft and the auction draft. A snake draft is where every owner receives a draft position and then picks a player in order for a number of rounds equal to the roster size. It's called a snake draft because the order "snakes" back and forth each round. In other words the owner who picked last in the first round will pick first in the second. Auction drafts are where each team owner has a set budget and they bid for each player until everyone's roster has been filled. There are numerous drafting strategies out there, but ultimately the goal of any draft is to get the maximum amount of value for your players. Trades and the Waiver Wire While drafting is essential, the most successful teams typically win by taking advantage of the waiver wire and trades. Trading is precisely what it sounds like; players offer each other trades that are accepted or rejected. Many leagues incorporate an approval process to prevent collusion where two players will deliberately stack one team and then split the winnings; there is no universe where Adrian Peterson is worth Mark Sanchez. Depending on the league trading may either be nonexistent or commonplace. Many leagues will end trading several weeks before the playoffs begin. The NFL has hundreds of players and most of them will not be on a team roster. As players are injured or fall out of favor team owners will be forced to pick up free agents to replace them. To do this they use the waiver wire. Each week individual players are locked the moment their team starts their game. For the duration of this "waiver period" owners who wish to claim a free agent submit a "waiver claim." Owners who wish to make more than one waiver claim must indicate the priority of their claims. At the end of the waiver period (typically a day or two after the beginning of the new week) the league software checks the standings of the teams. Going in reverse order (worst standing to highest) the teams get their highest priority claim. If multiple teams have submitted waiver claims for the same player it will go the team with the lowest standing, and the other teams will get their lower priority claims. After the waiver period has en`ded every player is available to be claimed immediately. The waiver wire is extremely important. Alfred Morris, the 5th ranked running back of 2012, was a free agent in most leagues until the first week. Many owners use the waiver wire to "stream" defenses and other players based on that week's match. Advice: Know your drat league settings and make a plan before the draft. Does your league give a point per reception? Raise your valuation of pass catching running backs and those low-highlight receivers that get a bunch of targets. Are you in a league that gives bonus points for drafting players that are literally the worst human being? Whoever is quarterbacking for Tampa Bay should get a boost. So many times, people sit down at a draft and ask, "is this 4 point or 6 point passing TDs?" Don't do that: If you're going to do no research beforehand, just get a Beer Sheet and follow it, that's exactly what they're invented for. My auction values are public and quite popular. Last year, over half my league had my numbers printed out in order to try to stop me. The problem was, in their rush to get my chart, they scrolled past the preamble where I explained that my values were for a 12 team league. As my BML (Big Money League, slang for your favorite league) was 14-teams, all of "my values" my opponents had were ~20% too low. I crushed that auction and won the whole thing, all because people didn't pay attention to league settings. Here is a list of tips from Beer: BeerfortheBeerGod posted:Beer4TheBeerGod posted: A very special rant about auctions: Don't take auction advice from analysts who primarily do drafts. Auctions take longer and how they go is greatly dependent upon the people involved. So analysts only have time to get in a few auctions each season, and it's usually with the same batch of other analysts they work with. This means that often the advice they give has only been shown to work a few times with a pre-set group of owners. If you're looking for some tips as a first time auctioner, or you're wondering how the meta has shifted for this year, don't Google it. Just hit us up here in the Armchair Quarterback. I almost exclusively do auction and I go through hundreds of them every offseason. I got your back. Final Word: If you draft a backup kicker, I'm going to find you Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Apr 16, 2020 |
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I wish you all good luck in your drafts, may you find your Lamar Jackson in the backend
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Apr 16, 2020 22:55
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We don’t even know if there’s going to be a season yet!
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Apr 17, 2020 02:08
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There isn't but we can still hope against hope
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Apr 17, 2020 02:12
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The date is a year off.
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Apr 17, 2020 02:46
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From the last threadtrdn89 posted:Are there any resources for finding dynasty leagues who are looking for people to join? I floated the idea of starting one to the folks in my league and got zero interest. I think we have a slot open. .5 PPR, IDP https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3740832&pagenumber=123&perpage=40
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Apr 17, 2020 12:32
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dkj posted:We don’t even know if there’s going to be a season yet! I'm still in the Denial stage of grief.
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Apr 17, 2020 14:21
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Cause I'm bored and trying to maybe make some trades: I'm looking at some "stash" guys in my dynasty leagues and I'm seeing the following who can be had for fairly cheap (either because they're backups or because their value has dropped in the offseason): RBs: Rashaad Penny Boston Scott Justin Jackson (I'm eyeing him) Darrell Henderson WRs: Chris Conley Darius Slayton (eyeing him too) Sammy Watkins Any thoughts on these guys? Any other pre-draft diamonds in the rough y'all are trying to pick up, or are y'all just sitting still until post-draft? Also any thoughts on the NYG WRs? I literally have a team with all three of Tate, Shepard and Slayton and I don't know wtf to do with this.
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Apr 17, 2020 17:21
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Amergin posted:Cause I'm bored and trying to maybe make some trades: Justin Jackson and Darrell Henderson have both seen their stocks rise with MelGo leaving and Gurley getting cut. Rashaad Penny... You can probably get him pretty cheaply because of his injury and people getting tired of him not producing in his first couple of years. I feel like Boston Scott is going to get just enough work to be annoying to Miles Sanders owners, and not a lot more. Arguably, his value is peaking, as well. Depends on if they go RB in the draft or not. I'm not super interested in Chris Conley, who might be Gardner Minshew's fourth target option this time next week. Slayton quietly pulled in a top-36 season (and is just the third WR drafted outside the top-100 picks to pull that off in his rookie year in the last decade). I think he and DJones have a connection, and that type of WR depth chart uncertainty is something you can buy into cheaply. They have a potential out on Golden Tate after this year, which they'll probably take. I will never own Sammy Watkins anywhere at all ever from now until the end of time. Pre-draft diamonds are hard to find because usually, they're there due to opportunity, and those opportunities quickly get boarded up during the draft. Bryce Love (RB, WAS), Ian Thomas (TE, CAR--I think Samuel has to be on the move and Teddy loves to throw short), Miles Boykin (WR, BAL) arguably all fit that mold though because they're unlikely to get replaced. Jalen Hurd for the 49ers is another weirdly versatile player who they took in the third last year and had his rookie year wiped out with injury. He's intriguing, and the Niners did with Deebo what I thought they'd do with Hurd. Though, if the Niners get Lamb or Jeudy at 13, his value is toast, as well.
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Apr 17, 2020 17:44
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They replaced Damien
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Apr 24, 2020 05:16
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So CEH is the first rookie off the board, right?
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Apr 29, 2020 14:28
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Ben Nevis posted:So CEH is the first rookie off the board, right? In 1QB leagues, yeah. There's an argument for Jonathan Taylor but I'm not buying it.
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Apr 29, 2020 15:17
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Oh poo poo. https://twitter.com/MikeClayNFL/status/1255497018732097546
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Apr 29, 2020 18:37
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People are gonna get so mad lol
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Apr 29, 2020 18:38
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New plan: nominate him in auction, let people get confused and then overbid for him out of panic
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Apr 29, 2020 18:40
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Poque posted:New plan: nominate him in auction, let people get confused and then overbid for him out of panic What will be really funny is if you do this in a league where he won’t be TE/Flex eligible.
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Apr 29, 2020 18:46
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Dynasty PPR league: would you trade Derrick Henry and Carson Wentz for Pat Mahomes and Raheem Mostert?
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Apr 30, 2020 21:09
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I probably would, but then I'm not that high on Derrick Henry or Wentz.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:54
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ChocolatePancake posted:I probably would, but then I'm not that high on Derrick Henry or Wentz. Same.
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Apr 30, 2020 22:42
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ChocolatePancake posted:I probably would, but then I'm not that high on Derrick Henry or Wentz. Same
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Apr 30, 2020 22:54
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Ty1990 posted:Dynasty PPR league: would you trade Derrick Henry and Carson Wentz for Pat Mahomes and Raheem Mostert? Leaning yes. If you think you can flip Mostert mash
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May 1, 2020 00:37
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Only reason I’d hesitate is I’d think you could flip Henry for a pretty high tier WR or multiple quality picks or something better than a QB upgrade in a 1 QB league.
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May 1, 2020 00:45
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Slow mock draft? Slow mock draft. (Half-PPR. 1QB, 2RB, 3WR, 1 TE, 2 WRT, no K/DST) Edit: forgot to say, 8 hour timer. Looks like sleeper doesn't let you pause it overnight, but it's a low stakes mock draft so if anyone raises a stink I can roll back picks or whatever Spoeank fucked around with this message at 16:31 on May 1, 2020 |
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May 1, 2020 06:13
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I'm in. Gonna be very helpful if someone actually plays a football this year.
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May 1, 2020 16:58
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Yeee. Let me know if you want me to fill it out with our discord fans.
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May 1, 2020 17:32
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Sure it’s May, I’ve waited long enough.
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May 1, 2020 18:06
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snagged the last spot
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May 1, 2020 18:56
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Made a thread! Draft will start at noon pacific (about 35 minutes from now) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3921944
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May 1, 2020 19:26
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Football Absurdity writers' room mock draft needs a few more to fill it out https://sleeper.app/draft/nfl/561991219465781248 Write up a little blurb about each of your picks for the site
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May 1, 2020 23:51
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QuietFeet you are up in the mock draft
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May 2, 2020 04:40
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Drunk Nerds posted:Football Absurdity writers' room mock draft needs a few more to fill it out Shoot, I'll give it a shot. I'm a degenerate, I can do this.
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May 2, 2020 21:26
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Ben Nevis posted:Shoot, I'll give it a shot. I'm a degenerate, I can do this. Great, thanks. Youre on the clock.
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May 2, 2020 22:07
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Ben Nevis posted:So CEH is the first rookie off the board, right? I still think JT is 1.01
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May 3, 2020 16:56
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I drafted Raegor over Ruggs. How horrible am i?
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May 8, 2020 03:00
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May 8, 2020 04:38
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I keep going back and forth on Raegor vs Jefferson. Never really considered Ruggs. Currently leaning Raegor.
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May 8, 2020 04:43
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I wanted Jefferson. Another person in my league traded up just to snag him though.
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May 8, 2020 08:31
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Anyone got any hot rookie takes? I am in dire need of a rb and I have picks 1.08, 1.12, 2.02, and 2.03. I also own RoJo, but I am not in love with Vaungh. Chances are he will be gone before the 1.12 because my league hordes RBs (because of that I’m sure Akers won’t drop to the 1.08 either). I’m also really stuck on who the draft out of Reagor, Ruggs, and Jefferson, but I am leaning Jefferson due to his likely safe floor.
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So Yahoo is adding fractional scoring for FGs which would be awesome but they are only letting you choose between static scores for each range, or a straight up point per yard scoring. Which appears to mean that every field goal under 30 yards will be worth less than 3 points lmao
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