Comments on: A.A. Fantasy Football League Draft Results

By: merlinnj

merlinnj — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:39:01 +0000

I did the Maine Bears. I am not sure about my team. I have never done this before and was flying by the seat of my pants, strategy-wise. However, I am excited to see how my team does. Go Bears!!!

By: SinyGuy

SinyGuy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:08:56 +0000

FrayedKnots would be me. Just look for the Winner I should say LOL.. joke. I believe I was 8th to pick. For being that far down I think I didn’t do too shabby.

Brandon Jacobs tore it up last night!!

By: Crane

Crane — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:07:40 +0000

= Where’sMyHoodie – Third to last pick…

By: Daytrip65

Daytrip65 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:15:57 +0000

Charlie don’t surf!:

1. (5) Joseph Addai
2. (24) Willie Parker
3. (33) Wes Welker
4. (52) Santonio Holmes
5. (61) Chris Cooley
6. (80) David Garrard
7. (89) New England
8. (108) Stephen Gostkowski
9. (117) Felix Jones
10. (136) Jason Campbell
11. (145) DeSean Jackson
12. (164) Desmond Clark
13. (173) Chris Henry
14. (192) Jon Beason
15. (201) Muhsin Muhammad
16. (220) New York

Overall I think my draft went fairly well. A little weak at QB but with only 4 points per TD pass that isn’t too bad. Cooley laid an egg last night and Jason Campbell looked horrid. In my other league I have both Plaxico Burress and Brandon Jacobs so that took the sting away from Cooley.

I took a risk on DeSean Jackson and Chris Henry in the latter rounds those are feast or famine picks. I think Getting Jon Beason there was a good value, he should be solid.

If New York’s defense plays like it did last night I might have a saftey valve if NE’s defense starts showing age. Though I only drafted them to cover my bye week. Yahoo had NY’s bye at week 5 but it’s actually week 4 same as the pats. So that was a nice surprise.

I think I should be competetive but I don’t think it’s a championship team. Unless I can pull off a few trades to fill the holes I have.

By: jester

jester — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:26:39 +0000

The draft was a lot of fun. My team is Bodies by Mangino.

Bodies By Mangino:

1. (2) LaDainian Tomlinson
2. (27) Marques Colston
3. (30) Brandon Marshall
4. (55) Kellen Winslow
5. (58) Edgerrin James
6. (83) Anthony Gonzalez
7. (86) Eli Manning
8. (111) Patrick Crayton
9. (114) Julius Jones
10. (139) Vince Young
11. (142) Ernie Sims
12. (167) Tampa Bay
13. (170) Philadelphia
14. (195) Andre Hall
15. (198) Atari Bigby
16. (223) David Akers

I couldn’t belive LT slipped to me at number 2 but was more than happy to take him. I’ve never had the luxury of drafting a top-tier player (I’m always at the tail end of the draft – dumb luck) so this will likely be the year LT breaks down and has a season ending injury.

This may be the toughest league I have ever been in and I have been in some very competitive ones. It it pretty deep with 14 teams and everyone knows their football. The best thing about this league is the combination of comraderie and trash talking.

I’m looking forward to a great football season and some good competition. Thanks again for getting this together Adam!

By: CurtMerzFan

CurtMerzFan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:50:29 +0000

so far I cant even get the damn roster to come up on the ‘My Team’ tab… I dont get it! I have to go to the matchup link to see my starters and I have to go to the stat tracker to review my bench.

also, aren’t all of the players that went undrafted still available to us? I cannot get that list to post on yahoo either. I dont know if I’m just a newbie idiot or if that crap aint working!

By: ComeSackMyQB

ComeSackMyQB — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:38:32 +0000

On yahoo you can set it up week by week that way your roster automatically changes when your players have a bye. The others I check on occasionally and a few of them were straight starters and no backups so you dont get that convenience. Ours will be the one I check most regularly though.

By: CurtMerzFan

CurtMerzFan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:36:20 +0000

Thanks for the insight xxxlp and the complement!

It never occurred to me to check the matchups each week for my QB’s (or other players for that matter) in order to choose the QB most likely to have the best week based on matchups… interesting idea though. I only thought about covering the byes.

I will look into dropping the D like you recommend as that’s a good insight.

I noticed playaction31 didn’t even draft a kicker. Was that a fantasy strategy or was he the guy that got zapped by his puter or kicked off the server for a couple of rounds? Maybe I should offer him Shayne Graham in a trade???

I never thought I’d dig the fantasy thing this much, but it’s a shitload more fun than I expected – and I’ve got a whole new group of fans to talk smak with!

By: xxxlp

xxxlp — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:34:50 +0000

Holy snapplecakes! 15 leagues? How do you find the time? I did 9 teams one year (my first year of fantasy) and I thought I was going to go bonker trying to keep up with which team played against which players. It got to the point where I just stopped caring, and just went and checked to see if I won after the weekend was over. Like I’d have Reggie Wayne on a few teams, but I’d also be playing against Reggie, so I had to root for him to do well, but not so well that it killed me. It was ridiculous. I think I’m still trying to get back to full sanity after that incident.

By: ComeSackMyQB

ComeSackMyQB — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:34:33 +0000

seems like everytime I started building a list up they were gone before my next pick. But I still like my team.