Fantasy Football

[FM]

Ok, can't join. Yahoo requests an yahoo e-mail; haven't got one. It requires you to log in using facebook or google then; don't have a facebook account, nor is it accepting my hotmail e-mail in lieu of a google one, although orkut has no qualms about this, so haven't got one as well. Tried to login using my wife's yahoo e-mail; site crashes.

Any ideas about that last one? (the previous ones were more for your amusement)

[FM]

Yes, that is what first crossed my mind, though my OCD is kinda blocking me from creating an unnecessary e-mail, which is why I want to first try and fix my wife's. Any possibility it might be crashing due to being yahoo.com.br?

[NappyKorn]

if its not to late, I'll join again. I have been stupid busy lately but things seems to be settling down for the time.

[NappyKorn]

I joined. Unless the draft date is set in stone I have to work that night and its exactly at the time I have to leave the house to go in. I don't care to auto-draft if I have to, but if it isn't set in stone and I could be around for the draft that would be better.

NK

[NappyKorn]

I can do it earlier that day as I'll be off the night before. Even if its just an hour earlier that can at least give me time for the important rounds if it gets drug out. I'd be off the friday-sunday before that day or the wednesday and thursday after. If its easier for everyone else to do it that night/day no worries I have no problems setting up an auto draft roster and seeing where it gets me when I get home the following morning.

NK

[LOTRFreak15]

Earlier works for me. No problem with me if we switch it.

[legolas3333]

Earlier is fine

[FM]

I can do earlier.

[FM]

Seems that's the gist of it. Well, it was fun last year, too bad it's not gonna happen this time. Maybe I can try to whip out an all-brazillian fantasy league... Wonder if I'd be able to get more than 5 people...

[FM]

Well, at least we tried. Sad is, I've been e-mailing some friends, and I might be able to get 8 players who have never watched a Football game before, and we couldn't get a sixth in a site populated with americans.

[FM]

Ok, so me and some friends that wanted to try Fantasy out actually whipped out an all-brazillian, all-newbs league. At 6 players, it's quite small, but considering the time we had to assemble it (3 days), I think it was a success. People already started browsing through the site, customizing squads and even thinking about trades, and we'll probably watch the season start together.
Since most people do not know the game too well, we decided to go with as much customization as possible, to allow everyone to play to their strengths, so we only have one mandatory for each position, and 3 customizables (RB/WR, WR/TE, RB/WR/TE).
Our draft just happened, and I was taken aback with the quality picks I saw from the guys, they really put an effort into it (thought there were some wild gambles, like pick 1 Tom Brady, pick 2 Eli Manning by the same player; or pick 1 Andrew Luck by another).
We also have a slightly bigger roster to allow people to have "back-ups" for virtually every position so they do not have to use waivers a lot, and we get more mileage out of the draft.
So far, I ended up with:
Drew Brees;
LeSean McCoy;
Jimmy Graham;
Frank Gore;
Jordy Nelson;
Greg Jennings;
Hakeem Nicks;
The New Orleans kicker (forgot his name);
the 49ers D/ST.

I'm working on getting Maurice Jones-Drew in a trade involving Vernon Davis from my bench, and as notables, I have Matt Ryan in the bench and also Aaron Hernandez.
I didn't like the All-NO setup, so I'm trying to work out a trade with Drew Brees for Tom Brady (the guy made the same mistake, drafting both Brady and Gronkowski, which is not that great when NE does badly), and I might try to squeeze out Reggie Bush from this trade to the bench, probably by sending Jennins, Nicks or DeSean Jackson his way, though I'm not sure it's even needed - and will, of course, depend on me getting Jones-Drew into the starting line-up).
Our first-picker manage to ger Aaron Rodgers, Marshawn Lynch and Calvin Jonhson all into the same team, which means he'll put up quite a show.
Another player got Arion Foster, Michael Vick/Tony Romo and Jamal Charles.

Here's hoping this will be fun, so we might repeat each year getting more brazilians to join and more people watching the NFL here.

[LOTRFreak15]

Your wr for(including Graham) looks solid. Nice grab with Brees and McCoy. Good choice at D too. I would suggest more rbs. Even if there backups like c.j spiller or Michael Bush. And have fun.

[FM]

Ok, so it's on! SO far, no trades worked out greatly, as everyone is too afraid to screw up trading a great player, so the guys are on a "wait and see" style, though I did raid the waivers. I got a better WR than DeSean Jackson (forgot who, though), and also managed to get the Jets Defense, to rotate depending on matchups. It's kinda wierd that, right now, I have 3 Defenses, but I think 49ers and Jets is a solid rotation option, since we have a larger bench, and I think I might end up involving the Steelers' Defense in that trade for Jones-Drew, since his owner chose poorly and got the NE Defense, so aside from having no tight ends, his defense is a swiss cheese, so I might be able to get Jones-Drew for Vernon Davis + Steelers (and maybe take some bad player out of his bench for a better bench option, though I'm not sure I even WOULD want Drew this bad), which still leaves me with Hernandez as a backup TE, a fine choice.
This week I actually rotated my defense, taking out the 49ers, because I'm facing the n. 1-seeded player (meaning I'm up against the likes of Lych, A-Rod and Megatron), so I'm trying to squeeze out the most points, and I thought the Jets match-up was easier on my defense (also, since he has A-rod, it'd basically hinge on direct confrontation, as if GB does well, then my defense is screwed).
As insurance, I left Jennings/Nelson in the starting lineup, so if A-Rod does badly, I might lose some points, but he loses more than I do, assuming Brees comes through (he benched Ahmad Bradshaw, fortunately, because if he had Demarco Murray AND Bradshaw in the starting lineup, things could have gone badly for me).
I like my subbing out Dan Bailey for the NO kicker, as he only scored 5 yesterday, and I also chose to remove Hakeem Nicks, since he oscilated between Questionable and Probable, and with it being a conference battle, I though Nicks might not do so well due to not being chosen as a target that much, so I put in Aaron Hernandez in his place, since NE is facing a weaker Defense anyway (so far, I was happy with my choices, Nicks was definitely subpar yesterday, as was Bailey - IMO).

[LOTRFreak15]

I have the Bills D in one of my league since there playing the Jets horrific offense. The Niners D is totally solid. And I am not sold on the Jets but they could do good things maybe. Nelson and Gennings are good options to have being Rodgers 2 favorite targets. And good luck this week.

[FM]

So, WHO are the Jets starting out at QB anyway? I kinda thought Sanchez was history, due to, well, being terrible, and what with Tebow having a promising career ahead of him. I don't know, maybe the Jets are trying to push Sanchez into playing better by hagin a great bench option lurking in the shadows, so that they might get a better trade for Sanchez once the time comes, but I'm not sure I'd risk benching a rising promise like Tebow just to try and squeeze out a bit more in a Sanchez trade, especially since it's not going to be THAT much more anyway.

I thought the Jets defense was a good choice, facing the Bills offense, so I just hope I didn't make too great of a mistake.