Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

tikki · 10:26 AM

It's time for our fourth year of MacNN Fantasy Football. I am shocked I have been doing this four years already.

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo....nprivateleague

Your new League ID# is 271322.
Your Password is: stevejobs

Last year dcolton won the whole thing, so I hope he'll come back this year to try again.

Randman · Jul 26, 2005, 09:14 PM

RandSackers will be back for another go. Thanks for setting this up, I was just thinking it's about that time of the year.

If there's enough interest, why not try both leagues? Yahoo's is reliable (the only reason I keep a Yahoo account) but if ESPN's is free ...

I wonder if we can get the mods to give the eventual champ a title for the year ('NN FF Champeen) or something.

tikki · Jul 26, 2005, 09:18 PM

What I am personally going to do is have the MacNN league be one, and then I am going to setup another league using the other for a) diehard MacNNers who want 2 teams and b) family/friends/people who read my web log.

As far as the title, that'd be sweet. Anyone else have thoughts on that?

cjrivera · Jul 26, 2005, 09:42 PM

Oh what the heck, I'm already gonna be in 2 leagues this year, might as well make it 3.

Let me know when signup is and how you do the draft.

spacefreak · Jul 26, 2005, 11:47 PM

I run my own league and won't have time for another. BUT, if you're in the market for a kick-butt fantasy league setup, the fantasy football commisioner offering at http://football.sportsline.com is the best I've used.

It's $130 for a league, and it sounds like this league here is a freebie league. However, if any of you run a league where money is involved, definitely check out SportsLine's commissioner.

tikki · Jul 27, 2005, 01:38 PM

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo....nprivateleague

Your new League ID# is 271322.
Your Password is: stevejobs

Your draft is set for Mon Aug 15 9:30pm CDT

We can change the draft date if needed, but I got as late in the day as possible to reduce the number of conflicts we might have.

Rules negotiations can go on until the draft begins I believe. if you don't like the scoring or anything else, let's fix it. :-)

Any chance a mod could sticky this until the middle of august?

Randman · Jul 30, 2005, 09:26 PM

Stupid Yahoo gave me two teams, one with an s and one without.

Tikki, as commish, can you delete the one without an s? If not, if someone wants to join, we can set the ghost team as theirs (including changing the name).

Gee, I feel like Homer Simpson a keyboard right now.

tikki · Jul 30, 2005, 09:55 PM

Ask and ye shall receive.

Randsacker = axed.

In other news, we have six teams so far. 14 slots remain. :-)

lavar78 · Jul 30, 2005, 10:21 PM

If we're going to have that many, shouldn't the teams be smaller?

tikki · Jul 30, 2005, 10:25 PM

20 people won't join. If they do, i'll drop the W/T and W/R positions. We've never had more than ten.

Randman · Jul 31, 2005, 12:25 AM

10 teams is a good number.

Also, thanks for the axe.

The Mick · Jul 31, 2005, 11:17 AM

I'm in, this is Crazy Micks' year!

tikki · Aug 8, 2005, 08:04 PM

*gratuitous one week until the draft bump*

Railroader · Aug 9, 2005, 01:09 AM

I don't think I can make the draft date... Arg... Maybe I'll just go into work a couple hours late.

cjrivera · Aug 12, 2005, 11:02 PM

So how does the online draft work? How long does it usually take?

KeriVit · Aug 12, 2005, 11:08 PM

I'm in. details?

Cubeoid · Aug 13, 2005, 12:13 AM

I fail to see the fantasy in all this. Perhaps I am too much of a realist. Either that or I find football boring and stoopid. Ifact, it is both. Game On.

tikki · Aug 13, 2005, 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by cjrivera

So how does the online draft work? How long does it usually take?

You show up at the yahoo web site at the alloted time and launch the draft app (it's java based I believe). Yahoo sorts all the teams randomly to set the draft order. Then you start picking players in order.

It usually takes an hour to hour and half depending on the number of people who show up to live draft.

tikki · Aug 15, 2005, 11:16 PM

In what might be the worst move ever, the miami dolphins defense was the first pick overall. I think we should have football competency quizzes next year before you get entry. :-)

Randman · Aug 16, 2005, 02:46 AM

What happened? I missed the draft. Couldn't get out of work early enough. A defense was selected first? By choice? If autofill, there should be a do-over.

cjrivera · Aug 16, 2005, 02:51 AM

I don't know if it was an autofill. The drafter didn't say it was a mistake when the pick was made, despite a couple of comments from the rest of us.

Railroader · Aug 16, 2005, 06:50 AM

Well, I screwed up and went to work instead of sticking around for the draft. Good luck to the participants.

Ghoser777 · Aug 16, 2005, 07:06 AM

Go Rex Grossman! Oh wait...

tikki · Aug 16, 2005, 09:32 PM

It wasn't a mistake. He is just an idiot and justified it by saying "The Dolphins are my favorite team."

I guess being good at Madden is not grounds for being good at fantasy football.

cjrivera · Aug 16, 2005, 11:21 PM

So Commish, who looks like the front runner with their draft. (I know it's early)

Smooth Riders & Killas look pretty good with their current starting lineups. VitsBruschis also looks good.

Randman · Aug 16, 2005, 11:41 PM

My team sucks. That's all I know. Payback for working, I guess.

cjrivera · Aug 16, 2005, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by Randman

My team sucks. That's all I know. Payback for working, I guess.

I don't know. Brees has a good TE and WR, but LT may take away some of his TDs.
If Holmes stays healthy he'll get ya points, and I think Jackson's gonna have a breakout year.

Randman · Aug 16, 2005, 11:52 PM

Yeah, if all have career years, The 'Sackers could be hot. Then again...

Randman · Aug 20, 2005, 05:20 AM

Update: The ESPN league looks pretty interesting. They went free this year.

Probably not enough interest to start a second MacNN league, but if anyone's interested ...

tikki · Aug 20, 2005, 02:12 PM

if you throw together a league, I'd join just to see if I like it better for next year's macnn fantasy game.

in response to who I think has the best team, I think Smooth Criminals is going to do pretty darn well.

Randman · Aug 20, 2005, 11:24 PM

League MacNN has been created. It's a 10-team, public league. Standard rules, autopick draft (to keep things easy).

Railroader · Aug 21, 2005, 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by Randman

League MacNN has been created. It's a 10-team, public league. Standard rules, autopick draft (to keep things easy).

I'm in! See what happens when you create a public league? Any idiot can join.

Seriously, I was bummed when I missed the draft and was cut from the first league. Thanks for creating this one.

tikki · Aug 21, 2005, 12:29 AM

private league keeps it to MacNNers instead of any joe blow.

KeriVit · Aug 21, 2005, 01:49 AM

I'll have a hard enough time with one league, 2 pools and one trivia team...

Randman · Aug 21, 2005, 01:56 AM

Can we get 10 MacNNers to join a second league? I'm all for that, but I have questions.

lavar78 · Aug 21, 2005, 09:17 AM

I'm signing up now.

lavar78 · Aug 21, 2005, 09:35 AM

Um, how do I join?

Randman · Aug 21, 2005, 09:55 AM

Go to public league and search for MacNN. Then you'll be guided through the process. Pretty easy.

lavar78 · Aug 21, 2005, 10:09 AM

I figured it out. It's pretty stupid that there's no way to join from the league's home page.

dcolton · Aug 29, 2005, 12:37 PM

damn, I missed it!

Oh well, I guess the champ won't be here this year...unless you have an open spot somewhere.

Railroader · Aug 30, 2005, 01:14 AM

A second league was created dcolton. Why not join us on that one?

Randman · Aug 30, 2005, 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by dcolton

damn, I missed it!

Oh well, I guess the champ won't be here this year...unless you have an open spot somewhere.

Join the ESPN one...

dcolton · Aug 30, 2005, 01:44 PM

how do I join?

Railroader · Sep 27, 2005, 11:28 PM

Season's looking good. I'm 2-1.

tikki · Sep 27, 2005, 11:33 PM

I need a freaking tight end BAD.

cjrivera · Sep 27, 2005, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by tikki

I need a freaking tight end BAD.

Which is odd, because I have 2 freaking tight ends who are really bad.

But at least I'm finally in the win column.

cjrivera · Sep 27, 2005, 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by Railroader

Season's looking good. I'm 2-1.

I thought you were 1-2...

Railroader · Sep 27, 2005, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by cjrivera

I thought you were 1-2...

Nope, I beat Athens last week.

http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueo...eagueId=224232

Honestly, this is the first week I really thought to check. I did a bunch of pick-ups. We'll see how next week goes when I go against the scoring GIANT!

Railroader · Sep 27, 2005, 11:47 PM

Originally Posted by cjrivera

Which is odd, because I have 2 freaking tight ends who are really bad.

But at least I'm finally in the win column.

TE are usually low scorers.

cjrivera · Sep 28, 2005, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by Railroader

Nope, I beat Athens last week.

http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueo...eagueId=224232

Honestly, this is the first week I really thought to check. I did a bunch of pick-ups. We'll see how next week goes when I go against the scoring GIANT!

so that's not you on the Yahoo FFL? sorry the team name screwed me up.