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MacRumors NFL Fantasy Football League 2009

I guess I picked a good week to have a bad performance, because I wasn't beating the Pretzels anyways. Talk about getting rolled!

What was the biggest point difference so far in the season? 57 points must take the cake (I lost 162-95).

Anyways, week 5 should be my worst week, because half my team is on a bye.
 
Something VERY strange is going on with the league. Anyone else getting an email about a new draft and seeing new standings and points and almost everything?
 
creator2456 said:
Something VERY strange is going on with the league. Anyone else getting an email about a new draft and seeing new standings and points and almost everything?
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It's my doing. I'm sending out an official email right now. What happened is when setting up the league I intended to give everyone two IR slots for any player injuries that might occur.

I called ESPN Fantasy customer service to inquire about how to add the slots and the guy on the phone told me all I had to do was reset the draft and then reassign the rosters. I asked him specifically if it would delete any league information or statistics that were already in place and he said no. Well, he was wrong, and it did. When you clear the rosters it removes each week's individual scores, but it does keep the weekly matchups as they were. Then when you reset the rosters it retroactively scores the previous weeks. Sounds good right, wrong. It didn't save roster adjustments because the computer has no way of knowing who was started and who was benched in weeks 1 - 4.

So, I had printed out everyone's roster and records as they currently were and thus I have given everyone their correct players and their correct record. I was able to adjust the weekly scores to get as close to accurate as possible, but some of the overall scoring could be a little bit different from what was in place before. It's a good thing I was doing the weekly post in this thread because it provided me with information that I needed to get everyone's record correct.

At this point, I need everyone to go in and check their rosters to make sure they have the starters they want in for week 5. You should be doing this anyway since the bye weeks are now upon us.

With this change everyone will now see two IR slots in their line up. If you have a player who is listed as out by his team then you can put him in the IR slot and he will not count against your bench or total roster. Feel free to leave the player there as long as you want, however, if the team changes his status then you will not be able to add other players to your team until you remove him from the IR slot because he will no longer be "out".

Let me know if you have any questions. I'm sorry about all the confusion. :eek:
 
creator2456 said:
Something VERY strange is going on with the league. Anyone else getting an email about a new draft and seeing new standings and points and almost everything?
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Yes I got it too. I was like what the hell!!! Had to check my team. It seems to be intact. Nothing has changed that I can see.


Edit***Looks like we posted about the same time! Thanks for the clarification.
 
Everything looks pretty good. I noticed a couple points difference from what I remember, but nothing that will effect the weekly outcome.

Good idea on adding the IR, but I could have used it the last couple weeks with Mike Bell being out :p ESPN needs to come up with an easier way to adjust that kinda stuff.
 
Sent out a number of trade offers that look to be mutually beneficial. I am willing to negotiate if you see something that I didn't.
 
creator2456 said:
ESPN needs to come up with an easier way to adjust that kinda stuff.
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Yeah. I can understand if you wanted to change roster numbers or starting positions around, but I thought adding empty IR slots would be a simple click. Obviously, we found out that it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. :(

To barr08 (miller high life), I approved your trade with maflynn, but just so you know, it's not going to help you this week against me. I plan on whooping that tail severely. No parties or winning celebrations for you so you might as well go ahead and change your team name to miller low life as this week is going to be depressing. :p
 
mscriv said:
Yeah. I can understand if you wanted to change roster numbers or starting positions around, but I thought adding empty IR slots would be a simple click. Obviously, we found out that it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. :(

To barr08 (miller high life), I approved your trade with maflynn, but just so you know, it's not going to help you this week against me. I plan on whooping that tail severely. No parties or winning celebrations for you so you might as well go ahead and change your team name to miller low life as this week is going to be depressing. :p
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Which trade was that? I can't check at work, and I don't get email alerts like Yahoo does.
 
barr08 said:
Sent out a number of trade offers that look to be mutually beneficial. I am willing to negotiate if you see something that I didn't.
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Well I accepted the trade from you - waiting till tonight for it to be final. I figure I better do something or I'll be the detroit lions of macrumors :p
 
maflynn said:
Well I accepted the trade from you - waiting till tonight for it to be final. I figure I better do something or I'll be the detroit lions of macrumors :p
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Oh cool. If I remember correctly, you have like 5-6 RBs who could start in our league, but no depth anywhere else. I have like one decent RB, so this should be good for both our teams, which both need a little kick start :cool:
 
The trade was Cedric Benson to miller high life in exchange for Matt Ryan and Nate Burleson to maflynn. It is a good move for both of you and I don't think it's one sided so I approved of it. When the league manager approves a trade it processes immediately so you guys don't have to wait until tonight the players are already switched.

Hey barr08, my work blocks out fantasy sports as well. I use a program to log on my home computer and then check stuff through it. :D
 
mscriv said:
Hey barr08, my work blocks out fantasy sports as well. I use a program to log on my home computer and then check stuff through it. :D
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I work IT at a massive insurance company. The first day of orientation they warned us against doing this. People always come to me with clever ways to get around blocked sites - I hear you can add an 's' to most sites after 'http', as the safe versions of the pages aren't blocked - but there is a 0 tolerance policy that I don't want to mess with in this economy.

Excellent news on the trade. I am a little uneasy about letting Ryan go when Donovan seems so breakable, but I definitely need the help at RB! If I remember correctly, Benson is the NFL rushing leader right now :D
 
maflynn said:
Hey I'm from boston and I used to work at a (somewhat) small insurance company - heck I was there 16 years before leaving.
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I'm jealous! I'm from Boston and love the city, but the insurance jobs are in Hartford, so that's where I'm living right now. 16 years is really something, are you still in insurance?
 
No, my company moved from boston to canton mass. Being that I live in a town right next to east boston, the commute would have been horrendous. I now work for a hospital in the IT field (windows system administrator for a number of applications/servers)
 
All I wanted to say is, I had a pretty good week to say the least. :p

I picked up the Saints D/ST off the FA list and they got me 28 points!

Also, if anyone wants to trade a decent RB for Brett Favre (21.5 points avg) then hit me up and let me know what you have!
 
creator2456 said:
I picked up the 49ers D/ST and got 39 points...so I WIN!!!

Also, sorry to say not really, but Jecapaga is going to be 0-5 while I lead the league in scoring for the 3rd week in a row. :cool:
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So much for leading in scoring again this week...at least I'll still get the win.

My team SEVERELY (can I emphasize that any more?) underperformed while Miller High Life just blew away everyone else.
 
mscriv said:
To barr08 (miller high life), I approved your trade with maflynn, but just so you know, it's not going to help you this week against me. I plan on whooping that tail severely. No parties or winning celebrations for you so you might as well go ahead and change your team name to miller low life as this week is going to be depressing. :p
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Does anybody have any salt or pepper?

Not only did Benson out perform either of my RB's this week, but your entire team blew up with crazy stat lines this week. I think this could be the high score of the year.

Back to me eating my words, ketchup or mustard, anyone? :D
 
WOO I won a game. :D:D:D

What out people, Mike is on the move, I'll be vaulting to the top shortly :p
 
maflynn said:
WOO I won a game. :D:D:D

What out people, Mike is on the move, I'll be vaulting to the top shortly :p
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Looks like our trade helped us both! That was probably one of the most even trades I've been a part of in some time.

Why on earth would you start Sanchez over Ryan though? Ryan is elite, Sanchez gets lucky every now and then. You must be one of those terrible jets fans :p
 
Week 5 Results

This weeks winners are miller high life (barr08), thegoldenmackid, imaketouchtheme, berlin pretzels (creator2456), fireshot 91, and maflynn. The high score of the week and possibly the entire season is miller high life with his 184 to 106 slaughter of me. The investigation into performance enhancing substance use by his team is scheduled to begin this week and strict consequences will be enforced if any violations are discovered. :D With imaketouchtheme's 103 to 101 last night comeback victory over rhett7660 there are no remaining undefeated teams in our league. As noted in the post above, maflynn got his first victory this week, leaving jecapaga as the only winless team thus far. :( Hang in there jecapaga things can turn around fast in fantasy football. The poll on the league main page has again been updated if you would like to participate. This week we ask a question about coaches who might be on the hotseat.
 
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