Fantasy Football
Ryllini
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Yes. Season long, daily, and regular bets.
Yes. Only in 3 leagues this year. Dynasty league (which I won last year), auction league, and 14-team standard league. In that latter league, you really have to be good at working the waiver wire week-to-week.
I co-captain a team, but I do not really enjoy it, just helping my BIL out as he works odd hours on the RR. It was so much more fun back in the early days prior to smart phones/wifi/laptops meeting up with the guys in the league at our local watering hole. The bar gave us Happy Hour Prices on food/drinks all night during our weekly meetings. We all had manila folders and/or binders with team sheets, players, whatever we thought was pertinent, since we had to actually go online and do the research and then print out the data to reference on league night. It was $50 to join, $20 weekly dues, $1 per player traded/waived/added/dropped, and we had a weekly payout. We ran 12 teams so $240 per week, $40 went to the league pot, 1st $100, 2nd $60, 3rd $40. All the accrued money via $40/week and transactions went into a pot and we had one helluva Super Bowl party every year! I'm talking a Costco trip with a grand+ to spend on Liquor & Food, boy did we eat and drink some great food & spirits! Significant Others were allowed and we did a page or two of squares. I REALLY miss those days.......
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Ryllini
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I was wise enough to start Marvin, but here is a question, did you have Kamara and his 4 tdās on your bench? I did.
I have to hold off Saquon tonight. He scores 23 and that is curtains for me.
No. I was going back and forth all week on it and I decided to go with a safe floor lineup of Bijan, Mason, Monty, Nico, and Godwin and benched MHJ.
Unless Bijan gets -19 points tonight Iām going to win this weekend so itās kind of a moot point, but still.
Well Josh Allen kind of ruined the whole week for me in both leagues, if that makes anyone feel any better.
Somewhat surprisingly I'm still winning my match-up in spite of Allen's performance. I got double digit points from CeeDee, Davante Adams, James Conner, Santos, and the Jets D. Going into tonight I was up 29.3 points. I have Goedert left to play. My opponent has Saquon and Jake Elliott left. I won't feel 100% confident until there's 0:00 left in the 4th quarter.
Ryllini
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That is insane!
Absolutely, even if you know you're gonna be without him for a few more weeks. Depending on the type of league you're in, his owner may want quite a boatload in return.
I know someone that's in a public league that just recently got offered CMC and Kupp for Isaiah Likely, Christian Kirk, and Alec Pierce.
It's a 12-team 0.5 PPR redraft league. My team is:
QB: Mahomes
RB: Bijan
RB: Mason (fortuitously drafted him 15th round)
WR: Collins
WR: MHJ
TE: Goedert
FLEX: Godwin
DST: Dallas
K: Aubrey
Bench
- Jayen Reed
- Jaylen Wright
- Mostert
- Montgomery
- Likely
- Chase Brown
- Tampa Bay DST
I like my team and I don't want to do too much to disrupt it. I have good starters and decent depth. I imagine CMC owner will want a haul because his team is not great. What would you offer if you would offer anything?
I'd take a look at what position you see as a position of strength at this point and go from there. RB looks pretty good as is. I'm sure the CMC owner will counter offer you whatever you decide.
Couple other things I noticed:
-Unless I'm seeing things, you only have one QB. No matter what size the league, you always need a backup QB.
-You don't need to carry two defenses. If you do, you're basically just wasting a spot on your roster since you can only start one each week. And with there being no truly dominant defense nowadays, I will typically stream a defense every week. That means, I'll go by matchup each week and just pick up a defense off the waiver wire. Rarely will I keep the same defense for multiple weeks. Early on this season I have but that's because I picked up the Jets defense prior to last week's game in Tennessee, started them last week, and then started them again this week since they were playing New England. I'll keep them and start them again next week since they'll be playing Denver.
Sorry I forgot to include, I also have Jayden Daniels as a backup QB. Someone dropped him right before week 1 and I got him for $2!
Also I'm carrying 2 defenses this week because normally I run Dallas DST but Tampa has a better matchup and I don't want to drop Dallas (not a Cowboys fan, just a philosophical thing I have with fantasy DST's). Also my league tends to hold defenses. Some will roster 2 occasionally 3, so trying to stream defenses every week can get you in trouble because what ends up happening is only the crappy defenses are left available to pick up.
CMC owner is weak at RB - he is starting Javonte and Eckler. I don't think he'll do CMC for Montgomery straight up. I was thinking of offering something like Godwin/Nico Collins and Montgomery for Rashee Rice and CMC.
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