Posted on 08/15/2009 10:23:49 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Welcome back to Yahoo! Pro Pick'em! After minutes of thoughtful and deliberate consideration, the name of our league this year is Fishy Football Reform. Our league is here to help anyone who is entirely sick of the health-care debate and wants to hide from it for a few minutes a week. Actually, it tends to become an all-consuming week-after-week ego-deflating compulsion. You'll beat yourselves up for having put 16 points on the Bears to beat the Iggles only to have Jay Cutler go "oopsies!" with the football while only yards away from the game-winning score.
Most everything is the same from last year. There are 17 weeks worth of picks. The numbers of games to pick from can vary from week to week due to "bye-weeks". Some weeks have 16 games, others 15, 14 or 13. We are using Confidence Points. CPs are what you use to determine how many points you win every week. Ex: I pick da'Bears to beat the Lions and am so sure of it I put 16 points on that game. If da'Bears win, I get 16 points for that game. If the da'Bears lose, I get NO points ..... and a heap of scorn from my fellow Fishy Football Reformers. Filling out your weekly picks should be like filling out a form for the government; it's best if you just fill out every possible option, leaving nothing to chance.
We are including scores from every week so sadness might befall you if you get caught up arguing with your dope-soaked lib neighbor over tort reform and you forget to make your picks. I have it set up so you may make picks up to five (5) minutes before gametime of any game
We are NOT using the spread option. That requires too much thinkering.
In the spirit of "reform" I have decided, without consultation from anyone, to add the Yahoo death panel-approved Tiebreak System. I've not read the instructions of how it works or how to use it but I am going to ram it down your throats. So there!
There is a message board on which you can post back and forth to each other about football, tax policy or whatever. Only caveat is to keep it CLEAN. This league is for everyone and their dependents, so young typers might be on board. I will delete all naughty posts and team names.
Time permitting, I will write a weekly fishwrap wrap-up, noting the week's winners, league leaders, and anything that seems topical.
Joining instructions are below. Post any questions or problems. Thanks and have fun!
...... and yes, I get paid for using the " - " key.
ok. I might take that chance. thanks.
That puts the pressure on the rest of us. Ouch.
There’s always time to change your picks!
Ickie Shuffle to the top.
the more draft research I do the more my team sucks. Really fantasy football is a lot more work than pick em, I see the guys that regular win the fantasy football leagues I’m in, they’re swapping guys out 5 minutes after the last game, running trades, these guys put at least an hour into every week and multiple hours in their pre-draft research. Pick em takes 5 minutes a week tops, usually less.
The problem really boils down to what makes a good fantasy player is not what makes a good football players. The stats that make a good football player generally result in few fantasy points, in football a QB that drives the team down the field with smart passes, willingly throws the away when the play goes wrong and hands it off to the RB for the TD is really good to great. In fantasy football that QB is death, in fantasy you want the guy on the team that gets behind often, throws the ball willy-nilly and as long as he doesn’t get 3 times as many INTs as TDs all will be well.
I excel at putting together teams where most of the players will be in the real world playoffs, while my fantasy team goes under 500.
IMO, it really isn’t difficult to discern a good real football player from a good fantasy football player. Often, they’re the same thing. But in the instances they’re not, it really isn’t difficult to tell.
Orlando Pace is a great real football player. But he’s useless in fantasy football. Chad Pennington is a very good real football player. But he’s useless in fantasy football. Every Patriots running back is a pretty good football player. But they’re all useless in fantasy football.
Pick’em to the top
I think I’ve had Pace, Pennington and most of the Pats RBs on my fantasy teams. Maybe this year I’ll manage to pull it off.
BTTT
Good luck.
Is there an FR fantasy football league?
I haven’t seen one this year.
A shame. You’d think FR would be a pretty competitive FF site.
We’ve had them before, I stunk. I just haven’t seen a thread scroll by.
A “later” bump.
Sssdddrrr
Too much time on your hands bump.
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