Recent content by Adam Harstad

I'm on to my first finals! And running pretty strong, to boot-- finishes of 54th, 17th, and 50th the last three weeks. Final analysis of my roster in terms of marginal points per dollar (which, to reiterate, is not really the important metric for performance, but I wanted to get a look at...

142.5 with Love (-30.5), and Mostert/Reed (-7.6 / 9.6) still out there. Not resting *super* easy but feel like I’ve got enough there to make my first finals— hard to see the Lion rising 20 points without at least one of those three guys heavily involved. Hopefully I don’t have to eat those words.

Breaking down my roster in terms of marginal points per dollar-- how many extra points a player got me vs. if I'd just left his box unchecked and didn't spend that money elsewhere. (I know marginal points isn't the best measure, but I was curious about opportunity costs.) 0.5 points per...

Yeah, just interesting that the distribution remained relatively unchanged despite all the talk about how sharp the prices were and how hard it was to go big without all the obvious $3 options lying around. Reading the first ~10 pages again there was a lot of speculation that 20 or 21 might be...

Agreed. Was surprised Lutz wasn’t more heavily rostered. Not only because of the incredible job security at that price point, but on the potential for Denver’s offense to rebound going from Hackett to Payton. There were more entries this year with Badgley than Lutz. (Lol.)

Also interesting given all the discussion this offseason about the tighter pricing leading to smaller rosters being more optimal than usual, here's survival rates for all teams with at least $250 spent. (Doesn't include Week 12 yet.) 18 players -- 142/4040 (3.5%) 19 -- 82/1333 (6.2%) 20 --...

I've only had two weeks where I finished within 30 points of the cut lion and Lutz saved my hindquarters in both of them. 6.6 away in Week 7 (Lutz had 15.9, my next-best kicker had 7) and 12.2 away in Week 11 (Lutz had 18.1, my next-best kicker had 3).

Hey friendos. Long time. Haven't wanted to say anything before this lest I jinx myself, but I'm in the Final 500 (my first, IIRC), so I'm playing on house money now. I'm definitely a "dash a team off in 10 minutes and hope for the best" kind of guy, but I've followed these threads over the...

For what it's worth, in one of my leagues we have a "conditional lineup" rule. You set your starters and name preferred backups at each position. If any of your starters is a gameday inactive, you get your previously-named backup's score instead. That rule wasn't designed for Covid or game...

She asked me to post it. I was going to leave it up for 24 hours and then memory-hole it, but this is a much better solution. Anyone interested, PM me and I’ll pass it along.

Hey all, Tom’s sister wanted to let you know that she appreciated everyone’s replies in this thread, and if anyone had any other stories of her brother they wanted to share, she’d love to hear them. Feel free to PM me and I’ll pass them along.

He absolutely would.

I did. I tried to PM you just to make sure you saw but PMs weren’t working. I still need to discuss with the rest of the league what we’re planning on doing going forward. Most of the rest of the guys have been playing with Tom for as long as I have. But if they’re okay with it and you’re still...

No one did. Totally unexpected. He was complaining about not feeling well when he went to bed Sunday night and again when he got up on Monday, but no indications it was anything serious. Two weeks ago he was taking me down in a championship game and already talking trash about the pending...

Hey y’all. I wish to hell I wasn’t writing this right now. But Tom, better known around here as @Man of Constant Sorrow, died of natural causes on Monday morning. I know many of you knew him and some of you have met him. I’ve seen people I know disappear before and always wondered what happened...