Recent content by Grond

A few years back I concocted a league for folks that really liked the draft aspect of fantasy football. We drafted picks prior to the player draft. There were actually two player drafts - one NFC-only players, one AFC-only. Required number of players per position and you could only draft one...

I did something similar three years ago, but instead of auctioning draft slots we drafted draft picks--there was actually three drafts: the one for the draft position and then the player draft in the NFC, and one for the player draft in the AFC. The balancer was that players were divided by...

Marques Tuiasosopo Butler By'note Brandon Manumaleuna My favorite ever: R-Kal Truluck

I disagree somewhat. I'm in a number of leagues with this type system and I ran into similar situations a couple of times during the offseason this year. I had more quality, worthwhile players than the allowed number of keepers so a few owners were trying to lowball me, knowing I'd have to drop...

Count me in, if there's room. I really like long-term strategic formats like this.

A few years ago we pushed around something similar with large rosters or no max roster size and nixed it before implementing it. My thoughts were that it would really hurt team parity in the league and it would take a lot of the long-term strategic aspects out of it. It'd be too easy to stash a...

This is very similar to one of my leagues that's entering it's 14th season this year. * Only rookies can be drafted. 6-7 years ago we rigidly defined what "rookie" meant: any player that had not been previously rostered by a pro football team of any type (CFL, Arena, Arena 2, XFL, etc.). This...

Since you used the full team name in your post (as well as hundreds of thousands of other uses of various trademarks & servicemarks on the FBG forums); that could possibly make you and the FBG corporate structure in violation of trademark law, heh. It'll be interesting to see which online...

End result: the NFL is generally limited by its selection pool; was "trickle up" inequality from college programs a significant factor?

For many years, black players were significantly less marketable and popular to the American public as a whole, thus they didn't receive the same consideration (and for many years, comparable salaries) as white players. QB as one of the most marketable positions, drew the fans. I think there was...

I wonder if you're cherrypicking your stats a bit, Chase. Since you're weighting value according to quality seasons, I don't think having a prerequisite 9 years experience matters as much. What about the stats from, say, 2000-2007? (They may be similar, I'm just wondering if the recent numbers...

4th... and he went to #3 :confused:

16 team Yahoo league, start 2 RB. Some guy dropped Cadillac. (and I was too far down the waiver list to get him... snarl)

Exactly what I was thinking. It's tricky; reading the competition is key and being satisfied with having the player if you can't pull off a trade. Like being short WR help and deep depth at RB, picking Peterson could backfire - if they perceive you're doing it to get the most bang for your buck...

A few leagues have an open-ended pick window for 1.01 - meaning 1.01 is on the clock when the draft order is decided, weeks or months before the draft, until the pick deadline. For leagues of this type, I'm curious what opinions are about trading away 1.01 - do you think it's better to trade...