Recent content by Jimmy James

My best league is what I like to call a two fisted league where each of five owners runs two teams. The bright line rule is that our schedule never allows one team to play the other (and before we had schedule control, we had lineup rules for those weeks and for the playoffs) and importantly for...

I don't think 700/7 going forward is out of the question.

I benched Britt...for Bowe, so I am very likely going to win. Going forward, I get to have the most pleasant of nightmares: choosing between Andre Johnson, Randy Moss, Bowe, Britt, and Tampa Bay Mike Williams for 3 spots. I'll take it over having to choose between 5 marginal choices.

It's not a foregone conclusion. There would be excitement in seeing if two teams could actually execute it. It's not scripted. Scripted would equate to collusion.

Limas Sweed

Wow. I really don't mind 7-9 instead of 9-7 and staying home for the Dolphins based on what it does for the draft pick.

Isn't giving everybody a pick and then taking it away if you are found to monkey around with who starts and plays essentially the same thing as making teams forfeit picks? There can only be so many picks based on the CBA, right? Mind you, I understand that we're about to get into some wild...

A tie of this sort would not have to be devoid of entertainment value. It wouldn't have to be kneel downs and punts (why even punt if you're just kneeling and so is the other team?). You'd just need to make sure all the players knew they couldn't score in OT, lest some Donovan McNabb ruin it...

Draft picks? No. That will just make the competitive balance problem worse. I think what you have to do is determine which teams get home games and byes based at least in part on this. Teams make the playoffs based on their 16 game results. The team with the best record in the 16 game season is...

I am a bit statistics challenged (though I have taken and passed two college level statistics courses -- I take the issue seriously), but I really don't think that we can really put odds on something like that with the information we have. I will grant (and have granted) that I was over the top...

I'm a pretty fascinating guy. I do love my 5 owner, 10 team league, though. You surely know how to search my history to see what I've posted all over this forum.

I don't see Favre or Brees getting rewarded for collapses. I think that if Rivers, Johnson, and Rodgers are not palatable choices, Manning is the more likely winner among candidates with late season problems. At least you can argue that Manning had nothing to play for (and indeed was out of the...

He makes plenty of hard cuts in practice, doesn't he? Perhaps getting into his car is a bit absurd. I can't point to a specific example of that. I can point to a number of specific examples where ACLs were torn in practice situations, though.

Winner in the only league I play in. That league has a Thursday rule. I actually did win against the team that got in due to Warner losing a TD and would have lost against the Warner team. Had my league gone with a Tuesday rule (which I think most of the owners wish we had, including the team I...

Team A wins. That rule is in no way ambiguous. If the commissioner was derelict in his duties and had not used the Sun-Times sports page to verify results on Tuesday, that would be another matter entirely. That rule clearly adopts the position that finality of results on Tuesday is the most...