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2014 Interboard Challenge League (1 Viewer)

rolling with this for week 1

Griffin III, Robert WAS QB

Ball, Montee DEN RB
Spiller, C.J. BUF RB

Bryant, Dez DAL WR
Jennings, Greg MIN WR
Sanders, Emmanuel DEN WR

Gronkowski, Rob NEP TE

Hauschka, Steven SEA PK


Could also sub in Morris/Latimer/Benjamin for Spiller but I think he is the best chance at big points of that group.
Texans, Houston HOU Def
 
Should I go Bush, Chris Johnson, rashad Jennings or Emmanuel Sanders...pick 2...I'll answer yours...lol.

 
Should I go Bush, Chris Johnson, rashad Jennings or Emmanuel Sanders...pick 2...I'll answer yours...lol.
Bush/Sanders imo
Dodds is strongly in the CJ/RJ camp. That said I think his 4-56 projection is insanely light.

The goal is to make the upper tier at the end of the regular season. That means a top 25% finish. To do that you'll need some big scoring weeks. I like guys like Bush and Sanders to post huge weeks more than Jennings.

 
Doubled up 94 teams, 25 pt lead on 2nd place.

Stinkin Ref (FBG) (69.20 pts)
Chad (FFLW) (43.94 pts)
Lehrdude (GURU) (32.90 pts)
Cuse9 (FFT) (32.86 pts)
Buckav (DFW) (29.40 pts)
Chris Slabaugh (SO) (28.86 pts)
Packman (GURU) (27.30 pts)
ReneSauz (FBG) (27.00 pts)
By The Sea Wannabe (FBG) (26.30 pts)
Duckboy (FBG) (26.00 pts)
Chavez (FS) (26.00 pts)
625James (FS) (26.00 pts)
Fumbleweed (FFT) (25.40 pts)
Old Milwaukee (FBG) (25.40 pts)
Aargyle (FFLW) (25.40 pts)
MTSkibum (FFLW) (25.40 pts)
Prestige Worldwide (GURU) (25.30 pts)
perpetually_rebuilding (DFW) (24.80 pts)
Bodey34 (SO) (22.54 pts)
Jesteva (FS) (21.30 pts)
Beermutts (SO) (19.06 pts)
HitNRun (GURU) (19.00 pts)
MonkeyOne (HUD) (18.54 pts)
Tyler Durden (DFW) (18.54 pts)
Kilroy (DFW) (18.54 pts)
Stewburtx8 (FFT) (17.80 pts)
Rudnicki (FBG) (17.80 pts)
ShadowsFall (HUD) (17.80 pts)
Darin3 (HUD) (17.80 pts)
Tom (GURU) (17.80 pts)
Cardnl1b (GURU) (17.80 pts)
Vikings4Ever (FFT) (17.30 pts)
Scurvy (DFW) (17.30 pts)
John Evans (DFW) (17.00 pts)
Chem (FS) (17.00 pts)
Usual Suspects (FFT) (11.56 pts)
SomeBigAssTDs (GURU) (11.56 pts)
RabidBucFan (GURU) (11.56 pts)
Wical (SO) (11.56 pts)
Rock Hard (FFLW) (11.50 pts)
Nikki (SO) (11.50 pts)
Gringo (FBG) (10.00 pts)
Bro1ncos (FBG) (10.00 pts)
Valence (FBG) (10.00 pts)
Lab (FS) (10.00 pts)
Miller (SO) (10.00 pts)
R2000 (FS) (9.00 pts)
Jaws (FS) (7.50 pts)
efactor (SO) (7.50 pts)
Sinrman (FBG) (4.00 pts)
Phicinfan (SO) (4.00 pts)
Lambert58 (FFT) (0.00 pts)
Big Blue 06 (FFT) (0.00 pts)
Phantom Regiment (FFT) (0.00 pts)
Me_20xx (FFT) (0.00 pts)
Mullmania (FFT) (0.00 pts)
White Wonder (FFT) (0.00 pts)
Dan (FFT) (0.00 pts)
Clash of the Titans (FBG) (0.00 pts)
Sweet Love (FBG) (0.00 pts)
BuddhaJ (HUD) (0.00 pts)
Shaman (HUD) (0.00 pts)
ElectricRelish (HUD) (0.00 pts)
3rd and Schlong (HUD) (0.00 pts)
WashingtonD (HUD) (0.00 pts)
QFFL (HUD) (0.00 pts)
MillWorkGuy (HUD) (0.00 pts)
BearBroncos (HUD) (0.00 pts)
Morning Mud (HUD) (0.00 pts)
Nic (GURU) (0.00 pts)
Average Joe (GURU) (0.00 pts)
KillerFins (GURU) (0.00 pts)
LukeShep (GURU) (0.00 pts)
Jay (DFW) (0.00 pts)
Aaron (DFW) (0.00 pts)
FantasyFreak (DFW) (0.00 pts)
sikkbomb (DFW) (0.00 pts)
Matt_Young2 (DFW) (0.00 pts)
satchattack (DFW) (0.00 pts)
Cyguy (FS) (0.00 pts)
JCB890 (FS) (0.00 pts)
DropkickFluties (FS) (0.00 pts)
datacore (FS) (0.00 pts)
GingRules (FS) (0.00 pts)
devil's_advocate_oh (FFLW) (0.00 pts)
Dagorhir (FFLW) (0.00 pts)
Axe Elf (FFLW) (0.00 pts)
Jerryskids (FFLW) (0.00 pts)
Little Big Head (FFLW) (0.00 pts)
gypsybrat (FFLW) (0.00 pts)
The Dude (FFLW) (0.00 pts)
Scorp (FFLW) (0.00 pts)
Mills (SO) (0.00 pts)
Controlled Destruction (SO) (0.00 pts)
Mongerkhan (SO) (0.00 pts)
Mr. Outlaw (SO) (0.00 pts)

 
BassNBrew said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Sweet Love said:
Should I go Bush, Chris Johnson, rashad Jennings or Emmanuel Sanders...pick 2...I'll answer yours...lol.
Bush/Sanders imo
Dodds is strongly in the CJ/RJ camp. That said I think his 4-56 projection is insanely light.

The goal is to make the upper tier at the end of the regular season. That means a top 25% finish. To do that you'll need some big scoring weeks. I like guys like Bush and Sanders to post huge weeks more than Jennings.
imo...no way can you bench sanders right now unless you hear that his nagging injury is an issue.....and i like high volume jennings on opening night at det over cj.....i want to see what DET backfield looks like with OC gone.....ima little scared of bush this year..

 
After one game I think we should tally the results, declare FBG team champs and Stinkin Ref league champ!!!

 
I'll gather more information in the AM but what do you guys think I should do about Cam?

I did grab Palmer late.

 
OldMilwaukee said:
I'll gather more information in the AM but what do you guys think I should do about Cam?

I did grab Palmer late.
Personally I start Palmer until Cam shows me something. I don't think he'll be running with the ribs and he looked awful in pre-season. If I was the Panther's coach I'd be tapping Anderson to start this game.

 
i'd go bush/sanders - Palmer

I am rolling with (subject to last minute change of heart of course)

RG3 over Ben

B. Tate over Mathews and G. Tate

 
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149 with Green to go

vs.

125.2 + Stafford

150.6 and done

134.26 and done

135.94 and Novak

105.86 + Floyd

85.06 + Randle

60.54 + Floyd

Would feel pretty good with 5 pts from Green tonite.

 
Team wise, 3 currently in the top 9. The 3 bringing up the rear have lots of ammo tonite to move up.

 
Team wise, 3 currently in the top 9. The 3 bringing up the rear have lots of ammo tonite to move up.
I am at 85.5 points with Bush, Fitz and Stafford to go. If they can average 15 points between the three of them (which I do not think is unreasonable), I am looking at roughly 130 points which typically will have you in 4-5 win range. We'll see how it goes, but I have the chance to have a nice week.

I also am in the good predicament of having a deep bench. Not sure if I want to package some guys for an elite RB, but thinking about it...problem is, I alsways feel as though depth is an issue in this league, so I may stand pat.

 
Team wise, 3 currently in the top 9. The 3 bringing up the rear have lots of ammo tonite to move up.
I am at 85.5 points with Bush, Fitz and Stafford to go. If they can average 15 points between the three of them (which I do not think is unreasonable), I am looking at roughly 130 points which typically will have you in 4-5 win range. We'll see how it goes, but I have the chance to have a nice week.

I also am in the good predicament of having a deep bench. Not sure if I want to package some guys for an elite RB, but thinking about it...problem is, I alsways feel as though depth is an issue in this league, so I may stand pat.
Ref's depth is horrible. Week 4 we'll be starting all four of Amendola/Boykin/Pierce/Green. Definitely could stand to part with Wilson for depth.

Probably should have focused more on WR's during the draft rather than making the starting roster as strong as possible. I suspect our season will hinge on L. Green being a good pick.

 
Team wise, 3 currently in the top 9. The 3 bringing up the rear have lots of ammo tonite to move up.
I am at 85.5 points with Bush, Fitz and Stafford to go. If they can average 15 points between the three of them (which I do not think is unreasonable), I am looking at roughly 130 points which typically will have you in 4-5 win range. We'll see how it goes, but I have the chance to have a nice week.

I also am in the good predicament of having a deep bench. Not sure if I want to package some guys for an elite RB, but thinking about it...problem is, I alsways feel as though depth is an issue in this league, so I may stand pat.
Ref's depth is horrible. Week 4 we'll be starting all four of Amendola/Boykin/Pierce/Green. Definitely could stand to part with Wilson for depth.

Probably should have focused more on WR's during the draft rather than making the starting roster as strong as possible. I suspect our season will hinge on L. Green being a good pick.
bass...already promised Wilson to Valence for RG3.....so we'd be moving RG for something....which may be very little

the great ones adjust.....we'll stay competitive....

 
Team wise, 3 currently in the top 9. The 3 bringing up the rear have lots of ammo tonite to move up.
I am at 85.5 points with Bush, Fitz and Stafford to go. If they can average 15 points between the three of them (which I do not think is unreasonable), I am looking at roughly 130 points which typically will have you in 4-5 win range. We'll see how it goes, but I have the chance to have a nice week.

I also am in the good predicament of having a deep bench. Not sure if I want to package some guys for an elite RB, but thinking about it...problem is, I alsways feel as though depth is an issue in this league, so I may stand pat.
Ref's depth is horrible. Week 4 we'll be starting all four of Amendola/Boykin/Pierce/Green. Definitely could stand to part with Wilson for depth.

Probably should have focused more on WR's during the draft rather than making the starting roster as strong as possible. I suspect our season will hinge on L. Green being a good pick.
bass...already promised Wilson to Valence for RG3.....so we'd be moving RG for something....which may be very little

the great ones adjust.....we'll stay competitive....
Did Valence at least give you a kiss afterwards?

 
BassNBrew said:
Stinkin Ref said:
BassNBrew said:
Sweet Love said:
BassNBrew said:
Team wise, 3 currently in the top 9. The 3 bringing up the rear have lots of ammo tonite to move up.
I am at 85.5 points with Bush, Fitz and Stafford to go. If they can average 15 points between the three of them (which I do not think is unreasonable), I am looking at roughly 130 points which typically will have you in 4-5 win range. We'll see how it goes, but I have the chance to have a nice week.

I also am in the good predicament of having a deep bench. Not sure if I want to package some guys for an elite RB, but thinking about it...problem is, I alsways feel as though depth is an issue in this league, so I may stand pat.
Ref's depth is horrible. Week 4 we'll be starting all four of Amendola/Boykin/Pierce/Green. Definitely could stand to part with Wilson for depth.

Probably should have focused more on WR's during the draft rather than making the starting roster as strong as possible. I suspect our season will hinge on L. Green being a good pick.
bass...already promised Wilson to Valence for RG3.....so we'd be moving RG for something....which may be very little

the great ones adjust.....we'll stay competitive....
Did Valence at least give you a kiss afterwards?
lol....I already told you about this and you said you liked RG3 better than Wilson in this format anyway......

was just trying to help a brotha out....

 
Team wise, 3 currently in the top 9. The 3 bringing up the rear have lots of ammo tonite to move up.
I am at 85.5 points with Bush, Fitz and Stafford to go. If they can average 15 points between the three of them (which I do not think is unreasonable), I am looking at roughly 130 points which typically will have you in 4-5 win range. We'll see how it goes, but I have the chance to have a nice week.

I also am in the good predicament of having a deep bench. Not sure if I want to package some guys for an elite RB, but thinking about it...problem is, I alsways feel as though depth is an issue in this league, so I may stand pat.
Ref's depth is horrible. Week 4 we'll be starting all four of Amendola/Boykin/Pierce/Green. Definitely could stand to part with Wilson for depth.

Probably should have focused more on WR's during the draft rather than making the starting roster as strong as possible. I suspect our season will hinge on L. Green being a good pick.
Too late for intraboard trades.

Feels like a decent, but not great start. We have 4 guys in the top 25 or so, and only a couple in the bottom 25. We'll see better tomorrow.

 
Team wise, 3 currently in the top 9. The 3 bringing up the rear have lots of ammo tonite to move up.
I am at 85.5 points with Bush, Fitz and Stafford to go. If they can average 15 points between the three of them (which I do not think is unreasonable), I am looking at roughly 130 points which typically will have you in 4-5 win range. We'll see how it goes, but I have the chance to have a nice week.

I also am in the good predicament of having a deep bench. Not sure if I want to package some guys for an elite RB, but thinking about it...problem is, I alsways feel as though depth is an issue in this league, so I may stand pat.
Ref's depth is horrible. Week 4 we'll be starting all four of Amendola/Boykin/Pierce/Green. Definitely could stand to part with Wilson for depth.

Probably should have focused more on WR's during the draft rather than making the starting roster as strong as possible. I suspect our season will hinge on L. Green being a good pick.
Too late for intraboard trades.

Feels like a decent, but not great start. We have 4 guys in the top 25 or so, and only a couple in the bottom 25. We'll see better tomorrow.
Start of wk 2 on the trades I thought?

 
Intraboard trading ends at kickoff of the first game of Week 2 of the NFL regular season.
We should be taking advantage of this to strengthen our teams. people should post where they have excess and need help.

 
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Looks like I put a 5-2 week, but benefited from playing some low scoring teams while I put a 123.98.

RGIII

Le'Veon Bell

Giovani

Dunbar

Rashad Jennings

DeAngelo

Baldwin

Bowe

Britt

Edelman

Joe Morgan

Rod Streater

DeMaryius

Robert Woods

Martellus Bennett

Gates

Hauschka

Broncos DST

If anyone sees something that can improve both our teams just let me know. If you see ways of improving my team through waivers then I would like to hear that too.

 
Ended up 5-2 (very lucky) with 128 points (even with Fitz just putting up 3 points).

Good news:

Of course, this is my best fantasy team I own this year (no money involved...grrrr). I waited on RB and got rewarded with Bush, Jennings and Chris Johnson. My later WRs paid off too (Benjamin and Streater) and went again all my urges to wait on QB and jumped in and grabbed Stafford.

Bad news:

While I am so thankful for the depth I have, I am going to have headaches deciding who to start each week. If I go 4 WR (which means I'd still have a guy like Fitz, Benjamin or Sanders on he bench), I also put two of the following on the bench (CJ2K, Jennings, Bush). Not sure whether I should strike a 2-1 deal to move my depth or hold tight as injuries and byes are inevitable.

Nice week FBGs!

P.S. What day/time is WW?

 
my team looks pretty good.

can't even use CJ Spiller and Chris Johnson most weeks with Forte/L.Bell in place.

WR group looks reasonably deep even without an elite player: Cobb, Edelman, M.Wallace, S.Smith, Boldin, R.Woods, T.Austin

could maybe use another TE, but hopefully Rudolph has a big year there. maybe need a QB upgrade at some point, but Kaepernick/Tannehill should hopefully be solid enough.

 
137 got me 6 - 1

Decent start for us. A little bad luck for Duckboy. 115 is not a good week, but it would normally be enough for at least 2 wins.

 
Received an offer:

Get

Aaron Rodgers

Toby Gerhart

Give

LeVeon

Robert Woods

Significant upgrade at QB over RGIII and would leave me with Giovani, Rashad or Toby as options at RB.

 
Intraboard trading ends at kickoff of the first game of Week 2 of the NFL regular season.
We should be taking advantage of this to strengthen our teams. people should post where they have excess and need help.
Intra trades after week one are historically rare, and are very difficult to get approved. The 5% rule is an independent measuring stick meant to prevent boards manipulation. The biggest reason why Intra trades are cut off after week 1 is because it becomes too easy after a week or two to manipulate and leaves no independent measuring stick. The only exceptions made to this rule (the 5% rule) are deals involving players drafted after the 12th round, and only ignored completely for players drafted after about pick 180. No exceptions are made to the week 1 deadline. An 18th rounder for a late 17th will get approved. An 18th rounder for a 15th generally will not.

Trades that make sense in any other league simply can't get approved without making exceptions to a rule that in the end is absolutely vital to the IBL league's success. I realize that can be frustrating but the truth is that there are 84 other individuals to trade with and there are no restrictions on how to trade with them.

If you need to make a deal, you're better off looking to the other boards unless it's a swap of late round players or guys drafted at virtually the same draft slot.

 
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renesauz said:
Intraboard trading ends at kickoff of the first game of Week 2 of the NFL regular season.
We should be taking advantage of this to strengthen our teams. people should post where they have excess and need help.
Intra trades after week one are historically rare, and are very difficult to get approved. The 5% rule is an independent measuring stick meant to prevent boards manipulation. The biggest reason why Intra trades are cut off after week 1 is because it becomes too easy after a week or two to manipulate and leaves no independent measuring stick. The only exceptions made to this rule (the 5% rule) are deals involving players drafted after the 12th round, and only ignored completely for players drafted after about pick 180. No exceptions are made to the week 1 deadline. An 18th rounder for a late 17th will get approved. An 18th rounder for a 15th generally will not.Trades that make sense in any other league simply can't get approved without making exceptions to a rule that in the end is absolutely vital to the IBL league's success. I realize that can be frustrating but the truth is that there are 84 other individuals to trade with and there are no restrictions on how to trade with them.

If you need to make a deal, you're better off looking to the other boards unless it's a swap of late round players or guys drafted at virtually the same draft slot.
is the players ADP across all drafts taken into consideration or just the draft spot you happened to get the guy in?....is he attached to that draft spot no matter what....?for instance we got Wilson at a major discount....12th round....it's why we took him......he went in the 8th, 9th, and 3 times in the 10th in other drafts......but is he stuck with hiis 12th round tag in every trade I want to use him in......and does the guy that got him in the 8th round get to use that price for him......?

 
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bro1ncos said:
Received an offer:

Get

Aaron Rodgers

Toby Gerhart

Give

LeVeon

Robert Woods

Significant upgrade at QB over RGIII and would leave me with Giovani, Rashad or Toby as options at RB.
If you're a Gerhart fan then go for it. I happen to think that week 1 was an indication of his talent.

 
bro1ncos said:
Received an offer:

Get

Aaron Rodgers

Toby Gerhart

Give

LeVeon

Robert Woods

Significant upgrade at QB over RGIII and would leave me with Giovani, Rashad or Toby as options at RB.
If you're a Gerhart fan then go for it. I happen to think that week 1 was an indication of his talent.
Personally, I am not a fan of Gerhart, but with the RBs he has (Gio and Rashad), I think he can get away with it. Toby would be backup material anyway. Great upgrade at QB though. Maybe see if he can unload RGIII?

 
Posted this at FFLivewire:

Re. the bolded. Keep in mind that the IBL is a team game, even if individual titles are awarded. Stealing a guy in the 12th who has a 9 or 10th rd. ADP is a team win. The rules over intraboard trades were designed to prevent boards from manipulating rosters unfairly to stack teams. Using the actual draft spot instead of ADP might seem unfair on an indivual level (and probably is), but it is simpler, easier to implement/police, and is certainly fair on a TEAM level. More, while the player has only a 12th round value for INTRAboard trades, he certainly has the 8/9th round value for INTERboard trades.Intraboard trades post week one have never been common for a good reason- values do change.
IN other words, it really isn't the players we trade on intra's, but the draft slot value.Most folks, including the commissioners, don't look at the Livewire forums mu8ch once the main site is set up. Perhaps they/we should, but intra trades after week one really are very uncommon.

I don't think intra trades post draft are going to go away, but I do think we will revisit the deadline. I would advocate for kickoff of game one.

I'll see about getting a list of commmisioners posted .

 
Posted this at FFLivewire:

Re. the bolded. Keep in mind that the IBL is a team game, even if individual titles are awarded. Stealing a guy in the 12th who has a 9 or 10th rd. ADP is a team win. The rules over intraboard trades were designed to prevent boards from manipulating rosters unfairly to stack teams. Using the actual draft spot instead of ADP might seem unfair on an indivual level (and probably is), but it is simpler, easier to implement/police, and is certainly fair on a TEAM level. More, while the player has only a 12th round value for INTRAboard trades, he certainly has the 8/9th round value for INTERboard trades.Intraboard trades post week one have never been common for a good reason- values do change.
IN other words, it really isn't the players we trade on intra's, but the draft slot value.Most folks, including the commissioners, don't look at the Livewire forums mu8ch once the main site is set up. Perhaps they/we should, but intra trades after week one really are very uncommon.

I don't think intra trades post draft are going to go away, but I do think we will revisit the deadline. I would advocate for kickoff of game one.

I'll see about getting a list of commmisioners posted .
thanks rene.....I should probably have a breathalyzer installed on my iPad.....I was drinking last night and getting pretty frustrated......

can I get some help on a ruling of the subsequent trade that was posted at livewire yesterday for review....other commishs in their yesterday responding to stuff but nobody ruled on the proposed trade.....and you never know when I will start drinking again......

wilson/jennings

thanks

 
It seems ludicrous to me that players stay attached to their draft slot. We all know that where a player was drafted means nothing anymore... If I want to give Jennings and RG3 to Ref for Wilson shouldn't that be my choice? Who cares if Wilson was drafted after RG3? Swapping similarly valued QBs with a WR3 bump is really that big of deal? We all know sometimes you give up some value to get a player you want...

 
now lets throw Locker into the middle of this mutha ####er....let them throw that #### in the Dodds machine and see what the #### it spits out....

 
rene...if that trade gets denied...I will be asking you to take it to the appeal process based on wilson's 12th round draft spot being an outlier and his adp across all drafts would put him in the same adp zip code as jennings.....

hopefully this cluster #### will be the enough to initiate getting rid of after draft intras....

thanks

 
I'll be honest...if the dodds thing is going to stay in place for intras and the intra trade process is only going to be used half ###....then I say do away with it....

it seems like the only intent is for teammates to be able to bail each other out.....I know we have talked in here about covering for stuff like that

I say screw that.....if you are going to roll the dice and only draft one qb or one pk or whatever so that you can try to add depth somewhere else.....I think you should be on your own....it's part of the risk reward thing and the decsion you make heading into the first week of the season....trade with the other 84 owners....

and I am assuming the appeal process I am asking Renesauz to put this trade through is in place to let calmer heads prevail and common sense and fairness to be injected into the situation....otherwise why is it there.....?

if the answer comes back "DENIED.....we have to go by the Dodd's machine".....than why is there even an appeals process....?

sorry for ranting.....and to be honest...I don't really care if we get Jennings or not......there is just something in my DNA that lets #### like this get me fired up.....not my proudest moment acting like a little ##### over a totally free interweb team league.......I probably need to take a step back and check myself before I wreck myself......word

 
now lets throw Locker into the middle of this mutha ####er....let them throw that #### in the Dodds machine and see what the #### it spits out....
:lmao:
Wilson/Sanu for Jennings/Locker OK with you valence?

I going to post it on the intra and see if that gets approved. I assume we'd get the value of the Sanu we picked up based on where he was drafted. We can decide later if we even want to do that trade.

 
BassNBrew said:
valence said:
Stinkin Ref said:
now lets throw Locker into the middle of this mutha ####er....let them throw that #### in the Dodds machine and see what the #### it spits out....
:lmao:
Wilson/Sanu for Jennings/Locker OK with you valence?

I going to post it on the intra and see if that gets approved. I assume we'd get the value of the Sanu we picked up based on where he was drafted. We can decide later if we even want to do that trade.
sounds fine to me

 
It seems ludicrous to me that players stay attached to their draft slot. We all know that where a player was drafted means nothing anymore... If I want to give Jennings and RG3 to Ref for Wilson shouldn't that be my choice? Who cares if Wilson was drafted after RG3? Swapping similarly valued QBs with a WR3 bump is really that big of deal? We all know sometimes you give up some value to get a player you want...
The counter to this argument is that their are still 84 other trade partners for each of us where draft slot really is meaningless. The reason for such an early deadline at all is for the exact reason you state- values change so much that draft slot has less meaning with every passing day, and thus the rule eventually works AGAINST it's original purpose. Before week two was thought to be a point where things still lean more towards draft slot.

Trades post-draft were really only allowed to give TEAM'S a way to overcome one drafter's mistake. IE: getting them a kicker, DST, or TE if they neglected to draft one. Part of the problem is that we are caught here between thinking as a team and thinking as individuals.

 
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Stinkin Ref said:
I'll be honest...if the dodds thing is going to stay in place for intras and the intra trade process is only going to be used half ###....then I say do away with it....

it seems like the only intent is for teammates to be able to bail each other out.....I know we have talked in here about covering for stuff like that

I say screw that.....if you are going to roll the dice and only draft one qb or one pk or whatever so that you can try to add depth somewhere else.....I think you should be on your own....it's part of the risk reward thing and the decsion you make heading into the first week of the season....trade with the other 84 owners....

and I am assuming the appeal process I am asking Renesauz to put this trade through is in place to let calmer heads prevail and common sense and fairness to be injected into the situation....otherwise why is it there.....?

if the answer comes back "DENIED.....we have to go by the Dodd's machine".....than why is there even an appeals process....?

sorry for ranting.....and to be honest...I don't really care if we get Jennings or not......there is just something in my DNA that lets #### like this get me fired up.....not my proudest moment acting like a little ##### over a totally free interweb team league.......I probably need to take a step back and check myself before I wreck myself......word
Keep in mind that the "Dodds machine" is a completely independant measuring stick which works well in the first half of drafts. Nobody is suggesting it works well post draft, and NUMEROUS >5% deals get approved when they involve late round picks.

This whole thing is going to force a change in the rules altering the INtra deadline for future years.

 

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