2025 FBG Subscriber Contest (10 Viewers)

[Zow]

I'm still alive but barely.

Doesn't help that I have to take 0s at kicker every week due to injuries and surprising cuts.

I'm sorry, but there are no such thing as surprising kicker cuts. All the kickers that got cut had warning signs.

No need to apologize. I tried to find bargains. I was surprised but that’s my error.

 

[TheWinz]

I'm still alive but barely.

Doesn't help that I have to take 0s at kicker every week due to injuries and surprising cuts.

I'm sorry, but there are no such thing as surprising kicker cuts. All the kickers that got cut had warning signs.

So we’re saying, for next year, it might be better to NOT shop from the $3 bargain bin anymore, and instead put a few more bucks towards kickers?

No. Some cheapies have no warts and are quite safe. If you go back in this thread, I said my safest $3 kicker was Cairo Santos, and his only wart was limited distance. But I doubted he would lose his job because he is accurate. And his 20.2 points in week 4 saved alot of teams.

 

[TwinTurbo]

Not to jinx anything (although as soon as I say that...) I'm feeling like I and the other 19 remaining contestants who have both Puka and CMC are going into this week with significantly less stress than we otherwise might have...

Yeah great result for a TNF game

 

[TwinTurbo]

I'm still alive but barely.

Doesn't help that I have to take 0s at kicker every week due to injuries and surprising cuts.

I'm sorry, but there are no such thing as surprising kicker cuts. All the kickers that got cut had warning signs.

So we’re saying, for next year, it might be better to NOT shop from the $3 bargain bin anymore, and instead put a few more bucks towards kickers?

No. Some cheapies have no warts and are quite safe. If you go back in this thread, I said my safest $3 kicker was Cairo Santos, and his only wart was limited distance. But I doubted he would lose his job because he is accurate. And his 20.2 points in week 4 saved alot of teams.

Yeah you warned me away from Gano. I went with Cairo Santos instead. Thanks good buddy.

 

[TheWinz]

I'm still alive but barely.

Doesn't help that I have to take 0s at kicker every week due to injuries and surprising cuts.

I'm sorry, but there are no such thing as surprising kicker cuts. All the kickers that got cut had warning signs.

So we’re saying, for next year, it might be better to NOT shop from the $3 bargain bin anymore, and instead put a few more bucks towards kickers?

No. Some cheapies have no warts and are quite safe. If you go back in this thread, I said my safest $3 kicker was Cairo Santos, and his only wart was limited distance. But I doubted he would lose his job because he is accurate. And his 20.2 points in week 4 saved alot of teams.

Yeah you warned me away from Gano. I went with Cairo Santos instead. Thanks good buddy.

Idea - what if we, as a Shark Pool collective, could come up with "expert teams" at each position? We may be able to build the prefect team for next year. I would gladly join the kicker squad, because I suck at everything else.

 

[TwinTurbo]

I'm still alive but barely.

Doesn't help that I have to take 0s at kicker every week due to injuries and surprising cuts.

I'm sorry, but there are no such thing as surprising kicker cuts. All the kickers that got cut had warning signs.

So we’re saying, for next year, it might be better to NOT shop from the $3 bargain bin anymore, and instead put a few more bucks towards kickers?

No. Some cheapies have no warts and are quite safe. If you go back in this thread, I said my safest $3 kicker was Cairo Santos, and his only wart was limited distance. But I doubted he would lose his job because he is accurate. And his 20.2 points in week 4 saved alot of teams.

Yeah you warned me away from Gano. I went with Cairo Santos instead. Thanks good buddy.

Idea - what if we, as a Shark Pool collective, could come up with "expert teams" at each position? We may be able to build the prefect team for next year. I would gladly join the kicker squad, because I suck at everything else.

I would sign up for the RB collective

 

[joey]

I'm still alive but barely.

Doesn't help that I have to take 0s at kicker every week due to injuries and surprising cuts.

I'm sorry, but there are no such thing as surprising kicker cuts. All the kickers that got cut had warning signs.

So we’re saying, for next year, it might be better to NOT shop from the $3 bargain bin anymore, and instead put a few more bucks towards kickers?

No. Some cheapies have no warts and are quite safe. If you go back in this thread, I said my safest $3 kicker was Cairo Santos, and his only wart was limited distance. But I doubted he would lose his job because he is accurate. And his 20.2 points in week 4 saved alot of teams.

I have Santos on my already-eliminated team

Guess kicker wasn’t my problem.

 

[Dacomish]

Lots of great posts in here but checking…. @apalmer are you still eliminated, just like me?

I feel this post with every sence of week 1 bounce bone in my body.....is it postseason contest time yet?

 

[SeniorVBDStudent]

I'll sign up for the Borg Collective.

Resistance is futile.

 

[apalmer]

Lots of great posts in here but checking…. @apalmer are you still eliminated, just like me?

Last time I checked, but I did get the Super Special Subscriber deal, so I'm waiting for my 2nd chance bonus to kick in.

 

[joey]

Lots of great posts in here but checking…. @apalmer are you still eliminated, just like me?

Last time I checked, but I did get the Super Special Subscriber deal, so I'm waiting for my 2nd chance bonus to kick in.

My Mega Platinum Triple Chance Jackpot Subscription has me already picking my playoff contest team.
@Dacomish turned me on to this level of Subscription, so get on board too. I think there’s only one slot remaining.

Signed,
President of the Early Exit Society

 

[Dacomish]

Lots of great posts in here but checking…. @apalmer are you still eliminated, just like me?

Last time I checked, but I did get the Super Special Subscriber deal, so I'm waiting for my 2nd chance bonus to kick in.

My Mega Platinum Triple Chance Jackpot Subscription has me already picking my playoff contest team.
@Dacomish turned me on to this level of Subscription, so get on board too. I think there’s only one slot remaining.

Signed,
President of the Early Exit Society

I'm Dacomish and I endorse this Message...

 

[Charles in Houston]

I'm still alive but barely.

Doesn't help that I have to take 0s at kicker every week due to injuries and surprising cuts.

I'm sorry, but there are no such thing as surprising kicker cuts. All the kickers that got cut had warning signs.

So we’re saying, for next year, it might be better to NOT shop from the $3 bargain bin anymore, and instead put a few more bucks towards kickers?

No. Some cheapies have no warts and are quite safe. If you go back in this thread, I said my safest $3 kicker was Cairo Santos, and his only wart was limited distance. But I doubted he would lose his job because he is accurate. And his 20.2 points in week 4 saved alot of teams.

Yeah you warned me away from Gano. I went with Cairo Santos instead. Thanks good buddy.

Idea - what if we, as a Shark Pool collective, could come up with "expert teams" at each position? We may be able to build the prefect team for next year. I would gladly join the kicker squad, because I suck at everything else.

I would sign up for the RB collective

OK, start with this mentality - 2 RBs for $13/each are better than 1 RB at $26. And so on .... You want protection from injuries, and byes, and your RB getting the flu on Sunday, or being game-planned into a single digit score, or being ejected during the game, or his team fighting from behind with the passing game, or ...... then better to have a next man up mentality.

 

[TheWinz]

OK, start with this mentality - 2 RBs for $13/each are better than 1 RB at $26. And so on .... You want protection from injuries, and byes, and your RB getting the flu on Sunday, or being game-planned into a single digit score, or being ejected during the game, or his team fighting from behind with the passing game, or ...... then better to have a next man up mentality.

But if you use this mentality, you can then say it's better to roster 4 RB's for $6.50 each, or 8 RB's for $3.25 each. Next thing you know, you have a roster of $1 scrubs.

 

[Charles in Houston]

OK, start with this mentality - 2 RBs for $13/each are better than 1 RB at $26. And so on .... You want protection from injuries, and byes, and your RB getting the flu on Sunday, or being game-planned into a single digit score, or being ejected during the game, or his team fighting from behind with the passing game, or ...... then better to have a next man up mentality.

But if you use this mentality, you can then say it's better to roster 4 RB's for $6.50 each, or 8 RB's for $3.25 each. Next thing you know, you have a roster of $1 scrubs.

There are obvious limits. I see teams going into battle with only 4 RBs. Won't last by a long shot. If we were allowed more than 30 players, for $85 spent on your running back group, I'd rather have 14 each of $6 RBs than just 4 RBs averaging $21. Ever heard about too many eggs in one basket? Same applies to the other groups (WR, TE, K, D).

 

[Puppies]

I'm still alive but barely.

Doesn't help that I have to take 0s at kicker every week due to injuries and surprising cuts.

Hate this part. Starting to think that leagues/contests should all just use TMPK. Maybe it's just me, but it feels like there are so many more injuries and mid-season kicker changes than in the past.

I will second the notion that has already been voiced, that there were not many surprise kicker cuts this season.

The main thing you need to look for in kickers, in addition to being on a team that can move the ball, is the job security of the kicker. In addition to kickers that are having to win their position in camp, which raises a red flag, it also means knowing stuff like whether a team can save substantial cap money by cutting an overpriced kicker. Gano was prime example of that this year. Even if he had not been injured it was widely known that the Giants could have saved over $3M in cap money by cutting him. I tend to also be leery of very old kickers, thinking they are more likely to suffer injuries than the younger guys. The only kicker I was surprised to see cut this year was Moody in Kansas City. I didn't see any indication that he may have been on thin ice, but he was quickly cut after a poor performance in week 1. Maybe the indications were there but I just didn't see them.

In past years I have routinely gone with $3 kickers, but I have usually felt good about their job security when I have. I think Santos is a safe $3 kicker, but he did not fit with my bye week strategy because I already had a kicker with the same bye week. This year I rostered one $3 kicker (Grupe) and two $4 kickers (Boswell and Loop), due to reservations I had with most of the $3 kickers. I feel pretty good about the job security of the kickers on my roster, but anything can happen with injuries. You have to hope your kicker does not get injured trying to make a tackle when the opposing team is returning a kickoff and he's the last chance to prevent a touchdown. That almost happened in one of the games I was watching this week.