I have Hilton, DJ, Chubb and Winston in one of my 16-team leagues. I'm 7-5, right in the thick of the playoff hunt. I tried trading DJ to the Bell owner after week 1. I'm glad they didn't accept. Almost feels like Christmas today.Sitting at 1-5 in my salary cap league, I decided to go into rebuild mode - traded away Newton, Howard, Hilton and Olsen for Winston, AJones, Ito Smith and MVS, freeing up a bunch of cap space for next year's auction. I was getting minimal production from DJ, Hilton is hurt, and I have Chubb on the bench waiting for his chance but not startable.
That was Wednesday. Since then, Mike McCoy got fired (I have DJ) and it looks like Hyde is getting traded to the Jags. My RB group just got a whole lot more interesting!
PSA announcement - I just dropped K. Stills so he's sure to go off this week
I can top this. In desperation due to being 2-4 in a league where I couldn't afford another loss and where I owned Gordon and had no one to replace him with (Freeman played Thursday, Aaron Jones on bye, best option on the wire being Kyle Juszczyk - it's a 16-team league), I traded Melvin Gordon an hour before kickoff this morning.Never checked anything fantasy yesterday and didn't notice Gordon was hurt. Taking a zero today. Oof
Welcome to the Hunt & Hill fan club!!!can’t believe i was concerned after the draft about having both Hunt and Hill.
4-3, e.g., have won 4 of the last 5. Wining easily on AB’s bye week is especially sweet. Picked up Lindsay & Chubb along the way to pair with Kerryon.Slow start, streaming mediocre QBs with Wentz out & didn’t have a Plan B for Olsen (have Eifert & RSJ.) High scorer WK1 was 24 sumtin & WK2 it was 21ish.
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Core:
AB, T.Y., Tate, Cook + Wentz
Other starters:
Alshon when he gets healthy, RB2 is Hyde, Eifert, Lutz, Denver.
Decent depth: Cohen, Kerryon, Geronimo, Westbrook, Mike Williams, RSJ
Bad start but feel like it’s still a decent squad, no need to panic.
Same boat here - need them to keep playing lights out because I am streaming Watson/Winston at QB...not to mention Conner and James White as my RB and flex....which is nice except Conner has the specter of Bell hanging around and White is a good but situational back.krsone21 said:Welcome to the Hunt & Hill fan club!!!
What is your scoring systeM?Started the season 5-0.
After averaging 320 points/week I lost to the worst team last week by 9 points. 254-245
This week I lost again by 17 points. 264-247.
Kickers matterHave some bad luck as well.
First league is my longest tenured league with friends. I’m stacked but am 4-3, third highest scorer but most points against, haven’t really had a close loss just end up going against guys that have there best weeks.
Second league I’ve been in for 3 years, tore it apart last year and had a quick rebuild thanks to landing Barkley and some key trades that got me Mahomes and tyreek and hopefully sometime soon a healthy Dalvin. Second in points scored but sitting at 4-3. Lost 1 week by .3 points and the other 2 losses have come when I had second highest score that week but played the highest.
Probably the most frustrating tho is in the FBG players championship. First year doing it and co-own a team with a buddy and we both liked our draft, team is solid but just can’t catch a break. Currently second in points but 7th in standings because we have lost 2 brutal weeks. 1 by .45 points and the other by .9 points this week. Both losses correspond with Robbie Gould not having any or barely any chances for points so guess we’re gonna have to change kickers
3 straight Ws, 5 out of 6.Slow start, streaming mediocre QBs with Wentz out & didn’t have a Plan B for Olsen (have Eifert & RSJ.) High scorer WK1 was 24 sumtin & WK2 it was 21ish.
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Core:
AB, T.Y., Tate, Cook + Wentz
Other starters:
Alshon when he gets healthy, RB2 is Hyde, Eifert, Lutz, Denver.
Decent depth: Cohen, Kerryon, Geronimo, Westbrook, Mike Williams, RSJ
Bad start but feel like it’s still a decent squad, no need to panic.
I have 6 players on a bye & Davin Cook will probably miss another week. I’m starting Baker as well. One of my starting WRs will be Geronimo Allison.In one league I'm facing Cooks, Thielen, Gurley and Ficken. I'm down 70 heading into the weekend also.
Certain loss since I have Derrick Henry as my only "startable RB".
I will need a massive explosion from Baker Mayfield in that league. (Long story there)
Was a good week to be going against multiple Rams players. I waited all offseason for weeks like this one.
TZM
your right. should always have something in to reward total points for a playoff spot. alwaysDefinitely getting out of a league after this year. I lose on the effing Beckham td with 5 seconds left. My team far and away has most points against and this will probably be second year in a row that I miss playoffs because I play high scorer every week. Commish won't change playoff structure to at least let higher scoring teams in as wild cards. We'll just have some sh@@@y teams with better records by luck get in the playoffs. I will never understand that logic.
and now a venting post, as i actually made all the right decisions in this must-win game, but still will lose to Thomas-Kamara-Coleman unless Zeke can go for like 180 yds/3 TD. story of this team this year. Doing great in 2 other leagues and honestly feel like I haven't made many mistakes here, but have the most points against coming into the week and now play the highest-scoring team of the week...I don't know where this belongs, but I still have to pick 2 RBs and 2 WR this week on 1 team. Looking at fantasypros, the RBs I have for those slots are ranked 14, 15, 16 and 17. The WRs I have for those slots are ranked 29, 30, 31, 32.
Guess I'll get the dartboard out.