GUPPIE LEAGUES...IE WORK LEAGUES (1 Viewer)

[BlackHole]

Seriously, not to be an overconfident pompous jerk, but what may I ask is the appropriate dumb down factor involved in drafting with bottom dweller cat fish in a work league?

Let me preface this with the basic league. 2 keepers, 8 team $75 league (6 of the 8 pre-existing owners are in management). Basic PPR performance league 1 QB, 2RB, 3WR etc.....

They decided to expand to 10 team $120 league (due to me and another guy that have been hired into the management team the past 16 months). Existing teams keep 2, myself and other owner get to draft two "keepers" each before the official draft, (rookies can not be drafted in these four picks).

Long story short, I end up with last pick in expansion draft and thus last pick (which I like) in real draft. R. Brown and McGahee are my "keeper" picks.

Long story short, I draft K. Jones and Chambers at the turn. 20 picks later I take Driver and Mason to my joy. Then due to so many bye week 8 players (Brown, McGahee, Chambers, Jones) I then take Rhodes and Coles). At my 9/10 spot I am realizing I just can't continue to state "that's a nice pick, I was looking at him too" with any kind of sincerity. I start to notice the looks that resemble my 2.5 year old daughter when I tell her "no to cookies" during my smack talk. Basically I feel torn at the heart due to the feelings expressed on the faces, but I have to stick to my convictions of being a FF diehard. Anyone with children that also love to dominate FF would understand this point.

So now, I make the concsious decision to dumb down my smack talk, slow down my picks (act like I have tough decisions) and do my best to praise all the existing owners picks (thus the long term managers I am now kindred too and don't have a clue in FF and think they are rocking the house with their picks! I am now pretty much brown nosing their picks and I am trying real hard to not make it blatent).

I ended up deciding to continue to "dumb it down" at this point. I still ended up with Pitt D, LJ Smith and so many other quality picks that it made me feel joyous yet sympathetic.

I won't go into it much more, but how much would/should I dumb down my play throught the year? I honestly don't want my new found co managers at work and now adversary FF managers to be upset/disgruntled with me over FF. However, I want to win the league and the 1st place winnings of $900 (I LOVE top prize heavy league like this) and bragging rights of being the NOOB and winning a championship. Should I do my normal thing and try and dominate or try and "dumb it down"? This is a serious quesion and a tough position I have just found myself in. Any insight will be considered.

 

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There is a terrific article about this very topic in the subscriber section. It's a measley 25 bucks for all FBG content for the year. I highly recommend you pony up and use draft dominator at your draft as well.

 

[BlackHole]

' date='Sep 3 2006, 04:09 AM' post='5442821']There is a terrific article about this very topic in the subscriber section. It's a measley 25 bucks for all FBG content for the year. I highly recommend you pony up and use draft dominator at your draft as well.

I've been a "lurker" here since cheatsheets and I don't post much..oh well. I've "ponied up" every year since it was asked of the loyals to help keep an honest hard working group of FF addicts feeding us information. It is less then 25 bucks for the content if you pay the 3 year price, as I have done. Thanks for absolutley nothing. You have nothing at this point. Bye bye.I must edit now. I am looking for other view points of seasoned FF players that have had similair situations recently. Trust me, I've read the article(s), and I don't discount that you may be a seasoned FF vet. You may even be very good. I'm just looking for some true, real life, recent experiences, evaluation, insight into the situation I am now involved in.I truely can not remember a draft/situation as pathetic (compared to alot of FBG vets anyways) as I went through tonight. I don't ask forgiveness, I only ask for some VET experience in this walk of FF life we all love. Even when I was uninformed 10-13 years ago, I didn't draft like this. I am flabergasted, so relax and if you want to offer me some insight into this type of situation. That's all I want. Soooooo much easier in the off season for a discussion and not an argument.

 

[northwoods]

You Rock!!!!

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I used to find myself overpraising what I considered awful picks in leagues like this. I don't really know why I'd do that; it was kind of knee-jerk & I couldn't help myself. I recall a work league back in the early 90s. We had expanded & invited a couple of guys in that had never played before. One of them was a huge Redskins fan. He took PK Chip Lohmiller in the first round & some of the vets rode him really hard. He came up to me afterwards & said "man, I really screwed up didn't I?" (the rest of his draft was no better, IMO). I blathered on about how he got the best K in the NFL, could have the league's leading scorer, etc....I had a great draft and yet I felt terrible because he was so embarassed.

 

[Bushman9]

I have been in a number of leagues for 6+ years. I will lay the smak on sharks because they should know better. I will also smak the guppies that have large egos and are arrogant. However, I do lay off the owners who are truely clueless and make the same mistakes annually.

The goal of FF is to have fun. I have some get razed so hard they quit, which is not worth it. Sometimes alittle coaching goes along ways.

Just two sense from someone in management.