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[zaner75]

My first FF league was a free redraft online hosted on sandbox.com in 1997. It had 3 IDP slots. Some of the players I definitely remember having are Steve Young, Jeff George, Terrell Davis, Robert Smith, Rod Smith. The next season, I drafted Kordell Stewart #1 overall. 

My longest running league started in 2006. I won the inaugural championship. Starting lineup in bold.

Week 1 roster

Week 1 - Game 1

NamePosWTD PtsYTD Pts

Carson Palmer QB 3.0000 3.0000

Shaun Alexander RB 4.0000 4.0000

Chris Brown RB 6.0000 6.0000

Marvin Harrison WR 17.0000 17.0000

Plaxico Burress WR 16.0000 16.0000

Rod Smith WR 4.0000 4.0000

Antonio Gates TE 10.0000 10.0000

Nate Kaeding K 11.0000 11.0000

Chicago Bears TDSP 31.0000 31.0000

Chris SimmsBench-1.0000-1.0000

Fred TaylorBench20.000020.0000

Keyshawn JohnsonBench6.00006.0000

Braylon EdwardsBench3.00003.0000

Randy McMichaelBench2.00002.0000

Jay FeelyBench2.00002.0000

Washington RedskinsBench7.00007.0000

Final Roster

Week 16 - Game 1

NamePosWTD PtsYTD Pts

Drew Brees QB 9.0000 339.0000

Tatum Bell RB 3.0000 120.0000

Jamal Lewis RB 16.0000 165.0000

Larry Fitzgerald WR 17.0000 149.0000

Marvin Harrison WR 29.0000 239.0000

Plaxico Burress WR 11.0000 180.0000

Antonio Gates TE 8.0000 197.0000

Nate Kaeding K 10.0000 134.0000

Chicago Bears TDSP 8.0000 298.0000

Samkon GadoBench0.000036.0000

Wali LundyBench0.000099.0000

Eddie KennisonBench6.0000111.0000

Keyshawn JohnsonBench2.0000130.0000

Ben TroupeBench0.000037.0000

Jason HansonBench3.0000115.0000

Denver BroncosBench14.0000183.0000

 

[Dez]

1990 my FFL league.  We started as TD only (With 3 IDP's 1 DL, LB, DB who only get pts for sacks or Ints) for the first 20 years then added some yardage scoring (1 per 20 yards rush, 1 per 50 passing)

My fist ever pick was Neal Anderson Chi RB

I hope not to jinx it by saying this I have still never had a losing season in this league after 31 years.  (Barely got by last year at 7-6 after 1-4 start with Barkley going down)

 

[cincy11]

2006 IDP Startup Dynasty, Finished runner-up, won the following 3 years

1.09        9           Bush, Reggie NOS RB (R)                                             

2.02        12         Jordan, Lamont OAK RB                                               

3.03        23         Westbrook, Brian PHI RB                                               

4.08        38         Hasselbeck, Matt SEA QB                                               

5.07        47         Walker, Javon DEN WR                                               

6.04        54         Evans, Lee BUF WR                                               

7.09        69         Witten, Jason DAL TE                                               

8.02        72        Tatupu, Lofa SEA LB                                               

9.06        86         Peterson, Mike JAC LB                                               

10.05     95          McAllister, Deuce NOS RB                                               

11.06     106        Lewis, Michael PHI S                                               

12.05     115        Coles, Laveranues NYJ WR                                               

13.03     123        Williams, Mario HOU DE (R)                                               

14.08     138         Plummer, Jake DEN QB                                               

15.03     143         Grant, Charles NOS DE                                               

16.08     158          Lewis, Marcedes JAC TE (R)                                               

17.08     168          Brooking, Keith ATL LB                                               

18.03     173          Jones, Pacman TEN CB                                               

19.01     181          James, Erasmus MIN DE                                               

20.10     200          Clayton, Mark BAL WR                                               

21.07     207          Martin, Curtis NYJ RB                                               

22.04     214           Lloyd, Brandon WAS WR                                               

23.06     226           Ngata, Haloti BAL DT (R)                                               

24.05     235           Williams, Reggie JAC WR                                               

25.09     249           Dawkins, Brian PHI S                                               

26.02     252           Green, Trent KCC QB                                               

27.04     264            Walter, Andrew OAK QB                                               

28.07     277            Robinson, Dunta HOU CB                                               

29.07     287            Bruschi, Tedy NEP LB                                               

30.04     294            Johnson, Keyshawn CAR WR                                               

31.03     303           Hester, Devin CHI CB (R)                                               

32.08     318           Norwood, Jerious ATL RB (R)                                               

33.06     326           Jones-Drew, Maurice JAC RB (R)                                               

34.05     335           Mathis, Rashean JAC CB                                               

35.03     343            Morris, Maurice SEA RB                                               

36.08     358            Tapp, Darryl SEA DE (R)                                               

37.06     366           Jackson, Tarvaris MIN QB (R)                                               

38.05     375            Janikowski, Sebastian OAK PK                                               

39.01     381            Wilkins, Jeff STL PK                                               

40.10     400            Marshall, Brandon DEN WR (R)

 

[NE_REVIVAL]

My home league which is still going, started in 1997. I do not remember my team other than I had a high 1st pick and Emmitt Smith was the 1st draft pick I ever made. He had 25 tds 2 yrs prior and 15 the previous yr before I drafted him. I did not like the Cowboys or Smith at the time and I learned a valuable lesson. Don't draft guys you don't like or feel good about, he didn't have any tds the 1st 6 weeks of the season and finished the yr with 4. If you take someone you like and they bomb, oh well, but if you take someone you don't like to begin with an they bomb the suck is much more pronounced.

 

[Ilov80s]

My main league started in 2003. 6 of the 12 original members are still in it which is pretty good since we were around 18-20 years old and didn't know what we were doing. It's really grown and evolved into a major event over the last 10 years or so where we've had very little turnover. I don't remember my entire team but I do remember landing Ahman Green, Torry Holt, Matt Hasselbeck and Anquan Boldin. Those guys all had massive years and were big ADP values for me as they career seasons. I had a top 3 team and finished 3rd. Having such an awesome team and doing so well definitely pulled me in to the hobby.  

 

[ratbast]

I don’t remember my first team but I remember my first pick in both my leagues. 
My first pick in my oldest league, a 3 keeper expansion draft, was Andre “Bad Moon” Rison.

A year later I drafted my first team in another keeper expansion draft. I took top rookie RB K-Jana Carter. (Ooops) 

Both leagues are still going strong. Both over 25 years old. One with high-school buddies, one with college buddies.  

 

[tangfoot]

Here's the top 50 VBD projections from Cheatsheets.net in 2000

Overall					VBD
1	Edgerrin James	Ind	RB	130
2	Marshall Faulk	StL	RB	105
3	Kurt Warner	StL	QB	101
4	Stephen Davis	Was	RB	88
5	Terrell Davis	Den	RB	87
6	Emmitt Smith	Dal	RB	82
7	Eddie George	Ten	RB	78
8	Tony Gonzalez	KC	TE	76
9	Randy Moss	Min	WR	74
10	Marvin Harrison	Ind	WR	73
11	Peyton Manning	Ind	QB	68
12	Curtis Martin	NYJ	RB	63
13	Steve McNair	Ten	QB	63
14	Jimmy Smith	Jac	WR	59
15	Dorsey Levens	GB	RB	57
16	Wesley Walls	Car	TE	56
17	Brett Favre	GB	QB	54
18	Isaac Bruce	StL	WR	51
19	Marcus Robinson	Chi	WR	51
20	James Stewart	Det	RB	51
21	Eric Moulds	Buf	WR	50
22	Ricky Williams	NO	RB	48
23	Ron Dayne	NYG	RB	44
24	Michael Westbrook	Was	WR	44
25	Antonio Freeman	GB	WR	43
26	Cris Carter	Min	WR	43
27	Duce Staley	Phi	RB	42
28	Terry Glenn	NE	WR	42
29	Corey Dillon	Cin	RB	40
30	Robert Smith	Min	RB	40
31	Rickey Dudley	Oak	TE	39
32	Amani Toomer	NYG	WR	39
33	Charlie Garner	SF	RB	37
34	Washington Redskins 		ST	36
35	Curtis Enis	Chi	RB	36
36	Germane Crowell	Det	WR	36
37	Rich Gannon	Oak	QB	34
38	Tim Biakabutuka	Car	RB	34
39	Cade McNown	Chi	QB	32
40	Mike Alstott	TB	RB	32
41	Keyshawn Johnson	TB	WR	31
42	Rob Moore	Ari	WR	30
43	Tim Brown	Oak	WR	30
44	Shannon Sharpe	Bal	TE	29
45	Ed McCaffrey	Den	WR	29
46	Frank Wycheck	Ten	TE	28
47	Freddie Jones	SD	TE	28
48	Kevin Johnson	Cle	WR	28
49	Terrell Owens	SF	WR	27
50	Jay Riemersma	Buf	TE	26

 

[fightingillini]

My first year was 1999.  I remember that my first two picks were Favre and Galloway when he held out.....pretty bad start.  But I took Cris Carter, Emmitt Smith, Duce Staley and Wesley Walls with 4 of the next 5 picks.....pretty good.  Got Rich Gannon, Charlie Garner and Patrick Jeffers off the WW, turned Garner into Tim Brown, so my final lineup was

QB - Favre and Gannon (superflex)

RB - E Smith and Staley

WR - Carter, T Brown, Jeffers

TE - Walls

Steamrolled to the championship despite screwing up my first two picks.  

 

[Gally]

I think I am the leader in the clubhouse.  My first league started in 1985.  I was in 8th grade.  I have no idea what my first roster was because it was all done by hand.  We had to provide 16 self addressed stamped envelopes to the commish to get results each week.  All the stats were from the LA Times.   That league is still going strong with about 80% of the same league members.  

I started in 1985, and know the league (still going strong) started at least the year before, but I believe 1983 in Denver. Its always been and remains16 team and SF. 

How does it feel to be the elder statesman of the FBG Forum?   We should get some special badge on our signature or something for being the oldest continuous players of this sport...hahahaha

 

[Pipes]

1989.  I don't remember the entire roster but Randall Cunningham was my 1st pick every.  Dude was great for a few seasons but I've learned alot since then lol.

 

[Pipes]

I think I am the leader in the clubhouse.  My first league started in 1985.  I was in 8th grade.  I have no idea what my first roster was because it was all done by hand.  We had to provide 16 self addressed stamped envelopes to the commish to get results each week.  All the stats were from the LA Times.   That league is still going strong with about 80% of the same league members.  

ETA:  We no longer have to provide SASE's to the commish prior to the season.  

Love this. A bit later but started my freshman year of college (fall 1989).  We'd get together Sunday nights to watch NFL Primetime and talk crap if our guys scored.  Didn't show all the scores so the next step was a USA Today on Monday mornings to "finalize" our scores until the Monday night game.  Watching Monday night games if it was a tight match was a ton of fun as well.  I really miss those simpler times.  

 

[BigJim®]

2001 Dynasty - 26 player rosters

1. Randy Moss

2. Jamaal Anderson (the year he tore an ACL if I recall right)

3. Corey Dillion

4. Steve McNair

5. Daunte Culpepper

6. Terry Glenn

Other notable picks include Lavernues Coles, Az-Zahir Hakim, Tai Streets, Antowain Smith, Jeff George

Inaugural rookie draft in 2001: Kevan Barlow, Travis Henry

 

[joey]

Trying to remember when I was in my first league…newspaper scoring, of course. Somewhere around 89 or 90. 

I started at my current company back in 96 and there was a work league that had been running for a year already, and I’ve been in that league ever since. This year is my 26th(!!!!) year in that league. Just nuts.