Messageboard Pre-Season Idea (1 Viewer)

[BassNBrew]

Don't know about the rest of you, but I get a ton of information from pre-season game performances that improve my fantasy football drafts. As a Carolina homer, after watching the pre-season games last year, I was able to make the following calls in 2005...S. Smith would snag 100 balls, Shelton was a wasted draft pick, Colbert would be a huge bust and pushed by Gardner or Carter, Stephen Davis would be a great late round flyer. Now my scouting talent can't be any better than many here, otherwise I'd be employed by the NFL and not posting here. Looking back on 2005 analyzing what worked for me and what didn't, I came to the realization that if I could watch all the pre-season games, I could probably be even more successful in fantasy football. The reality of the situation is that really isn't feasible and spawned an idea that I've been discussing with Bob Henry and Marc Levin. FBG provides excellent training camp coverage and there's great information on the messageboards. However there's no in depth coverage of the actual pre-season games (many of them are only broadcast locally if you don't get the NFL network). The messageboard game threads often get hijacked and even the diehards don't watch more then the first half.

What I'm proposing is for a homer from each team to volunteer to lead a pre-season game thread for their team that would cover all the pre-season games in one place (one thread per team) and then link them to a master thread for easy reference. This would focus solely on the actual games and the lead homer would be responsible for keeping the thread on track (not discussing Benson real estate plans or who TO ticked off today). Would like to have people that could watch most of the games thru the dreaded 4th stringers to unearth some dynasty sleepers. I would like to see first hand comments (circa 2005) about why L. Jordan has so many pre-season recepts and how quickly Collins was looking to him. Is Mark Clayton doing anything to dispel those injury rumors? How did Caddy look on those limited carries? Who is Vick looking to first?

Looking for your thoughts right now. Would this be helpful and worth doing? Do other teams have pre-season "tells" like Carolina? If we were to do this, what would you like to see it encompass? Would you be willing to contribute? Other ideas?

Fire away.

 

[ShaqAttaq]

i really like this idea, but i despise preseason football, and can't stomach even the 1st quarter of a detroit lion preseason game. of course i'd love it if your idea came to pass. i think the information would be extremely valuable.

 

[ceo3west]

Don't know about the rest of you, but I get a ton of information from pre-season game performances that improve my fantasy football drafts. As a Carolina homer, after watching the pre-season games last year, I was able to make the following calls in 2005...S. Smith would snag 100 balls, Shelton was a wasted draft pick, Colbert would be a huge bust and pushed by Gardner or Carter, Stephen Davis would be a great late round flyer. Now my scouting talent can't be any better than many here, otherwise I'd be employed by the NFL and not posting here. Looking back on 2005 analyzing what worked for me and what didn't, I came to the realization that if I could watch all the pre-season games, I could probably be even more successful in fantasy football. The reality of the situation is that really isn't feasible and spawned an idea that I've been discussing with Bob Henry and Marc Levin. FBG provides excellent training camp coverage and there's great information on the messageboards. However there's no in depth coverage of the actual pre-season games (many of them are only broadcast locally if you don't get the NFL network). The messageboard game threads often get hijacked and even the diehards don't watch more then the first half.

What I'm proposing is for a homer from each team to volunteer to lead a pre-season game thread for their team that would cover all the pre-season games in one place (one thread per team) and then link them to a master thread for easy reference. This would focus solely on the actual games and the lead homer would be responsible for keeping the thread on track (not discussing Benson real estate plans or who TO ticked off today). Would like to have people that could watch most of the games thru the dreaded 4th stringers to unearth some dynasty sleepers. I would like to see first hand comments (circa 2005) about why L. Jordan has so many pre-season recepts and how quickly Collins was looking to him. Is Mark Clayton doing anything to dispel those injury rumors? How did Caddy look on those limited carries? Who is Vick looking to first?

Looking for your thoughts right now. Would this be helpful and worth doing? Do other teams have pre-season "tells" like Carolina? If we were to do this, what would you like to see it encompass? Would you be willing to contribute? Other ideas?

Fire away.

i wouldn't be able to contribute, but I will tell you the only player I ever got anything from in preseason was Quincy Morgan when he went nuts in the preseason and had his career year in Cleveland. Other than that, it's been nothing but misfires in terms of picking guys based on preseason performances.

 

[MLBrandow]

I think it's a great idea.

I'm not sure we need a "lead" homer, persay, but I think a duo or trio would be just as effective.

Let's get a list going then.

Me and my TiVo of doom are in for the Bucs

 

[NFLjunkie]

Great Idea

I'll contribute from the Cincinnati front

REMEMBER: "Its All in Good Fun, as long as I WIN"

 

[Sea Bass]

Don't know about the rest of you, but I get a ton of information from pre-season game performances that improve my fantasy football drafts. As a Carolina homer, after watching the pre-season games last year, I was able to make the following calls in 2005...S. Smith would snag 100 balls, Shelton was a wasted draft pick, Colbert would be a huge bust and pushed by Gardner or Carter, Stephen Davis would be a great late round flyer. Now my scouting talent can't be any better than many here, otherwise I'd be employed by the NFL and not posting here. Looking back on 2005 analyzing what worked for me and what didn't, I came to the realization that if I could watch all the pre-season games, I could probably be even more successful in fantasy football. The reality of the situation is that really isn't feasible and spawned an idea that I've been discussing with Bob Henry and Marc Levin. FBG provides excellent training camp coverage and there's great information on the messageboards. However there's no in depth coverage of the actual pre-season games (many of them are only broadcast locally if you don't get the NFL network). The messageboard game threads often get hijacked and even the diehards don't watch more then the first half.

What I'm proposing is for a homer from each team to volunteer to lead a pre-season game thread for their team that would cover all the pre-season games in one place (one thread per team) and then link them to a master thread for easy reference. This would focus solely on the actual games and the lead homer would be responsible for keeping the thread on track (not discussing Benson real estate plans or who TO ticked off today). Would like to have people that could watch most of the games thru the dreaded 4th stringers to unearth some dynasty sleepers. I would like to see first hand comments (circa 2005) about why L. Jordan has so many pre-season recepts and how quickly Collins was looking to him. Is Mark Clayton doing anything to dispel those injury rumors? How did Caddy look on those limited carries? Who is Vick looking to first?

Looking for your thoughts right now. Would this be helpful and worth doing? Do other teams have pre-season "tells" like Carolina? If we were to do this, what would you like to see it encompass? Would you be willing to contribute? Other ideas?

Fire away.

I'm not a Tampa homer, but I have read reports that they are the worst 0-0 team of all time.

 

[MLBrandow]

I'm not a Tampa homer, but I have read reports that they are the worst 0-0 team of all time.

hahahaha sig'd

 

[Bob Henry]

There is a definitely a lot of value that could come from this idea.

We can do pre-season game threads like we do in the regular season and do a master index thread (pinned) with the pre-season schedule linking to those individual game threads.

OR

We could team threads with a master thread (pinned) guiding us all to the focused threads for each team. Ideally, if this is the case, those threads would serve dual purpose.

1) Game notes, observations, take aways and other commentary should be posted here.

2) People who go to camp and see anything worthwhile can report it there, provide links to insightful articles or other things from various team sites that may not be in the blogger (hard to imagine there since our blogger goons do such a great job, but none the less).

Part of Bass'n'Brew's idea is to get threads "sponsored" by local guys who really follow their team and can lead a threaded discussion on their team(s), pointing the board to camp reports, local news articles, clippings, local radio commentary or their own observations from camp that wouldn't ordinarily be reported in the news or bigger media outlets.

Let's get this thing rolling. There's a lot of value in something like this, so if you want to be one of the guys to lead your team's thread please post in here.

Thanks for getting this going Bass..

 

[Mapmaker]

GREAT IDEA B&B ..... wish there was a way I could add some in depth insight into a team, .... any team ... damn even a CFL team ... but Northport's not exactly on the cusp of anyones information highway ... still a great idea though!

 

[thayman]

I love this idea.