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[twheeler]

The Hardcore Football League seeks one owner to take over a team left behind by an owner who was unable to continue playing.

The league is: http://www10.myfantasyleague.com/2010/home/45808

- It's filled with the most knowledgable and dedicated agents I've played ffball with, and is super-competitive.

- Current annual fees are $50. (It's not a big-money league, but it's a big-involvement league)

The rules can be found at: http://football10.myfantasyleague.com/2010...=45808&O=26

(Actually, this page is missing a small number of recent rule changes, the most important of which involved an increase to the amount of money that holdouts ask for - see http://football10.myfantasyleague.com/2010...l?pid=8036620.)

The team is: http://football10.myfantasyleague.com/2010...O=07&F=0001

Campbell, Jason WAS QB

Brown, Donald IND RB

Charles, Jamaal KCC RB

Bennett, Earl CHI WR

Bess, Davone MIA WR

Collie, Austin IND WR

Cotchery, Jerricho NYJ WR

Robiskie, Brian CLE WR

Cook, Jared TEN TE

McMichael, Randy STL TE

Elam, Jason FA PK

Mare, Olindo SEA PK

Packers, Green Bay GBP Def

Seahawks, Seattle SEA Def

The cupboard is pretty bare, but the team has 3 things going for it:

(1) excellent young talent at RB, very cheap, and locked up for several years,

(2) 3 2010 1st round rookie picks (1.05, 1.15, 1.16)

(3) a huge amount of free salary cap space (roughly $800 free with a $1000 cap, assuming Cotchery is dropped).

In short, I believe that a talented owner can make this team competitive this season. If interested, please either post here or send me a message.

 

[twheeler]

Bump. No love at all?

To give a better idea of what this team could look like in a couple seasons, note that

- rookie contracts are pretty darned cheap for early picks, so a couple seasons of early draft picks can lead to good cheap talent base

- holdouts are limited to at most 10 teams, and the owners are pretty cutthroat - so holdouts tend to come from the top-performing teams of the previous year. Holdouts are designed to bring stacked teams back to earth fairly quickly.

 

[caliban_6]

One thing Travis failed to mention was the ability to RFA and Franchise. These points are only important because while the roster of the team mentioned is a little bare, the team has the rights to:

Orton, Kyle DEN QB

Addai, Joseph IND RB

Johnson, Larry CIN RB

Portis, Clinton WAS RB

In addition with that $800 in cap space the team is in a unique position to leverage other owners out of players with contracts they can barely afford. I think an intelligent, creative individual that bothered to look at the free agents available in our league and took the time to examine the rosters of the other owners, would see this team is in a strong position entering the 2010 season. The weakest areas of the team are Wide Receiver and Tight End. Cooley and Winslow are on the trading block in regards to tight ends, and some owners are nearly at the point of dropping wide receivers due to the weight of their contracts. Please, if you are looking for a league, and are serious, give our league a gander. With the 1.05, the 1.15, and the 1.16 an owner would be able to secure the rights to a young RB, TE, and WR at reasonable price ($40, $6, $5 respectively) and for a long time (5 years).

The Hardcore Football League seeks one owner to take over a team left behind by an owner who was unable to continue playing.

The league is: http://www10.myfantasyleague.com/2010/home/45808

- It's filled with the most knowledgable and dedicated agents I've played ffball with, and is super-competitive.

- Current annual fees are $50. (It's not a big-money league, but it's a big-involvement league)

The rules can be found at: http://football10.myfantasyleague.com/2010...=45808&O=26

(Actually, this page is missing a small number of recent rule changes, the most important of which involved an increase to the amount of money that holdouts ask for - see http://football10.myfantasyleague.com/2010...l?pid=8036620.)

The team is: http://football10.myfantasyleague.com/2010...O=07&F=0001

Campbell, Jason WAS QB

Brown, Donald IND RB

Charles, Jamaal KCC RB

Bennett, Earl CHI WR

Bess, Davone MIA WR

Collie, Austin IND WR

Cotchery, Jerricho NYJ WR

Robiskie, Brian CLE WR

Cook, Jared TEN TE

McMichael, Randy STL TE

Elam, Jason FA PK

Mare, Olindo SEA PK

Packers, Green Bay GBP Def

Seahawks, Seattle SEA Def

The cupboard is pretty bare, but the team has 3 things going for it:

(1) excellent young talent at RB, very cheap, and locked up for several years,

(2) 3 2010 1st round rookie picks (1.05, 1.15, 1.16)

(3) a huge amount of free salary cap space (roughly $800 free with a $1000 cap, assuming Cotchery is dropped).

In short, I believe that a talented owner can make this team competitive this season. If interested, please either post here or send me a message.

 

[szatzu]

Guys I am looking at this team and the roster...and i am just a little confused. Jason Campbell is the starting QB on this team that is brutal Jared Cook and Randy McM are the starting TEs that is brutal. You start Jerricho or Collie again that is rough. You have two young running backs that both split time. You have draft pick 1.05 which leaves you looking at a RB like Joe McKnight. So lets not say that the team is bare this team is a joke. Where Waffles, has Rodgers at QB, Benson and ADP at running back, and Greg Jennings, Brandon Marshall and AJohnson and this team is 500 bucks below the salary cap.

Now that I have said that, there are teams that you could put a team together and compete against. Now are Peyton Manning, Randy Moss and Thomas Jones all free agents? Its interesting...but I just have too many questions.

 

[twheeler]

Thanks for asking the question instead of just ignoring (or flaming). I agree that this is not an ideal team to take over, but still think it offers possibilities ... and that a talented owner should be able to make it competitive fairly quickly.

First, about Waffles: he's deadly, and has amassed a heck of a team. He also hasn't won the league yet ... heck, he hasn't even made it to the finals the last two years (it was my job to oust him both years, and I enjoyed doing my job!). The good news for everyone else is that he'll have a holdout this year - either AP or Aaron Rodgers - and that holdout will get a big raise. My best guess is that Rodgers will get around $190, but if AP holds out, he'll probably run $250. Either way, it's a big hit. And next season, another of his players will hold out for similar money. And the way he manages his team, that'll happen every year. So there's a built-in equalizer. To see the rules for holdouts, see: http://football10.myfantasyleague.com/2010...amp;tid=2322229. (Note that these equalization rules apply to other top-tier teams, too - roughly 10 guys will hold out every season, usually one each from the top teams)

As for the team in question:

There are a few assets that don't show up on the roster.

(1) Each owner can franchise one player with an expiring contract, paying him the avg of the top-10-paid players at that position. Franchise prices are at: http://football10.myfantasyleague.com/2010...amp;tid=2323464

This team has a couple guys who might be worth franchising: Orton (would cost $177) and Addai ($243). Addai was a top-10 RB last season, and nicely complements Brown. Orton? Depends on what you expect from Denver this season.

(2) Each team can also place an RFA tag on one player with an expiring contract. The effect of this is to place the player in the FA auction pool, but with the ability of the RFA owner to simply agree to the terms of the team that wins the bid on that player. Might make sense to RFA Orton, or maybe Portis/LJ, depending on which you think has a chance to contribute more than others will value them. If you don't like the price they sell for in the auction ... don't match the offer.

(3) Each team can restructure one non-expired contract, to add two years to the deal. I'd personally do that with the GB D, as that's a really cheap, young and good D.

For the current players, I think I value them a bit higher than you do. I'm not so sure that Campbell is a lost cause- he was a starter-quality QB in a 16 team league last season, and he'd look a lot better with decent running support. He's cheap, and probably a decent stop-gap for a season or two. I think Charles is the bomb, and tried to trade my #2 pick to Roadkill for him before he announced that he was leaving the league (at which point no more trades were allowed with his team). Thomas Jones will break down very soon ... and I don't see him keeping Charles from putting up huge numbers for more than one season. While I still think Addai is the guy in Indy this season, it won't surprise me to see Brown completely take over in 1-2 seasons. And that #5 pick this season? That should be much better than McKnight - that seems like a Dez Bryant / Bradford territory - not so useful in the first year, but should solidify either a QB or WR slot for years to come. And if you're not into QB/WRs, Dwyer or Best ought to still be available, and may give a big reward.

Finally, re: free agents: Peyton is Totonka's RFA, and Moss probably will be for Crawdads, too. Not sure if Minty's will RFA Jones - you might even be able to arrage a trade for his RFA rights (those are tradeable in our league).

Hope that helps. If you have more questions, I'm happy to blather on...

 

[szatzu]

Thank you for your response. I am sorry if I can off as terse. Could whoever owns this team Jettison Croch? What would that do to you. I explored the contracts and I see that there are a number of teams that are in cap-problems. I find the league very interesting...and I also saw that Waffles did not make win it all...but he has an awesome fantasy team, regardless of it being a dynasty. I believe one guy on the site has a friend that wants the team. If that is not the case let me know. I would like to talk to you on the phone and walk through what is going on via the site. Thanks.

 

[twheeler]

Not terse. In fact, I appreciated that you were, I thought, quite polite given your concerns about the team.

Crotch can (and should IMO) be dropped. He has two years left on his contract - this year it's $128, next year it'll be $141. Dropping a player in the off-season costs 10% of the remaining contract value (rounded up), which is $13+15=$28. The result will be $90 freed up for FAs. You could also trade him away to some other team, along with something else of value, so you don't have to pay the penalty. Not sure I'd do that, given your state of affairs. In fact, with so much cap space, you might be able to get picks/players from other teams in exchange for dropping their players and incurring the cost.

As for the guy who has a friend - we're not committed to giving the team to him, and would like to test the waters of available replacement owners before just giving the team away.

As for Waffles - he can bite my shorts. I'll take him out of the playoffs every year, if that's what it takes ...

 

[twheeler]

also, pm sent with contact info.

 

[caliban_6]

Thank you for your response. I am sorry if I can off as terse. Could whoever owns this team Jettison Croch? What would that do to you. I explored the contracts and I see that there are a number of teams that are in cap-problems. I find the league very interesting...and I also saw that Waffles did not make win it all...but he has an awesome fantasy team, regardless of it being a dynasty. I believe one guy on the site has a friend that wants the team. If that is not the case let me know. I would like to talk to you on the phone and walk through what is going on via the site. Thanks.

As a friend of the Waffles, I can assure you that he is cursed. I have played fantasy football with him since 2003 and he has never won any single league he has been in. The Waffles has the "no matter how much firepower you amass you will always lose" curse. I like to take down to the simple fact that he has too many options, and no matter what picks the wrong one. Last year he had Drew Brees and Rodgers. Any week Brees went off he was starting Rodgers, any week Rodgers went off he was starting Brees. Then you get into the habit of chasing success, kind of like a bad mutual fund selection. Don't worry about the Waffles, we talk for hours on end about football and I probably throw so much doubt into who he should start, he spends the whole week flip flopping. When you have players that can go off at anytime its hard to figure out which ones to start (yeah, I know, horrible thing to be stuck with). In the end, any given sunday.