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Noticed no one has posted their team in a while, so I will - I'm tied atop the division at 5-2

QB - Jayden Daniels & Kyler Murray
Waiver wire - Bo Nix, Jameis Winston, Andy Dalton, Russell Wilson, Derek Carr, Gardner Minshew

RB - Derek Henry, James Conner, JK Dobbins, Nick Chubb, Rachaad White, Jaylen Wright, Emari Demercado
Waiver wire - Carson Steele, Emanuel Wilson, Kenneth Gainwell, Cordarrelle Patterson, Miles Sanders, Eric Gray

WR - AJ Brown, Deebo Samuel, Wan'Dale Robinson, Jauan Jennings, Jameson Williams, Quentin Johnston
Waiver wire - Jalen McMillan, Devaughn Vele, Sterling Shepard, Elijah Moore, Trey Palmer, Noah Brown

TE - TJ Hockenson, Cade Otton, Taysom Hill
Waiver wire - Ja'Tavion Sanders, Noah Gray, Lucas Krull, Will Dissly, Juwan Johnson, Erick All

D - Green Bay Packers
Waiver wire - 15 options, and I try to carry 1 for current week and 1 for following week.
 
Hot start followed by rolling like a hot dog turd down a hill.

Evans with three big games and three forgettable games and now on the shelf for the next 4 weeks so that's over.

Having good backup running backs only helps if they are not also getting hurt. Mason, Ford.

Having a lot of Dolphins (Achane, Mostert and Wright) has also been a rough go.

Dak stinking was also not exactly the way I drew it up.

I have no idea when to start Christian Watson. Hate having him on a managed team.
 
Noticed no one has posted their team in a while, so I will - I'm tied atop the division at 5-2

QB - Jayden Daniels & Kyler Murray
Waiver wire - Bo Nix, Jameis Winston, Andy Dalton, Russell Wilson, Derek Carr, Gardner Minshew

RB - Derek Henry, James Conner, JK Dobbins, Nick Chubb, Rachaad White, Jaylen Wright, Emari Demercado
Waiver wire - Carson Steele, Emanuel Wilson, Kenneth Gainwell, Cordarrelle Patterson, Miles Sanders, Eric Gray

WR - AJ Brown, Deebo Samuel, Wan'Dale Robinson, Jauan Jennings, Jameson Williams, Quentin Johnston
Waiver wire - Jalen McMillan, Devaughn Vele, Sterling Shepard, Elijah Moore, Trey Palmer, Noah Brown

TE - TJ Hockenson, Cade Otton, Taysom Hill
Waiver wire - Ja'Tavion Sanders, Noah Gray, Lucas Krull, Will Dissly, Juwan Johnson, Erick All

D - Green Bay Packers
Waiver wire - 15 options, and I try to carry 1 for current week and 1 for following week.
5-2 tied for 1st place with 1028pts

QB: Goff, Cousins
RB: A Jones, J Cook, Javonte, Warren, Mattison, Laube
WR: Jefferson, London, Flowers, J Williams, Lockett, Thielen, Chark, Bourne
TE: Kittle, Hockenson
D: DET, KC

Started 1-2 and have won 4 straight with a little luck and some smoke and mirrors.
 
Great hearing all the success stories.

Allows me to live vicariously through all of your successes.

2-5, 779.6 / Holding steady at 9th place.

Every time I get a Player back from injury, I lose another one. Never seen anything like it. This week it's my WR1, Mike Evans.

There's enough acumen in my League, making it pretty difficult to dig out of the hole, with BB waivers being the only option...but I'll keep fighting.
 
5-2 record with 1001.4 pts. Dropped from 1st to 3rd last week... (Thank you Jayden for that slip).

Just lost Metcalf, but hopefully Cooper Kupp is coming back and will be solid. Unforunately with Richardson back... have to put Downs back on the bench. Picked up a Cedric Tillman flyer to see if he can post some big time digits again and maybe shore up my WR room.... Ironically, I have tons of RB depth and very limited WR depth. With all of the injuries going on, scared to drop the RB depth. Sitting with Henry/Swift/Singletery/Tracy/Mostert/Wilson.....
 
Brutal week, barely topped a hundred this week after being high score for most of the season to now drop to 5-3, but hopefully overall score keeps me in contention.
 
I might have the worst team in the history of the Footballguys Bowl. It doesn't matter it has only been one year. Worst. Team. Ever. Haha.
At least you can take solace in the fact that you won't be able to be accused of cheating in your role as Footballguys Bowl Grand Poobah!

Seriously though, thanks for all the hard work you have (and continue to) put into this. It is appreciated.
 
@Joey Wright I have a question. Is it really necessary for the www.footballguysbowl.com site to display NFL player pictures?

The reason I ask is that every time I try to look at the weekly recap page or standings pages it takes forever to load. I don't need to see each participants starting lineup next to their record and points scored. It just seems a waste of server space. For the top team score that week and the best possible team score that week? Sure, I get that displaying head-shots of players is cool.

I'm not really sure that the weekly best possible team score is even relevant to the contest/league as the possibility of drafting said rooster was nearly impossible if not wholly impossible. I guess it's neat to see but, it's not realistic.

I appreciate all the hard work you've put into getting this contest/league off the ground.

Thanks!!
Ruffrodys05, Division 0091
 
Went from 10th to 66th after my 1st loss, to 45th at 6-1.

But lost DKM & Evans this week. Rolling out 13 personnel package with Kittle, Njoku, & Otton this week. 😬

Sounds like it went terribly :lol:
It actually didn’t go well. My 2nd loss.

I left Njoku on the bench. While I got great production from Kittle+Otton, Love getting hurt after putting up 8.x sunk me. Took Reed + Doubs with him.

Used Trey Palmer over NJoku, but it didn’t matter.

6-2, and the long road to irrelevance begins.

Can’t lose my RB1, WR1, & WR2 and hope to compete.
 
My opponent is done, and I am behind 0.15 with Wan'Dale going tonight. Pretty much just need him to step on the field to move to 6-2. Currently in 231st out of 1908 teams, but with a win and around 160 points this week, I am hoping to crack the top 200.
 
My opponent is done, and I am behind 0.15 with Wan'Dale going tonight. Pretty much just need him to step on the field to move to 6-2. Currently in 231st out of 1908 teams, but with a win and around 160 points this week, I am hoping to crack the top 200.
Really should be ranking these teams by points because that's how the extra playoff spots will be filled. Better yet, toss the top two teams (records) in each league and rank everyone else in a wildcard standings format. It would really be cool to see where we stand in the race for a playoff bid.
 
@Joey Wright I have a question. Is it really necessary for the www.footballguysbowl.com site to display NFL player pictures?

The reason I ask is that every time I try to look at the weekly recap page or standings pages it takes forever to load. I don't need to see each participants starting lineup next to their record and points scored. It just seems a waste of server space. For the top team score that week and the best possible team score that week? Sure, I get that displaying head-shots of players is cool.

I'm not really sure that the weekly best possible team score is even relevant to the contest/league as the possibility of drafting said rooster was nearly impossible if not wholly impossible. I guess it's neat to see but, it's not realistic.

I appreciate all the hard work you've put into getting this contest/league off the ground.

Thanks!!
Ruffrodys05, Division 0091
I agree entirely. The 3 or so times I’ve tried to check the standings (granted on my iPad) it took so long to long (loaded something, started loading some player pictures, clear the tab and started redrawing the entire page again….over and over) that I’ve just never let it load fully and just close the tab.
Making a streamlined, text only version of this page would be really useful.
 
My opponent is done, and I am behind 0.15 with Wan'Dale going tonight. Pretty much just need him to step on the field to move to 6-2. Currently in 231st out of 1908 teams, but with a win and around 160 points this week, I am hoping to crack the top 200.
Really should be ranking these teams by points because that's how the extra playoff spots will be filled. Better yet, toss the top two teams (records) in each league and rank everyone else in a wildcard standings format. It would really be cool to see where we stand in the race for a playoff bid.
I ran through all the teams, and I'm currently 203rd in points (should move up a bit this week).
Still, with no trading and a bare waiver wire, this contest hinges on injuries.
 
I am hangin in there should move to 5-3 this week, somewhere like 350th in points had a good week this week tho

would be a tad more fun with shorter benches, the WW has been paper thin all year, with the occasional nugget
 
Once I started playing the wire with D's in week 4, I've done pretty well. So far, I have used:
Week 4 - TEN v MIA = 10 pts
Week 5 - SEA v NYG = 11 pts
Week 6 - HOU v NE = 14 pts
Week 7 - JAC v NE = 10 pts
Week 8 - DET v TEN = 18 pts

I looked and the Giants D is available right now, because they play tonight. I just picked them up for their week 10 matchup vs CAR. I will be submitting a $0 claim for the Saints D, as they play CAR in week 9, and if I miss out, my backup D's on the wire are NE vs TEN or TEN vs NE.
 
Definitely the fantasy gods have frowned upon my team as I started Jayden Daniels last week, and he exited early... and this week I started Jordan Love. Brutal. Losing by 10 with Tyrone Tracy to go... Hoping for a Monday Night miracle!
 
@Joey Wright so I noticed again an owner picked up a player and dropped a player that had already played on TNF today - is this not a setting that are in these leagues? I think someone else had also brought it up on the last page. its at least the 3rd time in my league I have seen it happen.
There is absolutely a Sleeper setting to prevent that from happening.
Looks like the setting to prevent bench players from being dropped after game starts is not enabled. Bad miss when they did the set up there....
Yeah, I brought this up before my draft took place, and someone said that they would make a note of it for next year (but I believe some drafts had already finished at that point). Of course, it's really more of an "in-season" setting, so I think they could have at least considered fixing it at that point (I don't think it impacted who anybody drafted, etc.). That said, not everybody would probably agree on the urgency of it (and believe it or not, there are leagues out there where being able to drop bench players after kickoff is considered the norm).
 
Wow. I looked at the standings for the first time today and was #68. Unless Warren and Robinson score 10 or less tonight, I will drop. Hopefully those two are benched tonight.
 
Started 6-0, now 6-2. Scored 153 this week…but played #1 scorer in league…the luck part of FF, I.e. the team weekly match up
 
@Joey Wright I have a question. Is it really necessary for the www.footballguysbowl.com site to display NFL player pictures?

The reason I ask is that every time I try to look at the weekly recap page or standings pages it takes forever to load. I don't need to see each participants starting lineup next to their record and points scored. It just seems a waste of server space. For the top team score that week and the best possible team score that week? Sure, I get that displaying head-shots of players is cool.

I'm not really sure that the weekly best possible team score is even relevant to the contest/league as the possibility of drafting said rooster was nearly impossible if not wholly impossible. I guess it's neat to see but, it's not realistic.

I appreciate all the hard work you've put into getting this contest/league off the ground.

Thanks!!
Ruffrodys05, Division 0091
Funny you mention this! Our guy is removing the player images today. You are right on with the load time. A lot of the features we are still tinkering with to make next year even smoother! We appreciate you being along for the ride from the beginning @Ruffrodys05 !
 
Definitely the fantasy gods have frowned upon my team as I started Jayden Daniels last week, and he exited early... and this week I started Jordan Love. Brutal. Losing by 10 with Tyrone Tracy to go... Hoping for a Monday Night miracle!
Thank you Tyrone! Stayed with 2 losses even though Jordan Love exited early. Hanging in 1st place at 6-2, 1162.60 total points... Just need DK to get healthy soon!
 
6-2, 1174.80 total points, 155th place

QB - Jayden Daniels & Kyler Murray
QB5 and QB7 so far. I'm sure that Hail Mary fixed Jayden's ribs.

RB - Derrick Henry, James Conner, JK Dobbins, Nick Chubb, Rachaad White, Jaylen Wright
Henry is the RB1, with 4 RB2 types, and a backup who will only be useful with an injury/injuries.

WR - AJ Brown, Deebo Samuel, Jameson Williams, Wan'Dale Robinson, Quentin Johnston, Jauan Jennings, Kendrick Bourne
Lost Rashee, so my WR quality drops quickly. I need to play around with this group.

TE - Cade Otton, TJ Hockenson, Taysom Hill
Have started Cade since I grabbed him off the wire in week 4. Hockenson is real close, and Taysom is Taysom.

D - DET & NYG
The Giants will be my week 10 D vs CAR, and still hunting for a better option for this week.
 
6-2 1,216 points #117 overall

I started 0-2 but knew the team I drafted was better than that.


QB: Mayfield, Mahomes
RB: Henry, Swift, Harris, Hill
WR: JJ, Amari, Collins (IR), Downs, McConkey, Doubs
TE: Muth, Jonnu
D: Streaming
 
Stuck at 3rd in my Div at 5-3 but 170th overall with 1171 points. @Joey Wright any hints at how many "others" make the playoffs after the top 2 in each Div?
This is the one aspect of the tournament I don't have control over. From what i've been told, 25% of the player pool is around where the cutline will be.
Any chance you could poke whoever does have control to weigh in? When we get down to the last couple of weeks lineup decisions may be based on preserving position or going for upside. It's kind of nice to know the rules your are planning around.
 
The hits just keep on coming. My Team continues to be a walking M.A.S.H. Unit.

This week, it was my Jordan's - Love and Mason.

@Joey Wright , you think your Team has issues?

In the midst of having one of my greatest Seasons of all time aross all the National High Stakes Contests, between injuries and underperformance, I'm sure sucking wind in this one.

2-6, 884.6 Points. That's good enough for 11th place in good ol' League 29.

I'll be home for Christmas, for sure.

Congrats to everyone who's doing well!
 
Stuck at 3rd in my Div at 5-3 but 170th overall with 1171 points. @Joey Wright any hints at how many "others" make the playoffs after the top 2 in each Div?
This is the one aspect of the tournament I don't have control over. From what i've been told, 25% of the player pool is around where the cutline will be.
Any chance you could poke whoever does have control to weigh in? When we get down to the last couple of weeks lineup decisions may be based on preserving position or going for upside. It's kind of nice to know the rules your are planning around.
I just reached out to them.
 
So I just talked with the person who is setting the cutline. Because of the nature of the top two teams in each division making it AND THEN highest point total to round out, we can't give even a projected cutline due to how top two teams and top point scorers can vary from league to league. HOWEVER, I do know our playoff pool is going to be approximately 475 teams based on the 25% number we've floated around. This doesn't mean the top 475 in points will make it. What this means is 316 division winners and runners up will gain automatic entry, followed by approximately another 160ish teams based solely on points scored and not record.
 
So I just talked with the person who is setting the cutline. Because of the nature of the top two teams in each division making it AND THEN highest point total to round out, we can't give even a projected cutline due to how top two teams and top point scorers can vary from league to league. HOWEVER, I do know our playoff pool is going to be approximately 475 teams based on the 25% number we've floated around. This doesn't mean the top 475 in points will make it. What this means is 316 division winners and runners up will gain automatic entry, followed by approximately another 160ish teams based solely on points scored and not record.
Is there a way at all to sort your FBG standings page by total points and not record?

That way if we are not top 2 in our div we can at least see where we are in points.

I realise many of those in that standings will be top 2 teams but at least it's closer to an idea of where we stand.
 
So I just talked with the person who is setting the cutline. Because of the nature of the top two teams in each division making it AND THEN highest point total to round out, we can't give even a projected cutline due to how top two teams and top point scorers can vary from league to league. HOWEVER, I do know our playoff pool is going to be approximately 475 teams based on the 25% number we've floated around. This doesn't mean the top 475 in points will make it. What this means is 316 division winners and runners up will gain automatic entry, followed by approximately another 160ish teams based solely on points scored and not record.
Is there a way at all to sort your FBG standings page by total points and not record?

That way if we are not top 2 in our div we can at least see where we are in points.

I realise many of those in that standings will be top 2 teams but at least it's closer to an idea of where we stand.
There is.

So excluding the top 200. The range for 201-300 is 1264 to 1155. The range for 301 to 400 is 1155 to 1131. 475 is currently at 1118.4. I'd say if you're north of 1130 that you are current in the playoffs.
 
I'm in third place in my league and have the highest points scored against. I just noticed in the Standings page there is a poop emoji next to my points total against. Just mine, not anyone else's. I assume this is because i'm the highest pts against. is this a Sleeper app function? I assume yes, nice touch.
 
I'm in third place in my league and have the highest points scored against. I just noticed in the Standings page there is a poop emoji next to my points total against. Just mine, not anyone else's. I assume this is because i'm the highest pts against. is this a Sleeper app function? I assume yes, nice touch.

Great so we can have poop emojis but not laughing ones.
 
@Joey Wright I have a question. Is it really necessary for the www.footballguysbowl.com site to display NFL player pictures?

The reason I ask is that every time I try to look at the weekly recap page or standings pages it takes forever to load. I don't need to see each participants starting lineup next to their record and points scored. It just seems a waste of server space. For the top team score that week and the best possible team score that week? Sure, I get that displaying head-shots of players is cool.

I'm not really sure that the weekly best possible team score is even relevant to the contest/league as the possibility of drafting said rooster was nearly impossible if not wholly impossible. I guess it's neat to see but, it's not realistic.

I appreciate all the hard work you've put into getting this contest/league off the ground.

Thanks!!
Ruffrodys05, Division 0091
Funny you mention this! Our guy is removing the player images today. You are right on with the load time. A lot of the features we are still tinkering with to make next year even smoother! We appreciate you being along for the ride from the beginning @Ruffrodys05 !
Any word on when the player images will be turned off. I still can’t successfully load the standings page on my iPad. Thanks
 
So I just talked with the person who is setting the cutline. Because of the nature of the top two teams in each division making it AND THEN highest point total to round out, we can't give even a projected cutline due to how top two teams and top point scorers can vary from league to league. HOWEVER, I do know our playoff pool is going to be approximately 475 teams based on the 25% number we've floated around. This doesn't mean the top 475 in points will make it. What this means is 316 division winners and runners up will gain automatic entry, followed by approximately another 160ish teams based solely on points scored and not record.
Is there a way at all to sort your FBG standings page by total points and not record?

That way if we are not top 2 in our div we can at least see where we are in points.

I realise many of those in that standings will be top 2 teams but at least it's closer to an idea of where we stand.
I can ask the guy who built the pages to incorporate that for sure. I do think we will shift towards total points next year although.... i sort of like having the matchups mean something.
 
@Joey Wright I have a question. Is it really necessary for the www.footballguysbowl.com site to display NFL player pictures?

The reason I ask is that every time I try to look at the weekly recap page or standings pages it takes forever to load. I don't need to see each participants starting lineup next to their record and points scored. It just seems a waste of server space. For the top team score that week and the best possible team score that week? Sure, I get that displaying head-shots of players is cool.

I'm not really sure that the weekly best possible team score is even relevant to the contest/league as the possibility of drafting said rooster was nearly impossible if not wholly impossible. I guess it's neat to see but, it's not realistic.

I appreciate all the hard work you've put into getting this contest/league off the ground.

Thanks!!
Ruffrodys05, Division 0091
Funny you mention this! Our guy is removing the player images today. You are right on with the load time. A lot of the features we are still tinkering with to make next year even smoother! We appreciate you being along for the ride from the beginning @Ruffrodys05 !
Any word on when the player images will be turned off. I still can’t successfully load the standings page on my iPad. Thanks
I'll reach out to him today.
 
So I just talked with the person who is setting the cutline. Because of the nature of the top two teams in each division making it AND THEN highest point total to round out, we can't give even a projected cutline due to how top two teams and top point scorers can vary from league to league. HOWEVER, I do know our playoff pool is going to be approximately 475 teams based on the 25% number we've floated around. This doesn't mean the top 475 in points will make it. What this means is 316 division winners and runners up will gain automatic entry, followed by approximately another 160ish teams based solely on points scored and not record.
Is there a way at all to sort your FBG standings page by total points and not record?

That way if we are not top 2 in our div we can at least see where we are in points.

I realise many of those in that standings will be top 2 teams but at least it's closer to an idea of where we stand.
I can ask the guy who built the pages to incorporate that for sure. I do think we will shift towards total points next year although.... i sort of like having the matchups mean something.

This is a debate we have had in my main league for years. H2H matchups introduce a lot of luck into the equation but eliminating them and going total points instead of record is just nowhere near as fun.

We settled on keeping matchups but having wild card teams based off total points and giving a high percentage of the pot to the total points winner.
 
So I just talked with the person who is setting the cutline. Because of the nature of the top two teams in each division making it AND THEN highest point total to round out, we can't give even a projected cutline due to how top two teams and top point scorers can vary from league to league. HOWEVER, I do know our playoff pool is going to be approximately 475 teams based on the 25% number we've floated around. This doesn't mean the top 475 in points will make it. What this means is 316 division winners and runners up will gain automatic entry, followed by approximately another 160ish teams based solely on points scored and not record.
Is there a way at all to sort your FBG standings page by total points and not record?

That way if we are not top 2 in our div we can at least see where we are in points.

I realise many of those in that standings will be top 2 teams but at least it's closer to an idea of where we stand.
I can ask the guy who built the pages to incorporate that for sure. I do think we will shift towards total points next year although.... i sort of like having the matchups mean something.

This is a debate we have had in my main league for years. H2H matchups introduce a lot of luck into the equation but eliminating them and going total points instead of record is just nowhere near as fun.

We settled on keeping matchups but having wild card teams based off total points and giving a high percentage of the pot to the total points winner.
We do something similar in one of my leagues and is like the Victory leagues in FPPC.

You play two games each week….1 point for a win in your H2H and one point if you are top 6 scorer in a 12 team league.

You still have h2h but factors in a high scoring team and takes a little of the luck out of it…
 

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