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What's Normal? - Do you play Fantasy Football? (1 Viewer)
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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Still play in several leagues with various groups of friends (some crossover)
1 Dynasty
1 Keeper
1 Redraft
1 Best Ball
Weekly DFS with friends
I don’t spend much time on draft prep / in season management anymore. I still watch all the games though
1 Dynasty
1 Keeper
1 Redraft
1 Best Ball
Weekly DFS with friends
I don’t spend much time on draft prep / in season management anymore. I still watch all the games though
Chaos34
Footballguy
First league was TDs only, 1986, 6 team league ran by a guy who wrote one of the first programs for scoring rotisserie baseball. VisiCalc ftw. He thought fantasy football could be bigger than fantasy baseball and regrets not making a career of it. Sells hot tubs now. That league lasted into the early 90s and stopped.
Then the internet and SandBox happened and FF became my favorite hobby. I loved that site for including IDPs and after a few years I was writing IDP content at FFToday. I mostly plagiarized Jene Bramel from this site.
I also founded what I think could be the first big play idp redraft. Defense as important as offense, 22 starters. It's in its 22nd season, but I quit all FF in 2015. Lots of reasons. Then in 2021 a buddy here asked if I would fill a vacancy in a league that had been around since the 90s. I did and I sucked. Then last year I joined another league here, put some more effort into it and I didn't suck, but I didn't win. Finally this year I got a spot in the big redraft I started and I'm having fun with it. Three leagues, some best balls, dabbling in dfs. I won't add more. I hope.
Happy football season everybody.
Then the internet and SandBox happened and FF became my favorite hobby. I loved that site for including IDPs and after a few years I was writing IDP content at FFToday. I mostly plagiarized Jene Bramel from this site.
I also founded what I think could be the first big play idp redraft. Defense as important as offense, 22 starters. It's in its 22nd season, but I quit all FF in 2015. Lots of reasons. Then in 2021 a buddy here asked if I would fill a vacancy in a league that had been around since the 90s. I did and I sucked. Then last year I joined another league here, put some more effort into it and I didn't suck, but I didn't win. Finally this year I got a spot in the big redraft I started and I'm having fun with it. Three leagues, some best balls, dabbling in dfs. I won't add more. I hope. Happy football season everybody.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
Agree 100%. While listening to guys seated behind me at the US Open lament every point of a match, because it impacted gambling odds, I realized how much this stuff detracts from sports. And it's not just the people obsessing about their potential wins/losses - everyone in earshot suffers, too.
I played fantasy football for about a decade, but quit ~20 years ago, and never regret the decision. In general, much less invested in sports as I get older, which creates time to do a lot of other stuff.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I'm surprised that there are so many people on a fantasy football website playing fantasy football. Who could have predicted that?
Keerock
Footballguy
I knew this comment was coming. FWIW... What's Normal? is bigger than the FFA
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
First year playing FF was 1989. First draft pick ever was Icky Woods after he scored 15 tDs his rookie season. Blew out his knee. the second or third game my first year.
From 1 team, to a high of 5 teams I have settled back down to one team the last 5 years. Also I used to play in a league that was a 1000.00 entry and the payouts were high. So were the highs and lows of watching..ruined many a Sunday.
Just play in more of a fun league now 100 bucks entry and enjoy it more.
From 1 team, to a high of 5 teams I have settled back down to one team the last 5 years. Also I used to play in a league that was a 1000.00 entry and the payouts were high. So were the highs and lows of watching..ruined many a Sunday.
Just play in more of a fun league now 100 bucks entry and enjoy it more.
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fantasy stud
Footballguy
I thought I was a pioneer of fantasy football until I read this thread starting a league in 1995. Back when we used the newspaper to calculate our scores and our free agent system was by calling the commissioner at 7 pm on Fridays. We had a cool league from 95-2020 where we kept up to 4 years worth of contracts and we traded draft picks. Sadly, there were only a few of us originals left and the new people weren't very exciting. So we let it kinda die during the covid year. I'm still in a generic work league one for a few bucks. I don't take it very seriously. I spend under an hour preparing for the draft and basically just pick guys I like. I've had more success than I really should with that method.
snellman
Footballguy
I don't know if it is a schedule thing, age thing or something else, but I am in the same situation. As I get older, I find myself watching and caring more about baseball than football. I will usually have a game on every night of the week. I think it is partially because baseball is easier to listen to. I can just have it on as background noise and not have to be glued to the TV for every play. I know you don't have to be for football either, but I just doesn't seem as enjoyable to "not watch" especially after baseballs rule changes.
gianmarco
Footballguy
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
No, I quit a while back. The main reason why I stopped is because it was ruining my enjoyment of the game. Whenever I would watch, all I paid attention to was individual players on my or my opponent's roster. I enjoy football more when I can just follow the game itself and cheer for outcomes that benefit my favorite team.
If I lived in a state with legal sports betting, I would probably toss down $10-$20 bets on nearly every meaningless TNF game to make it a little more interesting. Otherwise I find that I really don't need any extra motivation.
If I lived in a state with legal sports betting, I would probably toss down $10-$20 bets on nearly every meaningless TNF game to make it a little more interesting. Otherwise I find that I really don't need any extra motivation.
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
I stopped playing around 4-5 years ago. Just got to be too much: 5 different teams, daily fantasy, survivor pools. Quit everything and went to just being a fan. I enjoyed it.
This year for some reason when they asked if I wanted to be in the work leagur, I said ‘yes’. Had my first draft in a long time yesterday. Drafted from the 12 spot. I should’ve stayed retired. My teams sucks.
This year for some reason when they asked if I wanted to be in the work leagur, I said ‘yes’. Had my first draft in a long time yesterday. Drafted from the 12 spot. I should’ve stayed retired. My teams sucks.
nirad3
Footballguy
Since I just submitted my lineups.... it's 12 dynasties, 5 redrafts, 1 guillotine and 14 best balls (one for bragging rights on another FF site, the rest were $5 entries on FFPC)
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I root for the Eagles first, my fantasy players second. I don't pay attention to who is on my opponents' teams and I don't check the scores of my fantasy games until just before SNF. This helps the experience not get ruined by fantasy.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I can't help but notice how my own players are doing but I'm with you as far as my opponents. I consider that something I have no control over, so I try not to even notice who he has playing, especially while my home team is playing.
Brunell4MVP
Footballguy
Quit years ago. I was doing it way way back when we had to open the newspaper to get stats so we could see if we won or lost. No internet. Which also made the draft more fun because there were no mocks or prepared lists ... you had to know what was going on. Now a bad FF owner can do just fine.
Loved the drafts. After that it was a time suck. Thursday messed it up for sure because it sped up the free agent process. I think the league becoming more pass oriented and less abiout RBs also made it less interesting ... at least for me. Used to be RBs were your first 2 picks and they typically got you solid points. Now it's about TEs and WRs ... sort of like the NFL
Loved the drafts. After that it was a time suck. Thursday messed it up for sure because it sped up the free agent process. I think the league becoming more pass oriented and less abiout RBs also made it less interesting ... at least for me. Used to be RBs were your first 2 picks and they typically got you solid points. Now it's about TEs and WRs ... sort of like the NFL
nirad3
Footballguy
Username checks out.
nirad3
Footballguy
My first league relied upon USA Today because we had owners all over the country and we needed a consistent source for stats. I mean, ESPN.com was a thing but I guess not everyone had reliable internet at the timeAnyone remember when the Nando Times was a game changer for getting stats? It was like finally the internet is actually useful for something!
Guess that's not too long before cheatsheets.net came online and changed the game forever
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Eventually I stopped playing FF because I came to the realization I didn't want to be so involved with performances of people I had no control over for a hobby. There's enough of that in my life already, the extra stress wasn't worth it. I tried to zen it, but just couldn't pull it off. If I'm spending time and effort on something, I'm not capable of just throwing up my hands and being o.k. with whatever happens after that.
Chemical X
Footballguy
can you all please post your roosters?
Corporation
Angry Bovine
I play, but mainly just for the social aspect of it. Have a league here, one I started 30 years ago with high school friends, and another long term dynasty league with some other guys here.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
zamboni
Footballguy
The bolded, in particular, irks me to no end given how much time I spend staying on top of everything. Yet I soldier on anyway.
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Drunken knight
Footballguy
nice week 1:
49ers looked very good
Won 4/5 ff games
3 high scores (1 in FFPC; ranked 300)
2 3rd highest ( lost the one by 9 without kelce)
49ers looked very good
Won 4/5 ff games
3 high scores (1 in FFPC; ranked 300)
2 3rd highest ( lost the one by 9 without kelce)
Can you elaborate?
gianmarco
Footballguy
Maybe not competitively, per se, but I would guess a lot are at least involved in a work or long standing friend league. I would have guessed 85-90%, but it seems more are in the same boat as me and gave it up completely over last few years.
gianmarco
Footballguy
Sure. I've gotten into watching soccer much more than NFL now. Schedule wise, it works better and games are a known length of time. Lots of options available to watch now that didn't use to be the case.
Several years ago, in order to familiarize myself with the players and teams, I joined a league with some people here and it was a ton of fun. Pros and cons as well given volume of games and turnover, but I overall found it to be enjoyable. I'm not doing it currently after stopping it as well a couple years ago, but I would do that again before I do FF.
Started playing in 2000 or 2001, played a bunch of leagues until 2011ish and stopped cold turkey. I don't miss it one bit. It was more work then enjoyment. As other mentioned, Thursday games was part of it. The other part is that I was looking at stats all day Sunday instead of just enjoying the games.
The problem with the USA Today was that sometimes the stats didn't come the next day because the games ended too late. It made you delay another day for results. We used the LA Times as we were all in California so that was the best source to use on Monday morning.My first league relied upon USA Today because we had owners all over the country and we needed a consistent source for stats. I mean, ESPN.com was a thing but I guess not everyone had reliable internet at the time
My buddy used to pay his 50 cents to get an LA Times from the newsrack but then he would take only the sports page out and leave the rest of the paper in there. I finally talked him into taking out the whole paper and leaving the rest on top. That way some schmuck that paid his 50 cents didn't get screwed out of the sports section..hahahaha
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Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Yeah, that was a **** move by him. I used to pull out the sports section afterwards and leave the rest for my coworkers to read. I remember one guy complaining that the sports section was always missing. I pointed to the news stand and told him to quit being a cheapass.
Thanks. I've always wondered why Fantasy Soccer isn't way more popular than it is.
Andrew74
Footballguy
This is me, too. I “retired” 3 years ago. I’m way too intense about winning, so my life is less stressful now.
I also enjoy watching football more since I don’t care, save my team winning. Now that Brady has retired, I don’t even have hate-watching either.
nirad3
Footballguy
Maybe 4-5 years ago when I'd go to lunch during the work week I'd grab a newspaper to read the sports page while I ate. A few times I had forgotten to check to see if the sports page was in there, and I got to the place I was eating and it was gone. Man that chapped my hide.The problem with the USA Today was that sometimes the stats didn't come the next day because the games ended too late. It made you delay another day for results. We used the LA Times as we were all in California so that was the best source to use on Monday morning.My first league relied upon USA Today because we had owners all over the country and we needed a consistent source for stats. I mean, ESPN.com was a thing but I guess not everyone had reliable internet at the time
My buddy used to pay his 50 cents to get an LA Times from the newsrack but then he would take only the sports page out and leave the rest of the paper in there. I finally talked him into taking out the whole paper and leaving the rest on top. That way some schmuck that paid his 50 cents didn't get screwed out of the sports section..hahahaha
My buddy lives in southern California. Maybe he is still doing it....hahahahaMaybe 4-5 years ago when I'd go to lunch during the work week I'd grab a newspaper to read the sports page while I ate. A few times I had forgotten to check to see if the sports page was in there, and I got to the place I was eating and it was gone. Man that chapped my hide.The problem with the USA Today was that sometimes the stats didn't come the next day because the games ended too late. It made you delay another day for results. We used the LA Times as we were all in California so that was the best source to use on Monday morning.My first league relied upon USA Today because we had owners all over the country and we needed a consistent source for stats. I mean, ESPN.com was a thing but I guess not everyone had reliable internet at the time
My buddy used to pay his 50 cents to get an LA Times from the newsrack but then he would take only the sports page out and leave the rest of the paper in there. I finally talked him into taking out the whole paper and leaving the rest on top. That way some schmuck that paid his 50 cents didn't get screwed out of the sports section..hahahaha
You probably ought to delete this site from your devices so you aren't tempted to relapse.
Gatorade
Footballguy
I retired from FF for a few years because of busy work schedule and moving away from what were local live draft fun leagues with lots of smack talk at work everyday. After real retirement, I gradually got back in as a hobby. Love the year round involvement of dynasty. Last year joined the FBG leagues for redraft and I also enjoy reading and learning from the forums here.
I wonder if the results today would be different vs a couple of years ago, but I was surprised the number of people who say they don't play wasn't higher here.
Thanks. Can you elaborate if you don't mind? What pushed you into retirement a few years ago? And what brought you back last year? And why retiring again?
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
Mostly just a time element. Years ago I played in 3 or 4 leagues...nothing crazy. I quit the first time after moving out west when most of my league mates were midwest or east coast. Always felt like a disadvantage with waiver wire activity and then missing some key start/sit with early kickoffs. And just life changed after moving out here so I quit. Then I came back to play in one league with fellow ex-employees from the startup where we all worked. But now just don't feel like spending the time to research and stay up to speed by playing in one league is worth it.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Have not competed in Dynasty for at least 10 years
But I love Redrafts and still play in several leagues, some are 25+ yrs old and are more for memories vs money
But I love Redrafts and still play in several leagues, some are 25+ yrs old and are more for memories vs money
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Desert_Power
Footballguy
Looking to get back into dynasty and add some best ball this year.
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