When Is Your Most Important Draft?
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When Is Your Most Important Draft? (1 Viewer)
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Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
6 days from now on the 28th. 
zamboni
Footballguy
Very similar. We are in year 31 (I joined 21 years ago) and we just moved to Superflex for this upcoming season. Really looking forward to different drafting strategies than the same old of just loading up on RBs and WRs.
Draft is Sept 1 - can’t wait.
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Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Yeah, the core of my league is 20+ years together. Several flying in from out of state. I took a rare weekend off of work. Saturday draft, Sunday poker game / tourney. Sunday will mostly be spent trashing each other’s teams while we try to get rich $0.25 at a time.
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SeniorVBDStudent
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Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Last weekend was the rookie draft. I think this is year 17 or 18. Tough to keep track. I’m only in one league - that’s all that matters, so why be in more?
Hopefully you love the Superflex! It has made the draft prep and the draft much more fun…no more PattyM & Kyler getting drafted in round 5 or later.
wgoldsph
Footballguy
I miss the poker game after the draft that used to happen with the first league I was ever in. Unfortunately guys grew less interested over the years and it folded. They also clung to the td heavy scoring of yesteryear for way too long, so I don't mind losing that.
rockaction
Footballguy
I play for fun. Always. So my most "important" draft is my most fun one. I won't jinx it, but we've pretty much already had it. Slow draft, music selections, FFA. God Bless NV for running it every year. I didn't figure on necessarily making it this year; I wouldn't have missed it for the world in retrospect. So much fun.
Good peeps, especially.
Good peeps, especially.
candian fantasy guy
Footballguy
10 year old SF, IDP with auction is next weekend! That's always a 4-5hr chuckle fest! Then I always finish things off with 3 pack in the Draft-a-thon over FFPC.
Is this not the best time of the year!!!
Is this not the best time of the year!!!
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
None of the above for the poll. My longest running league is 25 years this year and our draft is tonight.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
11am on the last Sunday in August, every year.
Atomic Punk
Footballguy
Labour Day going on our 31st year. My only re-draft league.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
We used to do labor day weekend.
then wives & chilrens happened to many in the league & Labor Day weekend became a family holiday.
They’ve got their priorities all screwed up.
Atomic Punk
Footballguy
The families get the rest of the weekend ... the boys get Monday!We used to do labor day weekend.
then wives & chilrens happened to many in the league & Labor Day weekend became a family holiday.
They’ve got their priorities all screwed up.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
The Tuesday night after Labor Day.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
zamboni
Footballguy
Truebluey
Footballguy
Our Home League is entering its 22nd year. We draft on the Tuesday night before the Thursday opener, so the 7th this year. Not sure why leagues draft much earlier, so much can change. Last year James Robinson was drafted because he was the starter, a few years back James Conner was drafted late when Bell was holding out. Otherwise those players might end up undrafted!!
We are very traditional, no superflex. Those leagues tend to be too highly dominated by one position (QB).
We are very traditional, no superflex. Those leagues tend to be too highly dominated by one position (QB).
zamboni
Footballguy
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
zamboni
Footballguy
Won only once but probably the best power ranking over that time. Just always one or two players short
Truebluey
Footballguy
We are PPR so the WR is almost always the most influential in deciding the league winner. Last year it was the guy with Adams, Nuke, and Jefferson. His starting RB was a round 7 pick.
zamboni
Footballguy
We’re PPR too, but also a deep keeper league, so the talent is pretty dispersed. RB strength tends to win out in the end.
montana_grizzly_bears
Footballguy
August 29th this year. Was the weekend that worked for everyone.
kutta
Footballguy
Pretty much what we do. This is our 25th year. We have people fly in from out of town and all gather at one guy’s house starting Friday. We feast (I’m smoking a pork butt, we’ll have home made pizza and wings too) all weekend, play poker, drink our asses off, and have two different drafts with our main one being Saturday evening.
It’s my favorite weekend of the year.
joey
Footballguy
26 year redraft half-ppr work league. We pick the latest draft date we can (9/6 this year) since we have some classic, long time, "just-printed-a-cheatsheet-the-day-of" kind of old school dudes. Super entertaining, trash-talk -filled draft. Usually held at a local bar or restaurant back room, but last year's draft and this year's will be virtual. Can’t wait til we can all be in the same room to draft again but, besides COVID, a few of the guys are working out of LA now so this will likely remain a virtual draft for a while.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Would be useless to everyone since it’s a keeper league with a fairly unique keeper system. Makes it a bit tough to prep for, but using the Draft Dominator to run Mock drafts is great other than it’s REALLY sure guys should take certain players in the 1st round when I am 75% sure they’ll be taking RBs. Do a lot of resetting the draft to a certain position trying to force DD to take a different player. Pretty good indication though if just how much guys in my league overvalue RBs. Problem is they overvalue them so much it actually forces everyone else to overvalue them or you lose out completely.Good luck! Please post the first 17 rounds here.
Manster
Footballguy
We always do our live drafts (2 leagues) within a couple days of first game. So far, one league is set for Labor day evening and the other will be either Tues or Wed. All the guys in both leagues like to wait to see how preseason plays out, especially for injuries.....and now with covid, I think it's even more important to wait.
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Manster
Footballguy
This is what it's all about!
Both my leagues started in the 90's. My bro in law has been in both for prolly half their existence. I've been in both for like 7-8 years now.....we are the young pups...ha!
Live drafts at our local watering hole where they set aside a table for us......eclectic rules, and people.....I love it, and would never go back to playing FF with randos......in fact, if these leagues ever cease to exist, I would look for another local, or just not do FF anymore.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
I used to BBQ as well, but 6 years back we had a league member drop out & his replacement owns a pizza joint.
So now he brings a keg of beer & 5 take & bake pizzas. And I’m off the hook for BBQ-ing.
zamboni
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
We have one guy that tries to pass around a Bob Marley type joint just before every draft. I tell him to save it for the last round.
TZMarkie
Footballguy
Our "biggest league" I started roughly 7 years ago (though many of us played in several different similar setups years prior) and we have our draft on September the 2nd.
My "2nd important league" I started with a lifelong friend in 2011. Sadly he passed away unexpectedly several years ago, so I named the league in his honor the following year and its stayed as such. I don't plan on changing it any time soon either. That league is Tuesday August the 31st. Always tough starting this league after the loss of my buddy. Ironically, he won money in a Super Bowl pool that year, and he passed away before he could pick it up. So many in our poker group took up a collection, and we combined that with the money he won in the pool and forwarded it to his mother after her loss. Its tough to think about every year.
I'm usually in an assortment of other $100-$200 per team leagues as well every season, (of various settings and scoring) but those don't mean as much to me.
Looking forward to my 1st draft scheduled on the 31st.
My "2nd important league" I started with a lifelong friend in 2011. Sadly he passed away unexpectedly several years ago, so I named the league in his honor the following year and its stayed as such. I don't plan on changing it any time soon either. That league is Tuesday August the 31st. Always tough starting this league after the loss of my buddy. Ironically, he won money in a Super Bowl pool that year, and he passed away before he could pick it up. So many in our poker group took up a collection, and we combined that with the money he won in the pool and forwarded it to his mother after her loss. Its tough to think about every year.
I'm usually in an assortment of other $100-$200 per team leagues as well every season, (of various settings and scoring) but those don't mean as much to me.
Looking forward to my 1st draft scheduled on the 31st.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
His philosophy is to bring the highest ABV keg he can find so he can gain a tactical advantage.
I counter this by sipping my first 2 pints & alternating with soft drinks until at least round 20. It’s 27 round IDP, so the last 9 rounds are rarely prolific.!
zamboni
Footballguy
Can't wait.
BassNBrew
Footballguy
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
33rd year. Tuesday September 7th.
For the first 15 or so years, we did it on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend. One of the team owners owned a bar and would set us up nicely. Then, as families started happening, trying to get us all at the same time on a weekend became tough so we moved to a weeknight before the opening Thursday game. We still do it in a sports bar, but the guy who owned one isn't in the league anymore.
For the first 15 or so years, we did it on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend. One of the team owners owned a bar and would set us up nicely. Then, as families started happening, trying to get us all at the same time on a weekend became tough so we moved to a weeknight before the opening Thursday game. We still do it in a sports bar, but the guy who owned one isn't in the league anymore.
