I’m not opposed to opening it up to 6.
Awe man… Dallas Clark is out for the season. Good thing I have another good TE. And, there goes my hope of a trade for a decent RB.
Time to play, “How much will I lose by”. d:
At least I putt Kenny Britt on the bench today. I figured he’d get punsihed somewhat in the gameplan for his tomfooler Friday morning.
Instead he puts up 40 points on the bench.
For reals.
You’re still crushing me…
There’s no crying in football right?
Oh wait… Terrell Owens…
Wow. I got 5 players on Bye and 2 out for injuries. And the injured ones are players I want to keep. But, I have to drop someone to fill my lineup…as pointless as it’s becoming now…
Gonna be hard to even break even this season at this rate…
I think if you’re playing all season you’re an invaluable member of the league. I went 3-10 in my own league last year, but for the league as a whole to be fun and fair for everyone, all participants need to play every week and give themselves the best chance to win. Sometimes your team works out. Other times you spend your first three draft picks in 2009 on LaDanian Tomlinson, Steve Slaton, and Jay Cutler (seriously). And you spend all season sad and tell yourself you don’t want to play fantasty football anymore.
If you feel you are protecting your roster by having a Bye position, I do see how that could work out. There are weeks when I should have played NO kicker, or NO defense, and it would have helped. What’s the situation you’re in? Maybe we can talk about a mutually beneficial swap.
Yeah, the byes are limiting us too. It’s an interesting problem to work around, and part of the fun.
I dropped Felix Jones during his bye week because he was under performing. Someone picked him up after the bye and now he scoring better.
I currently have Austin Collie, Ind and Fred Taylor, NE. Both injured. Fred Taylor hasn’t played well since week 1. But, I just know the week after he’s better, he’ll do well. But, I dunno when that is. If I had dropped him in week 2, I may be in a better position now.
Collie’s injury is new, and he may be out a few weeks. I cannot see myself dropping Collie, but maybe Taylor.
Shonn Greene has been a thorn in my side too.
Finally, I’m still hurting fro having to drop Dallas Clark due to his season ending injury. I had two top 5 TEs and wanted to use one to get a comparable RB. So much for that now.
Ok, rant off. I know we all have hard luck stories. But, it’s frustrating because I spend so many hours a week planning my lineups.
If we have more than 12 people next year, I’m not sure I’d want to play. I mean I love you guys and I don’t want anyone to feel bad joining, but it’s a difficult transition going from 10 owners my first year to 14 my second.
Or, is this just a crappy year in general no matter how many owners a league has?
It’s tough. I don’t know why someone dropped LeSean McCoy, but they really boosted my very thin RB squad in doing so. I was able to get Ryan Torain once Portis was announced as super banged-up, but Portis wil come back at some point. And Arian Foster was a guy I took a flier on, and I’ve been lucky it panne dout. I’m now up to four RBs total because Michael Turner’s injury was minor (thank Baltar). If Foster didn’t establsih himself, if Turner got hurt for real, and if someone else didn’t drop McCoy, I’d still be sitting on Cadillac Williams and Ryan Torain, praying to God for a win.
I feel your pain on Clark. I think I mentioned he’s on my own league’s team (alongside Ryan Grant, who went down in Game 1), and I’ve had to replace him with Tony Moeaki, who is not at all an acceptable replacement for Dallas Clark.
A 14-team league is definitely a “deep” league. You find some gems sometimes for sure, but some positions (specifically defense) have been really hard to find some weeks. I went from a Tampa kicker to the RAMS kicker. That’s how shallow that position is. And what’s out there is garbage.
I don’t mind the larger league; it’s a whole extra level of challenge. But I can see how a few key injuries can level your entire season with little hope of picking up good replacement parts, because unless a player is injured with a talented backup, you don’t have much room to improve.
To answer your question about McCoy, I think the analysts were questioning his effectiveness between the Vicks/Kolbe swappings. Which turned out to be an exaggerated concern. I fell for it too by benching my Eagles players and they wound up having a monster week(s).
I’m just doing what I did last season. Reading analyst opinion, looking at my lineups and trying to make my own informed decision. Just not working this season. I guess there really is something to beginners luck.
To be fair, after a 10-4 season, I guess I shouldn’t be too unhappy that luck has turned around this season.
I played in my first fantasy league in 2006, I think it was. I got second place.
Four years later, with a good dozen teams under my belt, I am STILL trying to match or better that finish. My third place team last year was my best finish since.
It’s rough. some years you just can’t catch a break. I play in a few leagues, and two in particular have been brutal.
In one league my starting roster at the beginning of the season included Clinton Portis, DeSean Jackson, Austin Collie, Dallas Clark, and Tony Romo. Week 9 I’ll have a completely different team and no shot of winning anything.
In another, it’s just a matter of breaks. I have the most points scored by a margin of 50, far and away the best roster in the league. However, I also have the most points scored against by a margin of about 40. For some reason, everybody’s best week has been against me, and I started 1-5.
But you’re totally right: bigger leagues are more brutal and the margin of error is super thin. Sometimes the difference between a playoff contender and a 5-11 team is who had the higher or better waiver pickup in week four.
Edit: I’ve just gotten super duper lucky in this league. One of the few I’m actually doing well in.
Oh Felix Jones, YOU dropped him? Thanks bro
Super tough, that. You figure that your better team will win out in the end, but sometimes it just doesn’t work out that way.
Glad to commiserate with other Dallas Clark owners. You figure you locked up a guy worth a WR1/WR2 slot easy to play tight end and he goes and gets super-injured.
Worse for him as a person and player and teammate than us as fantaay owners, of course, but it still sucks. You go from a position of uncommon strength to the rest of the pack like THAT.
grumbles
Kick a man while he’s down why don’t you… d:
Get off my running back! shakes fist
You’re welcome…
So I checked out my team and if Kenny Britt can’t play, the combination of positional depth, injuries, and byes would mean I have no one to start at flex.
In this league I’d have to really weigh my options about how to proceed. Hmmm.
OMG!! I won last week WOW! My computer crashed this week and this is the first time since then that i have been able to check my team. And when I did I got a wonderful surprise. i won my first game.
That’s my lineup, man… My lineup…
bit it hard this week. season marches on and each additional loss becomes more difficult, especially against the top teams. gotta bounce back this week.