who doesn’t love fantasy football?

who wouldnt want to join a fantasy football league with other football obsessed fans!!!!

I’d love to join…

ought to be interesting watching everybody scrap for Bills’ players

but I would love to do it this year.

Let’s get this party started

Kurupt – “I won last year I’ll win this year”
Sireric – “I might make that quote public knowledge”
Kurupt – “You should, I’m not scared”

Kurupt I’m gunning for ya

Brian(or anyone who knows),
Do you have a synopsis on the format of the league. A brief one is fine. It’s just been a while(7 years) since i participated in fantasy football.

I get sportingnews magazine every week and they had a top 100 fantasy player list this week and I was extremly suprised to see our own marshawn lynch at number 7 over all, behind players such as LT, AP, and Tom Brady. he was above running backs like larry johnson, frank gore and way above our good friend willis Mcgahee. I guess were not the only ones expecting a big year out of lynch :)

But too many injuries sank me, got a feeling it’ll be harder this time around to sneak up on people by grabbing guys like Ryan Grant since I did more research than most of the bums I played against.

Ha Ha, all the fellow married guys know exactly what I’m talking about.

....even though I don’t have the foggiest idea of what I’m doing.

I have a feeling there would be more than 10 teams, so how would that work out? Would there be different divisions? And if that’s the case, would that mean a shorter regular season, as it would seem to me there would be more playoff games than usual?

Also, would it be possible to request that you are in certain divisions with particular teams? I know I’d like that…

What about transactions? Were they unlimited for you guys last year?

And I would think it would have to be a live draft. I’ve never participated i one that wasn’t. How does that work?

What about cash? I know it’s probably not feasible (ie – legal), but I’m sure we could all figure out a way to throw in ten bucks or something. The best league I ever heard of is one I can’t get in to; these guys won’t give up their spots. They literally play for a “kick in the arse.” At the end of the year, the “loser” of the league bends over, and each of the other 11 gus gets to literally give him a kick in the arse. It’s hilarious.

I’ve also participated in a leagues that had a “degenerate” prize. I know this goes against my better judgements (like, my take on Lynch). But it does add to the entertainment value. If you have a guy who makes negative headlines during the season (arrest, steroids, etc), you get a small bonus..

For what it’s worth, I think Yahoo does the best job out there, that’s free of course. Didn’t really care for AOL, or even ESPN.

Also, while on the subject of “gambling,” (which really is what FF is, and is a HUGE reason why the NFL is so popular (a topic for another diary)), I’d like to suggest a “suicide pool” of some sort. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s fairly simple. You pick one winner a week. Once you pick a team, you can’t pick them the rest of the year. Once you pick a game wrong, you’re out. Last man standing hogs the pot.

I’ve also been in a “league” for several years now, picking games against the spread. Everyone starts out with a “100 points.” You pick games against the spread (no teasers, parlays, or O/Us). At the end of the SB, the guy with the most points wins…

Brian – it seems like you and SB Nation will be doing something here for FF. I think anyone that participates would really like to see live scoring updates. I like that in a league, and I know most do as well.

For the record, I’ve been playing FF since 1992. Me, and three buddies I worked with in a pool hall decided to do a rotssiere style format back then. We drafted, and kept scores honor system style from the Buffalo Evening News (no internet back then – and we had to walk to school uphill both ways back then in the snow). I had Jim Kelly and Steve Young, and stupid hold out Emmit Smith. Incredibly, I finished third.

in for sure. Love fantasy football. I love the Bills. And I love Brian and buffalorumblings. So its a no brainer

and this year I’m not going to win the regular season just to lose in the championship game!

The title is coming home my friends!

Sounds intriguing to me…count me in!

can’t get enough of fantasy football. it made all those bad bills seasons palatable.

if there’s room.

just crown me now..

We’re up to 26 names! Keep them coming if there’s anyone out there who’s interested that hasn’t yet expressed interest.

And for krytime et al – feel free to continue developing the ginormous tournament idea, but as it stands now, unless there’s a feasible way of pulling that off, we’re planning on multiple leagues. :)

I would bet on 50 or more players. Users that read, but don’t post should feel very encouraged to join and I think they will when we get closer to fantasy draft time.

I’m assuming that we will be able to turn this into a yearly event and site tradition. What if we set things up much like the English and other European soccer leagues? For those who don’t follow soccer countries have fluid leagues that are formed every season based on the results of the previous year. The best teams like Man U and Chelsea, stay in the Premier league every year because they finish near the top, but the bottom four teams get “relegated” to the 2nd highest league every year and the best four teams from that league get promoted to the premier league. The same goes for every division. It’s part of what makes European soccer so exciting, because you literally have to earn your right to play in the league.

So I am proposing that we start from scratch and randomally create leagues with the idea that the best teams from each league will form the top league for next season. If we had 5 leagues of 10 players we could do all the teams that got to championship game or the regular season champ and the playoff champ. We wouldn’t have to set it up like England with various tiers. We could just have the top league and everyone else. Sticking with 5 leagues we could have the bottom 4 teams get kicked out of the top league each year while the other 4 league winners get the right to play in the top league.

The whole point is to have seperately run leagues that are still connected. We wouldn’t have to worry about short regular seasons and similiar rosters (which I do think would be a problem. I think if we could somehow find the percentage of all the yahoo playoff teams that had Adrian Peterson, Randy Moss or Tom Brady on them it would be staggering. It would also allow the best players who do the most pre-draft work and are the quickest and smartest to attack FA, to play with tough competition and it would allow the beginner types to play in a slightly more casual setting.

Another way to go with this would be to leave last year’s original league intact and use it as our “premier league”. All of us newcomers would then have to fight for the right to join the league with all of our favorite posters :) An England style set-up would be easy to set up and would probably run very smoothly.

And on a different fantasy topic, regardless of the way we decide to set up the leagues, the best way to determine who would be in which league is draft time. Live drafts are a must and we can set up a number of leagues that draft on different days at different times and people could then just join whichever draft works best for them.

What does everyone think?

as long as some of you other diehards have, but I’d like to give it a shot anyways, just for kicks. :)

Sounds fun, Brian, and I know you will do your best to keep it that way…

I’ve played in the Fox Sports FF league for the past couple of years and really like the format they use.

Let the games begin