2015 Fantasy League (NFL)

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elcome to the second season of the Yellow Fever Dynasty League. I have redrawn the teams into divisions for the new season, as such the divisions are as follows:

Merrick Division Herbert Division
Midas Whale Swarlos Rodriguez
Fairfield Fairies London Hammers
Nialls Paul Naenae Tegal
Rammtillica Billikids Pacific Island Usos
Mos Eisley Troopers Belgian Waffles

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With the Rookie draft under way we will soon know the full line-ups of our teams. Once the site reopens I will start work on rundowns of Free Agents,. current teams and the small changes to the line-ups we need (Increasing team size to 35 Players, 7 Draft spaces + 2 extras to give depth), we'll have a limit of 28 players in season, but have the 35 spaces available for when in offseason. I will do best to police this with removing players from teams if they go over 28 in the season. 

This thread is for General Discussion of the league, while the Rookie Draft should include posts about drafting of Rookies.

Current Standings

Playoffs currently:

Billikids (2) vs Tegal (3)

Rodriguez (1) vs Waffles (4)

Now it all comes down to the final week:

Hammers need to beat Waffles by 15.3pts or more to qualify for the Playoffs. If Rodriguez wins against Billikids they are the #1 Seed & Herbert Champion, If the Billikids win & Tegal loses, they are #1 seed & Rodriguez wins Herbert Division, if Billikids & Tegal BOTH win then Tegal is the #1 seed & the Herbert Champion.


There is one further scenario which is around the #3 seed, if Rodriguez & Tegal lose, and the Waffles win then Rodriguez are the #2 seed (Herbert Champion), Waffles are #3 seed & Tegal are #4 seed (This all comes down to a H2H record between the three teams, Rodriguez 3 wins, Waffles 2 wins, Tegal 1 win)

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Current Standings & Latest Results

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Rundown of Merrick Division

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Rundown of Herbert Division

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Rundown of Current Free Agents

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Will the roster size go back to 28 once the season starts or will we have to keep making sure we're not over 28?

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Tegal wrote:

Will the roster size go back to 28 once the season starts or will we have to keep making sure we're not over 28?

I'll keep a watch on it. I want to restrict it, but the problem is once you draft you can't change the size on ESPN...so it has to be set at one or the other...it's a bit of a pain.

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So I increased the roster size up to 35. It is not possible to reduce it after the draft, so we have a few options, let me know which one you prefer...

1) Leave it at 35 Player squad, and put it as 28 Keepers, so before next season's draft you must decide on your 28 keepers for 2016

2) Leave at 35 Players: But in season limit is 28, meaning you MUST have 7 spaces every Thursday or I start dropping players from your teams (Think this is hardest to do)

3) Make it 28 permanently, and everyone needs to submit a Keeper list of only 28 - Number of Rookie picks, so I can update the teams.

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Think my preference is number 1, have the 35 players and drop for 2016 season.

I do think it would be better people only having 28 but hard for you to keep tabs and make sure everyone has right numbers

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the less players I have to select from each week, the less chance of me fudgeing it up by starting someone who gets 3 points and benching a guy who pulls in 40 points. But I will roll anyway you push me

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Yeah I think I will change my mind and we go for the less players. Make it just before the season starts, but then we have to cut our roster to get it down just like they do in the league 

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I went with a bunch of ideas for how to do it. I ran into a BUNCH of issues...

So I can't add the rookies til after the draft...and the draft has to be after the keeper deadline, and after the draft I cannot cut roster sizes...so I have made a "solution"

I have set July 1 as Keeper Date, Rosters to 28, and Keepers as Up to 28, so you can keep how ever many players you want submitted before that date. Remembering that you need to leave space for your rookies (OR advise me that you wish to NOT add a certain rookie to your team for the season), that way I can add the rookie players to your teams via  a "DRAFT" in July before the season happens and make sure everyone is at the perfect size line-ups :D

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I also went and tried out another website, and appears I cannot cut team size over there either :P

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So overall, sounds like a lot of fun!

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Yakcall wrote:

So overall, sounds like a lot of fun!

Entertaining to say the least...Even on the pay sites it appears I can edit the roster size after a draft...

I did look at Flea Flicker and the interface looks quite nice, so I might run a league over there this year to test it out and look at moving stuff over There :D

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Just as an aside - if any of the managers aren't keen to carry on with this league for whatever reason - I've got a mate who would be happy to join and take over a team.  I imagine everyone is still interested given this is only season 2, but I thought I'd mention it. 

Maybe in the future we could look to do an expansion draft if there is another person whose also interested and we could bump up to 12 teams (perhaps if we move from the ESPN platform?). 

He is a douch-bag Seahawks fan however....

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Just as an aside - if any of the managers aren't keen to carry on with this league for whatever reason - I've got a mate who would be happy to join and take over a team.  I imagine everyone is still interested given this is only season 2, but I thought I'd mention it. 

Maybe in the future we could look to do an expansion draft if there is another person whose also interested and we could bump up to 12 teams (perhaps if we move from the ESPN platform?). 

He is a douch-bag Seahawks fan however....

Everyone seems keen at this point, but going forward I am more than happy to increase to 12 teams with an Expansion draft. (We'll hold a discussion about how that would work, but I have some ideas already (Each team can protect X number of players, and the two new teams select from the other players, Taking a maximum of Y players from each team, if a team loses the Max they get a consolation 3rd Rd pick in the following years draft, the expansion teams select a team of size Total Squad - X, and they will remain at top of the waiver order (Alternating each week) until the start of the season. This is just a rough idea everything would be worked out by the league)

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Final Draft Round by Round

Rnd. Pick # YF team Player Pos. Notes
1 1 London Hammers Amari Cooper WR None
1 2 Pacific Island Usos Kevin White WR None
1 3 Midas Whale Maxx Williams TE None
1 4 Swarlos Rodriguez Jameis Winston QB None
1 5 Rammtallica Billikids Todd Gurley RB None
1 6 Naenae Tegal DeVante Parker WR None
1 7 Fairfield Fairies Marcus Mariota QB None
1 8 Nialls Paul Melvin Gordon RB None
1 9 Belgian Waffles Nelson Agholor WR None
1 10 Mos Eisley Troopers Breshad Perriman WR None
2 11 London Hammers Amer Abdullah RB None
2 12 Pacific Island Usos Dorial Green-Beckham WR None
2 13 Midas Whale Jaelen Strong WR None
2 14 Swarlos Rodriguez TJ Yeldon RB None
2 15 Rammtallica Billikids Tevin Coleman RB None
2 16 Belgian Waffles Devin Funchess WR From Tegal
2 17 Fairfield Fairies David Johnson RB None
2 18 Nialls Paul Jay Ajayi RB None
2 19 Belgian Waffles Duke Johnson RB None
2 20 Naenae Tegal Phillip Dorsett WR From Troopers
2 21 Midas Whale Devin Smith WR Consolation Win
3 22 London Hammers Tyler Lockett WR None
3 23 Pacific Island Usos Clive Walford TE None
3 24 Midas Whale David Cobb RB None
3 25 Swarlos Rodriguez Javouris "Buck" Allen RB None
3 26 Rammtallica Billikids Sammie Coates WR None
3 27 Rammtallica Billikids Stefon Diggs WR From Tegal
3 28 Fairfield Fairies DeAndre Smelter WR None
3 29 Nialls Paul Justin Hardy WR None
3 30 Belgian Waffles Cameron Artis-Payne RB None
3 31 Mos Eisley Troopers Tre McBride WR None
4 32 London Hammers Chris Conley WR None
4 33 Pacific Island Usos Matt Jones RB None
4 34 Midas Whale Jeremy Langford RB None
4 35 Swarlos Rodriguez Vince Mayle WR None
4 36 Rammtallica Billikids Tyler Kroft TE None
4 37 Naenae Tegal Mike Davis RB None
4 38 Fairfield Fairies Rashad Greene WR None
4 39 Nialls Paul Jamison Crouder WR None
4 40 Belgian Waffles Ty.Montgomery WR None
4 41 Mos Eisley Troopers Trey Williams RB None
5 42 London Hammers Jesse James TE None
5 43 Pacific Island Usos Tony Lippett WR None
5 44 Midas Whale Karlos Williams WR None
5 45 Swarlos Rodriguez DeVante Davis WR None
5 46 Rammtallica Billikids MyCole Pruitt TE None
5 47 Naenae Tegal Bryce Petty QB None
5 48 Fairfield Fairies Antwan Goodley WR None
5 49 Nialls Paul Sean Mannion QB None
5 50 Belgian Waffles Garrett Grayson QB None
5 51 Mos Eisley Troopers Josh Robinson RB None
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This table below includes your teams Rookies, remembering that they can also be cut as a count towards fitting under the roster size limit. Also if you have a player who can take the IR slot (Must be OUT or IR) they can be on there and you can cut one less player.

Team QBs RBs WRs TEs Def/Ks Total To Cut
Belgian Waffles 4 13 11 4 3 34 6
Midas Whale 3 7 11 6 6 33 5
Naenae Tegal 4 10 12 2 2 30 2
Mos Eisley Troopers 4 10 11 2 4 31 3
Fairfield Fairies 4 7 12 4 5 32 4
Swarlos Rodriguez 5 10 11 3 3 32 4
Rammtallica Billikids 3 12 11 4 3 33 5
Nialls Paul 4 10 10 5 3 32 4
Pacific Island Usos 2 8 13 4 3 30 2
London Hammers 3 10 11 3 5 32 4
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I'm not so sure about expansion in this league? We have rather large benches and expanding would mean a much lesser player pool to waiver from during the season and/or much smaller benches for keeping players for the future. 

I'm sure people will drop out at some stage, it's the nature of any fantasy league. 

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I am going to do a little of my own analysis of each team, I'm just going to do it by division, and in the order the teams appear above, the Merrick Division will be first, so my first piece of analysis will be Midas Whale (Hopefully out later today)

I'll cover each position (Excluding Def/Ks) and then give a wrap up of the teams draft, and what I think of the team overall.

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Midas Whale

QB1 Drew Brees
QB2 Tom Brady
QB3 Jimmy Garoppolo

Two very good starters in the Whale squad who are nearing the end of their careers, but still rate as Top 10 options, and the loss  of Brady for four weeks is not an issue for Whale (Still expect this to drop to 2 Games). Surprisingly this is not Whale's best starting position according to ESPN rankings, Whale are probably good for the next 2-3 years here, but will need to pick up a young QB at some point.

RB1 DeMarco Murray
RB2 Lamar Miller
RB3 Isaiah Crowell
RB4 Bobby Rainey
RB5 Roy Helu
RB6 David Cobb
RB7 Jeremy Langford

Murray and Miller as the starters look good, my issue with both of them relates to the fact that I don't think either is guaranteed the job, and with Murray I am not sure how long he holds up when behind a slightly lesser OLine in Philly. In Miami they have drafted a great rookie who will challenge Miller almost straight away, of course he has massive injury worries which is why he dropped in the draft, so something to watch. Aside from that is Crowell who should be the 1a in Cleveland, but has West & Duke Johnson in contention there, Helu is probably the 1b in Oakland (Unless TRich does something miraculous), David Cobb looks like a great RB option for Tennessee he will have to beat out Sankey, but can do a great job, definitely think he is the better back. Jeremy Langford will take on Ka'Deem Carey for the back-up job in Chicago, and with Forte off contract at the end of the season who knows.

WR1 Andre Johnson
WR2 Jeremy Maclin
WR3 Mike Wallace
WR4 Greg Jennings
WR5 Pierre Garcon
WR6 James Jones
WR7 Andre Holmes
WR8 Nate Washington
WR9 Devin Smith
WR10 Jaelen Strong
WR11 Karlos Williams

This has to be a position of real concern for Midas Whale, with only Pierre Garcon & Andre Holmes remaining with the team they played for in 2014. The good points: Andre has Andrew Luck throwing him the ball this season, but he is just one of a million options in that offense. Jeremy Maclin moves to Kansas and will clearly be the number one target for a team that had NO receiving TDs caught by receivers last year. Wallace will be the #1 option in Minnesotas, BUT in saying that two of those teams are Run first, and Indy has many options, so these guys all rank outside the top 20, and would look better as #2 WRs. James Jones is currently unemployed, Jennings & Holmes are battling to see their position on a roster. Garcon should still be the #2 in Washington, as for Washington I have no idea where he will fall in Houston, but is down the pecking order. Devin Smith is with the jets and looks like a good young option, but he is probably third on the depth chart this year behind Marshall & Decker. Jaelen Strong should battle with Cecil Shorts for #2 role in Houston which should be a reasonably productive role behind Hopkins. Karlos Williams looks like he will fall as more of a RB, with some strange role in the Buffalo offense.

TE1 Charles Clay
TE2 Kyle Rudolph
TE3 Owen Daniels
TE4 Maxx Williams
TE5 Vernon Davis
TE6 Scott Chandler

Any one want a TE? 5 of the top 30 TEs are on this team, Chandler being the outlier, Owen Daniels is probably the best option for 2015 with a great position in Denver taking the Julius Thomas role. While Clay & Williams will look to move up in their new teams (BUF & BAL), both reasonable good places for a TE to land, look to them to provide Midas Whale with a great 1,2 TE hit in the future.

Draft:

Midas Whale started out taking the TE Maxx Williams, a nice pick, though looking at the team I wonder if a WR might've been a better first round option, and whether Maxx Williams would've still been there in the second round of the draft for them.  Other than that they really helped the teams positions of worry, a GREAT TE for the future in Maxx Williams, 2 good WRs on teams where they are likely to play, one RB who should get the top job at some point and two lotteries in the later rounds with Karlos Williams & Langford who both have positions where they could create a job for themselves.

Conclusion

Overall I think this team is probably a mid table battler this season, they could make the playoffs with some things going their way, but they need something from some borderline WRs to get into the playoffs this season, I'd be looking at this team more in 2 years when they have built up their core of youngsters.

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JonoNewton wrote:

Welcome to the second season of the Yellow Fever Dynasty League. I have redrawn the teams into divisions for the new season, as such the divisions are as follows:

Merrick Division Herbert Division
Midas Whale Swarlos Rodriguez
Fairfield Fairies London Hammers
Nialls Paul Naenae Tegal
Rammtillica Billikids Pacific Island Usos
Mos Eisley Troopers Belgian Waffles

List randomised by Random.Org

With the Rookie draft under way we will soon know the full line-ups of our teams. Once the site reopens I will start work on rundowns of Free Agents,. current teams and the small changes to the line-ups we need (Increasing team size to 35 Players, 7 Draft spaces + 2 extras to give depth), we'll have a limit of 28 players in season, but have the 35 spaces available for when in offseason. I will do best to police this with removing players from teams if they go over 28 in the season. 

This thread is for General Discussion of the league, while the Rookie Draft should include posts about drafting of Rookies.

Once again, brilliant stuff Jono and makes it accessible for us blokes who think American Football is run by David Beckham. Cheers fella!

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adding up first round draft position this year (which is based on last seasons standings). Merrick division gets a score of 33 vs Herbert divisions score of 22. So theoretically the Herbert division is 33% easier. 

I'll take that #clutchingAtStraws

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Tegal wrote:

adding up first round draft position this year (which is based on last seasons standings. Merrick division gets a score of 33 vs Herbert divisions score of 22. So theoretically the Herbert division is 33% easier. 

I'll take that #clutchingAtStraws

Haha I love it.

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Fairfield Fairies

QB1 Peyton Manning
QB2 Colin Kaepernick
QB3 Derek Carr
QB4 Marcus Mariota

One of the big names for this season and 3 young starters to take over when he finally retires, this is probably a reasonable situation to be in. Now I have never been a Kaep fan, but this has to be the year he steps up, the defense is weaker, Gore is gone and the WRs look useful (For once). If he doesn't step up expect them to look for an Alex Smith like game manager to take over. Derek Carr looks like the future in Oakland, maybe that organisation can turn itself around. And Mariota has a shot to be the best QB in his class with a huge new offense in Tennessee, I'm holding off on him though, but chances are for the Fairies with 3 young QBs they have a great chance one of them will be a solid Top 10 in the future.

RB1 Alfred Morris
RB2 Toby Gerhart
RB3 Ryan Mathews
RB4 Maurice Jones-Drew
RB5 Trent Richardson
RB6 Knowshon Moreno
RB7 David Johnson

I expect Fairies to be working on a clean-up or trade work with their RB roster as MJD has retired, Moreno is a free agent, TRich us probably battling for a roster spot in Oakland behind L.Murray & R.Helu, Gerhart now has a fight for his job against TJ Yeldon (And the 5 other RBs in Jacksonville). You almost have to think that Morris is the safest bet here, I can't see him losing his job this season (Next year is questionable whether he gets an extension), and David Johnson will get some time to keep Ellington rested in Arizona as well. Mathews will have a good shot if Murray goes down in Philly, but at this point I am not sure I want either Eagles back.

WR1 Demaryius Thomas
WR2 DeSean Jackson
WR3 Anquan Boldin
WR4 Torrey Smith
WR5 Eddie Royal
WR6 Andre Roberts
WR7 Chris Hogan
WR8 Derek Hagan
WR9 Kamar Aiken
WR10 DeAndre Smelter
WR11 Rashad Greene
WR12 Antwan Goodley

Quite a difference here between the starting four and the rest of the names, Thomas, Jackson, Boldin & T.Smith will be great WR options this season once again, I'd say 3 of the 4 will be in the top 30 WRs for this season, Thomas & Jackson for sure (Probably Top 20), and then one of the two in San Francisco, just depends if Kaepernick can deliver enough balls to get 2 of them up there really. Royal & Roberts have both droped to return specialist type positions for their team which sucks a bit for both of them, but neither of them really kicked on as WRs and woul;d need someone to go down on the roster (But at least they are guaranteed rster spots. Hogan & Hagan both had moves in the offseason hurt them as they end up in major depth chart issues in Tennessee & Buffalo, both will hope to break out in training camps, otherwise could be without teams come preseason. Kamar Aiken is in a similar position in Baltimore, but is a bit closer to a role with a likely battle with Darren Waller for the 4th WR spot there. The last three are rookies, Smelter in San Fran is curremtly listed as WR5, but should be able to move past Patton and/or Ellington in the preseason, Greene is in Jacksonville, and will need to beat out Hurns or Copeland to make the roster, but I expect him to have a good shot in that offense if it works out, Goodleyhas been selected by the Dallas Cowboys, he is a long way from a roster spot, but something to watch going forward.

TE1 Delanie Walker
TE2 Greg Olsen
TE3 Martellus Bennett
TE4 Coby Fleener

Quite a strong position for the fairies with 2 of the top 10 TEs in Bennett & Olsen who should continue in the top 10 this season, and two good young back-ups in Walker & Fleener who will be Top 20 options this season,  but have a chance to grow stronger next year.

Draft - Starting with Mariota was a big call for the Fairies, especially given what could be perceived as weaknesses elsewhere in the team, but it should help cement their place at QB for the future. After that they took a very nice pick at RB in David Johnson, a solid WR in Smelter and two flyers in Greene & Goodley, if some of the risk pays off it could be a starting point to build from.

Conclusion - I see this team as a lower mid table team for this season that might need some help (At RB) to get up to mid table and if their RBs don't get game time they could fall into the 'relegation' battle, and going forward longterm they need some help in particular at RB, WR should be ok for a couple more seasons, and TE/QB have youngsters ready to take over.

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Before anyone gets worried/excited by my waffling, this is all based on my opinion and knowledge of the NFL and should be taken as blabber and nothing more.

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Nialls Paul

QB1 Ryan Tannehill
QB2 Matt Stafford
QB3 Joe Flacco
QB4 Sean Mannion

Mr Tannehill has signed a contract extension for 6 years, at nearly 100m. I'd have to say that he is probably the best option here, with good targets in Miami, and a building team. While Stafford & Flacco both have good jobs, and pretty solid contracts both are really back-ups for fantasy purposes, both probably fall in the 15-25 range. Sean Mannion is a possible replacement inSt Louis for Bradford, but will have to push past Foles to get there.

RB1 Giovanni Bernard
RB2 Jeremy Hill
RB3 Andre Ellington
RB4 Rashad Jennings
RB5 Ronnie Hillman
RB6 Joseph Randle
RB7 Stepfan Taylor
RB8 Jonas Grey
RB9 Jay Ajayi
RB10 Melvin Gordon

So I expect Gordon to be the clear #1 in San Diego thisseason and as such he should jump straight to a starting role for Niall's Paul as well, that would then line him up alongside Jeremy Hill for the starting pair. Bernard, Ellington & Jennings should then battle for the back-up or Flex role in this team, and then there are some great back-up options in Hillman, Randle & Grey that have a chance at competing where they are. Stepfan Taylor has taken a step back this offseason, but Jay Ajayi should be a good pick-up as he heads to Miami and should have a chance to compete for the starters role in the near future (Hopefully his knee isn't an issue)

WR1 Dez Bryant
WR2 Randall Cobb
WR3 Kelvin Benjamin
WR4 Golden Tate
WR5 TY. Hilton
WR6 Eric Decker
WR7 Paul Richardson
WR8 Allen Robinson
WR9 Justin Hardy
WR10 Jamison Crouder

As we get down further in the team you can start to see why Niall's Paull are going to be one of my favourite teams for the 2016 title. With Dez as the lead WR, and then Cobb, Benjamin, Hilton all in great positions for this season, Tate is a solid back-up, and Allen Robinson is probably a future star in Jacksonville. And then Decker who is probably a Top 40ish receiver is the 7th best receiver on this team. Justin Hardy is probably not a signing for this season, but look to him to move into the Roddy White role in the coming seasons opposite Julio on that team could be a great role. Crouder is on a deep WR chart in Washington, behind ANdre Roberts amongst others, but he has the skills to move up easily, he should have a chance to get on the 53 man roster at the very least.

TE1 Jordan Cameron
TE2 Eric Ebron
TE3 Tim Wright
TE4 Jace Amaro
TE5 Austian Seferian-Jenkins

With 4 of the Top 20 TEs in dynasty is huge, Cameron & ASJ are probably the top options here, Cameron is now in Miami and should settle in with a great improvement in QB. I expect him to easily be top 10 this season, Tim Wright is the odd man out here, expexcted to fill a role in New England he has seemed to struggle, not really sure what to think of him.

Draft - A steal with Gordon falling late in the 1st round for Nialls Paul, and the others were all guys with a shot at being starters in their teams, for a squad that is already near the top of the rankings was a very solid draft.

Conclusion - Niall's Paul should be fighting for the title this season and are one of the teams I think could become a force to be reckoned with. At this point I'd say that this team will be the runners-up in 2015, a very strong team, built on great WRs and a few slightly lesser RBs & QBs, with a wide range of lower end guys they are a very good looking team.

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Holy crap extensive rules...

http://football12.myfantasyleague.com/2015/options...

This is a League Chris Harris (ESPN) started 5 years ago.

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Sorry my analysis stopped, I got seriously snowed under at work, and had busy times at home as well, hoping to get back into it this week.

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JonoNewton wrote:

Holy crap extensive rules...

http://football12.myfantasyleague.com/2015/options...

This is a League Chris Harris (ESPN) started 5 years ago.

I think the taxi squad idea is quite a good one.  Would give a team more options and potentially bring more value to the later round rookies if those guys take a couple of years to really settle in (which in turn brings more value to trading those later round picks).

Given the hassles you've had with the ESPN website to date, I doubt it would support having a taxi squad, but may be something we could consider if we move platform.

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KISS (keep it simple stupid)

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Agree with keep it simple, but as Rammtallica said I also like the Taxi squad idea.

Thought it was insane how many clauses and things that league had when I was reading it, was nuts.

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looking forward to seeing how average my draft was. 

Season seems so far away still. 

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Tegal wrote:

looking forward to seeing how average my draft was. 

Season seems so far away still. 

Well OTAs happening at the moment so at least some action. 3 months til kick-off... :( (reminds me I need to figure out what date the NFL is going to charge me for GamePass again :P)

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Adrian Peterson is currently having a massive meltdown on Twitter.

Basically saying that teams need to honor contracts. I don't think he understands that non-guaranteed money is exactly that. His contract is for 12.7m for 2015 which becomes guaranteed Week 1, and 15m for 2016 which becomes guaranteed on Week 1 2016.

When he signed his contract he knew his money wasn't guaranteed for those seasons, if he wanted it at the time he should've signed it at the time. His issue is with the NFLPA allowing non-guarantees, but he is taking the beef on the team. Just an idiot.

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Rammtallica Billikids


QB1 Cam Newton
QB2 Blake Bortles
QB3 Nick Foles

Seems an appropriate day to update on the Billikids as their #1 QB signs a 5yr $103m contract with the Panthers. He ranks inside the top 10 QBs in the short term, and well inside the top 5 long term QBs. With two other starting QBs in the back-up roles it looks pretty solid. Bortles the clear #2, though if Foles excels he could do well in St Louis/Los Angeles.

RB1 Tre Mason
RB2 Fred Jackson
RB3 Matt Asiata
RB4 Christine Michael
RB5 Benjamin Cunningham
RB6 Ahmad Bradshaw
RB7 Adrian Peterson
RB8 Charles Sims
RB9 LeGarrette Blount
RB10 Robert Turbin
RB11 Todd Gurley
RB12 Tevin Coleman

Just a few RBs on this squad, led by the previously suspended Adrian Peterson, another relevant player to talk about as he reported to Vikings OTAs today and ended his 'holdout' he had absolutely no leverage. Will be a star RB once again this season. Gurley & Coleman are actually the next two ranked in this team, Billikids have to be happy that they also have Mason behind Gurley incase he sits early in the season. Blount, Mason, sims & FJax all kind of fall in the same area on the scale for this season, but they are merely back-ups here as Peterson & one of the Rookies will be the starters. But the depth will be great for bye weeks.

WR1 AJ. Green
WR2 Sammy Watkins
WR3 DeAndre Hopkins
WR4 Keenan Allen
WR5 Brandin Cooks
WR6 Devante Adams
WR7 Jordan Mathews
WR8 Donte Moncrief
WR9 Brian Quick
WR10 Sammie Coates
WR11 Stefon Diggs

This is one of the strongest positional groups in the entire league. AJ Green is the only Top 10 WR in the group, but there are five others ranked in the Top 20 for the 2015 season, and all of those guys; Watkins, Hopkins, Allen, Cooks & Mathews are also young with big futures ahead of them, this makes WR a real point of strength for the Billikids and is part of the reason I predict them as a team to watch this season and into the future. The other guys on the team are all young in reasonable positions so if any of these guys fail then they should be able to step up.

TE1 Jimmy Graham
TE2 Travis Kelce
TE3 Tyler Kroft
TE4 MyCole Pruitt

Graham in Seattle is scary to me, as in I don't want to face Graham at ALL. He is a perfect weapon for Mr. Wilson, and the target they needed. With three young guys joining the squad for the Billikids there is a good solid back-up here. Kelce is right behind Graham in dynasty ranking, and looks soo good.

Draft - The best part of the draft for this team was completely fixing the downside of their 2014 squad which was RBs, this season they look to have fixed that by adding Gurley & coleman who should both be viable starters. Later picks of WRs & TEs could be seen as able to be released without issue if they don't turn out.

Conclusion - I am putting the full jinx in effect here, if I have to pick a favourite for the 2015 title it is the Billikids, their squad is strong across the board with superstars in some positions as well. The long term actually looks pretty good as well with a bunch of young guys who could develop into superstars in the coming years as well. The extension for Cam also gives this squad a sense of stability at an important role.

Budgie lover
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JonoNewton wrote:

Rammtallica Billikids


QB1 Cam Newton
QB2 Blake Bortles
QB3 Nick Foles

Seems an appropriate day to update on the Billikids as their #1 QB signs a 5yr $103m contract with the Panthers. He ranks inside the top 10 QBs in the short term, and well inside the top 5 long term QBs. With two other starting QBs in the back-up roles it looks pretty solid. Bortles the clear #2, though if Foles excels he could do well in St Louis/Los Angeles.

RB1 Tre Mason
RB2 Fred Jackson
RB3 Matt Asiata
RB4 Christine Michael
RB5 Benjamin Cunningham
RB6 Ahmad Bradshaw
RB7 Adrian Peterson
RB8 Charles Sims
RB9 LeGarrette Blount
RB10 Robert Turbin
RB11 Todd Gurley
RB12 Tevin Coleman

Just a few RBs on this squad, led by the previously suspended Adrian Peterson, another relevant player to talk about as he reported to Vikings OTAs today and ended his 'holdout' he had absolutely no leverage. Will be a star RB once again this season. Gurley & Coleman are actually the next two ranked in this team, Billikids have to be happy that they also have Mason behind Gurley incase he sits early in the season. Blount, Mason, sims & FJax all kind of fall in the same area on the scale for this season, but they are merely back-ups here as Peterson & one of the Rookies will be the starters. But the depth will be great for bye weeks.

WR1 AJ. Green
WR2 Sammy Watkins
WR3 DeAndre Hopkins
WR4 Keenan Allen
WR5 Brandin Cooks
WR6 Devante Adams
WR7 Jordan Mathews
WR8 Donte Moncrief
WR9 Brian Quick
WR10 Sammie Coates
WR11 Stefon Diggs

This is one of the strongest positional groups in the entire league. AJ Green is the only Top 10 WR in the group, but there are five others ranked in the Top 20 for the 2015 season, and all of those guys; Watkins, Hopkins, Allen, Cooks & Mathews are also young with big futures ahead of them, this makes WR a real point of strength for the Billikids and is part of the reason I predict them as a team to watch this season and into the future. The other guys on the team are all young in reasonable positions so if any of these guys fail then they should be able to step up.

TE1 Jimmy Graham
TE2 Travis Kelce
TE3 Tyler Kroft
TE4 MyCole Pruitt

Graham in Seattle is scary to me, as in I don't want to face Graham at ALL. He is a perfect weapon for Mr. Wilson, and the target they needed. With three young guys joining the squad for the Billikids there is a good solid back-up here. Kelce is right behind Graham in dynasty ranking, and looks soo good.

Draft - The best part of the draft for this team was completely fixing the downside of their 2014 squad which was RBs, this season they look to have fixed that by adding Gurley & coleman who should both be viable starters. Later picks of WRs & TEs could be seen as able to be released without issue if they don't turn out.

Conclusion - I am putting the full jinx in effect here, if I have to pick a favourite for the 2015 title it is the Billikids, their squad is strong across the board with superstars in some positions as well. The long term actually looks pretty good as well with a bunch of young guys who could develop into superstars in the coming years as well. The extension for Cam also gives this squad a sense of stability at an important role.

Knowing that Matt is an Evertonian, I am sure that he will snatch mediocrity from the jaws of excellence ;-) 

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Wow, bit of a surprising conclusion there.  While I like my team going forward, I think they're still a couple of years away for competing with the big boys.  Not really sure if my QB's can cut it and just one injury to my main RB's and it becomes another big time weakness again.

Think my goal for the season is more Everton like - a top half finish, maybe pushing for the playoffs with a bit of luck.

Starting XI
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Wow, bit of a surprising conclusion there.  While I like my team going forward, I think they're still a couple of years away for competing with the big boys.  Not really sure if my QB's can cut it and just one injury to my main RB's and it becomes another big time weakness again.

Think my goal for the season is more Everton like - a top half finish, maybe pushing for the playoffs with a bit of luck.

I do admit to basing this off looking at all the teams and yes RB could kill you, but your team based on how myself & experts rank players is one of the best in the league. :)

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