Crazy idea from a FFL commish - Page 2

ct · 08-25-2005, 02:26 PM

I'm commish in a learning league, I started this league for several people who wanted to learn FF. I named our league Training Camp, and we're getting ready for year 3.

One of our teams dropped out yesterday, and our draft is Saturday. Not having any luck filling the spot, so an idea was discussed to leave the team empty, giving everyone a freebie win. This way I don't have to fiddle with the league settings that drastically so close to draft night. But this gave me another idea...

Here is a draft e-mail I'm thinking about sending out to the league. Special notes to ChiefsPlanet readers are in italics.
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Team name possibilities:

The Replacements
Junk Yard Dogs
Mr. Irrelevants
WWF - Waiver Wire Fanatics

I propose we leave the 12th team open and active on the schedule, although excluded from the draft. Only the 11 existing teams will participate in the draft. Once the draft is complete, I will manually load each roster into the league site, as usual (note: we do a live draft, and I enter rosters manually). Then I will build the 12th team roster consisting entirely of undrafted players.

For scheduling purposes, when your team plays this 12th team, the scoring will occur as normal, until all the stats and scores are final. At that point, I will add/subtract enough points to/from this 12th team's final score, to ensure that everyone beats this team by 1 point. So any point differential tie-breakers at the end of the season will not be effected, and everybody gets 1 free win during the season. I will manually adjust the win/loss record for team 12, to reflect what the score WOULD have been, but at the end of the season, this team will be placed at the bottom of the standings, and will not be seeded for the post-season.

For waiver purposes, all players on this 12th team ARE AVAILABLE TO ALL TEAMS! Rather than submitting a waiver request for a player on that roster, just submit a one for one player trade, giving up the player you would have dropped, and gaining the player for whom you would have entered a waiver request. By rule, this trade offer MUST BE ACCEPTED. The only exception is if multiple teams request the same player, the lottery system is still in effect (note we resolve duplicate waivers by a lottery drawing). Any other waivers for players not on this team will process as usual(note: commish processes waivers nightly), and can be conditional on a trade with team 12 if you like, but this will have to be specified manually to me via e-mail, phone call, noted on the trade request, etc.(note: multiple waivers can be conditional on other waivers. i.e. waiver for player A, if I don't get player A, then waiver for player B)

Since this 12th team will slowly be robbed of players, I'll have to do some waivers of my own for that team. The 12th team's waivers will be processed manually, AFTER NORMAL WAIVER PROCESSING! In other words, team 12 cannot steal players already in another waiver request, and is excluded from lottery drawings. Basically, team 12 gets only the leftovers.

So why am I doing this? Cause I'm NUTS of course!! However, there is another point. I want to illustrate, mostly to the newer players, as a further progression for the Training Camp learning process, how important the waiver players can be for your team throughout the season. My hypothesis for this experiment is I think I can build a competitive team out of reject players, and I'm challenging each of you to beat my team of scrubs!

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What do ya think? Stupid idea?

ct · 08-29-2005, 08:59 AM

We had our draft Saturday, everyone is all in favor of The Replacements. I also floated the idea for discussion in the next week, so we can have an official vote on it, to make any loss to The Replacements an official loss. Most are in favor of this as well.

So we went with 11 teams in the draft, I was 8th. It's a performance type scoring system, with all TDs 6pts, 1 pt/25 yds passing, 1 pt/10 yds rushing or receiving, and 1 pt/reception. Kickers don't score much, small yardage bonus, defense/st combo is fairly typical with 2 pts/turnover, 1 pt sacks, 6pt TDs, 4 pt safeties and blocked kicks, some bonus for low pts allowed. Here's my team, whatcha think?

QB - Hasselbeck, Delhomme
RB - D.Davis, Westbrook, Jordan, Foster, W.Green
WR - Horn, Coles, Chambers, Kennison, Heap(TE=WR in our league)
K - Lindell
D - Tampa, KC

ct · 08-29-2005, 10:47 AM

So, tentatively, The Replacements week 1 lineup might look like this...

QB(1) - Steve McNair, TEN
RB(1) - Willie Parker, PIT
WR(1) - Travis Taylor, MIN
FLEX(3 RB/WR/TE) - WR Ronald Curry, OAK; WR Bobby Engram, SEA; WR Terry Glenn, DAL
K(1) - Kris Brown, HOU
D(1) - Detroit Lions

I've not yet looked at matchups, so very good chance I just play the matchup game with this lineup week to week.

08-25-2005, 02:26 PM
ct u b illian Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: DooDah Casino cash: $10009436	Crazy idea from a FFL commish I'm commish in a learning league, I started this league for several people who wanted to learn FF. I named our league Training Camp, and we're getting ready for year 3. One of our teams dropped out yesterday, and our draft is Saturday. Not having any luck filling the spot, so an idea was discussed to leave the team empty, giving everyone a freebie win. This way I don't have to fiddle with the league settings that drastically so close to draft night. But this gave me another idea... Here is a draft e-mail I'm thinking about sending out to the league. Special notes to ChiefsPlanet readers are in italics. *** Team name possibilities: The Replacements Junk Yard Dogs Mr. Irrelevants WWF - Waiver Wire Fanatics I propose we leave the 12th team open and active on the schedule, although excluded from the draft. Only the 11 existing teams will participate in the draft. Once the draft is complete, I will manually load each roster into the league site, as usual (note: we do a live draft, and I enter rosters manually). Then I will build the 12th team roster consisting entirely of undrafted players. For scheduling purposes, when your team plays this 12th team, the scoring will occur as normal, until all the stats and scores are final. At that point, I will add/subtract enough points to/from this 12th team's final score, to ensure that everyone beats this team by 1 point. So any point differential tie-breakers at the end of the season will not be effected, and everybody gets 1 free win during the season. I will manually adjust the win/loss record for team 12, to reflect what the score WOULD have been, but at the end of the season, this team will be placed at the bottom of the standings, and will not be seeded for the post-season. For waiver purposes, all players on this 12th team ARE AVAILABLE TO ALL TEAMS! Rather than submitting a waiver request for a player on that roster, just submit a one for one player trade, giving up the player you would have dropped, and gaining the player for whom you would have entered a waiver request. By rule, this trade offer MUST BE ACCEPTED. The only exception is if multiple teams request the same player, the lottery system is still in effect (note we resolve duplicate waivers by a lottery drawing). Any other waivers for players not on this team will process as usual(note: commish processes waivers nightly), and can be conditional on a trade with team 12 if you like, but this will have to be specified manually to me via e-mail, phone call, noted on the trade request, etc.(note: multiple waivers can be conditional on other waivers. i.e. waiver for player A, if I don't get player A, then waiver for player B) Since this 12th team will slowly be robbed of players, I'll have to do some waivers of my own for that team. The 12th team's waivers will be processed manually, AFTER NORMAL WAIVER PROCESSING! In other words, team 12 cannot steal players already in another waiver request, and is excluded from lottery drawings. Basically, team 12 gets only the leftovers. So why am I doing this? Cause I'm NUTS of course!! However, there is another point. I want to illustrate, mostly to the newer players, as a further progression for the Training Camp learning process, how important the waiver players can be for your team throughout the season. My hypothesis for this experiment is I think I can build a competitive team out of reject players, and I'm challenging each of you to beat my team of scrubs! *** What do ya think? Stupid idea?
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08-29-2005, 08:59 AM	#16
ct u b illian Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: DooDah Casino cash: $10009436	We had our draft Saturday, everyone is all in favor of The Replacements. I also floated the idea for discussion in the next week, so we can have an official vote on it, to make any loss to The Replacements an official loss. Most are in favor of this as well. So we went with 11 teams in the draft, I was 8th. It's a performance type scoring system, with all TDs 6pts, 1 pt/25 yds passing, 1 pt/10 yds rushing or receiving, and 1 pt/reception. Kickers don't score much, small yardage bonus, defense/st combo is fairly typical with 2 pts/turnover, 1 pt sacks, 6pt TDs, 4 pt safeties and blocked kicks, some bonus for low pts allowed. Here's my team, whatcha think? QB - Hasselbeck, Delhomme RB - D.Davis, Westbrook, Jordan, Foster, W.Green WR - Horn, Coles, Chambers, Kennison, Heap(TE=WR in our league) K - Lindell D - Tampa, KC
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08-29-2005, 10:47 AM	#17
ct u b illian Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: DooDah Casino cash: $10009436	So, tentatively, The Replacements week 1 lineup might look like this... QB(1) - Steve McNair, TEN RB(1) - Willie Parker, PIT WR(1) - Travis Taylor, MIN FLEX(3 RB/WR/TE) - WR Ronald Curry, OAK; WR Bobby Engram, SEA; WR Terry Glenn, DAL K(1) - Kris Brown, HOU D(1) - Detroit Lions I've not yet looked at matchups, so very good chance I just play the matchup game with this lineup week to week.
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