A Falcoholic Fantasy Football Discussion

I’ve never taken the plunge into official FF. Might change this year with an official Falcoholic league…

I’ve been in my main league for about 5-6 years. We play in a PPR Yahoo Plus Head-to-Head league (no keepers). My team name (for the last 3 years) is DapperDanMan, because 1) my firstborn’s name is Daniel, and 2) I love me some “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”…

My worst draft pick would have to be Shaun Alexander in 2007. I think I picked him at #5 or #6, and this was the year after he was hurt and only played 10 games. I was hoping he would come back close to 2005 form, but he sucked even worse…

My best draft pick would have to be my entire draft from last year. I got Aaron Rogers, DeAngelo Williams, and Chris Johnson much, much lower on draft day than what they ended up producing. I also drafted Reggie Wayne, plus pulled off a trade for Larry Fitzgerald. Ya know what? I still didn’t win… Ya know why? Cause Jeremy Shockey is a dirty SOB. I needed about 4 points from him (did I mention this was a PPR league? that should be nothing), but he got me about 2.5 – he is always hurt, he’s got a bad attitude, his hands are like concrete covered in butter, he’s a racist, he beats up his girlfriends, he kills cats, he sets churces on fire, he was involved in the 9/11 attacks, and there are rumors he’s going to stage a coup and overthrow Dave… no, I’m not bitter.

My best pick was Turner in the 5th round last year.
My worst pick was (sorta) was taking Drew Brees 3rd overall 2 years ago, dumped him after the 4th game for lack of production, then he went bananas with the passing yards!
My team name is always Seminoles.
Lat year I won my league, in 2007 I finished 9 out of 12 teams…

I went through a pretty nasty FF addiction a few years back. I was in like 7 leagues and it basically took all my time. Since then, I have made it a point to only be in three leagues tops. I join a random NFL.com autodraft league, The Justice League which is one that I started with some really great friends that is heading into its 6th season, and one more league of my choosing which last year was the Falcoholic league. I will be the first to admit that my Falcoholic league showing was pretty dismal.

I am also a firm believer in getting at least somewhat creative with team names. My standard team names year in and year out include:

-Black Sabbath Vol. VI
-The James Brown Celebrity Hot Tub
-The Hidden Agenda

Worst pick ever Larry Johnson @ #2 overall the year he decided to only play 8 games. Best pick was def. Turner last year pretty late.

I started playing in 1990, sometime in the Byzantine Era I think it was. We had 8 people, and I was commissioner. All of us worked at the same place. We eventually expanded to 10 teams. Keeper league. I hand typed our newsletter each week, with rosters, scores, and standings. A little time consuming, but we had a blast. That league lasted until 2002, if you can believe that! Eventually we all kinda drifted apart and didn’t see each other (except on draft day), so it wasn’t as much fun. The last couple of years we were online.

I also started a league at the place I started working in 1994, and we still have that one even though I don’t run it anymore (nor do I work there anymore either). No money involved in that one.

About five years ago I joined a keeper league made up of people who live in my area; I’m in a fantasy baseball league with a lot of them as well. This one’s for money, and the pot is a pretty good one.

My team names have varied over the years.

The first league: Diz-Busters. After the Blue Oyster Cult song, “7 Screaming Diz-Busters”- seven players in our starting lineup, get it?

2nd league, Hellboys. Yeah, I read comics.

3rd league: White Russians. You know, Big Lebowski and all that.

Best draft pick, probably the first one in the first league: Barry Sanders. Rode him for years.
Worst: Can’t think of any offhand, although I’m sure there were duds- I remember drafting Trent Dilfer pretty high and hanging on to him for years.

Worst trade I ever made was in ‘91, when I traded Warren Moon and Heywood Jeffires for Christian Okoye and John Elway. Elway was probably the worst QB in fantasy football, next to Aikman, but he was a throw-in; it was Okoye I wanted to replace Bo Jackson and give me that elusive 2nd stud RB to go with Sanders. I don’t think he played 10 games that season and was out of football a year later. Moon and Jeffires hooked up for a skadillion points for years after that.

Fantasy football will drive you crazy. It’s 20% preparation, and 80% luck.

I’ve played 4 or 5 years now with a group of guys from college. I’ve made the playoffs the past three years, but was cursed when the first year I did I pulled the equivalent of the Hasselbeck, “we want the ball, cause we’re gonna win” interception and was demolished in the championship.

Last year I had a good showing with Turner, DeAngelo Williams, and Matt Forte and i rode them all the way to the playoffs.

I played in the Falcoholic league last year, but stopped keeping up with it after about week 4. I just couldn’t get use to the FleaFlicker interface after playing on Yahoo for so long.

I’ve always wanted to do a PPR league, but the fellas I play with are not interested.

It’s my third in the keeper league.

My best draft pick was Maurice Jones-Drew near the end of the third round of a four round draft, rookies and previously undrafted veterans only. It’s become a little bit of league legend. I leaned over to several fellow league members to ask if I needed to trade up past him, and all of them told me they thought he was too short to make it in the NFL. Oops.

My worst draft pick was Justin Medlock, a kicker with the Chiefs who bounced out of the league after his rookie season. I picked him very high in the second round, believing he would be better than Mason Crosby and Nick Folk. Again, oops.

first post well i been playing about 2 years now last year i ended up taking Tom Brady with my first pick and we all know what happened. But i was able to pick up Jay Cutler and finished 2 this year i plan to play again on NFL.com and yahoo

I think I pretty much covered my FF history in my previous two fantasy sports posts, but I’ll expand on the parameters put forth for this post.

I first started playing fantasy sports in general sometime around 1992, primarily baseball. I got into fantasy football when I was in the Marines in 99 and have been involved in just about every sport since then. I have been in one league with a group of guys around the world for about a decade and I have also commished a few leagues with co-workers and friends for about 7-8 years. H2H/Pts style leagues for the most part, but also Salary Cap and for the most part they have not been Keeper leagues. Almost all of my leagues recently are Yahoo based, but some have been manually maintained.

My worst pick might have been Devin Hester two years ago. Almost every league I run, I use individual defensive players instead of a whole team’s defense. Well, this was a friends league and they were using defensive teams. It was the last round, four hours in, and I was pretty much drunk, as was everyone else, and I got this bright idea that I should get Devin hester for all those return yards and TD’s. Yeah, I just inadvertantly drafted my bench WR.

Best pick probably has to be drafting Turner and Peterson last year. RB domination at it’s finest.

My team names have usually always involved something Falcons related and they change over the years as events with the team change. Vick Dominates YOU! > Vick’s Lawyer > Vick’s Parole Officer > Kill My Pet Rhino > Matty Ice and The Burner (and yes, I had them both on this team, and yes, it was awesome!).

I’ve been playing for 3 or 4 years. Every year i end up finishing one spot better than the year before, last year I finished 3rd so I’m more than likely I’ll finish 2nd this year. Worst pick last year was Hasselback(not spelled right) he played like 2 games last year, my favorite pick was Wes Welker 07 season, he was money. My team names are Chuck Norris character and movie names. Col James Braddock, Maj Scott McCoy, JJ McQuade, A Force of One, The Octagon, Good Guys Wear Black. I change my name alot.

The first year was a standard NFL.com league with some friends. Then someone got the idea to turn it into a church fund raiser. So for the past two years we’ve had a 12 team keeper league. This year we’re doing a offline draft which should be pretty cool. I’ve made the playoffs two out of the three times and was runner-up last year thanks to three stud running backs.

I usually stick with the same name: Darkhorse, but I’m thinking about switching it up.

My best pick would have to be Turner last year. I think I got him in the 5th or 6th round.

I’m not sure who my worst would have been, but my biggest disappointment was Kellen Winslow last year.

Perhaps some of you would care to weigh on it.

I have the #2 overall pick, and I know Knowshon Moreno (ha!) is going first overall. My choices would seem to be either Beanie Wells or Michael Crabtree, who I could also potentially get if I moved down a couple spots.

Good running backs are always good to have, of course, but I do have Pierre Thomas and Maurice Jones-Drew. For receivers, I have Donnie Avery, Eddie Royal and Chris Cooley, so I clearly need help there. Which way would y’all go?

I might have mentioned this before, but remember that one year that Jerry Rice went to camp with the Broncos but retired before playing? He was in the player pool all year long for my league. The day after our season ended I picked him up so he could retire a member of my team. Like when players sign one day deals to do the same in real life.

Yes, I am a nerd.