#1

An all-puprose fantasy thread for the new boards. Banter, trash talk, wails of misery at who you left on the bench, all welcome.

NFL Fantasy 2016 (Rolling)
#2

First off: Not sure who Dakdown is, but I appreciate you leaving Benjamin and his 15 points on the bench last night. Even though youā€™re still predicted to thrash me over the course of the weekend.

#3

Somehow managed to not field a single Panther or Bronco across my five teams. Made for a very relaxed viewing of the game this morning.

#4

Woah. I couldnā€™t deal with the pressures of two teams last year. Now itā€™s just the Dockers I have to worry about.

#5

I only care about three of them, two are just for mucking about with against randoms. I have Div 1, keeper and a live league. Does make it difficult to know who you want to do well though, pretty much every half decent players affects me one way or another.

#6

All going unusually smoothly this week :+1:

checks sky for asteroids

#7

You should win our game in the live league, but a couple of times a season Roethlisberger has the sort of game I need him to have on Monday night

#8

Yeah, Iā€™ve seen him do some crazy shit. Hopefully heā€™ll contain himself to being just really good, that would be fine.

#9

Would also help if Cooper and Forte could trade some of their (much appreciated) yards for a fucking touchdown

#10

A goose egg for Gary Barnidge. #prayforsteved

#11

Says a lot about the camaraderie built in training camp that the team have rallied around their fearless leader and, barring a 40 point Dak Prescott performance in which he doesnā€™t throw a single TD to Dez Bryant*, will pick up their first W.

*Iā€™ve played Fantasy for long enough that I probably wonā€™t go to bed until Iā€™m sure this hasnā€™t happened.

#12

Your mate Tom has comprehensively shat the bed in div 1, for which I am very grateful.

#13

Who is Dakdown in Div 1?

I thought Iā€™d shat the bed leaving Abdullah on the bench, but then I saw your benchā€¦ oof. You can still win it though with 40+ from Cousins. Stranger things have happened.

#14

(outside of the DiS leagues) I lost by 9 points, thanks mostly I would assume to Gary Barnidgeā€™s 0.00 point performance.

Meanwhile I had Dwayne Allen on the bench.

#15

All well and good repeatedly crowing about whoā€™s left on my bench after the fact isnā€™t it! I was thinking about the difference playing ā€˜best ballā€™ would make last week, OF COURSE this would happen first week. As it goes, wouldnā€™t have made much odds - if Iā€™d picked Mike Wallace to play ahead of TY Hilton (ā€¦), Iā€™d have an extra 9 points or so - I doubt Cousins will get me within that.

I mean, OBVIOUSLY, he will now Iā€™ve said that, and Iā€™ll lose by, I dunno 4 points. FANTASY.

Still, itā€™s not the worst thing to have options each week, better than having nothing. Just frustrating to have the nigh-on impossible task of picking the best combination of players each week.

#16

Picking up Marshawn Lynch on Friday wasā€¦ perplexing

#17

:slight_smile:

To be fair, you do have a very deep roster, as you say, itā€™s the impossible task of fielding the right guys on the right day.

#18

Itā€™s tough to get back to it in the first week, but I got fairly good at being satisfied with the logic Iā€™d used to select my roster, and then trying to accept itā€™s all up in the air once games actually get going - got to play Julio and Ingram, figured a throwfest for Detroit-Indy (so play Hilton), low scoring Houston - Chicago (so Langford would get lots of runs). Flex was the tough one - Benjamin (supposed to on low snap count, Denver secondary), Hill (goal line carries, but NYJ D-line), Diggs (ā€œnewā€ QB, but the go to guy), Wallace (always got big play potential, but probably only worth playing 4-5 times a season. Good luck guessing THAT. Figured he was a reasonable late draft pick up in case I got ruined by injuries though). Went for Hill - didnā€™t exactly backfire, but yeah, would have been nice to have one of the WRs instead.

Frustrating when it doesnā€™t work out, but it is really nice when something actually works out the way you reasoned, amid all the randomness that can be fantasy. Anyway, nice job, and enjoy picking 2 between Abdullah, Sharpe, Shepherd and Stewart next week :wink:

#19

I had the exact same combination in my only non-DiS league. Still hold a 10 point lead there though with just Matt Jones to come for him.

In DiS, itā€™s the first leg my bi-annual double header with Newerwaves.

A nasty 29 point loss in Div 2 but a 20 point lead in keeper with Big Ben to come for me and D-Jax and Boswell for him.

#20

In my non-DiS league Iā€™m losing to @The_Excession by 36 points, despite the fact that Iā€™ll end with the second highest points tally in the league. FFS stupid game