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I am terrible at Fantasy Football!!!
I tried it. I was very much confused for most of the draft because I do not know many of the players. I vote against the live draft, sorry. I want the enjoyment of research on the players in my own time before building a team.
As nutildah says the draft does not happen until a week or days before the start of the regular season because we need to avoid scenarios in which you use a high draft pick and then the player gets hurt, retires or holds out, at that time you will basically lose the league and there will not be a way to recover unless you were a master of the game.

And this is probably even more important right now with the situation of Rodgers and Watson, I think it is a given Watson will not play, but Rodgers is a problem not only if you happen to pick him and he holds out or retires, it is obvious that without him there all GB players will suffer so we need to hold out the draft as much as possible until the situation resolves itslef which will give you some time to learn more about how this works

Also it seems most members want a live draft:
So I suppose we are +3 +4 +6 for a live draft, 0 +1 against it and 5 4 1 undecided so far.
legendary
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I tried it. I was very much confused for most of the draft because I do not know many of the players. I vote against the live draft, sorry. I want the enjoyment of research on the players in my own time before building a team.

You have at least two months... We don't need to hold the draft until days before the start of the season, I don't think. That's not enough time to research players?
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The league is almost full the only one left to register is wheelz1200, everyone else is already in and if I might add you have selected some very interesting names for your teams. Wink


Where are the user manuals and the instructions for this? I registered but I do not know how to play this game...
The first step is to learn how the draft works, here is the link to the mock draft lobby where you can see how this works and experience first hand how the whole thing will work in the case we do a snake live draft, right now the only difference is that you have less time to draft than the current settings so a whole mock draft could last between 30 to 40 minutes, and do not worry you are not the only one playing fantasy football for the first time, I am on the same boat.

https://fantasy.espn.com/football/mockdraftlobby?ex_cid=FFL2019_FantasyIndexNavMockLobby

I tried it. I was very much confused for most of the draft because I do not know many of the players. I vote against the live draft, sorry. I want the enjoyment of research on the players in my own time before building a team.
legendary
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Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it

It's a classic... learned a lot from those guys, about FF, life, and love. And then there's also Raffi.

You want to make the winner's trophy a homage to your high school girlfriend?

Should have just handed Marshawn the ball. Smiley


Raffi was a fucking trip, lol put taco to shame. Smiley
legendary
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It's a classic... learned a lot from those guys, about FF, life, and love. And then there's also Raffi.

You want to make the winner's trophy a homage to your high school girlfriend?
legendary
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So I suppose we are +3 +4 for a live draft, 0 against it and 5 4 undecided so far.

I'm ok with a live draft. Dibs on Tim Tebow.


ROTFL, that one got me! Cheesy
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So I suppose we are +3 +4 for a live draft, 0 against it and 5 4 undecided so far.

I'm ok with a live draft. Dibs on Tim Tebow.

That's a solid pick at kicker
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So I suppose we are +3 +4 for a live draft, 0 against it and 5 4 undecided so far.

I'm ok with a live draft. Dibs on Tim Tebow.
legendary
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Definitely like the live drafts.  I've never done an espn one always on the yahoo leagues.  Live drafting is half the fun and half the challenge of getting your team made up.
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I am terrible at Fantasy Football!!!
Will there be a talking smack thread up and running 😀?

There doesn't need to be one with he way you pick them it would be like beating the blind dog! Cheesy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNcxFUHcgqk

NSFW, lol
That escalated quickly. Smiley

About the creation of a thread for the league.

That could be a possibility but not right now, in fact the spark that brought the fantasy league to the minds of everyone was the post of DireWolfM14 after a long period of inactivity and nutildah's response, right now all the activity on the thread is dedicated to the fantasy league and that is fine but as we get closer to the start of the regular season we may interfere with other users which are not part of the league and which may not be interested on it, so at that point it may be better to create a thread for the league to improve the readability of the thread.



Live drafts are always fun, but I know we're scattered across the globe so it might not be practical.  If we were to take a vote I'll vote for a live draft.
I highly we suggest we do a live draft as its much more fun and competitive that way. If we can get a "quorum" of 5/8 players agreeing to a live draft, we should definitely do it.
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live draft

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I'm ok with a live draft. Dibs on Tim Tebow.
Definitely like the live drafts.  I've never done an espn one always on the yahoo leagues.  Live drafting is half the fun and half the challenge of getting your team made up.
@nutildah. I thought the live draft is done every week before the games. Okay then I also vote in for the live draft hehehe. But can you not change your team once a week and can those changes then be done on your own time?

So I suppose we are +3 +4 +6+7 for a live draft, 0 +1+0 against it and 5 4 1 undecided so far.
legendary
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Will there be a talking smack thread up and running 😀?

There doesn't need to be one with he way you pick them it would be like beating the blind dog! Cheesy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNcxFUHcgqk

NSFW, lol

Love that show!

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
legendary
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Will there be a talking smack thread up and running 😀?

There doesn't need to be one with he way you pick them it would be like beating the blind dog! Cheesy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNcxFUHcgqk

NSFW, lol
legendary
Activity: 3836
Merit: 4969
Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
Will there be a talking smack thread up and running 😀?

There doesn't need to be one with he way you pick them it would be like beating the blind dog! Cheesy
legendary
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Merit: 1419
The league is almost full the only one left to register is wheelz1200, everyone else is already in and if I might add you have selected some very interesting names for your teams. Wink


Where are the user manuals and the instructions for this? I registered but I do not know how to play this game...
The first step is to learn how the draft works, here is the link to the mock draft lobby where you can see how this works and experience first hand how the whole thing will work in the case we do a snake live draft, right now the only difference is that you have less time to draft than the current settings so a whole mock draft could last between 30 to 40 minutes, and do not worry you are not the only one playing fantasy football for the first time, I am on the same boat.

https://fantasy.espn.com/football/mockdraftlobby?ex_cid=FFL2019_FantasyIndexNavMockLobby

I'm coming in! Love me some fantasy football who doesnt like getting to draft Justin tucker in the 1st and jets defense in the second.  Will sign up tomorrow afternoon.  Will there be a talking smack thread up and running 😀?
legendary
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The first step is to learn how the draft works, here is the link to the mock draft lobby where you can see how this works and experience first hand how the whole thing will work in the case we do a snake live draft, right now the only difference is that you have less time to draft than the current settings so a whole mock draft could last between 30 to 40 minutes, and do not worry you are not the only one playing fantasy football for the first time, I am on the same boat.

https://fantasy.espn.com/football/mockdraftlobby?ex_cid=FFL2019_FantasyIndexNavMockLobby

Yep, this is an excellent starting point for learning how it all works.

I highly we suggest we do a live draft as its much more fun and competitive that way. If we can get a "quorum" of 5/8 players agreeing to a live draft, we should definitely do it. If you miss the live draft, its not the end of the world so long as you set your autopick lineup (so the computer chooses your next-most desired player still available, according to your ranking list, in your absence).

If you really want Tom Brady on your team (LOL probably still true after playing a decade of FF) or whatever particular superstar, then you'll have to attend the draft to make sure you have a chance of getting em.

I did a draft in-flight once; its pretty easy-peasy but will take a couple of hours to complete. After we start getting into the teen rounds, or when you're done picking the most important players, you can always set the remainder of your draft on auto if you need to bug out early.
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I am terrible at Fantasy Football!!!
The league is almost full the only one left to register is wheelz1200, everyone else is already in and if I might add you have selected some very interesting names for your teams. Wink


Where are the user manuals and the instructions for this? I registered but I do not know how to play this game...
The first step is to learn how the draft works, here is the link to the mock draft lobby where you can see how this works and experience first hand how the whole thing will work in the case we do a snake live draft, right now the only difference is that you have less time to draft than the current settings so a whole mock draft could last between 30 to 40 minutes, and do not worry you are not the only one playing fantasy football for the first time, I am on the same boat.

https://fantasy.espn.com/football/mockdraftlobby?ex_cid=FFL2019_FantasyIndexNavMockLobby
legendary
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Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
legendary
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Where are the user manuals and the instructions for this? I registered but I do not know how to play this game so prefer to pay the lower fee for this donation hehe.

News update on Aaron Rodgers. He did not go to the Packers’ training camp. It is becoming quite clear that he will leave. He is lucky he is not in Texas where tough owners might find rape cases to use against him hehehehe.
legendary
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Live drafts are always fun, but I know we're scattered across the globe so it might not be practical.  If we were to take a vote I'll vote for a live draft.

I'm not sure about ESPN but I remember setting up a list a few years ago so that if I missed the draft it would be used instead of the default so you guys might want to do that just in case something comes up.
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