Dang...sorry to see the league is already full.  I played in the Monero Fantasy Football league with most of you guys for the last couple of years and had a great time.  Please consider me as an alternate if anyone drops out of the league or doesn't pay up by the draft date. For the record, I'm available at 9PM on 8/28.

I need to set a reminder to check in on bitcointalk earlier next year!

Here are a couple sample league constitutions that could be adapted:

https://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/article.php?article=13grant_commish4
https://www.thefantasyhut.com/football-constitution

There are elements from both of these that I like, but I think either one would need to be modified to fit this league.  I'm willing to take a crack at drafting something if that's something the league is interested in.

With 8-10 people we're probably looking at 1-2 hours.

In the spirit of this being the Monero Fantasy Football League (and as a participant with a pseudonymous single-use identity), I don't think vetting participants should be required, but I would also be OK with requiring a refundable security deposit for non-vetted participants (including myself).  

It might be a good idea to establish some league rules / bylaws to maintain fairness and establish dispute resolution procedures in advance of the start of the league. You can google fantasy football league bylaws / constitutions for some examples.  


I'm good with any time on Sunday, but we should clarify the time zone.


LOL - dude, our league was *full point* PPR last year - and you won it!


I can't vote, probably because this account I'm using is still a Newbie, but I'm good with either full or half point PPR.


Ah, bummer. Depending on how many players we end up with I would vote for a four player playoff in weeks 15 and 16.

 

As the runner-up from last year's league, I feel compelled to avenge my loss to @jwinterm in which he brutalized me with a combination of Le'veon Bell and Todd Gurley in Week 16 of the championship match.  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1971415.msg27375053#msg27375053

Here is the transaction hash for my 1 XMR buy-in: 0f16a00524e9d044c580a8199e1da85dab2607bc186c0470bb4e476791688878

Regarding the discussion from earlier in the thread about removing Week 17 from the schedule, I would be in favor of keeping it so long as the championship game is a 2-week match where the scores from Week 16 and Week 17 are combined.  I think that type of a championship match helps reward a team with a strong bench and waiver wire skills.

(Full disclosure, I nearly won the league last year by virtue of playing a 17-week schedule. Despite being completely blown out in Week 16, I nearly managed to complete the comeback in Week 17 due to strong performances from my bench players.)

Also, I would be in favor of dropping the kicker for a superflex position (QB/RB/WR/TE) if anyone is up for that.

-LT8877

Congratulations, jwinterm, I thought I might be able to pull off the comeback, but Gurley and Bell Week 16 was just too much to overcome.  Although if I had played Smith-Schuster over Evans, I could have won it!  Oh well...

Regarding league choices for next season...I would agree no dynasty.  I enjoyed the PPR/17-week ESPN format, as my other leagues this year were all standard Yahoo leagues, so it was nice variety. 

I'm not a basketball fan either, but will check back for Monero March Madness.  Until then, thanks guys (I assume we're all guys here) for a fun season and an enjoyable Monero experience!

lt8877

I fear it may be a pyrrhic victory this week...looks like Wentz is done for.

Also, it's a 2 week playoff, so the tables could definitely turn next week.

Looks like a good game shaping up JW...should be interesting with having to replace the bye week players, plus dumbass Mike Evans getting himself suspended.

According to the League Settings page, it's Total Points.

PLAYOFF BRACKET SETUP

Playoff Seeding Tie Breaker   Total Points For

Brutal week.  Just brutal. 

Congrats Hueristic on the win.

I would vote A then B then C.  But no worries if we just drop the side bet.


Yes, great game Hueristic - tough loss.  I agree that the Steelers D was a key pick-up.  I did not feel confident with the Seahawks going up against the Packers, even at home.  Feeling pretty lucky to get the W this week given that Evans and Ajayi were on bye and I left Fournette on the bench.  NFL week 1 definitely had its surprises. 

Actually, I had assumed we were talking about a side bet on the team with the highest number total number of points for the entire season, but I like the above idea too.  And I had assumed we would be betting a single amount, not a weekly amount.

Basically, just looking for a way to stay engaged on the bye weeks.  (And I have been in plenty of leagues where the championship team was not the one with the highest points or most wins...so it's definitely not a given that the same team would take both. )

Again, count me in for up to 1 XMR total on the side bet, either total number of points for the regular season or the team with the most number of weeks with the highest total points.  Perfectly OK with a lesser amount as well.

Yup, that's me!


Maybe we just have a non-mandatory side bet for anyone who wants to play for total points scored?  That way the current pot remains untouched and if anyone wants to opt-out of the points competition they can.  I'd be in for any amount up to 1 XMR.

Great summary. The strategy definitely changes when you have such a small number of teams drafting.  As you mentioned in an earlier post, with this league I think streaming / picking the right players week to week is going to be more important than just playing your draft picks over and over again.


I'm up for it.  We could also split the existing pot, maybe put 10-20% of the total towards this idea, or wait and award it whoever has the most points at the end of the season. The league commish might need to manually keep track of bye week scoring.  Everyone should make sure to set a good lineup, even on bye weeks!


That's one possibility, although I don't believe the ESPN website supports it.  There are some "custom" fantasy sites that allow that sort of thing, but it would mean we'd have to set up a new league, import the draft results...lots of work, and probably not enough time to do it properly.

Another option I've heard of to deal with an odd number of teams is to create a "scrub" team and fill it with third-stringers that no one will ever want to own.  Then each week the commish calculates the average score per position league-wide and manually adjusts the weekly score for the scrub team to be "average".  This means that whoever plays the "scrub" team has to at least have an "average" week to get a win.  (Of course, the scrub team isn't eligible for the playoffs.) Again lots of work, for the commish, but possibly more competitive.

Thumbs up.  I'll hop on freenode later today.

My attempts to recruit another player didn't pan out. Only other thought is to maybe post something on r/Monero to see if someone jumps at it today.  Otherwise, I'm OK with having your girlfriend play, as long as everyone else is.

I PMd someone else I thought might be interested in joining.  I'll try a couple of other people if he's not interested.

Neither time on Tues / Wed is great for me but I can make either work.  Tuesday at 8PM EDT or Wednesday at 8:30PM EDT would be better.

Is the number of teams final? Seems like there are 7 listed in the league and 5 that have paid?  I believe if we end up with an odd number then at least one team will have a bye each week, and some teams will have more bye weeks than others.  Not ideal from a competitive standpoint.

There are some other possible workarounds to this (ex: points-only scoring, each team plays every other team each week) but I don't believe ESPN supports those options.

Hi All.  I've paid the entry fee. Tx hash is: a0a76f96ba2fbc440e6ddbcdf74aded804a716307a5cdf496960a7ee78cb2aa8

phishead, I will PM you my email address.  Hopefully there's an even number of teams participating.

Apologies if my brand new account appears odd.  My main account is tied to my public identity, so I created a new one for this purpose.

Still accepting entries?  It looks like there are currently five (four and a half?) signed up?