🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈

[South Park]

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I'm tagging everyone from last year's league, please indicate if you're in or not.

Still in.

So if most people don't care, let me bring this format up:

Play on Sleeper and ditch yahoo.

Right now my vote is against this, I may change it if I can actually get to login into the sleeper account I created just recently, as I have tried to login in Windows and Linux using Firefox and the spyware machine called Google Chrome and I cannot do it, I will keep experimenting and will report back if I can do it

2mBTC entry
3rd gets entry back, 1st/2nd split 70/30

I am fine with anything up to 2.5 mBTC.

Draft to take place not at an ungodly hour, I'm in CET and I'm willing to cater to my USA friends but if I stay up to draft at midnight over here you guys should be able to draft at 6-7 in the evening 

I am barely getting any sleep these days, so I am fine with whatever time is decided for the draft to take place.

I'm also fine doing 2 pools if some don't want to spend as much. Say a 2mBTC pool (main) and a 0.75mBTC pool. But having at least 10 people in pool should be main focus.

Two pools will be great, but without a doubt the main concern should be to get to 10 participants on the main pool.

[Hueristic]

Sleeper seems very easy, even more so than Yahoo, let's make the switch. There is no time like the present!

I'll do mock drafts with anyone who's on the fence.

I am so confident that everyone will like Sleeper more that I'm almost willing to pay peoples buy-ins if at the end they still say they like yahoo or espn more.  The beautiful thing about Sleeper is that its owned by a company who actually gives a shit about fantasy.  Fantasy football is not something thats that important to yahoo or espn.  They are large businesses with a lot more thing to worry about versus sleeper is all about fantasy.  I think the most impressive thing about them is they take *good suggestions from the community and implement where necessary, and quickly.

Hey, is there a way to snch a yahoo league with sleeper so those that want to use the app can yet still have it on yahoo?

[ChiBitCTy]

Sleeper seems very easy, even more so than Yahoo, let's make the switch. There is no time like the present!

I'll do mock drafts with anyone who's on the fence.

I am so confident that everyone will like Sleeper more that I'm almost willing to pay peoples buy-ins if at the end they still say they like yahoo or espn more.  The beautiful thing about Sleeper is that its owned by a company who actually gives a shit about fantasy.  Fantasy football is not something thats that important to yahoo or espn.  They are large businesses with a lot more thing to worry about versus sleeper is all about fantasy.  I think the most impressive thing about them is they take *good suggestions from the community and implement where necessary, and quickly.

Hey, is there a way to snch a yahoo league with sleeper so those that want to use the app can yet still have it on yahoo?

That’s a good question, let me look in to it.

[bbc.reporter]

I'm willing to put in an extra 10% to help bbc cover his entry.

I thank you and everyone for your concern. However, please do not misunderstand. I can pay the entry fee if I am willing. I am only playing this to encourage myself to learn more about this sport and because this is something very fun to do with the other participants. But if the entry fee is high for me and it appears that this is becoming serious, I do not like to play feeling afraid like this.

I also do not want everyone to lower the entry fee for me to join. What I will do is practice NFL fantasy by joining other leagues or play in Duelbits and maybe I can join you next year for any entry fee if there is a slot.

[nutildah]

Football is BACK, baby!

Congrats boys, we made it through the doldrums of another gruesomely boring offseason.



Patriots vs. Panthers right now, 4 mins into the 1st quarter.

Ahhh... suddenly life has more profound reason & there's a deeper meaning to existence.

I also do not want everyone to lower the entry fee for me to join. What I will do is practice NFL fantasy by joining other leagues or play in Duelbits and maybe I can join you next year for any entry fee if there is a slot.

Haven't you already played for like 3 season with us now? That's some serious practice already. Besides, the best testing is done on the mainnet. That's always been my approach to development.

[morvillz7z]

Chain gang, it's over! 

The NFL seems to be testing the hawk-eye technology to measure the line of gain during preseason. Don't know how i feel about this...

Yay, got my first preseason bet right despite the shit weather at the Patriots game, hopefully it's an omen of things to come this season.

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Yo, are we doing the fantasy league or not? It's three weeks till a possible draft date, and we're absolutely nowhere.

The commish, could you please send PMs to suchmoon and seek3r and see if they want to play? Without them, we are nine and will need to find one more to join, presuming bbc.reporter does not play.  This needs to be done asap.

Then, like we've done in the past, let's vote on everything important: platform, entry fee, league settings, draft date/time, etc. (i know most of us have already expressed their likes and preferences) but still...let's do it properly.

There's no time, people!!!

[suchmoon]

The commish, could you please send PMs to suchmoon and seek3r and see if they want to play? Without them, we are nine and will need to find one more to join, presuming bbc.reporter does not play.  This needs to be done asap.

I'm in.

Edit: I should clarify - if no changes. I would not have the time and the energy to learn how to use a new site or anything like that, sorry. So I'm in if it's yahoo and similar rules as last year.

[DireWolfM14]

The NFL seems to be testing the hawk-eye technology to measure the line of gain during preseason. Don't know how i feel about this...

Considering how modern technology could take the human/referee error out of the equation and speed up game-time decisions, I think it's long past due.

As for the FFL, only seek3r has not responded.  We currently have 10 confirmed with suchmoon, but I don't see why we can't have an odd number of teams if seek3r is still interested.  bbc.reporter seems determined to drop out, unfortunately.

I think most of the settings are fine, but we had some contention between Point Per Reception and Point Per First Down last year, so I'll put that up for a vote.  The other issue is the platform, it's between Sleeper and Yahoo at this point.  Entry fee and payouts are also worth voting on, so here's the list to reply with.

Code:

Commitment? In or Out
Platform? Yahoo or Sleeper
PPFD? Yes or No
PPR? Yes or No
Entry Fee? List your preferred fee
Three Payouts? Yes or No (Third place get's entry fee back, remainder is split 70% for the winner and 30% for second place.)
Draft Time

I've filled in some answers from previous responses, but please respond to all questions above so they're all in one post.

Member	|| Commitment	|| Platform	|| PPFD	|| PPR	|| Entry Fee	|| Three Payouts	|| Draft Time
Hueristic	|| In	|| Yahoo	|| Yes	|| No	|| No Preference	|| Yes	|| No Preference
suchmoon	|| In	|| Yahoo	|| Yes	|| No	|| 25BTC	|| Yes	|| No Preference
wheelz1200	|| In	|| No Preference	|| No	|| Yes	|| $100	|| No	||
nutildah	|| In	|| Yahoo	|| Yes	|| Yes	|| 2mBTC	|| Yes	|| 2024.09.01 15:00GMT
yahoo62278	|| In	|| Yahoo	|| Yes	|| Yes	|| 2-4mBTC	|| Yes	|| No Preference
bbc.reporter	|| Out	||	||	||	||	||	||
South Park	|| In	|| Yahoo	|| Yes	|| No	|| 2.5mBTC	|| Yes	|| No Preference
Hhampuz	|| In	|| Sleeper	||	||	|| 2mBTC	|| Yes	||
ChiBitCTy	|| In	||	||	||	||	||	||
morvillz7z	|| In	|| Yahoo	|| Yes	|| No	|| 2mBTC	|| Yes	|| No Preference
DireWolfM14	|| In	|| Sleeper	|| Yes	|| No	|| 2mBTC	|| Yes	|| 2024.09.01 15:00GMT
seek3r	|| TBD	||	||	||	||	||	||
	||	|| Result	|| Result	|| Result	|| Result	|| Result	|| Result
	||	|| Yahoo	|| Yes	||	||	|| Yes	||

[Hhampuz]

I'm in if we do it on Sleeper as I'll be playing other leagues there and don't want to do multi platform. It's fine with me if majority want to stay on yahoo and that'll make it an even number for you guys

[wheelz1200]

In terms of platform I don't care I use multiple sites.  Never used sleeper so I'd be open to use it. PPFD I'm a no.  PPR yes.  Entry fee, let's make it interesting and make it 1btc buy in lol.  No I'm all good for anything.  $100 equivalent is always a nice benchmark.  Payouts first and second only.  Championship game gets paid everyone else needs to try harder!  Those are my votes but I'm in regardless.  Can't wait

[DireWolfM14]

One option I forgot to include for votes was draft timing, but I just added it.

I vote for Sunday September 1st at 4pm Eastern Time.  That'll put Hhampuz at 11p, and East Asia at 5am Monday morning, which seems like a fair split.

[morvillz7z]

Code:

Commitment? In
Platform? Yahoo
PPFD? Yes
PPR? No
Entry Fee? 2mBTC or 2.5mBTC
Three Payouts? Yes (Third place get's entry fee back, remainder is split 70% for the winner and 30% for second place.)
Draft Time? Flexible

[nutildah]

One option I forgot to include for votes was draft timing, but I just added it.

I vote for Sunday September 1st at 4pm Eastern Time.  That'll put Hhampuz at 11p, and East Asia at 5am Monday morning, which seems like a fair split.

Actually thats 4 AM where I am now; the worst possible time. I can somewhat manage if we bump it up one hour.

Code:

Commitment? In
Platform? Yahoo
PPFD? Yes
PPR? Yes
Entry Fee? 2mBTC
Three Payouts? Yes (as described by morvillz7z)
Draft Time? Sep 1, 11 am EST*

*updated

[DireWolfM14]

*Also, 8 am - 11 am EST works for me as well

If that works for you, I'm changing my vote to 15:00GMT.  That's 7am in Cali which is perfect for me.

[yahoo62278]

Code:

Commitment? In 
Platform? Yahoo since i'm familiar but willing to change
PPFD? Yes
PPR? Yes 
Entry Fee? .002-.004)
Three Payouts? Yes
Draft Time: Doesn't matter just pick a time ill be there

Are we only a 10 man team this year?

[nutildah]

*Also, 8 am - 11 am EST works for me as well

If that works for you, I'm changing my vote to 15:00GMT.  That's 7am in Cali which is perfect for me.

So that's 11 am EST; would be far more ideal for me as well.

Are we only a 10 man team this year?

That's fine with me.

[suchmoon]

Commitment? In
Platform? Yahoo
PPFD? Yes
PPR? No
Entry Fee? the usual 25BTC is fine
Three Payouts? Yes
Draft Time - any time is fine for me

[Hueristic]

The commish, could you please send PMs to suchmoon and seek3r and see if they want to play? Without them, we are nine and will need to find one more to join, presuming bbc.reporter does not play.  This needs to be done asap.

Sorry man, been a bit under the weather lately and figured we pretty much had everything close to set as last year went so well and we still have an entire month before pre season is over.

As for the FFL, only seek3r has not responded.  We currently have 10 confirmed with suchmoon, but I don't see why we can't have an odd number of teams if seek3r is still interested.  bbc.reporter seems determined to drop out, unfortunately.

I think most of the settings are fine, but we had some contention between Point Per Reception and Point Per First Down last year, so I'll put that up for a vote.  The other issue is the platform, it's between Sleeper and Yahoo at this point.  Entry fee and payouts are also worth voting on, so here's the list to reply with.

Code:

Commitment? In or Out
Platform? Yahoo or Sleeper
PPFD? Yes or No
PPR? Yes or No
Entry Fee? List your preferred fee
Three Payouts? Yes or No (Third place get's entry fee back, remainder is split 70% for the winner and 30% for second place.)
Draft Time

I've filled in some answers from previous responses, but please respond to all questions above so they're all in one post.

Member	|| Commitment	|| Platform	|| PPFD	|| PPR	|| Entry Fee	|| Three Payouts	|| Draft Time
Hueristic	|| In	||	||	||	||	||	||
suchmoon	|| In	|| Yahoo	||	||	||	||	||
wheelz1200	|| In	|| No Preference	|| No	|| Yes	|| $100	|| No	||
nutildah	|| In	|| Yahoo	|| Yes	|| Yes	|| 2mBTC	|| Yes	|| 2024.09.01 15:00GMT
yahoo62278	|| In	||	||	||	|| =/<3mBTC	||	||
bbc.reporter	|| Out	||	||	||	||	||	||
South Park	|| In	||	||	||	||	||	||
Hhampuz	|| In	|| Sleeper	||	||	|| 2mBTC	|| Yes	||
ChiBitCTy	|| In	||	||	||	||	||	||
morvillz7z	|| In	|| Yahoo	|| Yes	|| No	|| 2mBTC	|| Yes	|| No Preference
DireWolfM14	|| In	|| Sleeper	|| Yes	|| No	|| 2mBTC	|| Yes	|| 2024.09.01 15:00GMT
seek3r	|| TBD	||	||	||	||	||	||

Thanks man!

I'll PM Seek3r.

Code:

Commitment? In*
Platform? Yahoo
PPFD? Yes
PPR? No*
Entry Fee? don't care
Three Payouts? Yes 
Draft Time don't care as long as its after pre season

*I hate to reiterate but I really hate PPR and will drop out if it gets voted in.

BTW you guys can snch a yahoo league on fantasy pros if you would rather use that interface, Chi did you look into if sleeper can synch?.

https://www.fantasypros.com/myleagues/league-sync/site/

I installed the yahoo app on the cell but have not been able to try it as my de-googled phone seems to have all kinds of issues with mainstream apps that want permissions to wipe your ass and track your movements and copy your contacts and so on. So even though the app is working fine the mock draft just closes when i try to open it and i am not going to invest the time when i fucking hate cell phones anyway.

[DireWolfM14]

Okay, I updated the table with all the data I have.  Still waiting on South Park, ChiBitCTy, and seek3r to vote.  @Hhampuz, you also have a couple of items to vote on.

So that's 11 am EST; would be far more ideal for me as well.

Actually it's 10am EST.  With Daylight Savings eastern time is currently GMT-5

Entry Fee? the usual 25BTC is fine

Degen.

[yahoo62278]

Can I ask why certain things are a deal breaker for some? IMO you either would like to participate or you wouldn't right? Should it matter the platform it's on? or if certain things such as PPR or PPFD are in? Or the buyin is too low? too high?

Just saying this is a small buyin for the most part and a way for us to talk shit to each other and have a good time for football season. Everything worked out pretty good last year. Could it be better? Probably, but if the majority votes one way let's just all agree to go with it please. I really enjoyed getting my ass kicked last year and chatting in the discord occasionally.

Not trying to offend anyone, I just wanna have some fun. Had enough bad shit in my life last couple years, so i need some good fun and something to look forward to.