Fantasy Football League Update

[Thirsty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thirsty]

Keeping your eye out for undrafted players

FYI if you are new to FF.

I seems like every year there are a couple of players that were not dratfed make a big splash the first few weeks of the season. So keep an eye out for them.

[tennisWalt Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tennisWalt]

For the Teams that are new to this Fantasy Football League

Come home and catch the last 10 minutes and get 19 points from my "D".

Nice start for me!

Every Defense starts with 20 points. The Game average for a good defense game is somewhere in the 12-14 range. The Guru picked 14 for the Steelers this week.

You can lose or gain points on defense during the game.

See the Defense Scoring below.

The big play for the Defense is always the Interception or fumble return for a touchdown. This is 2 points for the interception/fumble and 6 for the touchdown. The Steelers had these stats for last nights game.

17 PA, 278 YDS, DTD (42), 2 Int, 3 SACK.

By giving up 278 Yards and 17 points the defense point total was at 11 points.

But with the intereception return for a touchdown you ended up with 19 points.

Another big play is a Special teams touchdown. A Special Teams TD is 6 points for the Defense.

Walt


DFR - Defensive/ST Fumble Recovered (ID/DT/DST) 2 points
DTD - Total Defensive and Special Teams TD 6 points
Int - Interceptions 2 points
PA - Points Against, Total Points Scored 0 - 6 PA = 8 points
7 - 13 PA = 6 points
14 - 20 PA = 4 points
21 - 27 PA = 2 points

SACK - Sack 1 point
STY - Safety 2 points
YDS - Yards Allowed 0 - 49 YDSs = 12 points
50 - 99 YDSs = 10 points
100 - 149 YDSs = 8 points
150 - 199 YDSs = 6 points
200 - 249 YDSs = 4 points
250 - 299 YDSs = 2 points

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

TE Miller 16.1 pts.

I get 16.1 points from TE Miller for Pittsburg for his 101 yards and 1 TD! (Forget about replay on him stepping out of bounds).

I'd never heard of this guy. I can see how fun it is to watch all teams now instead of your home team with Fantasy Football.

[4ARedOctober Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close 4ARedOctober]

Oh I wish I had time for this.....have fun ya'll.

[Thirsty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thirsty]

I get 16.1 points from TE Miller for Pittsburg for his 101 yards and 1 TD! (Forget about replay on him stepping out of bounds).

I'd never heard of this guy. I can see how fun it is to watch all teams now instead of your home team with Fantasy Football.

I had Miller in a fantasy league last year. As Big Ben started to get comfortable with him he was producing good reliable points. I think he will be one of the better TE in the NFL this year.

[Thirsty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thirsty]

NFL injury reports are filled with bogus information and it makes it difficult to pick out the fact from the fiction in the report. Sometime players are listed as doubtful until 24 hours before the game. In some cases those same players will show no signs of an injury and play the entire game. So waiting until Sunday morning to make a decision on stating or sitting that player is the norm for a lot of people Fantasy Football Leagues.

Now Thursday night games will make it a dicey situation with injured players. In the Fantasy Football League rules it states that when the first game of the week is played you are no longer able to add or drop a player for the rest of the week. In the past with most games being played on Sunday you were able to add or drop a player until 5 minutes before the kickoff of the first game on Sunday. With Thursday games that same rule still applies. So beware in the second half of the NFL season there are quit a few Thursday games

I bring this up because I have Mike Vanderjagt as my place kicker in another league. He was listed as questionable all week but now today he listed as out. So I will not able to pick up a replacement place kicker because the add drop window is closed for the week. I will now be playing without a place kicker in that league.


Mike

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

Mike,

Is a kicker required in your other league on the roster? If you don't have one for that week, do you have an illegal roster and automatically lose?

I ask because I have 1 K and 1 DST on my team in our league and am worried about the bye week when the DST and K won't be playing.

[tennisWalt Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tennisWalt]

Because of injuries and bye weeks you need backups!

If you play a player or a defense that has a bye week, you still have a legal lineup. You just will not get any points from them. An illegal roster is one when you have 3 or more Running backs listed. Or 5 wide receivers. Etc.

It is best to have an least one extra player or defense on your Roster unless there are several equal players available as Free Agents.

You do not want to place in the position were you have no one your team as a sub and there are no free agents to help you out.

Mike, how do you have the waviers set up. Is there a time period when you can not get Free Agents from Thursdays game/games to Monday's night game/games?

Walt

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

Thanks Walt,

Looks like I may be playing the free agent/waiver wire later in the season. My K and DST both have the same bye week.

[Thirsty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thirsty]

Walt,

There is no time period when you can not get Free Agents from Thursdays game/games to Monday's night game/games? CBS has it set up that way. Thats why I post about injuries and Thursday games.

Mike

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Jets D holding up.

[Thirsty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thirsty]

I can get live scoring on my desktop but not on my laptop. That means I have go back forth between the living room and office. Wow what a big day for defense.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Whats funny is as of right now, My reseves have scored more points. Maybe I should have used Pennenton as he would have given me 25.4 points if I had used him.

[tennisWalt Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tennisWalt]

Sept 1 2006 ESPN Power Ranking?

ESPN.com's Power Rankings

The offseason rankings were determined by a poll of ESPN.com's NFL staff -- writers John Clayton, Len Pasquarelli, Michael Smith, Scouts Inc. insiders Jeremy Green and Keith Kidd, and ESPN.com NFL editor Peter Lawrence-Riddell.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/powerranking

Expert: one with the special skill or knowledge representing mastery of a particular subject

So much for the so called experts!

#1 Seahawks had a hard time beating the # 23 ranked Lions 9 to 6.

#2 Panthers lost to # 17 Falcons 20 to 6.

# 5 Broncos lost to # 22 Rams 18 to 10.

# 8 Cowboys lost to the # 11 Jaguars 24 to 17.

# 12 Buccaneers lost to the # 18 Ravens 27 to 0.

# 7 Patriots had a hard time beating the # 30 Bills 19 to 17.

This is what make Fantasy Football fun. The losting team's players all put up bad Fantasy Numbers. All of the Seahawk players put up bad Fantasy Numbers. And some of the best Fantasy Scoring came from the # 32 ranked 49ers and # 21 ranked Cardinals.


Walt

[Thirsty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thirsty]

It sure has been an unusual opening weekend for scoring in Fantasy Leagues.

1. S. Alexander 5.2
2. F. Gore 29
3. D. Ravens 31
4. M. Bulger 8.6
5. M. Hasselbeck 9.9
6. C. Johnson 6.2
7. R. Droughns 2.7

I am sure this will change within the next few weeks.