TPF Fantasy Football. [FREE!]

[Aequitas58]

All,

I set up a free fantasy football league on Yahoo! Fantasy games. See details below. If you are interested, send me an email (), and I will send you a league invite or the league password. There are only 9 spots open. Since this is free, there isn't live updating. I would have loved for a bunch of us to have pitched in, and set up a CBS Sportsline account, but we didn't!

League Details:
League Name: TPF Fantasy Football
Password: xxxxx <-- for the password.
Draft Type: Live Draft
Draft Time: Wed Sep 7 11:45am PDT <-- DRAFT DATE!
Max Teams: 10
Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
Start Scoring on: Week 1
Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo! Sports
Max Moves: No maximum
Max Trades: No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 2
Trade End Date: November 18, 2005
Trade Review: League Votes
Waiver Time: 2 days
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Playoffs: Week 15 and 16 (4 teams)

Scoring Details:
Roster Positions:
QB, WR, WR, WR, RB, RB, TE,
K, DEF, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN
Stat Categories: Passing Yards (10 yards per point)
Passing Touchdowns (6)
Interceptions (-2)
Rushing Yards (10 yards per point)
Rushing Touchdowns (6)
Reception Yards (10 yards per point)
Reception Touchdowns (6)
Return Touchdowns (6)
2-Point Conversions (2)
Fumbles Lost (-2)
Offensive Fumble Return TD (6)
Field Goals 0-19 Yards (3)
Field Goals 20-29 Yards (3)
Field Goals 30-39 Yards (3)
Field Goals 40-49 Yards (4)
Field Goals 50+ Yards (5)
Point After Attempt Made (1)
Sack (1)
Interception (2)
Fumble Recovery (2)
Touchdown (6)
Safety (2)
Block Kick (2)
Points Allowed 0 points (10)
Points Allowed 1-6 points (7)
Points Allowed 7-13 points (4)
Points Allowed 14-20 points (1)
Points Allowed 21-27 points (0)
Points Allowed 28-34 points (-1)
Points Allowed 35+ points (-4)

Remember, the live draft is scheduled for WEDNESDAY at 11:45am PACIFIC TIME. This is the best I could do... the season starts Thursday! If you can't make the live draft, and you still want a team, you can set up your player preferences.

Post here w/ any Q's.

[Aequitas58]

The league has a MAX of 10 teams. So far we got:

Aeq
TP
eejit (or whatever his name is)
Geoff

Right now, there are 6 spots left. I am going to a bar-b-que today, and if (by chance) I get more than 6 emails / PMs by the time I get back, it'll be first come, first serve.

[Aequitas58]

SirFWALGman is playing!

Where is everyone else? For the people who expressed interest, I've already sent the "invite" email. Set it up, the draft is Wednesday.

For everyone else... what the fuck!? This is free!

[omahilo]

I would play but the draft time is horrible... I will be at work during the draft.

[Aequitas58]

It's the best I could to. For some reason, Yahoo didn't let me have a late afternoon or night-time draft time.

Sucks.

[Talking Poker]

There is a way we can rank players and have it autodraft for us, is there not?

[GeoffM]

Yes, that's how I'll have to do it.

You Yankees are going to crush me.

[Aequitas58]

Yes. I hope people join and take advantage of it... Most of us are at a disadvantage by not being able to attend the live draft, but the league could be fun anyway...

[GeoffM]

So 8:45 EST, I may be able to draft a couple of rounds, but I've already started my pre-ranking anyways.

Lou, might I suggest you make the rosters 16 players, that way picking last isn't such a disadvantage.

[Aequitas58]

Serpentine draft... 10 teams...it'll be ok.

[Aequitas58]

Gordogg is in! Blibbity is in!

We have a few more spots open!! TP, I emailed you the invite link. Get on it.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

Ok, so I did fantasy football on the NFL site the year before last and you coupld basically pick any players you want....

From what I have gathered so far...
1) we are choosing the players (any players in the NFL?) only ONCE withing the TP league ONLY, right? That is what the draft is about?
2) We each get one of each player position (picked in any order)....not sure of how many players we get overall....

Am I on the right track?

Questions:
1) How many players do we get overall?
2) What does head-to-head scoring mean?
3) do we repick each week, or we have to trade (within our league only) to change players with someone else?
4) which one of us gets to pick first, is that just a random thing?

Thanks

[Aequitas58]

4-Tabling. I'll answer this later.

[omahilo]

I'll get in... drop me a invite link...

[Aequitas58]

Sent. Check email for the league invite.

[Aequitas58]

There are different types of leagues. Some leagues are "Salary Cap Leagues," where each team manager has so much money to work with. Certain players are more expensive than others ... Marvin Harrison v. Freddie Mitchell for example, but your players also increase in value. So, if you picked Priest Holmes at the start of the season, and he's had 3 sick games with great stats, his price will increase. You keep him for the price you originally paid for him, and when you want to get rid of him, you made a profit.

That's not this.

Live Draft / Player Preferences
Here, there will be a live draft. When all teams are registered (I think there are 3 spots left?), Yahoo will give us a draft order. If you can't make the draft (like most people here), you can set up the preferences for whichever players you'd like to have first.

For example, I think Yahoo is putting Payton Manning as the default #1 pick. If you rather have someone else... LT or Priest Holmes, then you can change it.

Details
If you read my first post, I go into detail about how many players we each get, which spots you'll draft, how many, and a bunch of other info. So that you don't have to scroll up, we each draft 15 players. That means there will be 15 rounds in the draft. From there, you can choose players from the waivers.

Head-To-Head means just that... teams face-off against each other, each week, and whichever team has more points gets the win.

[eejit101]

lol, call me phil dude

[eejit101]

I am from the UK, so the only NFL games we get are on NASN. we get about 1 a week, so i dont know all the players. I have heard of manning, LT, TO, Vick and favre e.t.c, but i could use some serious info, or a URL to get it please dont joke around telling me to get some crap, i wanna be competitive! thanx

[Aequitas58]

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[Aequitas58]

So far, there are 7 teams signed up:

Chiefs
LA Preds
RushNAttack
Omaha8I'mBetter
Sir Waffle
Eejits Empire
Aeq's Eagles

There are three openings left!! Why!? Did I mention this is free to sign up?

Yahoo Fantasy Football
League: TPF Fantasy Football
League Password: wcoop

[BlibbityBlabbity]

I think the NFL has online play-by-play (with graphics representing teams, who has the ball, ect) and scores, stats, highlights and plays described on the screen DURING the game.

At least they had it for free last year, good for keeping up with the game and stats at work....

[Talking Poker]

Team "Rogue" is in. Guess I'll have to tweak my rankings later tonight..... or maybe I'll actualyl attend and manually drafy my team. Then there will be no stopping me!

BTW Geoff.. you did your math wrong. 11:45 AM PT = 2:45 PM ET.

GL boys... this should be fun.

[Aequitas58]

Sorry for the repetive "spam" of the fantasy football league, but the draft is tomorrow!

As of right now, we have 8 teams registered. Two more slots are available. Again, the entry is free. Please see my first post in this thread for league information.

Why do I feel like if I threw $10 to the winner, the league would have filled up quicker than flies on shit?

[Aequitas58]

Ugh!

2 More Teams!! Come On!

[Aequitas58]

Lightfungus has expressed interested in one of the seats! That means we have ONE opening to close the league... who's it gonna be?