***OFFICIAL*** 2009 Fantasy Football thread

[joesmoke]

this week my decisions are:

Steve Slaton @ Jac
or
Kevin Smith @ Cinci

and

CinciD v Det
or
DenD @ KC

my knee-jerk choices are Slaton and Cinci

 

[dbk]

this week my decisions are:

Steve Slaton @ Jac
or
Kevin Smith @ Cinci

and

CinciD v Det
or
DenD @ KC

my knee-jerk choices are Slaton and Cinci

agreed

 

[joesmoke]

lol, i was away from the net and didnt get a chance to swap out slaton... but im still 10 points away from 8 straight wins! all i need is 11 points between aaron rodgers n donald driver to secure #1 seed n #1 in points!

 

[SunnyD]

lol, i was away from the net and didnt get a chance to swap out slaton... but im still 10 points away from 8 straight wins! all i need is 11 points between aaron rodgers n donald driver to secure #1 seed n #1 in points!

Congratulations - since I know from watching the game (and owning Rodgers/playing against Driver in various leagues) you made your point spread.

Thanks to dougp who's win over eits, and keithtalent's win this week completed what has been an equally epic run for me in ATOT#3. Yes, I'll say it again: After starting 0-5, I have gone to win 8 straight games and hold the points lead to lock up the #1 seed in the league! Frankly, I don't care if I win it all at this point - I'm just thoroughly stoked about this.

 

[Crono]

Congratulations - since I know from watching the game (and owning Rodgers/playing against Driver in various leagues) you made your point spread.

Thanks to dougp who's win over eits, and keithtalent's win this week completed what has been an equally epic run for me in ATOT#3. Yes, I'll say it again: After starting 0-5, I have gone to win 8 straight games and hold the points lead to lock up the #1 seed in the league! Frankly, I don't care if I win it all at this point - I'm just thoroughly stoked about this.

Nice I'm 2nd and 4th in the two AT leagues I'm in right now, 1st in a non-AT league, and 10th in that PPR league that TangoJuliet is in, lol. Horrible luck there with autodraft, badtrades (Forte for Leon Washington and Ahmad Bradshaw, Peyton Manning and Steve Breaston for McNabb and Royal, etc), and bad weekly performance from most of my players.

Good luck to everyone in the playoffs, except those in my leagues

 

[zylander]

Need some QB and WR advise going into the playoffs;

Vince young vs STL
or
Ben Roethlisberger vs CLE
or
Tony Romo vs SD

Leaning towards Young and Roethlisberger, just cant decide on one.


I also need to figure out who to fill my third WR slot;

Devin Thomas vs OAK
or
Donnie Avery vs TEN
or
Austin Collie vs DEN

Collie and Avery are hit or miss, some weeks they are ok and some weeks they are terrible. Thomas I just picked up today and Im not sure about either.

 

[da loser]

just barely made the playoffs. lost this week.

but the other matchup kept me in. was out until crosby hit that fg.

 

[Deeko]

Ok so, few spots.....

1 Rb and 1 RB/WR flex to fill.

Quenton Ganther @ Oakland
Chris Brown vs Seattle
Darren Sproles @ Dallas
Lee Evans @ KC

I've been starting Sproles and Evans, but I just picked up Ganther and Brown off of waivers. Not only were they both just named the starter for their team, they're against awful defenses, so that's where I'm leaning....

 

[joesmoke]

Deeko: thought moats was getting the larger portion of carries for Houston?

thats a tough one since its the playoffs and a sure thing seems to be prudent... id go ganther n evans

zylander: id go collie, then flip a coin for VY v BR... (guess if i had to pick id say VY... wow how things change over the year!) thats a tough decision for a "win or have fun in the consolation tourney" game.

 

[zylander]

then flip a coin for VY v BR... (guess if i had to pick id say VY... wow how things change over the year!) thats a tough decision for a "win or have fun in the consolation tourney" game.

Well Roethlisberger got his shit pushed in tonight, good thing I decided not to play him, hahaha.

But, Young has an injured knee, he is probable but is said to play on sunday, but you never know. Its possible I could end up having to play Romo, ughhhhh.

 

[TallBill]

Hows your guys playoffs going?

I'm out in one league.
Going against 1st place in the semi's of 2 leagues with very even matchups.
In my last league (my only pay league) I'm the heavy favorite in my semi final matchup as the #2 overall seed.

Should be a fun weeekend to watch football!

 

[Deeko]

Hows your guys playoffs going?

I'm out in one league.
Going against 1st place in the semi's of 2 leagues with very even matchups.
In my last league (my only pay league) I'm the heavy favorite in my semi final matchup as the #2 overall seed.

Should be a fun weeekend to watch football!

I'm doing well.

I'm in 4 leagues. I finished 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th. The three where I made the playoffs were money leagues.

Had a bye in one league (whew, my team sucked last week), won in the other two. So still alive with a 2 vs 3, 5 vs 1, and 4 vs 1 coming up.

Surprisingly, according to ESPN projections (which are totally worthless), I'm favored in the 5 v 1, underdog in the other two.

 

[joesmoke]

after winning 8 straight and getting the first seed i got bounced by a team that barely made it in rodgers n driver shit on me and i still only needed 13 from fitzy on monday night to win... when he limped out of the game with only 3 points i quit watching.

next year i might just switch to gambling

 

[krunchykrome]

2nd round of playoffs - if I advance to the 3rd round (championship), I'm pretty much a lock to win due to my matchups.

This week however is the test; here is my starting lineup

QB: Alex Smith
WR: Randy Moss
WR: Josh Cribbs
RB: Frank Gore
RB: Quinton Ganther
FLEX (WR/RB): Brandon Jacobs
TE: Greg Olsen
K: Garret Hartley
DEF: Saints

Bench:
Marshawn Lynch
Justin Forsett
Roddy White
Jason Snelling
Arian Foster
Maurice Morris

The question is, do I replace Cribbs with Roddy White? Roddy White is definetly a better WR, however the Falcons are playing the Jets who have the #1 pass defense. Also, Darrelle Revis will be all over Roddy White, not to mention that Matt Ryan isn't playing. Josh Cribbs on the other hand has been taking snaps in the wildcat and there's a chance he will get some touches as a traditional RB. Playing him at WR might get me RB points.

 

[NoCreativity]

Playing as 2v3 in two of my leagues (first week this week). Didn't make it in ESPN ATOT as I was point kryptonite for both me and my opponents.

 

[zylander]

I was ranked 3rd our of 14 and got rocked the first game of the play offs. Moss and harvin screwed me. Hightower had a shitty game and Vernon Davis only had an average game. Guy I was playing against had desean Jackson and the Philly defense, that was already almost enough to beat me.

 

[SunnyD]

Hows your guys playoffs going?

I'm out in one league.
Going against 1st place in the semi's of 2 leagues with very even matchups.
In my last league (my only pay league) I'm the heavy favorite in my semi final matchup as the #2 overall seed.

Should be a fun weeekend to watch football!

Hi Tallbill! I was hoping you were going to leave Cutler as your starting QB for me. You just had to ruin it by dropping Trent Edwards and picking up (and starting) Jason Campbell, didn't you? :| Couldn't just roll over and make my cinderella story easy, could you?

Ahh well, good luck to the both of us. These late-season games scare me with the "who's going to be benched" thing going on in the background.

2nd round of playoffs - if I advance to the 3rd round (championship), I'm pretty much a lock to win due to my matchups.

This week however is the test; here is my starting lineup

QB: Alex Smith
WR: Randy Moss
WR: Josh Cribbs
RB: Frank Gore
RB: Quinton Ganther
FLEX (WR/RB): Brandon Jacobs
TE: Greg Olsen
K: Garret Hartley
DEF: Saints

Bench:
Marshawn Lynch
Justin Forsett
Roddy White
Jason Snelling
Arian Foster
Maurice Morris

The question is, do I replace Cribbs with Roddy White? Roddy White is definetly a better WR, however the Falcons are playing the Jets who have the #1 pass defense. Also, Darrelle Revis will be all over Roddy White, not to mention that Matt Ryan isn't playing. Josh Cribbs on the other hand has been taking snaps in the wildcat and there's a chance he will get some touches as a traditional RB. Playing him at WR might get me RB points.

Wow, you're just a vacuum cleaner of sleeper handcuffs (just like me). Start Cribbs.

 

[spacejamz]

Which WR: Kevin Walter vs Rams or Calvin Johnson vs Cardinals???

I like the Rams matchup but Walter has been off all year...Detroit will probably have to throw alot in this game if Arizona can keep their turnovers down...

 

[TallBill]

Hi Tallbill! I was hoping you were going to leave Cutler as your starting QB for me. You just had to ruin it by dropping Trent Edwards and picking up (and starting) Jason Campbell, didn't you? :| Couldn't just roll over and make my cinderella story easy, could you?

Ahh well, good luck to the both of us. These late-season games scare me with the "who's going to be benched" thing going on in the background.

Hehe, I can't afford the time to put full attention on my free teams every week, but definitely do during the playoffs Gonna be a close one! Especially when MJJ scores 26 already

 

[TangoJuliet]

Need some help for the championship. I have to start 2 of these 3

Brandon Marshall vs PHL
Vincent Jackson vs TEN
Ryan Grant vs SEA

 

[dbk]

Need some help for the championship. I have to start 2 of these 3

Brandon Marshall vs PHL
Vincent Jackson vs TEN
Ryan Grant vs SEA

Vin Jackson and Ryan Grant!

 

[TangoJuliet]

Vin Jackson and Ryan Grant!

I been leaning towards Grant and Marshall. Marshall has been great his last couple games and Jackson has been hit or miss. Grant has a great matchup but hasn't really had any awesome games this year.

 

[TangoJuliet]

phew...thought I made a bad decision sitting Jackson as he had 9 points at half time. Only ended up with 12.3 for the game. Hopefully Grant will do better then that.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

marshall might be a good choice since the eagles secondary can't tackle a fucking telephone poll. :|

 

[TangoJuliet]

Well, my picks of Marshall and Grant sort of paid off.

Jackson had 12.3 whereas Marshall had 12.2 (wash)
Grant was the big winner with 21.7

I'm up 30 points with Romo and Fred Davis left to play tonight. The other team has Purple Jesus who plays on MNF. Hopefully my decision to play Davis over Celek doesnt come back to haunt me as Celek was pretty good scoring 22.