I think the last three teams were
@Mighty Boosh (3 wins)
@Crackers & @Joemo (2wins)
@DeclanL14 (0 wins)
2017 Redcafe NFL Fantasy League
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
@Mighty Boosh (3 wins)
@Crackers & @Joemo (2wins)
@DeclanL14 (0 wins)
Please tell me there's still room for one more.
Yes. But let me in right until the end but choose someone else or choose yahoo again
So how many we got so far @Eboue. The OP needs updating.
i'll update it later tonight but it looks like i'll setup two leagues
If you want I can set up the 2nd league?
possibly let's give it a few days for all the sign ups to come in
Alright guys, here is what I think makes the most sense given the amount of people we have. 2 conferences of 12. Round robin means 11 week regular seasons. 6 teams in each league make the playoffs. The top 5 will be determined by win-loss record. The 6th will be a wild card for the team with the most points not in the top 5.
Week 12 is a bye week for the top 2. 3/6 and 4/5 play.
Week 13 is #1 vs. lowest remaining seed and #2 vs. highest remaining seed
Week 14 is conference championship
Week 15 is league championship (the winners of each conference)
The way we make this work is two separate leagues. So two separate drafts and two separate players. Then on championship day I manually add up the points of the two teams and we have an overall winner.
Week 12 is a bye week for the top 2. 3/6 and 4/5 play.
Week 13 is #1 vs. lowest remaining seed and #2 vs. highest remaining seed
Week 14 is conference championship
Week 15 is league championship (the winners of each conference)
The way we make this work is two separate leagues. So two separate drafts and two separate players. Then on championship day I manually add up the points of the two teams and we have an overall winner.
Some other notes
If you don't know what an auction draft is, basically each manager gets 500 or whatever amount of straight cash homie. Players are announced one at a time and anyone can bid on the players. So if Tom Brady is announced, you can bid 300 to make sure you get Tom Brady but then you only have 200 to fill out your roster. Or you can let other people bid large on Tom Brady, spend 20% of his price on Alex Smith and save your money for other positions. It is entirely up to you.
So if we do that, we would just ask people if they want snake or auction draft and fill out the conferences that way. Or if enough people want all snake or all auction we can do that.
- We will use PPR this year (which means you get 1 point for every reception (point per reception) so if you player gets 3 catches for 75 yards you get 10.5 points (7.5 for 75 yards + 3 for 3 catches))
- Giving up after a couple of weeks and not setting your lineups sucks because it is basically a guaranteed win for the other team. Any ideas how we can counteract this?
- Auction style draft? I think we should have one conference do an auction draft and one conference do a traditional snake draft.
If you don't know what an auction draft is, basically each manager gets 500 or whatever amount of straight cash homie. Players are announced one at a time and anyone can bid on the players. So if Tom Brady is announced, you can bid 300 to make sure you get Tom Brady but then you only have 200 to fill out your roster. Or you can let other people bid large on Tom Brady, spend 20% of his price on Alex Smith and save your money for other positions. It is entirely up to you.
So if we do that, we would just ask people if they want snake or auction draft and fill out the conferences that way. Or if enough people want all snake or all auction we can do that.
Anyway, the endgame means that we will need 24 teams and we have 21 people right now. If we get 3 more, everyone will have their own team. If we get more, I'll pair up with @Rado_N, @fishfingers15 will pair up with someone and so on.
I love auction drafts but they tend to take quite a bit longer from my experience. I would be fine doing it but others might be put off. Glad it's PPR.
I'm only doing it this year if it's on NFL one, I hated the one last year.
Why all these changes @Eboue ? I was happy as last year was.
@Eboue
Get everyone to pay £5/10 entry. Some incentive not to give up so early and makes it more competetive.
Get everyone to pay £5/10 entry. Some incentive not to give up so early and makes it more competetive.
I'm very much game.
@RDCR07 maybe we will get a trade done this year? 
No PPR please.
I'm not even going to send you a trade this year@RDCR07 maybe we will get a trade done this year?
PPR is really fun what gives? I understand going for snake if there are time constraints.
Snake > auction.
It's so receiver oriented. Plus I could have a player catch 10 catches for 10 yards with a yard per catch. He will still get 11 points instead of the traditional 1 point per 10 yards.
Most fantasy football leagues nowadays are PPR. I could care less either way. However, I'd prefer a snake vs auction draft. Wouldn't mind an auction system for picking up free agents though.
Dont give up!I'm not even going to send you a trade this year
Snake please
ppr makes it more interesting and gives a wider range of players that can be useful. that's the only major change. early responses suggest we will stick to snake draft.
i highly doubt everyone wants to play for money. and the kind of people who would be willing to toss 10 on a fantasy league are the people who wouldn't think twice about losing it, thus it's not an incentive
Surely the incentive is to win the pot? You certainly won't get people dropping out in the first week.
Just an idea anyway.
If you can get a bunch of people who want to do it then I'm in, I just highly doubt it.
Snake. Never played PPR, so ok either way.
Right then, we will do snake for both conferences and have 12 teams in each.
We have 24 managers?
I think people here rather just play for fun and might be turned off if there was an entry fee. That being said, if you find enough people willing to pay, then I'm down as well. I like using the caf league more as a mock draft to help me prepare for my other leagues.
Yes.
Pretty sure we can find several more. Where are the Americans at?
@Carolina Red @adexkola @Organic Potatoes @Skizzo @JustAFan @Inter Yer Nan @choiboyx012
23 so far and the thread just went up last night
Sorry not into fantasy football at all
Yeah sure why not
I haven't read any of this thread as of yet, however.
Or watch American Football.
But what could go wrong?
What what?
I'm tentatively good to go for this. The only SNAFU I could encounter is if the draft is the same time as my Sunday meetings for my real football team coaching job.
@Eboue I'm pretty sure I signed up for this, but am not on the manager list? Don't mind being an assistant for another manager if it comes to it, but was looking forward to displaying my lack of knowledge and general ineptitude