LP Fantasy Football (US) 2010

Yet another fantasy season is coming up. Last year's LP fantasy football league had Nero take down the title. Hopefully, we can get a full 12 teams this year for a deeper, more interesting league. How to join:

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.c...nprivateleague_league_select?.scrumb=

League ID#: 142659
League Name: Liquidpoker
Password: lp
Draft Type: Live Standard Draft
Draft Time: Tue Aug 24 9:00pm EDT [ Add to My Calendar ]

Couple issues that I would like to address. First is the auction/straight draft issue. I've tried the yahoo auction software for baseball and I must say that I was very impressed. The software is excellent and the auction will take only slightly longer, prob less than an hour longer than a straight draft. The pros of auctions are that it allows you to have more control over your team since you have the ability to acquire every player rather than being limited to only the players that are available to you when it's your turn to pick. However, straight drafts are definitely more popular and it is much easier for novices. I'm fine with both formats and we will go with a majority vote.

Second issue is the 1 or 2 QB. I've played in both and I strongly believe the 2QB format is a much superior system for leagues with 12 or fewer teams. With 1 QB and 12 teams, that means only 1/3rd of the starting QBs in the NFL start for a fantasy team on any given sunday. It greatly devalues what is generally accepted as the most important position in football. Last year, since we only had 8 teams, there was no choice but to go with 2 QBs. However, even if we get a full 12 team league this year, I believe we should still go with a 2 QB format but I will also leave this up to vote.

Third issue is that I think it would be a good idea to slightly increase the value of yardage. Last year, I set the scoring for 8 passing/rushing yards per point as opposed to the standard 10 yards per point. The idea behind this is that a goal line RB who gets 2 carries, 2 rushing yards and 2 TDs should not worth more than a RB that gets 30 touches and 110 yards but no TDs. I propose that we slightly increase the value of yardage to 15 passing yards per point and 7 rushing/rec yards per point. I also propose that we increase the milestone bonuses to 3 points for 100 yards, 4 points for 150 and 5 points for 200.

Final issue is the buyin. We have had a hard time filling the league in the past and we went with a small $100 buyin last year. I'd personally prefer to make it a $200 buyin so that the first prize becomes 4 digits and is actually something worth playing for. I will also leave this to a league vote.

Everyone interested in the league should comment on their preferences to the issues mentioned above. Also, everyone should make sure the draft time Tue Aug 24 9:00pm EDT works for you. Yahoo draft times get filled quickly and last minute changes might not be available. Therefore, please check your schedules and do your best to commit to a time. If the above time does not work for you, please let me know ASAP and I will change it.

Auction. AUCTION.

I agree on the increase in value of yardage and for the bonuses.

Buy-in wise I don't care.

And 2 QBs is fine.

Oh and AUCTION!

LA Golds 4TW

season is only a little over a month away. If I don't get more interest from LPers soon, I will have to seek out 2p2ers to fill out the league.

sign up 100$ or 200$ buy in fine with me

I'm interested.

what is the buy in?

I'm interested for $100 buyin, and I'd prefer one QB but obviously I'm open to what the league prefers.

I'm interested. Don't care what buy in is

i'm in

my vote is for the live draft and 2 QB's

sweetbread and adam, would you guys play if it were a $200 buyin? I'd much rather have it $200 so that 1st place payout is $1K+.

We have 9 interested so far so that leaves 3 spots open.

Everyone, please double check that Draft Time: Tue Aug 24 9:00pm EDT works for you. If not, please let me know ASAP.

Im in for whatever, prefer 100 cuz i got other leagues, but 200 is OK

draft time works

fuck it, i'll gamble. $200 is okay
Any chance of moving the draft time one hour? (I am in Europe, six hours ahead of US Eastern time). 2am is slightly more palatable than 3am :D If not, no worries.
TenBagger, should we go ahead and register via Yahoo?

Thanks,
SB

Man why does everyone hate on Auction? If you haven't tried it yet, I think you'll be hooked once you start using it. It's just so much less based on luck and much less boring.

Signed up.

Draft Either (just would like to know which draft style a few days prior)

2 QB.

200$

Interested, either buy-in is fine. Let's doooooooooooooo it.

2 QB imo.

signed up

Is it possible at all to do the draft on a weekend? I'm really busy on weekdays with work.

hey just saw this and joined

id prefer reg style instead of auction. Im sure I would liek auction better, just have never done one before and would rather do this one reg style