The NFL has made some schedule changes to accommodate the cancellation of the Ravens-Texans game in Houston due to the hurricane.
These bye week changes are now updated in the Web League Manager.
WEEK ONE FACTOID: This was an extremely rare week in fantasy football. The 7 lowest-scoring teams of the week all lost, which of course means the 7 highest-scoring teams all won their games. This almost never happens in this league.
Final stats and scores for all Week 1 games after the jump. Continue reading “Week 1 Scores and Stats”
Full 2008 draft results after the jump Continue reading “Draft – 2008”
We’re off and running on the 2008 season, and big running games powered the two top-scoring teams on the weekend. Last year’s Fantasy Bowl participants — Philadelphia and Miami — have notched the high scores for week 1, primarily on the legs of Willie Parker, Michael Turner, and Brian Westbook.
PHI Griffins 73, MIM Mud 27 — Michael Turner’s coming out party in Atlanta was big bonus time for the defending Fantasy Bowl champs. Turner has the week’s high score at 32 points. Terrell Owens contributed 11 points for the Griffins.
MIA Muffdivers 71, KEY Longfellows 39 — Steelers RB Willie Parker contributed 29 points while cross-state Eagles star Brian Westbrook racked up 17 points for Miami. All but one of Keystone’s starters scored, but none of them could get to double digits.
HVV Violence 63, DAL Armadillos 29 — Happy Valley will comes away with the easy win, despite QB Carson Palmer’s -1 point. Newly-acquired RB Marion Barber led the Violence with 17 points, while Steelers WR Hines Ward added 14. RB Frank Gore’s 13 points was one of the few highlights for Dallas.
FFL Froglickers 51, NCT Thorobreds 33 — QB Donovan McNabb (23) and RB Reggie Bush (16) provided all but 12 of the Froglickers points. All but one of the Thorobred starters scored, but none managed to break into double-digit points.
RIB Raptors 48, SYR Blizzard 26 — RB Thomas Jones (14) and WR Jerricho Cotchery (11) led the scoring for the Raptors. The Blizzard debut for No. 1 pick RB Darren McFadden fell far short of fan expectations, as McFadden failed to score with 46 rushing yards and no TDs.
BOB Big Bang 41, OCD Beach Dudes 34 — The big news here is bad news for the defending point champions: Tom Brady is done for the year. That will hit the Dudes hard, as the Brady-Moss magic in 2007 was the key to their points win. Marshawn Lynch led the Big Bang with 11 points, while the Beach Dudes saw few points from anyone not named Peterson (14) or Moss (13).
BOS Wildcats 41, MER Mustangs 26 — Rookie RB Matt Forte’s debut for the Wildcats lead the team with 14 points, and WR Reggie Wayne chipped in 11. The Mustangs got 19 points from QB Drew Brees, 7 points from K Adam Vinatieri, and zero points from the rest of their starters.
Remember: the Web League Manager has realtime scoring, so if you’re online during gameday, you can log into Web League Manager and go to Reports > Franchise > Realtime Scoring to see your game — or any other game — in progress.
And if you’re online, feel free to jump in with comments on this open thread.
Rule change voting was conducted in the day leading up to the draft, and the results announced before the draft. The results:
It will be interesting to see if Griffins owner Nick Fisher proposes his “cannot propose the same rule change in consecutive years” proposal again next year 🙂
The editors here at Fantasy Football Flyer thought it would be obvious to post the protected rosters on the Rosters page without sending an email or writing a news post here. We were mistaken. Our apologies. The protected rosters were posted around 1am Monday.
Remember: the draft is this Sunday at 11am Eastern. Conference call info below:
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International: 001-719-867-7636
As the midnight deadline for protected rosters approaches, there’s been a flurry of trade activity and big news — the surprise re-emergence of Sam McClain as a new co-owner with Paul Gilgallon of the Dallas (???) Armadillos franchise. And as Frog Licker’s owner Dave Zilberfarb pointed out via email, it’s about time they move this “Dallas” franchise to Florida already. (Of course, let’s not forget that in McClain’s previous stint in the league his team eschewed the traditional regional team name and sold out to the corporate big wigs and became the NIKEtown Knights, so who knows what is up the collective sleeves of the newly expanded ownership group in Dallas, er … Florida.)
But we digress … here are the trades:
And word has it phones are still ringing…
Here’s a list of the traded draft picks that affect the 2008 draft:
Draft order and 1st-round order after the jump …
The Frelinghuysen Frog Lickers and the Big Oregon Bang logged in with our second trade of the preseason. FFL sends it’s 1st round draft pick to the Oregon for QB Philip Rivers (Chargers) and RB Lawrence Maroney (Patriots). Rivers is also prospect-eligible.
Remember: protection deadline is Midnight ET, Sunday Aug. 24. Email your protected roster list to Ying.
Cowboys running back Marion Barber is headed to Happy Valley, as the Violence swap first-round draft picks with the Orange County Beach Dudes to land the stud running back. Happy Valley is trying to bounce back from a mediocre year, while the Beach Dudes find themselves loaded with talent and they can’t keep it all. It’s the first trade of the 2008 preseason, as the protection deadline (Sun. Aug 24 midnight EST) approaches.
Mark your calendars: the deadline for protected players is midnight, Sunday August 24. Please email your list of protected players to Ying.
Teams that were in the draft lottery can protected 5 regular players + 1 prospect. This applies to SYR, DAL, MER, RIB, FFL, BOS, and HVV.
All other teams can protect 4 regular players + 1 prospect. Prospect-eligible players are highlighted in blue on the final spreadsheet from 2007 season. Download link below – PDF file.
A majority of owners have agreed to moving the draft this year:
NEW DRAFT DATE IS: Sunday, August 31st at 11:00am.
Mark your calendars.
The draft lottery was held over the July 4th weekend at Nick’s house. In addition to Nick, 3 other owners were present: Jim, Zilb, and Ying. The owners present got the last 3 picks. Syracuse got the first pick. Here are the first 7 picks (number of lottery chances in parentheses):
Here are the draft lottery chances for the 2008 draft, regular draft order, and 2008 divisions. Draft lottery is only the non-money-winning teams, and the formula for the draft lottery is on the rules page and listed on the column headings. Info is after the jump…
Continue reading “2008 Draft Lottery Chances, Draft Order, Divisions”
I propose revisions to the league awards and payouts. Let’s face it, there is little interest for teams after week 14 who do not make the top-tier playoffs. The consolation bracket doesn’t generate much interest, and no one wants to win the award for “most points of non-playff, non-money-winning teams” — an award that barely covers half the league entry fee and knocks teams out of the lottery system (including, potentially, teams with losing records). We’ve also had a lot of interest in increasing league fees, but not so dramatic as doubling them.
THIS PROPOSAL BY YING AND TRZ: Eliminates three awards (consolation bracket winner, consolation runner-up, and the consolation points award), and in their place, give awards to the top two non-playoff teams based on total points. This proposal would not change anything in the top-tier playoffs, but it would eliminate the “consolation bracket playoffs” while potentially keeping several teams more interested through the end of the season. This proposal would also increase league fees by $20 per team annually, but the new awards structure means that if you win money, it’s a large enough prize to at least cover your league fee.
Additionally, the overall #1 and #2 points teams would also be eligible for the new awards if they do not make the playoffs. In my opinion, if a team finishes #1 or #2 in overall points and didn’t make the playoffs, they SHOULD be eligible for the combined awards, especially in regards to their draft position (they would be drafting lower, as they should be).
See the Rules page for current structure for comparison. This is the proposed new award/payout structure:
| FFL Playoff Champion | 400 |
| FFL Playoff Runner-Up | 275 |
| FFL Playoff Third Place | 250 |
| FFL Playoff Fourth Place | 225 |
| Overall Points Champion | 230 |
| Overall Points Runner-Up | 200 |
| ** First place points, non-playoff teams | 175 |
| ** Second place points, non-playoff teams | 160 |
| Draft phone call (est) | 225 |
| Expenses (est) | 100 |
| $160 x 14 teams = $2,240 | 2240 |
** = new award category, replacing consolation bracket/point awards
Reduce player protections to 1 quarterback, 1 running back, and 1 receiver (WR/TE). Teams that don’t win money can keep a prospect at any position. That lowers protection slots to 3 or 4, down from the current rules of 5 or 6. It also levels the playing field big time because playoff and money-winning teams would only be able to protect 1 player per position. And it would only extend the draft by 2 rounds. (This is likely a rule significant enough that it would have to be put into effect AFTER the next draft, so it wouldn’t be instituted until 2009 season.) Proposed by the Froglickers with input from the Wildcats.
Redraft entire rosters every year. This is significant enough a change that it would have to be instituted AFTER the next draft, so it would not take effect until 2009 season. Proposed by the Froglickers. Who else? 🙂
<p>Penalize players one point for lost fumbles. This makes the game more interesting (esp. in RB position) and closer to real football. A guy is not as valuable if he puts the ball on the ground. Proposed by MassIll Mud.</p>
Nick proposes that we do not allow for a rule to be proposed a consecutive year if it was already rejected the previous year.
fflgoo 