Boards Division 7 Thread

Adamcp898

Alright lads a new season is upon us and so we must choose our draft date. Competing this year will be:

Adamcp898 - Harry's Honey Badgers
In Exile - De Dum Dums
keithdelahunty - Heisenburg Men
Nikki2510 - The Purple Squirrels
BKWDR - Dingle Dogs
Copper_pipe - Limerick Cowboys
kingcobra - Craggy Island Trojans
Podge-ir - TDM
Keno 92 - The Butt Fumblers
spiritcrusher - Midnight Ramblers
Follow the Plan - Ochochinco
dojojoe - Tig Besticles
elarkin - Chang Time
BEP! - Tara Royals
FastFullBack - RomaSuck Raiders
theRB -

Vote for your preference as to when we should draft next week. I've purposely left out the weekend dates to allow for enough time to get as big a picture as possible as to every player's status but if enough people want it at the weekend then we can do it then.

theRB

Looking forward to it, I notice there's an odd number of teams in that list though?

Adamcp898

theRB wrote: »

Looking forward to it, I notice there's an odd number of teams in that list though?

Sure didn't I leave out myself!

kingcobra

To be honest I don't think any date suits me as I'm moving in and starting college, although I accept that we can't do it any other date. If ever there was a time to suit me best, Monday at 9pm would probably be the best.

keithdelahunty

Personally I'd like Sunday (1-Sept) but if weekend not an option, Monday only other day that suits me as travelling rest if the week

Adamcp898

kingcobra wrote: »

To be honest I don't think any date suits me as I'm moving in and starting college, although I accept that we can't do it any other date. If ever there was a time to suit me best, Monday at 9pm would probably be the best.

keithdelahunty wrote: »

Personally I'd like Sunday (1-Sept) but if weekend not an option, Monday only other day that suits me as travelling rest if the week

That's fine lads, if enough people post saying the same thing I'll add the weekend days as an option

BKWDR

keithdelahunty wrote: »

Personally I'd like Sunday (1-Sept) but if weekend not an option, Monday only other day that suits me as travelling rest if the week

Dub v Kerry day...

I think Monday night maybe if ppl are OK with that

FastFullBack

I voted Monday at 9 but Wednesday is also good for me.

In Exile

Any day at 9pm is my preference. Means I'll be arriving into work for 6am to start the draft! Great!

BKWDR

In Exile wrote: »

Any day at 9pm is my preference. Means I'll be arriving into work for 6am to start the draft! Great!

Where you living overseas?

In Exile

BKWDR wrote: »

Where you living overseas?

I'm in Melbourne

BKWDR

In Exile wrote: »

I'm in Melbourne

NFL games in the morning then...probably better than post midnight

In Exile

BKWDR wrote: »

NFL games in the morning then...probably better than post midnight

It is good and bad. By the time I wake up in the mornings I have already missed the early games. I used to love coming home early on a Sunday evening and hitting the couch watching the earlier games.

However, it makes Monday's in the office very easy to work! I use two computer screens, but on Monday's the laptop is used only for the espn scorecentre. For 5 months of the year I actually like working Mondays

keithdelahunty

Adamcp898,

Question, First year doing Fantasy football on Boards, although been playing for years using Yahoo. I noticed on NFL.com that our Draft is set as an Offline draft rather than an interactive draft using the website, is that correct and can you explain how this works. I am used to website auto determining draft order and then selecting player round by round directly on website.

Adamcp898

keithdelahunty wrote: »

Adamcp898,

Question, First year doing Fantasy football on Boards, although been playing for years using Yahoo. I noticed on NFL.com that our Draft is set as an Offline draft rather than an interactive draft using the website, is that correct and can you explain how this works. I am used to website auto determining draft order and then selecting player round by round directly on website.

It'll be set to a live online draft, I'm just waiting for us to decide a date because it asks you to set the date and time whenever you select it.

Podge_irl

Weekend is a complete no-go for me. I went Tuesday at 8, but can do Monday as well.

BKWDR

Quick question, as a newbie, If I edit my Pre-Draft Ranking on the NFL site, when the draft box opens will all those players be already selected in the top right corner of the window?

theRB

BKWDR wrote: »

Quick question, as a newbie, If I edit my Pre-Draft Ranking on the NFL site, when the draft box opens will all those players be already selected in the top right corner of the window?

What do you mean exactly? When you edit your pre-draft rankings, when you open the draft client to do the draft they will all be listed by your own custom rankings, so it's easier for you to see what players you like are available and if you aren't online it'll autopick them based on your rankings.

BKWDR

theRB wrote: »

What do you mean exactly? When you edit your pre-draft rankings, when you open the draft client to do the draft they will all be listed by your own custom rankings, so it's easier for you to see what players you like are available and if you aren't online it'll autopick them based on your rankings.

Yeah that's what I mean I think

theRB

So what's going on with the draft? Tomorrow at 9pm?

Adamcp898

Alright lads, I think I can safely call this one, draft will be tomorrow night at 9 PM, or early in the morning for the Aussie based participant(s).

Either way, go to sleep now dreaming of pick 1 and enjoying watching all day AP for the rest of the year instead of berating him when he comes up against your team.

In Exile

I'm sick. Have all my draft done and ready to go. Went onto the NFL website to get a feel of the draft site and turns out the work laptop's flash player isn't up to scratch to run the website.

Looks like automated draft for me unless I can get it working on my phone.

keithdelahunty

How far in advance will we know our Draft Order?

What odds on Adrian Peterson not be #1?

Who will be first QB, Brees or Rodgers?

Adamcp898

keithdelahunty wrote: »

How far in advance will we know our Draft Order?

What odds on Adrian Peterson not be #1?

Who will be first QB, Brees or Rodgers?

It should be randomised half an hour before it starts.

FastFullBack

In Exile wrote: »

I'm sick. Have all my draft done and ready to go. Went onto the NFL website to get a feel of the draft site and turns out the work laptop's flash player isn't up to scratch to run the website.

Looks like automated draft for me unless I can get it working on my phone.

Surely you can download an updated version of flash?

keithdelahunty

16th overall pick in Round 1 that sucks

Kylo Ren

9th myself.

I only found out late this was on today. Have done no research.

BKWDR

8th!

Have done no research, only just a couple mocks...

any last minute advice?

Kylo Ren

BKWDR wrote: »

8th!

Have done no research, only just a couple mocks...

any last minute advice?

Oakland Raiders are going big this year.

keithdelahunty

keithdelahunty wrote: »

How far in advance will we know our Draft Order?

What odds on Adrian Peterson not be #1?

Who will be first QB, Brees or Rodgers?

Apparently there's always some lunatic who starts the run on QB's.

BKWDR

Keno wrote: »

Oakland Raiders are going big this year.

drafts ALL the Raiders team...

kingcobra

I'm in at #12!

BKWDR

/me gets nervous

spiritcrusher

Completely forget about draft until 10 o'clock. Log in to see what's been auto-drafted. Adrian Peterson, Andre Johnson, Gronk. Result.

BKWDR

spiritcrusher wrote: »

Completely forget about draft until 10 o'clock. Log in to see what's been auto-drafted. Adrian Peterson, Andre Johnson, Gronk. Result.

Maybe i should have auto picked :-/

In Exile

Anyone tell me how long is left in the draft? Had to leave for work after my 6th pick so wondering how long I have left to wait and see what I autopicked

Adamcp898

In Exile wrote: »

Anyone tell me how long is left in the draft? Had to leave for work after my 6th pick so wondering how long I have left to wait and see what I autopicked

Tis all said and done. Took around 2h 10m or so

Podge_irl

That could have gone better

In Exile

Autopick left me with 5 RB's, 5 WR's, 1 TE and no defence.....

Podge_irl

In Exile wrote: »

Autopick left me with 5 RB's, 5 WR's, 1 TE and no defence.....

Isn't autopick supposed to fill your starting team first?

In Exile

Podge_irl wrote: »

Isn't autopick supposed to fill your starting team first?

That's what I taught too. I'll just pick one up on the waiver/free agency today or tomorrow.

It also gave me 2 Jets wide receivers! I may support the Jets but I didn't want any of their players!

Kylo Ren

In Exile wrote: »

That's what I taught too. I'll just pick one up on the waiver/free agency today or tomorrow.

It also gave me 2 Jets wide receivers! I may support the Jets but I didn't want any of their players!

I'll take them off your hands. Send them to me.

Team name: The Butt Fumblers.

keithdelahunty

Not sure how I feel about last night, 16 man league means your bench is load of crap, so hear is praying for no injuries or substance-abuse bans

Adamcp898

well lads who's happy/unhappy after the draft? Not too displeased with mine tbh, think I got some good value in places but gave up too much in others.

BKWDR

Adamcp898 wrote: »

well lads who's happy/unhappy after the draft? Not too displeased with mine tbh, think I got some good value in places but gave up too much in others.

It descended into madness when someone started picking DEF in the 6th round...

BKWDR

BKWDR wrote: »

It descended into madness when someone started picking DEF in the 6th round...

And kickers in the same.
Happy enough I got Doug Martin, Demarco Murray, Eric Decker, Eli Manning and Sam Bradford to name a few.

keithdelahunty

Are yards from Punt returns considered, I had quick look at league set up and they appear not to be included unless NFL.com included then just as offensive yards?

BKWDR

Kinda ragin, on hols, cant change team and I have flacco on the bench so his points dont count...is the fantasy game over or can I swap him in or am os it jist after the weekend that all points are totalled?

Podge_irl

BKWDR wrote: »

Kinda ragin, on hols, cant change team and I have flacco on the bench so his points dont count...is the fantasy game over or can I swap him in or am os it jist after the weekend that all points are totalled?

You can't change your line-up once the player in questions has started their game. So Flacco is stuck on the bench, though you can change the rest of your line-up.

theRB

keithdelahunty wrote: »

Are yards from Punt returns considered, I had quick look at league set up and they appear not to be included unless NFL.com included then just as offensive yards?

I'm almost certain that they don't count.

Came up against Welker and Thomas in the first week .