Boards Division 8 Thread

Huawei Gallagher

Draft is open now, get in there I am lonely!

Marcus Antonius

Happy with how the draft went myself.

So week 1 fixtures are

Lithe Lions- Marcus Antonius V.S. The Undeflated- Stanley Blade

9 11 Was an inside Schaub- Moist Bread V.S. Manafana Steelers- Manafana

Coopers Klux Klan- Turkish1 V.S. Calvin and Coobes- McG

Rex's Gastric Bandits- lbj666 V.S. Manziel in Distress-

Not sure who owns the other 2 teams. If you let me know I'll edit the post. May the best team win lads!

McG

I'm Calvin and Cobbes. Had a screaming baby in my ear for most of that draft so wasn't able to pay as much attention as I would have liked but decent team I think:

QB - Luck
RB - Lacy & Gore
WR - Beckham & Cooks & Adams
TE - Kelce
K - Bailey
D - Miami

Bench - Bradford, Foster, Yeldon, Agholor, J Brown

McG

any point in having divisions?

Marcus Antonius

McG wrote: »

I'm Calvin and Cobbes. Had a screaming baby in my ear for most of that draft so wasn't able to pay as much attention as I would have liked but decent team I think:

QB - Luck
RB - Lacy & Gore
WR - Beckham & Cooks & Adams
TE - Kelce
K - Bailey
D - Miami

Bench - Bradford, Foster, Yeldon, Agholor, J Brown

Looks like a decent team to me. I was happy with mine too

QB- Brees
RB- Lynch & Morris
WR- Johnson & Cobbs & Watkins
TE- Bennett
K- Tucker
D- Baltimor

Bench- Eli Manning, Blount, Smith, White, Witten

Marcus Antonius

McG wrote: »

any point in having divisions?

I think that's locked in now after the draft. I know it's fairly pointless with only 8 teams.

Huawei Gallagher

Just got an email from NFL UK News, its seems Bears vs Green Bay will be shown on Pick TV (Sky 152), Sunday 5:30 . I assume its Freeview:) For anyone like me too poor for Sky Sports/gamepass!

"Pick" TV is an unfortunate name for a station when Jay Cutler is playing Green Bay!:D (I am a Bears fan)

Other games may be shown, see below:

Quote from EMail below:

Even those without access to Sky Sports can catch some action, with Sunday’s game in Chicago also aired live on Pick TV. That will be the first of several games on an occasional basis to be shown across non-sports channels during the season, including the final six Sunday Night Football games on Sky One. You can find Pick TV on these channels; Freeview (11), Freesat (144), Sky (152), Virgin Media (123).

Turkish1

Marcus Antonius wrote: »

Looks like a decent team to me. I was happy with mine too

QB- Brees
RB- Lynch & Morris
WR- Johnson & Cobbs & Watkins
TE- Bennett
K- Tucker
D- Baltimor

Bench- Eli Manning, Blount, Smith, White, Witten

Got tied up in work so had an autodraft and didn't even have pre draft rankings set.

QB - Manning
RB - Charles, Miller
WR - Bryant, Green and Matthews
Te - Fleener
K - Vinatieri
Def - Seahawks

Bench - Brady, Blue, Jennings, K Wright and D. Allen

Relatively happy, wouldnt have gone near Manning personally and prob would have steered clear of Green aswell - (QB just not good enough for him).

D3PO

Id be starting Brady over Manning tbh. I think Brady is going to do a big F You to all this inflategate stuff and show he can throw the ball better than anybody in the NFL. Expecting him to have a monster season tbh.

Huawei Gallagher

I am hoping that having Gronkowski at TE:cool: may give me a few points extra.
I had trouble with WRs last year and since this is a 3 WR league I thought I better grab a few first instead of focusing just on RBs (we shall see how this strategy works later on). I made too many changes last year and ended up with a team of losers later on.

I benched Alshon Jeffrey from my beloved Bears as they are playing Green Bay in the first game. Does this make me a Traitor .Great way for the Bears to gain confidence for the season by being thrashed by Green Bay in their first game :(:(

Marcus Antonius

Stanley Blade wrote: »

I am hoping that having Gronkowski at TE:cool: may give me a few points extra.
I had trouble with WRs last year and since this is a 3 WR league I thought I better grab a few first instead of focusing just on RBs (we shall see how this strategy works later on). I made too many changes last year and ended up with a team of losers later on.

I benched Alshon Jeffrey from my beloved Bears as they are playing Green Bay in the first game. Does this make me a Traitor .Great way for the Bears to gain confidence for the season by being thrashed by Green Bay in their first game :(:(

Was thinking you were mad going for a TE so early in the draft, he has however got you a heap of points this against me! 3 TDs!

Huawei Gallagher

Marcus Antonius wrote: »

Was thinking you were mad going for a TE so early in the draft, he has however got you a heap of points this against me! 3 TDs!

They rated my team 6th out of our 8! How dare they! Gronk will show em! I expect 5 TDs from him next week:P

Marcus Antonius

Marcus Antonius wrote: »

Happy with how the draft went myself.

So week 1 fixtures are

Lithe Lions- Marcus Antonius V.S. The Undeflated- Stanley Blade

9 11 Was an inside Schaub- Moist Bread V.S. Manafana Steelers- Manafana

Coopers Klux Klan- Turkish1 V.S. Calvin and Coobes- McG

Rex's Gastric Bandits- lbj666 V.S. Manziel in Distress-

Not sure who owns the other 2 teams. If you let me know I'll edit the post. May the best team win lads!

So one week down guys, the final scores were:

Lithe Lions- Marcus Antonius 91.20 V.S. The Undeflated- Stanley Blade 113.64

9 11 Was an inside Schaub- Moist Bread 110.94 V.S. Manafana Steelers- Manafana 61.62

Coopers Klux Klan- Turkish1 99.02 V.S. Calvin and Coobes- McG 94.12

Rex's Gastric Bandits- lbj666 79.76 V.S. Manziel in Distress- 107.54

Highest score of the week goes to Stanley Blade with 113.64
Highest scoring active player of the week goes to Tom Brady with 27.62 owned by Turkish1
Highest scoring player on the bench of the week goes to Carlos Hyde with 30.20 owned by lbj666


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Marcus Antonius

Turkish1

Happy with the W but Bryant going down for 4-6 weeks is a killer really.

Manning on the trade block if anybody wants him for a WR preferably.

Turkish1

Lads,

I got a pop up message this morning about a trade proposal from Calvin and Cobbes. As soon as I went into it, they said it was accepted. I 100% never accepted the trade and I think its fairly clear to see I wouldn't accept it either as I think it is not that close to a fair offer

He was offering Frank Gore and James Jones for Lamar Miller and Moncrief. There is no way I would accept that trade.

Is there anything that can be done? Can the league veto the trade. It was literally proposed in the last 10 minutes?? :mad:

D3PO

the official rule in the boards leagues are tough **** if you make a mistake, but that's a massively lobsided trade in my book so it would seem to be a genuine eror and not traders resmorse.

the league admin could stop this trade but its best to try and first get agreement from calvin and cobbes to nullify the trade and or allow the other league members to veto it.

this is exacltly why I wont use the mobile app when I get a trade popup as to easy with a touch screen to inadvertently hit something you don't mean to.

Turkish1

D3PO wrote: »

the official rule in the boards leagues are tough **** if you make a mistake, but that's a massively lobsided trade in my book so it would seem to be a genuine eror and not traders resmorse.

the league admin could stop this trade but its best to try and first get agreement from calvin and cobbes to nullify the trade and or allow the other league members to veto it.

this is exacltly why I wont use the mobile app when I get a trade popup as to easy with a touch screen to inadvertently hit something you don't mean to.

I won't be using the mobile app again regardless of the outcome here. Have sent Calvin and Cobbs a PM so hopefully he will accept that it was a genuine error and agree to nullify it.

Marcus Antonius

D3PO wrote: »

the official rule in the boards leagues are tough **** if you make a mistake, but that's a massively lobsided trade in my book so it would seem to be a genuine eror and not traders resmorse.

the league admin could stop this trade but its best to try and first get agreement from calvin and cobbes to nullify the trade and or allow the other league members to veto it.

this is exacltly why I wont use the mobile app when I get a trade popup as to easy with a touch screen to inadvertently hit something you don't mean to.

Hi D3PO I'm the league admin, how do I go about stopping the trade. Other than vetoing the trade which I have already done?

Cheers
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Marcus Antonius

D3PO

Marcus Antonius wrote: »

Hi D3PO I'm the league admin, how do I go about stopping the trade. Other than vetoing the trade which I have already done?

Cheers
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Marcus Antonius

hey Marcus when I say stop the trade what I mean is one it completes you can manually adjust the teams back to the way they were. Its not stopping the trade per se.

easiest way is if you get enough people to veto the trade tbh but I don't know what the settings are in terms of the numbers needed to do that.

Marcus Antonius

D3PO wrote: »

hey Marcus when I say stop the trade what I mean is one it completes you can manually adjust the teams back to the way they were. Its not stopping the trade per se.

easiest way is if you get enough people to veto the trade tbh but I don't know what the settings are in terms of the numbers needed to do that.

Ah, yeah that'd be mad awkward, hopefully Calvin and Cobbs can just cancel it or we get enough votes to veto it. I'm glad I don't use the mobile app now! Thanks anyhow

Huawei Gallagher

I just voted against the trade for ya, I found it difficult to view the trade though. If everyone goes to: "My Team" underneath the "View Game Center" area there is a "Team Notes" section there with a "View Trade"link to the trade, if everyone reading this votes against then it should scupper it? The "View Trades" link in the "My Notifications" section didnt work for me.

Huawei Gallagher

I seem to spend most of my time now worrying about some guy in Chicago or somewhere that has a dodgy knee! Is it just me?

Moist Bread

Seems like a fair trade to me. If I have second thoughts about a trade in future I expect to have it reversed if that's what happens here.

McG

only seeing this now. I don't think the trade was "massively lobsided" but happy for it to be cancelled if genuine mistake. I can't cancel it on my end though, will need admin to do it. I can't vote to veto either.

Marcus Antonius

Moist Bread wrote: »

Seems like a fair trade to me. If I have second thoughts about a trade in future I expect to have it reversed if that's what happens here.

There's no need to get snarky they have sorted it out between the two of them. Also bear in mind guys that the mobile app can be easy to make mistakes with and that I won't be editing rosters as League Manager as this is not fair, even if an error was made. I'm glad that the two of you could come to a resolution though with regards to the accidental trade.

Marcus Antonius

So another week down guys, the final scores for week 2 were:

Lithe Lions- Marcus Antonius 71.00 V.S. 99.44 9 11 Was an inside Schaub- Moist Bread

The Undeflated- Stanley Blade 82.86 V.S. 80.56 Rex's Gastric Bandits- lbj666

Manafana Steelers- Manafana 107.42 V.S. 101.04 Coopers Klux Klan- Turkish1

Calvin and Coobes- McG 63.30 V.S. 97.00 Manziel in Distress-

Highest score of the week goes to Manafana 107.42
Highest scoring active player of the week goes to Ben Roethlisberger with 30.66 owned by Stanley Blade
Highest scoring player on the bench of the week goes to Ryan Tannehill with 24.06 owned by Manafana.

Sorry for the delay was away this weekend. Another loss for me 0-2

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Marcus Antonius

Moist Bread

Marcus Antonius wrote: »

There's no need to get snarky they have sorted it out between the two of them. Also bear in mind guys that the mobile app can be easy to make mistakes with and that I won't be editing rosters as League Manager as this is not fair, even if an error was made. I'm glad that the two of you could come to a resolution though with regards to the accidental trade.

If someone presses 'accept trade' that's their fault. It's simple. I just took issue with the fact that several people jumped in saying it was an unfair trade, which is clearly subjective. The numbers at the time were quite similar between the players. Also, I took issue with you saying that you looked into reversing the trade yourself as GM. Despite you now recanting that stance. That would set a precedent that all trades could be reversed by the GM if someone has cold feet. I hope this makes sense to you and you don't go accusing me of being snarky again.

manafana

Moist Bread wrote: »

If someone presses 'accept trade' that's their fault. It's simple. I just took issue with the fact that several people jumped in saying it was an unfair trade, which is clearly subjective. The numbers at the time were quite similar between the players. Also, I took issue with you saying that you looked into reversing the trade yourself as GM. Despite you now recanting that stance. That would set a precedent that all trades could be reversed by the GM if someone has cold feet. I hope this makes sense to you and you don't go accusing me of being snarky again.

you where a little Snarky though

Moist Bread

manafana wrote: »

you where a little Snarky though

I live in denial of the fact then.

Marcus Antonius

Moist Bread wrote: »

If someone presses 'accept trade' that's their fault. It's simple. I just took issue with the fact that several people jumped in saying it was an unfair trade, which is clearly subjective. The numbers at the time were quite similar between the players. Also, I took issue with you saying that you looked into reversing the trade yourself as GM. Despite you now recanting that stance. That would set a precedent that all trades could be reversed by the GM if someone has cold feet. I hope this makes sense to you and you don't go accusing me of being snarky again.

I would never have reversed the trade without acceptance from the other party involved. You are right that the GM has no right to do this. Apologies if that was not clear before hand. I still believe that your original post was snarky, however I don't wish to have an argument about it so I apologies if you took offence. I have now established that going forward it will be between the two parties to sort it out among themselves.