Madden BFL - Fantasy NFL League interest?

Just saw the ESPN draft board. That's a wacky draft board. The idea of getting Rodgers at 4, Brady at 6, Brees at 8, Stafford at 13 or Graham at 20 is exciting.

empacher wrote: »

wont be able to make the draft can do tues or the earlier wed, think theres the same amount of people available to both.

Yeah I cant make it either. Will try and get a mate to do it for me instead.

If you cannot make the draft and it will be autopicked, you can change your pre-draft player rankings by first clicking on the my team page inside the league and on the Edit Pre-Draft Player Rankings button. There you can use the interactive list to move your rankings up and down. You may want to do this, a lot. I think ESPN rankings are absolutely all over the place. MJD above Tom Brady is one mind boggling rank, and there are many others. After making these changes, click on the save rankings button at the top or the bottom of the page. Just below the Edit Pre-Draft Rankings button is the edit Autopick strategy. This is especially handy for those who don't want to end up with 5 kickers. Here you can set limits on the number of players to draft (I would advise 2 for QB, 1 for K, 1 for DEF and 2 for TE) and tell the CPU in which round to draft which player. This can be tought because you don't know your spot and who will be there, so telling the CPU to pick QB in the first round could land you Aaron Rodgers, or it could land you Tony Romo. Many players will leave defense and kicker until the last 2 rounds because most people play the matchups. I would advise doing the same. The default option is to pick the best available, but you can also tell the CPU to pick the best out of the QBs and RBs or QBs and WRs which is very handy for the first round pick. These are the settings I would choose:
1. QB/RB
2. RB or WR
3. RB or WR
4. RB or WR
5. RB or WR (Try to get 2 RBs and 2 WRs in the first 5 at least)
6. QB
7. WR
8. WR
9. WR or RB
10. TE (The art of drafting tight ends is too hard for autopick. There are so few top ones it's hard to know. The 145-160 pick range will give you a serviceable TE like Jermaine Gresham/Greg Olsen for sure)
11-15. Whatever
16. Kicker
17. Defense

Player limits:
QB. 2
RB. 5
WR. 6
TE. 2
K. 1
DEF. 1

For advice on drafting, I suggest Matthew Berry's love/hate column on ESPN. Some don't like his writing styles, but I think his logic is on the ball.

For those who will be at the draft, I don't have any advice to give you're on your own, I haven't done an ESPN draft before.

And finally, how the snake draft works. The order for the first round is randomised, and after every round the order is reversed. So 1 picks 32 next, 2 picks 31 etc.

empacher wrote: »

are we go for this?

I assume so, only 4 and a half hours to go.

empacher wrote: »

im working at half 10, whats the normal time length, if i can get my first 3/4 picks in. it wont be so bad!

Maybe 1 and a quarter to 2 hours for the 17 picks, not quite sure. If you're literally only leaving half an hour in you should get the money rounds done and as long as you've set your autopick strategy you will be fine. Last year I was in division 5 boards league, and the winner was an autopicked team. It did a pretty good job, getting him Brees, LeSean McCoy, Crosby and Packers defense.

What time is this starting at?

I'd like one big league rather than divisions. It's fairer and everyone is your rival.

adrian522 wrote: »

Dont understand this, you wont have a game against everyone anyway so how is it fairer?

It's fairer in the sense that a team can't go 7-9 and make the playoffs.

adrian522 wrote: »

What does that mean? We wont be playing 16 games so no one will go 7-9. we only play 13 games in regular season.

I was referring to the NFL divisions, in which a team with a negative record recently made the playoffs over 2 10-6 teams.

At least if you have divisions you play everyone in your division.

Not true. Last year I was tied for first in my division on 10-3, lost on points differential. I didn't play that guy in the entire year.

If you are first or second makes the last week or 2 meaningless in one big league.

This is invalid. If you are clear as a top seed in a big league and have garbage weeks, you are also clear as a top seed in a 4 division setup and have garbage weeks.

13. Was hoping for much better. I pray Matthew Stafford is there.

Raoul wrote: »

Something strange happening with my ESPN account, I had it set up years ago and I am signed in and all but when I went to set my draft board it asked me to sign in again and says it doesn't recognise my email or member name . Got them to email me to reset my password, it recognises my email but the link in the email they sent doesn't work.

So any chance I can be kicked from the league and I have a new account set up and I can join asap.

Ehhh any chance I can get the details of this resent please? Or does anyone know them?