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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Basketball 2014
« on: October 7, 2013, 10:09 PM »
C'mon, gotta be someone dying to live the life of a fantasy sports manager...
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Basketball 2014
« on: October 6, 2013, 04:44 PM »Brent, can you send my arch nemesis an invite link?
(Glad you're going to play!)
I can but I need Dressel to pm me his email addy, it's hidden from me on yahoo. Then I'll send out the invite.
Okay.
But I cannot find a way to enter our league number in the join custom league page at Yahoo anymore. Hate that stupid update they did a month ago.
Link?
Yup.
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Hockey 2014
« on: October 2, 2013, 10:55 PM »
Nope, I was looking for it too. When I checked the league settings we still had a games cap. I'll keep looking...
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Basketball 2014
« on: October 1, 2013, 10:28 PM »
Starting the flogging....c'mon, y'know you wanna. 
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Baseball 2013
« on: September 30, 2013, 11:06 PM »
2005 was first for me as well, though I only started fantasy sports in 2004 so maybe there were other years with other guys?
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Baseball 2013
« on: September 29, 2013, 06:17 PM »
Congrats Mr. Dressel, a rather dominating season I'd say. Well done.
Managed to mismanage myself to fourth.
Managed to mismanage myself to fourth.
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JD Sports Forum! / JediDefender Fantasy Basketball 2014
« on: September 29, 2013, 12:38 PM »
League ID #35807
password: berry
Would be great if some new players joined up for this so we have a bigger league than five guys. 8-10 would be great. This is the sport I got my introduction to in fantasy sports so I'll vouch for it being a good way to break into the wacky world of fake sports management.
Draft is set for 8:30 CST Thursday October 24
password: berry
Would be great if some new players joined up for this so we have a bigger league than five guys. 8-10 would be great. This is the sport I got my introduction to in fantasy sports so I'll vouch for it being a good way to break into the wacky world of fake sports management.
Draft is set for 8:30 CST Thursday October 24
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Hockey 2014
« on: September 18, 2013, 11:19 AM »
Draft is one week away. Scott, Jeff - you guys in? Anyone else we're missing?
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Football 2013
« on: September 18, 2013, 11:19 AM »
Ok guys, I’ve been in discussions with Justin about a waiver issue he has. The background story is thus:
On September 10th Justin PM’d me to indicate he had inadvertently dropped Julian Edelman for the Washington Defense. He tried to pick him up again immediately but was unable to do so because Yahoo setting put a two day wait on picking up your own guy again right away. This is consistent across the leagues I’ve played in though I don’t honestly know if this is adjustable on Yahoo (I can’t check while I’m at work, Yahoo is blocked).
I explained to Justin that I can’t do anything about Edelman (and trust me this is difficult because I’m the guy who ended up with him off waivers) because the two day wait on players you drop has been consistent in all JD leagues that I’ve ever played in (we can discuss whether we want to change that going forward, but it’s not the point right now). Justin was accepting of that though he was unaware of the two day wait.
Justin subsequently requested that I restore his waiver wire position to #2 position where he feels he should be, rather than at #9. As this conversation did start prior to the week 1 waivers being processed I indicated I’d put it to the league for a vote.
So am I restoring Justin’s waiver position? Yes or No?
On September 10th Justin PM’d me to indicate he had inadvertently dropped Julian Edelman for the Washington Defense. He tried to pick him up again immediately but was unable to do so because Yahoo setting put a two day wait on picking up your own guy again right away. This is consistent across the leagues I’ve played in though I don’t honestly know if this is adjustable on Yahoo (I can’t check while I’m at work, Yahoo is blocked).
I explained to Justin that I can’t do anything about Edelman (and trust me this is difficult because I’m the guy who ended up with him off waivers) because the two day wait on players you drop has been consistent in all JD leagues that I’ve ever played in (we can discuss whether we want to change that going forward, but it’s not the point right now). Justin was accepting of that though he was unaware of the two day wait.
Justin subsequently requested that I restore his waiver wire position to #2 position where he feels he should be, rather than at #9. As this conversation did start prior to the week 1 waivers being processed I indicated I’d put it to the league for a vote.
So am I restoring Justin’s waiver position? Yes or No?
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Other Toy Lines / Re: McFarlane Sportspicks
« on: September 16, 2013, 09:37 PM »Wait. This thread has been dormant for 3 YEARS?!?! I honestly can't even remember the last time I bought a Sports Picks figure.
I bought one just last week. Teemu Selanne with the puck in the package. Never lasted here in the 'Peg and not surprisingly. But I was in a small town Walmart in southern Ontario last week and there he was. Had to laugh.
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Hockey 2014
« on: September 16, 2013, 06:15 PM »
Fine. 
Wednesday September 25th, 8:30 P.M. Central. Let me know about any conflicts. Latest we can draft is September 30th it seems.
Wednesday September 25th, 8:30 P.M. Central. Let me know about any conflicts. Latest we can draft is September 30th it seems.
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Football 2013
« on: September 5, 2013, 07:13 PM »I think I've got to take issue with the waiver settings. As things are set now, waiver moves won't be processed until Saturday. The season opener, however, is TONIGHT. And I can't say that I'm pleased with Yahoo, since I had to autodraft and wound up with a player in a roster spot who had just been put on IR. Yahoo, however, is listing that particular player as NA (not active). Hence my desire to make a waiver move since I got screwed by the autodraft process.
All JD leagues have a two day wait following the draft, not just football. You can take issue with it but it's the proximity of the draft to the start of the games that is the issue, not the setting. I appreciate it sucks for you but those settings really weren't open to discussion. We always try to draft as close to the start of the season as we can so that folks don't end up with an injury shortly after the draft.
Autodraft sucks. Almost invariably.
Looking at your team I'm not sure I understand the urgency to make a move. I know the opener is tonight and maybe there's someone you want badly but we're talking about one game here. I can't think of anyone that's going to make a huge difference tonight that isn't already drafted. Help me understand.
As for the NA player, he doesn't play until Sunday and players are FA on Saturday. It's a little frustrating, but it's autodraft and it was a player taken in the 11th round.
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Football 2013
« on: September 5, 2013, 02:14 PM »Yeah I know what you are saying Rob but you also get like Justin said #1, #24 and #25. It just so happened Cory was last place year anyway so that worked out but Brent was like 2nd to last and got the 11th pick. I'd say it a standard that is has a proven track record.
The idea of an auction is a good one and it totally gets rid of all of that bias. I'd be OK with that too.
The randomness of the draft order doesn't actually bother me that much, though Justin's discussion is somewhat interesting. I drafted 11th (9th last year) and it does suck frankly (and according to Yahoo who gave me a C+ for my draft) but through all JD fantasy sports I don't think I really have all that much to complain about as I've drafted across the board fairly randomly as should be expected. Someday I'll get notched back up higher but thus far this year my draft position hasn't been all that friendly (in our NHL ticket draft I got picks 8/9 out of 9
)I'm fine with changing the draft order to be the inverse of the season finish the preceding year and it is very easy to set up on Yahoo. Any new players would have to assume the draft position of someone that's dropped out, though our group is pretty stable overall. Again, would like more comments from people here, yahoo or email to get better representation of what the group thinks.
On the auction side of things that could be very interesting though I confess I have no experience in it at all. My only concern that way would be in terms of time commitment in doing the auction. I'd think an auction draft would take quite a bit longer, probably 4-5 hours total and that's going to be tough to schedule. Works well for in person drafting I assume where all can get together, but time zones alone would complicate matters. I assume that someone here has participated in auction drafts, how long would we need and is it reasonable?
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JediDefender Fantasy Football 2013
« on: September 5, 2013, 02:07 PM »If it's how Justin is describing, I'm Not sure I like that.... I'd finally gotten used to how to best use the newer way we've been doing it. Why mess with it again?
Or, is this how it's been the last two years and we are just misinterpreting the description?
Yeah it's been hard for me to read ANYTHING since the terrible new layout debuted on Yahoo, so I obviously missed the discussion. I prefer the "old" way, which would be option 1.
As for the draft, I work overnights so I decided to sleep in and do the autodraft... kinda wishing I hadn't. Not terribly thrilled with my lineup and stable of WRs. But we'll see what happens. I gave up on my team in week 1 last year so I'd like to avoid making that same mistake this year.
Thanks Brent. Does this mean the worst team gets the first pick up of the week, and if they stay the worst team they get the first pick the next week and so on? When do the waiver submissions actually process?
Why change it? Mostly to try and get people reading things. It had also been suggested to me and the only way to get feedback (understandably, the new Yahoo layout is hard on the eyes and difficult to navigate) is to make the change and then see what comes from it. A few people had suggested it, certain aspects seemed reasonable so I thought what the heck.
That said, I'm not wed to it in any way. Rolling waivers seems to place value on retaining your standing and not making frivolous waiver wire selections that will send you to the bottom of the order. It creates a certain value to your waiver standing that won't occur if you keep winning. But there are negative aspects in that some players will predatorily pick up players they have no need of just to use them as trade bait or to keep other owners from obtaining them. I say negative but do understand that it is part of the game. It also functions as insurance against future injury.
Since it's the start of the season we have a couple of days to mull it over (post draft waivers open up Friday, I think - I can't check Yahoo from work any longer). Early responses to the change are negative. In the absence of arguments for (either here, on yahoo or by email to me) I'll just change it back to how it was last year on Sunday (later on as I have a CFL game to attend and my kid is at a basketball tryout) or Monday, prior to the usual deadline so it functions as it did previously.