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[DH1875]

Peyton Manning .

[HibsMax]

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Yeah, I think you should be fine!

Very frustrated - NFL.com had Jennings as 'Questionable' but removed that about an hour before kick-off, saying he was warming up and had looked fine, so I put him in.

Edelmen remained Questionable so I left him out and put Sanu in, and also had Johnson in until I swapped him out for Jennings!

I'm blaming NFL.com and their absolutely stupid website for this week!

I would always check another source for a players designation. I heard people getting pissed about Thomas being active but not playing. Ouch.

[KirkyK]

Man! I lost by .6 points...Damn Torrey Smith and his it's not a serious injury all through the week, got me the square root of jack!

Oh well still an enjoyable experience for my first year ever, and went out all guns blazing against the top seed! Certainly adds an edge to games I'd otherwise have no real interest in!

If we start the draft for next year now we might have it finished for week 1 yeah...

[brythehibby]

14 points down with only my kicker to play. 15 points. Kicker was my top scorer and I scrape a win.

[lugz]

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14 points down with only my kicker to play. 15 points. Kicker was my top scorer and I scrape a win.

i know you can never expect to win a week with 55 points but that was hard to take. Keenan Allen just had to get 20 yards against NE and I'd have been fine.

Congrats on the win!

[lugz]

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Got a 14 point lead going into tonights game and its GB Kicker vs my GB defence. Got to be confident but would have like Keenan Allen to have got more than 0.3 last night (he was stuck on Revis island)

Packers D score lowest points of season and GB kickers scores 15 points. Tough loss.

[brythehibby]

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i know you can never expect to win a week with 55 points but that was hard to take. Keenan Allen just had to get 20 yards against NE and I'd have been fine.

Congrats on the win!

Both of us had a shocker as all the top players didn't perform. A 16 point swing between kicker and defence was unexpected so I feel for you. My team has been shocking the last 3 weeks.

[lugz]

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Both of us had a shocker as all the top players didn't perform. A 16 point swing between kicker and defence was unexpected so I feel for you. My team has been shocking the last 3 weeks.

it was the same last time we played for some reason and i scraped a win that time. My team is shocking haha, definitely going to come 8th now.

1st season playing but its brilliant.

[Sylar]

Well done Sergio - lesson learned for next year not to trust the NFL.com designations then - if I had stuck to my guns and kept Jennings and Sanu out and put Edelmen and Johnson in, I would have won but hey-ho.

Will probably stop paying attention now sadly!

[James.]

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Peyton Manning .

Haha don't you mean...

Le'veon Bell

Decent score but screwed over by those seedings! Not that I'm bitter Enjoyed this season, particularly picking up Beckham off waivers and then watching him explode and Tony Romo turning in some Manning-esque performances. Zac Stacy, Ray Rice and Pierre Garçon however were terrible picks this year.

Good luck to the four remaining teams. My moneys on the Edinburgh Giants - that's some roster for a 16 team league.

[hibsbollah]

I enjoyed it too, despite my first ever losing season at 6-8 I definitely prefer a smaller league with more depth and quality players available, maybe if there's the same demand next year we can split into two separate leagues?

[HibsMax]

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I enjoyed it too, despite my first ever losing season at 6-8 I definitely prefer a smaller league with more depth and quality players available, maybe if there's the same demand next year we can split into two separate leagues?

Another option worth looking into are weekly contests. FanDuel is a site that I just started using, literally started last week, so I am not sure what we can do as a private group. I know some people might be like "Why do we need to change anything?" and to that I would say, "Why limit ourselves? We can play in more than one league.". :) We could even run more than one NFL.com fantasy league - many people play in multiple leagues - and that way you increase your chances of being successful (unless you just suck at FF).

Having used a couple of sites (NFL.com, ESPN.com and Yahoo!) I think I prefer ESPN. I don't really know why but fantasy.nfl.com being blocked at work is part of it.

[NOLA]

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I enjoyed it too, despite my first ever losing season at 6-8 I definitely prefer a smaller league with more depth and quality players available, maybe if there's the same demand next year we can split into two separate leagues?

think i would concur with that, if you start off well in a 16 team league your at the bottom of the waiver wire for weeks after even when you go on a slump i never managed to land any player i wanted on waivers, just kept dropping and picking up the same ones lol, ive enjoyed the challenge though but i would prefer a smaller league to be honest. credit to the new guys this season they have drafted and managed well kudos to them.

[Gatecrasher]

I'll wait until the season is completely over but I was thinking those who are interested in pursuing a live draft and those who are unable go into separate leagues?

[NOLA]

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I'll wait until the season is completely over but I was thinking those who are interested in pursuing a live draft and those who are unable go into separate leagues?

Could be a good idea that

[James.]

The only problem here is if we split into two leagues then the challenge and skill kind of disappears - eight teams in a league isn't exactly exciting. I think now we've all had a year of playing with 16 we should all have a better idea of what to expect. 12/14 really should be the max and as nice as it is to be inclusive to new players, we've got to think about how much enjoyment we're getting from this if we go any bigger or start splitting the league.


As some of us have now been playing for three years I think we're knowledgeable enough to maybe try a dynasty league - the positive there being if you have a bad year, you get top pick in the draft the following year, players can be traded for draft slots and more decent players would be available on the waiver wire as teams start to stash future prospects. It's something to think about and even if 10/12 of us were interested we could do it as a secondary league.

[DH1875]

I like this years set up and think that its much better than playing in a smaller league. Cant keep everyone happy I suppose. Maybe if we do 2 leagues folks who want to can have a team in both?

[lugz]

I've enjoyed it this season but have nothing to compare it to. Only thing i found hard was picking up good players but that might come with practice. Don't think i drafted particularly well either so trying to trade was difficult.

I'd be open to any league next season and hopefully use anything i have learned this year.

[Haymaker]

It was ****ing hard this year but still fun. Like the idea of a dynasty league as well although I would still suck.

[HibsMax]

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I've enjoyed it this season but have nothing to compare it to. Only thing i found hard was picking up good players but that might come with practice. Don't think i drafted particularly well either so trying to trade was difficult.

I'd be open to any league next season and hopefully use anything i have learned this year.

That is the problem with a 16 player league, there is nobody on the waiver wire. OK, every week a couple of players might shine and attract attention, but that only benefits some people. I don't think practice has much to do with it to be honest. Every week I look at the waiver wire and there's been basically nobody to pick up. We're also not a very trade-heavy league. All we need to do is find 8 more people and we can have two leagues of 12. I've found that playing in a league of 12 is still challenging but the waiver wire is not as barren (since you have 36 more players to choose from - assuming 9 starters per team).

There are many people who play in multiple leagues (I'm playing in 4 this year) so I don't think getting the number should be too difficult. The key is to get the announcement out nice and early and, for me, get the draft orgranised. I know I said it before but it's worth repeating. My work draft was over in 36 minutes from start through finish. The draft should be quick because you're supposed to be prepared ahead of time. If your next pick is gone by the time it's your pick, you should already have the next player you want lined up. I'm up for playing multiple Hibs.net leagues. We could even tinker with different formats to see how things go. There's no need to try a new format every year to find out what we want, that could take years, but we could play a few in one year and go with what we all like the most.

[James.]

I know Max hates the offline draft but I think it's one of the good things about our league. 3 solid weeks of epic drafting fun

[Gatecrasher]

The more opinions and discussion on this the better and hopefully get something sorted early as Max says. I'm open minded on the whole thing to be honest.

Could someone explain the dynasty league?

[Haymaker]

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I know Max hates the offline draft but I think it's one of the good things about our league. 3 solid weeks of epic drafting fun

It's the highlight of the year for .net!

[HibsMax]

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The more opinions and discussion on this the better and hopefully get something sorted early as Max says. I'm open minded on the whole thing to be honest.

Could someone explain the dynasty league?

I've never played in one before but you get to keep players from one year to the next (not sure how many though). You can then use the players you are holding onto to trade-up in the draft order (should you want to). There's probably more to it than that but that's what I know.

[HibsMax]

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I know Max hates the offline draft but I think it's one of the good things about our league. 3 solid weeks of epic drafting fun

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It's the highlight of the year for .net!

I find it soul-destroying. :) Sometimes a day goes by between picks. There's just something about being on the clock and watching the league build in front of your eyes. There's none of this "can someone add my pick for me please, I'm mobile". You don't have people picking players who have already been picked. It's just a better experience IMO. If we do this again next year, I won't be in any leagues with an offline draft.

[James.]

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I've never played in one before but you get to keep players from one year to the next (not sure how many though). You can then use the players you are holding onto to trade-up in the draft order (should you want to). There's probably more to it than that but that's what I know.

This is a nutshell. It's pretty much like running an NFL team, you stick with the same roster and you build it up through drafting, trades, swapping picks and free agent finds. I think it provides more scope for improving your team if you draft poorly in the first year. Say you had DeMarco Murray and I had nothing to offer you of interest then I could tempt you with my first round pick the following year - no player is off limits and theres no end to how creative you can get in trading (three team trades etc.). There's no way i would have parted with Matt Forte this year but if I had been out of the playoff picture and someone offered me their first round pick and someone like Carlos Hyde I would have seriously have considered it. It puts an emphasis on picking young players with potential rather than having bog standard guys like DeAngelo Williams filling up your roster. I think it would freshen things up a bit and add a little more challenge and intrigue.

[hibsbollah]

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I know Max hates the offline draft but I think it's one of the good things about our league. 3 solid weeks of epic drafting fun

Me too. The draft on here is tremendous. Id always vote to keep it just the way It is.

[Sergio sledge]

I'd love to do a dynasty league, it would be good fun I think.

I'm also a fan of the offline draft, partly because I don't think I'd be able to set aside the time to set up my draft order and also complete a live draft unless it was between 9pm and 12am one night once the kids, and wife, are in bed..... Could it be completed in 3 hours?

I have to say I've enjoyed the 16 team league this year, it made me more inclined to offer trades as I knew I couldn't just pick up someone off the waivers. It puts more emphasis on good drafting, but it is pretty hard to change things if you are struggling. If we could drum up 6 - 8 more players then we could do two 12 team leagues next year, some of us could put two teams in, I'd be willing to go for a second team.

[SmithyHibee]

I'd be well up for giving the dynasty league a try.

[HibsMax]

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Me too. The draft on here is tremendous. Id always vote to keep it just the way It is.

You guys are crazy. :) Everyone I've spoken to over here about the Hibs.net draft can't believe it runs the way we run it. Just think, if we did do an online draft we could have multiple leagues setup in a couple of hours.

But I know I am in the sane minority.