TPM Fantasy Football 2006-07

[mr_pikachu]

The TPM Fantasy Football League

By popular demand, it has begun.

Welcome to the TPM Fantasy Football League! This is where you can pit your knowledge of the NFL's top players against your fellow Pokemasters to fight for the championship!

We'll be conducting the league through Yahoo! Sports, and this thread will serve as a discussion area for the league. Feel free to talk about league developments, raise any trade objections, ask questions about the league, and brag about your victories! Well, if you're good enough to win any games, that is.

Think you're good enough to take the title? Then sign up now!* All you need to play is a Yahoo! ID. But remember, only the first ten managers who register can participate, so get in the game before it's too late!


-pikachu_sensei, League Commissioner

League Information:
Head-to-head games
Standard Scoring
Top 4 Teams Reach Single-Elimination Playoffs
Draft on Saturday, September 2, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. CST
Maximum ten teams

* Registration is now closed. Good luck to all participants!

(Note to mods: Everyone who responded basically said to put it in the other forum. Feel free to play ping-pong with the topic if you want, but I pretty much had to pick one forum or the other.)

League Teams and Managers
Blue Barracudas dratinihaunter13
Detroit Firebirds kainashi
New York Goons Dark Dragonite
New York Thunder Ghost
Tennessee Torpedoes DragoKnight
The Michigan Dragons Charles Legend
The Pikachus mr_pikachu
BYE BYE

[Ghost]

Alright, I signed up. Thing is, I accidently created two . Mind deleting one for me?

[mr_pikachu]

Done. And welcome to the league, New York Thunder!

(If you all wouldn't mind telling us what your team name or your Yahoo! username is when you register, that'd be great. Thanks.)

[Drago]

Oh yeah. Oh hell yeah. I'm a registered voter, er em participant. Yahoo ID is tackhead9 and my team is the Tennessee Torpedoes.
I'm likely gonna have some issues with that draft (it's doubtful my crummy computer's gonna last without crashing), but it appears I can set up player rankings prior to the event iffin I don't attend, eh?

In all likelihood I'm gonna get crushed, though I hope to at least outrank you, mr_p. No way I'm losing to a team called the pikachus.

[Dark Dragonite]

New York Goons(Sleepless_in_ny2000) reporting for camp!!

BTW, nice sig quote, lol

[kainashi]

i joined. hopefully the league fills up.

[Dark Dragonite]

I'd just like to stake my claim on Carson Palmer...I have him in every league so far, lol...and from that commercial... "T.J. Whosyourmomma"

[Ghost]

Me and DarkDragonite can have a Giants-Jets like rivarlry...

Also, I have Carson Palmer in my fantasy league, so most likely I'm going with a Different QB. Hopefully I can get Peyton

[Dark Dragonite]

when my league was drafting, palmer was a question to play...I got peyton and palmer...LOL

[Ghost]

Damn you... That's a good team right there.

Also, in my fantasy league i traded Charlie Frye for Tony Gonzalez. Good trade, bad trade? BTW i have 6 QBs, so that wasnt a problem..

BTW, where is everyone else? We still need five people :/

[mr_pikachu]

Remember, we've still got almost a week left. I'm going to work on finding five more players to fill the spots. And just in case we happen to be slightly short, I made sure to choose a league in which you didn't have to reach the maximum number of teams. For instance, if we end up with eight teams, we'll still be able to hold the league.

(Notice that even now you can view the week 1 matchups on the right - even though there are only five teams out of the maximum ten! These matchups changed each time a new team joined the league. Basically, it's showing what the week 1 games will be if we don't get any more participants.)

I already have a couple of ideas as to who I can ask... now we just have to hope their schedules don't conflict with the league.

[Chris]

I've announced it - hopefully it'll give you guys some more registrants

[mr_pikachu]

Wow, thank you, Chris! I appreciate the help!

[Dark Dragonite]

If you read the league home page, we can start with 6, 8, or 10 teams, if we have an odd amount of teams(5,7,9) the draft will not occur...


BTW, that damn good team is in a private league, 10 teams, mine looks like:
QB P. Manning
(Ind - QB)
WR C. Chambers
(Mia - WR)
WR T. Houshmandzadeh
(Cin - WR)
WR K. Johnson
(Car - WR)
RB R. Bush
(NO - RB)
RB J. Addai
(Ind - RB)
TE T. Gonzalez
(KC - TE)
W/T J. Jurevicius
(Cle - WR)
W/R L. White
(Ten - RB)
BN C. Palmer
(Cin - QB)
BN M. Lewis
(Jac - TE)
BN T. Duckett
(Was - RB)
K J. Brown
(Sea - K)
BN R. Longwell
(Min - K)
DEF New York
(NYG - DEF)
BN Cincinnati
(Cin - DEF)
BN New York
(NYJ - DEF)
D C. Webster
(NYG - DB)
D A. Thomas
(Bal - DL)
D A. Wilson
(Ari - DB)
D K. Rhodes
(NYJ - DB)
BN M. Peterson
(Jac - DL)

How the fuck did I get this team?!

[mr_pikachu]

If you read the league home page, we can start with 6, 8, or 10 teams, if we have an odd amount of teams(5,7,9) the draft will not occur...

Quite right. I am prepared to create a "Bye" team before the draft begins, should we have an odd number of teams when we reach the close of registration. (I can change the league password - effectively closing registration - and then create a Bye team, which will not be present at the draft and which will have the draftable players ranked in reverse order, with worst players first. That way, none of the players that any sane manager would draft will be affected.)

[Dark Dragonite]

you should be careful though...as with my salary cap team, rookies like Reggie Bush, and Joseph addai aren't ranked the highest

[mr_pikachu]

True. Just in case someone's crazy enough to want the players ranked in the 2000s, I'll have that team immediately drop every player it drafted once the draft is complete.

(Or maybe there's a way to keep the Bye team from drafting any players at all... I'll check.)

[dratinihaunter13]

i'm in. sorry in advance to everyone i embarrass =(

[Dark Dragonite]

oh, you won't be very sorry then, huh?

[dratinihaunter13]

a league's a lot better with an even number of teams. if it looks like we're staying at an odd number, maybe we should open the league public to fill out the last spot with some random dude. setting the max teams accordingly of course.

and Dark Dragonite i'll see you on the field! and by "i" I mean my team of players... and by field i mean imaginary field in cyberspace.... yea!

[mr_pikachu]

There are only two days left to register in the inaugural TPM Fantasy Football League! Be sure you don't miss your chance to compete in the ultimate test of football prowess!

[Dark Dragonite]

and don't forget the bragging rights when I kick everyone's ass, lol


Also, we should keep up with it, I'd join a hockey league, then a baseball, maybe even basketball...

[Drago]

Uggh, approaching the draft, and I'm feeling as though this is a practice in futility for me... Anyone else doing this for the first time with the TPM league? Am I gonna be a Cardinal-esque bye week for all opposition? Odds are, yes.

[Dark Dragonite]

you'd be surprised, I won a few championships in my first year, probably due to folowing sports IRL, this is just trying to rack up points by guessing who will be best at each position...some, like L.J. show more ability to put up last year's numbers.

[mr_pikachu]

Yeah, there's more luck involved than you'd think. I was in a league last year where, after the draft, everyone in the league was talking about the astounding team I'd put together. (It was, in all frankness, the best draft I've ever had.) I took a decent lead in the first twelve weeks or so.

Then two of my best players got seriously injured the week before a doubleheader against my two top rivals, and my star player was ejected in the first quarter of that doubleheader week. Needless to say, I couldn't come back in time, and I ended up with second place despite vastly outscoring all the other teams in the league. Just inopportune timing that was devastating. So yeah, luck is definitely a factor.

[Dark Dragonite]

ok, a little under 12hrs to go, still 7 teams...here's to a bye team!!

[mr_pikachu]

It's starting to look that way. I'll wait until an hour or two before the draft and then close registration. If it's still necessary, I'll create a bye team just before I end the signups.

[Dark Dragonite]

I don't mean to take away from the football you started, but could I maybe get a quick poll as to who would do a hockey league as well?

I love the hockey, most of my trophies are from it, sign ups started but season not until october...

[dratinihaunter13]

is the league public right now or still private? i'd rather have an extra human team than some bye team =-/

hockey's an awesome sport but i don't know enough about it for fantasy, sry

[mr_pikachu]

DD: I could try hockey, although I don't know how well I'd do. It's really not a sport I follow. I'd probably join if you needed one more manager, but I'm not sure I'd sign up otherwise. If you end up needing me to fill a final slot (like we kind of need now), then sure.

Martin: Well, it's a private league right now. Here are the two main problems with making it public:

1. I don't think I can make it public! You have to choose which it will be when you create the league, and I don't believe you can change that designation afterward. So I'd have to create an entirely new league. And then we'd have to either have everyone frantically sign up in the new league, or it wouldn't work at all.

2. Even if we assume that we could, it's not a perfect plan. For one thing, it breaks the whole "this is our league!" idea. But more importantly, I can't limit it to one more team. It's far more likely that we'd have three registrants who would fill up all the remaining slots (or worse yet, two, which would mean that we'd still need a bye team).

I have seriously considered it myself, but I just don't think it would work.

[Dark Dragonite]

the way to allow public in would be to post a message on the fantasy footbal message board with the id and pass

[mr_pikachu]

Well, I suppose that could be done. But then again, there would still be no way to control how many people would register - imagine if no one did!

Anyway, I've gone ahead and added the bye team and closed registration, and now I'm making it so that the bye team will draft only the worst of the worst. If anyone else wants to register in the next... uh... thirty minutes or so (maybe even less time), please either post in this thread or PM me.

Also, one of the league managers recently asked me for the league homepage. For those of you who don't have it bookmarked, here it is: TPM Fantasy Football 2006-07.

The draft will happen in less than an hour, so I wish the best of luck to everyone!

[dratinihaunter13]

I think it's under comissioner tools, but i've changed a league from private to public before in the leagues i've ran. so it's definitely possible. and i was worried about the whole "this is our league" thing getting screwed up over it, but also under some commisioner option you can input a new "max teams" option and put it at 8, so when made public, anyone searching for a public league from a list can join and then the league would immediately be closed to further registration BUT it looks like we're just about ready to draft so.. let's make the best of what we got =) BYE will become my greatest rival

[mr_pikachu]

Excellent draft, everyone! Now, the real competition will begin...

And in case you didn't already realize it, anyone who loses to BYE should be ashamed.


-pikachu_sensei, League Commissioner

[Ghost]

Anybody wanna work out some trades?

[Dark Dragonite]

lol, anyone like my team?

I was playing pool when it drafted davis...I dumped him, waiting for free agents

[dratinihaunter13]

ghost: i'm always down for trade proposals! feel free to offer them over yahoo to me. i'd talk to ya here but they're watching =-o!!

dd: every year there are a few hilarious mistakes per league. drafting domdavis was a great one to kick us off ^_^

[Dark Dragonite]

It's funny, Davis has been drafted in every league I follow, including my dad's...and not by us...

I'm looking for a TE and WR who are not off on the 4th week, and whatever week Carolina has off...looking for equal value...I have top receivers and TE

S.Smith
K.Johnson
H.Miller
J.Shockey

[mr_pikachu]

Well, today kicks off the NFL season, and the inaugural TPM Fantasy Football League! Think you've got a shot at victory? You'd better hope so!


-pikachu_sensei, League Commissioner

[mr_pikachu]

Good news: My defense, the Baltimore Ravens, had a shutout with 3 sacks, 3 interceptions, and a defensive touchdown! That's 25 points!

Bad news: I started the Panthers.


Fantastic.