Fantasy Football Personalities

I would love to take credit for this information, but here are some personalities of fantasy football players that typically show up in every league. Since the draft is a little over a month away, I figured we can have some fun with these since some of them describe members of our league pretty accurately. Feel free to comment on your choice for each one!

1. The Favorite Team Guy
He drafts only guys from his favorite NFL team....no matter how crappy the team might be. You know, that guy who's a die-hard Lions fan and he's sincerely smiling when he grabs QB Matt Stafford in the third round.

2. The Overachiever
It's not like everyone doesn't bring their list of picks, but this guy has 15 draft guide magazines, a laptop with drafting software, spiral-bound notebooks full of secret scribblings, and a draft guru on the telephone.

3. The Girlfriend
No fantasy football league ever starts with the girlfriend, but two or three seasons into it, it happens. You look over and there she is...your buddy's girlfriend is making picks at your draft. And every single pick she makes is punctuated with the question, "Is he any good?"

4. The Old-Timer
It never fails. Someone invites their dad, or older friend from the office to join in. He randomly yells out "Bradshaw!" or "Staubach!" and asks if Walter Payton is still available.

5. The Confusionist
Past the second round of your draft, he's completely and hopelessly lost. Unable to focus, he has no clue who he's picking or when he's supposed to pick. He's constantly going out of turn. To make matters worse, he's picking guys that have already been picked. By the 5th round he's gone from telling his pick to asking, "Uh, has anybody picked (fill in the blank)?"

6. The Agonist
He's the reason that you instituted a 60-second time limit on draft picks in the first place. He so agonizes over each choice that he's all but frozen after the first round.

7. The No-Show
It happens every year. Something came up: his mom is in the hospital, his girlfriend planned their vacation the same week, he just can't make it. Panicked, he usually asks one of his buddies at the draft to pick for him. And faxes him over some hand-scribbled, illegible notes on a dozen guys "he'd like you to get for him." Then, of course, he spends the rest of the season bitching about the team you drafted for him.

8. The Henpecker
He isn't as bad as the guy who invited his girlfriend, but he's close. He can't make picks because his wife/girlfriend calls him 10 times during the draft. He moans each time the phone rings, but refuses to to turn it off no matter how much you mock him. He's the reason you have to explain, "Honey, please don't call me during the draft."

God Yes!

I have been waiting for the day to receive my official invite to the league for so long. It's like Christmas. Thank you, Commish.

Things to Come

I understand that there are still a few important items to take care of and many of us are getting restless. In the coming days you will see Bebo joining the blog and league. You will also see an official ballot that will determine how we will admit new franchises into our keeper league. Most importantly you will see an invite in your email very soon from Yahoo to our actual league. This means you need to be racking your brain for team names and images. However, I want two things to be set in stone tonight.

1: Draft day will be Saturday Sept 5. The draft will occur at 11 eastern time and will be done in Harper Swinney's basement. We will not be autodrafting any teams. If you can't make it, please make arrangements to be on gmail chat at that time. Unless some emergency occurs, I doubt any owners will be cutting slack for not drafting. Everyone has had plenty of time to respond if that day doesn't work for you....thus I am assuming that it does. Again, you don't necessarily have to be there, but you need to draft your own teams.

2:Since each of us will be forfeiting two rounds of picks prior to the round our keeper is projected, I want to establish exactly which projections we will use. When you create your team name and join the league you will see the "players" tab at the top of the screen. When you click on that tab, there is a list of players. They are in order of their projected pick. You can reorder players based on a # of categories. However, the projection # is the one we will use to determine what round we forfeit. If this is not clear, please let me know.

Its Coming Soon!

Behold a Pale Horse

I have had my ear to the league rumor mill and have come across some information that I thought I should pass along. It has come to my attention that a trade of biblical proportions may be on the horizon. I am not a party to the rumored transaction. And, unfortunately, I am not at liberty to divulge all of the information to which I have access. However, I can say that the exchange would result in the reunification of two old friends, would alter the landscape of our fair game, and would lay the foundation for the rise of the greatest villain we have ever witnessed.

Date, Time, Location, and Attire for 2009 Draft

Gentlemen, I know we have briefly brough this topic up, but I wanted to see about getting some concrete information nailed down on our proposed Live Draft. After talking to the Commish yesterday, I think sometime in the morning or around noon for Saturday, September 5th seemed to be good for everyone. I would like to formally impose on Captain Montana for use of his domain in Louisville. We could have the draft in the barracks below, with all of our dames who wish to come making fun of us above in the living room.

I think this is the most viable option for us. Admiral Sax and I will be traveling from afar to make it back for this wonderful event. We can each bring food, beverages, and whatever draft literature we choose and have a rousing good time with each other to kick off this glorious new season. That night, we could all go out to celebrate and embarrass ourselves under the lights of the city. With this being a gentlemen's league, I would also be interested to inquire about what other members feel about the attire that should be worn. The comradery of this league is getting stronger and stronger each year, and I look forward to seeing everyone soon. Please comment below.

I also found this link to Clinton Portis and his preparation for the upcoming season by going with "the Sisqo look"...Luigi may want to reconsider him as a keeper.

http://blacksportsonline.com/index/2009/07/clinton-portis-channels-his-in.html

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I hope I get to play Jason week 5. If you don't know what I mean by that, then there is a nice spot in the consolation bracket reserved for you.

Including new players

As far as I know, we have not yet determined conclusively how the new players will be incorporated into the league (or even if they are 100% sure they are playing as neither has joined the blog). My feeling is this:
We let them choose from our leftovers in a small draft:

Player 1
Player 2
Player 2
Player 1

whereby player 1 picks tenth in the draft and player 2 picks ninth. I also suggest that we let the first one of them to join this blog decide if he wants to be player 1 or player 2 in the scenario above.

As far as anything official, I defer to the commish to make a separate post for voting. I simply want to promote some discussion of this issue and I also want to make sure they are actually joining the league.