iuswingman

10 hours ago, Seeking6 said:

Two comments.

1) Browns D had to be one of the favorites for early season streaming. Carolina, Jets, short week Steelers. Well they suck.

2) I need another month or so but this might be the first time in a decade where the strategy of not drafting RB's early finally backfires. So many WR's in the league anymore maybe it's wise to get RB's early again? Time will tell. 

Buddy brought it up last night and he knows I don't draft RB's early. I said yep...I got Dobbins, Mitchell, Edmonds in rounds 5 or later their just hurt or not being used. He countered with yep but I got Brown, Samuel,etc...in rounds 5 or later. No clue which is the best way.

I usually go rbs first because there are more viable options at wr.  Usually will be more wr in free agency too when someone does better than expected 

3 of the week 1 matchups were decided by less than 3 points.  And the team with the 2nd most points just happened to play the team that got the most points.   Crazy week 1.

Of course I lose by about 2 pts.  

I need to give my players a pep talk

PM me the correct list...send btown the fake list

1 hour ago, KoB2011 said:

Are any of those really falling? That seems about like where their ADP was in most leagues. 

My issue would be that they all would have the same bye week.  Plus, you are really tied to how one team does on offense for that particular week and thus more likely to have more peaks and valleys for your fantasy team performance.

4 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

Yep...I've seen it work though. Saints w/Brees, Brady/Patriots...Moss years, Mahomes,etc....

I'm with you for the most part I don't like putting that much into one team but Akers fell to him in late 4th, ARob in 6th, and Stafford in 9th. On paper and possibly next week those players should produce good points for where they were drafted. 

Lucky the team that gets him on their bye week.

There's a colts fan in my other league that is a keeper league and he collects all the colts players.  Pittman, Taylor, Woods, Pierce, and DEF.  Too bad I don't get him on the Colts bye week lol.  Of course, woods and pierce are bench warmers.

35 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

Man. I thought I had a rough start to fantasy. In one of my leagues the guy started Stafford, Arob, Akers, and Gay. 17 points is probably not what he had dialed up for Week 1 with those 4. 

That's a little too dependent on one team.   Talk about a lot of eggs in one basket.

8 hours ago, KDB said:

You’re welcome for Hollywood Brown for free @iuswingman.. Of course. LOL.

I was conflicted since it left me with 2 rbs and would be conceding that I made a bad choice in the 5th round.   Glad I went ahead with the trade.   At least it salvaged the bad selection somewhat.

Thanks for saving me.

technically he didn't say good news...just big news.

43 minutes ago, dgambill said:

Well this league also has fewer starters…most leagues have 3 wr and 2 flex and sometime a 2nd qb. So more spots are needed. To me if you are going to handcuff then you basically have no bench for the bye weeks. You have only 5 bench spots. I backup te, 1 back up qb, leaving 3 spots. If you handcuff both your running backs then you only have 1 bench spot. If you handcuff then both those guys are out on their bye…so you really start to struggle to have a back up. This isn’t to say if you want to carry a second defense. So yeah it makes very hard to decide if you are going to handcuff or not. Some guys I just wouldn’t do it…as their backup I don’t think will be good enough to bring value….while some have an injury history and a quality backup that I wouldn’t draft without like Zeke and Pollard or Cooks and Mattison or Akers and Henderson. So anyways to me handcuffing is almost impossible in our league where as in other deeper leagues with more draft spots it’s an absolute.

My other league has the same number of starters (has a 3rd WR instead of the W/R/T).  I don't think multiple QB spots or multiple flex spots are the default unless that has changed.   Been a while since I created a league.

3 minutes ago, OGIUAndy said:

I saw he posted this a few weeks ago. Are you saying this didn't come to be? Or what fell through? 

 

I was guessing him being on the team fell through since he wasn't listed on the roster.

Maybe the roster isn't fully accurate.

apparently fell through.

I did well with RB and QB but at the expense of WR and TE.  With 14 teams, probably hard to feel good about the entire starting lineup.

13 hours ago, dgambill said:

I had so many guys go 1 or 2 picks before me it was crazy. I’m not just talking guys up next in adp…but guys 15-20 positions down. I do wish we had like 2 more bench positions. Such short benches I don’t even bother to handcuff because the wire is loaded with guys.

I don't think the wire is that loaded.  With having 2 more teams than my other league, it is more sparse than I am used to.  If we had 2 more bench spots, there would really be no one left.

On 6/27/2022 at 9:57 PM, Indykev said:

LSU isn't looking for 3 star kids. until they are almost full.

Or does any recruit with LSU interest just magically become a 4 or 5 star?

On 8/2/2022 at 4:54 PM, Purdue7 said:

My dirty mind….I saw 2 legs on a beech…..

that top leg would be kind of chubby lol

2 hours ago, rico said:

Without the players how much is the school gonna make?  

Plenty. they would just find other players.   Not all players would just boycott.  Some would take it up for the free education.

2 hours ago, IUFLA said:

Until someone (NCAA, state or federal governments) put more clarification out regarding the rules, certainly there will be teams that operate in the "gray area." But it's been that way forever.

And while I understand your statement about the schools making the players ( @IU Scott makes that case all the time), the genesis of all of this is O'Bannon vs NCAA. How would you like to be playing a video game where an exact likeness of you is used, EA Sports and the NCAA are making millions off of, and you're not getting a dime? In the 30 for 30 about the Fab Five, they talked about Chris Weber going through UM's bookstore and seeing jerseys with his name on them being sold for $100, and he got none of that.

I think there is a fair and equitable solution for both sides, but we're not there yet... And until we see how this all shakes out, there won't be...

But not participating isn't the way to go right now... Not unless we want the early Crean days back... 

Personally I wouldn't have cared if the video games didn't try to make likenesses of real players.  Plus, exact likeness is being a little too kind.   Back when college games were coming out, it was more general likeness than anything.

I would have been just fine if the players were all randomized.  I mainly played dynasty mode so after 4-5 years, the players were all randomized anyway.

I think the crazy part is selling the jersey for $100, not the player not getting a cut.   Even more crazy is how much coaches are raking in.  Highest paid public employee in every state is more than likely a head coach.

31 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

I understand what you're saying...

I guess I just go back to the original thought of "what is the quality of product you're putting on the floor?"

I'd think most all kids would want to get paid something, and I'm sure the number of schools who are down with NIL and even want to help the student athletes gain opportunities would greatly outweigh the schools that don't want to participate in NIL. Like I said, Luke Brown's high school backup...

I'm not sure what the problem with NIL is in the first place. A kid should be able to make money off his name, image, or likeness. And it's not like every kid is going to get these million dollar deals. The deal our kids just got through the "Hoosier's for Good" deals equates to a little under $40K per year per kid (although @The Daily Hoosier makes it clear that the "allocations are not made equally, but instead based on factors such as a particular student athlete’s reach and ability to impact their charity.")

And that's just a baseline. An entrepreneurial kid can make a nice living through social media, jersey sales, ECT... 

 

This is paying the players to play their sport and thus it is now pretty much a professional league using the schools. At this point shouldn't we just have a college draft instead and make the teams as even as we can make them?

Without the schools, how much would these kids name, image and likeness be worth?  I wouldn't care about any of our players if they didn't play for us (outside of the baseline caring about other human beings in general).

10 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

True, but who's going to watch that product? I'd imagine die hard fans of a particular school might, but revenue would be hard to come by I'd think... 

It's not much different than people watching college basketball when players in the NBA are better players.  I think people would still root for their school even if they were in the G League of college basketball.

If IU was a non-NIL school and decided to only play other non-nil schools, I would still watch when i can.  If they weren't on tv anymore, then it would definitely make that harder though.  They would lose some fans but there are also fans that would appreciate that their school was not just a minor league of paid players.

1 hour ago, IUFLA said:

Come on... It's entertaining to see our resident PUkes progressing through the 5 stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance... Although most seem stuck between 1, 2, and 3).

Not nearly as entertaining as G&B Illustrated, but still...

Over there, the gnashing of teeth centers around the NIL and the evils it has wrought on college sports. One poster even suggested Purdue and other "like minded" schools (read: NIL ignoring fools) getting together and forming a separate version of the NCAA with no NIL nonsense allowed... Who would they recruit to that? Luke Brown's high school backup? 

It would be akin to a minor league.  A NIL free league wouldn't be able to compete with the schools that use NIL but I'm sure there are some people that value a free education.

If you weren't good enough to make an NIL team, a free education is still better than nothing.

Bubba to IU

We could at least move all discussion of ex wives to a separate board on here....

There seems to be a tight lid on what is going on this offseason so it will be interesting to see if we are in for some surprising changes under Walt Bell.

Who does everyone think will have a better than expected (breakout) season this year?
Think any players will have a surprising change of positions?

Some posters on the other site noted that you don't hear much about McCulley in articles discussing the QB battle and that he may be getting time at WR instead.   If he is not going to cut it as a QB, I wouldn't be too shocked to see that change and would be interesting to see how he does as a WR.  Could make for some interesting trick plays (not sure how much Bell is into those though) with a WR that could be a threat to throw on occasion.  

Hopefully some players on the OL have a breakout season because we desperately need that area to improve this year.

I wouldn't mind participating if any spots left.

Also interested if a dynasty league is started.