NFL Fantasy II

... and then again, he's in concussion protocol, so maybe not.

I think you can take the risk mate, you should probably drop a few players just to clear up some space. Might i suggest.... basically anyone in that absolutely horseshit stacked team you have there...
Johnson, Booker, Michael, Gronk... etc.

Shanbon wrote:Some good pick ups this week on waivers in l3. I had a 10 sec look and nothing stood out but now I see 2 guys I like haha. Kelce is great cover for Gronk and I would have loved to stop RnT from playing him against me this. Bundah Boys with the Coleman pick is great work I missed the fact he was back this week

Thanks (Bundah Boys is me). I now seem to have more WRs than I know what to do with - Brown, Evans, Cooper, Moncrief, Coleman, Pryor. Open to offers

Revraiser wrote:Westend warriors in L2 played Coleman today of the Falcons who  has been a clear cut 'out' for a while. Easy to lose interest  when others do.
Good result for Mearcats from his  kicker  today -16 awesome.
Your team has improved out of sight since  you took on an assistant coach Mearcats  

I'm running West End Warriors too. Haven't lost interest, just didn't get around to rolling Coleman out. Thursday night games are killers for me with work schedule/time difference. When I looked on Wed morning he was listed as questionable, rather than out. Tuesday's update had him as a game time decision. Where do you get your injury updates from?

jelejasof wrote:

I'm running West End Warriors too.  Haven't lost interest, just didn't get around to rolling Coleman out.  Thursday night games are killers for me with work schedule/time difference.  When I looked on Wed morning he was listed as questionable, rather than out.  Tuesday's update had him as a game time decision.  Where do you get your injury updates from?

Hey mate, yeah not having a shot at you. I spend alot of time travelling to and fro work so read and peruse alot of nfl related stuff whether it be from a fantasy/wagering/general interest point if view. Probably a sad cunt in how close i follow the nfl (writing this on the train on the way to do some overtime). But any of the easy to find espn/nfl.com sites and apps keep us informed enough RE injuries. Just reading the uodates about coleman the last two weeks it seemed clear he was going to be out again. He is about the best flex play in the game so understand wanting to play him.

In my opinion there are perhaps 5 things to take into account for players injuries:

1) Obviously there are their actual statuses.
2) There's the reality of their injury/situation (a good example would be Reed who was "questionable" a few weeks back but it was obvious concussion was gonna keep him out).
3) There's their participation in practises (you can find daily updates if you dig around)
4) There's what the coaches are saying about their player (Buffalo saying McCoy was out a couple weeks back)
5) There's how much you believe what the coaches are saying about their player (McCoy ending up not being out a couple weeks back).

My point, it can be quite a bit of work trying to figure out the actual injury status of all the players in your team and all those that directly or indirectly affect their game time/touches. And even then you'll still come a cropper every now and then

Archer wrote:I think you can take the risk mate, you should probably drop a few players just to clear up some space. Might i suggest.... basically anyone in that absolutely horseshit stacked team you have there...
Johnson, Booker, Michael, Gronk... etc.

Yeah, I was starting to get a little sheepish about holding a few RBs given the dramas across the league - but then I got over that.

I'm about to lose the benefits from Michaels as the Hawks go back to a committee, although I think I'll keep him on board out of being a hawks fan.
Having the extra RBs that are probably higher floors due to volume (West, Crowell, Booker) will help me get through the byes (Michaels and D. Johnson will be clear of byes now), so I may be looking to trade off some of the NFL fantasy's rarest commodities next week - healthy RBs!

ah i wish i played Ajayi in the flex over Bryant (how could he fail against the Browns??) Brees will carry RnT to the win now

Shanbon wrote:ah i wish i played Ajayi in the flex over Bryant (how could he fail against the Browns??) Brees will carry RnT to the win now

Yeah, I was thankful you didn't play him Were you concerned that Miami was gonna self destruct post bye week by changing their game plan or something?

Ajayi is on a tear at the moment! He's average 25+ carries a game over the last 3. I just brought him into my season long points league as a POD this week and pretty happy.

If Brees has a good second half I should win our game, but if Brees struggles then so will Cooks and if that happens it'll be neck and neck!

Edit, wow the yardage on this game huh. I thought the half was over - now Brees gonna get another shot. 48 points and still in the first half!

Wasn't expecting that from the SD D - that'll be the difference I reckon! Nice call on them mate!

Still kinda close, but I expect that Booker and Murray will probably cancel out from here on in, Denver's offence is so bad I can't see how their D is gonna avoid leaking points! So my guess is that'll leave you with Graham needing a few catches and that'll bout do it!

Good match up though!!

BroncHose wrote:Russ, I hope you get to updating your team for our top of the table clash.
It will be bitter sweet if I have to win with you still having Brady and Gostkowski starting.

I'd much rather own you fair and square!!!


Just quietly though, with a couple on byes myself, if you do update - its going to be a close one!!!

really regretting getting gobby like this the other day. Even if Russ let the bye players start - he would still have won our game.

Cam Newton and Moncrief were the only ones to let me down on my team average of single digit scores (only just).

This was a perfect shit storm of bad games from my starters. Didn't expect Booker to struggle so much against Raiders and I would have hoped for more from Cooper given the score against my denver D.

Bloody hell RnT you get some good luck. L Murray hasn't run for more then 60yards all season then against Denver he busts out for well over 100 and 3 tds!! His 30 points killed me.

Picked up a win against Surmo who is sitting atop the ladder.

Shanbon wrote:Bloody hell RnT you get some good luck. L Murray hasn't run for more then 60yards all season then against Denver he busts out for well over 100 and 3 tds!! His 30 points killed me.

Yeah mate, given I had the Denver D there was only one way I was getting out of that hole and it was Murray scoring all of Oak's points. He damn near did it too, lol. It was the TDs not the yardage though aye. I don't think any of his three TDs were from more than 1 yd out aye. He just had a desire to score more than Ive seen this year out of him. Two diving outstretched armed TDs, pretty impressive!! Hopefully that continues. The raiders are a massive surprise package this year so no reason to think he won't continue to put up respectable numbers on average!

You win some and you lose some though. I was this close to picking up Witten as my TE cover for Gronk but went for Kelce instead. Witten put up 134 yards and a TD!

U still have a chance though. 1TD and some yardage will do it! Bet you won't keep Ajayi on the bench again, cause he would have done it as well lol.

haha, what were you worrying about, 21 points and its not even half time

haha great time for Graham to finally get yards and tds on the same day.

No doubt the time i play Ajayi he'll go back to 25 yards and whoever i leave out will have a big day. I havent gotten it right once all year

Getting tight in L3 with 4 teams sitting tied for 4th at 4-5

Shanbon wrote:Getting tight in L3 with 4 teams sitting tied for 4th at 4-5

Yeah well done mate, that was a good match up.

Looking at your squad I'd be surprised if you don't make it into the playoffs - that is top 4 right?

Those salute to service caps look schmick

I had a thought last week when all the discussion around waivers and trades were cropping up, so tossing it up here to get peoples opinions/any objections.

It might be interesting to see the activity from week to week across the leagues (basically just what you would see in the "Activity & Messages" section), could generate some more discussion on here and would also be a handy learning tool for us newbies to see what some of the more experienced leagues are doing week to week. I'm happy to post up L2's if I remember, as long as there are no objections to me doing so.