Fantasy Football 2019

[Stark]

Just traded Cousins, Diggs, and Hunt for Winston, Golladay, and Breida.

Might not be the best trade ever, but I've got literally one win and just want a new group of players to get mad at every week.

 

[FiveThous]

Was out-waivered in every league for Ty. Got Chase Edmunds in a couple of them though.

How do people feel about the random waiver priority?

In the leagues I manage I use reverse record priority.

I think it kind of sucks to see the guy who is 6-1 have the top priority while the team in last place has Duke Johnson and Mostert at RB.

Move to faab, it's a game changer.

 

[Sebastian]

Just traded Cousins, Diggs, and Hunt for Winston, Golladay, and Breida.

Might not be the best trade ever, but I've got literally one win and just want a new group of players to get mad at every week.

You kidding, you sodomized the other guy.

Cousins is waiver wire material, Diggs is so incredibly inconsistent and Hunt isn't a starter.

Winston will throw up big numbers, Golladay has a higher floor than Diggs and Breida will be THE RB1 in SF once those idiots realize he's been the best offensive weapon on that team for two years (along with Kittle).

 

[Sebastian]

Move to faab, it's a game changer.

I don't think it works well in leagues that have new players. They aren't as familiar with value.

It also punishes bad teams and those unlucky with injuries.

Think about it, if you're doing well and have a great team, you aren't spending your budget. Meanwhile if you have injuries or actually need waivers to compete on a weekly basis, you're outta cash by WEEK 9 while the good teams can sit and wait later into the season and then use huge bids on the blue chip waiver guys like Ty Johnson that turn up later thanks to injuries.

I agree it is great for guys like us who know what we're doing.

 

[Jack Brickman]

I don't think it works well in leagues that have new players. They aren't as familiar with value.

It also punishes bad teams and those unlucky with injuries.

Think about it, if you're doing well and have a great team, you aren't spending your budget. Meanwhile if you have injuries or actually need waivers to compete on a weekly basis, you're outta cash by WEEK 9 while the good teams can sit and wait later into the season and then use huge bids on the blue chip waiver guys like Ty Johnson that turn up later thanks to injuries.

I agree it is great for guys like us who know what we're doing.

I don't think it punishes anyone. It gives every team an equal shot at every player.

 

[Sebastian]

I don't think it punishes anyone. It gives every team an equal shot at every player.

Waivers are in part there to help teams overcome injury or bad luck, or bad drafting.

If you have a good team you aren't spending money on waivers. A team that drafted poorly, or simply has bad injury luck, must spend their budget much more quickly than others.

By this time of the season, those teams don't have much of a budget left and it leaves the teams that didn't need to spend on waivers in a position to pick off the best players over the last 3rd of the season (when many of the year's best waiver finds come along thanks to injuries to key players). The good teams get better while the bad teams get worse.

It happens every year in at least one of my leagues that I don't manage.

 

[FiveThous]

Waivers are in part there to help teams overcome injury or bad luck, or bad drafting.

If you have a good team you aren't spending money on waivers. A team that drafted poorly, or simply has bad injury luck, must spend their budget much more quickly than others.

By this time of the season, those teams don't have much of a budget left and it leaves the teams that didn't need to spend on waivers in a position to pick off the best players over the last 3rd of the season (when many of the year's best waiver finds come along thanks to injuries to key players). The good teams get better while the bad teams get worse.

It happens every year in at least one of my leagues that I don't manage.

That's all part of the strategy

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

Waivers are in part there to help teams overcome injury or bad luck, or bad drafting.

I fundamentally disagree with this point

I don’t view waivers as a subsidization of poor management or as a talent redistributor.

I just view it as an additional strategic element. And if it ends up with the better managers getting richer so be it. We all have the same tools at our disposal for research. And at the end of the day fantasy football should be fun and I have more fun with FAAB

I understand your point I just personally don’t view waivers in that way

 

[Jack Brickman]

Little fantasy fun...I'm in a league that starts two QBs. Not a superflex, but a league where you actually have to start two quarterbacks every week. The past two weeks, I've found myself in bye week binds, as with Cam Newton out I was down to Mason Rudolph and Dak Prescott as my only rostered QBs. Rudolph had a bye in week seven and Prescott was out this week. There was nobody on waivers that was remotely viable minus an injury to a starter other than Taysom Hill.

Hill proceeded to score 12 points for me this past weekend in a game I won by three points.

This man is a hero.

 

[Sebastian]

Little fantasy fun...I'm in a league that starts two QBs. Not a superflex, but a league where you actually have to start two quarterbacks every week. The past two weeks, I've found myself in bye week binds, as with Cam Newton out I was down to Mason Rudolph and Dak Prescott as my only rostered QBs. Rudolph had a bye in week seven and Prescott was out this week. There was nobody on waivers that was remotely viable minus an injury to a starter other than Taysom Hill.

Hill proceeded to score 12 points for me this past weekend in a game I won by three points.

This man is a hero.

Taysom Hill has to be in the running for most athletic white guy.

Dude is built like JJ Watt, fast as Willie Mays Hayes, and can play 3-4 positions.

I read he was the product of the LDS Church's Super Soldier program.

 

[Surge]

I've got NO defense who has been solid all season. I picked up CLE defense for this week against DEN but PITT is sitting out there on waivers and is the #3 scoring defense in my league. They have a tough matchup this week against Indy and next week against LAR.

Should I pick PITT up anyway and play them against Indy and hope for the best or just hope no one else picks them up and claim them next week?

 

[Jack Brickman]

I've got NO defense who has been solid all season. I picked up CLE defense for this week against DEN but PITT is sitting out there on waivers and is the #3 scoring defense in my league. They have a tough matchup this week against Indy and next week against LAR.

Should I pick PITT up anyway and play them against Indy and hope for the best or just hope no one else picks them up and claim them next week?

I would never carry more than two defenses in leagues with standard size rosters. I don't even like carrying more than one, but if you had, say, San Francisco or New England this year, I'd understand holding onto them through the bye.

 

[Hurl Bruce]

Who would you start?

Christian Kirk
Emmanuel Sanders

@Jack Brickman

 

[Jack Brickman]

Who would you start?

Christian Kirk
Emmanuel Sanders

@Jack Brickman

I started Kirk over Sanders in the Guillotine League, because I had no real idea how Sanders would be used. He had the touchdown last week, but only five targets and 35 yards. Obviously I botched that one. Love Sanders as a talent (traded for him a month or so again in a dynasty league), but it's tough to start a WR right after they were traded, whereas Kirk had a boatload of targets last week and would presumably be trailing for most of this one.

As I've said before, sometimes you make the right decision and get the wrong outcome.

 

[Hurl Bruce]

I started Kirk over Sanders in the Guillotine League, because I had no real idea how Sanders would be used. He had the touchdown last week, but only five targets and 35 yards. Obviously I botched that one. Love Sanders as a talent (traded for him a month or so again in a dynasty league), but it's tough to start a WR right after they were traded, whereas Kirk had a boatload of targets last week and would presumably be trailing for most of this one.

As I've said before, sometimes you make the right decision and get the wrong outcome.

You could have been the guy with Garrapalo and Drake on his bench!