MoFo Fantasy Football - 2024 Season

Or, if there are just a couple of us into the idea maybe we can pull from other friends and get enough for another league. I am also for floating the idea of putting a little money in for this league? That idea ever been talked about?

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I'd be interested in a second league with money and/or some more hardcore rules, or what have you.

I don't think I'd be interested in a dynasty league. Makes a lot less sense with football than other sports, too. Also, those leagues are super brittle. Even a little bit of turnover can ruin them.

Oh and still interested in an auction, yeah, but I've accepted there's not going to be major support for it.

I do know of one or two people I work with that would be interested in playing in our Fantasy Baseball league. Before going any further they would be willing to prove their existence to Yoda so everyone doesnt think Im using alts. Btw, I hate alts.
One guy used to play baseball for a minor league team, and the other is just an expert at Fantasy Football. Hes never done baseball but when I told him my analogy of Fantasy Football being like a great movie, and Fantasy Baseball like a great book, he was all-in.
I also work with a guy that played for the Cleveland Browns one season too. Dont think he would be interested in Fantasy Baseball though.

Tough loss, @Powdered Water. Jalen Hurts likely nets you an additional 20-30 points if he doesn't suffer the concussion. Unless Josh Jacobs has a monster game tonight, it's safe to assume you would've won.

To make matters worse, the Hurts injury wasn't your only stroke of misfortune. James Conner had 20+ at halftime but injured his ankle in the 3rd quarter and never returned (which in turn boosted Kyler Murray's production since the Cards became more reliant on the pass). CeeDee Lamb had a big first half (and came within inches of scoring a TD) but re-aggravated his shoulder injury and spent most of the second half on the sidelines. I didn't see any of the Falcons/Giants game, but apparently Drake London also suffered an injury. I doubt London would've done much more given the lopsided score, but who knows.

I was genuinely worried during the early-afternoon slate. I thought I had the victory in the bag when Hurts was ruled out, but Murray/McBride were underperforming, and I'd already gotten off to a slow start on Thursday. Meanwhile, Conner, Keenan Allen and your Atlanta Defense kept racking up points. Thankfully Jonathan Taylor went ape-shit for me to keep the score close, and Smith-Njigba then gave me a comfortable cushion later that evening.

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I was high on Nabers, but not quite as high on him as the consensus seemed to be in the FF community, purely because of his QB situation. Plus I was loaded at WR at the time. Jacobs was near the top of the league in rushing yards, and it's not like the Packers were using a different RB near the goal line, so I was confident the TDs would come. With that said, between the three RBs you were dangling as trade bait, Jacobs was the guy I least preferred, yet he turned out to be more valuable than Hall or Mixon.

I would've done the trade without you adding McBride to the mix, but was happy to accept him in the deal.

Ouch. Reminds me when playing AD&D and the DM after the session told how much treasure we missed out on. Thanks. :/


Yall want me to talk about my matchup this week with Adam? Yeah, I didnt think so. Consolation bracket doesnt even effect record for the season


rauldc14s Titletown Champs
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Captain Spauldings Censored Clowns



The most scandalous final in the history of the Movie Forums Fantasy Football League has gotten a sequel.


Dustins Jordan Love @ Minny against Caps Mahomes @ Pittsburgh. Dead even.


Dustins WR1 Chase & WR2 Reed crush Spauldings Sutton and McLaurin.


Speaking of crushing, the Clowns RB1 Henry, RB2 Jacobs, and FLEX Jon Taylor crush Dustins Gibbs,Irving, and DJ Moore and his Spauldings TE tradepiece McBride can beat Dustins waiver Schultz. I know he was on waivers, I dumped him there.


Kickers and Defense dead even. As thwy should be.


I think Spauldings gonna win if everybody plays at their level with no flukes to either side. Thats a fantasy though. Welcome to the randomness of the NFL. Dustin was screwed over in the 2022 Championship by the NFL and Yahoo so deeply that we wouldnt accept it as a league. Yahoos webpage says differently, unable to be changed. Thats worse than an asterik. Could fates see-saw favor him this time?


He may not need fates help. JaMaar Chase this season one time put up 50 points vs Baltimore. Yet this saturday afternoon its vs Denver, a very stingy Defense against the pass.


The most important game in this championship matchup is Green Bay @ Minnesota. Dustin has Love, GBs WR2, and their Defense. Spaulding has GBs RB Josh Jacobs. Minnesotas ranked second to last vs passing. If GB goes to the air Caps Jacobs suffers some too.


So Im saying Spaulding will probably win, but with very little confidence whatsoever.

Considering how poorly my season started, a fifth place finish is fine and dandy. But one choice in the quarterfinal round stopped me from playing for the championship today. I went with Sam Darnold over Goff, after going back-and-forth about it all week, so of course Goff has an historically monster of a game.

Had I started him I win that match in a walk and then have enough to pace Doomguys in the semis the next week.

Oh, well.

I am playing for the championships in my other two leagues. Three-for-three would have been fun, but no matter those outcomes this is already my overall most successful Fantasy Football season yet.


Good luck!

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I was the opposite. I am moving on in this league but I lost in the semi-finals in my other 2 leagues because Josh Allen came back down to earth. So playing for a championship here and playing for third in the other two

Still, I'm guessing it's because I did so well this year, but I felt a bit of a revival in interest.

10 years in the league, 9 semi-final appearances, 7 championship appearances, 2 championships (with hopefully one more on the way). Those 7 championship appearances have tied Yoda's record, although he also had a 7-year head start.

When I tell my friends about my sustained success in this league, they try to discredit me by saying that people in this league must not know what they're doing or aren't very active, but I assure them that's not the case. This is a very competitive league. Prior to 2021, we had 14 teams, so the degree of difficulty was particularly high since the odds of making the playoffs were lower and the waiver wire was often barren. However, I'd argue that the average football savvy is higher across our league now than it was during my first few years in the league. Recent additions like @Wyldesyde19, @Holden Pike and @Hey Fredrick clearly know what they're doing. Guys like @rauldc14 and @jiraffejustin, who have been in the league for a long time, have noticeably improved in their draft selections and in-season management. @Yoda has always been a guru. At some point the pendulum is going to swing the other way and I'm going to string together lackluster seasons. Fantasy football is too random, too weighted down by injuries, too reliant on luck for it not to happen.

I think I'm a very good fantasy GM. I tend to always build strong depth through a combination of the draft, waivers and trades. However, I suck as a coach, because I rarely start the right players. I lost 4 of my last 5 in the regular season purely because of start/sit decisions, which is the most frustrating way to lose. In seasons past I typically only had to decide between who to play at FLEX or WR2 (not counting the weekly hassle of kickers/defenses). This season it's which QB, which TE, which WRs? Since I've had both Mahomes and Kyler Murray on my roster, I've started the wrong guy every week (including last week). I usually start Trey McBride, but Jonnu Smith and Njoku have also been great this year, and have outscored McBride plenty of individual weeks. It took me way too long into the season before I accepted that Jaxon Smith-Njigba had supplanted DK Metcalf as the alpha in Seattle. Terry McLaurin has had a top-five season and I've started him a lot of weeks, but in tough match-ups I've talked myself into starting others over him (like last week), even though he's proven to be an every-week starter.

So am I going to make the right decisions this week? Probably not. Will it cost me a championship? Time will tell. Every website that I check for rankings has Murray higher than Mahomes this week, but I watched a lot of that Carolina/Arizona game last week and lost all confidence in starting Murray. His decision-making is too bad; he's not running as often as in years past; he's missing multiple o-linemen; and he's proven to have a scary-low floor this season. Mahomes has been a relative disappointment this season compared to what we've come to expect from him, but I can trust him to at least get me 15-20 points. I might also be a fool for benching Smith-Ngiba given how hot he's been the past several weeks, but as of right now I'm leaning toward starting Sutton. Jonnu Smith has been better than McBride lately, and they both have juicy match-ups, but I'm planning on sticking with McBride. Dude has 92 receptions this season yet no touchdowns. If ever a player has been "due," it's gotta be McBride.

These stressful line-up decisions are the downside to having such strong depth. I rack my brain all week over who to start, then beat myself up when I make the wrong choice. Choose poorly this time and it'll haunt me for months.

(And as I've been typing this, Mahomes has already scored 2 TDs in the 1st quarter, so I'm feeling good about my QB decision at least.)

Captain couldn't have asked for a better start. In fact the Mahomes 32 may have done me in. Think that's his high all year.

Edit I guess second highest

Ya' never know. As Capn' was saying, it's a pretty random game. You're in a tough position but we've all seen crazier stuff, like as recently as a week or two ago.

Yeah, it's definitely random, and since I get so into roto baseball, easily the fairest of all the major fantasy sports/formats, I find that randomness more grating with each passing year. Especially because the stretch run in roto and the draft prep season for football overlap.

I say a lot that fantasy football is like poker: you try to get your money in with the best hand, even though that hand is usually making you a 60-40 favorite instead of the other way around. And it's basically impossible to win constantly unless you're both good and lucky, and yes, that means during my better stretches I was at least somewhat lucky. Ya' gotta be.

Anyway, best of luck to both, hope it's dramatic and fun and nobody goes into cardiac arrest.

The really wild thing about this team is I took two big chances in the draft: Barkley in the first and waiting on QB and taking Jayden Daniels. Both worked out unbelievably well. Barkley's the top non-QB player and Daniels is fourth among QBs. Which means literally every other thing had to go wrong.

I drafted three teams this year, all with roughly the same philosophy and targets. This one finished like 10th despite a middle-of-the-road point total based entirely on H2H matchup timing. The other two are in the finals (as the top point-scorer) and semifinals, respectively.

Lamb out for the last game. Perfect timing, eh?

Oh wow. I've got him in both my other leagues.

At least it happened before the Thursday game.

I’d also like to take this moment and thank Sedai for not playing Lamar Jackson against me this week.

Yeah I was surprised when he used Baker Mayfield against me. @Sedai are you ok?

Uh, isn't the season over?

I stopped paying attention a couple weeks ago when my match-up said: 8th Place and had a point total for the year. I figured it was over and stopped checking on my team.

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Yeah, I gotta be honest, every single year I get confused/do a double take when I see people talking about the consolation bracket. I guess I still remember to set my lineup for that but only because I'm usually setting others at the same time.

All matchups matter to me. Even the consolation bracket.
Last year I was kicking myself for not being able to switch out Mostert because I was in the midst of a 2 hour drive to Pennsylvania when he was declared out shortly before the games started.