kristoff624

/Steven started getting quite into it in the offseason and draft, reckon he'll join too. Thought I'd post in the footy thread now because they're a bit more regular than general and seemed to enjoy the superbowl

That was a good idead as there was quite a few that got really into the Superbowl but because that was the end of the season I think the interest dried up a bit. Hopefully we can get more involved. If we can get more than the 8 that would be great. Unfortunately a few of the big NFL followers haven't posted in a while like Nozz and D_loogs and Villageporter. I'm sure we will get at least 8 though.

Hospital Fat Bags

Count me in.

Watched the NFL on and off for a couple of years, and wanted to learn more about it for a while now.

Chargers fan by the way.

It should be straightforward enough for anyone still learning, the website has loads of pages about which players are a good/bad choice and who might be a sleeper hit. Also for anyone not 100% sure how the draft works you can take part in as many mock drafts as you like to practice and see how it works. Also as it's a custom league I have full control over the rules/options/points scoring so I can make it as easy as it needs to be.

I think the Chargers should have a good season this year. They had a poor start last year but then had a late charge (pardon the pun). If they had that form throughout the season there is no reason they can't get to the conference final. It is quite tight on the AFC side but I think the Chargers are a bit underrated and you have a good looking schedule too. You'll get a lot further than the Steelers anyways

I've signed up, Cleveland Steamers.

Packers fan here.

Parties Break Hearts

I've signed up, Cleveland Steamers.

Packers fan here.

Yer going down in yer first match.

Who are the Detroit Brian's?

I thought with everyone being a bit cleverer than I was with picking names, I thought I would change mine. I was going to go with the Oakland Panty Raiders but I thought I would take the piss out of the Chiefs instead.

HeroOfWar

Who are the Detroit Brian's?

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Havent started picking yet (none of the videos were working before) so will chill on that for now.

Will throw in a couple of Chargers for sure.

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HeroOfWar

Who are the Detroit Brian's?

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Havent started picking yet (none of the videos were working before) so will chill on that for now.

Will throw in a couple of Chargers for sure.

You can do your draft rankings at the moment (My Team>My Draft Rankings>Edit or something along those lines). Do them incase you miss the draft.

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HeroOfWar

Who are the Detroit Brian's?

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Havent started picking yet (none of the videos were working before) so will chill on that for now.

Will throw in a couple of Chargers for sure.

You won't be able to pick players until we have all the managers signed up. It's not like fantasy football for the Premier league where we can all have Lampard in midfield and we pick the whole team at once. A player can only go to one team. We pick players like the draft the NFL had with the college players moving up to the NFL but we will be able to pick from the whole of the NFL's players.

So lets just say for example in our draft the order is Me 1st Pick, You 2nd, Tek 3rd and Kris 4th and so on. I would pick a player first, say Drew Brees and then you get one player, say P. Manning, then Tek picks one, then Kris and then everyone else in the league. Once they have all picked one player it starts with me again to pick one player, then you, then Tek, then Kris etc and it continues like that until all the teams have filled up. That way we all have different teams and it's fair as in theory all the best players would be spread out among our teams.

I've got my eye on a couple of Steelers for my team but I will have to be smart, ignore my blind faith and not pick Leftwich for QB.

I've got my eye on some (see: All) Falcons too. I can't work out if I think we're going to do better than expected, or if it's blind homerism. I think it's homerism.

It's best to pick players in order of how many points you think they'll get you, so for example good RBs go first because they get more points than anyone else.

Read up on stuff made by people like Michael Fabiano, it should help a lot.

TEK34

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HeroOfWar

Who are the Detroit Brian's?

[sm=thumb.gif]

Havent started picking yet (none of the videos were working before) so will chill on that for now.

Will throw in a couple of Chargers for sure.

You can do your draft rankings at the moment (My Team>My Draft Rankings>Edit or something along those lines). Do them incase you miss the draft.

Riiight, I kind of get it now.

So the draft rankings now are to make sure you get the players you do and dont want?

Sorry for noobness.

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TEK34

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HeroOfWar

Who are the Detroit Brian's?

[sm=thumb.gif]

Havent started picking yet (none of the videos were working before) so will chill on that for now.

Will throw in a couple of Chargers for sure.

You can do your draft rankings at the moment (My Team>My Draft Rankings>Edit or something along those lines). Do them incase you miss the draft.

Riiight, I kind of get it now.

So the draft rankings now are to make sure you get the players you do and dont want?

Sorry for noobness.

Basically, and we'll have a draft (later this week I'm guessing) where everyone picks their players like, as Heroofwar said, in the actual NFL Draft. That'll be manual, but ranking your players makes it easier to find who you want and if you miss the draft, the computer wll pick according to who your rankings.

I've edited my first post but I'll post it here as well. For help on the draft, what it is, how it will work and even a mock draft so that you can practice from a number of different draft positions as many times as you like so you know what to do if your turn is 1st, 4th or last, visit here:

http://downloadboardies.l...er/help?leagueId=91054

http://downloadboardies.l...tcenter?leagueId=91054

Also, welcome to the league Connor

Just joined, not done Fantasy Football before, so I'll look at it properly tomorrow.

I'm getting properly exited for the season now. I'm feeling a sig chance coming

I know its a while but is there any chance we could do the draft next week? I'm not gonna be online until sunday at the earliest after tonight

I'll have a ganders at this at some point tonight. Only did the Pro Football pics on facebook last season so it'll be to do some fantasy football aswell.

Right, I've signed up as the Wisconsin Weiners. Just having a read through this thread and on the site to get a better understanding of how it all works.

kristoff624

I know its a while but is there any chance we could do the draft next week? I'm not gonna be online until sunday at the earliest after tonight

Try getting you pre-draft rankings done, so then we can do the draft without you, and it should draft who you want it to.

Yeah, I'll have to spend a good hour doing that later tonight

Is it possible to filter by position in the pre-draft rankings?

I don't think so. Remember to save it regularly too, I made the mistake of not doing that.

i'll join up later when i've had a look through. i do post here from time to time but i never bother keeping up with things once the draft is over so i last posted on draft day

i used to suck at the nfl uk one but i fealt that was more down to the overpricing of alot of the players meaning you had to get lucky with the guys you picked each week to score well.


edit: wait have you filled all your spaces yet?