TTH NFL Fantasy Football 2017 thread

[Browning]

I'm not particularly fussed with QB, if Luck isn't back I'll happily roll with Cousins for a few weeks until he is. Tyrod should serve fine as a 3rd for the time being. Not sure any of those are an upgrade on those 3.

WR- I'll probably make a play for Hogan if he clears waivers (not going to waiver him) but if I miss out I probably won't consider anyone past the 2 I mentioned (Josh Gordon and Anderson). Perriman.... I don't want to be tied to the Ravens never ending list of injuries, though if he's there for the UK game I might play him for shits and giggles.

RB- You've made me interested in Williams... and looking him up it sounds like he could potentially take over from Hyde next season when his contract runs out. He's definitely someone I'm considering adding now, I could even drop Yeldon for him so it doesn't use up one of my 2 free adds.

TE- Not bothered with adding future prospects given my group (Henry, Howard and Hooper). I think they'll see me through for a decade or so, barring disaster.

You're probably right that a DST and Kicker isn't worth it, I'll probably just rotate the 2 I have.

[Dan]

The only issues with Joe Williams are:

1. The 49ers were rumoured to be cutting Hyde, then camp started & it's just been constant praise about how good he is, so there might not be as much immediate use there as it seemed a few weeks ago.
2. There's also probably been more hype around Matt Breida than Joe Williams in camp, so it's not certain that, if they do move on from Hyde, Joe will be the one who gets the job, and if he does, he could well end up splitting carries with Breida.

On the plus side, Shanahan was so high on him he not only made SF put him back on their draft after they'd taken him off completely, but got them to trade up to make sure they could draft him, so there's definitely a vision for him being a long term player in some capacity.

I'd absolutely drop Yeldon for him & try to nab Hogan off waivers.

[Browning]

You think Hogan is worth the number 3 waiver spot? Of course I'll add him first thing in the morning if he's still there but not sure he's worth being bottom of waivers when the season starts.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What rounds? Or are you using another system?

Just found out it's the first two.

Think I'll just stick with Julio then.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just seen that I have the third pick of the draft, test my luck with no keeper?

[Gray Fox]

I've only had the one trade offer so far, which has surprised me. It was Mariota for Kelce. I said no obviously. However this is the guys team:



I already know he's not happy at TE(Bruce Miller?). His trade offer tells me also that he doesn't like Mariota all that much. He's also just lost Edelman potentially for the season and his back up RB is a high ceiling player but is not a guaranteed starter.

I'm trying to figure out a way to go after someone big. I'm looking at either Julio or Bell mainly. But I wouldn't mind somehow trying to fit McCaffery into a deal.

Obviously it's all speculative now, but I like being back in fantasy football mode.

[Browning]

"49ers coach"

[Dan]

He'd be a moron to give up Bell or Julio considering the rest of his team his shit, but then he drafted Bruce Miller (possibly even worse than Pleb's Blake Bell pick last year - must be something about 49ers TEs) so he probably could be a moron...

And @Browning, I'd say third is a bit much to give up for him considering you already have a couple of other possible starters at the position, but it depends how active you think you & everyone else will be on waivers. If you reckon you won't need to pick anyone up for a few weeks it might be worth it to effectively drop from 3 to 8 or something by the time the season starts.

@Sir Andy Mahowry, What are the potential options like at the first 4/5 spots? If a couple of the usual top six guys are available you might as well not bother with Jones, since there's always a chance he could just come back to you anyway, but if Julio's the only one that's going to be available I'd just keep him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Looks like the following are being kept:

LeSean McCoy
Mike Evans
Jordan Howard
Antonio Brown
AJ Green
Ezekiel Elliot
Aaron Rodgers
David Johnson
Tom Brady
Lamar Miller

Guy at 1 has Howard/Brown and the second has none right now.

[Browning]

Yea, given that Allen is my WR5 in a PPR... I'm not desperate for WRs. I'm almost certain Hogan isn't clearing waivers from talking to people. I'm hoping the guy who lost Edelman and is zero threat uses the number 1 waiver on him.

[Dan]

Looks like the following are being kept:

LeSean McCoy
Mike Evans
Jordan Howard
Antonio Brown
AJ Green
Ezekiel Elliot
Aaron Rodgers
David Johnson
Tom Brady
Lamar Miller

Guy at 1 has Howard/Brown and the second has none right now.

The guy at one has Howard & Brown AND the first pick?!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

No, he loses his pick in the first and second round.

I'm leaning towards keeping Julio for my 1st round pick (3rd overall) as I'm a little scared of what the second guy could do.

Although I'd be left with OBJ if he does take Julio.

[Dan]

Good. That's how i thought it worked.

So you're effectively picking at two then? In that case, with Bell, Julio & OBJ all presumably up for selection, you're basically in a position where the worst case scenario is that you just take Julio again, and the best outcome is that the guy in front doesn't take Lev Bell & you can snap him up,

[Browning]

You don't keep Julio for the #3 pick in that situation surely. Wouldn't you rather have Bell or David Johnson.... or as you say, Beckham.

[Gray Fox]

I saw a suprising stat of Julio yesterday.

If you took out his monster game against the Panthers and replaced it with an average of the rest of his games from the season, his final points total was actually pretty much bang on the same as Doug Baldwin. He'd have finished as WR16.

It seems mental as he is a monster. I even had him last year and didn't believe it until I looked it up.

I'd take Bell or Johnson if possible. Even Beckham himself might actually be preferable due to the Giants having no run game.

[Browning]

Got my 2nd draft tonight for my "main" league, which may not be now due to Dynasty, but it's one of the ones I care for most. It's the one where I'm pick 5 and have Mariota as a keeper. Here's hoping it goes well.

[bruhnaldo]

finally signed up <3

[Dan]

You don't keep Julio for the #3 pick in that situation surely. Wouldn't you rather have Bell or David Johnson.... or as you say, Beckham.

DJ's been kept, unsurprisingly, but yeah, it's basically certain that you'll have your choice of Julio or OBJ, but there's also a chance you can get Bell. It's basically a no-risk play as far as I can tell.

I saw a suprising stat of Julio yesterday.

If you took out his monster game against the Panthers and replaced it with an average of the rest of his games from the season, his final points total was actually pretty much bang on the same as Doug Baldwin. He'd have finished as WR16.

It seems mental as he is a monster. I even had him last year and didn't believe it until I looked it up.

I'd take Bell or Johnson if possible. Even Beckham himself might actually be preferable due to the Giants having no run game.

I can believe it with Julio, but I'm pretty sure he also missed a couple of games due to injury which, I suppose, is another reason to be wary of him. He's a beast when he's in though, and he could easily end up as the #1 WR if he plays 14+ games. Also, don't forget he gets to play the Saints twice, and although our defence looks better than it has been the last few seasons, it's still great news.

Having just talked Bell up, are we not concerned that he's not even going to show up to camp until after all four preseason games? I know he's only starting against Cleveland, but he's surely going to be short of game fitness, and more likely to injure himself, which is a problem as he's fairy injury prone anyway.

finally signed up <3

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You don't keep Julio for the #3 pick in that situation surely. Wouldn't you rather have Bell or David Johnson.... or as you say, Beckham.

DJ is being kept sadly.

I prefer Julio to OBJ.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck it, he's not being kept.

Lev Bell, OBJ or Julio it will be.

[Browning]

Draft complete:

QB- Luck, Big Ben, Mariota (Keeper)- I normally get 4 here but by the time I got round to thinking about it, there was no 4th worth owning, but that's a damn solid group of 3.
RB- Gurley, Crowell, Montgomery, Ingram, Gore, Lacy
WR- Beckham, Green, Allen, Diggs, Williams, Britt, Davis
TE- Reed, Ebron
K- Crosby, Gano
DST- Kansas, New England
IDP- Wagner, Neal, Watt

I'm happy with it, even if all my planning went out the window. Starting RBs could be better but I think I got some good cover options, including Lacy right at the end of the draft which was mental.

[Baz]

So it seems like there's no way to set a draft order for the TTH league on Yahoo. So if people can't make the draft they've no control over who they get. Or is it just not accessible on mobile?

[Browning]

It's probably just not accessible on a mobile, you can definitely do it on a PC.

[Dan]

I think it's online only. I've done it on the website (it's 'pre-draft rankings', which is in the 'draft' tab). Looked for it on the mobile app too but couldn't see it.

[Browning]

OK problem....

I moved our draft from Saturday to Sunday to avoid a conflict with another league. Guess what.... they've now also moved to Sunday.

Anyone opposed to moving back to Saturday? Alternative would be to move it significantly earlier on the Sunday, or to a week day (maybe even tomorrow as it's bank holiday).

Everyone let me know as soon as possible, but I can't have 2 drafts at the same time. Worse case scenario I'll have to auto draft one but that would be annoying.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Depends on times for me.

Sunday would be perfect or tomorrow but as late as possible.

[Gray Fox]

Later in our day is probably easier to @bruhnaldo. I think he's east coast so 5 hours behind.

Moving it back to when it was still seems like the best idea.

[Browning]

Sunday I would be looking at about 9pm. That gives me 2 hours to get it done and connect to the other one.

Monday I would be fine with keeping it at 10:30.

Most week days are fine for me. In fact any day except where it is.

[Dan]

I can't do tomorrow, as I still have to work, but I should be okay to either do it earlier on the planned Sunday (although I might be working til 5.30ish) or the Saturday it originally was (after 7).

[Baz]

Saturday evening is best.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I probably won't be able to do it on Saturday as I'll be driving back home.

Depends on the time really.

[Browning]

What time can you do on Saturday? Moving it to Saturday and keeping it at 10:30 seems the best approach at the moment.

[Browning]

Hogan and J-Stew were both waivered this morning (not by the people ahead of me so I remain at 3) and Amendola and Palmer were snapped up off free agency. This left me to add Josh Gordon, Robby Anderson and Joe Williams while only dropping Yeldon. Not unhappy with that.

Ted Ginn and Smallwood were the men who were dropped, so nothing interesting there.

[Dan]

Josh Gordon is a bold add.

[Browning]

There is talk he could be back in a month as he's been in rehab for the past 2 months. If he's not I'll just drop him again. It's fairly low risk with so much bench space I think.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What time can you do on Saturday? Moving it to Saturday and keeping it at 10:30 seems the best approach at the moment.

Should be grand as plans have changed and we'll be traveling back on Sunday.

[Baz]

Good stuff. Hopefully I can whip up something through the week, but there's no reason why I won't be able to be online for it.

Has the draft order been decided? And are we keeping anyone from last year?

[Dan]

No, and no. Draft is standard, no keeper league & the order gets generated just before the draft, if I remember correctly.

Incidentally, what sites do you guys use for keeper/dynasty leagues?

[Browning]

Yahoo for everything.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've heard that MFL is by far the best for dynasty leagues but it's paid.

[Bartholomert]

When is our draft?

[Browning]

This coming Saturday at 10:30 pm BST

[Dan]

It's finally time to join a few random leagues & get to the proper drafts

[Gray Fox]

The guy whose team I posted before has returned with another trade.

Big Ben and Bruce Miller(lol) for Kelce and Stafford. He clearly wants Kelce and wouldn't mind picking up a QB along the way.

Tempted to dangle the Luck carrot as he's going into the season injured and has just lost his starting center. That line already couldn't protect him too.

[Browning]

For the record I'm happy for this to be a keeper league with 1-2 keepers next year, but that would require a good amount of people returning next year.

[bruhnaldo]

Let's deffo do keepers Lord knows I wish I could've kept Julio

[Baz]

Last time I did a keeper league my keeper was Reggie Bush.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I would love a 1-2 keeper.

Can't have keepers this year though as we've moved site.

[Pleb]

Imagine who I would keep in my team

[bruhnaldo]

I would love a 1-2 keeper.

Can't have keepers this year though as we've moved site.

i think u can manually put them in

or we could all just have a gentleman's agreement to select our keepers in Rd1 (or 2) and then go from there