EoFF Fantasy Football (American)

[Raistlin]

Ok, so after a fantastic screw up last year which fortunately didn't impact you all too much though provided me with WEEKS of work and headaches, we are back to try this thing again.

There was one team that wasn't invited back due to inactivity last year. It might have been understandable if he simply left after the week 4 blowup, but I noticed he made some roster moves over the couple of weeks following after I'd fixed the stuff moving forward, and then he just abandoned us. Otherwise, everyone has been invited back in an email, but that also means we have at least one guaranteed opening! (actually 3 considering we only had 12 last year, and can accommodate 14)

So register your teams, suggest any new rules changes (I think we'll keep the extra position if we stick with 12 teams, but lose it if we get 14 people again), and most importantly, let me know what draft times do and don't work for you ASAP.

For any newbies who might be interested: post here! If we still have space, I'll PM you the league ID info (for the record, we use Yahoo's fantasy football system).

Who's ready for some football?

[escobert]

Any time after 5pm est weekdays and anytime really weekends works for me.

[Del Murder]

Oh sure, the year I finally win one again was the year of a giant 'screwup'.

[Jiro]

I no longer have access to games on the telly but boy oh boy do I have internet so I figure this could be fun and be a good way to learn all the smurfing players, right?

[escobert]

Yes! come on Jiro!

[Jiro]

Alright, I'll take part and hopefully not be too much of a lameoid, assuming there are no objections! I expect Raist will take a day or two to recover before he gets things underway here, so I will await my mognet patiently

[DK]

I have always wanted to join this and gallantly fight for the bottom spot in the league but always miss the signups. Let me in and let hilarity ensue. Me and Dak can join forces and lead a foreign invasion on your puny sports league. (also if Dak is in aus right now our time zones match up well for us to gibber and rant at each other in the thread while the rest of you are presumably asleep.)

[Raistlin]

We are happy to welcome newbies and even foreigners. I should just say that you are expected to check the league at least once a week for a whole season (16 weeks), at minimum to sub out injured or inactive players. Though you won't get the full enjoyment out of the league unless you really pay attention and join us with smack talk. The league has been pleasantly competitive for some years now, so we would appreciate if you really tried.

I'll send you the league info in a PM if you're good with that. And as soon as I can remember the damn password (it's been years since I actually had to log into the league instead of just logging into to my Yahoo ID xD).

EDIT: Oh wait, d'oh. Let me wait a couple of weeks first to let all the returning managers that want to do so to sign up first to see how much space there is. But I only sent the invite out to 11, and we have up to 14 spots, so there should be room for both of you. You're both at the top of the list for any open spots after two weeks or so. (the live draft isn't until the end of August, so there's plenty of time)

[Jiro]

Wesley "Offers but then takes away" Raistlin. I expect both of us to have spots so we can smack talk the smurf outta each other. I will of course check things once a week, I might be busy but I'm not a lawyer so if you can do it, I can do it, punk. Watch the Australian completely dominate thanks to a combination of beginner's luck and overconfidence from the returning members

[Raistlin]

Hah, missed this:

Oh sure, the year I finally win one again was the year of a giant 'screwup'.

What other screw up do you think I was referring to except for your win?

[Relena Peacecraft]

Uh oh, I guess I better see if I ever bothered to make any sort of web site. Oh hey, I guess I did get something put together last year. It's not very impressive though.

Review last year's content at EoFF Fantasy Football » 2012 and see if there's anything you want me to change or features I should add. If you're really lucky, I might the time and motivation to actually do something. I wouldn't count on it, though.

Every time I get anything close to excited about doing sports web stuff, I get bored and give up relatively quickly (as you can see from my obviously stalled MLB stuff). Then again, the thing that ends up demotivating me mostly is lack of access to quality data, so that's not too much of a problem with this league.

In any case, as far as drafts go, Sundays are almost impossible except early in the day. Tuesdays/Saturdays are completely open, and the rest of the week I'm available after 6PM Eastern. My schedule will no doubt jibe with exactly zero other people.

[Raistlin]

So it's been almost two weeks and there's been no other activity since eestlinc signed up about 10 days ago, so I'm opening up the league to anyone else who wants to join. I've PM'd the league info to DK and Jiro. If those two both sign up, then we're at 12, which is what we had last year -- but it's also two less than our maximum capacity, so there's two more spots open for any fantasy newbies who are interested.

[escobert]

yay DK and Jiro!

[Jiro]

Now if only I could actually join the league...

[Raistlin]

Yahoo has changed up their stupid system, and I couldn't figure out how to sign up for the league just with the league info and password either. You may need an invite now to join private leagues, so if you want to join, just send me the email address to which you want me to send the invitation.