God help me: Salary Fantasy Teams

you need help

OK this I'll play.

It's just going to be me and forks isn't it?

i am so playing.

i'll give it a shot

okay this is pretty interesting. i am in!!!!

How are player salaries determined and when do they change?

All player salaries are adjusted at the end of each professional football week, using a Yahoo! Sports algorithm that takes into account real-life performance from the current and prior seasons.

All salary adjustments will be computed within a 24-hour period after the final game of each week. During this period of time, managers will not be allowed to add or remove players from their roster. Rosters will be unlocked once the salaries for all players in the game have been updated.

No player can ever have a value of less than $1 million, and these values are not, in any way, based on actual real-life player values.

are the current values set in stone until after the first week? i'm assuming so~

This is just too over my head.

you people are sick

TOO MUCH LEAGUES

God help us all.

i don't think ou guys should be doing this.

i miss the douche ;_;

So, the point of this league (I think, and yes I know I started it) is to pick out "undervalued" players and then trade up?

oh i forgot the douche ;_;

if only y'all were in Texas, I run a football league with an actual salary cap - your entry fee is however much you spend on the initial roster (up to $200). Last year's winner walked with ~$900 after his team and transaction fees, I believe.

yeah uh YOU RICH TEXANS ARE AWESOME

you would be surprised at the things degenerate fantasy players will give up to play.

dudes this league is awesome, I like it much better?

forks from what I understand you just basically pick a new team every week.

forks from what I understand you just basically pick a new team every week

Yes BUT, you can keep a guy on your roster at the price you bought him for. At least until the bench-free bye week fucks you.

Speaking of which, I see that some of you elected not to pick up Joseph Addai for week one. Explain yrselves.

oh shit i just realized that i picked drew brees as my week 1 quarterback! had i remembered that, i would have been all nervous and twitchy last night. thank god my memory is for crap!

my salary cap roster is a model of fiscal responsibility

Palmer (against ravens this week so a crapshoot i guess)
Westbrook
Addai
A. Johnson
DJ Hackett
J Cotchery
J Witten
D Akers
OAK D

Oh okay right! I get this now kind of.

It rilly bums me out that this is not a portfolio-management game where you get to reap the benefit of picks whose value improves :(

I like how I made it pathetically clear to the world which team is mine.

also now that you made me review my picks I'm kind of lol I spent $11 on a kicker!!

I AM WINNING YOU GUYS

oh man i am LOVING THIS i wish i joined 20 salcap leagues

yeah this is so much better! now it is blind luck spread over 16 weeks rather than 1. I love how the LT price went DOWN after he scored two TDs.

extra lol I didn't notice the "next 25" button at the bottom until I was on my second to last pick for this week I was all "dude all these guys are injured wtf"

Rank Team Points
1 ¯\(°_o)/¯ 190.50
2 Crowned Asses 171.80
3 you guys... 166.18
4 Fantasy Is a Helluva Drug 160.20
5 L'il Travises 159.52
6 FREMEN OF DUNE 122.43
7 Devin Hester the Molester 103.1

¯\(°_o)/¯

I'm not last!!!!

also I am in like the top third of all salary fantasy players in DC? that is sad

i dont know who the hell anyone is!

I'm Batman.

i am you guys...

this is where things get tricky i guess, cuz now there are premium playerz on their byes (westbrook, palmer) and i have to agonize over whether to drop them only to pick them up next week at a higher price, or just deal with the gaps in scoring~

Doesn't bother me, my team is so crap that I can only move up. LITERALLY arg.

Buying Addai, Romo and Moss early has me at number two and counting.

how in the shit are the prices calculated?
Brandon Jacobs better have fun out there this week.

I am way too focused on trying to be some kind of deal-finding H&M shopper in this and not enough on grabbing up consistent high scorers

cf me hanging on to wes welker the whole season so far

this would be a lot more fun if you could actually see other people's teams at all.

Yeah, i think the idea is to keep your brilliant picks to yourself.
Fuck that, here's my team:

Romo, Edge, Addai, Moss
N. Burleson, Reggie Wayne
Dallas Clark
Crosby at Kicker and TN Def.

may want to reconsider addai there

I get why the teams are hidden, and you can see who played on sunday at least. Just makes it less fun. Anyhoo, me this week barring any Addai-related gametime moves...

T. Brady
J. Addai, M. Lynch
R. Moss, T. Owens, B. Marshall
J. Witten'
M. Crosby
San Francisco D

And fuck it, I think I'll take Green Bay in my survival league...

Hm, I guess I could trade Addai for barber and pick him back up next week for a little less if the chips fall the way I imagine they will...

I dunno about less. I assume you took him at his opening price...

cf me hanging on to wes welker the whole season so far

-- El Tomboto, Thursday, 4 October 2007 15:48 (Yesterday) Link

haha yeah i only just dropped welker this week

i did so well the first coupla weeks bcz i picked up the underrated westbrook/addai and let them just straight up KILL FOOLS, but now uh, well. yeah. this is HARD!!!

Switched Addai and Burleson for T. Henry and Welker.
Time for Wes to earn my love.

i'm going to reveal my brilliant strategies so long as yall promise not 2 copy me

Week 4 roster

QB C. Palmer
RB B. Westbrook
RB J. Addai
WR Sa. Moss
WR W. Welker
WR D. Driver
TE J. Witten
K N. Folk
DEF Oakland

Week 5

QB M. Schaub
RB M. Lynch
RB L. Tomlinson
WR Sa. Moss
WR R. Moss
WR D. Driver
TE J. Witten
K N. Folk
DEF Indianapolis

carson & westbrook on a bye and addai's dead, so i take the money saved by ditching all of them to get LT (facing Denver's 30th-ranked run defense according to DVOA) and Randy (who i was a fucking moron not to pick up four weeks ago when he was really cheap) and Schaub, who leads all players in cost per point (http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/salcap/99349/bargainhunter)

lynch + peterson should be really good pickups btw because their prices are both still really low, i only got lynch over AP cuz ade's on a bye this week.

Alright, wait: is Addai really out? Cuz i got his backup and now I dont' know whether or not to field him.

Addai's status is still up in the air.

lesson learned: don't drop your best players just because they're on a bye

oops too late

Yeah, me too.

finally clawed to the top, tho.

Adrian Peterson?

Did anyone start Bironidas?

nope on both counts.

Um, it is sort of bullshit that they just radically changed their pricing algorithm halfway through the season.

They did? W'oppen?

OIC. WTF? My team value is now like $50 over the cap lol.

I got beaten BADLY

Isn't it a bit early in the season to be conceding?

I don't know if anyone else is still playing, but I'm challenging for a spot in the top 5000, dammit.

That team of yours is sick - I was trying to catch up but you picked up Taylor and Johnson too, and I didn't have randymoss :(

Ha! Great minds etc etc. I dunno about "sick" tho - I'm looking for new answers at RB every week and I'm 200 points behind the league leaders.

On the outside of the ILNFL playoffs looking in, I can at least take consolation in my salary-cap domination...

After Week 14:

24 among Fans of Buffalo
74 among Fans from California
1,142 worldwide

Damn! How much of your salary team is Pats/Colts/Cowboys?

which one is your team? i dont know who the fuck anyone is!!!!

i keep making brilliant movez that dont pay off :[ i am the arizona cardinals~~~

God, I just tanked my team on this.

How much of your salary team is Pats/Colts/Cowboys?

Brady (opening day), Moss (week 2), Witten (bounced around a bit before deciding to just ride him).

i keep making brilliant movez that dont pay off :[ i am the arizona cardinals~~~

Yah I've gotten pretty lucky with my gambles (C. Taylor the past few weeks, Ryan Grant, Andre Johnson when he came back). Thinking about swapping Taylor for M. Lynch this week...