(This is a guest post from our very own Dman!)
LOOG Week in Review – Draft Special!
Good evening fantasy fans, and welcome to the first instalment of the LOOG week in review. This edition will briefly review the LOOG draft. Luckly Yahoo Sports seems to have found the Oracle of Delphi and has already called the season! It looks like Pooh has found the honey jackpot according to the oracle, while Nine Ten Eleven should rename themselves Nine Ten O and Thirteen. It also looks like Jesus drafted to turn the other cheek since they drafted “well”, but will end up crucified at the bottom of the league.
Our very own reporter Tu Nosi caught up with Coach Stanley of the Thunderlips Express
Tu: Good evening Coach Stanley, Have you seen the draft report?
Coach: Yes, and it is a pile of crud.
Tu: Really, so you truly flaunt the wisdom of decades of fantasy football and think drafting a RB in the third round was a good idea?
Coach: Yes, look Tu, this league is stacked towards the receivers. Also, I only need one RB a week, but three WR a week. Getting those three positions stacked was my play.
Tu: We shall see if it works for you. Care to comment on picking Eric Decker over Wes Welker? Particularly after Thursdays performances.
Coach: …. It’s one week! Decker will do better…. I hope he does not cost me this week.
Tu: Care to comment on starting Owen Danels over Julius Thomas?
Coach: You are really starting to bug me Tu….
The Tryhards – Grade A (9W – 4L)
Acme Packers – Grade A (8W – 5L)
WhoWouldJesusDraft? – Grade A- (5W – 8L)
Team Pooh Bear – Grade A- (11W – 2L) aka: The Anointed Ones
Partisan Warrior’s – Grade B+ (9W – 4L)
Brian’s Best Team – Grade B+ (10W – 3L)
Reba Demartino – Grade B (6W – 7L)
DownSouth Dragons – Grade B (6W – 7L)
The Uninitiated – Grade B (10W – 3L)
MaliciousProsecutors – Grade B (5W – 8L)
Merciless Monsters – Grade B- (5W – 8L)
Scorned Intangibles – Grade B- (5W – 8L)
Thunderlips Express – Grade B- (5W – 8L)
The Levellers – Grade C+ (6W – 7L)
Team Sandcastle – Grade C (4W – 9L)
The Nine Ten Eleven – Grade C (0W – 13L) aka: Rocking the Donut
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My first matchup is against Nine-Ten-Eleven. As such, I have written the following:
Ahem.
In discussions with the brothers Koch
We thought your team’s chances baroque
It won’t be a close shave
I’ll just quote Flava Flav:
“Nine-one-oh-one-one is a joke”Report
This being my first foray into fantasy sports, I’m a little surprised as to how fun it’s making week 1, and the degree to which I now care about what’s going on with non-Seahawk games.
Thunderlips Express & I are neck and neck in this week’s matchup, and either one of us could win depending on what happens tonight. I’m surprised by how compelling I find this.Report
Yes, fantasy football rekindled my interest in the game as well. I was hoping for a better showing from D. Bryant, but he laid an egg like Decker. The only thing keeping me in this game is AJ Green.
Welcome to fantasy football!Report
Hey, Dman! I had no idea I was playing you! If I’d known, I’d have talked a bunch of smack I’ve have regretted tonight when you’ll probably beat me.Report
But you did win, Tod. Dman left a lot of points on his bench, unfortunately for him. In his defense, I don’t know how he was supposed to have known to have played Philip Rivers over Ben Roethlisberger, Denarius Moore over Eric Decker, or Julius Thomas over Ryan Matthews. The only call that comes close to that would be the quarterbacks and even then if you deny yourself the benefit of hindsight, it seems like Rivers or Roethlisberger would have been at best a 50-50 call.Report
Yeah, I had the win on my bench, but that is 20/20 hindsight. The only one I was tempted to do was Tomas, because I have heard a bunch of good things this year. Would you have pulled that trigger though? He had one catch before this game and talk is often just that, talk.
Still, next week will be a different story. I plan to be highly partisan as the Express runs over the Warriors!Report
Only one week in, but it appears my decision to get LaShawn McCoy as my #1 pick based on nothing more than Chip Kelly was not so terrible.Report
Most likely gonna be a week 1 loser, unless Andre Johnson has a monster 2nd half, but my Levellers gave the Partisan Warriors, and Peyton Manning’s ridiculous 7 TD passes, a run for their money.
C+, ha!Report
Indeed, the draft grade reports were more interesting to me from an artificial intelligence perspective than anything else — they basically added up the prediction numbers and worked an algorithm from there. Last year a similar thing happened for the individual games; that hasn’t happened yet but it took a little while to manifest so look for it this year too.
I also noticed that during play on Sunday, there was an up-to-the-minute updating of the computer’s forecasting of which team would win based on real-time player performance. In the Malicious Prosecutors’ game against the Acme Packers, it went from as far as a 68% chance of an Acme Packers win to an 88% chance of a Malicious Prosecutors win (driven largely by really good performances from Adrian Peterson and Anquan Boldin respectively).
And the Levellers losing by one point against the Partisan Warriors (Andre Johnson did have that monster second half) made this game the squeaker of the week. How much fun is that! (Less for Slade than the rest of us, I realize.)Report
Alas! I never thought I had a chance, and then to lose by a point.
I do love me some Anquan, though. I had him last year and deliberately sought him out again this year. Every QB has a favorite, and according to newspaper reports Boldin may become Kapernick’s. That’s also why I drafted Jason Witten.
I do need some help at RB. Ridley’s benching in NE does not bode well for the Levellers. The large size of the league means that anyone of quality, at any position, has likely been taken.Report