Let’s all not care together: 2024 fantasy football thread

[Baron Scicluna]

Will consensus No. 1 overall draft pick Christian McCaffrey go down as history's greatest monster for fantasy football players?

LaDainian Tomlinson was a ship ton of fun to have on my team for one season.

"Hmm, who should I put in my lineup as my No. 1 running back? I know, the guy who averages 100+ yards rushing and scored 20-something touchdowns last year!"

Made it to my championship game that year, then some else had a better week than me.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Football is easy. You can spend 30 minutes a week monitoring your team and do OK.
Baseball, basketball and hockey, where you have to keep track of all of that stuff AND set your roster every day; AND keep up with hot and cold streaks; AND keep up with prospects moving up to the majors, are way more difficult and demanding. The people who do dynasty baseball leagues where they're drafting minor league players for two and three years down the road are psychos.

Modern tech has made football even more of a crapshoot to win each week. In the leagues I played in the 2000s decade, you had an advantage if you had computer access and you could claim a free agent right away during a game (couldn't put him in the lineup, though).

I won a league title one year when watching a Bucs game, Mike Alcott went down with an injury (never the same afterwards), and I immediately went to the waiver wire; signed Michael Pittman Sr. And he got 900-something yards as my third RB that year.

Can't do that nowadays. Everyone is on a waiver wire until Wednesday, and everyone has access to the same wavier wire info.

 

[Batman]

LaDainian Tomlinson was a ship ton of fun to have on my team for one season.

"Hmm, who should I put in my lineup as my No. 1 running back? I know, the guy who averages 100+ yards rushing and scored 20-something touchdowns last year!"

Made it to my championship game that year, then some else had a better week than me.

I was thinking more along the lines of guys who were no-brainer first-round picks who then did absolutely nothing and murdered their teams. There is usually one every year, but I'm not sure there's been one like McCaffrey figures to be this year.

 

[Batman]

Modern tech has made football even more of a crapshoot to win each week. In the leagues I played in the 2000s decade, you had an advantage if you had computer access and you could claim a free agent right away during a game (couldn't put him in the lineup, though).

I won a league title one year when watching a Bucs game, Mike Alcott went down with an injury (never the same afterwards), and I immediately went to the waiver wire; signed Michael Pittman Sr. And he got 900-something yards as my third RB that year.

Can't do that nowadays. Everyone is on a waiver wire until Wednesday, and everyone has access to the same wavier wire info.

Same here. I'd been playing for a couple of years in college when I joined by work league in the late 90s. No one else either gave a ship or seemed to really have a grasp of it like we do now. For three or four years I felt like I was two steps ahead of most everyone else.
By the mid-2000s anybody with a shred of potential was snatched up like a loaf of Wonder Bread when a hurricane is approaching. It's even worse now.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I was thinking more along the lines of guys who were no-brainer first-round picks who then did absolutely nothing and murdered their teams. There is usually one every year, but I'm not sure there's been one like McCaffrey figures to be this year.

I had Adrian Peterson one year when he got hurt in the first or second game and was basically done for the season.

 

[DanOregon]

I think everyone has one of those - Kijana Carter was mine. Thought he'd be great, then he blew out his knee.

 

[dixiehack]

I was thinking more along the lines of guys who were no-brainer first-round picks who then did absolutely nothing and murdered their teams. There is usually one every year, but I'm not sure there's been one like McCaffrey figures to be this year.

He isn't hurt, but Mark Andrews has caused me a good bit of indigestion so far.

 

[dixiehack]

Made it to the championship game this week. Yay me!

Could be staring at a 100-point deficit before any of my guys see the field, depending on this last quarter for Lamar Jackson. Woe is me!

My second running back slot will either need to be Jerome Brown or Zach Charbonnet. The sit/start web sites seem split right down the middle. Both will be RB1 after the guys ahead of them were ruled out. Ford seems to be the more reliable guy but I may need to swing for the fences. Any thoughts?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Charbonnet is going to get 20 carries, minimum, with Walker III out and the Seahawks should be able to bleed clock against the Bears. He could have a really big week.

 

[DanOregon]

FF Leagues REALLY make THIS week their CHAMPIONSHIP weekend? When the players who have been carrying FF all year take a seat? Seems really dumb. Why not do a redraft for the playoffs for the final four FF teams?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

FF Leagues REALLY make THIS week their CHAMPIONSHIP weekend? When the players who have been carrying FF all year take a seat? Seems really dumb. Why not do a redraft for the playoffs for the final four FF teams?

My league's championship week (in ESPN) was last week. If your commissioner can make it so, ask them to set it for then.