@krellin.First leaugue is auto draft correct.If we get screwed by randomizer we can fix our team after?
In second league are we going to have a time limit to make our selection.If owner can't meet time limit they must draft highest ranked player.

Still need one more in first pool and two in second.
Come on people join up.

I'm boycotting football. It's hopelessly corrupt and when it comes down to it, rather boring.

Football is corrupt? Like NFL football? And boring? That's a crazy thing to say.

Three plays, then a commercial. Kick-off, then a commercial. Touchdown? Oh gotta wait for the replay for 5 minutes first. The fact that the biggest football event - the Superbowl - is more known for its commercials than the event itself, speaks to how entertaining it is, really.

As for corruption, I don't think I need to even mention how disgusting college football has become in the wake of the Penn State fiasco, among other things. Tradition is being killed in the name of big tv money, with conference re-alignment. You cannot go a week without another recruiting scandal. It's clear that sports rule and academics are a distant second at major universities across the country.

As for the NFL, you have a league that covers up player-injuries and treats retired players like garbage. Players are given the green light to play even if they have concussions. Of the thousands of former NFL players, only a handful get any disability benefits. Players only get get five years of health coverage after they retire. Mind you this is a league in which the average lifespan is 55 years, and in which thousands of players endure dementia, depression, and hip & knee replacements, among other things. This is the same league that wants to increase the schedule to 18 games. This is a league which cares more about helmet company profits than head safety.

Another issue in the NFL which has me wanting to walk away is how they've conducted the so-called "bounty" investigation, which reveals their utter hypocrisy. On the day when Goodell launched his PR stunt vs the Saints, Junior Seau committed suicide. There has been a large number of such tragedies and near-misses like TO's suicide attempts, and the NFL does nothing.

TO's suicide attempts (plural)? There was one wisreported attempt. He took a sleeping aide and his assistant found him asleep and unresponsive. There was no suicide attempt. Had there been, he would not have been responsive when authorities arrived, would not have been immediately released form the hospital, and would have been either A) arrested and charged and/or B) sent for psyvhiatric evaluation.

As far as Juniot Seau's suicide, it had nothing to do with football as best anyone can tell. Autopsy showed no drugs or alcohol and he had a clean (and rather mundane) bill of health to that point. Brain tissue test even showed a good healthy brain, nothing to indicate it was mood swings form an old concussion or anything. Point in fact, his restaurant was failing and has since shut it's doors. This is the most likely reason for his suicide. But don't believe me...

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/21/local/la-me-0821-junior-seau-20120821

"In the news stories that followed, it was learned that Seau's restaurant in Mission Valley had financial problems; the restaurant has since closed."

"I'm not saying the NFL doesn't have issues. Greed drives it and the owners are power hungry and discard their former players like yesterday's newspaper, but that doesn't make them corrupt, just greedy capitalists.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/terrell_owens_assistant_described_W7nkKbx52PKbz8FJhFt4WJ

In 2006 TO took about 35 vicadins in an attempted suicide.
In 2011, TOs assistant reported to the 911 dispatcher that she believed it was a suicide attempt.

Dave Duerson's suicide was linked to brain injury due to football. And Junior Seau and Duerson arent even close to the only suicides among former NFL players. It has become an epidemic. As for Seau's brain - the jury is still out on that.

http://deadspin.com/5936671/its-still-too-soon-to-tell-whether-junior-seaus-brain-had-been-damaged-by-football

"Had there been, he would not have been responsive when authorities arrived, would not have been immediately released form the hospital, and would have been either A) arrested and charged and/or B) sent for psyvhiatric evaluation."

Why would he have been arrested? I dont have the foggiest idea what you're talking about. People are released after suicide attempts all the time without evaluation.

@Putin - attempted suicide is against the law, dude. And if the hospital thought he had tried, they would have held him for observation for 48 hours. My friend who finally succeeded in killing herslef had more than one bought of attempted and every time they held her for 48 hours (once for 2 weeks until her meds kicked in, she was manic-depressive). They do *not* immediately release people who they believe have attempted suicide. So do you want to back up your "released all the time" claim? Didn't think so.

As far as To's other attempt... He claims it was an allergic reaction and no evidence has been brought forth, blood tests or anything, that counters his claim. So unless you have evidence that he actually did take the pain killers, you again are posting bogus old and refuted news.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2604395

It's against the law for hospitals to release medical records to the police per HIPAA, so no, they cannot be arrested. They only keep patients who they believe are still suicidal after going to the hospital. My wife works as a nurse and sees plenty of suicide attempt patients, many elderly people who think they are a burden on others, and unless they are pink slipped by a psychologist they are released. In someone like TO's case, who repeatedly 'denies' that his pill taking is a suicide attempt after the fact, they have no choice but to release the patient.

So your claim is TO is lying? I'm sure you'd walk up to him and say that to is face, though, right?

Why would the police report have fabricated the story about how his friend found his bottle of hydrocodone empty and that TO had said to EMTs he intended to harm himself? The report said TO had attempted suicide via perscription drug overdose.

I don't get what it is you're defending here. It's clear the NFL is engaged in a cover-up of the link between playing football and permanent brain related damage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/sports/football/05concussions.html

For the Record, in the 2nd league, I have changed the draft type to a live standard draft, scheduled to begin at 1 PM EST. Please post other suggestions on the league home page. Thank you!

@zach-Posted in league time I can make draft and will also post here.7PM or around that time on Saturday is when I can attend live draft.If your not flexible to changing will have to drop out.
@ thread highjackers beat it and start your own thread

@zach-check in on yahoo site.
Bumping so you can read here and there.

Okay, I jumped into 2nd league as well. Then I noticed draft was set for the noon. I won't be available till later that day. Drop me if you need to.

Yeah, I got you guys. I'm definitely willing to move it to later on Saturday night! L1star, does seven PM work for you?

It's been switched to 8 PM EST

I was in a Yahoo Live Draft this past weekend for another league but used my manual rankings and had Yahoo autopick for me. It does a fine job as long as you go about 150 position players deep. I didn't even rank any kickers or defenses, that was just position players. It's an option for those who can't make the live draft.

Also, it's really how you work the waiver wire during the season that's every bit as important as your original team.

I have to agree, but if we can get everybody into the live draft, it will be more fun for everyone, and they will feel like they had more control over their original team haha.

I think we're still needing someone in the first league too. It says we have an odd number.

You can play an odd number. It's not like you play head to head. You points are based on what the real life players did.

From the League 1 page: "Your league currently contains an odd number of teams

You must have an even number of teams in order to determine schedule and draft."

In fact you do play head to head and that's what determines the league winner, with total points only serving as a tie breaker in the standings.

I wonder why? When I played a couple of seasons ago you just got a rank against all the other teams. Interesting...

I'm going to miss the live draft in league 2, due to a trip. I *might* get access, but I highly doubt it. So, I'll just let my team get drafted automatically and hope for the best, since if i fuck with the rankings I'm worried it might draft too many of one position, or I'll get suck with a defense in the 4th round or something stupid.

You must have played a different format. Most FF league formats as far as I've seen are head to head.

I would highly suggest pre-ranking players, even if you base it exactly off the top 100 list in a magazine or something. The Yahoo rankings are pretty shitty on purpose.

Here is how the autodraft works, and it doesn't do a bad job:
1) Fill starting positions from top of draft rankings
2) Fill in a kicker and defense after all other starting positions are full, unless the rankings have a particular kicker or defense ranked really high (this is where you can let Yahoo just pick for you, so don't pre-rank any kickers or defenses unless you do it lower than position 100 or so)
3) Fill in the bench from rankings, taking one per skill position. So it won't just fill your bench with 4 WRs

It's worth it to pre-rank.

Hey guys. I created the Juggernaut Football League two years ago comprised mainly of members from WebDip. I am looking for between 1 and 5 GMs to sign up to take over some of our remaining teams. We are a free, competitive keeper league with 2 keeper positions allowed along with two IR positions. We use default Yahoo scoring and also include 0.5 per reception. No individual defence. If you are interested, please contact me on here or email me using my gmail address in my profile. It would be great to have some more webdip players in our league.