Trail Talk Fantasy Football League

“If you can't get the top 1-3 players in a position then there really isn't much difference between 4-12.”

“I'm all signed up folks. Gonna set up my "auto draft" today.


"yaminator"?
"wally"?

what is wrong w/ you people? lol”

“So, how do I set up the "auto draft"???”

“tarabull--

names don't mean squat. i could call myself Piddles and still crush your girly team!”

“Girly????

I'll take you out at the knees, half pint.

(Why do I get such a kick outta talkin' smack w/ you?? lol)”

“When will we know the draft order?”

“Draft order? Didn't you hear? I joined the league. Nothing else matters, you all lose.

Bow before my might.”

“I can't get a serious answer outta this frickin' group. lol”

“Food goes in here. pointing at mouth”

“I've done the player ranking thing. How do I ensure it'll auto-draft while I'm gone?

Is it acceptable to let somebody draft in my place if I give him my picks? I don't like that autodraft set up. You can't decide what position your picking... Anyway - my brother said that if I gave him my picks and my password, he'd try and get online for me on draft day. Zat OK w/ ya'll?

I'd still like to know when we'll know the draft order? Where's the league commissioner been? He's leaving me hanging here. lol”

“Tara, once all the slots have been filled, the league closes and the raft order is announced.

Also, I'm cool with someone drafting for you, if everyone esle is. The auto draft works well.”

“Is there still room in this league?”

“That damn commish!

Tara, Yeah, you can have someone draft for you if that's what you want. Do you trust your brother? :). I was going to wait till the league fills to set the order. This year, things are different. I can't randomize the draft with a push of a button. The only ways are to let Yahoo select the order 1/2 hour before the draft which kind a sucks because it's nice to know days/weeks beforehand. The other way to set the draft is by me picking names out of a hat and setting the order. I'll do that but I want everyone to feel it's on the up and up. I'll do it honestly.

Tree, yeah there's room. We definitely need one more to make 10 and we're shooting 12.”

“Cool, Rock! I'd like to get in on that. I'm at work now and just popping in every now and then here. I won't be able to really sit down with this until later tonight. So, I will look to sign up later...”

“Rockman - I trust you. If you want to draw names, go for it.

Thanks, ya'll, for some serious answers (not you, Fartex)!!”

“The Tree man is in. The Trees Of Fanghorn are organizing fast and soon ready to scrimmage...”

“Oooo, the mighty 49er's will dig, dig, and dig some more to uproot the saplings of Foghorn!





Man, that sounds kinda stupid.”

“Ah! Gets the point across Rock...”

“How about we draft in the order that we signed up for the league.


Tara-You're going to let Binra draft for you? lol”

“So... once I've picked my player rankings, is this auto-draft thing automatically gonna happen or do I have to set it up, click a button, or what???

Yes, binks, if Binra is around, I will be happy to have him draft for me. When it comes to sports, I trust him emphatically.”

“Tara,
Once you click the "finish" button after ranking your players you're all set. If you don't make it to the live draft your players will be automatically picked from your pre-rank list.

There's still room for 3 more coaches.”

“K. Thanks, Rockman.”

“10 days 'til draft. Still have room for 2 coaches. Bueller? Bueller?”

“Live draft is this Friday.. don't forget!”

“I'm so there! This past Sat I had two other drafts. One was a big money draft with guppies.”

“Yuppies= young urban professionals...


Guppies = Gay urban professionals?”

“Alright. Lets all give a great big welcome to The Monmouth Militia & California Hawkeyes. They have completed the league. Now that this is done, I went and set the draft order pulling numbers out of my ass j/k. Pulled out of a hat. I was honest. Check your draft postition by clicking on the draft results link. If for some reason someone drops out between now and draft time the draft order will be erased by Yahoo! In this case we will let Yahoo! determine the draft before our draft. Last note... We need an even number of managers for the draft to take place so if one drops out then I'll need to drop one of the new managers. Sorry, but that's how it is. Here's to a great season!”

“Prepare to get whooped, ya pansies!”

“I'm looking forward to the draft tonight.. and the season as well! Good luck everyone. :-)”

“Hey, I haven't checked. Who all from here is on this thing?”

“Tarabull
Treebeard
Buddha Bear
Rockman
BBlinkley
Artex
Phaedy
hyway9
ynamiynami
plus a friend of mine (Irv) and 2 other unknowns.

Draft in 4 hrs 30mins!”

“Should be fun!”

“Lets just hope BB doesn't draft an all Cleveland team like he did in our baseball league. You can guess what place he's in. :)”

“ten minutes, folks!”

“The draft was a lot of fun! Beware of my defense! Good luck to you all.”

“You too, Arty. It was fun. I will e mail you after the weekend. Have a good holiday (to all of you)”

“Same to you treebeard. :-) Alrighty, time for bed. G'nite!”

“Thanks for the invite BILL????? This hurts..it truly hurts...If this is how you treat your friends, then I feel sorry for your enemies :( MAn”

“I guess when you play in a league with a guy 2 years in a row and make the Superbowl both years..win 1 out of 2..I guess that rubs the ass cheeks a little raw...All you got MACHEWWW is a rubber stamp FF league..you'll never know if you really had it..shame really”

“Stevie, The TT league has been posted for well over a month. Heck, just the other day I asked on this board who wanted in to fill last couple of spots. The last two spots were taken last night. I figuered you weren't interested. Neither, you, Dunk, opie, nor chili responded here. Where ya been you slacker?”

“Rockman's right, the public offering has been up for a looooooooong time. Ya snooze, ya lose.”

“Here's me - keeping my mouth shut.”

“OK peoples, the season begins tomorrow night (thurs) and I see some shoddy starting lineups. Those who drafted poorly need to hit the wire and replace all those NA/IR guys. This means Buddha Bear, Treebeard, tarabull, Yam. Lets at least try to make this season interesting.”

“Slaaaaaaaaackers! That'll just mean more victories for the Kayakers of Death. Mooohahahahaha!”

“Will work on it today...”

“Just returned from a 9 day backpacking trip (the reason I missed the draft). I promise to work on it ASAP.

What's the deadline for starting line-ups? (should I already know this from the rules?)”

“Although I'm not in the TT league, my league drafted last night and check out this team:

McNair
Plummer
Kitna

Ricky Williams
L. Thomlinsom
C. Dillion
K. Barlow
S. Mack

T Holt
M Boerigter
A. Lelie
S. Smith

A Crumpler
M Ricks (sorry - I'm a Detorit boy after all)

D. Akers
Janikowski

Baltimore
Raiders


In my league, we can run variuos sets in our lineups. So, I'll be running the wishbone with 1 QB, 1 WR, 1 TE, 1 K and 1 Def. I gots second pick too!!”

“Tara, If I remember right you can change any player/postion up to 30 minutes before that player's team kickoffs. So if you have any Jets/Skins players you want in your lineup tomorrow they have to be in place 30 minutes before kickoff.

laqtis, excellent RB trio you have there. Great kickers, Good enough WRs. QBs should work for ya. Good draft.”

“Now here's a team to be reckoned with. I'm already salivating my first week's matchup against BBlinkley's all Tennessee team.
My defense alone will beat him.

QB Manning, Peyton*
QB Johnson, Brad
QB Ramsey, Patrick
WR Moss, Randy*
WR Brown, Troy*
WR Conway, Curtis
WR Wayne, Reggie*
WR Randle El, Antwaan
RB Portis, Clinton*
RB Lewis, Jamal
RB Canidate, Trung*
RB Alstott, Mike
TE Weaver, Jed*
K Wilkins, Jeff*
DL Lewis, Ray*
DL Thomas, Zach*
DL Fletcher, London*
DL Brooking, Keith
DL Foreman, Jay*
DL Peterson, Mike
DB Harrison, Rodney*
DB Knight, Sammy*
DB Griffith, Robert*
DB Lassiter, Kwamie*
DB Sharper, Darren

*=week 1 starting lineup.”

“I am soooooooo pumped up about our league and the start of the NFL in general!!! Woohoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!”