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Fantasy Football Open Thread

by John Cole|  September 5, 20111:06 pm| 10 Comments

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News from the Commish:

Fantasy Football Update!

The Elitist Meritocracy Conference of the BJFL is full up with top performers from last year’s 4 conferences. I am too lazy to run more than one conference, but other juicers have stepped into the breach. The Wignut Welfare Conference of the BJFL is now open for signup on Yahoo; the password to join is alsotoo:
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/bjfl_wingnutwelfare

Another B-J regular has set up a third league on ESPN.com. He’s going to use an auction draft system – I’ve never played that way but it sounds interesting. Some other fine points of rules and scoring may be different too, but top finishers in this league will also be invited to the Elitist Conference in 2012:
http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=290918

Opening Day is Thursday and fantasy drafts are going down Tuesday-Wednesday of this week….don’t be late!

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    September 5, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    Yeah…I wish I had the time to dedicate to something like this. But the way my work schedule is I’d never make a draft unless it was late at night.

  2. 2.

    The Commish

    September 5, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    Thanks for posting John!

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    September 5, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    Will there be promotions and relegations next year like in real football?

  4. 4.

    The Commish

    September 5, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    Yep, I expect that next year I’ll invite top finishers from this year’s conferences to fill most of the Elitist Conference.

    And btw, I’d agree that “football” is sort of a silly name for a sport in which the act of kicking the ball is a “special” event. I actually like the British name for our game, “gridiron” – but then I’m a godless soshulist.

  5. 5.

    artem1s

    September 5, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    too bad, I’ll be sailing the last race of the season for the draft. good luck to those who participate.

  6. 6.

    Joel

    September 5, 2011 at 3:37 pm

    Drafted on Friday, and went with *gulp* Arian Foster with pick number 4. Making matters worse, my favorite RB2s (Stephen Jackson, Matt Forte) were off the board in round two, so I went with *double gulp* Frank Gore. Lot of risk tied up in those two. At least I don’t have Peyton Manning.

  7. 7.

    Chet

    September 5, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    Meanwhile, in a sport that I actually give a shit about, my Detroit Tigers have followed a weekend sweep of the Chisox with an equally delicious road win in Cleveland. Life is good.

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    Breschau

    September 6, 2011 at 12:30 am

    We need the league ID# as well as the password in order to join the Yahoo league.

  9. 9.

    Freemark

    September 6, 2011 at 1:49 am

    created a standard league since other std leagues were full
    bjfl League of Last Chances on ESPN
    http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=1033582
    draft 10:15pm Wed 9/7

    pw: alsotoo

    hopefully there are still some more juicers who would like to play

  10. 10.

    legion

    September 6, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Thanks, Freemark – I’ve been tardy getting my act together this season!

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