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Baboontyme

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  1. High School Catfish
  2. Thanks all, smooth draft. I'm going to try to get the league safe thing going (there's no fee) and I'll get those out in the next day or two. Happy we could make this come together.
  3. Yeah I hate this, last thing I wanted because of optics. I'm in another league with a buddy where the commissioner has given himself the #1 pick 3 years in a row (without a recording of drawing the order). I told my buddy I've been playing FF for 25 years and never once gotten the top overall pick. Now I'm the commissioner with a bunch of randoms who don't know me, and of course I get it. I think pick 4/5 is the sweet spot, but I will be taking Chase at 1.1.
  4. 12. Quantum Leap 11. Tiki Time 10. Derka gandorf Devin's team 9. IT's buddy Cheers Beers 8. El guapo 7. Tokamak 6. Ryan and Jason 5. Jack Straw 4. Harold 3. Zepol 2. IT Horn 1. Baboon 🙄 PXL_20250903_211307131.mp4
  5. Y'all she gave me the first pick. If you feel this is shady I can redo it. Promise this was the first draw. I don't even want the first pick. Video uploading...
  6. You are right and considering that person is going to be me, I think I will look into league safe tonight. I am getting pulled into a 5:30 ET meeting. I'm picking my daughter up at 5 from cheer and I will have her draw the draft order and I'll post it after my call. All teams have accepted invites.
  7. Since we have 12, I think pot should be $800, $300 and money back for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. We good with that? Do you guys want to do League Safe or is everyone comfortable with settling up after the season?
  8. Invites are out. Need to accept before the draft. Only non standard things here (ESPN PPR) are I elected to use FAAB instead of open waivers. Budget is 100, minimum bid is 0. Waiver period is 1 day. And we have the 2 flex starters, 6 deep bench, 1 IR, no positional limits on how you fill out your roster.
  9. Neph says he is in and is cool paying the full fee himself. We got 12! Going to set up the league now.
  10. Here is a link with breakdowns of the ESPN scoring, non ppr and ppr. https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003914032-Scoring-Formats .
  11. When you go to set the league up, the very first thing you have to set is the number of teams. I'm still hoping we can get a 12th. But we will use ESPN standard scoring for a ppr league. I believe it's 6 point TDs, 4 pt passing TDs etc.
  12. Alright, things looking good. We are confirmed at 10, @elguapo is in if necessary at 11, and I already have a message out to my nephew about 12. I'll follow the same timeline unless I get a confirmation from my nephew or someone on surly that they will take team #12. If or when that happens I'll set the league up as and get invites out as an as I can.
  13. Ok, here is my plan. Still hoping of course I can get a reply from Jack and get his and his buddy's info. Either way, hope 1 is to get one more from the board to join and then we have 10 including @elguapo whether we hear from Jack or not. If that doesn't happen by late morning-ish, I think I can talk my nephew into taking a spot if I help fund his team (I would not collude, I ain't about that). OR @Derka @henrygandorf any interest in splitting up and each taking a team? If not to both of those, I'll see if I can farm someone off of the rivals MSU board. In a perfect world we get Jack and his buddy in, plus elguapo and another via one of the methods above. Either way by tomorrow, let's say 6 pm ET/5 CT, I'm going to set the league up and send out invites. I want to give as much time as possible to get other owners in. I will also draw teams from a hat for draft order, nod to Mama Derka. I would absolutely love for her to do it if we knew who the teams were lol. I will have my daughter do it, I'll record it and post it here and I think ESPN also will send an email out. She's 12 so don't get excited. The draft will be at 10:30 ET tomorrow night. Feel free to ask anyone you think might or might not be interested for this last spot to even us out.
  14. Sweet. Can we get another?? 10 with the chance to go up to 12 is much better than 8 with a chance to go to 10.
  15. Getting a bit nervous this is going to fall through if we don't hear from Jack. Can't exactly draft for him and his buddy. I did PM him in addition to tagging him above. 8 team league with 4 flex spots? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
  16. No not yet. I need to get Jack and his buddy's emails and then I'll set it up and send invites.
  17. Still waiting for Jack Straw. Anyone know him irl?
  18. If we can get @Jack Straw to confirm himself and his +1 we can try to pull the draft off tomorrow night if the time is more convenient. Everyone else is confirmed. I'm happy to try to do both of these drafts at the same time, I just don't want to have to do early rounds at the same time as I'll be manager of both so I would like to stagger. Worried about having to stop, restart, etc if there are issues. Please vote on your preference by posting in this thread, and please let me know if you have a hard conflict and can't do one of these. Tuesday 9 PM Central Wednesday 7 PM Central Wednesday 9:30 Central
  19. I'm good with it, especially if we wind up with only ten teams. Send me your email please Doc. I won't set the league up and send out invites until tomorrow night in case we can get two more.
  20. When you guys confirm, please pm me email addresses for yourself and if you have a co owner or if you have a buddy who you identified as wanting their own team.
  21. Discover commercials continue to make me want to punch babies.
  22. I think we have 10 and that's enough to have a go. Please confirm participation for you and your +1s. 1. @tokamak 2. @ITHorn 3. @ITHorn's buddy 4. @Zwylde 5. @Jack Straw 6. @Jack Straw's buddy 7. @Doc Sam Beckett 8. @Derka 9. @Zepol87 10. Me Still happy to go to twelve if we can get two more. I'd say PPR, standard scoring, QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, Flex (2), TE, K, DST and 6 bench spots. Does anyone object? Just trying to throw some parameters together here. ESPN is cool. I have a draft Wednesday at 9:30 ET, could we maybe draft at like 8 ET/7 CT Wednesday so I'm not juggling too many windows? $100 buy in, $700 to champ, $300 to second, third place gets nothing and likes it.
  23. The neighbor thing really had me in my feelings before the baby news. Family of 4 that lives a few doors down from us. When we moved in, in our late 20s, the girls were young. Got to know them all. The dad, who speaking of Homer, used to remind me of Ned Flanders. He would take the youngest daughter around as she got into her early teen years with a lawnmower to mow ours and other lawns so she could raise money for college. She would babysit my kids when they were little. Apparently at some point they got a goldfish. When the girls went off to college, one day Terry and Sandy asked us if we could watch the goldfish when they were going out of town. Young and naive I did not recognize this trap. When they returned, Terry told me congratulations, your kids now have a goldfish. They were excited of course, and renamed him Simba. A few years later, I think it was 2017 or so, Terry in his mid 50s and very healthy, had a massive heart attack while on the treadmill and died. It was very sad to see those girls have to mourn their father. And now, just a few years later, their mom is gone as well. Simba outlived both of them. We were talking to the girls at the visitation, the damn goldfish is 15 years old and still going strong. Anyway RIP to Sandy and Terry.
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