Agreed. Sounds good to me.

As far as the budget, $1,000 should probably be enough. But $10,000 would pretty much assure there wouldn't be any money bid ties. We'd only have to deal with $0 ties at that point.

Having that much FAAB would probably feel funny at first, but it's all relative anyways.

Good luck to everyone tonight.

Do we have a sweat tonight?

It's a small sweat, as both teams with players playing should cover.

New Team Who Dis? is locked in at 129.6.

I have 116.5, but I have both Diggs and Thielen.

William Wallace has 118.7 and he has Dalvin Cook and Russell going.

I'd say New Team has a 5-10% chance of making it through, but it's highly unlikely (assuming no injuries in-game of course).

Although, this is fantasy football and anything can happen.

New Team has $4, Josh has $2, I have $0, Wallace has $0 and Team Win has $0.

I will give credit to Josh and say he has been masterful with his FAAB. He definitely has the best team, and that's even with the loss of Hunt.

This week Josh dressed.

Mahomes
CMC
P. Lindsay
M Thomas
Hopkins
Julio
Ebron
JuJu
Keenan
Cam

He had Luck, Hilton, Evans and Ekeler on his bench.

I'm not feeling good. Diggs has 4.6 and Thielen has 0 after the first half.

Whew, what a catch by Diggs.

The rich get richer as I now have my choice of two players from NTWD at $1/ea.

I couldn't help but notice my eliminated team from last week scores 250+ this week. Sad!

Also, I would prefer staying on ESPN platform. Ok with raise the FAAB. One change I would make regardless is set the full year schedule at the start and dont modify it. That way playing an empty team is "luck of the draw" and out of everyone's control

I'm just not a fan of a random schedule with 0 scoring teams being a deciding factor in WW tiebreakers. It seems like unnecessary variance.

I mean, I'm cool with it deciding the tiebreaker for the first player, but the fact that a team with a worse record than me can get every player they want for $0 before me is tilting.

I guess it can create more strategy with the FAAB, but I still think it's tough as we get down to the end since the FAAB total truly is relative.

I am fortunate that Wallace beat me, as I now have priority on both Josh and Wallace.

My guess on the two players that Josh spends his final $2...Conner and Melvin Gordon. Maybe AB and Gordon. But it should be two of those 3.

But who would you bench for AB if you got him? Hopkins, Julio, Michael Thomas, Juju or Keenan?

Went with AB and Gordon. It's actually really hard to figure out who to start. Lindsay has some epic matchups these next two weeks.

So now you all are down to 4 and will do a 2 week playoff where most points over 2 weeks wins it all?

Correct. The current teams are:

Heels1022:

Goff
Barkley
J. Samuels
Thielen
Diggs
J. Gordon
Kelce
J. White
DJ
Rivers

Boyd
Ingram
A. Jones
Kittle

Josh:

Mahomes
CMC
M. Gordon
Keenan
Julio
AB
Ebron
JuJu
M. Thomas
Luck

P. Lindsay
Cam
T.Y.
Hopkins

Wallace:

Big Ben
Kamara
L. Miller
Davante
Edelman
C. Godwin
Gronk
Gurley
D. Cook
Wilson

Odell
T. Coleman
M. Ryan
Justin Jackson

Team Win:

Brees
Zeek
Fournette
Reek
R. Woods
Amari
Ertz
Cohen
Chubb
Rodgers

Mixon
Jeff Wilson
Conner
B Cooks

Yup. It's an embarrassment of riches for everyone. I still think you have the best team on paper, but anything can happen.

The projections for this week as the lineups currently set are damn close.

Josh leads the way at 200.9

Then it's

Me at 185
Wallace at 185.4
Team Win at 185.4

Kenan Allen scoring zero points seems not good for me. Lol

Yup, that hurt me in one of my other leagues.

Damien Williams on my bench also hurts. I should have pulled the trigger, but I was trying to reduce some variance, so I didn't want to play him in multiple spots given some of my other options.

Updated projections:

Wallace at 189.5
Me at 178.6
Team Win at 178.1
Josh at 173

What a ****ty week for me.

Wallace is in a good spot.

Wallace with a commanding lead with the first half of the playoff matchup in the books.

Wallace 206.4
Me 155.9
Win 139.2
Heels 121.4

Going to take a miracle for me to win. Josh is still somewhat within striking distance, but if Wallace can hit at least 150 this week, I don't think anyone will catch him.

It would be fitting for Mahomes to drop about 50 pts tonight to get me the win. Let's goooo

Good luck.

Congrats to William Wallace.

I look forward to playing next season. This league was a lot of fun.

Are you running this again Josh? I would be interested if its still on ESPN and <100

I’m in if running. Although I kind of liked the week 5 start with the top 4 teams making the finals.