Wolves if you could own only one of Demarco or Ekeler the rest of the way, who you like? Do you see Ekeler being valuable next year?

Jimmy G more valuable than McCown the rest of the way in redraft seems highly debatable. Not even because I don't think highly of Jimmy G. Just because of how well McCown is playing.

Demarco this year but really we're talking about two split backfields and Demarco looks terrible. I do not see Ekeler being valuable next year without a Gordon injury and then they probably still bring another guy in and just use him as a COP back.....i like what I see from him but i don't see the Chargers giving him a fair chance.

Just this week. ROS is super close.

Cool thanks. Think I gotta drop Ekeler for ASJ at TE. I hate going into week 15 only having Engram now. Was my RB5, just hoarding the position. Hoping ASJ reverts back to the mean.

OJ Howard is the other name out there, but seems like to bad a situation for him for the rest of the year.

Howard is another good example of players i try to grab in dynasty. He could be literally 2 years away from hitting though......Howard>Engram talent wise though......

What do you guys think about this trade? Evans + L. Murray for Hunt + Tate

Well I got Howard and Mixon in dynasty, so we must see eye to eye pretty often

Really curious what I'll do with 4 first rounders this year. Should be a fun prep to the draft. I know it's not super deep with WR's, but saw some interesting dudes that are sort of under the radar due to the schools they're on.

I haven't even started to check out the prospects for next year. I want to see what's under the hood on Barkley. He could go to SF.....which on the surface looks good. Ine if the best OC in the league. A top 10 QB. Still i want to see his 3 cone, jumps, 40, and how big he is.

I want to see

220+
Sub 4.5 40
35 inch+ vert
Sub 7 sec 3 cone

Size and 3 cone are most important to me though......i mean even if he's a 4.55 guys thats no big deal......once i see those numbers then we go to the tape......



And ***edit*** the only reason i mention guys on your team as guys i would target is because there's zero chance i can trade with you for them. I even mention a guy in trade talks and guys butt holes pucker up so tight and i don't get it because ive lost a ton of trades too. Lolol

What is the thread's thoughts on if someone should be allowed to tank a game or two to decrease their playoff seeding (to get a better match-up), to allow a bad team in the playoffs or to give the bad team a win so you can face them again in the playoffs?

Given your RB situation, seems fine. No gamble, no future.



Super lame, but hard to police against. I get super happy when this backfires though so maybe those times are worth allowing it.

you should at least have to fill out a full lineup

seems pretty rare you could manipulate anything with certainty anyway, in all my leagues the playoff teams can still finish in two to five different seeds.

Another guy i like the next 2-3 weeks is Marshawn Lynch. I know you can't grab him off the WW but if you own him i think you can start him with confidence. Oakland was talking about getting him the ball and they did this last week. Lynch has NYG/KC/DAL the next three weeks. That's the 31st/29th/17th ranked teams in rushing yards allowed this year. He has a schedule set up to go off possibly......

It does raise an interesting (at least I think it's interesting) question regarding how to structure the league so as to incentive against tanking. There's no perfect solution that I know of, but the best I've seen so far is to allow the last wildcard slot to be based on total points. So you'd have the top 5 of 12 teams make the playoffs based on W-L record, and then usually the teams in 6th-10th place are still technically in it during the final week.

An important note is that the 6th-10th place teams aren't looking to outscore the league's top point scorer; they're competing among themselves for points (and during the final week, you still don't necessarily know who's going to end up 3rd-4th-5th in W-L record). So in practice that doesn't incentive the 6th-10th place teams starting "high ceiling, low floor" type players (which is a common criticism against the "total points" wildcard spot).

Obviously it's not completely fool-proof, since there can still be a 40pt/week dumpster fire team that won't be in contention during weeks 12-13. But you'd hope that at that point, everyone else is equal for already having scored a "free win" against dumpster fire teams.

Also helps mitigate the occasional "I have the second worst record but third highest points" complaining, which is nice.

GB D 5th in turnovers.........playing

Someone in my league proposed we leave playoff seeding as is, but instead of having 3 play 6 & 4 play 5 week one that you have all 4 play each other and the 2 highest scorers advances and those 2 teams join teams 1 & 2 the following week and the top 2 scorers go to the chip.

I like. I think we are going to vote on the proposal tonight/tomorrow.

brees killing me are we sticking with him this week vs panthers or going with jameis @gb or I KNOW THIS IS INSANE but hundley v bucs?

obviously play brees

I'm asking myself the same question... Brees versus Winston.

Easily Brees. He hasn't been that bad this year (even if not as good as expected). His scoring average is slightly higher than Winston's. Add in that Winston is returning from injury and think it's not close. I also slightly prefer Brees' match-up this week. Panthers D is better overall than GB, but Panthers strength is run D, so I'd expect NO to rely more on Brees/Kamara than Ingram which should lead to more yards and TD chances for Brees.

This is part of the game, IMO. You play to win the league, if throwing a week helps get you there. go for it. I am okay with this sort of thing except when it is collusion-type... i.e. let my GF win etc...

It backfires often which makes it fun.

Anyone with functional long term memory (lol mine is bad) recall a year where week 15 or 16 had a memorable #1 waiver add? Have a bunch of teams where I used my #1 around week 8, and I'm back to having the #1 again. Just trying to recall any earth shattering late injuries in the playoffs. Low content question.

Melvin went down last year around that time; I think Farrow was the big waiver add but he didn't put up A+ numbers or anything.

David Johnson was a post week 12 waiver add in 2015. But that doesn't answer your question.

Who do you guys like in PPR Flex this week:

V. Davis(plays tonight), D. Henry, R. Smith, Jaquizz Rodgers, or JuJu(questionable with hamstring)