Fantasy Football

[officeglenn]

The Maine Fighting Lobsters of the PFA (different conference from joel_fiasco, however) ...

QB: Matt Hasselbeck, Ben Roethlisberger, Joey Harrington

RB: Brian Westbrook, Jerious Norwood, Ahman Green, Leon Washington

WR: Roy Williams, Santana Moss, Joey Galloway, Dwayne Jarrett, Ted Ginn Jr.

TE: Tony Gonzalez, Heath Miller

PK: Matt Stover

D: Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears

Yeah, I didn't draft so well, especially after trading away my first-rounder, which hurt me more than I thought it would. But I've pulled a trade or two since that have turned out well.

[HedleyLamarr]

In the 20-team league I advertised on here about a month ago, here's my lineup (I drafted 4th out of 20):

QB: Alex Smith, Marc Bulger

RB: Joseph Addai, LenDale White, Mike Anderson

WR: Terry Glenn, DJ Hackett, Mike Furrey, Amani Toomer, Ernest Wilford

TE: Antonio Gates, Dan Campbell

K: Jeff Reed, Justin Medlock

DEF: Houston, Indianapolis

UPDATE!!!!

Now that most, if not all, of the regular seasons are over and the playoffs are beginning this week...how did your teams fare? How much of an overhaul did your roster go through over the course of the season?

The Atlanta Falcons finished 8-6, and by points (first overall in points), earned the 5th seed in the 8-team playoffs and a rematch of a first-round matchup of last season with the Green Bay Packers. Here's my current roster:

QB: Marc Bulger, John Beck, Kyle Orten

RB: Joseph Addai, LenDale White, *Maurice Jones-Drew, Kenton Keith

WR: Amani Toomer, *Reggie Wayne, ^Wes Welker, +Reggie Brown, Justin Gage, Andre Davis

TE: Antonio Gates

K: Jeff Reed

DEF: Indianapolis

Players in bold: Original drafted players by me at beginning of season

* - Acquired, along with K Ryan Longwell, from Tampa Bay in exchange for WR Ike Hilliard and RB Derrick Ward on Oct. 1st.

^ - Acquired, along with DEF Atlanta, from Buffalo in exchange for WR Mike Furrey and DEF Houston on Oct. 11th.

+ - Acquired from New England in exchange for WR Roydell Williams on Oct. 11th.

[TFoA]

Atlanta Foxes

10-3 in WAFL, Atlantic Division Champs, first round bye in the playoffs.

Current Lineup

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QB - Tom Brady (NE)

RB - Jamal Lewis (CLE)

RB - Chester Taylor (MIN)

WR - Greg Jennings (GB)

WR - Terrell Owens (DAL)

WR - TJ Houshmandzadeh (CIN)

TE - Tony Gonzalez (KC)

K - Morten Anderson (ATL)

DEF - Jacksonville

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Idk what it is, I always seem to have a beastly first year in any fantasy sport. I fully expect a drop-off for next year.

[Drew22]

The California Celtics won the EFL regular season championship and there division. They earned the 1 seed in the playoffs.

QB: Tom Brady, Ben Rothlisberger

RB: Adrian Peterson, Rock Cartwright, Kevin Jones, Larry Johnson

WR: TJ Houshmandzadeh, Plaxico Burress, Calvin Johnson, Santana Moss

TE: Dallas Clark, Jason Witten

K: Jason Elam

TM: Pittsburgh, New York Giants

[Viper]

As you may have already seen in my sig, the Las Vegas Flying Aces have won their 8-team league for the first time, with a 12-2 record (the regular season title is the big prize in this league, accounting for a full 50% of the total league prize pool), and also the points championship with 795 (second place was 780). The Aces will now go for the league trifecta by winning the playoffs. Here is a partial reposting of a news article I posted on the league Web site earlier today:

LAS VEGAS - "It's hard to find the words to describe how I feel right now," Flying Aces CEO and head coach [Viper] told the raucous SRO crowd of over 71,000 at PokerStars Coliseum after his team's 41-39 victory over Milwaukee in Week 13. "In fact I can think of only three..."

"...VIVA LAS VEGAS!!!"

The fans' roar in response was loud enough to shatter six seasons' worth of mediocrity and frustration - not to mention every fragile object inside, or within 300 feet of PokerStars Coliseum - and touched off the kind of celebration that can only happen in Sin City: a massive, decadently wild affair that lasted seven whole days, all the way through the Aces' regular-season finale against New York.

[Viper] addressed the fans after his team, in its seventh season, clinched its first Fanatical Fantasy Football League championship, the culmination of an unbelievable season which saw the Aces, historically slow regular-season starters, defeat every other team in the league to go undefeated in the first half of the 2007 campaign, then cruise to a final record of 12-2, by far the best in franchise history. Led by breakout quarterback Tony Romo and rookie phenom running back Adrian Peterson, the Aces also took a commanding early lead in the total-points race. That lead was slowly whittled down in the second half of the season, but it still required a record-setting 102-point game (ironically, also in Week 13) for the New York Nemesis to finally wrest that lead away. Even that proved to be short-lived, as the Aces reclaimed the points lead for good in a 65-37 win over the Nemesis in the finale, for a final season tally of 795 points to New York's 780.

[Viper]'s team will now go for the league trifecta by winning the 3FL playoffs, hosting Panama City in a semifinal matchup for the right to face the winner of the New York-East Bay semifinal in Fanatic Bowl XIV - which would also be a de facto home game for the Flying Aces, whose home stadium has doubled as the permanent home for the postseason final since 2002. Or would it?

"We'd wear our home reds and get to use our own locker room, but that's about it," said [Viper] when asked about Fanatic Bowl home-field advantage during the Week 14 postgame news conference. "The way the stadium is decked out for that game, it looks and feels like an almost entirely different venue from a regular home game. And it's not just our fans who will be there, it's fans for the other team and from all over the league. That's why all the casinos here love the Fanatic Bowl coming to town every year. All the top poker players too... I hear some of them even call it 'The Big Fish Fry'."

Regardless of the Flying Aces' postseason results, the city of Las Vegas is already planning a championship parade in the team's honor on December 28. The parade route will begin on Fremont Street, then proceed down the Las Vegas Strip before winding its way back to the Coliseum.

Here is the final team roster (usual starters in bold):

QB: Tony Romo, Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers

RB: Adrian Peterson, Marion Barber, Rudi Johnson, Julius Jones, DeAngelo Williams

WR: Reggie Wayne, T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Andre Johnson, D.J. Hackett, Kevin Curtis, Koren Robinson

TE: Chris Cooley, Ben Watson

PK: Matt Stover, Jason Hanson

This league uses IDPs rather than team defenses, and I changed those starters every week so nobody is in bold. Here is my defensive roster:

DL: Aaron Schobel, Osi Umenyiora

LB: London Fletcher, DeMeco Ryans, D.J. Williams

DB: Kerry Rhodes, Bob Sanders, Roy Williams

Edit: I almost forgot... Here is the championship game logo for this league (designed, BTW, before PokerStars changed their wordmark):

[WJMorris3]

Will just update with a team in one of the leagues I am in... because he went 14-0. His early draft (drafted 1st in 12-team league) is as follows.

1st Rd: LaDainian Tomlinson

2nd Rd: Tom Brady

3rd Rd: Terrell Owens

4th Rd: Adrian Peterson

5th Rd: Randy Moss

6th Rd: Kellen Winslow

7th Rd: Braylon Edwards

8th Rd: Patriots D

[Viper]

So much for my trifecta... All but one of my starters laid goose-eggs - or worse, negative points - in the playoff semis this week. I still have Adrian Peterson starting tonight, but he's not going to rescue the Flying Aces by himself. Oh well... I still took home the big prize in that league.

As for my namesake team, they had a rough year, but it looks like the Vipers are going to close it out with two straight 2-win weeks (that league plays doubleheaders) and stay out of the cellar. Depending on the Monday night scoring, they will finish the season in either 8th or 9th place out of 11 teams.

[kewp80]

Both my Keystone Irish (League with friends) and Minnesota Loons (UFL) went 12-2 and won their respective division. The Irish received a first round bye in the playoffs and will play their arch-rival the Quahog Slappers in the semi-finals. The Loons however choked to the Vancouver Sockeyes in the American Conference championship game.

[Brendan]

Both my Keystone Irish (League with friends) and Minnesota Loons (UFL) went 12-2 and won their respective division. The Irish received a first round bye in the playoffs and will play their arch-rival the Quahog Slappers in the semi-finals. The Loons however choked to the Vancouver Sockeyes in the American Conference championship game.

I wonder who owns the Vancouver Sockeyes ( sorry I am not usually cocky, I was just really bad last year)

Well here was my roster in the beginning of the year

QB:John Kitna, Jay Cutler, Donovan Mcnabb

RB: Laurence Maroney, Travis Henry, Maurice Jones-Drew

WR: Roy Williams, Marvin Harrison, DJ Hackett, Wes Welker

TE: Daniel Graham, Bo Scaife

D: Chargers

K: Josh Brown, Stephen Gostowski

Along with some trades and waiver wire moves I now have this lineup

QB: Ben Roethlisberger, Donovan McNabb,

RB: Kevin Jones, Ryan Grant, Laurence Maroney, Travis Henry, Chester Taylor, Brandon Jacobs,

RB Ryan Grant,

WR: Wes Welker, Bobby Engram, Roy Williams (IR) Bobby Engram

TE Kellen Winslow

D/ST Packers, Chargers D/ST

K Josh Brown

[TFoA]

My team laid an egg in the Conference Finals. Now since the Falcons are horrible, the NFL season is basically over for me. GO HAWKS.

[Nick 1733]

I only have one team, and that's in the WAFL on here...

My roster at the start of the season:

Indicates a keeper

QB: Jay Cutler, Matt Hasselbeck

RB: Joseph Addai Ronnie Brown, DeAngelo Williams,

WR: Anquan Boldin, Marvin Harrison, Devery Henderson, Joe Horn, Brandon Marshall, Javon Walker

TE: Todd Heap, Tony Scheffler

K: Jason Elam

DEF: Miami Dolphins

And after a few trades, free agent pick-ups and injuries, my current roster:

QB: Jay Cutler, Matt Hasselbeck

RB: Joseph Addai, Travis Henry, Selvin Young

WR: Anquan Boldin, Larry Fitzgerald, Brandon Marshall, Roddy White

TE: Todd Heap, Tony Scheffler

K: Rob Bironas, Jason Elam

DEF: New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

IR: Ronnie Brown, Marvin Harrison, Javon Walker

And with all that, I'm playing for the championship this week, as a Wild Card no less.

[See Red]

In the playoffs in both of my leagues. Made it to the second round in each. Didn't expect my CFA team to win three games, let alone be in the playoffs, so I'll take it.

[Drew22]

My team choked in the conference title game. We ended up 10-3-1.

[fiasco!]

Injuries decimated the Carolina Ospreys, who finished a disappointing 4-9.

Ospreys final roster:

Carson Palmer | Jamarcus Russell

Kolby Smith, Lendale White | Larry Johnson (IR), Jerrious Norwood, Jesse Chatman, Chris Brown

Drew Bennett, Chris Chambers, Roydell Williams | Marvin Harrison, Devery Henderson, Matt Jones

Tony Scheffler | Jeremy Shockey

Eagles D

David Akers

The Chicago Warhellride also battled injuries this year and finished a respectable 7-6.

Warhellride final roster:

Tony Romo | Donovan McNabb

Steven Jackson, Chester Taylor | Travis Henry, Thomas Jones

Braylon Edwards, Chad Johnson, Brandon Marshall | Chris Chambers, Donté Stallworth

Randy McMichael | Todd Heap

Broncos D | 'Skins D

Jason Elam

Jumping out of the gate at 8-1, the Midgard Dönnerschlag lost their last 4 regular season games, limping into the playoffs at 8-5. After winning their first two rounds of the playoffs, they will be in the championship game this coming weekend. Suck it, amare32!

Dönnerschlag playoff roster:

Tom Brady | Eli Manning

Steven Jackson, Clinton Portis | Cedric Benson (IR) Adrian Peterson (CHI), Kenny Watson

Plaxico Burress, Greg Jennings | Jerricho Cotchery, Isaac Bruce

Tony Scheffler | Todd Heap (IR)

Jags D

Adam Vinatieri

[Sport]

After two seasons as the doormats of the UFL The Virginia Vultures have made it to the united bowl. In the first season I had a 3-11 record and then a 4-10 record in my second season. This year the Vultures went 8-5-1, qualified for the playoffs and rode Adrian Peterson to victory in round one. Next Week is the United Bowl against the Vancouver Sockeyes also a cellar-dweller turned title contender.

My lineup:

Phillip Rivers/Damon Huard/Kyle Boller (I've had lots of injuries at Quarterback, it is my team's weakness)

Adrian Peterson

Kenny Watson/Reggie Bush Q

Chad Johnson/Micheal Jenkins

Greg Jennings

Antonio Gates/Greg Olsen

Buccaneers D/ST/Bills

Mike Nugent/Nate Kaeding

Adrian Peterson has been they key to my success and so has Greg Jennings. The rest of the team sort of just adds points here and there.