The Toby Bowl is our version of a friends and family fantasy football league. It's technically the third year we've done it, but after year one we blew it up due to turmoil, and after year two we blew it up due to inactivity. But my wife wanted to play again, so we tried again, and this is BY FAR our best league yet.
Years active: 1 (3 if you count the old leagues but there is so little carryover of members besides my wife and I)
League Type: ESPN, Snake, Redraft with 12 teams
Divisions: 4
Playoffs: 4 division winners get in
Scoring: Head to Head Points, fairly basic scoring system
Positions: QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, FLEX, D/ST, K, P, 7 Bench, IR
Depth of the League: Average - The wire currently includes the Eagles Defense, Josh McCown, Jay Cutler, Michael Crabtree, and Jermaine Kearse. None of those guys will set the world on fire - but most would be rostered in many similar leagues IMHO.
Any weird quirks: YES to Punters for the 2nd year in a row, No to Tight Ends (new this year), 4 girls in the league (ties our season high from year one, but these girls are much more active than that year's were)
How have I done: Year 1 - 3rd Place. Last Year - Playoff Loss
This league is never that serious, but I always really love it since it's the league where my wife and I get to battle it out. Ever since year one, when she lost in the Championship, she has been addicted to fantasy football. She's tried baseball and hockey in the meantime (and quit both) but she can never quit football.
Other league members include two fellow teachers and one's husband (one division), two buddies from college (with me in my division), one of our bridesmaids and a guy I play fantasy baseball with who is my wife's nemesis (wife's division), and then three guys from Blowout (4th division). Next year I envision most of the first nine staying, but trying to find three different people to replace the Blowout crew.
As for why punters and no tight ends? Well it's my league, and I always thought punters got the short end of the stick, so I tossed them in. We had issues in year one (namely ESPN didn't calculate punts in 10 and punts in 20 until Tuesday morning, so we had a lot of games decided long after the weekend ended due to this) which caused us to change punter value this year. Now they only score 3-6 points per game, so we'll probably go back to the weird scoring way next year. FYI: ESPN HATES punters. They don't project them at the beginning of the season or put last season's stats with them (so you need depth charts to know who to draft and we had 5 of 12 teams draft a free agent punter this year) and they don't project them week to week. So punters are...a wild card.
Tight ends are easier...there are like 2-3 great ones and then a ton of guys who scored 4-6 points a week. We figured the great ones will be flex-able, and the others aren't worth rostering even as TEs. So throw away tight ends, and BRING ON the punters.
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