Been a LONG time since I last posted - let's see how I finished in leagues gone by and where I am now in current leagues.
In basketball, I won the whole friggen league! James Harden and LeBron James were clutch late, and I beat my Dad for the championship. that was cool.
In hockey, I fell out in the quarterfinals. I traded too much good stuff away and then oof...sad ending.
In football, things went okay. I lost in the quarterfinals in Worst Team Ever, lost in the semifinals in show us your TDs, and then won the championship in The Toby Bowl. It's my first time winning that in 3 years, so I was pretty excited.
As for current sports, in baseball I am currently tied for first in my division at 4-2. Probably soon to be 4-3, as I took a sort of stars and scrubs approach and traded away too many helpful pieces early. But I will come back.
Hopefully this week I'll be back to talk more baseball!
Showing posts with label The Toby Bowl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Toby Bowl. Show all posts
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Tuesday Late Afternoon Quarterback: Recapping my Fantasy Week
I had four active leagues this week, my three football and one hockey (technically my baseball keeper is active, but I wasn't able to talk trades at all. Overall I went 4-0 this week, and here's a brief breakdown of what went down:
The Toby Bowl: Faced a former blogging buddy, and whooped him 91-66. Chris Ivory continued to lead me with 25 strong points, while Tom Brady (22) and Gio Bernard (13) chipped in as well.
Despite my 91 score, I actually made a lot of bad moves this week. Cairo Santos (5) was an awful plug 'n play, Antonio Brown (2) continued to look awful with Roethlisberger out, and I left Alshon Jeffrey (20), Keenan Allen (15), and Sammy Watkins (10) on my bench.
Show us your tds: Easy win, came out ahead 91.52 to 67.94. Andy Dalton beat his projection, Brandon McManus went for over 14 points, and Gary Barnidge (who I added this week) scored 2 touchdowns. I had Jeffrey on my bench here too, but the guy I was facing had Santos and Brown plus a lot of scrubs which gave me an easy win.
Worst Team Ever: GOTTA LOVE BYES! A week after Doug Martin essentially lost me a game by himself, the Bucs were on bye and I paced the league with -4 points (all from Andre Ellington). I faced the worst team in the league, who scored -47 points due to Tom Brady, Matt Forte, and James Jones. The win brings me to .500, which is nice!
Free Candy: Last but not least, the hockey league. Week one I won 8 categories and lost 3, and my 8-3-0 record puts me 2nd in the league. Ryan Miller has started tremendously at me for goalie, and I'll need him to keep it up if I have any hope this year. My offense was all Steven Stamkos and Ryan Johansen, though Jonathan Drouin and Ryan Getlaf threw in some good work too.
The Toby Bowl: Faced a former blogging buddy, and whooped him 91-66. Chris Ivory continued to lead me with 25 strong points, while Tom Brady (22) and Gio Bernard (13) chipped in as well.
Despite my 91 score, I actually made a lot of bad moves this week. Cairo Santos (5) was an awful plug 'n play, Antonio Brown (2) continued to look awful with Roethlisberger out, and I left Alshon Jeffrey (20), Keenan Allen (15), and Sammy Watkins (10) on my bench.
Show us your tds: Easy win, came out ahead 91.52 to 67.94. Andy Dalton beat his projection, Brandon McManus went for over 14 points, and Gary Barnidge (who I added this week) scored 2 touchdowns. I had Jeffrey on my bench here too, but the guy I was facing had Santos and Brown plus a lot of scrubs which gave me an easy win.
Worst Team Ever: GOTTA LOVE BYES! A week after Doug Martin essentially lost me a game by himself, the Bucs were on bye and I paced the league with -4 points (all from Andre Ellington). I faced the worst team in the league, who scored -47 points due to Tom Brady, Matt Forte, and James Jones. The win brings me to .500, which is nice!
Free Candy: Last but not least, the hockey league. Week one I won 8 categories and lost 3, and my 8-3-0 record puts me 2nd in the league. Ryan Miller has started tremendously at me for goalie, and I'll need him to keep it up if I have any hope this year. My offense was all Steven Stamkos and Ryan Johansen, though Jonathan Drouin and Ryan Getlaf threw in some good work too.
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Introducing a League: The Toby Bowl
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.
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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