Bronn Stone

It is so delicious but so strong

57 minutes ago, Week said:

Ooh. How would you feel about shipping some across the country? I'll give you extra auction dollars. :p

5:30 PM is really tough.  That means I have to do the whole thing at work.  Even 30 more minutes makes a huge difference.

Never mind.  That is my day off for Pliny the Younger release.  Which means I have to do the whole thing drunk, but not from work.

I could make it work but not ideal.

Yay!

Is it dead, Jim?

That was fun.  Right up until it wasn't.  Congrats.

On 12/5/2023 at 8:01 PM, Jaxom 1974 said:

I just didn't have the energy for fantasy this year. And baseball held me well into October diverting my attention more. I regret nothing. Been eliminated before but always seem to return...

This is me the past two years as well.   My drafts have been even worse than usual because of it and I can't recover.

Go Padres!

2 hours ago, grozeng said:

Sorry it took so long for me to accept, Bronn.  I saw the trade, looked at your lineup, saw you had one QB and hit accept.  I probably would have countered to see if I could have had Taysom Hill instead, but didn't want to take more time, so just accepted once i saw it.

I wish you had - then I would not have played Taysom.

5 hours ago, Whiskeyjack said:

I put Bagent into the lineup.

Thank you.

I did want to.  I didn't see the trade in time after it went through.  @BLU-RAY Any objection?

Justin Tucker $2 - 1 year
Christian McCaffrey $45 - 1 year
Jalen Hurts $39 - 1 year
Kyler Murray $12 - 4 years
Zach Charbonnet $11 - 4 years
Darnell Mooney $2 - 1 year
JuJu Smith-Schuster $3 - 1 year
Puka Nacua $8 - 4 years
Dalton Kincaid $4 - 4 years
Adam Thielen $1 - 1 year
Zamir White $1 - 4 years
Keaton Mitchell $2 - 1 year
Justice Hill $4 - 1 year

10 hours ago, grozeng said:

Let's plan Wednesday at 9:30 eastern or is 10pm better for the west coasters?

I will get everything set up Tuesday.  It takes a little longer than Keeper.

Wednesday works for me

Add Rashee Rice in the spot I just vacated (Smith-Njigba)

I would try as hard as possible to get a guest drafter.

1 hour ago, grozeng said:

@PyroclasticFlow

Put in keepers for him and autodraft?

that would be my recommendation

Thanks.  Considering how utterly disconnected from the NFL I am these days (my team abandoned me so I abandoned them and even this year, baseball is life), I am pretty satisfied.  I managed to execute big end QB early then watched with amazement when 5 more went in the high $30s or greater.  I definitely fumbled QB bye weeks when I grabbed Mac Jones, not noticing he had the same bye week as Mahomes, whom I intended to get at any price.

TE is a crap shoot and RB/WR are weak but WR is deep and Taylor lurks. 
I almost always stream defenses, just this year I will do so from a list of 2, both nominated early by Tywin.
I also hedged my W-B team by getting Mitchell here at least.

QB: Hurts, Mahomes (M. Jones, Garoppolo)
RB:  A. Jones, Conner, K. Herbert (E. Mitchell, D. Harris, E. Elliott, J. Taylor)
WR: Hopkins, Evans, Aiyuk, Kirk,  (Toney, Pittman, M. Thomas) - I have the 2019 title locked in TIGHT here
TE: Kittle (now Kmet, after putting Taylor on IR)
K: T. Bass
DT: SF, Philly

I would actually not keep Hopkins as a 6th.  I thought he was borderline at 7.

The Westeros B draft went as follows.  The numbers in parentheses are the keepable round in our draft.


1. Mccafrey (1), Jefferson (5), Chase (2), Ekeler(2), Kelce (1), Mahomes (2), Kupp (1), Chubb (1), Diggs, Pollard(11)
2. Allen (2), Barkley (1 - choice between him and Kupp), Hurts (1 - choice between him and Kelce), Hill (1), Henry (1 choice with Hill), Robinson (R), Brown (10), Mixon (1 - not kept), Lamb (1), Jackson (2)

All 5 with higher than round one are sure keepers.  McCaffrey will be kept. Kelce probably not, but may no longer merit round 1.  Kupp was an interesting pick, but not a good example IMO.  Chubb is likely to be kept.  I am of the opinion that there is a very good chance that Diggs is the first player taken if available.

1 minute ago, grozeng said:

He also has Cooper as a 7th.  I left that out.  I would keep Cooper over Hopkins.  Would you really keep Diggs as a 1st?  I rank WRs lower so maybe with some of the 1st round keepers going lower he would be a first.  And Dillon as an 8th I was iffy on, but will put him in.  Dillon and Boyd are about where they should be, so not very good value keepers.

Between Cooper and Hopkins, do you keep one over the other?  Or both and move one to a 6th rounder?  I have Cooper over Hopkins, so I thought throw Hopkins back.

Guys who are about where they should be should be kept IMO, since some of the guys who should be drafted ahead of them will be kept behind.  If Franco Harris is a 5th round pick, but 8 of the first four rounds guys are being kept later, Franco moves up a round.

To me, Diggs will probably go in the first round for someone.  Probably behind Bijan though.  Depends on whether you want to roll the dice since more than two people will be drafting in that round.

A safe suggestion for Tywin's Keepers

1. Stefon Diggs
2. Lamar Jackson
7. Amari Cooper (changed after I saw Groz)
8. AJ Dillon
12 Alexander Mattison

And maybe 14. Tyler Boyd.

Keeping
2 - Joe Burrow
5 - Trevor Lawrence
8 - DeShaun Watson
12 - Rhaemondre Stevenson


This team is wretched.

Both of those dates work for me.

Drop

Isaiah Spiller
Tim Patrick
Jakobi Meyers