RANT: Deadlifts & pizza help to prevent ebola. YA RLY!

[Final_Rep]

It shouldn't be all that difficult to learn to say: "English, M$%^$ER, do you speak it?" in 20 different languages.

Sadly, it won't even matter anymore. Or, maybe not sadly. Depends on your perspective.

http://www.skype.com/en/translator-preview/

The future is coming. At first it will be cloud based so require an internet connection. Then someday soon it will be available offline. i.e. having a convo withs omeone overseas and your phone is listening and translating real time.

Greek. I'm not using anything like Rosetta Stone, just a website I found that has copious sound clips and listening exercises as well as a decently laid-out grammar and vocab structure.

Interesting choice. Any particular reason or just because you like it?

[im2manly]

Gyros, tzatziki, souvlaki, ouzo, pusti.

All you need to know malaka.

And Mele Kalikimaka to you too brother.

[Borla118]

oh please fuk off.. You should lose your team.

Don't listen to Mr Manly.

I dont' feel he was in the wrong here.

Fair enough.

sounds like you got outlawyered son
borla u go girl

Strong Conviction Mr Manly. Thanks for the neg. I still won.

[Final_Rep]

Interesting choice. Any particular reason or just because you like it?

Because you touch yourself at night, Frep.

[therorschach]

Interesting choice. Any particular reason or just because you like it?

He already speaks *******ese.

[ThickAsABrick]

Strong Conviction Mr Manly. Thanks for the neg. I still won.

He'd probably had 15+ drinks at the time. He does that sometimes.

[kvk1]

Strong Conviction Mr Manly. Thanks for the neg. I still won.

smh manly

[darinaldi]

Gyros, tzatziki, souvlaki, ouzo, pusti.

All you need to know malaka.

Mastiha > ouzo. Real talk.

Interesting choice. Any particular reason or just because you like it?

VVVVVV

He already speaks *******ese.

[im2manly]

He'd probably had 15+ drinks at the time. He does that sometimes.

Lol newbs

[im2manly]

Strong Conviction Mr Manly. Thanks for the neg. I still won.

Also, irrespective of the score, I am still of the considered opinion that everyone should be forced to field a full team every week.

[Orlando1234977]

It's a brain impediment.

He's unable to converse with human beings in a normal fashion, so every post ends up as some weird declaration of his supposed superiority.

Very sad, but we're all here for him. We're a family.

What is your problem with me anyway? Go fuk yourself srs.

Most ranters know me from outside the rant.

[Final_Rep]

Also, irrespective of the score, I am still of the considered opinion that everyone should be forced to field a full team every week.

So you think if someone has a bad bye week they should be forced to do damage to their roster, possibly irreparably, by dropping/adding until they can fill the team roster for the week?

What's the logic here? Force people to draft with full knowledge of bye weeks, such that they do not draft too heavily on a specific team or teams which align with the bye weeks?

[im2manly]

What is your problem with me anyway? Go fuk yourself srs.

Most ranters know me from outside the rant.

Kvk likes to tussle.

[Borla118]

Also, irrespective of the score, I am still of the considered opinion that everyone should be forced to field a full team every week.

fair enough

[im2manly]

So you think if someone has a bad bye week they should be forced to do damage to their roster, possibly irreparably, by dropping/adding until they can fill the team roster for the week?

What's the logic here? Force people to draft with full knowledge of bye weeks, such that they do not draft too heavily on a specific team or teams which align with the bye weeks?

Not sure if srs. Yes, I expect everyone to draft with the applicable byes in mind. At live drafts people bring bye week schedules for this and various other reasons.

[Farley1324]

So you think if someone has a bad bye week they should be forced to do damage to their roster, possibly irreparably, by dropping/adding until they can fill the team roster for the week?

What's the logic here? Force people to draft with full knowledge of bye weeks, such that they do not draft too heavily on a specific team or teams which align with the bye weeks?

That's a strategy some people take. Pick a bye week, load up on it, be 'full strength' (barring injuries and what not) for every week but the one, instead of losing a starter this week, a starter that week, two starters another week, etc. Nothing wrong with that at all. Week 9 was a popular one for that this year.

And, of course, no matter how much thought you put into your draft...your roster in week 10 isn't going to look the same as it did in the pre-season.

Which brings us back to:

Don't listen to Mr Manly.

[Final_Rep]

Not sure if srs. Yes, I expect everyone to draft with the applicable byes in mind. At live drafts people bring bye week schedules for this and various other reasons.

With how much you know about FF I'm surprised you thought this was a rule. I'm not aware of any format where a team manager is forced into such a situation. Maybe it was a bylaw in one of your previous leagues?

That's a strategy some people take. Pick a bye week, load up on it, be 'full strength' (barring injuries and what not) for every week but the one, instead of losing a starter this week, a starter that week, two starters another week, etc. Nothing wrong with that at all. Week 9 was a popular one for that this year.

And, of course, no matter how much thought you put into your draft...your roster in week 10 isn't going to look the same as it did in the pre-season.

Aye I figured as much, just (with this being my second go-around) wasn't 100% sure re: this potential rule.

[Farley1324]

With how much you know about FF I'm surprised you thought this was a rule. I'm not aware of any format where a team manager is forced into such a situation. Maybe it was a bylaw in one of your previous leagues?

I have heard of leagues where you auto-forfeit the matchup if you don't field a complete roster. It is not common and, IMO, a dumb.

I'm not sure why we are still discussing it, seeing how, near as we can tell, 91.67% of the league does not think it should be a rule.

And even if it was a rule, ala some of the other (dumb) leagues that are out there...nothing would change because he lost anyway.

[im2manly]

With how much you know about FF I'm surprised you thought this was a rule. I'm not aware of any format where a team manager is forced into such a situation. Maybe it was a bylaw in one of your previous leagues?

No, in all my years playing I have never seen an active owner not field a full team. People would always field a full team even if they had to cut people. Part of the positives/negatives in drafting a certain bye week heavily.

[chazzy1864]

That's a strategy some people take. Pick a bye week, load up on it, be 'full strength' (barring injuries and what not) for every week but the one, instead of losing a starter this week, a starter that week, two starters another week, etc.

Yep, different strokes for different folks. Many people I know don't want to be crippled entirely one week. My best friend would much rather have the majority of his byes occur on a single week, so if nothing else, he knows he'll probably lose one week, but have the best chance on the others.

[im2manly]

Yep, different strokes for different folks. Many people I know don't want to be crippled entirely one week. My best friend would much rather have the majority of his byes occur on a single week, so if nothing else, he knows he'll probably lose one week, but have the best chance on the others.

I aim to do this as well.

[Farley1324]

No, in all my years playing I have never seen an active owner not field a full team. People would always field a full team even if they had to cut people. Part of the positives/negatives in drafting a certain bye week heavily.

Next year you are going to have a special rule that requires any transactions you make (trades, adds/drops) to involve the same position and bye week. As in, if you want to pick up a RB who has a week 7 bye, you will only be allowed to do so if you drop a RB who has a week 7 bye.

[im2manly]

Also, I imagine being forced to field a full team would ultimately make it more competitive i.e. having to cut/trade people, how you draft, etc. Or not, since most start a full team anyway and icebox could have easily fielded a full team.

[im2manly]

Next year you are going to have a special rule that requires any transactions you make (trades, adds/drops) to involve the same position and bye week. As in, if you want to pick up a RB who has a week 7 bye, you will only be allowed to do so if you drop a RB who has a week 7 bye.

Full potato.

[therorschach]

Full potato.

I prefer partial ones, but thanks for the generous offer and kindness.

[Final_Rep]

It's your roster, I think you should be able to do whatever you want with it. I don't even know why there's a limit to the number of weekly moves you can make.

[kvk1]

Most ranters know me from outside the rant.

I don't know what this means.

So?

[im2manly]

It's your roster, I think you should be able to do whatever you want with it. I don't even know why there's a limit to the number of weekly moves you can make.

Right, we should have no rules, no deadlines, etc.

[chazzy1864]

It's your roster, I think you should be able to do whatever you want with it. I don't even know why there's a limit to the number of weekly moves you can make.

In football, I don't think it matters as much, but it also keeps people from manipulating the waiver wire, by adding and dropping a ton of guys to re-instate the waiver period to prevent others from making a transaction in time.

In baseball, it is a key thing, IMO, as people will stream pitchers to pad stats.

[Farley1324]

It's your roster, I think you should be able to do whatever you want with it. I don't even know why there's a limit to the number of weekly moves you can make.

Because Orlando (two years ago)

In football, I don't think it matters as much, but it also keeps people from manipulating the waiver wire, by adding and dropping a ton of guys to re-instate the waiver period to prevent others from making a transaction in time.

He basically did that.



ALSO: A weekly limit as well as a total limit helps to curb the potential practice of picking up a bunch of flyers/handcuffs who play at 1:00...and then just before the 4:25 games you drop all of them (assuming none 'hit' or had the starter get injured, etc) and replace them with flyers/handcuffs who play at 4:25....rinse and repeat as much as you can for the SNF game and MNF game. And of course do it for Thur as well. Since sites like Yahoo let you drop players who have already started and played, so long as they were on your bench, you could really do quite a lot of this so long as you had the bench spots for players you are not married to