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#204 by lwf
2011-09-03 04:10:40

if you go to draft results it totals in the last round

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#205 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-03 04:21:50

Yes, I see that.

I am editing an Armchair!

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#206 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-03 05:18:19

The PCFFL Coach's Armchair -- 2011 Draft Grades

It’s that time of year where the days start to shorten and hurricanes terrorize the eastern half of the Unites States. This can mean only one thing, that fantasy football is back upon us. Welcome friends back to the PCFFL Coach’s Armchair. I hope that you all had a fine offseason. Even though the future of the NFL was in doubt, the state of the PCFFL has never been stronger. For the first time since the 2007 season we had some expansion adding two new franchises to the league, the Arkansas TDs and the Zep Zepo Big Ben’s Boners. Good luck to the both of you, and don’t worry, no punches will be pulled in the Armchair for either of you. Not only was the league strong enough to add two new teams, but it was the best attended draft in, well, ever that I can remember. Only the Teen Brides and perennialy absent Outlaws failed to show up. Of course, that meant the damn thing took two hours to run, but such is life. This year I’ll be predicting each teams regular season records along with the grades. That should be more fun to laugh at the end of the season. Without further ado, on to the grades.

Draft Grades

Boston Leet Doodz -- Last years sad sack picked first, naturally, and they selected Adrian Peterson with the first overall pick. With Chris Johnson signing the day before and that cloud of uncertainty removed, this was a homer pick. Toss in Matt Ryan and Dwayne Bowe and this team has promise. They probably won’t be picking first next year.
Grade: B-
Predicted record: 11-3

The Poulsbo Marinos -- Oh, Poulsbo! At least you’re coaching from the Pac-NW and not the hells of Florida. Eschewing the healthy, though late to camp, Chris Johnson, the Marino’s selected the lame Arian Foster with the second overall pick. Throw in Matt Stafford at QB, and Frank Gore at RB this team is going to spend more time recuperating than playing. Good luck, you’ll need it.
Grade: PUP
Predicted record: 4-10

Arizona Outlaws -- Anytime the Arizona Outlaws don’t lead off the PCFFL with a D/ST pick it’s a positive. Maybe it’s better that the coach doesn’t attend. As usual the Outlaws auto-picked and were handed Aaron Rodgers with the first pick. It looks like CBS took the time to improve their auto-picker this year, instead of 5 kickers rounding out their bench the Outlaws have 4 TEs.
Grade:  D-
Predicted record: 6-8

San Francisco CG Robots -- The commish was picking from work which almost conspired to fuck up their draft with blocked firewall ports. They stole Chris Johnson with the 4th overall pick, and lucked out getting Greg Jennings, but then it was downhill from there with Schaub at QB (no really, this is the Texans year) and headcase Brandon Marshall at WR. Picking the Eagles D/ST was a shrewd move, though.
Grade: C++
Predicted record: 8-6

Austin Blahas -- The Blahas took QB Michael Vick with their first pick of the draft as all the big name RBs were off the board, so they took the best running QB. Hopefully for the Blaha’s he doesn’t get injured (though hopefully for me, he does). A bunch of journeymen round out Blaha’s squad.
Grade: B-
Predicted record: 9-5

Arkansas TDs -- Rookie owner Dethstryke led off his draft by picking Andre Johnson of the Texans, a sensible pick among a bunch of ersatz ones. This is a team that is either going to blow the doors off everyone each week, or get theirs blow off. TB QB Josh Freeman? Lions D/ST? Gutsy, but also stupid.
Grade: D
Predicted record: 5-9

Pittsburgh Big Ben’s Boners -- This team should have been named Big Ben’s Homer as Wudi wasted his first ever PCFFL pick on Big Ben himself. Maybe we will be calling this Wudi’s boner by the end of the year. If that wasn’t enough Wuid stunned the PCFFL by picking Madden 12 cover boy Peyton Hillis with a second round pick. Three other PIT players are on this squad to round out the homer tag. The last time a team picked like this were the PA Don’t Tase Me Bros which, unsurprisingly, folded after the 2009 season.
Grade: F
Predicted record: 3-11

Shadarr Vancouver Roughriders -- The Roughriders picked Jamaal Charles with their first pick. I’d have preferred if they spent a pick on changing their name to something unique. Oh, well. The Roughriders made a small gamble when they picked P. Manning as their QB in the second round. This isn’t a team that excites you, and it doesn’t even excite their coach.
Grade: B(oring)
Predicted record:  9-5

ElDubyaEff  Vancouver Rough Riders -- The Rough Riders spend the draft drinking wine and pouring over draft charts and for what? The likes of Tony Romo, Marshawn Lynch, Donovon McNabb and Ricky Williams. The coaches waited for that? We can only hope that there will be 20 minutes of crying defending the Romo pick when ElDubyaEff exits the playoffs.
Grade: D
Predicted record: 8-6

Jersey Devils -- The Devils picked Drew Brees first, an almost too comfortable of a pick to make. They then followed that up with such milquetoast picks like WAS RB Hightower, OAK RB McFadden and SEA TE Miller. The only other stud on the starting lineup is Vincent Jackson. Good luck with that waiver wire.
Grade: C-
Predicted record: 7-7

Utah Teen Brides -- Autopick, autofail. The only failure bigger than not showing up to the PCFFL is almost letting someone usurp your draft position. Almost. The auto-picker gave them only 3 TEs on the bench.
Grade: F
Predicted record: 6-8

Down Under Redbeards -- Internet CEO and Aussie Rules Fantasy Football Mogul and defending PCFFL champion m0nty made the final first round pick in the 2011 draft with Philip Rivers. Not a bad move at all. Once again the Not-a-Redbeards invested money in a PDF of draft analysis for their draft. You can’t argue with the results, but this is the PCFFL where it would be more honorable to steal lunch money from mentally challenged kids.
Grade: B-
Predicted record: 9-5

General Shit

Word around the leagues is that the Boston Leet Doodz are looking for a new stadium deal and that this might be their last year in Boston. I hear Minnesota has a stadium, but look out for when it snows.

The Poulsbo Marinos took the most time spending 22 minutes 15 seconds on their picks.

Wudi was the fastest coach spending 1 minute 55 seconds, which was even faster than the auto-picker for the Teen Brides or Outlaws (2 minutes).

m0nty, who had the forgivable distraction of his million dollar negotiation, managed to pick faster than 4 other coaches (Vancouver, Vancouver, Austin and Poulsbo).

Shadarr has only one NFC starter on his team, and that’s 85 year old ex-Charger Tony Gonzales.

Sure, the Big Ben’s Boners don’t have any NFC players starting, but that’s not worth pointing out since they’re a high functioning retarded person.

Not that anyone should need reminding, but get your rosters set for the season start on the 8th.

The Poulsbo Marinos swing the other way with only 2 AFC starters on their team.

Last year with a 10 team league we had 4 auto-pickers. Clearly the Thursday night before the season start may be a good day to pick and not the holiday weekend like years prior.

I tried to sanity check my predicted records math, but it may be a bit off. That’s OK, the Armchair isn’t a rigorous analysis.

tl;dr

PCFFL is thriving, everyone sucks.

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#207 by Matt Perkins
2011-09-03 05:27:36

I did take a long time to pick didn't I.... Also, my team has extreme potential and a mess of guts. We got this bad boy.

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#208 by Trunks
2011-09-03 06:56:51

So if we cut the draft timer to 1 min, the draft will take half as long right?

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#209 by lwf
2011-09-03 06:58:53

Probably about that.

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#210 by Trunks
2011-09-03 07:08:21

Looks like my chat appeared in the draft log despite not being able to see anyone else. Stupid firewall.

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#211 by Dethstryk
2011-09-03 10:59:23

Cheesey forgot to conclude that I'm going to destroy everyone because I also have Antonio Gates in the mix.

\"Making love to a woman is like working on an assembly line. No matter how good you are at it, you\'ll eventually be replaced by a foreigner or a machine.\"

#212 by Wudi
2011-09-03 20:18:10

Grade: F
Predicted record: 3-11

You are SO wrong.

Zep--

w0rd up!

#213 by Shadarr
2011-09-04 00:17:02

#206 by CheesyPoof

Shadarr has only one NFC starter on his team, and that’s 85 year old ex-Charger Tony Gonzales.

Ex-Chief. And really? Maybe I should've picked more Niners.

"I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle

#214 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-04 00:34:39

That's right, my mistake. It was some afc west team.

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#215 by Gabe
2011-09-04 23:19:01

I enjoyed that Matthew said he liked the speed of the draft just fine and he was the one taking a ridiculous amount of time.

#216 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-06 02:21:54

The PCFFL Coach's Armchair -- 2011 Draft Grades, Addendum

I realize that I didn’t go far enough with my predicted records. Instead if waiting till the end of the season to see how horrible/off I was, why not plug them into the divisions and see how they shake out? Sounds like Fun! As an added bonus I get to extrapolate what my playoff predictions are. Woo, fun times!

Even More Predictions

FAVICON Division

BOS 11-3
ATX 9-5
NJ 7-7
DETH 5-9

DKI Division

ARI 6-8
UTA 6-8
PIT 3-11
POU 4-10

Joker Division
AUS 9-5
VAN (S) 9-5
SF 8-6
VAN (L) 8-6

Clearly my picks are way off with the whole Joker division being +12 and the DKI division at -18. I’m fairly certain that would be impossible without bouncing it off the schedule. Throw in the Favicon division at +8 and something is off. So it goes.

Anyway, I made up these bullshit numbers so I’m going to stand by them. Looking at the division standings I come up with these predictions for the playoffs:

BOS (bye)
AUS (bye or wildcard)
VAN (S) (bye or wildcard)
ARI (Div)
ATX (wildcard)
SF or VAN (L) (wildcard)

Since there are some ties in there, I bolded the guess at who will win the tiebreakers. Taking it an inch further I’ll make the following predictions:

PCFFL Bowl
BOS vs. SF

PCFFL Champion
BOS

OK, folks, there you have it. The whole PCFFL year mapped out for you, so no need to juggle your rosters and play the waiver wire.

Post General Shit

Shadarr is not looking great with that Manning pick in the second round. Better hope Kolb is for real.

Normally I’m pretty psyched for the Thursday night kickoff, but I’ll be extra psyched since Brees will be playing.

I really enjoy the double Monday night, too. 6 games to watch in full over the whole weekend. Each week should be like that.

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#217 by m0nty
2011-09-06 06:10:43

It's funny to me how the NFL still has the vast majority of its games in two timeslots. Next year in the Australian Football League, the weekly slate of nine games will go like this:

#1: Friday night, 7:50, live on free-to-air (FTA)
#2: Saturday afternoon: 1:45, live on pay TV
#3: Saturday afternoon: 2:10, live on FTA
#4: Saturday twilight: 4:10, live on pay
#5: Saturday night: 7:15, live on pay
#6: Saturday night: 7:40, live on FTA
#7: Sunday afternoon: 1:10, live on pay
#8: Sunday afternoon: 2:10, live on FTA
#9: Sunday twilight: 4:40, live on pay

No more than two games on at the same time. Maximises viewing time for the couch potato.

#218 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-06 06:14:30

Friday night is a night out, so that won't work. Saturday is college football day, so that doesn't work. This leave Sunday all day, Monday night and later on in the season Thursday night. I'd say do more double Mondays.

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#219 by m0nty
2011-09-06 06:17:36

I think it would be healthier for all concerned if college football became a lot less popular. All the current cheating of the player payment rules is unseemly, there's too much money in it and the players get gypped. The NFL should muscle in on Saturday.

#220 by Chunkstyle
2011-09-06 06:20:00

Nah, College needs to stay popular so they can afford to develop the players for the NFL. Otherwise the NFL would need to come up with a minor league, and when would they play?

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#221 by m0nty
2011-09-06 06:21:25

Minor leagues could play midweek.

#222 by Dethstryk
2011-09-06 07:32:18

m0nty: They can't pull off schedules like that because of how annoying the market lockdowns work. I mean, for fuck's sake, they'll black a game out so you can't even watch it locally if they don't sell enough tickets.

The networks make me want to scream when it comes to watching football live. I have to resort to watching streams for most of the games I want because there's no other viable options.

\"Making love to a woman is like working on an assembly line. No matter how good you are at it, you\'ll eventually be replaced by a foreigner or a machine.\"

#223 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-06 07:33:57

Redzone channel is your friend, well, not the real YF, but you know what I mean, for the fantasy footballer.

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#224 by yotsuya
2011-09-06 08:09:50

Can't wait for the league to kickoff, bitches!

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#225 by Trunks
2011-09-07 01:45:51

David Garrard let go by Jags apparently.

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#226 by Trunks
2011-09-07 01:51:53

Also, Giants lose another defensive starter to a torn ACL, looks like Goff's out for the season.

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#227 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-07 05:47:16

The Giants D/ST have no linebackers, mediocre secondary, but a pretty good line even with Umineora out for now. On the offense they have no TE, but other than that they're competent and will go as far as Eli will let them. I can see it being a long season or a fun one.

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#228 by Dethstryk
2011-09-07 05:59:22

Not to forget that Eli's interceptions have to regress to the mean this year, because that was just flukey last year.

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#229 by Shadarr
2011-09-07 11:37:11

I don't really know what you mean by that because I don't care enough about Eli to know whether he threw a lot of INTs or a little, but no he doesn't. Sometimes guys get better (or worse) later in their career.

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#230 by Dethstryk
2011-09-07 14:24:48

I'm not any kind of Eli Manning supporter. I just know he had an inflated INT stat through multiple faults of his receivers, not because he was making bad decisions.

This is off the top of my head, at least. It's been a while since I looked at it.

\"Making love to a woman is like working on an assembly line. No matter how good you are at it, you\'ll eventually be replaced by a foreigner or a machine.\"

#231 by Matt Perkins
2011-09-08 21:04:07

Opening day!

Everyone got their teams set up and ready? I assume lwf must be MIA because I haven't seen twenty trade requests go through...

"programmers talk from a very deep gnome cavern, full of gold mechanics" - wisdom from the ancients

#232 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-09 04:31:14

Woo! Football!

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#233 by jjohnsen
2011-09-09 07:01:37

I joined a team with guys from work that is set up at Yahoo, and man that system is crap. At least I got Drew Brees though.

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#234 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-09 07:55:38

Heckuva kickoff, Brees, heckuva kickoff.

The game was pretty good, too.

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#235 by m0nty
2011-09-09 08:44:45

-2 from the Saints D, woo title defence!

#236 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-09 08:52:55

And you were fortunate it was only -2!

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#237 by yotsuya
2011-09-09 21:18:34

Rodgers kicked ass for me AND mOnty got screwed? Whoo!

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#238 by Matt Perkins
2011-09-09 21:26:23

That was a fun opening to the season for sure.

With two more teams, there sure are a lot less free agents of worth sitting around. Going to make the trades and waiver wire pick ups very important this year.

"programmers talk from a very deep gnome cavern, full of gold mechanics" - wisdom from the ancients

#239 by Shadarr
2011-09-09 21:43:37

Yeah, you couldn't ask for a better game to start the season. Tons of great plays AND it goes down to the last second.

"I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle

#240 by Gabe
2011-09-10 19:41:05

Heck, not even last second. The last play was with no time on the clock at all.

#241 by Shadarr
2011-09-11 11:46:08

Alright, time for this band of misfits and rejects to come together and win one for Peyton. Maybe I should change my team name to the Colts.

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#242 by Chunkstyle
2011-09-11 21:54:22

Go Bears!

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#243 by Trunks
2011-09-12 07:43:08

This Jets-Cowboys game has been one of the most hilariously bad NFL games I've ever seen.

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#244 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-12 07:45:03

It was entertaining enough with the added bonus of the Cowboys losing.

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#245 by Trunks
2011-09-12 07:47:50

That loss was all on Romo. And WTF at the end when the snap hit him.

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#246 by Matt Perkins
2011-09-12 18:39:46

So...m0nty...Tate?

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#247 by Dethstryk
2011-09-12 18:42:17

If BenJarvus stays quiet, I'm winning week 1. Take that, naysayers.

\"Making love to a woman is like working on an assembly line. No matter how good you are at it, you\'ll eventually be replaced by a foreigner or a machine.\"

#248 by m0nty
2011-09-12 18:47:12

You want Tate, Perkins? Make an offer.

#249 by Matt Perkins
2011-09-12 20:47:31

You want Tate, Perkins? Make an offer.

Well...I don't have much, just a lot of could bes. I have Sanchez, Starks, Issac Redman, and Antonio Brown up for trade.

If I can't get Tate, I'll have to settle for whatever I can get on the waivers, which is nice, since it looks like there might be some gems out there, especially after week one.

Oh, and if somehow, the 'fins could keep Brady in check tonight, I'd REALLY appreciate that.

"programmers talk from a very deep gnome cavern, full of gold mechanics" - wisdom from the ancients

#250 by eggbert
2011-09-13 04:34:31

If BenJarvus stays quiet, I'm winning week 1. Take that, naysayers.

Guh? I don't have BenJarvus, I have Welker and the Miami Kicker, and I need seven more points to tie.

And oh boy, now I have to figure out what to do with Steve Smith. Again. Offers?

#251 by CheesyPoof
2011-09-13 04:40:40

You don't want to start him?

<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.

#252 by eggbert
2011-09-13 04:43:00

Oh and damn you stat nerds. I lost the 100 yard rush bonus for Vick thanks to the kneel downs at the end of the game. I wouldn't have to sweat it if it wasn't for that.

#253 by Dethstryk
2011-09-13 05:11:28

Yeah, said the wrong Pat since another league I'm just up against him.

But thanks Welker for giving me the death blow!

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