I'm back folks...Welcome to 2007...
Congratulations are in order for Dave Kreklau as he ran through the Simpson's League playoffs and won the 2007 Simpson's League title in a good matchup over John Murray (83-73). Bull 1983 didn't have a TE (Shockey) and Ron Dayne was quietly absent from the game this week, but they got a huge 40 point outburst from Steven Jackson to win the title. 4 players scored in double-digits for the Ruff Riders, but nobody had an outstanding performance and they couldn't plug away enough to win the title. Bull did a great job of trading this year to put his team in contention for this year and beyond...Congrats Dirtbag, you won title's #7 and #8 overall for your career in SGS Leagues...
Great job by a number of teams this year...John Murray for getting to the title game, when he didn't think he'd even make the playoffs going into the final week of the year. Joe Pizzimenti for dominating the league for most of the year. Brad North for also having a tremendous regular season. Joe Harris for getting hot late in the year to secure a playoff berth...Great job everyone...
We award $10 weekly prizes to each team in this league for having the high score in the league each week. Here was the breakdown of winners:
Week 1: Chili Crashers
Week 2: NY CJWO
Week 3: Tekies
Week 4: FFB Wizards
Week 5: Bull 1983
Week 6: Socko's Revenge
Week 7: Richmond Silver Surfers
Week 8: Springfield Isotopes
Week 9: NY CJWO
Week 10: Springfield Isotopes
Week 11: Zookers
Week 12: NY CJWO
Week 13: H-Town Ruff Riders
Week 14: Socko's Revenge
Week 15: Potomac Rage
Week 16: Bull 1983
Week 17: Tekies
I had a nice week off of work and some R&R to get me going for 2007...Dirtbag...if you can send me a digital photo head shot and I'll post it on the SmartGuySports.com Hall of Champions or do you want me to just use a stock photo (ROFL)...Each of the teams that have money owed to them I will be sending out an email and will set that up for you today...
New Year's Day is my favorite Day of the entire year...It's the day that I get up late...watch some college football...get bored, and start doing my final fantasy football roundups and cleanups for the year. The boredom hit me about noon today...So here's some final Simpsons Business for the year...This is a keeper league so making rules changes means that we have to vote on these things, but there are a couple of issues that will need to be addressed...
I will be doing the draft pick draw for the 2007 draft sometime this afternoon. As you know we have a random dice draw that determines our picks...The Draft Order was drawn and here is the base 2007 Draft order:
#1: Potomac Rage
#2: Conman's Criminals
#3: Chili Crashers
#4: Tekies
#5: Richmond Silver Surfers
#6: Zookers
#7: Springfield Isotopes
#8: Socko's Revenge
#9: FFB Wizards
#10: NY CJWO
#11: H-Town Ruff Riders
#12: Bull 1983
This will give everyone a ton of stuff to think about in 2007...where and who can I pick in next year's draft. It should also be an active off-season for trades as people try to figure out ways to move up in the draft by moving players, and manuevering around...
Now is also the time of the year when teams need to declare if they want to put the Franchise Tag on any of their players...The only players on each teams' rosters that are eligible for the franchise tag are players that have a salary of $1 and have 2006 in the contract field. If they player that you want to put the franchise tag on will cost your team a draft pick then that will be factored in (example, Donald Driver or Mike Vick). If not, then the franchise tag adds one year to that player. For example, Tony Romo might be a decent choice for this year...I need these turned into me by email by Friday...that way I can close out the rosters for the league and open up off-season trading...
I hope that everyone enjoyed the year and I hope that everyone is coming back next year...I've got a couple of announcements to make on 2007. One...I have enlisted Dirtbag and my brother Brad into helping do recaps and stuff for their former leagues that I took on, which should free myself up for more of that in 2007. I know you guys all like that stuff and I'm going to try and accomodate as much as possible...
The following players will cost teams draft picks based on performance from 2007 (may include franchise players this week):
QB: Peyton Manning, FFB Wizards
RB: LaDainian Tomlinson, NY CJWO
RB: Larry Johnson, Socko's Revenge
RB: Steven Jackson, Bull 1983
RB: Tiki Barber, Tekies
RB: Maurice Jones-Drew, Zookers
RB: Rudi Johnson, Richmond Silver Surfers
RB: Deuce McAllister, Chili Crashers
WR: Terrell Owens, Richmond Silver Surfers
WR: Torry Holt, Bull 1983
WR: Lee Evans, Zookers
WR: Roy Williams, Chili Crashers
WR: TJ Houshmandzadeh, Tekies
WR: Andre Johnson, Tekies
WR: Lavernaues Coles, Richmond Silver Surfers
WR: Anquan Boldin, FFB Wizards
So here's each teams tally of picks lost:
Tekies (3)
Richmond Silver Surfers (3)
FFB Wizards (2)
Bull 1983 (2)
Zookers (2)
Chili Crashers (2)
Socko's Revenge (1)
NY CJWO (1)
Conman's Criminals (0)
H-Town Ruff Riders (0)
Potomac Rage (0)
Springfield Isotopes (0)
There is going to be a lot of upheavel in the league this offseason as there are a ton of great players that are going to be in the draft...plan your strategies out well...
I have decided that there are some rules changes that I would really like to incorporate into 2007 and beyond...I'm not a big fan of going crazy with rules changes, but there are a couple of items that I think definately need to be fixed in 2007. I'm going to spell them out here and if anyone has any comments, suggestions, or have some ideas of their own, then let's hear them...I'd like to get these decided on and posted soon. Thanks...
#1: Waivers...I would like to move the weekly waivers from running on Wednesday night to running on Friday nights...this gives teams more time to put in waivers and gives everyone more of a chance to pickup waivers fairly. Because waivers now run on Wednesday, some teams don't hardly use the waiver system and instead just put in first come first serve players...We would keep this for the rest of the week, just move the blind bidding from running on Wednesday nights to Friday nights...this gives everyone more of a shot to put in their waivers. I realize that there are Thursday games, but the bye weeks are over by them and I don't think it will be a big issue...
#2: We need to boost up the scoring for DEF/ST's a bit in this league...I've tinkered with this over the years, but only giving points for sacks, turnovers, and TD's has not given the most accurate picture of these DEF's. In the past we have used a formula for awarding points to DEF/ST based on offensive points allowed...I would like to add this in for next year...here is the scoring for DEF's that I'm proposing...
Defensive scores (fumble/interception return for a TD: 4 points
Special teams scores (kick return/block kick return): 6 points
Safety: 5 points
Two points for each turnover caused by a defense or special teams.
One point per sack recorded by a defense
Offensive Points Allowed:
0-5 points allowed: 10 points
6-10 points allowed: 7 points
11-15 points allowed: 5 points
16-20 points allowed: 3 points
21-25 points allowed: 1 point
26-30 points allowed: -1 point
31-35 points allowed: -3 points
36-40 points allowed: -5 points
41-45 points allowed: -7 points
46+ points allowed: -10 points
#3: Elimination of the franchise tag...This almost got passed last year but it kind of died on the vine...I'd like to revisit this again and propose we eliminate it completely...We have plenty of keepers in each league, I'm just not sure we need to have another one...it's also confusing to teams to remember that we have it and how to use it...if we did vote to eliminate it, it wouldn't take affect until next year...so we would still have franchise players this year, but next year would not.
#4: Change the players that cost picks from 5 QB, 10 RB, 10 WR to 5 QB, 12 RB, 12 WR. It's sort of weird that we have 10 RB's and 15 WR's cost picks when we use flex positions for those players. You can start more RB's than WR's but more WR's will cost picks...I think it would be best to even this up...This rule also would not take affect until next year.
#5: The Tiki Barber situation. This is an item that the league is going to have to vote on. Tiki Barber is under contract for this year and next year and he also finished in the top 10 RB's in the league this year. Which means that he will cost the team that has him a draft pick in next year's draft based on the league rules. If he does retire in the offseason, then what do we do? Should the team that has him still lose the draft pick? This is a very unique situation, it is not the same as a player such as Ricky Williams being suspended from the league, etc. Since Barber would not be able to be picked up or even on a roster if he is not in the NFL, then how can we have him stay on the roster of the team that has him and have him lose the draft pick. Everyone way in with your opinions and then we'll put this up for a league vote. Remember that you should put yourself in this team's shoes and weigh-in with that opinion. Thanks...
