Stage is set. Let’s try and not dick this up. This is easy. If you are the ‘minimal effort’ type, the most you will have to put in to this league is the DRAFT, and setting up your lineups each week. The rest pretty much takes care of itself.
I’ll keep this pre-DRAFT announcement as short as I can. We need to pick a LIVE DRAFT time that works well with everyone. I am thinking either early Saturday the 18th or the 25th. Please let me know your preference, or if either day works, and we will go with the majority. Being that we have a few teams on the west coast (CA and OR) and one in WI, the time will be set for 10am ET (7am for the west coast, 9am for WI). There will be a LIVE DRAFT brunch at my place in Norfolk for anyone local. *With 12 teams at 14 players each and 45 seconds per pick, the DRAFT will take less than 2 hours.
If you can’t participate in the DRAFT, don’t worry about it. The system will automatically choose the highest ranking (projected) available player for you. The only minor problem with that is you may end up with a bunch of extra running backs and an unbalanced team. You would have to go in afterwards and make some post-DRAFT trades or free-agent acquisitions to be competitive. So you might as well try and participate in the DRAFT. There are a few of you who haven’t played FF before so just go to ESPN, or YAHOO, or even right here on NFL.COM and print out some fantasy draft projections for each of the key positions (QB, RB, WR, TE, DEFENSE, K). That way you can follow along with who has already been picked and choose the next best player for your team in the position you are looking to fill. Right now there will be a bench of 5 to backup your rotations. Enough basic strategy for now.
Send me a quick note or reply with your DRAFT date choice ASAP. This coming Saturday is the 18th if we want to go early. I am open to any suggestions anyone has with the DRAFT or any of the league settings.
The Lombardi Three 