Consider this your 2017 Sit-Rep.
YAHOO – After five long years, we’ve ditched NFL.com and hopped on the Yahoo fanstasywagon. You should all have your party invitations at this point. I’ll continue to mature the site and situate the software, silk sheets, and smooth lighting just like we like it. It sounds like a few of you already whore around in other leagues on Yahoo, or have utilized this dais in the past, so this should be a painless transition. She’s got street cred so we shouldn’t encounter the problems we did with that colossus shitpile NFL.com. Poke around, put your stink on it, and download the app.
ROSTER – We bounced one team, and added one. I’ll refrain from my usual pleasantries and too-da-loos, as we’ve got a lot to get to. This is a fantasy football league, not a book club. Pretty girls come and go. With one down that means we got a gap to fill, and nobody fills gaps better than Nebraska’s own, the New Kevin, K-Dub Kuakenado (we’re working on his team name). He wears shorts and a parka at the same time, and all the women he knows understand how to use jumper cables. He’ll be a nice little addition to our annual Lombardi Three road trip.
DRAFT – We are deviating from the traditional Labor Day weekend schedule. We’ve unhinged our vacations for the last time. I am leaning towards a Sunday, August 27 draft date around Noon. Let me know if this is a problem for anyone.
LEAGUE – I don’t plan on making any changes this year. Big fucking surprise for everyone I’m sure, but I think after five years we’ve worked out the kinks in our dark little corner of this great American fantasy football experiment. This is obviously subject to the limitations of our new home, i.e., what Yahoo allows us to do. More to come.
DUES – Lastly, pay your Dues or I’m gonna boot you and invite someone else I know in Nebraska. This league will start to smell like shit just like that awful state of desperation and destruction. Seriously, Nebraska smells like shit when the wind blows. You know how to pay your Dues by now. If not, check the League Dues page. Pay your Dues.
I’ll conclude our opening 2017 season journal entry with some keys to success I’ve shared in the past.
Cheers to Season 6. I hope I get to see each of you at some point this season. I’ll be in Wisconsin for the Saints game Benny!
-The Commish
The Lombardi Three,
and the absolute bare minimum keys to success.
Utilize the TheLombardiThree.com for all your informational needs.
• Read the Constitution, but don’t take it too seriously, but really do
• “Follow” this blog so you get emailed a copy of new posts and links
• The site has links to the league, links to stats and projections from various sources, and reminders for anything going on in the league.
• League manager posts regular analysis and highlights on the league.
Weeks 1 -3
• We do a sort of mini-pool over these 3 weeks for a chance to earn a Bench Swap. Forms are online.
Weekly
1. TUE: Check the Free Agents on the Waiver Wire NLT midnight Tuesday and select any players you want to add/drop. Wednesday morning, your adds/drops are successful or non-successful base on your waiver priority. Waiver priority is shown right on the League Standings page. Come Wednesday, any free agents are fair game for the rest of the week and do not affect your waiver priority.
2. WED/THU: At a minimum, set your lineup for Thursday’s matchup. Make sure if any of your guys are on the Thursday schedule, you have decided whether or not you want to play them.
3. SUN: At a minimum, set the rest of your lineup. Don’t leave any spots on the roster open and don’t leave some guy on BYE in the lineup.
The Lombardi Three 