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[obxyankeefan]

Miami International is jacked up. We have had 4 gate changes in the last 30 minutes and they have very few seats or charging stations

 

[averagejoe]

My two cents..I honestly don't get where the disdain for ESPN is coming from. I really don't see any issues other than its just sorta bare bones (which may be why I don't see any problems). I do like Fantrax much better, but as Bandit mentioned, the new interface REALLY is shit. Flea Flicker is HORRID, HORRIS, HORRID, my 15 year old step son that barely passed computer science could design a better website. Sworn off CBS, leaving only Yahoo, which I haven't been on in over 5 years.

I'm perfectly fine staying on ESPN, as whatever it is thats wrong, there's worse out there.

Rereading some of the posts, seems the source is with finsandcanes aka Bandit. Plus, his tirade sounds like ESPN ruins his draft night.

 

[SteelersPride]

To me the Fantrax app is slow.
So long as I know that I've used one of their sub-menus, I can navigate the app ok. But there are times where it's a waste of my time.

Fantrax app and sit I found atrocious

 

[TREFF]

Rereading some of the posts, seems the source is with finsandcanes aka Bandit. Plus, his tirade sounds like ESPN ruins his draft night.

Yeah, the draft application can be shitty..and there again, have had issues in the draft with every site from time to time. Meh, is what it is.

 

[bksballer89]

I will never understand why you guys like Fantrax.

I get it for dynasty leagues. There are tons of options there. For a redraft league with vanilla settings though? No way.

Their interface is terrible. It is really difficult to find free agents. Y! And ESPN are 1000 times better there.

Couldn't agree more

 

[SteelersPride]

derrick henry , back to being derrick henry

 

[Bandit]

Yeah, the draft application can be shitty..and there again, have had issues in the draft with every site from time to time. Meh, is what it is.

Well, there's draft issues and then there's what happened to us this year. Sit tight, it's going to be a long read. We have two leagues, we have my main money league that we do a live draft for most of the league (11 of the 12 guys made it this year with one going to do it online) and then we have Lefty's league and while it's mostly the same guys in that league, there are 3 that have to do the draft online. Well every year we've done mine live, but as the draft goes I input it into ESPN as the commissioner, therefore anybody that couldn't make it just drafts online just as if it was an online draft. There's no clock so it's a pain for the guys that aren't there, but hey if it was that important they could come. LOL. Well this year, we did my draft first. Every year (until this one) I could just pause the draft and make a pick for another team as they made their pick at my house on the big board, so we kind of had a combination of a live draft and an online draft. And that's how we started out, as the draft was supposed to start at 1:00 and the first guy makes his pick and I went into the draft to enter his pick and after about 30 minutes of cussing and trying to figure out where the hell the commissioner could take control of a team and make a pick for them we found out that was no longer an option in ESPN's draft room. So, all we could do was have the one guy that didn't make the draft stay on the phone the whole time with us and listen into who was drafted so he could make his picks and keep up with who was picked and then I would just enter the live draft results later because there was no way for me as the commissioner to make other team's picks for them on the online draft. There are three guys in the league that come to the house that aren't very computer savvy and even a few that have laptops didn't bring them because they've never needed them before and some of the guys don't even have smartphones, so drafting on their phone wasn't an option either. Well finally once the draft started it went fine and we had a good time as usual (I love live drafts), but then it came time to draft Lefty's league we had another problem because we had to do that one online because there were three people that weren't at my house and were going to do the draft online. So, we had to scramble to find everybody either a computer or a phone they could do the draft on. One guy couldn't remember his password and it locked him out, but the email address ESPN had on file was one he no longer has access to, so he had to create a new ESPN profile with his new email address and I had to add his new username as a co-owner to his own team in order for him to be able to access the draft. Yeah, it was a shit show. I pulled it off because I am fucking awesome at this, but to say it left a bad taste in my mouth doesn't even come close to describing how pissed off I was. I wrote an email to ESPN about everything but of course I never got a response. I just couldn't for the life of me understand why they would take that power away from the commissioner? Was it like an actual conversation that Matthew Berry and Field Yates had or did the guy that did the coding for the new interface just forget to put that shit in there (which is probably more likely)? On top of that, both of our leagues are keeper leagues and you get to keep two players at different positions in the round you drafted them the previous year and ESPN does not have an option to do that either. That's not as big a deal in my league because it's live so the keepers are right in front of you on the big board, but in Dad's league, since we always do it online, he has to send out a list of everybody's keepers and what round they are to be drafted in so not only can nobody else draft somebody's keeper (which happens every fucking year) but you also have to remember to draft your keeper in the round you kept them. So Lefty and I already have to keep track of that shit every year and then this happened on top of it. It really boils down to this . . . draft day in our leagues is like my favorite day of the year (don't tell my wife I said that) and this year it was a giant headache pain in the ass clusterfuck.

 

[SteelersPride]

Well, there's draft issues and then there's what happened to us this year. Sit tight, it's going to be a long read. We have two leagues, we have my main money league that we do a live draft for most of the league (11 of the 12 guys made it this year with one going to do it online) and then we have Lefty's league and while it's mostly the same guys in that league, there are 3 that have to do the draft online. Well every year we've done mine live, but as the draft goes I input it into ESPN as the commissioner, therefore anybody that couldn't make it just drafts online just as if it was an online draft. There's no clock so it's a pain for the guys that aren't there, but hey if it was that important they could come. LOL. Well this year, we did my draft first. Every year (until this one) I could just pause the draft and make a pick for another team as they made their pick at my house on the big board, so we kind of had a combination of a live draft and an online draft. And that's how we started out, as the draft was supposed to start at 1:00 and the first guy makes his pick and I went into the draft to enter his pick and after about 30 minutes of cussing and trying to figure out where the hell the commissioner could take control of a team and make a pick for them we found out that was no longer an option in ESPN's draft room. So, all we could do was have the one guy that didn't make the draft stay on the phone the whole time with us and listen into who was drafted so he could make his picks and keep up with who was picked and then I would just enter the live draft results later because there was no way for me as the commissioner to make other team's picks for them on the online draft. There are three guys in the league that come to the house that aren't very computer savvy and even a few that have laptops didn't bring them because they've never needed them before and some of the guys don't even have smartphones, so drafting on their phone wasn't an option either. Well finally once the draft started it went fine and we had a good time as usual (I love live drafts), but then it came time to draft Lefty's league we had another problem because we had to do that one online because there were three people that weren't at my house and were going to do the draft online. So, we had to scramble to find everybody either a computer or a phone they could do the draft on. One guy couldn't remember his password and it locked him out, but the email address ESPN had on file was one he no longer has access to, so he had to create a new ESPN profile with his new email address and I had to add his new username as a co-owner to his own team in order for him to be able to access the draft. Yeah, it was a shit show. I pulled it off because I am fucking awesome at this, but to say it left a bad taste in my mouth doesn't even come close to describing how pissed off I was. I wrote an email to ESPN about everything but of course I never got a response. I just couldn't for the life of me understand why they would take that power away from the commissioner? Was it like an actual conversation that Matthew Berry and Field Yates had or did the guy that did the coding for the new interface just forget to put that shit in there (which is probably more likely)? On top of that, both of our leagues are keeper leagues and you get to keep two players at different positions in the round you drafted them the previous year and ESPN does not have an option to do that either. That's not as big a deal in my league because it's live so the keepers are right in front of you on the big board, but in Dad's league, since we always do it online, he has to send out a list of everybody's keepers and what round they are to be drafted in so not only can nobody else draft somebody's keeper (which happens every fucking year) but you also have to remember to draft your keeper in the round you kept them. So Lefty and I already have to keep track of that shit every year and then this happened on top of it. It really boils down to this . . . draft day in our leagues is like my favorite day of the year (don't tell my wife I said that) and this year it was a giant headache pain in the ass clusterfuck.

that really sucks.
Their offline draft app has not worked for me in years, on multiple different computers

 

[tlance]

Well, there's draft issues and then there's what happened to us this year. Sit tight, it's going to be a long read. We have two leagues, we have my main money league that we do a live draft for most of the league (11 of the 12 guys made it this year with one going to do it online) and then we have Lefty's league and while it's mostly the same guys in that league, there are 3 that have to do the draft online. Well every year we've done mine live, but as the draft goes I input it into ESPN as the commissioner, therefore anybody that couldn't make it just drafts online just as if it was an online draft. There's no clock so it's a pain for the guys that aren't there, but hey if it was that important they could come. LOL. Well this year, we did my draft first. Every year (until this one) I could just pause the draft and make a pick for another team as they made their pick at my house on the big board, so we kind of had a combination of a live draft and an online draft. And that's how we started out, as the draft was supposed to start at 1:00 and the first guy makes his pick and I went into the draft to enter his pick and after about 30 minutes of cussing and trying to figure out where the hell the commissioner could take control of a team and make a pick for them we found out that was no longer an option in ESPN's draft room. So, all we could do was have the one guy that didn't make the draft stay on the phone the whole time with us and listen into who was drafted so he could make his picks and keep up with who was picked and then I would just enter the live draft results later because there was no way for me as the commissioner to make other team's picks for them on the online draft. There are three guys in the league that come to the house that aren't very computer savvy and even a few that have laptops didn't bring them because they've never needed them before and some of the guys don't even have smartphones, so drafting on their phone wasn't an option either. Well finally once the draft started it went fine and we had a good time as usual (I love live drafts), but then it came time to draft Lefty's league we had another problem because we had to do that one online because there were three people that weren't at my house and were going to do the draft online. So, we had to scramble to find everybody either a computer or a phone they could do the draft on. One guy couldn't remember his password and it locked him out, but the email address ESPN had on file was one he no longer has access to, so he had to create a new ESPN profile with his new email address and I had to add his new username as a co-owner to his own team in order for him to be able to access the draft. Yeah, it was a shit show. I pulled it off because I am fucking awesome at this, but to say it left a bad taste in my mouth doesn't even come close to describing how pissed off I was. I wrote an email to ESPN about everything but of course I never got a response. I just couldn't for the life of me understand why they would take that power away from the commissioner? Was it like an actual conversation that Matthew Berry and Field Yates had or did the guy that did the coding for the new interface just forget to put that shit in there (which is probably more likely)? On top of that, both of our leagues are keeper leagues and you get to keep two players at different positions in the round you drafted them the previous year and ESPN does not have an option to do that either. That's not as big a deal in my league because it's live so the keepers are right in front of you on the big board, but in Dad's league, since we always do it online, he has to send out a list of everybody's keepers and what round they are to be drafted in so not only can nobody else draft somebody's keeper (which happens every fucking year) but you also have to remember to draft your keeper in the round you kept them. So Lefty and I already have to keep track of that shit every year and then this happened on top of it. It really boils down to this . . . draft day in our leagues is like my favorite day of the year (don't tell my wife I said that) and this year it was a giant headache pain in the ass clusterfuck.

I hear you. That really sucks. You should totally move those leagues to Fantrax.

But, like I said before, ESPN and Y! Do plain vanilla leagues better than everybody else. MBBRL is a plain vanilla league. I would be strongly against moving it.

 

[tlance]

Happy Championship day everybody!

Best of luck to all! (Even you @FaCe-LeE-uS

By the way, make sure you get Lamar Miller out of there.

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

Happy Championship day everybody!

Best of luck to all! (Even you @FaCe-LeE-uS

By the way, make sure you get Lamar Miller out of there.

Best of luck to you as well T! Thanks for the heads up. I was planning on getting on early this morning so that I could waffle all morning.... Losing both Conner & Miller, and having AP play already , makes my decisions easier lol. Now if I could just figure out my QB lol. Haven't gotten that position picked correctly much at all this year. Ben & Matty Ice have me like:

 

[Trudem]

My biggest issue this morning is figuring out if I should trust Thielen and/or Cooks. Neither one of them have done much recently

 

[SteelersPride]

My biggest issue this morning is figuring out if I should trust Thielen and/or Cooks. Neither one of them have done much recently

what are your other options. I actually read 2 articles centered on this exact question with these exact players

 

[Barilko]

man like Treff said they are free leagues... and T stated ya get what ya pay for......



Hey everyone

Good luck today.....

Miller out is a pisser as a Texan fan

if they were to win today

they would certainly have a great shot of hosting Hoodie instead of going to visit Hoodie in the Divisionals..

 

[SteelersPride]

man like Treff said they are free leagues... and T stated ya get what ya pay for......



Hey everyone

Good luck today.....

Miller out is a pisser as a Texan fan

if they were to win today

they would certainly have a great shot of hosting Hoodie instead of going to visit Hoodie in the Divisionals..

do you think miller is that dynamic? that blue cant handle his duties?

 

[Barilko]

do you think miller is that dynamic? that blue cant handle his duties?

no but he is having a decent year

Blue is solid as short yardage back but is no where near as explosive

anyhow if they want it its time for Watson to step up to the plate....

also the pass rush needs to get there because Houston's secondary scares the crap out of me...

 

[SteelersPride]

no but he is having a decent year

Blue is solid as short yardage back but is no where near as explosive

anyhow if they want it its time for Watson to step up to the plate....

also the pass rush needs to get there because Houston's secondary scares the crap out of me...

yeah whats happened to your secondary last 4-5 they been getting torched

 

[Barilko]

yeah whats happened to your secondary last 4-5 they been getting torched

ya 4 5 years....

 

[SteelersPride]

ya 4 5 years....

lol i meant 4-5 weeks but yeah

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

My biggest issue this morning is figuring out if I should trust Thielen and/or Cooks. Neither one of them have done much recently

I wonder if Patrick Peterson will shadow Woods today. May give Cooks a great opportunity to unleash today.