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Dave's Back

Hey guys. Sorry to be so out of it lately. Living out of a suitcase is getting to me and even though I’m at work an hour earlier than usual I have been backlogged with stuff. But now I’ve got an area for blogging games live which is nice. I also am commish of my fantasy league and we had our draft Sunday. So if any of you know the feeling I’m a bit wiped out.

As I mentioned before we have a keeper league and I used a blog on TypePad to do it with comments being the picks. It worked great! Went a little long, almost three hours but that was because of one newcomer and me having to update the blog and pick for two absent teams and myself. Crazy. Anyway click below for my draft. Non-bold players were kept. I picked 9th out of a 10 team league. We had two last day drop-outs too!

Fantasy Opinions: Help Dave pick his roster

OK Guys. I may not listen to you but I figured one way to keep our minds off the anticipation of tomorrow is to help me pick my roster for this year’s fantasy team. Yes, my league is called the War on Terrellism. I've had it for three years now and the name is still fitting, no?

I run a keeper league as you may know and I have to pick my keepers by next Friday. The list is below. I can keep any of the players listed but must give up the draft pick in the round mentioned. A Free Agent costs me the 17th/last pick but every free agent after that escalates a pick, so the second free agent costs a 16th pick and so on. No player picked in the first two rounds can be kept.

D. Bledsoe (Dal - QB) FA
L. Fitzgerald (Ari - WR) 6th Round
E. Wilford (Jac - WR) FA
C. Williams (TB - RB) 5th Round
A. Crumpler (Atl - TE) 3rd Round
Ji. Smith (Jac - WR)  6th Round
Ro. Williams (Det - WR) 7th Round
R. Brown (Mia - RB) 4th Round
A. Brooks (NO - QB)  FA
Ma. Jones (Jac - WR) FA
H. Miller (Pit - TE) 13th Round
C. Frye (Cle - QB)  FA
J. Scobee (Jac - K) 12th round
Miami (Mia - DEF) 11th Round
Dallas (Dal - DEF) 16th Round

Players I’m definitely keeping are Drew Bledsoe, Larry Fitzgerald, Cadillac Williams, Ronnie Brown, Roy Williams and Heath Miller. It is a tight end league.

I’m thinking of keeping Matt Jones and or Wilford. And Charlie Frye. So give me feedback. Who should I keep?

Fantasy Football Solution: Blogs

So this is my fantasy football problem. I hate paying for fantasy websites when Yahoo pretty much does a fine job (insert other free services like CBS Sportsline here). But I love having a keeper league because it makes you think about next year and this year at the same time. It just adds an edge. You just have to do a good job of keeping track of draft positioning and free agents. But Yahoo and the other free guys don’t offer a keeper type live draft and an offline/in-person draft isn’t the way to go for us since we’re spread out geographically.

So how am I tackling our draft? I’m going offline but staying online with a blog.

Since I have the TypePad unlimited blog plan I just whipped up a quick blog for my league. We’ll do a live draft there via the comments. I’ll do a post ahead of time for each round with the selection order and what keeper has already been slotted. I’ll turn-off comment verification so picks will be almost as live as they would be via Yahoo’s draft system. I’ll keep you updated on how it goes.

And if you’re wondering how we do a keeper league and keep it interesting for those dog teams: we don’t allow anyone to keep a player selected in the first two rounds. Any player selected 3-17th rounds will cost you one pick higher the next year. So if you picked a sleeper in the 8th round he’ll only cost you a 7th next year. It’s a lot of fun.

Fantasy Help

Hey guys. I need help. My three year old fantasy league needs to find a new online home. That may sound easy but we're a keeper league and no place seems able to do a live draft with pre-selected players already on their proper teams. Does anyone know a site that can do this? I would think this would be a huge feature to have. Otherwise our drafts get super complicated.

Thanks in advance!