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just out of curiosity, what if T-hill doesnt start a single game?

i love playing the devil's advocate!

anyone else bother to review prisco's power rankings?

its hilarious how high he has 'Zona and Seattle. I guess ol'Pete didnt watch too many NFC West games last year. I wish I could be in a money league with some of the hacks that write NFL articles online. Some are good, but most of them dont know a single thing more than the avid fan.

So so true Monkey! That is why i believe us guys could be some of the top wirters out there. Not speaking about grammer and punctuation of course. but purely knowledge and track record.

just out of curiosity, what if T-hill doesnt start a single game?

In that case, as long as RG3 or Luck outperform the Dolphin QB that Tanny couldn't beat out, that should settle it.

So so true Monkey! That is why i believe us guys could be some of the top wirters out there. Not speaking about grammer and punctuation of course. but purely knowledge and track record.

Well said Foot...........but you left out spelling.
Sam

So so true Monkey! That is why i believe us guys could be some of the top wirters out there. Not speaking about grammer and punctuation of course. but purely knowledge and track record.

Well said Foot...........but you left out spelling.
Sam

If we ever somehow get the ball rolling on a site (or anything of that nature) I will be the first in line to offer up some editing services.
Maybe that is something we should seriously consider, which would solidify the MBBRL, who knows, it could some day rival the major national websites. I can only imagine that this is how other fantasy sites have got their start, and it would be funny to see the cbs guys scrambling for content after they lse the ability to pilfer our thoughts/commments, lol! 

 how other fantasy sites have got their start

*how other fantasy sites have gotten their start.

See, I have already started!!

Monkey you have to stop talking or you are going to get me over excited here. I know we are being copied. It is so funny when I hear or read something that I know came from our postings. I have been saying for a while now. We need to band together now and start a site once and for all.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     I also happen to be a web designer/graphic design by trade and could do all the work. I have a site but I think we should come up with a fresh new site and then register it in all our names together so that no one would feel worried. Once we determine who would want to be in we could start kicking around ideas for great site names. Just a tip they should have the words fantasy football in the for search optimization purposes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            <br /> <br /> I know this site would kick some major **** as I have never read anything anywhere or heard anything on any show that impressed me more than with our discussions and postings. We are a super fantasy football think tank. I know each one of you check this this posting every single day of your lives. it is the first thing you look at in the morning and the last thing you look at before bed. We need to start making money from this. There is no reason to just keep going like this while getting nothing for all this charm, passion, insight, spot on anylisis, cleverness, outside the box thinking and high retention rate that's just a few off the things we offer as a whole. My buddy Johkum is a great programmer and our site could not only have great articles and rankings from each one of us, but we could have our League on there and we could design a game center to play right on there. We could even offer up free fanatsy football on our site and with our idea churnning we could make that the best fanatsy game center ever seen and offer it free. We could make up new games like that game that Wil and I started two years ago. (Wil what was that game where we all picked like 5 players at each position. I am sure I could remember if I gave it some thought but when you have a wil you don't need to).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       With all that we bring to the table we could build a power house of a sports site in no time. All it will take is our first sponser then they will start to fall into place like dominos. Come on Dummys it's time.

to be honest, once we started playing that game where we saw who could pick the top players at the positions, that's when I really became active on the boards. I went to Foot's site a few times that year as well, so I knew that if anything, you were commited to the game.

Last year, at my last job (I was super busy every year from Jan - July) when things finally calmed down for me, I was putting all of my spare time into my personal relationships -- reconnected with some old friends and my parents, and laid the foundation (both literally and figuratively) with my significant other, she agreed to marry me and D-day is Sept 1st this yr -- so now I am fully ready to go all in on a fantasy sports site. So while I missed out on the first season of the MBBRL, it was worth the sacrifice, lol.

Someone I played soccer with in high school opened up a fantasy sports themed sportsbar here in STL. He would possibly have some good insights as to what works well/doesnt work well with sponsors, so I can try to hit him up and get some info there if we are going to do this. I am sure that all of us probably have some connections that we could tap to get things going with this as well.

This could be huge!!

If we ever somehow get the ball rolling on a site (or anything of that nature) I will be the first in line to offer up some editing services.

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 how other fantasy sites have got their start

*how other fantasy sites have gotten their start.

See, I have already started!!

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*how other fantasy sites have gotten their start.

**how other fantasy sites have started up.



Looks like that makes me Senior Editor, Monkey. 

DUFF king of beers STRIKES again!!!!!!!


I am down to help put this monster into a real deal fire stoked machine.  I could see things coming a long very nice if we had the computer equipment to hold all the content that would need to be held.  Basic website we would be able to post blog type sports information with no problem which we all know and Foot does already.  But to hold leagues of play and other games we'd come up with that all takes a lot of storage of memory...  I personally am working on a Stat-Facts Waiver Wire order which allows the Commish to plug that weeks numbers and it gives a TRUE waiver order instead of the CRAP bottom feeder system 70 plus % of leagues use to figure out their week in and week out waiver order which is not fair at all.  I have everything done except the website is not built.  If that is something that we see could help out fantasy commish's who crave fair play in their league I don't mind getting that on a new MBBRL type fantasy website to bring another great nitch to the table.....


So long story short I am game to help on the project and my wife is in law here in North Carolina so if we need to look up statues and stuff I know she'd give a helping hand....

-DUB-

Monkey and DUB, that is great to hear. So let's see who else wants in on this and then we can really start feeding the flame with ideas. DUB that would be another great eliment to bring to the site. I could easily create a site like you are talking about with blogs and such (Plus I have a programmer friend who can write the best code) which is needed for gaming systems and creating user accounts. Sounds like we off to a decent start. I guess we should start kicking around some cool fantasy names for the site and then we can narrow them and vote.

I guess we should start kicking around some cool fantasy names for the site and then we can narrow them and vote.

How about TheFootsPrints.com?..................Oh, wait........

Sorry, Foot, I just couldn't help myself.  I'm just in ultra smart-azz mode this morning.

Forgot to add the   ""

Duff don't you want to be a part of this?

We need to get a head count as soon as we can. So if you are interested or not please state so.

I am down...Foot send me a private message with your email so I can give you mine if you don't have it and you can send out a email with everyone who is down to work on this with private emails that we can all read and reply on that way, instead of on the forum...  thanks

-DUB-

Duff don't you want to be a part of this?

Sure I do.  Just feeling a bit of a wisenheimer today.  Not sure how much time I have to devote for it.  The schedule is gonna change here shortly cause I just got promoted to superviser at work and come June 11, I'll be working dayshift Monday thru Friday.  Get to have a real life again like the rest of you.  Not sure how many hours I'll need to put in at work.  And then I've got activities for the kids on weekends, especially in the summer.  You throw in re-doing our landscaping as well as running 2-3 fantasy leagues and another 3-4 more leagues I'm in and I don't have a ton of time.  But whatever you think I can help with.......

superviser
supervisor - with an 'o' not an 'e' 


Coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

Well Duff I would love for everyone who commits to this to really consider this their second job until it becomes thier first and to truly devote all their heart and passion into making this the number one ranked fantasy football site in the world one day, soon. But half a Duff is better than no Duff. Our goal should be to become number 1 period. And I fully believe we have the talent, heart and love for the game enough to more than accomplish that goal. DUB I send it to you. 

Well Duff I would love for everyone who commits to this to really consider this their second job until it becomes thier first

Fantasy football prognostication is quite the fickle business with a million different views and quite a large level of competition.  Sorry, but it won't be my second job.  My first job is where I earn my paycheck and my second job is my family and my family will always come before my paycheck if needed.

But half a Duff is better than no Duff

I can give you what time allows, for now.  When and if this idea takes off, I'll be glad to devote more time to it. 

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On another note:

Foot-

I think you need to take inventory on what kind of "specialties" or what strengths each of us would bring to the table.  I mean, we all have the general knowledge and can rank our players every year based on whatever scoring system is in place.  But what makes each of us unique for this project or what do we each have more experience in?  Also, what are things that each of don't cover well or don't have much experience with?  It would just be kind of silly to have all of us prattling away about the same things like we do here.  Why would anybody go to our site when they can get the same discussions on just about any fantasy football chatboard around?  You kind of have to identify what areas we could cover well and what might be able to do differently than everybody else.  Personally, I hardly see much in the way of dynasty info in magazines or web-sites, other than a slightly different player ranking draft sheet.

For example:

 I started playing FF in 1986 and this will be my 27th year of playing.  For the past 23 years, my league I started in 1986 has been a dynasty league.  Ranking players for a dynasty league is a whole different animal than for a re-draft league.  Trade values are also slightly different since you have to consider such things as length of fantasy contracts with a team, player age,  etc.  So I could probably say that I have a pretty good handle on dynasty league issues.   

My lack of knowledge and experience is in the area if IDP leagues and the ranking of IDP players.  I played in one IDP league for 2 years.  It got to be just a tad too much handling the usual offensive starters and then another 11 defensive starters every week as well as a 12-man bench.  I've got a good general knowledge on who are some top defensive players in the NFL.  However, that doesn't always translate into top fantasy defensive stats.  Some of the better fantasy defensive players are on bad defenses and make tons of tackles.  Regardless, I'm more familiar and comfortable with the Team Defense concept.    

First of, all:

she agreed to marry me

Congratulations.

And second of all:

and D-day is Sept 1st this yr -- so now I am fully ready to go all in on a fantasy sports site

I think you meant to write, "and D-day is Sept 1st this year, so you'll barely hear from me the first couple of weeks of the season." Must have been a typo.

I'm happy to help out with higher-level ideas (how to drive traffic to the site, what kind of content will help the site stand out and what isn't worth it, when to respect licensing and copyright issues, etc), contribute ideas for competitions, and provide some statistical analysis.

As those Nike/Tiger Woods ads said, "Just do it."

I'm in (if invited Foot, you jerk) and I already know what part I want to be involved with. Most of us will remember this but I say me and Foot have a "Point/Counterpoint" Weekly............................h
ere is just a little tidbit of what it might look like............

Foot: I know I've said this before guys, but this is the week CJ Spiller and T-Hill both breakout! No doubt about it. Play them with confidence!

Sportboy: Foot, you ignorant slut! If I've told you once I've told you a thousand times! FJax is still the focus of the Bill offense and T-Hill is still on the bench......................then Duff can edit it and life will be good!
Sam

All I know is to do this project we are talking a lot of work digging down the rabbit hole to make a full functing website.  A lot of work....But look at it like this NFL just started their fantasy league stuff just last season and they are lacking big time in a lot of areas just as the other sites are.  So I'm confused on is this a league site idea with also great information.  Or is it a nitch site with games/ideas/product stuff for commish's to use to better their leagues and of course great info.  Or is it just a great info. site.

That was 3 option thoughs for those following along to my typing on the lap top as I just got in my shoulder workout and 30 min jog on the treadmill....off to make a protein shake.....Mmmm protein!


-DUB-
(World Champion)

First off let me say congrats to Monkey as I meant to say that originally but got completly wrapped up in this. So congrats Monkey that is awesome she said yes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Next DUb - DUB you are a champion so i know you can relate. I want to make a site that does everything you mentioned. A site that people can join and build their leagues in. A site where we could provide the ultimate fantasy football product which would include all the things you metioned and probably a thousand new ideas. A site that will contsantly be growing both in users and in ideas and services it can offer. Your point about how the NFL is just now starting to notice how big fantasy football is was a tremendous one. The moon is aligned and the timing couldn't be more perfect. i am talking destiny here guys for 12 or 13 of us that have all been brought together to do something great than ourselves. Something I know we all are extreamily passionate about and love. It will be a process so we will have to start somewhere. i suggest we start as a information site where we could bring the MBBRL.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        We could also keep up on the CBS boards but we will only post our ranking and our exclusives on our site. I am not saying we have to take over the world in a day. We get it started and then let it take on a life of it's own. Like I was saying we could keep it simple at first and then evolve it into a site with it's own game center and with cool new game systems like the one Wil and I made and we could have tools like the cool one you are createing.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 And don't worry about the computer stuff i am not going to host the thing in my basement. We will use a sever based company to host our site. Even if we get 10,000,000 hits a day they can handle it. It just a small monthly fee I am talking peanuts so stop worrying about that. The point is it will be our own site to push down the hill and see how big the snowball can get. I am picturing each one of us with our own daily or weekly column. then we could have a thing called the round table or something which will be where anwer question and interact with each other and with fans of the site. The point is it can be what ever our imaginations want it to be. And with you guys I don't see a ceiling.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Duff I think you have a good idea and that we should each decide for ourselves where each one of our strengths and weakness are. i know i have no weaknesses (half kidding). But honestly Duff i think in order for this to work we need to keep as positive as eye on the price as posible. You don't have to put this site before your family or before the means in which you support them. This site could be really something great and quite effortlessly to if done right. I personally plan on devoting every free second I can until it feels like work. That's the point. This is fun and if you can turn something you love to do for fun into something you can make a living at then my freind you are doing what God intended you to do along. and don't get caught up on weakness it will bring you down. Passion for something will almost certainly always conquer any weakness. And the guys I have come to know in our league and few others all have tremendous passion for this.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Sam ofcourse you are invited you jerk. 

 Sam ofcourse you are invited you jerk. 

Cool..........what should be the topic of our first Point/Counterpoint? Just dont forget I'm playing Akroyd to your Curtain.
Sam

Every MBBRL member is invited to partake in this and so is monkey. If there is someone else outside our group that would like to be a part of this they would have to demonstrate that they could bring something special to the and unique to the site. It would have to be voted on by the current members. Once we are up and running and if we can get to a respectable number of daily hits ( a few million) along with some serious paying advertising customers then at that point we could think about posibly opening up a center and hiring a staff. All of whom would be working for us, ha ha. But that is down the road a ways. For now let's take te rest of this month to see who else from our league wants to be in. Then we will officially registar the site and get it up an running. In the meantime we should start kicking around some great site names. I really want to nail this so I am challenging you all to bring your best names.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Confirmed founding members of the new SUPER SITE are:<br /> <br /> 1. monkey<br /> 2. Wil<br /> 3. DUB<br /> 4. Sam<br /> 5. Duff<br /> 6. myself<br /> <br /> Hope I didn't forget anyone. If so please accept my appology