Draft and Keeper Deadline

Gentlemen (and lady),

Looking at doing the draft at 2pm on Saturday, August 27. Let me know if you have issues at this point. If you work on Saturdays, please try to get off somehow, schedules will need to get adjusted here and there, as we're all busy.

If this works for everyone, the deadline to claim your keepers will be Sunday, August 21 at 11:59pm CST. You can claim who you want by then by just e-mailing me.

Response to this post and let me know if it works.

Thanks!

P.S. Yes I said "and lady", because we have the pleasure of having Tony Jr.'s wife Kendal in as a proxy manager for Tony while he is away getting his butt kicked in boot camp! Kendal, from what I hear, brags an extremely successful track record in my wife's fantasy football league, and I know she'll do a great job managing Tony's team!

John Wayne

Hello Everyone,

I can't think of any way to soften or ease into this, so I'm just going to post what's been on my mind lately.

The lockout sucks.

Obviously, I think everyone agrees. Where things get sticky, is what that means for this league. It has gotten to the point where now some teams are at serious disadvantages to other teams. In terms of the NFL, you have new coaching staffs in Carolina, Tennessee, Denver, Oakland, San Francisco, Minnesota, and Cleveland, and new offensive coordinators in St. Louis and Cincinnati, and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. None of those regimes have been able to get playbooks to their players, sign players, and start implementing their systems. All of those players are now at a disadvantage.

Further, there has not been free agency yet. That means players like, say, Terrell Owens, DeAngelo Williams, or possibly Donovan McNabb, have no idea where they will be when the season starts (if it starts), and will not have the time necessary to learn the playbook well enough to be as effective as a player in a more stable situation such as a Michael Turner.

All of this makes it difficult to imagine having a level playing field in the NFL, let alone in our league this next season. Can the season still be salvaged? For the NFL, sure, but I'm beginning to think some "irreparable harm" has been done in our Fantasy Football League.

It's one thing to point out a problem; anyone can do that. But to recommend a solution? That is much more difficult.

I think we scrap the keeper league for a year. Play Fantasy Football on a one-year term this year, redraft and all, and then maybe start a new keeper league in 2012 (this is all supposing a deal gets done for games to be played this season).

I'm open to other ideas, comments or suggestions, but I think this needs to be seriously discussed, and sooner rather than later.

Yours truly,

John Herrin "Urine Trouble"

P.S. :And before any of you start calling me a whiner just because I lost, I did take 3rd in the league last year, and I'm a VERY close second in points overall. I stand to lost a lot by losing fantasy football this year. I just want to play on a fun, level playing field.