Fantasy Football Draft #4

by Tony | Aug 30, 2008 | Fantasy Football

Last night, ZoneBlitz participated in its fourth fantasy football draft of the season–the only draft in which the proprietors go head to head as opponents.  We found out last year that it can get interesting, since we know a lot about the players we both like.

And this year, to make things even more interesting, we drew spots #3 and #4 in the draft order–so figured we would be sniping players from one another all night long.

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Fantasy Draft #3

by Tony | Aug 28, 2008 | Fantasy Football

So, I guess I’d better finally get around to actually posting that link to our third fantasy draft, for the 3 people who might actually care. This league was put together by a sports card blog, and I joined under the guise of promoting my Football Card Blog.

Having endured the marathon auction the night before, and since I was “Out of Office,” I decided to forgo the draft, and let Yahoo pick my team–based on my list, of course.

Draft results are here.

Next up for ZoneBlitz will be possibly the most interesting draft we’ll have all year, as it’s the one league where Andy and I go head to head rather than partner up on a team. Should be interesting…

Fantasy Update #2

by Tony | Aug 25, 2008 | Fantasy Football

Last Friday night, ZoneBlitz participated in it’s second fantasy draft, an auction format ($200 cap) draft for a league in its second year of existence.   Last year, we blew a big chunk of our budget early on two star running backs–Joseph Addai and Steven Jackson.  Looked like a sound move early in the season, as Addai carried the team, while Jackson got off to a slow start.  However, we hit a mid-season slump, and ended up dumping Steven Jackson before the trade deadline for Clinton Portis & Javon Walker – a deal in which one league member ridiculed the other owner for bending over, which ended up working out in no one’s favor (they were out of it already, and it certainly didn’t help us at season’s end).

So this year, our goal was not to blow our budget on so few guys, and and it worked out–kind of.  Not really 100% sure on the order we got these guys, but here goes:

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One Draft Down, Five Drafts to Go

by Tony | Aug 21, 2008 | Fantasy Football

ZoneBlitz participated in it’s first fantasy draft last night–a free league sponsored by the proprietor over at RandBall, featuring a bunch of regular commenters from the site.   It’s a free league, which we participated in last year, and made a late push in despite saddling ourselves with Marvin Harrison and Torry Holt (two normally safe picks) with our first picks (fortunately we dumped Harrison in a deal for Willis McGahee right before Harrison went down).

This year, we had the somewhat unfortunate position of drafting #5 overall–which according to Paul Charchian, would be one spot too early to start the ‘Do The Opposite’ strategy.  Fortunately for us, we don’t always listen to the experts.

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