Comments on: [Business Day One] Fantasy Etiquette http://www.nerdsonsports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/ Where nerds are talking about sports! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:13:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: angryed http://www.nerdsonsports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/#comment-374 angryed Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:33:03 +0000 http://www.NerdsOnSports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/#comment-374 if you guys want to talk about being out of the loop, try doing a fantasy draft from east africa (after having spent the whole day in a fricken slum) having once/twice weekly dialup-style connections the weeks before. if you guys want to talk about being out of the loop, try doing a fantasy draft from east africa (after having spent the whole day in a fricken slum) having once/twice weekly dialup-style connections the weeks before.

]]> By: Serpico http://www.nerdsonsports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/#comment-373 Serpico Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:05:08 +0000 http://www.NerdsOnSports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/#comment-373 Fish, I understand the point. Frank Gore would be a good example if a draft happened sometime during the past week. Like, for the IB draft, the expectation is that everyone is going to know he's hurt. Generally, this rule is for that last minute "someone's hurt bad" information. The kind that would be really frustrating if you didn't find out about it. Fish, I understand the point. Frank Gore would be a good example if a draft happened sometime during the past week. Like, for the IB draft, the expectation is that everyone is going to know he’s hurt.

Generally, this rule is for that last minute “someone’s hurt bad” information. The kind that would be really frustrating if you didn’t find out about it.

]]> By: Fish http://www.nerdsonsports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/#comment-372 Fish Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:01:53 +0000 http://www.NerdsOnSports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/#comment-372 Let's be fair on point 4 here though in regards to Gore specifically. Frank Gore is a first round pick. And even right after he broke his hand it was said that he'd finish healing right before the season started. So everyone's had several weeks to envision what they'd do if they got draft position 2-6, and whether they'd go with Gore or not (broken hand or no). If they arrive the night of the draft and still haven't decided whether they'd take Gore if was available at the position they're at... they deserve to be told whatever the hell we want about him if they ask. They had over a month. They slacked off. They deserve to be screwed over. (Although I certainly can understand why you make point 4, and it does indeed apply to anything that might've happened just that weekend in the pre-season game directly preceeding the draft. I had to call in on the phone for one of my drafts years ago and hadn't heard that #1 rookie pick Ki-Jana Carter had gone down for the season the night before our draft. So around round 6 or 7 I asked my phone connection "Is there a reason why Carter has not been selected yet?", to which I was told about the injury. My friend could have lied to me and at that point I might've drafted him since I didn't understand why the #1 overall pick had dropped that far. Thankfully my friend didn't.) Let’s be fair on point 4 here though in regards to Gore specifically. Frank Gore is a first round pick. And even right after he broke his hand it was said that he’d finish healing right before the season started. So everyone’s had several weeks to envision what they’d do if they got draft position 2-6, and whether they’d go with Gore or not (broken hand or no).

If they arrive the night of the draft and still haven’t decided whether they’d take Gore if was available at the position they’re at… they deserve to be told whatever the hell we want about him if they ask. They had over a month. They slacked off. They deserve to be screwed over.

(Although I certainly can understand why you make point 4, and it does indeed apply to anything that might’ve happened just that weekend in the pre-season game directly preceeding the draft. I had to call in on the phone for one of my drafts years ago and hadn’t heard that #1 rookie pick Ki-Jana Carter had gone down for the season the night before our draft. So around round 6 or 7 I asked my phone connection “Is there a reason why Carter has not been selected yet?”, to which I was told about the injury. My friend could have lied to me and at that point I might’ve drafted him since I didn’t understand why the #1 overall pick had dropped that far. Thankfully my friend didn’t.)

]]> By: Serpico http://www.nerdsonsports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/#comment-371 Serpico Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:17:21 +0000 http://www.NerdsOnSports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/#comment-371 I'll take that as a compliment, Favreau. I’ll take that as a compliment, Favreau.

]]> By: favreauj http://www.nerdsonsports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/#comment-370 favreauj Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:16:09 +0000 http://www.NerdsOnSports.com/2007/08/20/business-day-one-fantasy-etiquette/#comment-370 You've authored the exact antithesis of this Bill Simmons article: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1246030 You’ve authored the exact antithesis of this Bill Simmons article:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1246030

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