Are you ready for the battles?

Welcome back for year 2 of our 3 year keeper league.
As you know, the deadline for selecting your keepers is July 25th. A.K.A. TOMORROW

Everyone but the following teams have set their keepers:

Ace Deuce Blazers
Riverview Buccaneers
Team Seaman II

If you have not set your keepers by 5:00 PM EST tomorrow, Rhys_Pieces and I will set them for you and then try to contact you to see if we need to seek replacement owners.

Please remember that the draft is:

Live Draft:

Friday, August 31
7:00 PM EST
60 seconds/pick

The draft order is:

1. Riverview Buccaneers
2. Maryland Lions
3. Pacman's Tank
4. Team Seaman II
5. Ando's Commandos
6. Ace Deuce Blazers
7. Wag's Warriors
8. Team Beach Bums
9. Grand Rapids Gladiators
10. Bushy Beavers
11. Ridiculous Renegades
12. Kingston Krushers
13. Compost Turner
14. Sly's Sluts
15. Martha Stewart Everyday Inmate
16. Silver Rush

Sorry about the delay in my keepers, I was waiting for the Hasselbeck trade to go through and then I was out of town. I have set them now I can't wait to pick second in the draft. Just for the record I changed the Downtown Devils name to Maryland Lions.

Also a question. Do I have to drop all the other players on my roster besides the keepers or will it happen automatically?

It should happen automatically.

HMMMM....

This brings up an interesting thought. Will it then be too late for Rhys_Pieces and I to set the keepers for the teams that haven't done so?

Therefore, I am going to set the keepers for the remaining 3 teams right now, just in case. They have until 5:00 PM EST tomorrow to make changes to their keepers.

After tomorrow, we will know if the non keepers were deleted automatically. If not Rhys_Pieces and I can decide those 3 teams final keepers.

May I suggest that each of those teams should maintain the QB as one of their keepers:

Seaman: J. Plummer

Riverview Bucks: K. Warner

Ace Duce Blazers: M. Vick (Ace could rename his team "Bad Newz Falcons")

QB's are the prime player in this league!! These could be the top keepers in the league (if they ever get a chance to play again).

All keepers have now been selected and the list looks for the most part pretty good. We are hoping for all the parties to actually participate as this will increase the fun we have and the rivalries that have started.

I did not select Plummer for Seaman because Plummer retired didn't he?

I did not select Vick for Ace because it is readily apparent that he will not play at least for this year.

I was actually joking!

Plummer is retired.

Warner is a backup to Linart. (so he will only see the field if Linart is injured). Thanks for selecting him as a keeper . It released another stud into the draft

Vick may be forever shut up in the Dawg Pound.

Has anyone else had troubles preranking their players??? I keep getting an "500 Internal Server Error" error after I log in...

I tried it out to see if their was a system wide error but it seems to be working now. Just try again Pablo.

Thanks, I've finally got in.

BTW - are we really going with 3 WRs, a RB/WR, and WR/TE positions?

That's up to 5 WRs playing each week. Mike Martz is smiling! Heck, Alpha might be smiling when somebody has to draft Kasper given the amount of depth we need.

I would suggest getting rid of the WR/TE extra position. Seems like overkill...

That or get rid of a WR postion all together having 2 starters with a flex.

And then we over balance even further again on defensive players. The WR/RB possition CAN be used for a RB.

I have done IDP before but usually only 5 and always on Yahoo. I didn't like ESPN's format and it was hard to draft all those D slots. I think I came out with an ok set of guys but only time will tell. Good luck to everyone.

I wish to thank everyone who was present for the draft and had to put up with the bugs as we all had them. Lets look forward to this year and the many challenges and match-ups.