I know it's early, and I don't see a post about this for 2014 yet...



I'm looking for Golden Bears to start a 10-12 team fantasy league. It would be great if we could do this all in person, but if that doesn't work out an all online league is fine by me.

Live Auction Draft
Free ESPN league
Roster (QB, 2WR, 2RB, TE, FLEX, K, D/ST, 5BE)
Daily Moves
Scoring (ESPN Standard, PPR is an option)

Looking for dedicated/competitive managers willing to play out the whole season. If things go well, or if everyone is interested right away, we can discuss making it a keeper league.

Post here or send me a PM if you are interested, and Go Bears.

Current Teams
1 - Me (Commish)
2 - stanfurdbites
3 - ManhattanMadMan - East Coast
4 - CALiforniALUM - East Coast
5 - dajo9 - East Coast
6 - drizzlyboy - Seattle
7 - Brainsmile
8 - Elwyn
9 - CalBearRaid
10 - WantARoseBowlB4IDie
11 - youngbear1992
12 -

Count me in if you land on an online format since I live on the east coast.

I assume this is NFL and not college ball. What are the fees and prize money?

I too would be interested, however, I am also on the lEast Coast.

I am also on the East Coast. Maybe we should start an East Coast Golden Bear League.

yes! We could nickname it the "watching Bears after midnight" League...

mbBear;842331800 said:

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yes! We could nickname it the "watching Bears after midnight" League...

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Brilliant!

I'm living abroad but have interest. Are there fees?

kad02002;842331808 said:

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Are there fees?

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That is what I asked a couple of days ago. No response yet.

Sorry, been busy.

At the moment there are no fees, I would love to have a buy in, but I didn't want to lead with that especially if it's all online and we don't know eachother.

I'll add everyone and if everyone wants to have a fee/cash prize I'm all for it.

Once we get closer to a full league we can discuss everything and get together a constitution.

dajo9;842331790 said:

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I am also on the East Coast. Maybe we should start an East Coast Golden Bear League.

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You still want in?


We could draft at the Northwestern game and meet in the middle!

I would be interested in a Golden Bear League auction draft, assuming draft date is workable. (Could do it live, but assuming this will be online.)
Very familiar with ESPN FFL, both the paid standard and free custom design leagues, so can answer any questions regarding their setup.
ESPN free leagues are fine, only way to get a 12 team league is to do it free (paid standard are 10 teams only), same with using PPR (only in custom).
Am doing a free ESPN league now that has an entry ($100), involving more than 10 teams (14 actually), if we have 12, ideally should be 3 division setup (play division twice, once everyone else, last 3 weeks available for playoffs)
Suggested format above is 14 player roster (which is different that ESPN standard @16), should be fine, but would suggest then not having flex position (already would be too much demand for RB at 12 teams)
Not sure what is meant by "Daily Moves" (suggests first come, first serve, which is contrary to acceptable competitive practice in FFL now, especially in regards to when games are actually occurring)...ESPN leagues use waiver pickup at beginning of new week (usually Wednesday night) set to lowest ranking preference, or auction bidding for free agents at start of each week (or on specific days of the week, guess that is what is being referred to above?).
ESPN auction platform is pretty good (better than CBS IMO, never tried Yahoo), everyone should have up to date operating system to be able to use (light version is also available)
Would love this to be a keeper league, but would suggest making it maybe a 1 player "unknown potential" type keeper (i.e., bought for $10 or less, or someone not drafted), if you do major players as keepers (especially if there is no limit how many you can keep), tends to discourage owners from returning in future years if one or two get really lucky, or alternatively, really unlucky.
Shoot me any questions you might have re: ESPN FFL, I'll try to respond.
Elwyn

elwyn;842332027 said:

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I would be interested in a Golden Bear League auction draft, assuming draft date is workable. (Could do it live, but assuming this will be online.)
Very familiar with ESPN FFL, both the paid standard and free custom design leagues, so can answer any questions regarding their setup.
ESPN free leagues are fine, only way to get a 12 team league is to do it free (paid standard are 10 teams only), same with using PPR (only in custom).
Am doing a free ESPN league now that has an entry ($100), involving more than 10 teams (14 actually), if we have 12, ideally should be 3 division setup (play division twice, once everyone else, last 3 weeks available for playoffs)
Suggested format above is 14 player roster (which is different that ESPN standard @16), should be fine, but would suggest then not having flex position (already would be too much demand for RB at 12 teams)
Not sure what is meant by "Daily Moves" (suggests first come, first serve, which is contrary to acceptable competitive practice in FFL now, especially in regards to when games are actually occurring)...ESPN leagues use waiver pickup at beginning of new week (usually Wednesday night) set to lowest ranking preference, or auction bidding for free agents at start of each week (or on specific days of the week, guess that is what is being referred to above?).
ESPN auction platform is pretty good (better than CBS IMO, never tried Yahoo), everyone should have up to date operating system to be able to use (light version is also available)
Would love this to be a keeper league, but would suggest making it maybe a 1 player "unknown potential" type keeper (i.e., bought for $10 or less, or someone not drafted), if you do major players as keepers (especially if there is no limit how many you can keep), tends to discourage owners from returning in future years if one or two get really lucky, or alternatively, really unlucky.
Shoot me any questions you might have re: ESPN FFL, I'll try to respond.
Elwyn

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Daily = Your rosters don't lock, I'm not even sure if they do that for football (I play in some baseball leagues like that).

I'm just trying to get people together, once we have 10-12 we can figure out everyone's level of comfort and intensity on the subject.

BAyers3;842332020 said:

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You still want in?


We could draft at the Northwestern game and meet in the middle!

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Yes, I'm in. Which should be good for everybody as I don't follow the NFL as closely as I follow Cal and I should be pretty bad.

dajo9;842332172 said:

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Yes, I'm in. Which should be good for everybody as I don't follow the NFL as closely as I follow Cal and I should be pretty bad.

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OK, I'll add you to the list. Almost have a full league, some people chimed in but didn't say if they wanted to join.

Bump, still looking for interested players.

BAyers3;842331490 said:

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I know it's early, and I don't see a post about this for 2014 yet...



I'm looking for local (Berkeley, San Francisco, Bay Area, etc.) Golden Bears to start a 10-12 team fantasy league. It would be great if we could do this all in person, but if that doesn't work out an all online league is fine by me.

Live Auction Draft
Free ESPN league
Roster (QB, 2WR, 2RB, TE, FLEX, K, D/ST, 5BE)
Daily Moves
Scoring (ESPN Standard, PPR is an option)

Looking for dedicated/competitive managers willing to play out the whole season. If things go well, or if everyone is interested right away, we can discuss making it a keeper league.

Post here or send me a PM if you are interested, and Go Bears.

Current Teams
1 - Me (Commish)
2 - stanfurdbites
3 - ManhattanMadMan - East Coast
4 - CALiforniALUM - East Coast
5 - dajo9 - East Coast
6 -
7 -
8 -
9 -
10 -
11 -
12 -

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I'm interested. However, I'm living in Seattle, would need an online league. Of course, it also depends on my availability when the draft is scheduled. I'm not sure what you mean by "dedicated/competitive" managers. I'm very inexperienced, and I wouldn't see myself scouring waiver wires (or whatever they're called) in order to make daily moves. I will stay on until the end, however, since my one foray into FF was years ago and I sucked. Still, it was fun. Sounds like Cal football to me!

If BAyers ends up going only with locals, perhaps you east coasters can set up an online league I could join.

drizzlyboy;842334049 said:

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I'm interested. However, I'm living in Seattle, would need an online league. Of course, it also depends on my availability when the draft is scheduled. I'm not sure what you mean by "dedicated/competitive" managers. I'm very inexperienced, and I wouldn't see myself scouring waiver wires (or whatever they're called) in order to make daily moves. I will stay on until the end, however, since my one foray into FF was years ago and I sucked. Still, it was fun. Sounds like Cal football to me!

If BAyers ends up going only with locals, perhaps you east coasters can set up an online league I could join.

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It looks like the local thing is out the window, now I'm just hoping for all Cal fans.

I'll add you to the list and edit the original post.

One last bump, still need Golden Bears to fill out the league...

I'm interested but will have to do it online

you can count me as in
Elwyn Wong

Brainsmile;842335909 said:

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I'm interested but will have to do it online

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It's definitely all online now, most of the league is on the East Coast at the moment.

elwyn;842336031 said:

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you can count me as in
Elwyn Wong

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Excellent, we now have the bare minimum for a league.

BAyers3;842336263 said:

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Excellent, we now have the bare minimum for a league.

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Count me in - CBR

CalBearRaid;842336279 said:

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Count me in - CBR

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Welcome about, we have gone from the bare min. to almost respectable, one more and I'll send out emails and get the league created.

I'm interested! I'm also East Coast bound, near mbBear in Philly.

WantARoseBowlB4IDie;842336884 said:

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I'm interested! I'm also East Coast bound, near mbBear in Philly.

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Welcome aboard!

If you're still looking for teams, I'd like to join. I live in San Diego now, so it's online-only for me.

youngbear1992;842337440 said:

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If you're still looking for teams, I'd like to join. I live in San Diego now, so it's online-only for me.

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Excellent, I'll PM everyone tonight and we can have a vote on PPR scoring.

So it looks like a real win for PPR in the voting so far, if anyone would like to be #12 I'm waiting on two people to respond. Would like to get the league formed and invites out by this weekend.

We have 11 guys, but we need a 12th for #11 to get in. If anyone else is interested the draft is on August 24th, Noon PST and the league will be PPR after all.

Send me a PM or post here if interested, first person who can make the draft is in.