The REAL ATS Fantasy Football League

It appears there are other leagues being established, but for those that are looking for the real ATS Fantasy Football League, look no further than this thread. Our league is going into it's fourth year and has a solid core of members that have been participating for multiple seasons, if not since the league's inception.

The league will be a 10 team league this year. There are at least two spots available. Per tradition, I will be reserving spots for those who actively participated last year. If any decline to resume their spot in the league, this will open up more opportunities for new players to join.

As the league owner, I maintain several statistics about our league, which you can view here: docs.google.com...

The league is played on ESPN.com. The scoring system is customized, not the default ESPN settings. I am planning a few changes from last year's setup to increase scoring and competition. I will post updates for that in this thread as I make the changes.

Until then, however, if you are interested, please post here, but only do so if you plan to truly be active. We understand things happen and you may not be able to participate during the season as much as you intended before joining, and that is fine. We just don't want people who will quit because they missed the draft and aren't happy with their players, or who will lose a few games and get bored and stop updating their team. We hope to have a fully active league. So if you intend to participate, we'd love to have you.

I would definitely like to be in!!

Is this "american football" or "soccer"??

reply to post by Trolloks


American football. Check link in OP.

I'm in if there is a spot. I run a league with the guys I work with on ESPN, so I'll be pretty active.

I'm not missing the draft this year...let me know when it is...

You know I am in. I went 12-1 on one of my other teams, I will be sure to bring that over to this league in the upcoming season.

The following members are receiving an invitation to come back for another season:

GAOTU789
MemoryShock
Modern Americana
Boognish
OzWeatherman
jwstarry
Bunch

Including myself, this means we have 8 team spots taken or reserved. This leaves us with two more. These two spots will be offered to micmerci and immortalcamel since they were the first two to express interest. Anyone joining the other ATS fantasy football league won't be invited. No hard feelings, we just don't want any distractions from our league.

Once all 10 spots have been filled, I will go over the rule/setting changes with those of you who are returning.

U2U invitations are being sent out now.

List of players for the 2011-2012 season:

PETROLCOIN: Confirmed
GAOTU789: Confirmed
MemoryShock: Confirmed
Modern Americana: Confirmed
Boognish: Unconfirmed
OzWeatherman: Confirmed
jwstarry: Unconfirmed
Bunch: Unconfirmed
micmerci: Unconfirmed
immortalcamel: Unconfirmed

Bunch and jwstarry have been inactive on ATS for quite some time. Hopefully they get my private message and/or email about the league. At some point, I'll have to set a deadline. If I have not heard from them by then, I'll have to clear the two spots and fill them with two new players. I'm not sure what that deadline date will be, but obviously we're running out of time, so it will be sometime in the next 2-3 weeks.

I am kind of choked I didn't get a re-invite to the league... whats up with that? I am in though... Sardis Snakes baby...

Let me know when and where to sign up

EDIT: This seems pretty unfair, I was in the league last year I should have priority over any new people???? I'll quit the other league I just joined it because I didn't see a thread about this one...

reply to post by anthbes


I only didn't invite you because you had joined the other league. I simply didn't want a situation happening where the other league possibly had rules that one of our players liked more and they abandon their team in our league in favor of that one, or maybe they get a better draft in that one and abandon their team in this one, something like that. It was nothing against you or how active you were last year, it was simply because you joined that league. So you are welcome back if that is the case. I already removed your team from the league but I will re-add it when I do all of the league setups.

Im back as usual

Looking to actually improve on season numbers 1 and 2 and 3

reply to post by OzWeatherman


Is Team Sex Machine back this year? Or can we expect a new team name?

Originally posted by PETROLCOIN
reply to post by OzWeatherman

 

Is Team Sex Machine back this year? Or can we expect a new team name?

Lol, same name....bought me some luck last year

Can I get the link for the invite? I havent got it yet

Can I still participate in this league if I am in the other one? I won't abandon the league, I love Fantasy football... and even having a bad team... I think one of the best things to do is drop and pick up guys to improve all the time. I am in for the whole season no dropping out.

reply to post by anthbes


As long as you aren't one of those people I'm talking about. I'm sure you've seen them. They'll be in multiple leagues, and one team turns out better than the other, so they forget the worse one. That's mainly what I don't want. As long as you won't do that, then it really doesn't matter to me. I have nothing against the other league, I'm just trying to (for a fourth straight year) achieve 100% participation.

Originally posted by OzWeatherman
Can I get the link for the invite? I havent got it yet

If you go to the ESPN Fantasy Football section, you should see the league. Only new people and people that have been removed need to be invited. But it's active, so it should be there.

So when are we thinking of doing the draft?

I forgot when the season starts

reply to post by PETROLCOIN


You don't have to worry about that. I will be 100% committed. So if I sign into ESPN.com I will see an invite now? Or what?