only for the BIGGEST fantasy sports nerds- would you play in a Tecmo Bowl fantasy football league?
it's actually Tecmo Super Bowl. released in 1991 on Nintendo (8-bit), keeps season stats, just have to be calculated after each week of games are auto-played by computer.
if you think it's lame and pathetic, save it. any ideas or thoughts, share them.
2009-01-02T19:10:52Z
Bob: take the rosters you finished the season with- those are the players you can consider for next year's keepers. you may keep one player each from Tier 1, 2, and 3 (you may keep a player from a lower Tier in lieu of a higher one, i.e. a Tier 1 and two Tier 3s).
your Tiers depend on where they were drafted- Tier 1 are players picked rounds 1-5, Tier 2 were picked 6-10, and Tier 3s 11-16, including free agents. but if a player was drafted and dropped by the original owner, then picked up by someone else, they belong to the Tier where they were drafted (i.e. DeAngelo Williams picked in 8th round, dropped, added by different team means he's still a Tier 2). this means you needed to have kept original draft results.
set a date by which all owers must declare their keepers- maybe a week before draft. in our league, players and draft picks are traded throughout the offseason. cross those players off your draft list, and you're ready to go. we use reverse order of finish for draft order
jbrandtc2009-01-02T00:57:42Z
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Yes, I'd play but I'm a die-hard fantasy football player who didn't happen to own the 8-bit Nintendo, so I was forced to bribe my way in with cheap beer and good-looking women.
The opportunity to relive those days without having to drink a half rack of Pabst Blue Ribbon sounds great.
I played in three fantasy football leagues this year and lost $40, finishing no better than .500 in one. My only saving grace was that I drafted Chris Johnson on all three teams, two of which are keeper leagues.
I have this weird fantasy that since my kids are gone to grandmas that I will come home to a chilled bottle of wine, candles on the table, my husband wearing nothing but an apron...and he does me right there on the dining room table, to hell with the chicken parmesean. But clearly that is just a wild fantasy that must stay forever in my head.
I LOVE Tecmo Super Bowl...used to stay up all night with 5 other guys playing a whole season. You would get woken up when it was your game.
Anyway, I wanted to see if you could send me info on another question you answered a while back. We recently setup our Fantasy Football league based on your answer below:
"here's how my keeper league runs:
first year is a 16-round draft, and you have to keep records on who was picked in what round- not a big deal, you have to do that anyway.
the first 5 rounds of the draft in the draft are considered Tier One. you may keep 1 player from this tier next year
rounds 6-10 are Tier Two picks. you keep one from this tier.
rounds 11-16 (including all free agent pickups over the season) are Tier Three. you keep one from this tier.
keeping 3 players - one from each "tier" is perfect. it's hard to be too stacked, and you still get to have a meaningful draft each year.
whatever round a player was drafted in determines his tier for the rest of the year. even if he is traded, or dropped & picked up by another team, the player keeps his tier based on round drafted.
in year two of the league, everyone announces their keepers, and each keeper is bumped up one tier. so whoever you kept in Tier 3 is a Tier 2 next year. why? in our first year, LJ was Priest's backup, and was a Tier 3 pick. the following year he was kept, and moved up to a Tier 2. he was kept again, and is now (rightfully) a Tier 1 player.
i can give you more details on the year two draft if you're interested. it is a great system, we're finishing our 4th year of it, we use MyFantasyLeague.com as our site."
We are going to enter Year 2 of our league next year...can you send me more details on how you run this each year?