Blockbuster Trade Pending

The #3, #9 and #11 picks in the draft might be waiving to one another as they swap sides if LFP FFB's first real blockbuster trade holds up through the trade committee this week.  In the proposed trade, Tony Le would send Hail to the Chefs franchise quarterback Aaron Rodgers, first round running back Steven Jackson, and late-round wide receiver Legedu Naanee to Jason Jakubiak's My Team Blows Again squad in exchange for third overall running back Maurice Jones-Drew, third round quarterback Tony Romo, and sixth round receiver Santana Moss.

The Loss of Ryan Grant for Jason's team has left a hole in his scoring production that he hopes to fill by adding a top three quarterback, whereas Tony Le hopes to seize the opportunity to grab a consistently productive replacement at quarterback, while upgrading at running back and wide receiver.  On the surface this trade looks fairly solid, but as with any big trade there are certainly some potential stumbling blocks.

Steven Jackson walked out of Sunday's action with an uncertain immediate future on account of his groin injury, which could hold this trade up.  Tony Le's stable of running backs have been productive, but since Jason lost Ryan Grant there have been question marks.  Adding this recently injured running back could prove costly if it ends up being more serious than currently expected, but after the slow start from Jones-Drew, Jakubiak might look forward to a bigger, punishing back to represent his team.

Regret may fill the air sooner than later for either side of this trade, should it pass the committee's judgment.  Stay tuned to LFPFantasy.com for the latest updates.

-Commish

PANIC!!!!! Week 3

What would a new feature be without a two day delay?

Without further ado, welcome to PANIC!!!!!  What follows is serious information on which teams are doomed, and which teamed are only partially doomed.  Facetiously of course, except when it's true.

After two weeks we have two undefeated teams, and two winless teams, and Darwin is grinning somewhere with the thinning of the herd.  I would contend however that two weeks doesn't shape an entire season here in LFP FFB, simply because we have the entire 17-week season for those teams to rebound.  So, without further ado, let's get into the panic!

Party Animals
This team has put up the least amount of points in the league to this point, albeit by a narrow margin, but has also faced the most points by a team this season.  Beyond the scoring discrepancy the team has seen disappointing performances by franchise player Ray Rice, as well as all-American boy Tom Brady, plus small totals from the wide receiver and tight end positions.  All taken into account, this team is on the brink, but I don't think it's time to lose it just yet.
Status:  Ready the panic button.

Pissing Excellence

This team finds itself 0-2 with the third worst point total and third highest point total against, a tough spot to find oneself in.  Many would be tempted to point the finger at a heavy reliance on star players from one NFL team, but looking up and down the roster I find it is another problem altogether, players not performing.  To this point in the season, there are no dominate players on this roster, and the running back and wide receiver stables are producing mediocrity week in and week out.  Certainly the potential is there in the likes of Drew Brees and Randy Moss, plus a consistent output from Visanthe Shiancoe, but with depth like Massaquoi and Spiller, this team could be in trouble.

Status:  Begin applying pressure to that big red button.

Arms Race

Week 2 is in the books and the trend of big days continues.  Matt Schaub sliced and diced the competition to the tune of 497 yards plus an assortment of touchdowns, and the performances of DeSean Jackson, Andre Johnson, and LeSean McCoy powered high-octane wins heading into the third week of the season.

Atop the league in each division currently sit the two teams who have experienced the regular season success of 16-1 finishes, Craig and Jared, only to flare out in the playoffs.  Each team feels a calling to return to greatness and prove themselves, and should make for a great dynamic to watch over the course of the season.

As for the rest of the league, we will take a look at the potential panic situations in a new feature starting tomorrow (Wednesday), so keep your eyes right here for new content all week long.

-Commish

Week 2, get it on!

Here we go!

Rosters are in, rosters are up.  Week 1 panic mode can be confirmed or put to bed today, and we'll get a little closer to seeing who's who in the league.  Great matchups in and out of the divisions today should make this a week to remember, and don't miss the all-Asian extravaganza in Tony Le's Hail to the Chefs squad against Jason Wong's Angry Asians.  Let's take a look at what the experts are expecting out of this division/continental rivalry...



-Commish

Week 1: Power Rankings

This week's power rankings:

1) Angry Asians (1-0): Jason was the last owner to draft a quarterback, yet saw the third best production at the position. Chris Johnson looks well on pace to dominate again....East division be ready.

2) My Team Blows Again (1-0): Despite losing a Utility player early to a concussion, Jason recieved balanced scoring from the rest of his team, highlighted by a big day from Chad Ochocinco.

3) Mountlake Terrors (1-0): Great days by Manning and Nicks led Mike to a blowout victory over the defending champion. Poor play from the running back position already has Mike looking for 2005 All Pros in free agency. Expect bigger things from his other wide recievers in future weeks.

4) I Stiff Armed Your Mom (1-0): Got almost 50 points of production from the running back position, far more than anyone else. Had to be a bit scared for Monday Night Football when the Steve Smith scores were corrected, but held on for a tough win.

5) Wacco for Flacco (0-1): Posted the week's fourth highest score, but ran into a buzzsaw, not to mention the frustration of having his quarterback throwing primarily to his opponent's wide reciever.

6) Forsett Down Her Throat (1-0): The least impressive win of the week. With two sporadic (read: crappy) quarterbacks capable of unpredictable ups and downs, Jared will surely pick the wrong one every week.

7) Pissing Excellence (0-1): After an impressive Thursday night showing, JJs team couldnt get any real production out of other skill positions.

8) Party Animals (0-1): Vicki's MNF players, including first round pick Ray Rice, were hopelessly stagnant costing her a chance at winning this week. While the Ravens defense recieved a yardage bonus, Bowe and Kaeding provided virtually no assisstance.

9) Hail to the Chefs (0-1): Last years defending champion took a real pummeling at the hands of the leauge commissioner. That said, Tony saw several bench players get good production and will have some interesting decisions to make.

10) Show Me Your TD's (0-1): More like Frank Bore (/ba dum chhhh). This is out of principle, since not submitting a roster led to Nick and Gas coming up with the week's low score. To an even better extent than Tony, this team saw some impressive players emerge from the bench. WHICH RUNNING BACKS WILL PLAY NEXT WEEK THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!

Studs & Duds

Week 1 is officially in the books and the entire website is all updated and ready for your perusal.



For many of us it was a strange week in the fantasy world, specifically the way points were spread around throughout the league.  A lot of sub-par performances from big names, mixed with big time performances from players in all different tiers.  Highlighted by Peyton Manning, Arian Foster, Matt Forte, Hakeem Nicks and Chad Ochocinco, the week saw wins predicated on starting the right guy, versus the typical team-wide consistency that is often the norm.  Sunday night and Monday night games yielded little offensive firepower, and it seems that the defenses were one step ahead in the spotlight games to start the season.  Will the trend continue?  We will find out in just five short days.

Most Dominate Performance in Week 1:

Angry Asians, Jason Wong

Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda Award for Week 1:

Show Me Your TD's

Runner-up:  Hail to the Chefs, Tony Le

Get ready for Week 2, free agency is open now.

-Commish

Arian't you going to try?!

Week 1 has two Monday Night Football games to cap the excitement, but what a first Sunday it was in LFP FFB!

This week we saw arguably the worst looking management of a fantasy football team that we have seen in this league, maybe ever.

After Sunday was through, Show Me Your TD's bench looked something like this:



BENCH  Jay Cutler 31.8
BENCH  Arian Foster 46.8
BENCH  Tim Hightower 13.4


Wow, nice scores for backups!  Except wait, what did the starters do?



 Frank Gore 8.3
 DeAngelo Williams      6.2


Oh, that's gotta hurt, especially when just playing Arian Foster would have put a victory within grasp pending Philip Rivers and Braylon Edwards merely having a pulse for Monday night.  And to add insult to injury, that Utility slot is empty, yikes.  These are the kinds of things we might expect from a rookie in the league, but after a full season it looks pretty bad.

To be fair, I don't think many would have thought to start Arian Foster over Gore or Williams, but it is indeed fun to point out the pain that Mr. Gaskill is surely feeling tonight.

Nick Perrault was unavailable for comment.

Scores are updated and official as presented on NFL.com Gamelogs.  Please submit any score inaccuracies.

-Commish

Meet the Franchise: Pissing Excellence First Round

Picking tenth is as good as picking first, except as bad as picking tenth.  J.J. made a solid decision after watching the top nine running backs and top wide receiver go before he got a chance to pick, taking last year's Super Bowl MVP and stat machine Drew Brees.  Frankly I don't have much to say about Brees because (unlike Steven Jackson) I respect the hell out of him.  I will say he dresses fairly metro sometimes though, for example.



I believe everyone in Oprah's Audience got a brand new natural disaster preparedness pamphlet that day.

I hope you have enjoyed the ride through the first round picks, and I look forward to more and more content over the course of the season this year!  Have a great season everyone, let's watch some football!

-Commish

Meet the Franchise: Hail to the Chefs First Round

Picking ninth is all about finding the best of what's left, and based on my personal feelings for the player taken at ninth overall, I have to say Tony failed miserably.  Not to say that Steven Jackson isn't an elite running back and a hell of a football player, but the guy's a bitch, and a Ram, and a bitch because he's a Ram.  So since I hate the Rams so much I figured I would let my feelings be known and show you what it feels like to me to talk about Steven Jackson.  Let's get an introduction to Steve...



Boo!

Just a Friendly Reminder...

Weekly picks against the spread and Suicide picks can be made on the LFP FFB forum. Join in for what should be a transplendent time.

Meet the Franchise: Show Me Your TD's First Round

Eighth is a rough place to draft, as a lot of the so-called "first-round" talent is gone by this point, but you are still on the hook to land your franchise player.  Gas is taking the reigns this year for the first time, shedding the man behind the scenes and implementing his own strategy from the get go, a bold move to be sure.  Some may have seen it as a surprise for the TD's to land a back like Gore, but surely this was all part of the plan.  As a second year manager in their first year making GM decisions, we thought we would seek some advice for the Gas-man from the new face of the franchise.



Articulate and meaningful.

-Commish

Meet the Franchise: I Stiff Armed Your Mom 1st Round

Motivation will not be a problem for Craig Peterson this season, as he struggled yet again in 2009, but this time saw his record 16-1 finish in 2006 tied.  At seventh overall the Stiffies reached out and grabbed Rashard Mendenhall to save themselves some money later in the season pending a replay of last year.  A surprise pick to some, but a confident pick by Craig as he got a runner he is comfortable mortgaging his house for.  With Roethlisberger suspended, there are questions abound for the entire Steelers offense, but let's meet the key for their rushing attack as he apparently gets loose for a turkey bowl game with Craig.



Nothing like hearing your franchise running back talk up the RBBC (Running Back By Committee) strategy, but at least he's one of the apparent few that isn't spending all of his time playing Madden.

-Commish

Meet the Franchise: Forsett Down Her Throat 1st Round

Starting the last half of the first round is always a tough proposition, as the four horsemen are gone, and allegedly another top player is gone.  Going outside the norm though, Jared's 6th overall pick landed him arguably the most dominant receiver from a year ago in Andre Johnson.  The man was labeled irreplaceable by ESPN, which makes it all the more reasonable that Underbrink's squad invited him back for a second season in a row.  Since wide receivers are the divas of the football world, what better way to get a re-introduction to Mr. Johnson than joining him on a photo shoot?



How extremely manly.  Here's hoping the first receiver taken this year fairs a little better than the other Johnson boy from last year.

-Commish

Meet the Franchise: Mountlake Terrors 1st Round

The four horsemen have all gone and it was from picks five to ten where the first round of the 2010 draft would shape up to be interesting.  At fifth overall the newly relocated Mountlake Terrors selected Michael Turner, a not-so-obvious pick at this point in the draft.  GM Mike Harris selected the articulate, well spoken Turner to lead his charge for a playoff push in 2010 after a disappointing finish last season which ended his franchise's tenure in Lake Forest Park.  Let's see if "The Burner" has been getting drunk and eating too much in the pre-season.

Not much ripe for parody in that video, so here's what the Terrors hope to get out of their franchise player.

Harris loves a Madden player on his side who won't stop trash-talking, these two will work well together.

-Commish

Meet the Franchise: My Team Blows Again 1st Round

Round 1, Pick 4, Maurice Jones-Drew, the pocket Hercules joins last year's runners-up My Team Blows Again.  J-Jak's team is switching to the powerful West Division, but he is packing a stick of dynamite in his attempt to return to the playoffs.  MJD was projected third in the draft by a lot of people, but slipped one slot down and Jakubiak couldn't be happier to have him.  The big question around camp however has been Jones-Drew's dedication to the game he is making a career in...



Not much else to say, it's clear that MJD's going to doom his team to a losing season while sitting on the couch eating and playing video games with his owner.

-Commish

Meet the Franchise: Party Animals 1st Round

Installment number three brings us to the home city of Lake Forest Park and a team that looks for its first ever playoff berth after just under two seasons of management.  Vicki Harris selected Ray Rice at number three overall, counting on his rushing and receiving prowess to take her Party Animals to the promised land in 2010.  Knowing the weight on his shoulders, Ray-Ray has hit the gym hard this season to live up to Mama Harris' demands, so let's take a look.



I'm not sure why these all feel so racist, but here's to more fried chicken!

-Commish

Up Next:
Maurice Jones-Drew - My Team Blows Again, Jason Jakubiak

Meet the Franchise: Wacco for Flacco 1st Round

In part two of the series we are introduced to last year's consensus number one pick, and a player returning to his old team.

Adrian Peterson sliding to the second overall pick was expected by most, but "All Day" will have something to prove for Kyle Stinson's team this year.  A one-time member of the Barack Obomanu's in 2008, A.P. comes back as the second overall pick to Kyle Stinson for the second time in his career, but the two have yet to win a championship together.  Let's take an inside look at Adrian Peterson's engine as we rediscover the "Diesel"...



Truly inspiring stuff as we head into another season of breaking wills.  The last word goes to Kyle Stinson, owner of Wacco for Flacco and Adrian Peterson in 2010, "What really attracts me to A.P. is his willingness to do manual labor in chains, and this video certainly played a big role in selecting him at the number two spot."

Meet the Franchise: Angry Asians 1st Round

Welcome to the first installment of "Meet the Franchise", a ten part series of the first round draft picks for 2010.

#1 overall draft pick Chris Johnson joins the rebuilding Angry Asian squad after their first ever year not making the playoffs.  C.J.'s credentials from last year speak for themselves, and Wong hopes for an encore performance to take his team back to the playoffs for another shot at winning his first title.  Without further ado, let's see if we can't pinpoint the qualities that make Chris Johnson the most dominant player in fantasy sports.



Faith Hill really spelled it out for you, he's fast and has gold teeth, plus he let us know that Wendy's 10-piece nuggets are the fuel necessary to fuck shit up in the NFL.  Hopefully he doesn't forget to have fun, because even women wish they could play in the NFL, but they never, ever, ever, will.

Thanks to LFP FFB field reporter Faith Hill and #1 pick Chris Johnson for giving us a peak at race relations in Nashville.

-Commish

Next Up:
Adrian Peterson - Wacco for Flacco, Kyle Stinson

Draft Day

Welcome to LFP FFB 2010!

The draft today officially kicks off the long-anticipated fifth season of LFP FFB, where every pick will determine whether you see your dreams realized in February with a championship, or if you will be crushed by the agony of defeat.  To all the returning managers I wish you the best of luck, except when you play me.

-Commish