Topic: 1st-Time Guillotine Draft Thread - NFL Hunger Games

[Trendisnotdestiny]

Claus vs Trend in the Battle of Sandbagger Hill



Claus died today after playing Russian Roulette for the third time in three weeks.  Each time, the game came down to fractional points.  But the third time was no charm for our brother from Arizona who thought he left the ammo behind.  Claus is a clever, old soul who is as wiley as they come.  He talks more shit per capita than the entire country of France --- so there's that.  Second, Claus is known for his analysis of Risk/Reward with an early timed gamble on a boy named Barkley.  Apparently, this was also the name of the house dog as a child, which has left our friend conflicted all over again.   Anyhow, Claus got to the final four and 1 point away from the Championship trio.  He must be congratulated for his ingenuity and mocked simultaneously for his famously bad attempts at sandbagging.   If any further evidence is needed, I have the embarrassment of verbal diarrhea on my phone and would happily post it at the whim of almost anyone.   

Claus, the big spender, will be leaving a lot of luxury resources to heirs.  They include:

Russell Wilson
Tyreek Hill
Tyler Lockett
Todd Gurley
Ronald Jones (the infamous)
Robert Tonyan
Ezekiel Elliott
James Conner
Chris Carson
KC Defense
Baltimore Defense

Thank you Claus --- you finally got your picture in the paper too





Trend's Premature Jocularity

Thinking he had lost the match after a shitty Tampa Bay first half, Trend decided to write an early obituary.   Here is what it said

Trendisdestiny died today of a self-inflicted waiver wire move wounding his team and causing all kinds of chaos in the first inaugural Guillotine League.
This came as a blow to all involved as writing one's own obituary is akin to navel gazing a gangrene infested wound made by a black mamba while listening to afternoon delight.  So many things went wrong. Nevertheless, Trend liked to keep things short and simple.  He would like to personally thank Calvin Ridley, DJ Moore and Mark Andrews for their contributions to this untimely demise as well as request that they serve as pallbearers.  Trend was heard saying yesterday that he wanted them to let him down one last time (presumably he was talking about more than the casket). Trend left neighborhoods full of sisterwives who vote non-stop in RAWK drafts and drink egg nog while singing old Beach Boys tunes.   He left a brood of children as well --- all committed to their new found god in the Church of Fowler --- called Bobby Moon Firmino.  The sun rises and sets by the religion.  Si senor.  There was no money to speak of, but that didn't stop them from milking billionaires and living off the proceeds from their protection racket of registering illegally acquired tobacco industry stock options.   "Smoke em if you got em" doormats in Marboro-ese dotted the front porches of 391 houses in Butte, Montana where they lived.

Most who knew him, saw Trend as a piece of work.  Temper tantrums, uncalled for arrogance, and a penchant to make an error or two led to a trifecta of tri-fuck-it-tude, where people had no idea what would set Trend off next.  He left his business partners a series of problems a few gems.  Lets honor him tonight by all grabbing our scrotums, coughing, and yelling the name JOE GOMEZ three times in unison before singing This Place...




However. we have just learned the news of Trend's death has been greatly exaggerated.  Trend and his band are still on the run.   Admiral Halsey take note. The other characters in this story are just waiting to see who is the next one to lose their head.  Many here hope the trend is destiny

Baxter


Classy



Baxter, Classy, and Trend will compete for a spot in the World RAWK Guillotine Championship Final this week. 

[Something Worse]

Booooooooo

[classycarra]

Booooooooo

Stoa tribute act

[Trendisnotdestiny]

Booooooooo

I give you the entire country of France and boooooo is the best you got?  That's almost as embarrassing as Nic Cage himself.

[stoa]

I like Claus...

Watching you three compete for the win is like watching the Pats, Cowboys and the Steelers compete for the Superbowl...

[Trendisnotdestiny]

There was a significant loss today. 


Trend lost his head. 


Baxter & Classy at his funeral before the Championships


Only 1 Survives

[Trendisnotdestiny]

Today is the day that Champions are made.





Will it be?



Or could it be Bax?



Who is gonna be the first ever - RAWK Guillotine Champion

[Trendisnotdestiny]

It all comes down to

35.35 points needed for Classycara to keep his head....

[Trendisnotdestiny]

Baxter - 2020 Guilly Champion of the RAWK World

[classycarra]

Borrowing this thread to write up this season's rules/schedule

Intro to the guillotine league/concept - last team standing wins
At the end of a knockout week of the NFL season, two things happen:
The bottom scoring team from that week gets beheaded (eliminated from the league), and that team’s roster is dropped into the free agent pool (leaving their carcass for everyone else to vulture).

Every week, great players will end up hitting free agency. What will be your strategy when an elite player hits free agency?
Do you stick with your drafted team, because you can’t improve on perfection? Do you hold back money, knowing that each week, increasingly good rosters are going to get eliminated? Will you bid wildly in your difficult bye weeks? Will you go all in on the first stud that appears? Do you shift your roster drastically every week based on match-ups weather and all kinds of research? Don’t ask me!

Rules/league settings
Roster is 1QB, 2RB, 2WR, 1 TE, 1 FLEX (WR/RB/TE), 1 DST, plus 3 Bench and 1 IR/COVID slot.

Scoring system is PPR, with some big play bonuses (see League Settings for specifics)

Injured Reserve
You can’t draft a currently injured player to stash on your IR, and then add another player.
The slot is only for use prospectively (eg if you draft Michael Thomas now, he’s on your bench not your IR). Anyone healthy that you draft can then go on there, for as long as they are IR/COVID designated on Sleeper.
However, you can bid on IR players that become available from other teams being eliminated (eg if Davante Adams is on someone’s IR, everyone can bid for them to go on their IR if their team owner gets knocked out).

FAAB bidding - rules
Secret bidding only – don’t discuss bid amounts or coordinate bids in any way.
You can discuss players (eg ‘oh look CMC is available, I am going to bid for him’), you can pretend to be interested in players to try to convince/distract others (eg ‘2021 is Joe Flacco’s year, I’m gonna bid for him no one stop me’). You just can’t discuss bids in a way that directly reveals/spoils anything to do with the secret bidding process.
If you’re not able to get online to send me your bid, you can give your bids to a pal to submit (but only if that person has safely submitted their offers already)

FAAB bidding system/instructions
Free agent blind bidding (FAAB) budget will be $100 per the full weeks (eg if final is in week twelve, the budget is $1,200).
Each team will be given their budget to use over the entire season at the start.
All bids must be whole dollars amounts, with a minimum of $1. If someone has blown their budget load, and has zero left they can bid $0, but obviously will be unable to win players that others have bid for(unless versus other bankrupt players).
Highest bid wins. In the event of equal winning bids, I will get a neutral party to run a transparent flip of the coin thing online.
There are no maximum bids/total bids in any week, except the amount in your account. If you make and win multiple bids that are more than your budget, I’ll process them in sequence of the priority order that you send them. You can assign bids in any order of priority, it doesn’t have to be in order of bid size.
I will be publishing all bid requests (including losing bids), and remaining budget amounts, for each team (total transparency).

---- example bid and how its processed (from someone with $100 left)
1)   CMC $95 (losing bid)
2)   Davante $75 (winning bid)
3)   McLaurin $50 (winning bid)
4)   Fournette $25 (winning bid)
Let’s say someone else won CMC with a bid of $500, but you won all the others. The rest of the bids would end up with this result:
-Davante – successfully taken, budget left now is $25
-McLaurin – bid was won, but cannot be taken as not enough budget left
-Fournette – successfully taken, budget left now is $0
You then take add Davante and Fournette to your roster and drop someone. Or maybe you have second thoughts, you can leave them off your roster and they are then freshly available the next week for everyone (including you) to bid on them again
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FAAB bidding system/weekly pattern
Tuesday: Sleeper confirms the fantasy scores, with any late yardage adjustments etc. Once confirmed, the losing team is stripped of their players and the remaining teams start preparing to submit their bids for the losing teams' players (and all other available players).

Wednesday: Teams submit their bids to the commissioner via Sleeper personal message only, by 14:00 BST latest. Commissioner will ask for a volunteer to receive the commissioners bids before the deadline

(NOTE: I’m going to see if there’s an easy google forms alternative that doesn’t require any signup/accounts – this would mean you could submit bids whenever, instead of waiting until after the commissioner has confirmed they’ve submitted their own bids and isn’t going to be influenced)

Thursday: Add the players you won and want to keep as early as possible. Or don’t add them ultimately, if you decide against it (it will still cost you the same money). Any player not picked up by Thursday night football will forfeit the chance to add the player until bidding starts the next week.

Saturday (or day before a player’s game day): If one of your players is known to have an injury, you have an amnesty to replace them (but you are restricted to only players that had no bids all week). Late announced injuries (eg during the warmup) you can’t change your roster unfortunately – have a good backup!

Admin to sort before the next week: Sleeper (or me manually, if needed) will adjust your budgets so you know what you’re working with.





EDIT 13102021 to include details about game time decisions/late injuries:

basically, if i can remember the intent correctly, the idea is to encourage the bidding market to be active by reward the preperation (and disincentivise the last minute route - for admin reasons, and also to avoid any 'wait and see tactics'). not that anyone on here does that, but that was the principle i think

so let me think out loud and try to apply that to your Dalvin example

ideal - you already have (or you buy) an RB on wednesday. you add them to your roster before the TNF game starts. if theyre a game time decision and it goes Out - you play the backup
alternative - you have a questionable player but err on being positive and think he'll get practices in and play. on saturday you get his 'did not practice' report in and hear he's a gametime decision. so then you weigh up your options and decide someone is better than noone. so you message on here (or DM me) the free agent RB that you want to add to your roster (and who you want to drop from your roster). this probably rules out the possibility of getting a great RB, but yu still get a wide option of players

avoid this option - on the sunday no roster decisions can be made. consider it the commissioners day of rest.

exceptional last minute circmstances - only in exceptional circumstances will anything be fixed - eg a player rolls their ankle in the warmup and unexpectedly tests positive for covid. if and when you see this, ASAP message me on here (for transparency) a replacement player (and who is getting dropped). that way even if i cant get on sleeper, we all know the selection and i can manually sort it later

[classycarra]

Proposed schedule for the season:

Week 1
Everyone survives. Chance to establish and tweak your team. First place earns a positive tie breaker, last place gets a negative tie breaker (if they are head to head with someone, same bids, they win/lose without flipping a coin)

Week 2
Last place team is rewarded with the league’s first beheading [nine teams remain at end of week]

Weeks 3 and 4
Last team out [seven remain at end of week 4]

Weeks 5 and 6
Last seven teams take a two-week score. Last team out [six remain end of week 6]

Weeks 7, 8 and 9
Last team out [three remain at end of week 9]

Weeks 10 and 11
Last three teams take a two-week score. Last team out [final two remain end of week 11]

Week 12 Final
The final head to head, only one gets to keep theirs!

[Buck Pete]

Good Effort CC. Looking forward to it.

Now where is Trend "Soon to be like Anne Boleyn" is not Destiny?

[Buck Pete]

---- example bid and how its processed (from someone with $100 left)
1)   CMC $95 (losing bid)
2)   Davante $75 (winning bid)
3)   McLaurin $50 (winning bid)
4)   Fournette $25 (winning bid)
Let’s say someone else won CMC with a bid of $500, but you won all the others. The rest of the bids would end up with this result:
-Davante – successfully taken, budget left now is $25
-McLaurin – bid was won, but cannot be taken as not enough budget left
-Fournette – successfully taken, budget left now is $0
You then take add Davante and Fournette to your roster and drop someone. Or maybe you have second thoughts, you can leave them off your roster and they are then freshly available the next week for everyone (including you) to bid on them again

In regards to the last line.

I assume that even though you bid for a player and win, you will still be deducted the fee regardless of whether you ultimately add them to your roster or not?

[Trendisnotdestiny]

Outstanding work here Classy!   So proud!  They grows up so quickly

[classycarra]

In regards to the last line.

I assume that even though you bid for a player and win, you will still be deducted the fee regardless of whether you ultimately add them to your roster or not?

Sorry mate, only just caught your question.

Yep, you've got it spot on - if the bid is won but someone decides against taking the player in the end, they still lose that money from their budget

[classycarra]

Updated rules August 2023

Intro to the guillotine league/concept - last team standing wins
At the end of a knockout week of the NFL season, two things happen:
-the bottom scoring team from that week gets beheaded (eliminated from the league), and
-that team’s roster is dropped into the free agent pool (leaving their carcass for everyone else to vulture).

Every week, great players will end up hitting free agency. What will your strategy be when an elite player hits free agency?
-Do you stick with your drafted team, because you can’t improve on perfection? Do you hold back money, knowing that each week, increasingly good rosters are going to get eliminated? -Will you bid wildly in your difficult bye weeks? Will you go all in on the first stud that appears?
-Do you shift your roster drastically every week based on match-ups, weather and all kinds of research? Don’t ask me!

Rules/league settings
-Roster is 1QB, 2RB, 2WR, 1 TE, 1 FLEX (WR/RB/TE), 1 DST, plus 3 Bench and 1 IR slot.
-Scoring system is PPR, with some big play bonuses (see League Settings for specifics)

Injured Reserve
-You can’t draft a currently injured player to stash on your IR, and then add another player.
-The slot is only for use prospectively (eg .if you draft a currently injured player at the start of the season, he’s on your bench not your IR).
-Anyone healthy that you draft can go on there if they get injured, for as long as they are IR designated on Sleeper.
-Once bidding starts you can bid on available IR players (eg if Davante Adams is on someone’s IR when their team gets knocked out, everyone can bid for them). If you sign an injured player, you can add him to your IR - but remember that the bidding process will be over for the week and you'll not be able to fill their roster spot until the next bidding process

FAAB bidding rules
-Secret bidding only – don’t discuss bid amounts or coordinate bids in any way.
-You can discuss players (eg ‘oh look CMC is available, I am going to bid for him’), you can pretend to be interested in players to try to convince/distract others (eg ‘2021 is Joe Flacco’s year, I’m gonna bid for him no one stop me’). You just can’t discuss bids in a way that directly reveals/spoils anything to do with the secret bidding process.

FAAB bidding system/instructions
-Free agent blind bidding (FAAB) budget will be $100 per the full bidding weeks (eg if final is in week twelve, the budget is $1,200).
-Each team will be given their budget to use over the entire season at the start.
-All bids must be whole dollars amounts, with a minimum of $1. If someone has blown their budget load, and has zero left they can bid $0, but obviously it's impossible to win players  others have bid for (unless versus other bankrupt players).
-Highest bid wins. In the event of equal winning bids, Sleeper waiver order will determine the winner.
-There are no maximum bids/total bids in any week, except the budget amount in your account/roster limits. If you make and win multiple bids that are more than your budget, Sleeper processes them in the priority order you set (it automatically prioritises higher value bids, so remember to consider your budget if you win bids because it would prevent your other bids if you can't afford them).
-Sleeper publishes all bid requests for players that get transferred (including losing bids), and remaining budget amounts are visible on the League screen (total transparency).

Example bid, and how its processed (from someone bidding with $100 left)
1)   CMC $95 - second highest bid in league. Lost auction.
2)   Davante $75 - highest bid in league. Won auction. Gets player for $75.
3)   McLaurin $50 - highest bid in league. Won auction, but Sleeper voids your bid since you now don't have $50. Player joins next highest bidder.
4)   Fournette $25 - highest bid. Won auction. Get player for $25
5)   Wednesday bids concluded - you can't add a player to your team until the next week (*with certain exceptions, listed below)

FAAB bidding system/weekly pattern
Tuesday:
-Sleeper confirms week's official fantasy scores, with any late scoring/yardage adjustments [please, fantasy gods, don't do this!].
-Once confirmed, the losing team is stripped of their players [please help your commissioner and drop your players if you can!].

Wednesday:
-Teams make their bids for the losing teams' (and all other available) players on Sleeper only, by 15:45 BST latest (it locks bidding at a certain time, so don't leave it late)
-Sleeper will resolve the bids at 16:00 BST so you'll have your set roster for the week.

Thursday:
-Remember to set your players in positions, be careful of Thursday Night Football!

Saturday (or equivalent 1 day before a player’s game day):
-If one of your players is reported to have an injury that occurred since the bidding deadline on Wednesday, you have an amnesty/grace to replace them [communicate with commissioner in Sleeper chat].
-Note your amnesty replacements are restricted to players that had no bids all week (ie they weren't in demand).

Sunday (or game day):
-With late announced injuries (eg pulled hammy during the warmup) you can’t change your roster, unfortunately - can't guarantee being available sorting any commissioning admin at that time - make sure you invest in good backups!

Setting out concept/examples
The idea of the game (and the allowed injury amnesty backups) is to encourage the bidding market to be active by rewarding the prepared (and disincentivising the last minute route, so check out injury news!). This is also for admin reasons, so commissioners don't have to do too much!

Example situation
-You have Dalvin Cook carrying an injury 'Questionable' after Wednesday bids, but hope for the best he'll practice and play, so keep them on your roster.
-On Saturday, you hear they are still not practicing (all but 'Out' for the week).

Option #1 - You planned (ideal)
-You simply swap Cook out and play your backup RB (because you were smart and planned for this!) instead.
-You'll still have Cook on your roster the next week if you survive.

Option #2 - You didn't plan (gamble)
-You don't have a backup RB on your roster
-Cook is a 'gametime decision', so it's time to weigh up your 2 options:
1) You risk it, because Cook is so good and you don't want to drop him from your roster. If he doesn't play, you score 0 for that position. You'll still have Cook on your roster the next week if you survive.
2) You decide to play safe, someone is better than noone. So you message the commissioner on Sleeper, confirming you can replace Cook and naming the RB you want to add in Cook's place - restricted to players that had no bids all week (ie they weren't in demand). You won't have Cook on your roster the next week if you survive.

Option #3 - You didn't look til Sunday (screwed, soz)
-Avoid this option! No roster decisions can be made on Sunday. Consider it the commissioners day of rest.