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Changing Players In Fantasy Football: Part 2 of 2

2. Trading Players
For one, this method of changing players on a team is allowed even if the season has already started.  This can be the easiest way of changing the player composition of a Fantasy Football team.  The goal of this tradeoff is obviously to help the lackluster team win more games to the detriment of other participants in Fantasy Football. 
This happens when one team decides to trade off players that have high quality standings with another team that has had a losing streak.  And more importantly, this method has very few restrictions; so the process and the agreements that lead to the trading of players is entirely left to the preferences of the two teams that decide to trade. However, there is one important regulation that all the teams that decide to trade their players should keep in mind and this is ensuring that the trades are not done disproportionately.  To address this kind of trading, which is considered cheating; most Fantasy Football leagues disallow trading after about two-thirds of the season has been played. 

3. Allocating For Free Agents
Free agents are players who aren’t on the roster of any Fantasy Football team.  If your league provides for a waiver system, then a free agent is a player who has been cleared or released from such waiver.  Utilizing these free agents is another way to change the players on your roster. You can acquire free agents on a first-come-first-served basis. 
You can also opt to bid for any free agent; in this case, all the teams that want to acquire a particular free agent should bid on this free agent and the highest bidder wins the right to acquire the player.  There is also a scenario where the worst performing teams during the last season get the first rights to choose any player who is a free agent. 
4. Draft Auction
After this deadline, your player lineup is locked for the entire week of matches.  Fantasy Football gives team owners a certain amount of fantasy cash so that they can bid on professional football players to fill in the spots on their respective rosters.  In this system, Fantasy Football team owners take turns in bidding for players. No matter what method you decide to use in changing your players, always remember that you need to beat a deadline which is about fifteen minutes before the start of the first game during the week; after which, your changes will not be valid. 

Changing Players In Fantasy Football: Part 1 of 2

But there are other ways of changing players in Football Fantasy and here they are. Arranged into leagues that mimic real ones, Fantasy Football participants gain score points through statistical capabilities or performances of the real world players which are included in the fantasy rosters of the respective owners. In essence, the way to win in Fantasy Football is to always have high quality players.  This makes the changing of players a very important aspect of Fantasy Football. The basic way for you to change the players in your roster is to add new players. 

Since the performance of the real world players can change in between real world matches, you need to make regular updates or changes to the players in your fantasy roster to keep up with the fantasy games.  Fantasy Football is a game that belongs to a billion-dollar industry called fantasy sports wherein players, aptly called team owners, can acquire or draft an entire team of real-life professional football players.  To do this you just go the players’ page in your league’s website, there you will find the list of players to choose from. 

Commonly, for each player that you acquire, a corresponding member of your team should be dropped too. All in all, after acquiring a new player and dropping an old one, your roster will be changed. 

1. Activating Bench Players To Active Status
You can access this function online by simply going to your team’s webpage.  There you will find a menu that permits you to change the status of each of the players on your roster.  Always remember to save the changes before you exit the page.
One of the most overlooked ways of changing players in an existing lineup is by simply changing the status of a certain player from bench to active or vice versa. 

Vince Lombardi: A coach with words we cannot forget

Famous coaches have had some memorable remarks about American’s most popular sport, and here are some of them by legendary Green Bay Packer coach Vince Lombardi, who many consider to be the best of the best. Lombardi’s head coaching record in the National Football League was second to none.  Grown men and Hall of Fame football players openly wept at his funeral.  A lifelong Catholic, he spent 4 years in Cathedral Preparatory Seminary to become a Catholic priest before becoming a standout football player at St.  Francis Preparatory High School. An undersized guard at 5 foot 8 and 185 pounds, he was offered and accepted a football scholarship to Fordham University in the Bronx to play for “Sleepy” Jim Crowley, one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame in the 1920s.  Lombardi then became the offensive coordinator for the New York Giants, working with defensive coordinator Tom Landry and head coach Jim Lee Howell, before becoming Green Bay’s head coach in 1959. Lombardi was 59 years old when he died of cancer in 1970.  He led the Packers to the first two Super Bowl titles in 1966 and 1967. Lombardi’s discipline was legendary.  

College football’s annual bowl season is full of surprises and spectacular moments.  In 9 years with the Green Bay Packers, Lombardi’s regular season won-loss percentage was 73% (96-34-6), his postseason was 90% (9-1) and his total was 75% (105-35-6). He took a 1-10-1 team in 1958 to an NFL title in 3 years, and went on to win 5 NFL titles in 9 years (1961, 1962, 1965, 1966 and 1967) and three titles consecutively.  He would become part of the “Seven Blocks of Granite” that held Fordham’s opponents scoreless several times during a 25-game winning streak. After coaching at Fordham, Lombardi became the offensive line coach for West Point under another legendary head coach, Colonel Red Blaik.  

Here are some of Vince Lombardi’s best known quotes:

“If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”

“There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.”

“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”

“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

“I firmly believe than any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.”

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

“Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

“If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

The Days of the Rose Bowl

Michigan’s team devastated Stanford in a 49-0 score in front of 8,000 people. The football game made a profit.  However, due to the one sided triumph, organizers thought that the spectators would not show up for yet another football game and replaced the post-season football game with chariot racing.  The unprofessional chariot racers would run into each other.  Back in 1901, the organizers of the Tournament of Roses© were agonizing how to attract people to the activities on New Year’s Day.  James Wagner, then president of the Tournament brought forth the idea of a post-season football game to attract the much desired attendance. Fielding Yost, the coach of the undefeated Michigan football team challenged the University of California.  Subsequently, the organizers decided to return to the post-season football game. In 1916, the second Tournament of Roses© football games took place where Washington State defeated Brown 14-0.  

However, the chariot racing was wrought with problems.  Soon after, the organizers sought out professional racers, but then, the spectators assumed that the races were fixed.  California declined but Stanford stepped up to meet Michigan’s challenge.  

The Rose Bowl game has been nicknamed the “Grandaddy of Them All®” and has been a sellout since 1947.  

Stadium is a quick 80 miles from LSU campus in Baton Rouge

NEW ORLEANS - Imagine playing the Rose Bowl in Chicago, the Sugar Bowl in Kansas City or the Orange Bowl in Omaha.

Outdoors, on a mucky field. Snowy day, temperatures in the 20s. Windy, too.

Maybe that would tilt the edge toward teams like Ohio State when it’s time to decide the national title.

In the meantime … welcome to Tigerland, boys! Oh, and be sure to check out that huge LSU billboard on the drive in from the airport.

“I don’t know that home-field advantage affects outcomes of games, to be honest with you,” LSU coach Les Miles said this week.

As he spoke in the hallway of a downtown hotel, a Dixieland jazz band kept moving closer, playing louder and louder. In the lobby, fans dressed in purple-and-gold feather boas surrounded the LSU stars, and a woman insisted on kissing All-American lineman Glenn Dorsey.

“They tell me it gets progressively better from this point forward,” Miles said. “Or worse, depending how you look at it.”

The Superdome is a quick 80 miles from the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, and the Tigers are plenty familiar with the Bourbon Street buzz leading up to Monday night’s game. The only one absent is Mike, the live Bengal tiger mascot — his cage is being renovated, so he’s back home.

But does proximity provide a huge edge in a game like this? Not always.

Southern California liked its chances for winning the 2005 title at the nearby Rose Bowl. Boosted by a huge throng of Texas backers, Vince Young and the Longhorns upset Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart and the Trojans 41-38.

A year earlier, LSU felt right at home in the Superdome, beating favored Oklahoma 21-14 for the BCS national title.

In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Miami got a big boost from holding title games at the Orange Bowl. Back then, opponents such as Nebraska and Oklahoma would trudge away from the old stadium, grousing about playing on the Hurricanes’ home field.

The No. 1 Buckeyes shrug off any worries. They’ve heard all the Tiger tales, about the taunts and trouble. Plus, they point out, they won at the Big House and other big houses this season.

Record-setting Patriots QB gets 49 out of 50 votes; Favre gets other one

NEW YORK - For all their achievements, past Most Valuable Players John Unitas, Dan Marino and Joe Montana never had a season like Tom Brady’s 2007.

The New England Patriots’ record-setting quarterback added The Associated Press NFL MVP award Saturday in the same manner his team romped through its schedule, going 16-0. On the way to the first unbeaten regular season since Miami went 14-0 in 1972, Brady put on a performance for the ages, which earned him all but one vote from a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league.

“I have always been a huge football fan and will always have great respect for the history of this game,” Brady said. “I am flattered to join such an esteemed list of players, many of whom I consider the greatest of all time. I hope that I can set as great of an example for kids around the world as the previous MVPs did for me.

“I am grateful to all of the voters for any consideration I was given. It is a tremendous honor and I am sure it is one that my family will one day look back on with great pride.

The eight-year veteran who already has won three Super Bowls helped the Patriots tear through the record books by throwing for 50 touchdowns. He beat Peyton Manning’s league mark by one, and also threw 23 of those TD passes to Randy Moss, which lifted the receiver past Jerry Rice’s record of 22.

New England scored 589 points, another record, as was the Patriots’ 75 touchdowns. Brady led the NFL with a 117.2 passer rating — no, not another record, but close to Manning’s 121.1 in 2004. Only one full-time AFC starter, Jacksonville’s David Garrard, had fewer than Brady’s eight interceptions. And Brady threw 253 more passes than Garrard.

Brady also was tops with a 68.9 completion percentage, and his 4,806 yards were 383 more than runner-up Drew Brees of New Orleans.

Brady joins a roster of AP MVPs that includes quarterbacks Unitas, Bart Starr, Fran Tarkenton, Marino, Montana, John Elway and Steve Young — all Hall of Famers.

Yet Brady insists individual accomplishments don’t rule his world.

“As I have learned over the course of my time with the Patriots, the most meaningful accomplishments are always the ones I have celebrated with my teammates,” he said. “I am certainly proud of the success that we have enjoyed so far this season.”

Patriots QB Tom Brady rides records to MVP award

The New England Patriots’ record-setting quarterback drew all but one vote Saturday in romping to The Associated Press 2007 NFL MVP award in the same manner his team romped through its schedule, going 16-0. On the way to the first unbeaten regular season since Miami went 14-0 in 1972, Brady put on a performance for the ages.

“I have always been a huge football fan and will always have great respect for the history of this game,” Brady said. “I am grateful to all of the voters for any consideration I was given. It is a tremendous honor and I am sure it is one that my family will one day look back on with great pride.”

The eight-year veteran who already has won three Super Bowls helped the Patriots tear through the record books by throwing for 50 touchdowns. He beat Peyton Manning’s league mark by one, and also threw 23 of those TD passes to Randy Moss, which lifted the receiver past Jerry Rice’s record of 22.

New England scored 589 points, another record, as was the Patriots’ 75 touchdowns. Brady led the NFL with a 117.2 passer rating — no, not another record, but close to Manning’s 121.1 in 2004. Only one full-time AFC starter, Jacksonville’s David Garrard, had fewer than Brady’s eight interceptions. And Brady threw 253 more passes than Garrard.

Brady also was tops with a 68.9 completion percentage, and his 4,806 yards were 383 more than runner-up Drew Brees of New Orleans.

Brady joins a roster of AP MVPs that includes quarterbacks John Unitas, Bart Starr, Fran Tarkenton, Dan Marino, Joe Montana, John Elway and Steve Young — all Hall of Famers.

“I am flattered to join such an esteemed list of players, many of whom I consider the greatest of all time,” he said. “I hope that I can set as great of an example for kids around the world as the previous MVPs did for me.”

There also was plenty of praise to go around from teammates, Patriots owner Robert Kraft and coach Bill Belichick.

“To be honest, I’m surprised it took so long for him to get this recognition because he’s sort of been our MVP since he stepped on the field in ‘01, in my mind, and the way he just took over,” Kraft said. “He treats everyone in that locker room the same way he treats me or the coaches.

“And the thing that I’ve found most interesting is if you talk to role players or backups how he talks to them and motivates them. He treats them like they’re going to the Pro Bowl, with that kind of respect.”

Added Mike Vrabel, who has gone from a role player to a Pro Bowl linebacker over the years:

“He’s our MVP. I think we’ve known that for quite some time. “I think his work ethic day in and day out (is most impressive). We get to practice against him so I think that makes us better. I think it makes us a better defense. He puts a lot of time into it. It’s important to him. Going out there every week and then trying to play his absolute best is a priority for him.”

Brady is the first Patriot selected NFL MVP. He drew 49 of the 50 votes from a nationwide panel of media members who regularly cover the NFL. Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre, the only three-time MVP, got the other vote.

“He deserves it,” Belichick said. “I have thought for a long time that there is no past or present quarterback I’d rather coach than Tom Brady, and I am more certain of that every year he plays.”

Only in one game, a 20-10 win over the Jets, did Brady not throw for a touchdown. He had 12 games with at least three TD passes.

Those are great stats, but they hardly tell the entire story. Brady’s leadership skills overshadow just about everything.

“Tom’s one of those guys that goes out there and tries to perform and compete every week,” center Dan Koppen said. “He gives maximum effort on every play and every game. What he did was outstanding, but I know he wants more than that. That’s what you need in your quarterback.”

The last two MVP awards went to running backs LaDainian Tomlinson (2006) and Shaun Alexander (2005). Before that, quarterbacks won four in a row: Peyton Manning in 2004 and in 2003, when he shared it with Steve McNair; Rich Gannon in 2002; and Kurt Warner in 2001.

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