If I can find the time outside of the office to work on it I’m hoping to overhaul this site in the next few weeks. I’m working on developing some major improvements to my weekly projection system and I’d like to move the site in the direction of focusing more on those numbers rather than specific RotoHog strategy (which I’m already covering over at rotohog.com).

Also congratulation to Mr. Ugly Pigskins aka rsgregory aka Richard who currently sits at #2 in the overall. He’s all out of guys for this week, so he’ll drop a few slots but that’s an amazing start.

I forget exactly but I believe it took me several weeks to even crack the top 100 last year. Anyway, I’d be interested to hear where others on here stand. I’m pretty far behind the pack at the moment, but there’s plenty of football left to be played.

PS – I bought Marshall to replace Andre Johnson and then forgot to place him into my lineup. Ouch.

Week 1 Six Pack

If you haven’t already, join the Friends of JibJab league. ID is 102747, pw is jibjab. It’s a good way to keep track of how the WP.com readers are doing. Also, there’s now a couple of celebrities in there.

I’m working out who to put in my first Monday Night Six Pack, so feel free to post any suggestions for good buys tomorrow morning. Flacco and Collins are the only 2 that are set so far.

As most of you know I also posted late-week projections and recommendations last season. Usually prices have changed significantly and projected points have changed slightly by then. Those may be showing up exclusively here depending on whether or not there’s room for them over at the main site.

Anyway, I think there are a lot of good values out there right now and I suspect some of those bargains will be drying up soon.

I’d be interested to hear some more team values (though I suppose I can always just look them up now). I was at $364 on Saturday, in #1 at the ime by a full $7 or so, but I went out of town for the rest of the weekend and made some bad choices and now sit around $350.

The final batch of IPOs is up on the trading floor now, so there are no changes left to worry about as you search for bargains. In regards to the trading floor discussion, I can’t really say much, but it’s correct that a player’s price only changes when he is bought or sold. Supply and demand will factor into the price change obviously. All that to say, a highly-owned player is probably going to make you money, but it won’t happen instantly at the opening of the trading floor.

Last year a lot of players’ prices tanked at the opening of the market. This was because teams were created using a traditional draft and many users drafted too many expensive players and couldn’t fill out their roster, so they sold those expensive players as soon as they could. With unrestricted preseason trading, this shouldn’t really be an issue and baseball generally showed that to be true.

Overall, the pre-season trading floor definitely makes the first day of trading a little less volatile. Still, the money-making strategies are the same: identify under-priced players, follow the price change momentum, and be the first to anticipate match-ups. To put that into practical terms, right now I recommend filling out your roster with only the very best bargains (maybe 3-5 players). Tomorrow morning, pick up the guys who seem to have some momentum, and sell if they start to lose that momentum. Finally, start looking at Week 1 match-ups, and try to anticipate when the broad masses will start to transition into building their Week 1 lineups (my guess is it will be next Wednesday or Thursday in anticipation of the opening game on Thursday).

Alright, good luck tomorrow. Keep the discussion going for trading floor bargains (it sounds like Kyle Boller may be out for the season), and be on the lookout for my Week 1 projections coming to RotoHog.com.

For those who followed this site last year you know I have taken a position with RotoHog during the football off-season. Anyway, prices for the initial batch of 140 players are up, so get started bargain-hunting. I, along with a couple other RotoHog staff, did all of the pricing so hopefully there aren’t too many great deals to be found.

This site will be operating during the year, however much of the content you would have seen here in the past will be hosted on RotoHog. Rest assured, all the features you saw last year will be back again this year whether it’s here or over there.

I’ve already set up a “Friends of JibJab” league that will hopefully turn out better for me than baseball has.
League ID: 102747
League password: jibjab

I’m sure people will trickle in slowly with the season still well over a month away, so check in on the comments if you’re here. I’ll write something up in the next few days about the rules this year vs last year (most things are the same) and how that may affect your approach.

patlee, I think you’re definitely on to something. Surely out of that top 100 there are a handful that aren’t eligible for whatever reason. I remember we had 2 or 3 of you guys right on the wrong side of the cut off, so hopefully you’ll have some good news coming. We’re all rooting for you.

Since I don’t have any sort of thank you page set up or anything, I want to give a special thanks to Andre (Crunch Bunch) and Richard (what is your team name anyway?) for their generous donations. I appreciate it!

One last time, head over to fantasyfishing.com and use league id: 10011 and password: jibjab. There’s already some good discussion going on over there it looks like. Alright, that’s all I’ve got for now. I’ll be on at some point to post the total winnings for our group, and I’ll also be sure to hop on once I’m out in LA to let you guys know how things are going with the new job.

Anyway, thanks for a great season guys. I look forward to seeing you all on the fishing board. Also, as I mentioned before I may be trying to work in some off season research and discussion on this board, so that we can keep that leg up on the rest.

If you haven’t already posted your final standing, go ahead and let us all know. I’m going to start compiling that stuff and will give the final numbers (as best as I can estimate them) tonight or tomorrow.

Ok, gotta get back to second guessing everything now.