New Positions in Football

Apparently, they're letting us have more positions.

They've added new flex positions. In addition to WR/RB and WR/TE, you can also have WR/RB/TE or QB/WR/RB/TE.

I don't think that adding a 2nd QB each week is a great idea. However, one change that I'm thinking is that we switch it to just having two guys at WR/RB/TE, instead of 1 each at WR/RB and WR/TE? This makes for a little more flexibility with the bye weeks.

Also, with individual defensive players, we used to just pick 2 guys at any position. Now, they are letting us have specific positions: DE, DT, LB, CB, and S (if you want to get really specific), DL and DB (a little less specific), and of course, you can still have just D (any position at all).

I'm sort of leaning toward going with 4 individual defensive players: DL, LB, DB, and D. Thoughts?

Finally, they are adding a "rivalry week" feature, where we can have an additional game against a specific rival. This can't get set up until everyone signs up. But, this is cool. We've got a 12 team league, with 13 regular season games. This means that you can play everyone once, and then we can have 2 weeks where you can play a particular rival. I'd think that it would be sweet to have the first and last week of the season be rivalry weeks.

So, this means that everyone gets 2 rivals. Any requests for your personal rivalries? Some interesting rivalries in the UPL... I sort of want an extra shot at Mikey. And C-Lauff, too. Of course, those rivalries are against two of the more successful franchises... I guess that if I was smart, that I'd try to go for a perennial bottom feeder as my rival... Jeff? You're playing football, right? :-)

Mikey/Bobby makes sense. I'm guessing that Westy/C-Lauff would be a pretty natural one. Schultzie/Olthoff seems to make sense. I think that this is sort of cool...

-Chairman (aka O.N. Thugs)