Congrats to Isai on winning his first ever Epic X fantasy football championship! We will get to his recap in a minute but first some league business:
- Updated Draft Order:
1. Chris
2. Jonathan
3. Tyler
4. Josh/Phil
5. Kevin
6. Frankie
7/8 - Will be officially determined tonight between Ian and Chad
9. Paul
10. Isai
Our draft board on the spreadsheet is all but updated (pending Ian and Chad's result) with all of the offseason trades already added in. Once you look at the board, feels like Frankie, Kevin and Paul have a nice head start with Keepers and/or draft picks!
- The season is now over and we enter our annual "dark zone" on transactions. Obviously I can't stop any deals from being made in back alleys but nothing can be announced until kickoff of the first NFL playoff game. Once deals have been announced, please add them to the "Offseason Trades" column on the "Trades" tab of our spreadsheet.
- Also on the spreadsheet, please go to the "Rosters" tab and add any players to your own individual column that you want to keep controlling for keeper/trade purposes. I've added the obvious ones (including QBs that apply to the new QB Keeper Rule), but please add any others as all of our rosters on the ESPN site will empty once the league reactivates.
- I've also included our "Players Acquired with Picks" (PAPs) on the Rosters tab so please review those (and the PAP rules below the player list) before making any offseason deals. The PAPs are definitely going to add some new wrinkles to offseason movement.
- I will announce our Pro Bowl starters on Thursday. The Tommy Boy Division is looking to extend its 3 year winning streak to yet another season.
- Put it on your calendars: we are currently aiming for Saturday morning, July 10 for our 2021 draft. Paul has invited everyone to his beach house in Destin, FL but feel free to draft online if you can't make it.
Thanks for another great season, boys! Next year we kick off season number FIFTEEN of The Epic X.
ON TO RECAP OF SAI'S SEASON...
First, congrats again to Paul and EZ on a great season. 12-1 and GM of the Year (3rd straight for Paulie!) is super impressive. It's all going to come together for the Devil Dogs one of these seasons.
Here are some quick highlights:
- Traded for Hopkins in the offseason as a Keeper. DHop had a great first season in Arizona and was worth that Keeper price.
- Also kept Tyreek Hill. Have you seen his season totals? Sai gave him a MVP vote and was definitely deserving with only two games under double digits.
- Then Sai got super drunk on the golf course and drafted in a tequila haze. There were some valleys (I thought he had passed out on his computer during the Kerryon, Mack, Michel run in the middle) but there were some peaks as well - Keenan Allen was great value in the 6th and Antonio Gibson in the 12th was massive.
- In his drunken stupor, he was somehow aware of enough to make a critical trade with Chris: He traded Taylor and JuJu for Swift and Conner. Conner has been banged up as of late but had a pretty solid season overall and definitely helped provide a good base floor week to week.
- Swift proved huge later in the season as he was able to flip him for Waller and DJ Moore (who came up huge in the title game)
- Sai also did a couple of pick swap moves: Traded his 2nd for Mixon, who I don't think ever played a single down for Sai (but I liked his "all in" attitude) and more importantly, a 5/7 swap for Lamar when he had been limping along with Cam at QB.
- Picked up Dobbins off the waivers and that was that.
- Good keeper moves in the offseason, good value and sleeper steal in the draft, good player for player trades, a couple key pick swaps, and some good waiver wire pickups.
It really was a complete GM experience that got Sai to this championship win.
Congrats to you, sir!
I'm ordering the new name plate for the trophy today and we will have the ceremony soon.
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