@njfan I was soooo bad last year (mostly because pro football is supposed to be played on Sundays…I know, I know…excuses, excuses) so not only was I in the toilet bowl, but I was going round & round instead of down! That said, I’m so in for this season! I am changing my team name…adding YOR, or “year of redemption”. It sure couldn’t get much worse, not that I’m tempting fate BTW!!
IT’S ALMOST TIME! I just got back from my Midwest roller coaster tour with Snowflake and I’m ready to auto-draft! (Snowflake is suddenly into sports but I couldn’t convince him to join us this year.)
@simplysme it’s now two days left for you to finish registering
If anyone else wants to join, just say hello. I think I am going to close registration tomorrow evening. So, @simplyme, I guess that means there is only one day left, lol.
@simplysme there are now two days left for you to finish registering.
If anyone else wants to join, just say, hello. I think I am going to close registration tomorrow evening. So, @simplyme, I guess that means there is only one day left, lol.
Hey guys, gals, and folks still figuring it out,
Deadline for team registration is 8PM EDT, today (Tuesday, August 26th, 2025). If interested in joining, please reply and an invite will be sent.
I would appreciate it if everyone new listed their usernames along with their team names so I can appropriately shit talk. It’s what I live for.
/giphy shit talk
I can’t figure out how to switch to autodraft in the app. I also can’t figure out how to put players on my no not draft list. I’m gonna be pissed if I get Rodgers.
Heads up everyone, we have extra negative points for field goal misses from 0-49 yards. Make sure you don’t have a kicker from a yolo team. You can take a look at our league info.
@gkimbrell@njfan This year the computer decided I needed better running backs than wide receivers. But it also didn’t give me three kickers with the same bye week so I’m not complaining.
@njfan@sammydog01 I was referring specifically to the starting lineup. It surprised me when I saw that. I’ve never been in a league where we only used 1 RB. But whatever. It’s no big deal
@njfan I guess it’s a good thing my first auto drafted QB did good since I kept getting told I couldn’t change my lineup till Thursday and then totally forgot to do it
@capnjb Yes by 3 points which is one less than your wide receiver scored. (I make sure to check giphys before the edit window closes because you’re absolutely right.)
@capnjb I’m torn between being happy as a Bills fan and hating that baby faced bastard. Also glad you won by enough points that benching their DST wouldn’t have made a difference, because I thought about it.
@sammydog01 Are you up in that area? My mom grew up near Jamestown, New York. We still have 100 acres of woodland up there that we timber every 15 years or so.
Also, glad I don’t have to change my team name
Congrats, that was quite a win for the Bills, but also sorry for your Meh loss Honestly, sorry, not sorry My Seahawks screwed it up… so, both sides of the coin here
@capnjb Cool! I grew up in Rochester and had relatives out in the country between Rochester and Buffalo. Now I’m in Major Tuddy land.
/image Major Tuddy
@capnjb Richmond. We had training camp here for a few years, I saw Tom Brady play. Now I have to mute the game because he’s such a terrible commentator.
@sammydog01 I haven’t been through Richmond in a few years, but I do like it very much. I like where I live, but growing up it was the sticks. But now, where I live, I can drive 30 minutes North and be in the woods, or drive 30 minutes South and be at the White house (unless it’s rush hour ). It’s kind of a good balance
@metaphore@njfan Dragontrainer, Carl, and Princess have two byes. I assumed a bye would be a win but ESPN isn’t even adding your points in the points for column.
First of all, thank you njfan for running the league, it’s the high point of my sports year.
Your solution is reasonable and fair, but personally I would hate to lose the extra three regular season games. Can you change individual matchups? I would volunteer to take an extra bye to keep the last three weeks. (The fact that the computer failed to get me a decent wide receiver has no relevance to this offer.) Maybe a couple others would? I told Dragontrainer she had an extra bye and she didn’t care that much. She wins too much anyway.
Also I’m competing with you this week in my mind.
/giphy BRING IT
@njfan whatever you changed fucked things up? I now have a score from last week and @sammydog01 doesn’t.
Bye weeks mess everything up. My vote is that in the future if we have an odd number of teams we toss in a sock puppet team.
@metaphore You went from 11th to second I think. By the way everyone on our division scored over 100 and everyone in the other division scored under 100.
/giphy GO GOATS
@sammydog01 like an hour ago power rankings had me at 1st, and now I’m 6th? I don’t even know.
I guess there’s an option where we can just start over at week 3 and there’s a new draft and everything? But I kinda like my team so I dunno.
@njfan I’m good with extra byes. I like that better than multi-week playoffs.
But really whatever works for you is fine. If I wanted to make the rules I could have run things.
Well, I went from a win to a loss somehow. I guess I’ll just put it in autopilot at this point. Going to go manage my money league. This doesn’t do good things for my ADHD
@njfan All good Thank you for taking the time to do a thankless task. I apologize; I was a bit grumpy about something else in the moment and let it seep into here. Sorry.
-edit Want to join the Secret-Not-So-Secret coffee club? (this is how I get out of a lot of things )
@capnjb I don’t drink coffee but thank you for the invite. Sorry again for all the mess. I completely understand the frustration. @sammydog01 is going to be the commissioner next year.
@njfan Fine with me. It’s also fine if you leave it the way it is. Just let us know before kickoff tonight. The word “meh” is right there in the league name after all. (I blame ESPN for their horrible system.)
I worked way late today and missed 7:30, sorry. I hate the idea of losing scoring from week 1, but what’s done is apparently done. Bummer. That said, @njfan, thanks for doing your best to make things work for everyone.
Hey everyone,
Your commish here. Hi, how are you?
I don’t know if everyone follows the meh community forum but it was brought up that some teams had multiple byes. A competent commissioner would have picked up on this BEFORE the start of the league but you have me .
So to remedy, I have done the following.
Everyone gets a BYE for weeks 1 and 8. I was going to set a universal bye for week 14 but Sammydog brought up a good point that the goal of the league is to play so I set games for week 14. Since we have an odd number of teams, I gave myself a bye. Before you say, ‘hey!’, it turns out a bye may not necessarily be a good thing in ESPN fantasy. Before all this, the person who received the week 1 bye was treated as having the worst record. Maybe a glitch but I am going to assume it wasn’t. Since I screwed up everything, I figure if anyone should take a hit, it should be me.
My apologies once again. Silver lining, Sammydog returns as commissioner next year so we all have something to look forward too.
I’ll send invites to those who participated last year shortly.
2024-2025 standings:
Champion: Team Dragontrainer
1st Loser: Landry’s Legacy aka @gkimbrell
2nd Loser: team njfan aka @njfan
3rd Loser: Zinlandia Zinimehsprimes aka @zinimusprime
4th Loser: Team Dog aka @sammydog01
5th Loser: Team Mehcronomicon aka @carl669 ('s 6 y/o nephew)
6th Loser: Team Mehtaphore aka @metaphore
Toilet Bowl: Meh Tohar1 aka @tohar1
A new member for this year: @Oldelvis
@njfan we going to see the draft invite here or will you be reaching out?
@njfan I was soooo bad last year (mostly because pro football is supposed to be played on Sundays…I know, I know…excuses, excuses) so not only was I in the toilet bowl, but I was going round & round instead of down! That said, I’m so in for this season! I am changing my team name…adding YOR, or “year of redemption”. It sure couldn’t get much worse, not that I’m tempting fate BTW!!
@Oldelvis I just set the draft date
Aug 27, 2025 @ 9:00 PM EDT
Glad I didn’t miss this post. I’m in, even if I’m not around the forums much recently.
I’m down to let either:
A) my nephew run it
2) he doesn’t run it and I do absolutely nothing
III) I eat elotes while the world burns
/giphy YES
Count me in!
Can I still play if my pride has already vacated my soul? I have nothing.
@zinimusprime I’m in, obviously. I have a problem. I’m in 8 leagues and I regret nothing…
For sure!
What site do you run the league on?
@capnjb ESPN
Cool. I’ve got another league there too. Let me know if you need another manager to make an even number of teams when you get close.
@capnjb ESPN. Feel free to whisper me your e-mail address and I will send you over an invite.
The requirement for the makeup of each team is that it can’t be that good, right? It has to be meh, right?
@ItalianScallion Not a requirement, it just winds up that way in our league.
/giphy bump-bump-bump
Just bumping in case anyone else is interested. There are 11 teams already and that is amazing.
@simplysme your invite was sent out. Let me know if I should send another.
IT’S ALMOST TIME! I just got back from my Midwest roller coaster tour with Snowflake and I’m ready to auto-draft! (Snowflake is suddenly into sports but I couldn’t convince him to join us this year.)
/image sports-ball
nice work!
/giphy three days
@simplysme it’s now two days left for you to finish registering
If anyone else wants to join, just say hello. I think I am going to close registration tomorrow evening. So, @simplyme, I guess that means there is only one day left, lol.
@simplysme there are now two days left for you to finish registering.
If anyone else wants to join, just say, hello. I think I am going to close registration tomorrow evening. So, @simplyme, I guess that means there is only one day left, lol.
@njfan Well, it’s a good thing I registered a couple of weeks ago
.
@simplysme you are right, sorry about that. Welcome aboard!!
/giphy doh!
/giphy TWO DAYS
Hey guys, gals, and folks still figuring it out,
Deadline for team registration is 8PM EDT, today (Tuesday, August 26th, 2025). If interested in joining, please reply and an invite will be sent.
May the best auto-draft team win!
/giphy go team
I would appreciate it if everyone new listed their usernames along with their team names so I can appropriately shit talk. It’s what I live for.
/giphy shit talk
Team Dog (@sammydog01)
Meh Tohar1 (Y.O.R.) (@tohar1)
team njfan (@njfan)
Team Mehtaphore (@metaphore)
Landry’s Legacy (@gkimbrell)
Team Dragontrainer (@sammydog01’s daughter)
Zinlandia Zinimehsprimes (@zinimusprime)
Team Mehcronomicon (@carl669’s nephew)
Dennis’s Daring Team (@Oldelvis)
Shiny Tin Spacewar (@capnjb)
Princess of the Kill Zone (@simplysme)
@capnjb @carl669 @gkimbrell @metaphore @njfan @sammydog01 @simplysme @tohar1 @zinimusprime Meh Flying Elvises @oldElvis
I can’t figure out how to switch to autodraft in the app. I also can’t figure out how to put players on my no not draft list. I’m gonna be pissed if I get Rodgers.
I apologize in advance for slowing things down.
@sammydog01 if it’s any consolation, no one else will be angry if he winds up on your team.
@njfan @sammydog01 Call it “falling on a grenade” for the league
@njfan @Oldelvis He’s still out there, projected to get 13 against the Jets if anyone is a fan. Might be fun to watch.
@metaphore is projected to win the league. No pressure.
@njfan At the very least, I think I can pull off a win week 1.
Been a long time since I’ve gotten an A. Thanks ESPN computer.
@sammydog01
/image no pressure
Heads up everyone, we have extra negative points for field goal misses from 0-49 yards. Make sure you don’t have a kicker from a yolo team. You can take a look at our league info.
We only have 1 RB?
@gkimbrell You can have two if you want.
@gkimbrell @sammydog01 you can have four running backs on your roster. Your starting roster can have a maximum of two: 1RB, 1FLEX.
@gkimbrell @njfan This year the computer decided I needed better running backs than wide receivers. But it also didn’t give me three kickers with the same bye week so I’m not complaining.
@njfan @sammydog01 I was referring specifically to the starting lineup. It surprised me when I saw that. I’ve never been in a league where we only used 1 RB. But whatever. It’s no big deal
@gkimbrell @njfan We know. Njfan and I have been alternating commissioner duties. I do standard ppr and he puts in effort for a custom lineup.
@gkimbrell @sammydog01 Gotcha. I think it’s too late for refunds though.
/giphy sorry, no refunds.
Do my points even matter this week?
@metaphore seeding tiebreakers. Enjoy your extended pre-season.
https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036952471-Playoff-Seeding-How-Regular-Season-Standings-Tiebreakers-Work
@njfan I guess it’s a good thing my first auto drafted QB did good since I kept getting told I couldn’t change my lineup till Thursday and then totally forgot to do it
My kicker is a stud
@capnjb Worst kicker so far was 8 points. That would be my kicker.
@sammydog01 My kicker can beat up your kicker
@capnjb should kickers be allowed to start at flex?
/giphy discuss-amongst-yourselves
@njfan You STFU
@capnjb My kicker kicked a 58 and yours only kicked a 53.
/giphy SUCK IT
@capnjb @njfan Only if you subtract 17 points for each missed kick.
@sammydog01 11 is more than 8
@sammydog01 And you really should be careful summoning a giphy with those words
@capnjb Yes by 3 points which is one less than your wide receiver scored. (I make sure to check giphys before the edit window closes because you’re absolutely right.)
@sammydog01 Yeah, my WR didn’t show up sober
@sammydog01 And I do enjoy pleasant smack talk. But shit is about to happen
@sammydog01 And this is unfortunate
But I am winning my money league game 
@sammydog01 I may need to change my team name to Sammydog’s Bitch. But only if our kickers have a cage fight
@capnjb No. Just no.
@sammydog01 Now I kind of want to see that…
@sammydog01 And a swift kick to the nuts from an NFL kicker can end any fight. So, it’s a coin flip.
@capnjb Don’t squish my kicker I like him.
@capnjb @sammydog01 My kicker was a dud. But kicker number 2 did exactly as well as he was supposed to. I’m undecided on how he would fair in a fight
@capnjb @metaphore
Chonky. I like his odds.
@sammydog01
Tell me again about those four points my wide receiver scored?
Heh… I think my QB is a genie 
I can’t believe that happened.
@capnjb I’m torn between being happy as a Bills fan and hating that baby faced bastard. Also glad you won by enough points that benching their DST wouldn’t have made a difference, because I thought about it.
@sammydog01 Are you up in that area? My mom grew up near Jamestown, New York. We still have 100 acres of woodland up there that we timber every 15 years or so.
Also, glad I don’t have to change my team name
Congrats, that was quite a win for the Bills, but also sorry for your Meh loss
Honestly, sorry, not sorry 
My Seahawks screwed it up… so, both sides of the coin here 
@capnjb Cool! I grew up in Rochester and had relatives out in the country between Rochester and Buffalo. Now I’m in Major Tuddy land.
/image Major Tuddy
@sammydog01 You’re in the DC area? I’m just north in Germantown
@capnjb Richmond. We had training camp here for a few years, I saw Tom Brady play. Now I have to mute the game because he’s such a terrible commentator.
Go Commies!
@sammydog01 I haven’t been through Richmond in a few years, but I do like it very much. I like where I live, but growing up it was the sticks. But now, where I live, I can drive 30 minutes North and be in the woods, or drive 30 minutes South and be at the White house (unless it’s rush hour
). It’s kind of a good balance 
@capnjb Driving north sounds nicer.
Also, if my RB can play kicker, then yes.
@njfan I see you planned on getting the top waiver pick week one.
/giphy smart plan
@njfan I lost but scored enough points to not get a good waiver pick.
/giphy that was stupid
@njfan I’ve never played in a league with byes before. Why does @metaphore get top waiver pick after scoring all those points?
@sammydog01
Team @mehtaphore is in last place. I guess ESPN math means 0-0 is worse than 0-1.
/giphy huh?
@njfan My bye is next week which should put me at last place.
/giphy awesome
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
Week two power rankings:
@njfan I was third place in points I do not accept this.
/giphy nope
@njfan @sammydog01 so bye week doesn’t count at all. We have 11 teams and 14 weeks, do some teams get more than 1 bye?
@metaphore @njfan Dragontrainer, Carl, and Princess have two byes. I assumed a bye would be a win but ESPN isn’t even adding your points in the points for column.
@metaphore @sammydog01@tohar1@metaphore
@gkimbrell @zinimusprime @carl669’s @Oldelvis
@capnjb @simplysme
Ladies and gents. Great catch by @metaphore and @sammydog01 about the multiple byes. I have adjusted the schedule as follows:
The season is 11 weeks.
Round 1 Playoff Matchup: 2 weeks
Round 2 Playoff Matchup: 2 weeks
Championship Round Matchup: 2 weeks
What does everyone think? How should it be adjusted?
@capnjb @gkimbrell @metaphore @njfan @Oldelvis @sammydog01 @simplysme @zinimusprime
i don’t know what’s happening, but i’m ok with it. so say we all.
@capnjb @carl669 @gkimbrell @metaphore @njfan @Oldelvis @simplysme @zinimusprime
First of all, thank you njfan for running the league, it’s the high point of my sports year.
Your solution is reasonable and fair, but personally I would hate to lose the extra three regular season games. Can you change individual matchups? I would volunteer to take an extra bye to keep the last three weeks. (The fact that the computer failed to get me a decent wide receiver has no relevance to this offer.) Maybe a couple others would? I told Dragontrainer she had an extra bye and she didn’t care that much. She wins too much anyway.
Also I’m competing with you this week in my mind.
/giphy BRING IT
@njfan whatever you changed fucked things up? I now have a score from last week and @sammydog01 doesn’t.
Bye weeks mess everything up. My vote is that in the future if we have an odd number of teams we toss in a sock puppet team.
@metaphore @njfan Looks like it swapped out matches last week and gave me a bye. The scores stayed so it’s ok.
@njfan @sammydog01 I went from 5th to 1st so I guess it’s ok changes
@metaphore You went from 11th to second I think. By the way everyone on our division scored over 100 and everyone in the other division scored under 100.
/giphy GO GOATS
@capnjb @carl669 @gkimbrell @metaphore @Oldelvis @sammydog01 @simplysme @zinimusprime
uh…who did everyone play week 1?
/giphy this is fine
@sammydog01 like an hour ago power rankings had me at 1st, and now I’m 6th? I don’t even know.
I guess there’s an option where we can just start over at week 3 and there’s a new draft and everything? But I kinda like my team so I dunno.
@capnjb @carl669 @gkimbrell @metaphore @Oldelvis @sammydog01 @simplysme @zinimusprime
Hey, everyone - any more thoughts to what I posted below:
Currently the vote is 1-0 in favor and w/o going there (but going there), the only votes that will count are the ones casted.
I’ll go with whatever the league says by 7:30pm EDT tonight.
Sorry for the quick deadline. I’m doing my best with this lackluster commish.
@njfan are these 3 bye weeks in addition to one randomly assigned one someone gets each week?
@njfan I’m good with extra byes. I like that better than multi-week playoffs.
But really whatever works for you is fine. If I wanted to make the rules I could have run things.
@metaphore I decided for only two byes. One extra game could be fun. Sorry for all the hysteria.
wow
I’ll fight two of you at once!
@capnjb As of now it’s you and me again and last week never happened. I’m gonna win this time.
Also you lost.
/giphy hahaha
Well, I went from a win to a loss somehow. I guess I’ll just put it in autopilot at this point. Going to go manage my money league. This doesn’t do good things for my ADHD
@capnjb One time glitch, njfan will get it settled.
@capnjb Sorry, man. I messed up.
@njfan All good
Thank you for taking the time to do a thankless task. I apologize; I was a bit grumpy about something else in the moment and let it seep into here. Sorry.
-edit Want to join the Secret-Not-So-Secret coffee club?
(this is how I get out of a lot of things 
)
@capnjb I don’t drink coffee but thank you for the invite. Sorry again for all the mess. I completely understand the frustration. @sammydog01 is going to be the commissioner next year.
/giphy celebrate
Hi…any thoughts about giving everyone three bye weeks:
I’m going to earn that toilet bowl trophy this year.
/giphy doh
@njfan Fine with me. It’s also fine if you leave it the way it is. Just let us know before kickoff tonight. The word “meh” is right there in the league name after all. (I blame ESPN for their horrible system.)
I worked way late today and missed 7:30, sorry. I hate the idea of losing scoring from week 1, but what’s done is apparently done. Bummer. That said, @njfan, thanks for doing your best to make things work for everyone.
@simplysme sorry for all the mess!
Hey everyone,
.
Your commish here. Hi, how are you?
I don’t know if everyone follows the meh community forum but it was brought up that some teams had multiple byes. A competent commissioner would have picked up on this BEFORE the start of the league but you have me
So to remedy, I have done the following.
Everyone gets a BYE for weeks 1 and 8. I was going to set a universal bye for week 14 but Sammydog brought up a good point that the goal of the league is to play so I set games for week 14. Since we have an odd number of teams, I gave myself a bye. Before you say, ‘hey!’, it turns out a bye may not necessarily be a good thing in ESPN fantasy. Before all this, the person who received the week 1 bye was treated as having the worst record. Maybe a glitch but I am going to assume it wasn’t. Since I screwed up everything, I figure if anyone should take a hit, it should be me.
My apologies once again. Silver lining, Sammydog returns as commissioner next year so we all have something to look forward too.
@njfan Gonna be a three kicker league. No DST, no one likes those guys.
I already lost a quarterback and wide receiver. Maybe these guys need more padding or something.