Pre-2005
The OF's (original fantasizers) spent the inaugural years figuring out how to play fantasy football while hoping Jake Delhomme could lead the Panthers back to the Superbowl. Who was EliteFobVicTURD?
2005-2006 - Keepers and a Plaque
2005 was the first year our league instituted keepers (could keep up to 3 players) and also had a live draft. There was also a plaque involved that Mike Wilson took in 2006 and never relinquished.
Other Highlights
- Fueled by fantasy hubris, Luke felt good going into 2006, but caught "the dreids" and went from first to last
- 2005 was fantasy founder and commissioner, Tim Chang's best year. Like the Panthers, he's found it difficult to replicate that success in subsequent years
- The league finally figured out what "gnateinnoc" meant in time for Gabs to change his team name to rawrasaur
- Justina and Aaron join the league
2007 - Crapinator year
I don't actually remember anything about this year
Other Highlights
- Fueled by his innate hubris, Aaron declares that he knows all the draft steals. He also asserted that Ricky Williams played for the Green Bay Packers
2008-2010 - Fantasy dark ages
Most of the league was in/out of college in these years, resulting in some churn in the league... even the commish himself took a year off. David Lin capitalizes on this and rules the league with back-to-back championships... the only manager to ever repeat.
Other Highlights
- King Joffrey finally comes out of the fantasy closet in 2010 and dubs his team "The Rainbow Warriors"
- In 2009, Laura gets married and cleverly comes up with "Mrs Jones" as her team name.
- Who was Khoa and why did he dominate our league in these years?
2011-2012 - Age of Pig
The perfect storm brews across the league, resulting in a renewed interest in fantasy football. This is the age of the FFNUTHANG blog and pig analytics. Power rankings and weekly predictions became the norm as trash talk became a norm in the league. This is also when trade meddling took off, which coincides with Aaron's return to the league in 2011
Other Highlights
- The league welcomes David Li in 2011
- Justina finally wins the league in 2011 becoming the first female winner
- Keepers are reintroduced after a 7 year break in 2012
2013 - A NU START
We bid adieu to another OF (Laura) and welcome 3 new players to the league. Along with these changes come with lots of new questions:
- How will Tim's complicated keeper system work in 2013?
- Will Abraham, Duke, or Jen continue the long tradition of trash talking via the blog?
- Are haters really going to hate?
With that said, here are a few charts showing managerial performance over the years...
- For this analysis, I've analyzed our team names over the years and scored them on a scale of 1-to-awesome. The criteria are below:
The OF's (original fantasizers) spent the inaugural years figuring out how to play fantasy football while hoping Jake Delhomme could lead the Panthers back to the Superbowl. Who was EliteFobVicTURD?
2005-2006 - Keepers and a Plaque
2005 was the first year our league instituted keepers (could keep up to 3 players) and also had a live draft. There was also a plaque involved that Mike Wilson took in 2006 and never relinquished.
Other Highlights
- Fueled by fantasy hubris, Luke felt good going into 2006, but caught "the dreids" and went from first to last
- 2005 was fantasy founder and commissioner, Tim Chang's best year. Like the Panthers, he's found it difficult to replicate that success in subsequent years
- The league finally figured out what "gnateinnoc" meant in time for Gabs to change his team name to rawrasaur
- Justina and Aaron join the league
2007 - Crapinator year
I don't actually remember anything about this year
Other Highlights
- Fueled by his innate hubris, Aaron declares that he knows all the draft steals. He also asserted that Ricky Williams played for the Green Bay Packers
2008-2010 - Fantasy dark ages
Most of the league was in/out of college in these years, resulting in some churn in the league... even the commish himself took a year off. David Lin capitalizes on this and rules the league with back-to-back championships... the only manager to ever repeat.
Other Highlights
- King Joffrey finally comes out of the fantasy closet in 2010 and dubs his team "The Rainbow Warriors"
- In 2009, Laura gets married and cleverly comes up with "Mrs Jones" as her team name.
- Who was Khoa and why did he dominate our league in these years?
2011-2012 - Age of Pig
The perfect storm brews across the league, resulting in a renewed interest in fantasy football. This is the age of the FFNUTHANG blog and pig analytics. Power rankings and weekly predictions became the norm as trash talk became a norm in the league. This is also when trade meddling took off, which coincides with Aaron's return to the league in 2011
Other Highlights
- The league welcomes David Li in 2011
- Justina finally wins the league in 2011 becoming the first female winner
- Keepers are reintroduced after a 7 year break in 2012
2013 - A NU START
We bid adieu to another OF (Laura) and welcome 3 new players to the league. Along with these changes come with lots of new questions:
- How will Tim's complicated keeper system work in 2013?
- Will Abraham, Duke, or Jen continue the long tradition of trash talking via the blog?
- Are haters really going to hate?
With that said, here are a few charts showing managerial performance over the years...
- For this analysis, I've analyzed our team names over the years and scored them on a scale of 1-to-awesome. The criteria are below:
- clever names with pop references score well (Kardashian Esk Bros)
- name is intrinsically competitive/instills fear (like rawrasaur)
- Reasoning: do you want to be the "Browns" or the "Panthers"?
- if I didn't understand the name.. low score (The Debbinator, Rokquewars)
And for J, here's a chart. Red bar is team name score (higher is better) and blue line is average placement (lower is better)
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