Step right up folks, come one, come all, hear ye hear ye and other outdated modes of engaging in public announcement. It’s the time of the fantasy football season – namely the pre-pre-season – where we here at Razzball open up our Razzball Commenter Leagues. Now before you go dashing off to our old friends at ESPN, let me loop you in. We ain’t doing that this year. For 2012, we’re doing our leagues through yahoo fantasy football and we’re gonna use their default settings for league set-up. That means every league will be 10 team, it’ll be head-to-head with a snake draft and your teams will be 1QB, 3WR, 2RB, 1TE, 1K, 1DEF, and 6 bench spots. The one thing that WON’T be default is that we will set our leagues to public, either for adulation or humiliation, depending on how well you perform. All that said, we’re looking for a few good commishes to man (or woman) these leagues and to use that yahoo link to go open one up. Once you have set it up, you will post the league name and League ID in the comments and you will set the password to Razzball. No, you don’t have to bold the password, I just did that to make it be noted. As league organizer it will be your job to set up the league identically to the others and to make sure everyone finishes their vegetables before going to play. Yes, even the brussel sprouts.
Our goal is to have a bunch of leagues and crown a winner from each, then we’re going to crown ONE winner from all of the winners and if that guy/girl is lucky, we’ll make it be Dennis Green doing said crowning. We’ll determine that capitalized one winner from the previous sentence by using a super-secret formula Rudy learned while working as a Russian scientist in a James Bond film. All that to say, if you are wondering how it works, don’t ask, we might have to kill you if you gained the knowledge. Just realize it takes each team’s points and multiplies it against a ‘league competitiveness factor’, which is similar to ‘Fear Factor’ minus Joe Rogan. At least that’s what I’ve come to think. Anywho, the goal is for us to create as many leagues as possible. If we find we have too many leagues but not enough players, we’ll do our best push-up bra impersonation and smoosh together to form less leagues but we all know you want to play so go to it!
Ok, so I know you all would do it just for the glory but we do have a grand prize for the big time Razzball winner this year. This year, we decided to work with SayWhat?! Custom Shirts to bring you a shirt…nah, that wouldn’t be cool for a master champion. Friends, let’s think about what being a true football fan means. It’s Sunday, all your friends are over and it’s frickin freezin outside but you have to go get that 24 case in the fridge out in the garage. It is your duty to make your Sunday party rock so we thought to ourselves, what better way to help you strut your football stuff than giving the number one team a RCL 2012 Champion jump suit. Now instead of having that embarrassing ‘JUICY’ across your backside, you can stroll to the 7-11 for your corn dog and slurpee in style as Razzball royalty. Plus, the hoodie will feature not only what you see in the pic but your team name on the front as well as your winning schedule on the back. So that said, make sure and choose your team name wisely as you may not want to go out with the ‘Sh@!#-Eating F’ing F’ers’ across your chest (for the kids reading that, it stands for ‘Shark-Eating Farting Farters’; I know, grown-ups are weird). Thankfully, we have created a fantasy football team name generator to save you from this type of social faux pas. Even if you don’t join us for a league, I suggest you put that tool to use. And speaking of tools, I mentioned it last week and feel the need to mention it again. Go check out the CheatSheetWizard care of the FantasyPros. There is so much cool going on in that link that I’d have to start a new post to explain it so I suggest you just click when you’re done having fun with us.
To reiterate and to get back to what you came here for, each league will need an organizer (commish). The duties of the organizer will be to accept 9 other people into the league they set up here via yahoo, keep everything as default EXCEPT FOR setting the league to public. Just post your league name and league ID in the comments and set your password to Razzball and I’ll sling your league up here as open. So if you would like to be an organizer go to it and set up your league at yahoo. If you have any questions you can email me directly — sky at razzball dot com. If you’re trying to wire me the fortune that you and a Nigerian Prince have, my email is sky@ra…wait, I’m onto you. Happy RCL Day everyone and may the best team win!
FULL: 1) Razzball Rebels League ID: 178733 Draft is Sunday, August 19th at 8:30 PM (EST)
FULL: 2) Razzball North League ID: 179020 Draft is Monday, August 27th at 7 PST (10 EST).
FULL: 3) Cracklin’ Brats RCL League ID: 188493
FULL: 4) JB’s Random Commenter League League ID: 205236
FULL: 5) Deez Razztastic Nuts League ID: 232712
FULL: 6) Razzball Podcast League League ID: 232687
FULL: 7) Razzball Hippie League 2012 League ID: 232871 (Password is RAZZBALL in all caps)
FULL: 8) Jelly Donuts RCL League ID: 232809 Draft August 28th, 2012 8 PM EST
FULL: 9) Foosball RCL League ID: 255116 (Password is razzball with no caps)
FULL: 10) Razzles League ID: 243945
FULL: 11) Mayor Quimby’s Militia League ID: 285610 (Password is razzball with no caps)
FULL: 12) Hot Schmotatoes League ID: 308951 (Password is razzball with no caps)
FULL: 13) Automatic Second Down League ID: 327784
FULL: 14) You Said It Wouldn’t Get Weird. League ID: 349106 (password is razzball with no caps)
FULL: 15) Necessary Roughness League ID 377584 (password is razzball with no caps)
FULL: 16) Roughing the Razzballs League ID: 456991 (password is razzball with no caps)
FULL: 17) 17 Razzles League ID: 555415 (password is razzball with no caps)
FULL: 18) Jump Suit Pursuit League ID: 575588 drafts 8/22 at 8:30pm EST
FULL: 19) Real Classy League League ID: 577258 (password is razzball with no caps)
FULL: 20) Fantasy Razzball League ID: 634876 (password is razzball with no caps) draft currently set for 9/1 at 12 PM PST
OPEN: 21) Booty Hunters Unlimited League ID: 770722 draft currently set for 9/1 at 5:30 PM PST
