Anyone else get 30 emails from sandbox today. Think they got hacked or drunk

Only giving you the ability to resign 2 vets makes it pretty challenging but also interesting for turning over your roster quickly within 1-2 years if needed.

9 guys on my roster made the pro bowl IRL. Would have been 10 had I not traded Judon.

Fixed that yesterday. Things should be back to normal.

After New Year we'll send out another reminder about signing rookies and vets. Then we will move on to free agency. Okay?

Were you able to sign rookies? If not I will dig into it.

I’m in league 1 and we just signed them right?

Yeah I was. I closed out ans tried again it worked

If you signed them, you're good. Next will be free agency, but we won't burden you with homework until after the holidays.

Good to hear.

I just wanted to brag that I’ve taken Kurt Cousins to 2 SandBowls this year. 2 different leagues this season. The second league I tanked last season to get first pick. Took Burrow. Didn’t even play him this year.

Long-Snappers are Tier 3 players?

Damn. That seems...stout.

Are we supposed to be doing anything right now?

Not really. I had a veteran contract to play with and was going to just burn it on my long snapper but didn't feel like $55 was a reasonable ask for someone who probably won't make any noticeable difference.

Okay, free agency is active now in Chiefs1 and Raiders1 leagues.

Nice

I only see a list of free agents who are not yet eligible. :shrug:

Are you kidding?!?!?

During the middle of January while I’m preparing for Valentine’s Day?!?!?!?!!!

Fixed.

LMAO

Thanks

What does bid option week mean?

You can ignore it this year. In future years, free agents will become available in a drawn out fashion over the whole NFL season. That column tells everyone which week in the NFL season that you can begin bidding on that player.

So if I bid on a player in week 15 he would be on my team the next game?

Remember - everything changes a LOT starting next year.

I suspect we'll get a nice little primer on it when this season is over.

That would be Week 15 of the NFL season.

Free agency will get a lot more interesting once we're on the locked-in schedule. You'll be bidding on players throughout the NFL season, so you'll have differing levels of knowledge as we go.

OK, who's hoarding all the QB's in league one?? I've got Zeke and Pollard as trade bait for a starting QB

Same question! No good QBs to be had and I just had Rivers take me to a super bowl in his last year.

Aberdeen swoops in last second to **** DJ and I. Kelce, Evans and Robby Anderson. That would have pretty much ensured us as the top 2 teams.

Yeah, as the bidding goes up the window of time goes down. Does it start at 3 days and get down to 12 hours?

Can’t have a ****ing life honey, need to continuously check my Sandbox team!!!

Scalped on Pringle?

I literally bid on him at 8 last night. By 4 this morning he was gone. Do I need a midnight alarm?!?!!

Scalped on Pringle?

I literally bid on him at 8 last night. By 4 this morning he was gone. Do I need a midnight alarm?!?!!

Yeah.

I was pretty bummed to see Aberdeen had used his FA rights to retain Kelce, but then I saw he at least grabbed Evans from you in the process. Ugh - that smarted a bit. The FA crop is pretty middling this season so there was really nowhere else to spend that money. Not sure if there's any amount I could've thrown at Kelce to keep that match from happening, though.

3 of my top 4 pass catchers from last season are injured/ineffective this year. My only throughput will be my #3 WR (McLaurin) with my #1, #2 and TE all being effectively useless this season.

Not a fun group to have to rebuild from the ground up.

Sandbox is better than sex

Who is the Independence Exploreres in League 1?

Stuck without a real QB in league 1. Damn! Where are all the QBs at?!?!?

I had to stick with Cousins. Oh well, he won two of my teams the SandBowl

I've won two championships with Ryan Fitzpatrick, one in League 1, the other in League 2.

Top THAT.

I was trying to get Cousins.

I thought I was going to steal Robert Quinn in League 1, but then someone did the ol' switcharoo on me and took him.

I've gotten beaten up pretty good by those match rights thus far.

The Kelce hit is gonna sting for awhile. I didn't recall what the required match was if you took someone to 7 years. I figured it would be a similar jump to the gap from 6 to 7 yrs.

It was not. Trumping my 100 w/ 110 wasn't all that difficult, though looking at that team's budget, I don't think there's an amount I could've bid that he would've balked at.

Jonathan Allen getting 7 years in league 1.

I ain’t matching that!

I tried. After getting knocked off of Kelce I ran Allen up to 90. But just ended up running out of cash. Tried to pivot to Hargrave and he's gonna end up near 7 as well.

Really was hoping to get a dynamic interior pass rusher but I'll just have to be content with a more conventional setup and a run/pass rotation.

Brady is up to 110 last I looked in league 2. But that bastard might live out that contract

My team is a powerhouse other than QB, so I sighed hard and put in a bid on him of about 75 even though I dry heave at the thought of him being on my team. Someone then bid him up to 90 and I decided that I'll roll with my current crew.

When a guy gets signed to a 7 year but let’s say he retires after year 3 and you cut him the last 4 years, that still hits your cap right?

The whole contract hits your cap the moment it's signed. So you're paying the guy regardless of what happens from that point on.

It's already spent, so yeah - in a matter of speaking.

What if you trade them?

You're just trolling now, right?

Well it ****s up some of my plans

Right. DUH Lewdog.

Might still be ok if you get some great production for a few years and then cut. Can’t have a bunch of wasted long contracts though.

Huh?

How could it? Trade 'em, don't trade 'em - it doesn't matter. You pay the entire freight when they sign the deal.

Look at every one of these contracts as being league minimum deals with big year 1 Roster Bonuses. Sign a guy to a 7 year deal for 110 bucks and they cost you zero dollars in years 2-7. You pay it all in year 1.

So if you trade them - fine, no impact because they didn't cost you anything. If you cut them, same story. Everything is paid for up front.

Yup.

I was willing to thrown an assload of money at Hargrave even though he's 28 and probably won't age well. I figured I was gonna get 2 very good years, maybe 2 more solid ones and then probably cut him after 4 and eat the last 3 years of the deal.

But look at it this way - I had money to spend. If I don't spend it, I lose half of it. So I could either spend that $100 on Hargrave for 3 more years than I needed or I can sit on it, carry over $50 of it and just set the other $50 on fire.

Both end up with about the same amount of sunk costs, but the former option at least gives me a good player for a few years.

Well that contract I gave Browm last year looks really stupid now

Eh, you just end up eating a couple years of it.

2 years of Brown would've cost you 13 (at minimum). 4 years at $46, if unspent, would've cost you $23 in rollover penalty.

So if the guy never plays another snap for you, you're upside down $10. Not the end of the world.

Hey Aberdeen **** you. Let your good players go and rebuild you haven't won shit with them.

I just signed Roethlisberger on a 2 year deal in League 1 (Chiefs 1). I would entertain a trade. Could use a quality ILB, TE or draft pick.

What team are you? Any other QBs on your roster?

Nashville Golden Mules. Only Carson Wentz, and he isn't available.

You could get Russ for 2 1s, 2 2s, and a 3rd

The Phoenix Diablos made the Super Bowl last year led by Phillip Rivers with the help of Diggs and Hopkins. Phyllis had to retire to attend to his 12 children.

The Diablos barfed at the free agent market but signed Heinicke to play in front of Drew mother****ing Lock!

Part of me says I should try Big Ben but part of me wants to believe in Heinicke magic!

Dang, that's not bad at all.

I'll consider!

Damn misses out on Cameron Heyward.

Somewhere on Billygoats Planet DJ'sRighnut is blasting me for going 3 years without being able to sign a #1 WR or interior pass rusher

I'm not sure what Aberdeens strategy here. You let all those guys hit free agency instead of just re-signing them for much cheaper. Could have traded them for draft picks while your QBs are Kellen Mond and Jameis Winston. Thats a 8 win team at best. Could have stocked up on picks, grabbed a QB and have a ton of capspace to fill remaining holes.

Letting Kelce get to FA was an obvious mistake. He had to pay $110 for him when as a Tier 3 player he could've used one of his veteran deals on him and gotten him for 5 years/$55.

You don't want Kelce for 7 years anyway. You certainly don't want to be paying an extra 55 for the privilege's of those 2 years.

I almost wonder if he doesn't quite understand how it works. Because there's clearly something irrational about matching a guy like K-Pass or the shell of Josh Norman. If for some odd reason you want to sign those guys, just bid 'em up to 2 or 3 bucks - nobody's going to get in a bidding war for them.

It almost has to be a misunderstanding of how the system works.

Yeah thats probably it. Let's be honest Clay ****ed that team as soon as he drafted Brees. That's just setting your team up for a 2 year window. I would have resigned Kelce and flipped him after next season. Not a chance his skill set doesn't decline in the next few years.

How many Sandbox Super Bowls have you played in?

Buddy I haven't even won a playoff game. There's a clear glitch in the simulator that doesn't allow some teams any post season success

I'll give Billay a little credit here - he took a team from the #1 overall pick to a legit contender in very little time.

Granted, his team wasn't as bad as his record in year 1 - he was pretty openly tanking. But it wasn't a very good team and he's aggressively attacked problem areas to make it extremely formidable.

Shit, you suck.

You need to game plan better. I took Phyliss to a Super Bowl and it's not like my defense is even good.

Absolutely this, bad ass defense all through regular season. Playoffs come and get tons of points scored against me

Yeah I'm convinced it's randomly selected. No way DJ's team shouldn't haven atleast made the super bowl.

Still curious if anyone wants to make a deal. I have insane depth at DB as well as a little WR depth (especially younger guys).

Looking to either upgrade the top 3 of my WR corps, acquire a LB or add some talent on the interior DL (thanks again for being busted ass POS, Javon Kinlaw, you really screwed me there dude).

I'd ask for a TE, but nobody has one anyway. ****ing Aberdeen.

GIVE ME TRAVIS KELCE BACK YOU DICK!

I FINALLY SIGNED A WR!!! Even though it's AJ Green he's had a nice season with Arizona. The trend of signing WRs with 1-2 good more seasons lives on.

Like I said - I stole your SB two seasons ago. Someone stole mine this year. Happens all the time, really.

But yeah, my team was friggen savage.

Gameplanning DOES matter though. I mean a LOT of my absurd production came from playing dead teams that had no gameplan set up and no roster machinations that would make them a bit more equipped to compete against me.

It's clear that things do matter over large numbers. It surely does seem like the playoffs are random chance sometimes, though. As little sense as me losing in League 1 made, me winning league 2 made even less. That team's maybe 70% as good as this one and again - I was running Fitzpatrick out there in the playoffs (Dak was hurt) and he was throwing passes to Kendrick Bourne as my #1 receiver after Julio went down.

Somehow it didn't matter. Leviska Shenault turns into Randy Moss and goes for 459 yards and 5 touchdowns in the post-season, Ryan Fitzpatrick becomes Joe Montana and a far far FAR inferior team to my squad in League 1 manages to steal a title.

It sounds like you had a cupcake schedule.

Agreed on game planning. Taylor wasn't doing much the last month of the season so I adjusted to throw more. Russ goes for 400 and 3 tds in that playoff sacked 1 time IIRC. Defense chokes and I lose on a fumble in OT.

My 15-1 regular season was a fluke. Mostert was a beast and Judon had like 28 sacks with a great secondary. Your post season that year was a fluke. I recall Benson Meyowa playing like Lawrence Taylor.

Don't get me wrong I'm not really complaining much. It would be pretty boring if the top regular season teams won the title every year but there must be some damn algorithm in the simulator. I'm going to crack that son of a bitch 1 day.

Just to be clear, each game simulation requires thousands of random numbers. Of course some of those random numbers (did a fumble occur?) are way more important than others (who won the toss). So there can be upsets, just like in the NFL, and especially in the playoffs where both owners have their team in top shape and they are likely to be more closely matched.

Forgot.

LOL CARSON WENTZ?!?!?!

Remind me what your unspent salary points do if free agency ends and you don't use it all? Does it all carry over to next year?