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Big Sky Con Fantasy Football

alabamagrizzly

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Sorry about the thread title but I thought it would be a good attention grabber. I’m not talking about a move up. I’m talking about a Big Sky Conference fantasy football league. I brought it up a couple years ago and received very little interest(talkin about you Everett👍). I also had a lot of unanswered questions on how to form a BSC only league. Now I’m fully prepared to get this thing going for those who are interested. I have currently updated rosters that will need to be updated again in July. I have a BSC team schedule for next year(minus a couple dates to be filled in still). I have a template for a 10 team, 10 weak regular season schedule plus a three week playoff that byes do not affect. I have a roster template and a point system all laid out. I will be ranking each player to the best of my knowledge(limited but improving). I have all the stats from ‘23 and ‘24 to rank returning players and will have to use an educated guess for any incoming players based off usual team production, the usual production from their position, and what their expectations are as a player. I have a plan for a “live” untimed draft through GroupMe or WhatsApp. All I need now is interested, hopefully dedicated team managers. I’m hoping if there’s enough interest that some other people might want to run their own leagues. I’m willing to provide most of the leg work for league managers. All they will be responsible for is conducting their draft, keeping track of team managers roster updates, and tallying points for team managers. If Managers agree, leagues may simplify their own point system if they wish to make it a little easier on the league manager. I also want to include the option, if team managers agree, to make the league a keeper league where you keep the player on your team until they graduate or transfer out of the con. Obviously you won’t HAVE to keep all players but you’ll have that choice, which will be a unique aspect to college fantasy sports. I plan on reaching out to other fan bases through their fan forums and other social media outlets. All I need to know now is who’s wants in?
 
We have run a BSC fantasy league for the last 2 years at work. We only have 4 "teams" and just to let you know we added NDSU and SDSU this last year because we had to go so deep into the rosters for players. We are still doing a lot of it manually but have done a lot of looking into getting the game results and box score data via an API. We have been able to get the rosters and organize a spreadsheet to display the data. We do our draft and waivers using teams with the shared spreadsheet.

DM me if you want to exchange some info on how we do it and we are looking for ways to automate more of the process.
 
Awesome, it’s definitely happening. 2506 highly recommends limiting the teams or expanding the options to include the MVC or some select teams due to limited choice players in the con. My hope is to keep this purely BSC and to have at least an 8 team league. I’ve dove pretty deep into this years rosters and stats for all the Big Sky teams and have ranked them all based off the fantasy points their season totals would have equaled. Obviously the rosters will have some significant changes and I’ll update as quickly as I can. I’m hoping rosters should be mostly set by aug 1st and I’ll try to do my best to rank each position as quickly as possible and hold the draft the 2nd or 3rd week of August. 2506 also gave some good advice for how to conduct free agency during the season. I’m pretty excited for this and think it could be a lot of fun. One thing for sure, I’ve already learned a lot about the other players in the league and just how good, bad, or average some of the teams are. I’ll PM you guys later and exchange contact info. I’m hoping to get a couple non Griz fans also just so we’re all not trying to draft Eli with our first pick😁.
 
Bumping this again just in case there’s one or two others here that want in. I’ve got currently updated rosters, depth chart guesses, and projected fantasy points for Big Sky teams. Im sure rosters still might need some tweaking when fall camp rosters come out but I don’t think that’ll hinder us any. I know you’re in Elrod. Hopefully Everett and AZ are still in. I’ve got a couple others and Elrod might have one. Im hoping to get 8 total. We could do 10 but the rosters will get very thin.
 
Here’s a small example of what I got. This is the top 10 RB’s and their projected fantasy points.

RB
#1 UMRB1 10 Eli Gilman RJr 256p 21.3pg
#2 SacRB1 1 Jamar Curtis Sr 202p 16.8pg
#3 MSURB1 23 Adam Jones RSo 184p 15.3pg
#4 MSURB2 28 Colsen Coon RSo/32 Julius Davis RSr 175p 14.6pg
#5 EWURB1 26 Malik Dotson RSr 174.5p 14.5pg
#6 PSURB1 24 Delon Thompson RSo 169p 14.1pg
#7 WSURB1 27 Davion Godley So 161p 13.4pg
#8 UCDRB1 19 Matteo Perez RSr 160p 13.3ppg
#9 NAURB1 34 Seth Cromwell RSo 154p 12.8pg
#10 UMRB2 21 Stevie Rocker Jr RSr 123p 10.3pg

I’ve got pages of info gathered but that’d be too much to post here.
 
Bumping this again just in case there’s one or two others here that want in. I’ve got currently updated rosters, depth chart guesses, and projected fantasy points for Big Sky teams. Im sure rosters still might need some tweaking when fall camp rosters come out but I don’t think that’ll hinder us any. I know you’re in Elrod. Hopefully Everett and AZ are still in. I’ve got a couple others and Elrod might have one. Im hoping to get 8 total. We could do 10 but the rosters will get very thin.
Yes, I’m still in.
 
Here’s a small example of what I got. This is the top 10 RB’s and their projected fantasy points.

RB
#1 UMRB1 10 Eli Gilman RJr 256p 21.3pg
#2 SacRB1 1 Jamar Curtis Sr 202p 16.8pg
#3 MSURB1 23 Adam Jones RSo 184p 15.3pg
#4 MSURB2 28 Colsen Coon RSo/32 Julius Davis RSr 175p 14.6pg
#5 EWURB1 26 Malik Dotson RSr 174.5p 14.5pg
#6 PSURB1 24 Delon Thompson RSo 169p 14.1pg
#7 WSURB1 27 Davion Godley So 161p 13.4pg
#8 UCDRB1 19 Matteo Perez RSr 160p 13.3ppg
#9 NAURB1 34 Seth Cromwell RSo 154p 12.8pg
#10 UMRB2 21 Stevie Rocker Jr RSr 123p 10.3pg

I’ve got pages of info gathered but that’d be too much to post here.
That can’t be right. Those #2 and #3 guys were both above Gillman in the stats All-America team..and Jones was named BSC pre-season OPOY…please adjust your ranking accordingly…
 
That can’t be right. Those #2 and #3 guys were both above Gillman in the stats All-America team..and Jones was named BSC pre-season OPOY…please adjust your ranking accordingly…
Hey, you can’t argue with my methods and calculations. It’s an exact science and a lot of guessing.
 
I hope y'all post on the progress of this. I am interested to see how it goes and how many other school rosters you'll have to add on. Good luck to all!
Definitely gonna post results. Im hoping to keep it at Big Sky teams only which should definitely be doable with an 8 team league. At some point, with Elrods help, I wanna get all the info put on a website were others can run their own leagues from it.
 
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