***2025 Skatz 12th Annual FF League - $350 & More Freeroll***

Draft is set for next Wednesday night, September 3, 2025 at 9:00pm central time. The league auto-renewed. Anyone who played last year please confirm if you're in on here, Skatz, through a PM, or on the league message board.


Same thing as last year:


I will put up a winner take all prize in Amazon gift card codes or any major crypto of $350 that any non scamming, non Judas Chaps, that drafts or takes over a team before the start of Sunday football in week 3 will be eligible for.


Adding a 100 dollar prize to the highest regular season one week point total scored by a team.

50 dollar prize to the team that started the highest individual scoring wr/rb/te in the regular season.

25 dollar prize to the person who either eliminates Chaps (if he plays) from the playoffs if he makes the playoffs.


To be eligible for these prizes you cannot abandon your team. Abandoning means not setting a lineup or not making any changes when one is clearly necessary for three consecutive weeks or more. If Chaps plays this year he will be eligible for a 10 dollar McDonald's gift card if he wins the league or any of the prizes.

There is at minimum one spot open. If interested please let me know - there will probably be a few.

Sonatine was removed from the league for making zero effort to manage his team last year.

ill actually spend effort this year if you re-add me. full disclosure i literally did not know how to.

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I'm in again, thanks for hosting Vaughn.

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Originally Posted by sonatine

ill actually spend effort this year if you re-add me. full disclosure i literally did not know how to.

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WHAT YOU'RE HIRED FOR, is to help us... does that seem clear to you? TO HELP US, not to... FUCK US UP... to help those who are going out there to try to earn a living... You fairy. You company man.

You stupid fucking cunt. You, Sonatine,I'm talking to you, shithead. Last year by not setting your lineup, you cost me $6,000. Six thousand dollars, and one Cadillac and a McDonald’s gift card. That's right. What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it, asshole? You're fucking shit. Where did you learn your trade, you stupid fucking cunt, you idiot? Who ever told you that you could work with men? Oh, I'm gonna have your job, shithead.

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Originally Posted by igotnotoe

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Originally Posted by sonatine

ill actually spend effort this year if you re-add me. full disclosure i literally did not know how to.

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WHAT YOU'RE HIRED FOR, is to help us... does that seem clear to you? TO HELP US, not to... FUCK US UP... to help those who are going out there to try to earn a living... You fairy. You company man.

You stupid fucking cunt. You, Sonatine,I'm talking to you, shithead. Last year by not setting your lineup, you cost me $6,000. Six thousand dollars, and one Cadillac and a McDonald’s gift card. That's right. What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it, asshole? You're fucking shit. Where did you learn your trade, you stupid fucking cunt, you idiot? Who ever told you that you could work with men? Oh, I'm gonna have your job, shithead.

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And to you, they are gold.

And you don't get them.


Why?



Because to give them to you is just throwing them away.

A Always B Be C Closing Always be closing ALWAYS BE CLOSING

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Originally Posted by sonatine

ill actually spend effort this year if you re-add me. full disclosure i literally did not know how to.

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All you have to do is login. I will send you an invite to rejoin. Please actually draft a team.

Also, I didn't realize Skatz wasn't working. The hosting upgraded the PHP again. This time I installed a new version compatible with PHP 7 plus and manually repaired some plugins that could be fixed. Site is working fully again.

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Originally Posted by VaughnP

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Originally Posted by sonatine

ill actually spend effort this year if you re-add me. full disclosure i literally did not know how to.

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All you have to do is login. I will send you an invite to rejoin. Please actually draft a team.

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thank you, i appreciate it. will do.

Still spots available. Can anyone reach out to Sidedish if possible?

I'm in

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Originally Posted by DrPeters

I'm in

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I think you're the 7th confirmed so far. Spots still open. Last year 10 played, but up to 12 can in one league.

Looks like we have at least 8, but we need two more if possible or someone who can take over a team if necessary.

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Originally Posted by VaughnP

Also, I didn't realize Skatz wasn't working. The hosting upgraded the PHP again. This time I installed a new version compatible with PHP 7 plus and manually repaired some plugins that could be fixed. Site is working fully again.

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So you're on PHP 7 now?

I'm surprised the host didn't upgrade it way past that, as the latest is 8.4.

Skatz is still on vBulletin 3.8, right? That's even more ancient than this site's vBulletin 4. I can't run PHP 7.2 or later, so switching hosting would be a tremendous hassle at this point. On the plus side, I have a bare metal machine, and I maintain it all myself remotely (with occasional help from them when it's something I can't do from afar), so they don't force-upgrade anything on me.

They did up my price to maintain this ancient machine, which I stupidly just paid for awhile. Finally one day I realized I was being stupid to have accepted this without question, so I talked them down to something far more reasonable.

:nerds



(sorry for the hijack... it warms my heart to see this PFA/Skatz collaboration each year)

uuuuuuuugh fine https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/...225c2e14&ei=20

this might be my childs legacy and also calling tine fat on the internet for 2 decades we thank you for ur service walter

i seriously hate fantasy football though this draft needs sidefish talking shit in chat or its just hollow

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

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Originally Posted by VaughnP

Also, I didn't realize Skatz wasn't working. The hosting upgraded the PHP again. This time I installed a new version compatible with PHP 7 plus and manually repaired some plugins that could be fixed. Site is working fully again.

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So you're on PHP 7 now?

I'm surprised the host didn't upgrade it way past that, as the latest is 8.4.

Skatz is still on vBulletin 3.8, right? That's even more ancient than this site's vBulletin 4. I can't run PHP 7.2 or later, so switching hosting would be a tremendous hassle at this point. On the plus side, I have a bare metal machine, and I maintain it all myself remotely (with occasional help from them when it's something I can't do from afar), so they don't force-upgrade anything on me.

They did up my price to maintain this ancient machine, which I stupidly just paid for awhile. Finally one day I realized I was being stupid to have accepted this without question, so I talked them down to something far more reasonable.

:nerds



(sorry for the hijack... it warms my heart to see this PFA/Skatz collaboration each year)

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3.8.11 is compatible up to php 7.2. There's an unofficial 3.8.14 that goes beyond that, I would imagine there has to be the same for 4, but it might complicate upgrading to vbulletin 5 or 6 in the future.

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i seriously hate fantasy football though this draft needs sidefish talking shit in chat or its just hollow

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Sidedish is still MIA, which sucks because he is the defending champion. So far it's myself, you, Sonatine, Brandon, Chaps, DrPeters, Tony, and Nunbeater. Behemoth is still MIA as well despite playing every year.

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

So you're on PHP 7 now?

I'm surprised the host didn't upgrade it way past that, as the latest is 8.4.

Skatz is still on vBulletin 3.8, right? That's even more ancient than this site's vBulletin 4. I can't run PHP 7.2 or later, so switching hosting would be a tremendous hassle at this point. On the plus side, I have a bare metal machine, and I maintain it all myself remotely (with occasional help from them when it's something I can't do from afar), so they don't force-upgrade anything on me.

They did up my price to maintain this ancient machine, which I stupidly just paid for awhile. Finally one day I realized I was being stupid to have accepted this without question, so I talked them down to something far more reasonable.

:nerds



(sorry for the hijack... it warms my heart to see this PFA/Skatz collaboration each year)

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3.8.11 is compatible up to php 7.2. There's an unofficial 3.8.14 that goes beyond that, I would imagine there has to be the same for 4, but it might complicate upgrading to vbulletin 5 or 6 in the future.

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I'm avoiding 5/6 like the plague.

Part of the reason is because I've done so many custom mods here that it would be beyond a pain in the ass to redo it all.

A lot of the mods is under-the-hood stuff which the user doesn't see, but keeps PFA more secure and bot-free.

So it looks like both are compatible up to 7.2. I haven't seen any unofficial vBulletin 4 which supports PHP 8. Maybe I should look for it at some point, if it exists. I could probably make one myself, but it would likely be a lot of effort.

I'm still living in a world of yesterday where my phone is jailbroken and on iOS 14, my chat room and radio software is from the 2000s, and my vBulletin is from the early 2010s.

As much as I hate to do it, I have to boot Sidedish and Behemoth's teams, we will have 8 this year instead of 10.

There may be at least one spot open given a couple people's history of fucking up the draft. For anyone that is just average at fantasy sports this gives you at least a 10% chance at winning the 350 free roll, with an even better chance at winning the other 175 in potential free roll prizes.

Draft is tonight at 9pm central time (7pm pacific, 10pm eastern).

Scratch booting Behemoth, looks like he updated his team name and team profile pic, but unfortunately he may be too computer illiterate to use the league chat function. Behemoth has played every year and is a former champion, can't kick him. I will leave Sidedish's team and if he doesn't show by week two kickoff, anyone here in good standing is welcome to take it over - eligible to win all prizes from that week on, ineligible to win the in season prizes prior to assuming team.

i will take over that team win the league but only if you acknowledge that fantasy football is gay

Also is todge in this that would actually make it way more fun

tine winning this would be sick also like him going can i draft joe montana and winning proves how stupid ff is

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Originally Posted by lol wow

tine winning this would be sick also like him going can i draft joe montana and winning proves how stupid ff is

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Don't miss the draft, nerd.

literally drafting leinart and reggie bush round one

also whoevers name is give mars back to jesus christ i hate them for being funnier than me

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also whoevers name is give mars back to jesus christ i hate them for being funnier than me

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That is Tine.


20 Minutes until draft.

Despite drafting from the last spot I missed out on having the highest draft grade by only 1.05 points.


All 10 people actually showed up for the live draft, looks like no spots open.

Now that we're discussing Behemoth, who was he on NWP?

When I observed Boris, he almost seemed like a Boris-only poster, maybe someone who lurked on NWP but never registered. He didn't seem to like me, even though I've obviously never done anything to him.

What is his story?

this is what you get for drafting a kicker in the 3rd round chaps