Hey Gents,
Another season and again we go through the picks. The Chalk, The Ballsy, and The Stupid as Fuck.
Final Four. More like Final Bore
Could we, as a group, be bigger chalk guessing pussies if we tried? I know we all have flashbacks of the predictions destroying our point totals. But things are different this year. The predictions are only 1/9th of the points for college and 1/9th of the points for pros.. Just as valuable as any other category.
Let's remember this next year. Or for our pro picks.
Obviously Alabama & Clemson go without saying. You'd be stupid not to pick them. Let's go through the list.
First ballsy pick of the year. John is the only person not to put Alabama in the final four. There's some balls for you. 2nd Ballsy pick of the year, Eplin didn't put Clemson in the final four.
Alabama 11 people have.
Clemson 11 of us have.
Washington 6 of us have.
Wisconsin 7 of us have.
Georgia 7 of us have.
Those 5 teams take up 42 out of 48 potential final four picks. Let's see where the other 6 are.
Jim & Folden both took Stanford.
Folden also took Michigan St.
Munez took Ohio St.
I took Michigan.
Eplin took Miami.
So a total of 10 teams can effect the national championship and final four. Well done by the few that took a shot on a team that literally isn't written down 1,2,3,4 in the standings.
Conference Champions
Everyone but Eplin took Clemson. He took Miami.
We had four people take Alabama, which is very rare. Usually Bama is a whitewash. Shawn, Rob, Kemp and John were the four who took the risk.
9 people took Washington, with Jim & Folden taking Stanford & Kemp taking USC.
Several differences in the Big 10.
7 people taking Wisconsin
2 for Ohio State
2 for Michigan St
1 for Penn State
Lots of WVU. wishful thinking from the fans maybe. Rob took TCU, Munez, Hale, and Kemp with Oklahoma,
Central Florida getting all the love they can muster, with 9 people taking them. Me, Folden, and Shawn the outliers taking Memphis.
Apparently, we're all 100% on the Lane Kiffin FAU hype train. 12 for 12. our first sweep.
The Mac is where we finally have some big differences. The breakdown is as follows:
6 people for Ohio
2 for Toledo
2 for Northern Illionois
1 for Western Michigan
1 for Buffalo
Boy, that's fun.
Clean sweep for Boise St
Big differences in the Sunbelt as well.
5 for Arkansas St
3 for Troy
3 for Appalachian St
1 for Georgia St
Looking through the losers of the Conference Championships.
Kemp took Florida State to lose the ACC championship with Clemson winning it. And, since they play on the same side of the conference, this is an actual impossibility. So, good job there, Kemp.
That's the only note.
National Championship Predictions
Three teams dominated our decisions.
Alabama, Clemson, and Georgia.
Eplin took Wisconsin to lose the National Championship, which was the only prediction to not have one of those three teams in it.
That's allf or now. Not going through the individual awards, because I don't know who the hell most of those people are.
Don't forget to do your college pick'em for week 1.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Football God XI Rules
Welcome to another stellar year of Football God. I'm going to spend the next several paragraphs breaking down the points system for you, as well as the new way the scoring will work at the end of the year. Makes sure you take your time to read this. This is the biggest overhaul we've done in a long time.
ROTO SCORING
This is in essence, THE change this year. First I'll explain the process, then I'll explain the reasoning.
There will be 9 categories this year.
Fantasy Football, College Pick'em, Pro Pick'em, Survivor Pool, Losers Pool, Bowl Pick'em, College Predictions, Pro Predictions, & Bonus points.
The way that each of these categories operates will remain largely the same as years before, but here's the difference. In previous years, you would receive 10 pts for a fantasy win, or 20 pts for a correct prediction, which would go to an overall total of points that would usually end up being between 950-1100 for the winner. This year the winner will likely have between 65 & 75 points total. Here's how it'll work.
If you win fantasy football you receive 12 points. If you finish in last place you will receive 1 point. If you finish in 2nd you get 11 points. 8th place would get 5 points.
The same goes for every category. So, here's an example score sheet
Fantasy - 3rd (10 pts)
College pick - 8th (5pts)
Pro pick 6th (7 pts)
Survivor Pool 10th (3 pts)
Bowl pick 'em 12th (1 pt)
College Predictions 1st (12 pts)
Pro predictions 9th (4 pts)
Bonus points 2nd (11pts)
Losers Pool 8th (5 pts)
Total 58 pts out of a possible 108
Why am I making this change?
There are a couple reasons but mainly, it makes things a lot easier for me. I can look at the scoring and figure out where people stand much more quickly. I can still do point updates, just instead of points going up all year long, points will fluctuate up and down, depending on people's place in the standings.
I think this will help people stay in the mix to win for longer, and keep people more engaged.
TIE BREAKER
If there's a tie it will be broken by looking at the places. If Jim & Joe both have 70 points and Jim has 1 first place and Joe has 0, Jim would win the tiebreaker. If Joe also had 1, we would go to 2nd place finishes. If Jim had 1 2nd & Joe had 2, Joe would win. So on and so forth .
PAYMENT
The entry to Football God will be $77 this year. Geiss & Colin were always the holdup from us raising the fee. I accept payment through VENMO. As I stated last year, I always hated taking money for the league. This way things are in an escrow account of sorts. I can also take Paypal if that's your only option, but I'd prefer Venmo, so all the money is in the same place. $2 of the prize money from each person will go towards the site hosting our losers pool.
Eplin, I kept your $60 for coming in 3rd last year, so you only owe $17 for this year.
That puts our prize pool at $900 for the year.
1st $550
2nd $250
3rd $100
We'll probably move the entry to $100 next year and cap it there. Unless anyone has an objection.
BOWL PICK'EM
Because the bowl pick'em has such a limited spectrum of games, we can't just do straight points. We'll end up with the potential to have way too many people tied. Also, since bowl pick'em is now equally weighted to the other areas of Football God, we need to up the skill level. Because of this, I'm instituting confidence points in the bowl pick'em this year.
I'll explain that more when the time comes to sign up for the bowl pick'em.
FANTASY FOOTBALL
Fantasy
1. Hale
2. Gary
3. Rob
4. Folden
5. Adam
6. Munez
7. John
8. Shawn
9. Eplin
10. Jim
11. Joe
12. Kemp
Draft is Wednesday the 29th at 8:00 PM.
Points for this will go reverse order of standings 12th-7th. The consolation games will be meaningless. The losers each round will be placed by order of regular season finish, reverse order in points.
SURVIVOR POOL
Survivor pool rules are the same as last year. 2 strikes and you're out. Pick the team most likely to lose their game. Can only choose each team once.
LOSERS POOL
We're going to do a weekly losers pool this year too. The way this works is the opposite of the survivor pool. You pick a team each week to lose. You can pick each team once. You get 2 strikes and you're out.
COLLEGE & PRO PICK'EM
I went back to doing the pro pick'em against the spread. I know some of you don't like it, but with every category being of equal weight, the difficulty needs to be higher.
College pick'em is a weekly pick'em against the spread as well.
PREDICTIONS
You all should have received the Predictions sheet. I uploaded it to the facebook group message. Let me know if you can't open it.
Bonus Points
Bonus points will still exist same as always. But, they're a little different this year.
If you survive past week 4, 8, & 12 in survivor & losers pool you'll receive 1 bonus point
If you win college or pro pick'em in a week you get 1 bonus point.
If you are the highest scoring team in fantasy football for a week, you get a bonus point.
If you are the highest scoring losing team in fantasy football for a week, you get half a bonus point.
Every 4 wins you have in fantasy football you get a bonus point. If you make the playoffs you get a bonus point.
If you win any of the categories you receive 5 bonus points. 2nd gets you 3 bonus points. 3rd gets you 2 bonus points. This excludes losers pool and survivor pool, & obviously the bonus point category.
For every 5 points you score in the predictions, you get a bonus point.
ROTO SCORING
This is in essence, THE change this year. First I'll explain the process, then I'll explain the reasoning.
There will be 9 categories this year.
Fantasy Football, College Pick'em, Pro Pick'em, Survivor Pool, Losers Pool, Bowl Pick'em, College Predictions, Pro Predictions, & Bonus points.
The way that each of these categories operates will remain largely the same as years before, but here's the difference. In previous years, you would receive 10 pts for a fantasy win, or 20 pts for a correct prediction, which would go to an overall total of points that would usually end up being between 950-1100 for the winner. This year the winner will likely have between 65 & 75 points total. Here's how it'll work.
If you win fantasy football you receive 12 points. If you finish in last place you will receive 1 point. If you finish in 2nd you get 11 points. 8th place would get 5 points.
The same goes for every category. So, here's an example score sheet
Fantasy - 3rd (10 pts)
College pick - 8th (5pts)
Pro pick 6th (7 pts)
Survivor Pool 10th (3 pts)
Bowl pick 'em 12th (1 pt)
College Predictions 1st (12 pts)
Pro predictions 9th (4 pts)
Bonus points 2nd (11pts)
Losers Pool 8th (5 pts)
Total 58 pts out of a possible 108
Why am I making this change?
There are a couple reasons but mainly, it makes things a lot easier for me. I can look at the scoring and figure out where people stand much more quickly. I can still do point updates, just instead of points going up all year long, points will fluctuate up and down, depending on people's place in the standings.
I think this will help people stay in the mix to win for longer, and keep people more engaged.
TIE BREAKER
If there's a tie it will be broken by looking at the places. If Jim & Joe both have 70 points and Jim has 1 first place and Joe has 0, Jim would win the tiebreaker. If Joe also had 1, we would go to 2nd place finishes. If Jim had 1 2nd & Joe had 2, Joe would win. So on and so forth .
PAYMENT
The entry to Football God will be $77 this year. Geiss & Colin were always the holdup from us raising the fee. I accept payment through VENMO. As I stated last year, I always hated taking money for the league. This way things are in an escrow account of sorts. I can also take Paypal if that's your only option, but I'd prefer Venmo, so all the money is in the same place. $2 of the prize money from each person will go towards the site hosting our losers pool.
Eplin, I kept your $60 for coming in 3rd last year, so you only owe $17 for this year.
That puts our prize pool at $900 for the year.
1st $550
2nd $250
3rd $100
We'll probably move the entry to $100 next year and cap it there. Unless anyone has an objection.
BOWL PICK'EM
Because the bowl pick'em has such a limited spectrum of games, we can't just do straight points. We'll end up with the potential to have way too many people tied. Also, since bowl pick'em is now equally weighted to the other areas of Football God, we need to up the skill level. Because of this, I'm instituting confidence points in the bowl pick'em this year.
I'll explain that more when the time comes to sign up for the bowl pick'em.
FANTASY FOOTBALL
Fantasy
1. Hale
2. Gary
3. Rob
4. Folden
5. Adam
6. Munez
7. John
8. Shawn
9. Eplin
10. Jim
11. Joe
12. Kemp
Draft is Wednesday the 29th at 8:00 PM.
Points for this will go reverse order of standings 12th-7th. The consolation games will be meaningless. The losers each round will be placed by order of regular season finish, reverse order in points.
SURVIVOR POOL
Survivor pool rules are the same as last year. 2 strikes and you're out. Pick the team most likely to lose their game. Can only choose each team once.
LOSERS POOL
We're going to do a weekly losers pool this year too. The way this works is the opposite of the survivor pool. You pick a team each week to lose. You can pick each team once. You get 2 strikes and you're out.
COLLEGE & PRO PICK'EM
I went back to doing the pro pick'em against the spread. I know some of you don't like it, but with every category being of equal weight, the difficulty needs to be higher.
College pick'em is a weekly pick'em against the spread as well.
PREDICTIONS
You all should have received the Predictions sheet. I uploaded it to the facebook group message. Let me know if you can't open it.
Bonus Points
Bonus points will still exist same as always. But, they're a little different this year.
If you survive past week 4, 8, & 12 in survivor & losers pool you'll receive 1 bonus point
If you win college or pro pick'em in a week you get 1 bonus point.
If you are the highest scoring team in fantasy football for a week, you get a bonus point.
If you are the highest scoring losing team in fantasy football for a week, you get half a bonus point.
Every 4 wins you have in fantasy football you get a bonus point. If you make the playoffs you get a bonus point.
If you win any of the categories you receive 5 bonus points. 2nd gets you 3 bonus points. 3rd gets you 2 bonus points. This excludes losers pool and survivor pool, & obviously the bonus point category.
For every 5 points you score in the predictions, you get a bonus point.
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