Football God X12 Participants

Welcome to your annual presentation of the participants. Hard to believe we're a decade into this.  nutso.  Let's start with the usual, the list of previous champions

2008: Folden
2009: Adam
2010 Folden
2011: Shawn
2012: Adam
2013: Joe
2014: Joe
2015: Jim
2016: Adam
2017: Joe
2018: Rob



Now let's look at this year's participants.  In lieu of actual photos, I'm using what I think of when I thought of your name. 

2018 Champion:  Rob Klingensmith

Our Rodney Ruxin has finally won the league.

Rob Wins the Video

Previous results

2009: 10th
2012: 7th
2013: 3rd
2014: 2nd
2015: 7th
2016: 7th
2017: 6th
2018: 1st



2018 Runner Up:  Munez

2009: 4th
2011: 11th
2012: 6th
2013: 9th
2014: 4th
2015: 10th
2016:  11th
2017: 9th
2018: 2nd


2018 3rd place finisher:  Adam Johnson

2008: 4th
2009: 1st
2010: 2nd
2011: 8th
2012: 1st
2013: 7th
2014: 6th
2015: 2nd
2016: 1st
2017: 8th
2018: 3rd



2 Time Champion Anthony Folden

2008: 1st
2009: 3rd
2010: 1st
2011: 9th
2012: 3rd
2013: 8th
2014: 11th
2015:4th
2016 2nd
2017: 7th
2018: 4th


3 time champion Joe McLane

2009: 5th
2010: 5th
2011: 2nd
2012: 4th
2013: 1st
2014: 1st
2015: 5th
2016: 5th
2017: 1st
2018: 5th


Former Champion Jim Rowing

2008: 3rd
2009: 6th
2010: 4th
2011: 3rd
2012: 9th
2013: 5th
2014: 5th
2015: 1st
2016: 10th
2017: 2nd
2018: 9th

Former Champion Shawn Voyten

2009:  2nd
2010: 8th
2011: 1st
2012 8th
2013: 6th
2014: 8th
2015: 8th
2016: 3rd
2017: Last
2018: 10th


Gary Yingst

2014: 3rd
2015 Last
2016: 8th
2017: 5th
2018: Last

David Eplin

2015: 6th
2016: Last
2017: 3rd
2018: 8th


Chris Hale

2016: 9th
2017: 4th
2018: 6th




John McLane

2010: 6th
2011: last
2012: last
2013: last
2014: last
2017: 11th
2018: 11th


Alex Vohar

2019 Rules

ONLY A FEW CHANGES IN 2019.  I'm doing the weekly bonus points based off the week that it says on Yahoo.  Therefore even though Week 1 of college football and Week 1 of the NFL are played a week apart, the bonus point will go according to it just being Week 1.  This is simply to make it less consfusing for me when doing bonus points.  

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.



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 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 make the fantasy playoffs you get a bonus point
If you win any of the categories you receive 4 bonus points. 2nd gets you 2 bonus points. 3rd gets you 1 bonus points.  This excludes losers pool and survivor pool, & obviously the bonus point category.
If you are the only person to get a prediction category correct, you get a bonus point.
For every 5 points you score in the predictions, you get a bonus point.