Another wicked weekend has come and gone, and here we are knee deep in a soggy November rain, basking in the memories of warmer days. Onto the update
NFL was wild this weekend with the hometeam winning every game except for the Monday night game. That fucked up a lot of people's picks and a couple of survivor pools. So let's start with that.
Survivor Pool & Losers Pool
Survivor Pool took it's 3rd victim of the season, with Folden choosing the Browns and paying for it. He's now in 10th in that giving him 3 points on the year for Survivor. The point totals go as follows
3. Folden
2. John
1. Munez
That leaves 9 people to go in this pool and man could we use some movement. We're more then halfway done on the year, and there are still 5 people without a strike. Those are:
Me, Alex, Gary, Hale, and Rob.
People with one strike are: Eplin, Shawn, Joe, and Jim.
It would figure that something has to give at some point. For those unaware of tiebreaker rules, if we go the whole season without a winner. The tie is broken based off of when the person got their first strike. So at the end of the year if it's Hale and Joe as the final 2. Hale would get first place points because he went longer without his first strike.
If people don't have a strike, or got strikes on the first week, then I'm out of guesses and the people just split the points. So, 12 and 11, each person would get 11.5.
The losers pool has had significantly more movement. Jim got knocked out by picking Pittsburgh this weekend, which puts him in 8th place gaining 5 points. The points in this one are:
5. Jim
4. John
3. Hale
2. Alex
1. Folden
Everyone else has 1 strike, except for Shawn who is pushing along without any. This pool could be over in any given week. Although that's unlikely.
Pro Pick'em
After a terrible week from Alex, the pro pick'em has finally tightened up. Shout out to Hale for obstaining on picks, realizing this week was going to be difficult. Gary took advantage of this the most, picking up 8 points on Alex and moving into 2nd place overall. He has a 4 game lead over me, which is where the bottleneck starts.
8 games seperates me at 3rd and Joe at 10th. So with 8 weeks to go in the regular season, there's plenty of room for everyone to move.
College Pick'em
College is tight. Munez has a 1 game lead over Rob and Shawn and a 3 game lead over Jim. Folden and Alex are only 4 back.
Fantasy Football
We almost had the perfect chaos weekend, but Gary's QB injury prevented him from winning. Overall, we have 4 weeks left and everyone is still technically still in it. Let's go through the standings.
Joe 6-3
Rob 6-3
Shawn 6-3
Hale 6-3
Adam 5-4
Munez 5-4
John 4-5
Folden 4-5
Alex 3-6
Eplin 3-6
Jim 3-6
Gary 3-6
3 games separating 1st through 12th is pretty good variance. four 6-3 teams, four 3-6 teams, two 5-4 teams, 2 4-5 teams. It's almost beautiful to look at.
What does this mean for playoffs? Well, you need to look at next week's schedule to get a better idea of where this might shake out. Consider this the 2nd part of potential fantasy football chaos that could ensue, based off of the schedule.
1. Joe 6-3 vs 2. Rob 6-3
5. Adam 5-4 vs 6. Munez 5-4
4. Hale 6-3 vs 12. Gary 3-6
3. Shawn 6-3 vs Folden 4-5
So the first 3 games. Rob and Joe are basically playing for 1st and a playoff spot guarenteed (based off of their points). So there game is pretty much irrelevant for this articles purposes.
Gary needs to win or he's done. That simple. He needs to win out plain and simple.
Munez and are playing at 5-4. This means that one of the playoff teams next week will be 5-5, whether it's me, Munez, Folden, or John (if they both won)
Folden needs to beat Shawn to put himself into good position down the stretch to make the playoffs.
Here's where things get interesting, and where the playoffs more then likely start for 4 teams this weekend.
Alex 3-6 vs John 4-5
Eplin 3-6 vs Jim 3-6
Simply put, Jim or Eplin are out of it after this weekend. And Alex is out if he loses. John's very low points for likely puts him out if he loses too, so let's say this is playoffs starting for these teams.
Let's put out a scenario.
Alex wins, Gary wins, Folden wins. Our standings next week
1. J or R 7-3
2. J or R 6-4
3. Shawn 6-4
4. Hale 6-4
5. A or M 6-4
6. A, F or M 5-5
7. A, F, or M 5-5
Then you have
John 4-6
Alex 4-6
Gary 4-6
Jim or Eplin 4-6
If this happens, we'll have 5 teams within one game of the playoffs with 3 to play. That's where things go nuts.
Bonus Points:
I'm going to do a full on bonus point update here soon and let everyone know where they stand.
Pro & College Predictions:
We're 1 week away from when college predictions can be talked about. That, fantasy and bonus points will be the soul update for next week.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Friday, November 1, 2019
Weekend Preview
Wanted to give a quick weekend preview to you guys: Especially where it states around fantasy football. This could be the last weekend where everyone is relevant.
1. Joe (6-2)
4. Shawn (5-3)
3 Rob (5-3)
5 Adam (5-3)
These games are your top rung teams playing it out for postion. A loss likely keeps all the 5-3 teams in the playoffs, so they are important for seeding and trying to secure a better chance at playoffs.
2. Hale 6-2)
11. Alex (2-6)
8 Eplin (3-5)
9 Folden (3-5)
7 John (4-4)
12 Jim (2-6)
6 Munez (4-4)
10 Gary (3-5)
Here's where your schedule matters most. 3 games between people at 2-6, 3-5, or 4-4. So let's play out a couple of scenarios.
If Alex or Jim loses, they're done. Folden & Eplin will result in a 3-6 and a 4-5 team, and Munez and Gary could result in two 4-5 teams.
If Alex, Jim, and Gary win. We'll end up with a 6-12 that looks like this.
Munez 4-5
Gary 4-5
Eplin or Folden 4-5
John 4-5
Eplin or Folden 3-6
Jim 3-6
Alex 3-6
What this means is that we'll have 6 teams within one game of the playoffs, also everyone would be within 2 games of the 2nd seed (without tiebreakers). In this scenario only Joe is really safe for the playoffs for the time being.
Of course it's more likely that we end up with some sort of mixture of this and at least 1 team will be eliminated from contention this weekend.
Survivor Pool & Losers Pool
With 8 weeks down. We have a little bit of movement in the pools.
The survivor Pool hasn't changed much, all we have figured out there is that John is 11th and Munez is 12th.
Me, Alex, Gary, Hale, and Rob are all without a strike and we're all clear of Week 9 having picked the Niners on Thursday night.
Eplin has 1 strike and also picked the niners. Otherwise, Folden, Jim, Joe, and Shawn all have one strike and are yet to go this week.
Losers Pool
The losers pool has had more movement. Currently the points given out in that one go as follows
4. John
3. Hale
2. Alex
1. Folden
Everyone else has 1 strike, except for Shawn who is strikeless. Munez, Eplin, Gary, Joe, and Rob are clear of week 9 having chosen Arizona in the Thursday Night game. Shawn, Jim, and I still have to pick.
Pick 'ems
Pro pick'em is still pretty tight for hte most part, except for Alex. Alex has an 8 game lead over me and Hale for 2nd. Gary is two behind us. Munez 3, Jim 4, Rob 5, Folden 6.
In college Munez has a two game lead over Folden, 3 over Rob and Sahwn, and 4 over Alex. Jim is right behind at 5 back.
I'll be getting a bonus point update here soon so everyone can see where they stand. I will even be able to mock up some standings in the next week or two.
That's it for now. Have a good weekend. I'll try to get back after the weekend with some updated College Predictions as we head down the stretch.
1. Joe (6-2)
4. Shawn (5-3)
3 Rob (5-3)
5 Adam (5-3)
These games are your top rung teams playing it out for postion. A loss likely keeps all the 5-3 teams in the playoffs, so they are important for seeding and trying to secure a better chance at playoffs.
2. Hale 6-2)
11. Alex (2-6)
8 Eplin (3-5)
9 Folden (3-5)
7 John (4-4)
12 Jim (2-6)
6 Munez (4-4)
10 Gary (3-5)
Here's where your schedule matters most. 3 games between people at 2-6, 3-5, or 4-4. So let's play out a couple of scenarios.
If Alex or Jim loses, they're done. Folden & Eplin will result in a 3-6 and a 4-5 team, and Munez and Gary could result in two 4-5 teams.
If Alex, Jim, and Gary win. We'll end up with a 6-12 that looks like this.
Munez 4-5
Gary 4-5
Eplin or Folden 4-5
John 4-5
Eplin or Folden 3-6
Jim 3-6
Alex 3-6
What this means is that we'll have 6 teams within one game of the playoffs, also everyone would be within 2 games of the 2nd seed (without tiebreakers). In this scenario only Joe is really safe for the playoffs for the time being.
Of course it's more likely that we end up with some sort of mixture of this and at least 1 team will be eliminated from contention this weekend.
Survivor Pool & Losers Pool
With 8 weeks down. We have a little bit of movement in the pools.
The survivor Pool hasn't changed much, all we have figured out there is that John is 11th and Munez is 12th.
Me, Alex, Gary, Hale, and Rob are all without a strike and we're all clear of Week 9 having picked the Niners on Thursday night.
Eplin has 1 strike and also picked the niners. Otherwise, Folden, Jim, Joe, and Shawn all have one strike and are yet to go this week.
Losers Pool
The losers pool has had more movement. Currently the points given out in that one go as follows
4. John
3. Hale
2. Alex
1. Folden
Everyone else has 1 strike, except for Shawn who is strikeless. Munez, Eplin, Gary, Joe, and Rob are clear of week 9 having chosen Arizona in the Thursday Night game. Shawn, Jim, and I still have to pick.
Pick 'ems
Pro pick'em is still pretty tight for hte most part, except for Alex. Alex has an 8 game lead over me and Hale for 2nd. Gary is two behind us. Munez 3, Jim 4, Rob 5, Folden 6.
In college Munez has a two game lead over Folden, 3 over Rob and Sahwn, and 4 over Alex. Jim is right behind at 5 back.
I'll be getting a bonus point update here soon so everyone can see where they stand. I will even be able to mock up some standings in the next week or two.
That's it for now. Have a good weekend. I'll try to get back after the weekend with some updated College Predictions as we head down the stretch.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Update cuz I"m bored
Hey guys. Got to work super early and am bored, so I'm filling time with a small update on what happened last week.
Survivor & Losers Pools
The survivor pool tie breaker for 11th and 12th place was settled when Munez lost. This means he'll be getting the 1 point and John will be getting 2 points. Noone else got a strike, so that still leaves us with 5 people with no strikes and 5 people with one strike.
11. John
12. Munez
The losers pool had a little more action. The Steelers ass kicking of the chargers gave Joe his first strike of the season, leaving Shawn as the only person in the loser's pool not to get a strike. More importantly, Hale got his 2nd strike on the backs of the Steelers dropping him out in 10th place in the losers pool.
10. Hale
11. Alex
12. Folden
Obviously the benefit for the people out in each pool is that they're doing fine in the other one.
Fantasy Football
Fantasy went the way of parody in about the best it could last week. 3 of the 4-1 teams lost, leaving just one person at 5-1 (Joe). 2nd-11th place now is differentiated between a bunch of 4-2, 3-3, and 2-4 teams. Meaning that noone is out of this yet. Alex even got his first win this past week, and even though it's an uphill battle, two wins in a row would have him at 3-4 and possibly able to make a move. Here are your week 7 matchups:
Adam 3-3 vs Eplin 3-3
Joe 5-1 vs John 3-3
Hale 4-2 vs Folden 2-4
Jim 2-4 vs Alex 1-5
Munez 4-2 vs Shawn 4-2
Rob 3-3 vs Gary 2-4
Most notably in this is going to be the plight of the three 2-4 teams. A win by Gary, Jim, and Folden this week would push us into a further wide open field.
College Predictions
I figured I could do a short update on the state of things. It's really to early in the conference schedules to discount much. But there are a couple of things. It's looking like everyone that had Nebraska in the conference championship game are likely to lose out. The same could be said for people who picked Houston and Iowa, but again it's still to early to be sure.
The College Football Playoff has a little bit more variance though. It's safe to say that my and Gary's pick of Texas and Alex's pick of Washington are done for. Obviously everyone's Clemson and Alabama pics are safe, so that's not really a gain for anyone (except for Eplin who left Alabama out of the playoff.)
Most people had some sort of combination of Michigan, Georgia, or some other wild card team in the playoff that already has 1 loss.
Because of that everyone's already in danger. The biggest person in danger is Eplin who, although all 4 of his teams are still available (Oregon, Michigan, Clemson, and Georgia), 3 of them are one loss away from being for sure eliminated.
Also, congrats to Rob on having the first correct prediction of the year in college, with Chris Ash from Rutgers already getting his ass fired.
Not much to be said in the pro predictions yet, it's still a few weeks too early.
Lastly, our week 6 bonus goes to Alex for his combined predictions. Our bonus for most points goes to Rob and our bonus for most points for a losing team goes to Jim.
Survivor & Losers Pools
The survivor pool tie breaker for 11th and 12th place was settled when Munez lost. This means he'll be getting the 1 point and John will be getting 2 points. Noone else got a strike, so that still leaves us with 5 people with no strikes and 5 people with one strike.
11. John
12. Munez
The losers pool had a little more action. The Steelers ass kicking of the chargers gave Joe his first strike of the season, leaving Shawn as the only person in the loser's pool not to get a strike. More importantly, Hale got his 2nd strike on the backs of the Steelers dropping him out in 10th place in the losers pool.
10. Hale
11. Alex
12. Folden
Obviously the benefit for the people out in each pool is that they're doing fine in the other one.
Fantasy Football
Fantasy went the way of parody in about the best it could last week. 3 of the 4-1 teams lost, leaving just one person at 5-1 (Joe). 2nd-11th place now is differentiated between a bunch of 4-2, 3-3, and 2-4 teams. Meaning that noone is out of this yet. Alex even got his first win this past week, and even though it's an uphill battle, two wins in a row would have him at 3-4 and possibly able to make a move. Here are your week 7 matchups:
Adam 3-3 vs Eplin 3-3
Joe 5-1 vs John 3-3
Hale 4-2 vs Folden 2-4
Jim 2-4 vs Alex 1-5
Munez 4-2 vs Shawn 4-2
Rob 3-3 vs Gary 2-4
Most notably in this is going to be the plight of the three 2-4 teams. A win by Gary, Jim, and Folden this week would push us into a further wide open field.
College Predictions
I figured I could do a short update on the state of things. It's really to early in the conference schedules to discount much. But there are a couple of things. It's looking like everyone that had Nebraska in the conference championship game are likely to lose out. The same could be said for people who picked Houston and Iowa, but again it's still to early to be sure.
The College Football Playoff has a little bit more variance though. It's safe to say that my and Gary's pick of Texas and Alex's pick of Washington are done for. Obviously everyone's Clemson and Alabama pics are safe, so that's not really a gain for anyone (except for Eplin who left Alabama out of the playoff.)
Most people had some sort of combination of Michigan, Georgia, or some other wild card team in the playoff that already has 1 loss.
Because of that everyone's already in danger. The biggest person in danger is Eplin who, although all 4 of his teams are still available (Oregon, Michigan, Clemson, and Georgia), 3 of them are one loss away from being for sure eliminated.
Also, congrats to Rob on having the first correct prediction of the year in college, with Chris Ash from Rutgers already getting his ass fired.
Not much to be said in the pro predictions yet, it's still a few weeks too early.
Lastly, our week 6 bonus goes to Alex for his combined predictions. Our bonus for most points goes to Rob and our bonus for most points for a losing team goes to Jim.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
First Update of the Season
So, I realize we're like 6 weeks into the season and you've hardly heard jack shit from me all year. I apologize. Life gets lifey every once in awhile. That being said, I'm going to go through essentially where stand in the pick'ems, pools, bonus points, and fantasy sports. I'll leave the Predictions for another post.
So, I'll try to update again next week and hit up the college and pro predictions.
FANTASY FOOTBALL
Big surprise, we're 5 games into the season and we have a pretty big difference in the have's and have not's. This seems to happen with us every year.
We have 4 teams tied at 4-1 at the top.
Joe
Munez
Hale
Shawn
After that I am the sole person at 3-2
After this we have 5 teams at 2-3
Gary at 1-4, and Alex at 0-5. Alex's opponents are averaging 160 points against him a week. Poor bastard. This was butt fucked home by Joe putting up 240 points on him this past week.
So, obviously with Rob being in the six spot at 2-3 for the playoffs, no one is eliminated yet. With 4 teams at 4-1, it does shrink the likely amount of spots.
Let's look at the Week 6 Schedule
Hale 4-1 vs Joe 4-1
Munez 4-1 vs Eplin 2-3
Shawn 4-1 vs Rob 2-3
Jim 2-3 vs Gary 1-4
Adam 3-2 vs John 2-3
Folden 2-3 vs Alex 0-5
So there's a little bit of hope for the underlings here. Either Joe or Hale will be 4-2 and with some tough matchups we may have Shawn and Munez lose as well. That would tighten things up in a fun way.
On a fun note, Joe's team scored 243 pts last week and Gary's team has scored 460 points all season.
Fun Note Part 2: We've had 3 trades this year in fantasy, and 2 of them I had nothing to do with. So, keep it up. This shit is fun.
Survivor Pool
We've had our first casualties of the year. Munez and John each took the Chiefs, eliminating them from the Pool. They will now play a sudden death to see who gets the 1 point and who gets the 2. Next loss loses.
The rest of us are playing for the 12 points for the winner. 10 remain and at this point, Me, Alex, Rob, Gary, and Hale still have no strikes. Eplin, Folden, Joe, Jim, and Shawn all have one strike.
Losers Pool
Our losers pool has 2 casualties as well, but those are more set in stone. Folden went out in week 4, giving him the nice fat first 1 point of the year. Alex went out in week 5 with Indi, so he'll have 2 points going to his final score at the end of the year.
Aside from that, Joe and Shawn are the only two who don't have a strike in loseres pool. Everyone else is already clinging on with one strike.
Pick'ems
We wont' get too far into these, because these are as fluid as they come, but we'll go over the top of the pops.
Munez and Folden are on top of college with 73 points a piece. Joe and Jim are 2 back and Alex is 3. Only 5 points separate the 1st place from 8th place, so let's move on.
Pro Pick'em has a little more separation. 10 points separate 1st through 8th on this one. Alex is 1st with 48, me 2nd with 45. Folden and Hale at 43. Eplin is already 16 points back, with Joe and John barely in front of him.
But, since that's fluid we'll use this a chance to segway into our bonus points.
I'll type this for Alex as a first time player more then for anyone else, but we do have a change this year.
Each week, bonus points are passed out for season long, time invasive things like fantasy football and pick'ems. This is done for two reasons, 1 to give us an extra category for the end of the year for our ROTO scoring, but also to add extra importance to things that are more time consuming or are more difficult to accomplish.
This is why there are no bonus points for Survivor or Losers pool anymore, because although it is strategic and difficult to win, it's not nearly as difficult as the other categories.
So, the way our pick'em bonus works, is that whoever has the most predictions correct out of the cooresponding week on yahoo gets a point. So, even though week 1 of college and pros were played a week apart, whoever has the most correct predictions in those week 1 tabs on yahoo gets the bonus point. This is different then how we used to do it, and is simply been changed to make my life easier counting this shit up.
So your bonus points in the pick'ems have gone as follows
Week 1: Munez & Folden
Week 2: Hale & Rob
Week 3: Alex
Week 4: Alex
Week 5 Folden
If you tie with someone, you don't split the bonus point, everyone who ties gets a full bonus point.
There are also two bonus points in Fantsasy, One for the person with the highest weekly score, and 2nd for the person with the highest score that lost.
Your Fantasy bonus points this year have so far gone to
Week 1: Shawn and Alex
Week 2: Rob and Alex
Week 3: Hale and Rob
Week 4: Rob and John
Week 5: Joe and Folden
I think that covers all of the important stuff for this week. Other then Jon Gruden getting fired has gotten almost everyone a correct pro prediction already.
So, I'll try to update again next week and hit up the college and pro predictions.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
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
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
2011: last
2012: last
2013: last
2014: last
2017: 11th
2018: 11th
Alex Vohar
Thursday, September 19, 2019
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.
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.
Monday, February 11, 2019
End of the Season Results
So, in the end, that shit was tight. I'd recommend anyone to check my math here. If nothing else I realized that I make mistakes, while going back through and figuring this all out. But, anyway, let's see where we stand.
The Patriots won the Superbowl for the 300th time. This was also only the 2nd Superbowl that I didn't watch. The other being the 2nd Patriots and Giants game. So, let's move on from this dynasty forever, please.
Kemp managed to predict the Superbowl exactly right. And, after his miserable start with the survivor, losers, and fantasy football, Kemp managed to put together a nice little season in the end. Well done Kemp.
Otherwise, Jim predicted the Rams to lose the Superbowl, and John predicted the Patriots to win. The Chiefs losing the AFC Championship game also scored points for Jim and Eplin. Oddly enough, although lots of people had the Saints in the Superbowl, no one had them losing the NFC Championship game.
With our individual awards and stats, noone had Patrick Maholmes winning MVP (obviously), or Nagy winning coach of the year. But, we had a few come true.
Most people chose Saquon Barkley to win the Offensive Rookie of the Year. Everyone but John.
Joe had Aaron Donald both winning DPOY and leading the league in Sacks. Hale and Eplin also had him for the DPOY & John had him leading the league in sacks.
Folden, Shawn, Munez, Rob, and Eplin all had Andrew Luck winning the Comeback player of the year award.
It was a rough year for some of the predictions this year. So, let's take a look at our final standings in this. Throughout all of this, the number in parenthesis is how many points you got in the standings.
Kemp 38 (12)
The Patriots won the Superbowl for the 300th time. This was also only the 2nd Superbowl that I didn't watch. The other being the 2nd Patriots and Giants game. So, let's move on from this dynasty forever, please.
Kemp managed to predict the Superbowl exactly right. And, after his miserable start with the survivor, losers, and fantasy football, Kemp managed to put together a nice little season in the end. Well done Kemp.
Otherwise, Jim predicted the Rams to lose the Superbowl, and John predicted the Patriots to win. The Chiefs losing the AFC Championship game also scored points for Jim and Eplin. Oddly enough, although lots of people had the Saints in the Superbowl, no one had them losing the NFC Championship game.
With our individual awards and stats, noone had Patrick Maholmes winning MVP (obviously), or Nagy winning coach of the year. But, we had a few come true.
Most people chose Saquon Barkley to win the Offensive Rookie of the Year. Everyone but John.
Joe had Aaron Donald both winning DPOY and leading the league in Sacks. Hale and Eplin also had him for the DPOY & John had him leading the league in sacks.
Folden, Shawn, Munez, Rob, and Eplin all had Andrew Luck winning the Comeback player of the year award.
It was a rough year for some of the predictions this year. So, let's take a look at our final standings in this. Throughout all of this, the number in parenthesis is how many points you got in the standings.
Kemp 38 (12)
Eplin 34 (10.5)
Jim 34 (10.5)
John 32 (9)
Hale 30 (8)
Joe 27 (6.5)
Rob 27 (6.5)
Shaw 24 (5)
Adam 21 (4)
Munez 19 (3)
Folden 18 (2)
Gary 15 (1)
Kemp received 5 bonus points, Eplin & Jim each received 2.5. For finishing in the top 3.
Points Associated in final standings. Remember each person received a bonus point for every 5 points in this.
The Pro pick'em fished up here with the Superbowl and here are your final standings.
Folden 143 (12)
Munez 137 (11)
Rob 134 (10)
Joe 133 (9)
Gary 132 (8)
Shawn 128 (7)
Jim 127 (5.5)
Hale 127 (5.5)
Adam 124 (4)
Kemp 123 (3)
Eplin 111 (2)
John 100 (1)
Folden earns 5 bonus points, Munez 3, Rob 2.
With that we come to our end of the season. Along with Bonus Points which finished off like this.
Munez 27
Kemp 25.5
Adam 25
Hale 24
Jim 21.5
Folden 20.5
Rob 19
Gary 18.5
John 18
Joe 18
Eplin 15.5
Shawn 14
So, the final standings.
1. Rob 76.5
2. Munez 64.5
3. Adam 64
4. Folden 63.5
5. Joe 63.5
6. Hale 62.5
7. Kemp 58
8. Eplin 57
9. Jim 52.5
10. Shawn 50
11. John 49
12. Gary 40.5
Congratulations to Rob on his first Football God title. Congratulations to Munez on his highest finish yet. I'm attaching the final standings for everyone to review, on facebook. What you'll notice is the consistency. Rob didn't finish lower then a tie for 6th in any category this year. Pretty unreal.
Munez fluctuated wildly, but a couple of 1st and a 2nd insulated him from this. He narrowly pushed away of the 2nd-6th clusterfuck.
I was a bit in between, but I didn't fall below 3 points a tall, and finished with several double digit point finishes.
Folden did really well in many categories, but really poorly in his predictions. That was his big bring down. Joe was pretty consistent all around, but his biggest fault was not finishing higher then 3rd at all in any category. That hurt his bonus points badly, which ended up being the difference.
Hale would have been in 2nd instead of 6th if the Rams had won the Superbowl. That one hurts.
Also Folden and Joe tied for 4th. So how do we resolve that for draft positioning?
The tiebreaker #1 is who had more 1st places in categories. Folden had 1 in pro pick'em, and Joe had none. So, that settles that.
Draft Order for Football God 2019
1. Folden
2. Joe
3. Hale
4. Kemp
5. Eplin
6. Jim
7. Shawn
8. John
9. Gary
10. Adam
11. Munez
12. Rob
Thank you so much for playing fellas. I'll get ahold of Rob & Munez to get you guys your money. Thanks very much for playing.
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