Football God 2012 is coming soon. Let's figure out the rules

Hey guys, the new season is still a few months away but I wanted to go over a few things with you guys for this year.

#1 The league buy in this year is $50.  I'm going to put $40 each in the prize pool, and take the other $10 dollars per person and get a trophy or a plaque made for us for the winner to hold every off season.  This is the last time I speculate we will raise the league buy in for a long time.  So, don't worry about it going up anymore after this.

#2 Rule changes.  I'd like everybody to send me a message regarding any rule changes they would like to make.  I'll put all the ideas for rule changes and put them in a message so that we can vote on them.  I have a couple ideas of things I'd like to tweak, but I'm pretty happy for the most part.

#3.  John, who didn't fill in his pick 'em for most of the year is being assessed a penalty and will have to pay more money to be in the league this year.  I believe we settled on double the fee. So he'll be putting in $100 this year.

That will bring our totals for the year at $520 in the prize pool & $130 to make the trophy.  If there is any money left over for the trophy, which i hope there will be, I'll put that into the prize pool for the league.

So, let me know ANY changes you want to make, big or small, or any ideas you may have.

FOOTBALL GOD FINAL STANDINGS

Here we are, down to the last game. Let's go through the points to see who is the 2011 FOOTBALL GOD. We'll go through the individual awards first.

Shawn, Simon, Folden, Andrew, Joe, John, & Colin each are awarded 20 points for picking Aaron Rodgers as the MVP.

Nobody picked Drew Brees as OPLY, and nobody picked Suggs as the DPOY.

Bono picked Cam Newton for Off ROY

Nobody had Jim Harbaugh as coach of the year.

Jim, Geiss, Adam, Joe, Bono, and Chris all get 20 points for having Vonn Miller as D ROY.

Also, the NYG have won the superbowl, in case you haven't heard. Simon, Adam, Shawn, Andrew, and Bono each get 15 points a piece for picking that game correctly...So with no further adieu, here's the final scores

Total score+ individual awards score + 15 points for picking NYG (if applicable) = Overall score

Shawn 844 + 20+15=879

Joe 837+40=877

Jim 828+40= 868

Geiss 792+20=812

Andrew 789+20=809+15=824

Simon 789+20=809+15=824

Folden 772+20=792

Adam 767+20=787+15=802

Bono 750+40=790+15=805

Colin 703+20=723

Munez 665+20=685

John 454+20=474

Final Standings

1. Shawn 879

2. Joe 877

3. Jim 868

t4. Simon 824

t4. Andrew 824

6. Geiss 812

7. Bono 805

8. Adam 802

9. Folden 792

10. Colin 723

11. Munez 683

12. John 474

Congrats to Shawn on his championship

Week 21: Coming down to the Wire!!!

Here are the total points + the newest points. Geiss, Joe, Jim, & Simon got 30 points for having NE in the superbowl. the rest of the points are from people who got some picks correct.

1. Shawn 824+20= 854

2. Joe 797 +40= 837

3. Andrew 789 = 789

4. Jim 778+40 = 828

5. Adam 767 = 767

6. Simon 759 +30= 789

7. Folden 752 + 20= 772

8. Geiss 742 + 50 = 792

9. Bono 740 +10= 750

10. Colin 683 +20= 703

11. Munez 655 +10=665

12. John 454 (-fuck off)

1. Shawn 844

2. Joe 837 (NE winning SB)

3. Jim 828 (NE winning SB)

4. Geiss 792 (NE winning SB)

t5. Andrew 789

t5. Simon 789

7. Folden 772

8. Adam 767

9. Bono 750

10. Colin 703

11. Munez 665

12. John 454

So, this is where we are left with. Joe, Jim, and Geiss have NE winning the superbowl, which comes with a 50 point bonus. We still also have the individual awards to come too, which are announced the day before the Superbowl. Also, the Superbowl pick 'em is worth 15 points. So, realistically, three people still have a good shot of winning. Joe, Jim, and Shawn. If NE wins the championship, then Geiss will be in the mix for the top three spots. He maybe able to jump to 1,2, or 3 if he gets enough of the individual awards, but he probably can't. Also, Simon and Andrew are still in it for the top 3, assuming NE doesn't win. Everybody else is essentially out of it. So, figure out the math, and pick carefully. I won't be doing an update based on the individual standings the day of the Superbowl. Good luck to everyone still in it!

Football God: Week 20: Green Bay Bengals

Well we are down to four teams, and this is where we are.

NYG @ SF

BAL @ NE

Green Bay's loss ruined Folden & Simon's chances of having their team win the Superbowl, while the NO's loss knocked Colin out of the running, too.

We are now down to four people whose preseason prediction is still alive.

Jim, Joe, & Geiss who have NE, & Shawn who has Baltimore. That also means that if one of those two teams win, somebody will have correctly predicted both the College and Superbowl champion. Joe will have had Bama & NE, and Shawn with Bama & Baltimore. Also, Simon can still get points for having NE in the Superbowl, but not winning it.

So, let's hit up the totals now. Everybody except for Colin & John had exactly one team in one of the league championship games. So, that's 25 points added to all of our scores. Also, in the playoff predictions, each win was worth 5 points this week. So, let's look at how that turned out.

(Playoff pick'em + 25 point bonus (if applicable)+total overall score)

Folden 20+25 = 45+707= 752

Adam 15+25 = 40+727 = 767

Shawn 15+25=40+784 = 824

Joe 15+25=40+757 = 797

Jim 10 +25= 35+743=778

Geiss 10+25= 35+707= 742

Andrew 10+25=35+754= 789

Simon 10+25=35+724= 759

Bono 10+25=35+705= 740

Munez 25+630= 655

Colin 10+673= 683

John 0+ 454 = 454

1. Shawn 824

2. Joe 797 (-27)

3. Andrew 789 (-35)

4. Jim 778 (-46)

5. Adam 767 (-57)

6. Simon 759 (-65)

7. Folden 752 (-72)

8. Geiss 742 (-82)

9. Bono 740 (-84)

10. Colin 683 (-141)

11. Munez 655 (-169)

12. John 454 (-fuck off)

You can look at next week's NE vs Baltimore game as a playoff in a way. If Baltimore wins, Shawn pretty much has this thing won. If not, it's still open to quite a few people. So, if you have NE you better be routing for them.

Football God: Week 19: Tebow, Tebowed, my Tebow

First, I need to admit a fault here. In the template I sent out with everyone's picks, I put the wrong Championship game for Joe. I put Oklahoma winning it, It was supposed to be Alabama. So, I changed it in mine, and apologize for the confusion.

So, the Steelers lost, the Tebow's won. And here we are, with the college football season over. We've got a big update in scores here, seperating the field a little bit, thanks to a big 50 point bonus for the teams that picked Alabama to win the National Championship. Those people were:

Adam, Andrew, Shawn, Simon, Folden, Joe, and Bono

Also, congrats to Geiss on winning the bowl pick 'em, he'll pick up an extra 10 points there.

The only points left for the season are the play off pick 'em, which has no bonus, and a few of the pre season predictions.

The NFL will be unveiling all of their regular season awards the day before the Super Bowl. Other than that, we have just the AFC/NFC championship game teams, the Conference Champs, and the Superbowl Winner.

Also, for the pick 'em, keep in mind that the wildcard and the divisional round of the playoffs are worth 5 points a piece, the conference championship picks are worth ten points, and the super bowl is worth 15. Here are the scores.

Total score +bowl pick'em score + play off pick'em score + college national championship bonus+ 10 point bowl pick 'em bonus for Geiss = total score

Jim - 681+57+5=743

Shawn - 680+39+15+ (50)=784

Joe - 642+60+5 +(50)= 757

Andrew - 648+51+5=704 (50)=754

Geiss - 608+74+15= 697+10=707

Adam - 605+57+15 (50)=727

Simon - 598+66+10=664 (50)= 724

Colin - 611+57+5=673

Folden - 599+43+15=657 (50)= 707

Bono -578+67+10=655 (50) = 705

Munez - 575+50+5=630

John- 379+ 57=454

1. Shawn 784

2. Joe 757 (-27)

3. Andrew 754 (-30)

4. Jim 743 (-39)

5. Adam 727 (-57)

6. Simon 724 (-60)

7. Folden 707 (-77)

8. Geiss 707 (-77)

9. Bono 705 (-79)

10. Colin 673 (-111)

11. Munez 630 (-154)

12. John 454 (what the fuckkkkk eeevvveerr)

So, for the rest of the season, here is what we have left

Shawn, Simon, Jim, Geiss, and Joe all have both of their Superbowl teams left in the playoffs. Those five, plus Colin and Folden still have their Superbowl winner left in the playoffs.

John, Bono, and Munez all have neither of their Superbowl teams left in the playoffs, with myself and Andrew having our Superbowl loser still in the mix.

All of us but Colin and John have exactly one team left in the AFC championship, with nobody having two teams left.

In the NFC, myself, Andrew, Colin, and Shawn have our NFC championship still in play all of us having NO vs GB. Munez and Jim still have NO left, and everyone else has GB still in play.

I'm not going to try to make sense out of the awards. But this is pretty much where we are. Figure out from where you stand, compared to who has what left to know what you need to happen to finish in the top 3, which is who the money goes to. Until next week, I love you all.

Football God: Week 18: TITS or GTFO

The regular season is over. I want to start today by congratsing Joseph on winning the Fantasy Football Championship and winning the 30 bonus points.

I also would like to congratulate Colin on winning the Pro Pick 'em and the 25 bonus points that come along with that. So with all of that being said, I have the grand totals up to this point of the season. I'm going to say this now, so that I'm very clear. I won't be adding what's already happened up again. I'm going to use this as a total score, and just sort of adding onto things from now on. So, check your scores yourself and make sure I got them right.

Now, onto the score boards.

Pro Predictions + Fantasy football score+ College total + pro pick 'em+ bonus

Shawn 100+60+342+151+(15)=668

Simon 100+60+271+152+(5)=588

Jim 160+80+264+155+(10)=669

Folden 80+60+286+156+(10)=592

Geiss 60+80+307+151=598

Adam 80+70+293+143+(10)=596

Andrew 80+130+266+152+(10)=638

Joe 60+150+274+139+(10)=633

John 20+100+175+84=379

Bono 100+50+258+151+(15)=569

Colin 80+90+232+165+(15)=577

Munez 100+60+261+142=563

Totals+ bowl pick 'em scores + pro pick 'em week 17 + pro pick 'em bonus = Overall Score

Jim 669+32+12=713

Shawn 668+26+12=706

Andrew 638+30+10=678

Joe 633+28+9=670

Geiss 598+36+10=644

Adam 596+24+9=629

Folden 592+32+7=631

Simon 588+36+10=634

Colin 577+32+9+(25) =643

Bono 569+30+9=608

Munez 563+32+12=607

John 379+32=411

Overall Ranks

1. Jim 713

2. Shawn (-7)

3. Andrew (-35)

4. Joe (-43)

5. Geiss (-69)

6. Colin (-70)

7. Simon (-79)

8. Folden (-82)

9. Adam (-84)

10. Bono (-105)

11. Munez (-106)

12. John (-1,000,000,035)

Football God: Week 16: Tis the season baby

Sorry the update is late this week, I've had my hands full with lots of shit. But, I'll try to get to it now. I'm going to talk briefly about fantasy football first.

So, John has somehow pulled himself into the semi-finals with a low scoring win over Geiss. Jim's team put up a respectable number of points, while Colin put together a thousand point week to destroy his way into the semis. So, this week the playoffs look like this

(1) Andrew

(5) John

(6) Colin

(2) Joe

My predictions for this week, Andrew's team is projected to lose to John, and although John is a one man wrecking crew, Andrew's team has won whenever I assumed he wouldn't all year. I'm taking Andrew 110 - John 94

In the other game, Joe has been scoring an unbelievable pace recently, and lucky for Colin, his team has shown that they can score like that too. Looking at matchups, I like Joe's team better this week. Gonna take him 543 - 489.

Total scores for Fantasy Football look like this.

Each team that's in the semi finals gets a 20 point bonus

Andrew 110

Joe 100

John 100

Colin 90

Jim 80

Geiss 80

Adam 70

Simon 60

Shawn 60

Folden 60

Munez 60

Bono 50

Pro Pick 'em looks like this right now.

Colin 154

Folden 146

Jim 145

Shawn 143

Simon 142

Geiss 141

Andrew 140

Bono 140

Adam 133

Munez 130

Joe 127

John 84

It's looking pretty for sure now that Colin is going to win this, it would take a pretty big fall in the last two weeks of the season for him to lose.

Before we get into anything else I want to add some total scores, then I'll get into the predictions and where we are with that.

Totals (College total score + pro pick'em + fantasy score + (bonus) =

Shawn 342+143+60+(15)=560

Geiss 307+141+80=528

Adam 293+133+70+(10)=506

Jim 264+145+80+(10)=499

Folden 286+146+60+(10)=502

Joe 274+127+100+(10)=511

Simon 271+142+60+(5)=478

Andrew 266+140+110+(10)=526

Munez 261+130+60=451

Bono 258+140+50+(15)=463

Colin 232+154+90+(15)=491

John 175+84+100=359

So the standings changed in those catagories to.

Shawn 560

Geiss 528

Andrew 526

Joe 511

Adam 506

Folden 502

Jim 499

Colin 491
Simon 478

Bono 463

Munez 451

John 359

Now, before we get to the total scores, we have some predictions that have came in. First off, Les Miles has won the AP Coach of the year award, which none of us had. However, there are some official points in for the NFL predictions, so let's do those now.

AFC North - still pending

AFC South - Texans

20 pts for -Jim, Geiss, Andrew, Joe, Bono, and Munez

AFC East champs - Pats

20 pts for - everyone but Shawn, Andrew, and John

AFC West Champs, still pending

NFC East Champs, still pending

NFC North Champs -Green Bay

Points for everyone

NFC West Champs - 49ers

Points for nobody

NFC South Champs - Saints

Points for everybody but Folden, Geiss, Joe, and John.

Totals for Football Predictions right now + whatever points you have gotten in the first 5 bowl games. Remember, these bowl games are worth 2 points each

Munez 80+6= 86

Bono 80+4=84

Jim 80+2=82

Geiss 60+10=70

Simon 60+8=68

Andrew 60+6=66

Adam 60+4=64

Colin 60+4=64

Joe 60+4=64

Shawn 40+4=44

Folden 40+4=44

John 20+6=26

This weekend, the Broncos could win the AFC west, the Cowboys the AFC east, Balt the AFC North, and both Atl and Detroit could lock up wildcard spots with wins. Now for your total scores

Shawn 560+44 = 604

Geiss 528+70=598

Andrew 526+66=592

Joe 511+64= 575

Adam 506+64= 570

Folden 502+44=546

Jim 499+ 82= 581

Colin 491+64= 555

Simon 478+68= 546

Bono 463+84= 547

Munez 451 + 86 = 537

John 359+26= 385

Overall Rankings

1. Shawn 604 (even)

2. Geiss 598 (even)

3. Andrew 592 (+4)

4. Jim 581 (even)

5. Joe 575 (+1)

6. Adam 570 (-3)

7. Colin 555 (+1)

8. Bono 547 (+2)

t9. Folden 546 (-4)

t9. Simon 546 (even)

11. Munez 537 (even)

12. John 385 (even)

Wow, what a swing. Now there are only 8 points between first and third, and only 67 points between first and 11th. The only person it's safe to say is out of it this year is John.

Also, big fucking suprise that Simon and Folden are tied.

Keep in mind that out of Andrew, Joe, John, and Colin. One of the four will get 20 more points for making it to the championship game, and whoever wins will add 50 points to their total. So if you aren't Andrew, Colin, or Joe, you probably want to route for John to win.

14 games into the season, and all of our teams that we chose to win the Superbowl are still in the playoff hunt. John and I's choice of San Diego and Bono's choice of Philadelphia are long shots, but still possible.

Another prediction that's almost all but certainly over foll all of us is the top 3 draft picks of next year. Indi is guaranteed one of them, while Minnesota or the Rams would have to win out. I don't know how the tie break would work then. But it's looking like it's going to fall in that way somehow.

That's it for this week. Everyone have a nice Christmas, and I'll get back at you all next week. Until then, I love you all