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The Official Kicker (K) Thread (7 Viewers)
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4th&inches
Footballguy
CowboysHomer
Footballguy
Elliott with 15.3 points.
Reason: Vikings give up the most points to kickers, and I have him on three of my fantasy teams.
Reason: Vikings give up the most points to kickers, and I have him on three of my fantasy teams.
Matt Prater. 47 yard long. 0 misses.Ok, I waited for the bustling kicker news to settle down a bit, and this topic hasn’t moved since Tuesday.
So...without further ado, welcome to the 2nd officially unofficial kicker contest!
Easy to win!
Even easier to lose!
But hopefully fun to play & let’s face it: we all, deep down inside, want to love kickers. And what better way to love a kicker than with 2 bottles of gourmet hot sauce? (Er, at least without having a restraining order slapped on you)
The rules are simple, but have been slightly altered by request from the peanut gallery.
1. USA only. Sorry foreigners - my generosity runs only so deep & international postage is brutal.
2. Get your guess in by 5 mins before kickoff, by time-stamp.
3. No editing of posts. If you make a mistake or change your guess, clear that post & post again. An edited post is an automatic DQ. Them’s the rules.
4. There is one (1) entry allowed per FBG member.
5. IMPORTANT NEW RULE: When you submit your guess, please provide a brief (less than 40 word) explanation for why you believe your kicker will be the best kicker this week. Field or weather conditions; team vs defense; you like the set of his jaw & the steely look in his eye; you personally sold him steroids; etc. That way this topic stays on point for the kicker purists. You must post an explanation to qualify.
AND NOW THE SPECIFIC CONTEST GUESSIFICATION RULES:
Post your guesses of the following metrics:
• Which kicker will score the most points week 5, using standard FFB performance scoring. .1/1, anything up to 30 yards = 3 points. 31 yards = 3.1 points, 37 yards = 3.7, etc. A PAT is 1 point.
• Any trick plays/botched FG resulting in points are points. Direct snap to the kicker, runs for a 47 yard TD? That’s 10.7 for your kicker. (and my god I would love to see that happen. How absolutely glorious.
• what the long distance FG for that kicker will be. Guessing over is ok - it’s “closest to the number” that matters here. This ain’t The Price is Right.
• how many PAT/FG they will miss this week. That number can be 0, of course. Just one more way to avoid ties.
TIEBREAKERS: In the event of two people with the same guess (same K, same long, same # missed), time-stamp decides it. First to post that guess wins.
In the extremely unlikely event of 2 different kickers having identical winning metrics, and two FBG members both guessing them correctly, both members will win.
You still have time to get in before tonight’s game if you want a Pats or Colts K. Just get the guess in 5 mins before kickoff by time-stamp.
GOOD LUCK!
-HSG
Reasoning? Take your pick of the following:
1) Every year Prater has one game where he goes absolutely nuts for no apparent reason. Detroit almost always shocks the world in one of its two matches vs. Green Bay (although sometimes they do it by being surprisingly awful instead of surprisingly good). Decent chance these two factors align this week for a 5-7 FG outing.
2) I'm in a hurry and just want to throw in an entry because I like contests and hot sauce.
3) Aliens landed in the Motor City recently and were seen coming and going from the Lions' practice facility. Matt Prater may well be a chimeric cyborg by now, who will destroy the entire state of Wisconsin if stopped by the Packers.
4) He's a kicker. He has a leg. He kicks footballs. Any given Sunday.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Don’t suppose you’d want to list total points maybe? You know, so you don’t get DQ’d?
im just sayin.
ETA: my bad, I now realize I neglected to specifically say this, though everyone did guess total points as required.
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Yep. I was following the directions explicitly, and figured why commit to a stat projection that is likely to be wrong?Don’t suppose you’d want to list total points maybe? You know, so you don’t get DQ’d?
im just sayin.
ETA: my bad, I now realize I neglected to specifically say this, though everyone did guess total points as required.
Strategy. It's how you win at kicker.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Last chance to get guesses in if you want a Patriot or Colt K!
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Pick the kicker with the highest points for the week.
closest to that kicker, with that number is the winner. then it’s long distance guess as tiebreaker.
And MFG / MPAT if it comes to that.
TripleThreat
Footballguy
I wish that I could tell you that I watched a #### ton of the price is right ... that would be a better story.
But yeah your bid is STRONG, lol
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
Dustin Hopkins - 18.1 points / 51 long / 0 misses
-Looking for games with high over/under and this is number 3
-In dome against a fairly poor defense
-Competent but not great offense
-Trying to be contrarian
-Looking for games with high over/under and this is number 3
-In dome against a fairly poor defense
-Competent but not great offense
-Trying to be contrarian
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rockaction
Footballguy
TartanLion
Footballguy
Matthew Prater - 18 points, long of 54 yards/ 0 misses
Should be a high scoring game, Lions so far have terrible red zone stats thanks to Cooter's playcalling
If I win, I will select a recipient from my Lions brethren on here. Either that or have it sent to my American cousins in Washington state.
Should be a high scoring game, Lions so far have terrible red zone stats thanks to Cooter's playcalling
If I win, I will select a recipient from my Lions brethren on here. Either that or have it sent to my American cousins in Washington state.
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Hate kickers on underdog teams. Especially when there's risk of a team (NO) running away with the game and forcing the other team to go for TDs instead of FBs.
Surprised nobody talking about R. Bullock of Cinci. Home favorite, good offense. Could see Cinci controlling that game.
C. Sturgis also an option, but here's the thing: The guy isn't good. Misses XP and FGs left and right. Keep thinking that guy is going to get yanked mid game.
JoeyJoJoJuniorShabadoo
Footballguy
Yup, I dropped him after last week. Missing 2 XPs is inexcusable.
Ka'imi Fairbairn is up next. This is the 4th kicker for my team
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Edited post. :(
gotta report without the edit my friend. Sorry - rules is rules.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
Dustin Hopkins - 18.1 points / 51 long / 0 misses
-Looking for games with high over/under and this is number 3
-In dome against a fairly poor defense
-Competent but not great offense
-Trying to be contrarian
-Looking for games with high over/under and this is number 3
-In dome against a fairly poor defense
-Competent but not great offense
-Trying to be contrarian
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
It was edited on Thursday man.
i do not have a Dolorean
i do not have a Dolorean
Hilts
Footballguy
Santos
13 points
48 yards
High o/u, Rams have a great offense, Seattle is a difficult place to play but the team should still score points. I'm expecting about 30 points for the team as a whole, which would be 3 touchdowns and 3 fg's because I like things to be balanced. That brings us to 12 points, and I bumped it to 13 because a baker's dozen is better than a regular dozen.
13 points
48 yards
High o/u, Rams have a great offense, Seattle is a difficult place to play but the team should still score points. I'm expecting about 30 points for the team as a whole, which would be 3 touchdowns and 3 fg's because I like things to be balanced. That brings us to 12 points, and I bumped it to 13 because a baker's dozen is better than a regular dozen.
Hilts
Footballguy
Ok guys, next time we just all need to give the same answer and it's free hot sauce for everyone!
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Sarlakticacid
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
He was, in my opinion, one of the worst kickers in NFL for years. This really is golf.
It would have been easy from seventy.
He's sitting on waivers. Guy is automatic with that offense. Even if he isn't projected back this week it seems like he's close. I may pull the trigger even if he has to sit a week.
Peak
Footballguy
I have a very short bench (3 spots), so holding 2 kickers isn't a good thing. I don't mind him being buried in the WW for now, but saw that he started collecting projected points with week 6, so hoping he's back.
4th&inches
Footballguy
so..... did I win??Crosby - 16.7pts, long of 49yds, 1 missed PAT/ FG
A. Rodgers is either not at 100%, he misses time, has no one to throw to, or all 3 happen...forcing Crosby to score all the points in a losing effort
no bias whatsoever...GO BEARS!
apalmer
Footballguy
Phantom Knight
Footballguy
Just realized that Zuerlein is out there. Now the question is whether to burn a waiver priority on him or just hope that he makes it through.
Stompin' Tom Connors
Footballguy
Ditto - he's on waivers and Elliott is simply not getting it done for me this year -- on his own, and this Philly offense is sputtering compared to last year.
Any word on Greg's health? And if it's the kind of injury that kickers are susceptible to reinjure? Bye week in WK 12 is solid.
Peak
Footballguy
Just read he is Day-2-Day right now, possibly not ready until Wk 7. I was looking to grab him off WW myself, but may wait a few days, if not until next week.
Ah, good catch. In that case I'll wait. Will probably try to pick up Succop after waivers clear tomorrow. I have him on my other team. His offense is terrible, which makes me nervous that a goose egg is always on the horizon, but he keeps putting up points.
But yeah, the moment Zuerlein is declared active, I'm grabbing him. There's still the injury risk (and maybe the risk that McVay finally decides his offense is so good he never needs to kick again), but that leg + that offense = fantasy gold.
-fish-
Footballguy
Making progress with no setbacks and an expected answer Wednesday or Thursday sounds like he's playing. From what I read, he was awfully close to playing this Sunday. I have Prater on bye next week and he's on waivers in my league, so I'm throwing some blind bid dollars at him. There's one other team that has a kicker on a bye this week, so I'll willing to slightly overpay. If he plays, it's worth it as I'll have the best kicker in the league through week 12, when I'll be through the byes and can drop a couple depth players anyway.
Fever in the Funkhouse
Footballguy
My league punishes missed kicks pretty severely. Fortunately, I would have lost my game even if Crosby made all his kicks. I just would have lost by 10 points, not 31.
?
I’ll start no kicker in week 6 before I start Crosby
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Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Hi folks - had a really busy day today & on the road for most of It.
I’ll be looking through the K contest in a couple hours & posting a recap.
If you had Gano & guessed 63, congratulations!
I’ll be looking through the K contest in a couple hours & posting a recap.
If you had Gano & guessed 63, congratulations!
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Without further ado, the results of this week's officially unofficial kicker contest!
Sorry about the formatting - I don't get paid for this ya know.
member Kicker FG Long FGM/MPAT Points Actual Points Actual long
4th&inches Crosby 49 1 16.7 5.1 41
TripleThreat Crosby 52 1 17 5.1 41
simsarge Santos ? 0 14.7 6.9 39
Hilts Santos 48 0 13 6.9 39
Gottabesweet Lutz 44 0 16.1 8.4 44
Arodin Prater 47 0 22.2 8.9 39
TartanLion Prater 54 0 18 8.9 39
Spock Gostkowski 51 0 17.2 9.5 45
Long Ball Larry Hopkins 51 0 18.1 10.3 53
CowboysHomer Elliott ? 0 15.3 DQ'd - no long listed
Congratulations to @Long Ball Larry - jacked up week for kickers! No one was particularly close, so it came down to tiebreakers as almost everyone's total points guesses were 6-8 points off of the actual total.
But your guess of a 51 yard long was just 2 yards off of the actual long of 53 (longest among this week's guesses, too), and at 10.3 points, Hopkins was this week's highest scoring kicker.
Send me a PM, and we'll work out the details!
Thanks for playing everyone! Look for another random contest, uh, randomly. lol
Sorry about the formatting - I don't get paid for this ya know.
member Kicker FG Long FGM/MPAT Points Actual Points Actual long
4th&inches Crosby 49 1 16.7 5.1 41
TripleThreat Crosby 52 1 17 5.1 41
simsarge Santos ? 0 14.7 6.9 39
Hilts Santos 48 0 13 6.9 39
Gottabesweet Lutz 44 0 16.1 8.4 44
Arodin Prater 47 0 22.2 8.9 39
TartanLion Prater 54 0 18 8.9 39
Spock Gostkowski 51 0 17.2 9.5 45
Long Ball Larry Hopkins 51 0 18.1 10.3 53
CowboysHomer Elliott ? 0 15.3 DQ'd - no long listed
Congratulations to @Long Ball Larry - jacked up week for kickers! No one was particularly close, so it came down to tiebreakers as almost everyone's total points guesses were 6-8 points off of the actual total.
But your guess of a 51 yard long was just 2 yards off of the actual long of 53 (longest among this week's guesses, too), and at 10.3 points, Hopkins was this week's highest scoring kicker.
Send me a PM, and we'll work out the details!
Thanks for playing everyone! Look for another random contest, uh, randomly. lol
DropKick
Footballguy
My kicker (Lutz) has a bye week. Would you drop him ROS or keep on the roster. Looking to pick up Fairbairn or Bailey (assuming Zuerlein is not back). I don't really want to drop Dion Lewis or Keke Coutee to retain a kicker. I could also drop Houston D/ST, but with Buffalo looming in Week 6, I don't want to drop them either. On the other hand, I think Lutz is top three play ROS and I won't have to worry about this position after this week...
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
We’ve talked about that a bit in here before - you almost have to keep Lutz. You paid a lot for him. He’s a top scoring K.
BYE weeks become more painful when you invest in a kicker.
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