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2010 FBG Post Season Contest (1 Viewer)
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JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
I hope to make it through with 4 players. I have no Saints and no Colts...was counting on one of them going down. Another big Favre to Rice day could be enough...let's go San Diego!
ScottyFargo
Footballguy
Yeah I'm gonna have 6, no NO players. I figured I'd be at a disadvantage but maybe there won't be a ton who made it through with 8 to make the cut off too difficult to reach.
Couch Potato
Footballguy
Moving on to the next round with:IND - Manning, ClarkNYJ - Greene, FeelyMIN - Favre, PetersonNO - ColstonCan't win it all I don't think, but I'm very likely to make it to the Super Bowl round which was my goal in putting together the team.
ScottyFargo
Footballguy
I would have to wager that there were more people loading up on Chargers than Jets to be in the SB. Might make next week a bit easier. i lose Nanee and SD D and keep Thomas Jones and DST. Maybe people still have their 2 jets, like me, though.
Couch Potato
Footballguy
Hmmm... nobody else in the contest has this 4 player combo. If both teams score upsets next week, who knows? I could finish in the top group.
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ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
Given a 23% chance to move on, my guys responded with about 156 points. Hope that's enough.
HULLOBUDMAN
Footballguy
Projected cut according to the sim was 125? Think I should be ok.
Next week I have:
Manning
Garcon
Addai
Brees
Colston
Henderson
Greene
Jones
B Smith
if I made it through that is. I think I am about 135-140.
I am the only team with a Greene, Jones, Smith, Brees, Colston, Henderson combo. Go Saints, Jets!
Next week I have:
Manning
Garcon
Addai
Brees
Colston
Henderson
Greene
Jones
B Smith
if I made it through that is. I think I am about 135-140.
I am the only team with a Greene, Jones, Smith, Brees, Colston, Henderson combo. Go Saints, Jets!
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If 150 gets me to the next round, I think I'm in good shape for next week, but no shot for the SB title, based on other rosters I've seen.
Manning
Wayne
Clark
Addai
Farve
Sidney Rice
Meachem
I do think the Colts and Vikings will play in the SB, although I'd love to see the Saints get there too. I just didn't load up on their players, because I assumed everyone else would.
Manning
Wayne
Clark
Addai
Farve
Sidney Rice
Meachem
I do think the Colts and Vikings will play in the SB, although I'd love to see the Saints get there too. I just didn't load up on their players, because I assumed everyone else would.
MCguidance
Footballguy
Out 
Jets win
Jets win
The Man With No Name
Footballguy
No chance to win, but on to next week. The sim said I only had a 24.8% chance to move on, but what does it know?
seatownfavorite
Footballguy
Think my luck will run out unless Colts/Vikes SB and Chester Taylor runs wild.
Remaining:
Peyton Manning $29 0.00 23.10
Reggie Wayne $23 0.00 20.30
Hank Baskett $2 0.00 0.00
New York Jets $7 7.00 6.00
Chester Taylor $8 0.00 4.90
Sidney Rice $19 0.00 38.10
TOTAL 151.60 151.50
CUTOFF 128.80 117.70
Remaining:
Peyton Manning $29 0.00 23.10
Reggie Wayne $23 0.00 20.30
Hank Baskett $2 0.00 0.00
New York Jets $7 7.00 6.00
Chester Taylor $8 0.00 4.90
Sidney Rice $19 0.00 38.10
TOTAL 151.60 151.50
CUTOFF 128.80 117.70
Pigskin Fanatic
Footballguy
Well, banked on SD getting into the SB and that ended awfully. Looks like my best chance is a Indy-NO matchup, but too many of you have way more players in that match up than I do. 
Remaining Players:
Peyton Manning
Pierre Garcon
Jerricho Cotchery
Robert Meachem
Devery Henderson
Brett Favre
Well, barely made the cut in the first two rounds, let's see if I can sneak into the final round this weekend. Good luck!
Remaining Players:
Peyton Manning
Pierre Garcon
Jerricho Cotchery
Robert Meachem
Devery Henderson
Brett Favre
Well, barely made the cut in the first two rounds, let's see if I can sneak into the final round this weekend. Good luck!
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ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
Hoping for Jets v. Vikings.
Frank Costanza's Lawyer
Footballguy
Thanks. I think Ill make it to the Superbowl for sure, but I didnt have the guts to go all in on 2 teams.
ScottyFargo
Footballguy
My expectations were for a Vikings / Indy or Vikings / Chargers bowl. I loaded up on Vikes though, and only took two of each afc team. Now I'll get either Reggie Wayne and Garcon or Thomas Jones and Jets D combined with Favre, Rice, Harvin, Shiancoe, Kleinsasser and Greg Lewis if things go my way and the Vikes win. I think it made more sense to spread out only a little bit and buy more into one team that you felt was going to be in the Superbowl.
editor47
Footballguy
sure if you pick right. i went chargers-cowboys. had romo, austin, rivers, gates and about 5 others on the two teams.
Is the "Championship round sim" out? I'd like to see your percentage to advance as well as mine. We that are still in would greatly appreciate it. One more time!, Doug. Thanks.
Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
Update?
i got through, but pretty much have NO shot left, with the Chargers (Rivers, Gates & DST), Cowboys (Romo, F. Jones, Crayton, Witten & DST) and Cardinals (Warner, Fitz & Rackers) losing, here's what I hvae left:
Jets - T. Jones & S. Greene
Vikings - C. Taylor
Saints - David Thomas
Colts - none
If I advance, something is seriously odd.
Jets - T. Jones & S. Greene
Vikings - C. Taylor
Saints - David Thomas
Colts - none
If I advance, something is seriously odd.
Yeah, it looks like 898 of the remaining 2000+ teams are mathematically eliminated from winning first place. That's kind of a bummer.Look for a sim tonight or tomorrow.
That's kind of an understatement. Nearly 45% of the entries that made the second-to-last cut are already eliminated. My guess is that approximately the same percentage will be found when looking at the 1000 or so that make the final cut.
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure there are more people mathematically alive right now than there would be if it was a cumulative points contest with no eliminations. That's the thing with these playoff contests. There are just so few games/teams that it's impossible to have a contest where you set-and-forget your entry before the playoffs start and you DON'T have a huge percentage of entries mathematically eliminated before the championship games. Or at least I haven't figured out how to do it.
Nothing wrong with this format (coming from someone eliminated last week). Some of those eliminated entires didn't understand the concepts/rules. The rest didn't peg the right teams advancing which is part of the contest.Load up on Super Bowl team players and save enough cash to use on the best pt/$ producers on the teams to advance to the Super Bowl.
Assuming even distribution, next week 3/4's of the teams will be mathmatically eliminated right off the bat based on not having both bowl teams. Will be more is the Jets advance and less if the Colts advance.
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
I have Thomas Jones, Jets D, and 5 Vikings...probably still alive to win it, but my % chance for this week will be low with only 4 players counting.
ScottyFargo
Footballguy
I wonder what the percentages are for teams that have 8, 6, and 4 players to go this week. I am not sure if I should feel like I am at a great disadvantage with only 6 running this week.
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
6 seems really solid to me when only 50% of the teams are getting cut. All of the SD players are out, and it would have been tough to make it out of round 1 with 2 players each from Indy, Minn, and NO.ScottyFargo said:
QuizGuy66
Footballguy
Yeah, it's very hard no matter what. Even with the question format of last year (I still like that format too btw
) there's only so many things that could change in the finale and tip the balance of power.Random suggestion - maybe it's crazy but maybe it'll help add more variation and thus possibly spice up the finale. Just thought of it - maybe it's horrible maybe not.Perhaps you could modify the dollars allocated to a player and thus get a multiple of their scoring.
For example: Rodgers costs $30. Let's say I put $45 of my cap value on him and get 1.5 times his stats. Say I like Beanie Wells, but not enough to go whole hog. I can put $4 of my cap onto him and get .4 times his stats since his value is $10.
Whatcha think, Turk?
-QG
That's a very interesting idea and would undoubtedly introduce some variation into the entry pool. I'm not sure it would have a huge impact on the lay of the land, but couldn't hurt. Unfortunately, it's not feasible for an FBG contest, where the rules and the entry form have to be kept more simple than that. One idea I was toying with (which might also be thrown out for the same reason as yours) was allowing you to buy players for just the Super Bowl. For example, Peyton Manning might cost $27 or whatever, but you would also have the option of buying Peyton Manning's Super Bowl-Only points for something like $10. That would open up some different strategical possibilities.Perhaps you could modify the dollars allocated to a player and thus get a multiple of their scoring.For example: Rodgers costs $30. Let's say I put $45 of my cap value on him and get 1.5 times his stats. Say I like Beanie Wells, but not enough to go whole hog. I can put $4 of my cap onto him and get .4 times his stats since his value is $10.Whatcha think, Turk?
bryhamm
Footballguy
wow, better than I thought at 85%
QuizGuy66
Footballguy
Maybe you do it for all 4 weeks. Could lead to a certain amount ofThat's a very interesting idea and would undoubtedly introduce some variation into the entry pool. I'm not sure it would have a huge impact on the lay of the land, but couldn't hurt. Unfortunately, it's not feasible for an FBG contest, where the rules and the entry form have to be kept more simple than that. One idea I was toying with (which might also be thrown out for the same reason as yours) was allowing you to buy players for just the Super Bowl. For example, Peyton Manning might cost $27 or whatever, but you would also have the option of buying Peyton Manning's Super Bowl-Only points for something like $10. That would open up some different strategical possibilities.Perhaps you could modify the dollars allocated to a player and thus get a multiple of their scoring.For example: Rodgers costs $30. Let's say I put $45 of my cap value on him and get 1.5 times his stats. Say I like Beanie Wells, but not enough to go whole hog. I can put $4 of my cap onto him and get .4 times his stats since his value is $10.Whatcha think, Turk?
when you have, say, Manning for the divisional round, but not for the conference championship Figured the design might be a bit much (always easy to make suggestions when you don't have to program them I guess you could replace the checkboxes with dollar allocations 
Will be interesting to see how many folks have a chance before the last cut. Very hard to do something where all 1000 finalists would have a chance - frankly if you have even as many as 100 or so with a shot that would be pretty impressive Thanks as always for the hard work -QG
HULLOBUDMAN
Footballguy
The sim gave me a 5% chance the first week, a 20% chance the second week and a 99% chance this week.
Not so sure I like my chances...
Not so sure I like my chances...
HULLOBUDMAN
Footballguy
Again, might be hard to run but what if you lowered the prices on all the players. Each week you got to pick as many players as you wanted and spend as much as you wanted but only got XXX amount for the entire playoffs. You re enter your lineups and can use different players each week.First week you spent 40 of 500 on Rogers and Warner and advance. Next week you have 460 left to go on the 2nd round and so on....Maybe you do it for all 4 weeks. Could lead to a certain amount ofThat's a very interesting idea and would undoubtedly introduce some variation into the entry pool. I'm not sure it would have a huge impact on the lay of the land, but couldn't hurt. Unfortunately, it's not feasible for an FBG contest, where the rules and the entry form have to be kept more simple than that. One idea I was toying with (which might also be thrown out for the same reason as yours) was allowing you to buy players for just the Super Bowl. For example, Peyton Manning might cost $27 or whatever, but you would also have the option of buying Peyton Manning's Super Bowl-Only points for something like $10. That would open up some different strategical possibilities.Perhaps you could modify the dollars allocated to a player and thus get a multiple of their scoring.For example: Rodgers costs $30. Let's say I put $45 of my cap value on him and get 1.5 times his stats. Say I like Beanie Wells, but not enough to go whole hog. I can put $4 of my cap onto him and get .4 times his stats since his value is $10.Whatcha think, Turk?when you have, say, Manning for the divisional round, but not for the conference championship
Will be interesting to see how many folks have a chance before the last cut. Very hard to do something where all 1000 finalists would have a chance - frankly if you have even as many as 100 or so with a shot that would be pretty impressive
They need to have a set it and forget it format for many reasons.Again, might be hard to run but what if you lowered the prices on all the players. Each week you got to pick as many players as you wanted and spend as much as you wanted but only got XXX amount for the entire playoffs. You re enter your lineups and can use different players each week.First week you spent 40 of 500 on Rogers and Warner and advance. Next week you have 460 left to go on the 2nd round and so on....Maybe you do it for all 4 weeks. Could lead to a certain amount ofThat's a very interesting idea and would undoubtedly introduce some variation into the entry pool. I'm not sure it would have a huge impact on the lay of the land, but couldn't hurt. Unfortunately, it's not feasible for an FBG contest, where the rules and the entry form have to be kept more simple than that. One idea I was toying with (which might also be thrown out for the same reason as yours) was allowing you to buy players for just the Super Bowl. For example, Peyton Manning might cost $27 or whatever, but you would also have the option of buying Peyton Manning's Super Bowl-Only points for something like $10. That would open up some different strategical possibilities.Perhaps you could modify the dollars allocated to a player and thus get a multiple of their scoring.For example: Rodgers costs $30. Let's say I put $45 of my cap value on him and get 1.5 times his stats. Say I like Beanie Wells, but not enough to go whole hog. I can put $4 of my cap onto him and get .4 times his stats since his value is $10.Whatcha think, Turk?when you have, say, Manning for the divisional round, but not for the conference championship
Is there an easy to find your team on the SIM list. My eyes just go crossed when I try to look through all those numbers. I was counting heavily on the chargers and lost 5 of them this week, so I dont think I have a prayer.....but if the Jets and Saints win , I'll have 5 players in the bowl...maybe I can break the top 200.
ScottyFargo
Footballguy
Ctrl F and input your team number to jump to it on the page. You'll have to know your team number of course, so use the link in one of the first posts to log in and see it.
Thanks! I have a 19% chance. Thats about what I thought.I have a feeling that subscribing to this site is going to teach me a lot more about computers!Thanks again,PV
