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2014 Subscriber Contest is LIVE (2 Viewers)

A few quick updates:

  • The ownership stats page has been updated to include survival rate by roster size. More cuts will come later in the week. http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/owned.php
  • There were three kickers whose score on my site was 1 point less than the official score on FBG this morning. I adjusted their scores so everything on my site should now match the official results for week 1. I'll look into why this happened, but my initial suspicion is that it's an issue with the stat feed and if that's the case these types of small discrepancies may be unavoidable. I'll do my best to have everything as accurate as possible but once again, my results should always be considered unofficial.
  • I updated the "Leaderboard" on the live scoring page so that all of your linked entries will appear there, so you can see them all at a glance. If you only have 1 (or 0) linked entries on the site you won't notice a difference, but if you have more than 1 they should all be showing up now (let me know if they don't). Last night you may have noticed I added "23-kicker guy" to the leaderboard as well. Every year there's someone who submits an entry with 20+ kickers, and it's a bit of a thread tradition to watch how long they survive. :)
As always, if you have any questions or suggestions let me know!
This is really awesome. Just donated. Thanks!

I've got my personal stats workbook up and running, so I'll throw a few more tidbits in every week, like:

The Parasite (or the Good-Luck Charm): Brandon Gibson. The guy's owned on 66 teams, scored all of 1.9 points last week...and every one of those teams survived. Only three other guys had a 100% survival rate (David Nelson, Dion Lewis and Stepfan Taylor), but Gibson is on more teams than those guys combined.

The Curses:

Eddie Lacy: 277 Lacy owners were eliminated. Over 1/3 of the eliminated teams owned him.

Wes Welker: 25% of Welker owners were eliminated (only 5% of teams were eliminated overall).

Teams by position:

QB: one team had 17 QBs and another had 16. Both were eliminated. Two of the three teams with 15 QBs survived.

RB: five of the six teams with 12 RB survived.

WR: the team with 16 WR survived.

TE: the team with 11 TE survived.

K: 23-kicker-guy survived! 17-kicker guy did not.

D: both 10-defense guys survived.

 
I guess Alfred Blue doesn't get credit for that blocked punt TD :shrug:
I think he should:

Action (QB, RB, WR, TE)

All offensive players will receive points if they score a TD, whether by punt/kickoff return, playing defense, from a fumble recovery, etc.
I checked and it wouldn't have made any difference in the results (i.e. there weren't any teams that were eliminated that otherwise would have survived if Blue had been given credit for the TD).

Not sure if Drinen is following the thread but this is probably something he should look into going forward.

 
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2nd week line-up submitted. I dropped Romo and Hunter, and added Locker and Steve Smith.

Good luck everyone!! :thumbup:
Thought our teams were frozen after the Week 1 kick-off for the entirety of the contest.
You must have just a basic Insider Pro subscription. Next year you should get the Diamond level. Worth every penny, especially when it comes with access to the hidden forum.
Guess I deserved that.

 
2nd week line-up submitted. I dropped Romo and Hunter, and added Locker and Steve Smith.

Good luck everyone!! :thumbup:
Thought our teams were frozen after the Week 1 kick-off for the entirety of the contest.
You must have just a basic Insider Pro subscription. Next year you should get the Diamond level. Worth every penny, especially when it comes with access to the hidden forum.
This hasn't been funny for a while, if ever.
 
Man I'm kicking myself for switching out L. Bell for Doug Martin right now...Note to self next year, don't listen to all the hate and stick with your gut.

The good news for me is that I didn't think my team did anything great this week and I still survived comfortably.

 
A few quick updates:

  • The ownership stats page has been updated to include survival rate by roster size. More cuts will come later in the week. http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/owned.php
  • There were three kickers whose score on my site was 1 point less than the official score on FBG this morning. I adjusted their scores so everything on my site should now match the official results for week 1. I'll look into why this happened, but my initial suspicion is that it's an issue with the stat feed and if that's the case these types of small discrepancies may be unavoidable. I'll do my best to have everything as accurate as possible but once again, my results should always be considered unofficial.
  • I updated the "Leaderboard" on the live scoring page so that all of your linked entries will appear there, so you can see them all at a glance. If you only have 1 (or 0) linked entries on the site you won't notice a difference, but if you have more than 1 they should all be showing up now (let me know if they don't). Last night you may have noticed I added "23-kicker guy" to the leaderboard as well. Every year there's someone who submits an entry with 20+ kickers, and it's a bit of a thread tradition to watch how long they survive. :)
As always, if you have any questions or suggestions let me know!
I'm not able to get the links to come up all the sudden, when I click on it I get....."404. That’s an error.

The requested URL /fbg35k/index.php was not found on this server. That’s all we know."

I get the same message for the scoring link also.

 
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Not happy with my Zac Stacy pick so far.

But I backed up Stacy with Cunningham, and I think it's safe to say that running game will see much better days.

 
My biggest regret was my last minute switch of Brian Quick and Stedman Bailey for Cody Latimer. While that move could still pay off later in the year, right now it is looking like a bad swap. Overall very happy with my team so far though.

 
dagman said:
A few quick updates:

  • The ownership stats page has been updated to include survival rate by roster size. More cuts will come later in the week. http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/owned.php
  • There were three kickers whose score on my site was 1 point less than the official score on FBG this morning. I adjusted their scores so everything on my site should now match the official results for week 1. I'll look into why this happened, but my initial suspicion is that it's an issue with the stat feed and if that's the case these types of small discrepancies may be unavoidable. I'll do my best to have everything as accurate as possible but once again, my results should always be considered unofficial.
  • I updated the "Leaderboard" on the live scoring page so that all of your linked entries will appear there, so you can see them all at a glance. If you only have 1 (or 0) linked entries on the site you won't notice a difference, but if you have more than 1 they should all be showing up now (let me know if they don't). Last night you may have noticed I added "23-kicker guy" to the leaderboard as well. Every year there's someone who submits an entry with 20+ kickers, and it's a bit of a thread tradition to watch how long they survive. :)
As always, if you have any questions or suggestions let me know!
I'm not able to get the links to come up all the sudden, when I click on it I get....."404. That’s an error.

The requested URL /fbg35k/index.php was not found on this server. That’s all we know."

I get the same message for the scoring link also.
I was messing around with the site earlier, which is probably why this happened. Everything should be fine now, so please let me know if you're still having trouble accessing the site.

 
jdkapow said:
A few quick updates:

  • The ownership stats page has been updated to include survival rate by roster size. More cuts will come later in the week. http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/owned.php
  • There were three kickers whose score on my site was 1 point less than the official score on FBG this morning. I adjusted their scores so everything on my site should now match the official results for week 1. I'll look into why this happened, but my initial suspicion is that it's an issue with the stat feed and if that's the case these types of small discrepancies may be unavoidable. I'll do my best to have everything as accurate as possible but once again, my results should always be considered unofficial.
  • I updated the "Leaderboard" on the live scoring page so that all of your linked entries will appear there, so you can see them all at a glance. If you only have 1 (or 0) linked entries on the site you won't notice a difference, but if you have more than 1 they should all be showing up now (let me know if they don't). Last night you may have noticed I added "23-kicker guy" to the leaderboard as well. Every year there's someone who submits an entry with 20+ kickers, and it's a bit of a thread tradition to watch how long they survive. :)
As always, if you have any questions or suggestions let me know!
This is really awesome. Just donated. Thanks!I've got my personal stats workbook up and running, so I'll throw a few more tidbits in every week, like:

The Parasite (or the Good-Luck Charm): Brandon Gibson. The guy's owned on 66 teams, scored all of 1.9 points last week...and every one of those teams survived. Only three other guys had a 100% survival rate (David Nelson, Dion Lewis and Stepfan Taylor), but Gibson is on more teams than those guys combined.

The Curses:

Eddie Lacy: 277 Lacy owners were eliminated. Over 1/3 of the eliminated teams owned him.

Wes Welker: 25% of Welker owners were eliminated (only 5% of teams were eliminated overall).

Teams by position:

QB: one team had 17 QBs and another had 16. Both were eliminated. Two of the three teams with 15 QBs survived.

RB: five of the six teams with 12 RB survived.

WR: the team with 16 WR survived.

TE: the team with 11 TE survived.

K: 23-kicker-guy survived! 17-kicker guy did not.

D: both 10-defense guys survived.
The one thing I have never been able to understand about this contest is why there are so many junk entrys.They are fun to look at but the prizes arn't exactly chicken feed so why do folks do it?Guess I should be happy increases odds for me just doesn't make sense to me.
 
jdoggydogg said:
Not happy with my Zac Stacy pick so far.

But I backed up Stacy with Cunningham, and I think it's safe to say that running game will see much better days.
Never handcuff in this contest. A lot of luck is needed, so no point in trying to hedge your bets. You either bet on Stacy staying healthy/keeping his job or you bet on Cunningham taking over for some reason. In your case, it was only $3 so pretty mild, but every dollar counts.

 
Bamac said:
2nd week line-up submitted. I dropped Romo and Hunter, and added Locker and Steve Smith.

Good luck everyone!! :thumbup:
Thought our teams were frozen after the Week 1 kick-off for the entirety of the contest.
You must have just a basic Insider Pro subscription. Next year you should get the Diamond level. Worth every penny, especially when it comes with access to the hidden forum.
This hasn't been funny for a while, if ever.
Still cracks me up every time...you must not have the diamond sense of humor with the hidden sarcasm
 
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jdoggydogg said:
Not happy with my Zac Stacy pick so far.

But I backed up Stacy with Cunningham, and I think it's safe to say that running game will see much better days.
Never handcuff in this contest. A lot of luck is needed, so no point in trying to hedge your bets. You either bet on Stacy staying healthy/keeping his job or you bet on Cunningham taking over for some reason. In your case, it was only $3 so pretty mild, but every dollar counts.
Generally I agree, but I don't think it is a big deal to spend $3 on Cunningham to lock up the STL backfield. No team is going to avoid wasted money, so $3 might be better spent there than a random $3 flyer. Any more money than $3 I would probably agree though. Personally I just don't believe in the STL offense so I didn't spend the money for either.

 
Is there a way to see how many teams each player is on this year?I cannot remember if we saw that before or not, but it would be nice to see who is on the least amount of teams, etc...
http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/contest_querier_form.php
I know about the query tool, but I dont think it will show the player on the most teams or the player on the fewest teams. You have to pick the player, then see their results.

Thanks

 
Is there a way to see how many teams each player is on this year?I cannot remember if we saw that before or not, but it would be nice to see who is on the least amount of teams, etc...
http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/contest_querier_form.php
I know about the query tool, but I dont think it will show the player on the most teams or the player on the fewest teams. You have to pick the player, then see their results.Thanks
http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/owned.php

I think this has what you're looking for. The player percentages haven't been updated to reflect the week 1 results yet, though. I'll probably do that tonight or tomorrow.

 
Is there a way to see how many teams each player is on this year?I cannot remember if we saw that before or not, but it would be nice to see who is on the least amount of teams, etc...
http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/contest_querier_form.php
I know about the query tool, but I dont think it will show the player on the most teams or the player on the fewest teams. You have to pick the player, then see their results.Thanks
http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/owned.php

I think this has what you're looking for. The player percentages haven't been updated to reflect the week 1 results yet, though. I'll probably do that tonight or tomorrow.
This page has been updated to show the survival rate for each player.

 
A few quick updates:

  • The ownership stats page has been updated to include survival rate by roster size. More cuts will come later in the week. http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/owned.php
  • There were three kickers whose score on my site was 1 point less than the official score on FBG this morning. I adjusted their scores so everything on my site should now match the official results for week 1. I'll look into why this happened, but my initial suspicion is that it's an issue with the stat feed and if that's the case these types of small discrepancies may be unavoidable. I'll do my best to have everything as accurate as possible but once again, my results should always be considered unofficial.
  • I updated the "Leaderboard" on the live scoring page so that all of your linked entries will appear there, so you can see them all at a glance. If you only have 1 (or 0) linked entries on the site you won't notice a difference, but if you have more than 1 they should all be showing up now (let me know if they don't). Last night you may have noticed I added "23-kicker guy" to the leaderboard as well. Every year there's someone who submits an entry with 20+ kickers, and it's a bit of a thread tradition to watch how long they survive. :)
As always, if you have any questions or suggestions let me know!
This is really awesome. Just donated. Thanks!I've got my personal stats workbook up and running, so I'll throw a few more tidbits in every week, like:

The Parasite (or the Good-Luck Charm): Brandon Gibson. The guy's owned on 66 teams, scored all of 1.9 points last week...and every one of those teams survived. Only three other guys had a 100% survival rate (David Nelson, Dion Lewis and Stepfan Taylor), but Gibson is on more teams than those guys combined.

The Curses:

Eddie Lacy: 277 Lacy owners were eliminated. Over 1/3 of the eliminated teams owned him.

Wes Welker: 25% of Welker owners were eliminated (only 5% of teams were eliminated overall).

Teams by position:

QB: one team had 17 QBs and another had 16. Both were eliminated. Two of the three teams with 15 QBs survived.

RB: five of the six teams with 12 RB survived.

WR: the team with 16 WR survived.

TE: the team with 11 TE survived.

K: 23-kicker-guy survived! 17-kicker guy did not.

D: both 10-defense guys survived.
The one thing I have never been able to understand about this contest is why there are so many junk entrys.They are fun to look at but the prizes arn't exactly chicken feed so why do folks do it?Guess I should be happy increases odds for me just doesn't make sense to me.
My best guess is that these oddball entries are from members in states that cannot claim prizes.

 
A few quick updates:

  • The ownership stats page has been updated to include survival rate by roster size. More cuts will come later in the week. http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/owned.php
  • There were three kickers whose score on my site was 1 point less than the official score on FBG this morning. I adjusted their scores so everything on my site should now match the official results for week 1. I'll look into why this happened, but my initial suspicion is that it's an issue with the stat feed and if that's the case these types of small discrepancies may be unavoidable. I'll do my best to have everything as accurate as possible but once again, my results should always be considered unofficial.
  • I updated the "Leaderboard" on the live scoring page so that all of your linked entries will appear there, so you can see them all at a glance. If you only have 1 (or 0) linked entries on the site you won't notice a difference, but if you have more than 1 they should all be showing up now (let me know if they don't). Last night you may have noticed I added "23-kicker guy" to the leaderboard as well. Every year there's someone who submits an entry with 20+ kickers, and it's a bit of a thread tradition to watch how long they survive. :)
As always, if you have any questions or suggestions let me know!
This is really awesome. Just donated. Thanks!I've got my personal stats workbook up and running, so I'll throw a few more tidbits in every week, like:

The Parasite (or the Good-Luck Charm): Brandon Gibson. The guy's owned on 66 teams, scored all of 1.9 points last week...and every one of those teams survived. Only three other guys had a 100% survival rate (David Nelson, Dion Lewis and Stepfan Taylor), but Gibson is on more teams than those guys combined.

The Curses:

Eddie Lacy: 277 Lacy owners were eliminated. Over 1/3 of the eliminated teams owned him.

Wes Welker: 25% of Welker owners were eliminated (only 5% of teams were eliminated overall).

Teams by position:

QB: one team had 17 QBs and another had 16. Both were eliminated. Two of the three teams with 15 QBs survived.

RB: five of the six teams with 12 RB survived.

WR: the team with 16 WR survived.

TE: the team with 11 TE survived.

K: 23-kicker-guy survived! 17-kicker guy did not.

D: both 10-defense guys survived.
The one thing I have never been able to understand about this contest is why there are so many junk entrys.They are fun to look at but the prizes arn't exactly chicken feed so why do folks do it?Guess I should be happy increases odds for me just doesn't make sense to me.
I think most junk entries are from folks who either didn't understand the rules or didn't read them.

 
I like to think there's a guy out there that thinks "THIS is the year that my 23-kicker strategy breaks through!!! :excited: " :)

-QG

 
QuizGuy66 said:
I like to think there's a guy out there that thinks "THIS is the year that my 23-kicker strategy breaks through!!! :excited: " :)

-QG
And then he decides to roll the dice on Adrian Peterson as one of his two RBs...

 
My first thought when hearing that a 4 year old had been badly beaten and abused was how many teams in the subscriber contest would get cut soon instead of me because they rostered the guy doing the abusing. :sadbanana:

 
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I spent several hours finely tuning this thoroughbred of a lineup only to have Peterson receive an unexpected week 2 bye week. The fact that my two highest priced RBs (Peterson and Ball) didn't even crack my lineup (Moreno and Ingram) gives me hope though

 
Peterson & Rice : 301 still alive in the contest.... but not for long
LeSean McCoy $34 17.50

Shane Vereen $23 18.10

Knowshon Moreno $13 19.40

Carlos Hyde $10 11.00

Mark Ingram $9 19.10

Benny Cunningham $3 9.10

No child or wife beaters on my squad. Have a cheap tipper, though.

Also managed to dodge the Charles bullet with his non-existent offensive line.

 
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Also, whoever paid $2 for 12 weeks of Steadman Bailey could get a nice surprise if his suspension is reduced by half

 
Not happy with my Zac Stacy pick so far.

But I backed up Stacy with Cunningham, and I think it's safe to say that running game will see much better days.
Never handcuff in this contest. A lot of luck is needed, so no point in trying to hedge your bets. You either bet on Stacy staying healthy/keeping his job or you bet on Cunningham taking over for some reason. In your case, it was only $3 so pretty mild, but every dollar counts.
Yeah, but I don't view Cunningham as a handcuff. Like Carlos Hyde, I think Cunningham has the potential as a flex. And at $3, that would make Cunningham a bargain.

 
Das Boot said:
The Annual Subscriber Contest.

It's a game of inches.

And luck suspensions.
Agreed.

Luck comes into play for:

1. Using a player that's starting the season on suspension - hoping they don't do something else knuckleheaded and get suspended again.

2. Mostly blind luck in avoiding players that unexpectedly get suspended in-season.

 
Tough break for the 2,427 owners of Peterson. They may be able to survive for a while, but IMO there is zero chance to win this contest when you whiff on one of your studs like that.

 
Next season, I am picking the All County Lockup Squad... If they committed a crime, they are on my team.... The problem is that there will too many to choose from.

 
I am sure a lot of people are hoping the Peterson, and Rice entries keep advancing until the bye weeks start. Anyone else feeling guilty about rooting for that? I am

 
I added a contest querier for 2014 to the website. It can be found here:

http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/currquerier/index.php

It doesn't do a whole lot yet. Like the FBG querier, you can search for teams with a certain combination of players (this one goes up to 10). I also received a request via email to allow you to get the weekly scores for all players in one spot, so I added that as well. That way you can just grab them all, copy them into Excel or whatever and do whatever kind of analyses you'd like.

I plan to add more features to the querier when I have time, so if there's anything in particular you'd like to see incorporated please let me know. :thumbup:

 
I added a contest querier for 2014 to the website. It can be found here:

http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/currquerier/index.php

It doesn't do a whole lot yet. Like the FBG querier, you can search for teams with a certain combination of players (this one goes up to 10). I also received a request via email to allow you to get the weekly scores for all players in one spot, so I added that as well. That way you can just grab them all, copy them into Excel or whatever and do whatever kind of analyses you'd like.

I plan to add more features to the querier when I have time, so if there's anything in particular you'd like to see incorporated please let me know. :thumbup:
Given how awesome this tool is, I'm surprised it doesn't go to 11 :)

 

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