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[Ignoratio Elenchi]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

 

[Worm]

Survive and advance. 158ish, but my team is still poop.

 

[Gawain]

184, but getting 4.9 points from Mega/McCoy won't keep me in for long.

 

[heckmanm]

Is there a way to look at my prior-week scoring on the site? I'm curious about my used/unused stats, but didn't track anything for the first 2 weeks.

Not on my site (yet, but this is coming soon).

On FBG you can easily see this, though. http://subscribers.footballguys.com/myfbg/mycontestteam.php

Did it the hard way with the "all players" for each week.

• 11/30 players not used yet, accounting for $103/$250 (including Big Ben, Lacy, and Cameron)
• Max cost of "used" players in any week was $93 in week 2
• So far averaging 2 points per $ spent on the players used
• Only players used each week are Bradshaw and Antonio Brown

Down to 7 unused, with Big Ben, Lacy, Andre Williams, and Miami D chipping in this week.

175.25 + (Kelce - 4.0)

Bortles looking like $3 well spent

 

[Adam Harstad]

What's safe? I'm at 151 with only kelce who is unlikely to help me much (-10.2)

Sadly, injuries and bye weeks didn't hurt much, my players just aren't good.

You're safe. No way the cut line is jumping 25+ points in one game. I believe it jumped 15 or so last night, and that was with Jimmy Graham being the third-most-owned player left (behind Benjamin and Cutler), Dez being 7th (the aforementioned, plus Kelce, Ertz, and Antonio Brown), Romo being the #2 quarterback, Bailey being a top-5 kicker, and Murray, Brees, and Terrance West having solid ownership stats, too. Kelce and Edelman are the only guys owned by more than 1,000 teams that are playing tonight, and Edelman just barely makes it. Overall, Graham/Brees/Romo/Dez/Demarco/West were owned 8891 times. Brady/Gronk/Edelman/Smith/Kelce/Charles, by comparison, are owned just 5907 times among surviving teams. And nearly half of that is Kelce (44%). So even if all of the studs show well again, there's just not enough ownership stats to move the needle, especially since as more and more games go by, fewer and fewer scores wind up getting counted.

I wouldn't be surprised if we only saw a 5-point jump tonight. I'll go ahead and predict a final cut-line of 132.

 

[QuizGuy66]

184, but getting 4.9 points from Mega/McCoy won't keep me in for long.

Seems like a dream scenario - can't imagine Mega and McCoy stay down forever.

-QG

 

[The Duff Man]

Still looking good with this entry.

QB Cutler, Dalton

RB Morris, Foster, Jackson, Moreno, Ball

WR Brown, Edelman, Wayne, Benjamin, Sanu

TE Graham

Leaving out the scrubs.

 

[LittlePhatty]

I'm definitely out. Down 10 points with only Kelce going, and he is highly owned.

 

[dancingbones]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

This is such a great feature. Thanks for doing this. :thumbsup:

 

[FUBAR]

Is there a way to look at my prior-week scoring on the site? I'm curious about my used/unused stats, but didn't track anything for the first 2 weeks.

Not on my site (yet, but this is coming soon).On FBG you can easily see this, though. http://subscribers.footballguys.com/myfbg/mycontestteam.php

Did it the hard way with the "all players" for each week.

• 11/30 players not used yet, accounting for $103/$250 (including Big Ben, Lacy, and Cameron)
• Max cost of "used" players in any week was $93 in week 2
• So far averaging 2 points per $ spent on the players used
• Only players used each week are Bradshaw and Antonio Brown

Down to 7 unused, with Big Ben, Lacy, Andre Williams, and Miami D chipping in this week.175.25 + (Kelce - 4.0)

Bortles looking like $3 well spent

Didn't use Lacy until this week. Hunter is wasted money. Didn't expect to use stedman Bailey yet. First 3 weeks used all 3 kickers and defenses.

 

[Spin]

You only have 1 TE start total?

-QG

Sounds right, I own the Eifert, Reed combo as well, their 0's are just soaking up the unused cash.

Spin! I just checked the contest querier and the last of our Reed/Eifert brethren have fallen to the cut line. You and I are all that remain. Which means that if we can just survive through the cuts, and if Eifert and Reed both go bonkers in the playoffs, we'll clean up*!

*well, you'll clean up at least, since I'm not eligible for prizes.

Here's hoping. I went with what I thought was a relatively safe qb approach (Cutler / Rivers) , two stud rbs (Forte, McCoy), then went bargain hunting at wrs. Barely beating the cut each week, but should be safe for this week. My dead money at TE sure is hurting, but that will turn around... any week from now... just hope I'm still around to see it.

 

[jdkapow]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

The only discrepancy in numbers I'm seeing is that you don't credit (well, debit) Roethlisberger for his -6 receiving yards (from the lateral play). QBs don't get ppr, but according to the rules, they should get receiving yards. Of course, he didn't have the reception on that play. It makes only a 0.05 change in the cut line, but of course it moves teams around at the margins.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Rivers + Roeth + Bortles is looking like $$ so far, but other than that...

I've been between 140 and 154 all four weeks. Anyone know how far 140/150 every single week would typically last? Week 8? 10?

 

[Sinn Fein]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

The only discrepancy in numbers I'm seeing is that you don't credit (well, debit) Roethlisberger for his -6 receiving yards (from the lateral play). QBs don't get ppr, but according to the rules, they should get receiving yards. Of course, he didn't have the reception on that play. It makes only a 0.05 change in the cut line, but of course it moves teams around at the margins.

have not seen those yards associated with roethlisberger anywhere. Doubt they apply here

 

[heckmanm]

Is there a way to look at my prior-week scoring on the site? I'm curious about my used/unused stats, but didn't track anything for the first 2 weeks.

Not on my site (yet, but this is coming soon).On FBG you can easily see this, though. http://subscribers.footballguys.com/myfbg/mycontestteam.php

Did it the hard way with the "all players" for each week.

• 11/30 players not used yet, accounting for $103/$250 (including Big Ben, Lacy, and Cameron)
• Max cost of "used" players in any week was $93 in week 2
• So far averaging 2 points per $ spent on the players used
• Only players used each week are Bradshaw and Antonio Brown

Down to 7 unused, with Big Ben, Lacy, Andre Williams, and Miami D chipping in this week.175.25 + (Kelce - 4.0)

Bortles looking like $3 well spent

Didn't use Lacy until this week. Hunter is wasted money. Didn't expect to use stedman Bailey yet. First 3 weeks used all 3 kickers and defenses.

Oof. Him and DeAngelo both at this point.

 

[jdkapow]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

The only discrepancy in numbers I'm seeing is that you don't credit (well, debit) Roethlisberger for his -6 receiving yards (from the lateral play). QBs don't get ppr, but according to the rules, they should get receiving yards. Of course, he didn't have the reception on that play. It makes only a 0.05 change in the cut line, but of course it moves teams around at the margins.

have not seen those yards associated with roethlisberger anywhere. Doubt they apply here

They're right there in NFL.com's stats listing.

 

[dagman]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

The only discrepancy in numbers I'm seeing is that you don't credit (well, debit) Roethlisberger for his -6 receiving yards (from the lateral play). QBs don't get ppr, but according to the rules, they should get receiving yards. Of course, he didn't have the reception on that play. It makes only a 0.05 change in the cut line, but of course it moves teams around at the margins.

If it was ruled a lateral, the -6 yds would go against his rushing stats.

 

[dagman]

What's safe? I'm at 151 with only kelce who is unlikely to help me much (-10.2)

Sadly, injuries and bye weeks didn't hurt much, my players just aren't good.

You're safe. No way the cut line is jumping 25+ points in one game. I believe it jumped 15 or so last night, and that was with Jimmy Graham being the third-most-owned player left (behind Benjamin and Cutler), Dez being 7th (the aforementioned, plus Kelce, Ertz, and Antonio Brown), Romo being the #2 quarterback, Bailey being a top-5 kicker, and Murray, Brees, and Terrance West having solid ownership stats, too. Kelce and Edelman are the only guys owned by more than 1,000 teams that are playing tonight, and Edelman just barely makes it. Overall, Graham/Brees/Romo/Dez/Demarco/West were owned 8891 times. Brady/Gronk/Edelman/Smith/Kelce/Charles, by comparison, are owned just 5907 times among surviving teams. And nearly half of that is Kelce (44%). So even if all of the studs show well again, there's just not enough ownership stats to move the needle, especially since as more and more games go by, fewer and fewer scores wind up getting counted.

I wouldn't be surprised if we only saw a 5-point jump tonight. I'll go ahead and predict a final cut-line of 132.

I sure hope you're right, I'm at 140.15 and 6094th place.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Average team has 1.461 players going tonight.

-QG

 

[Obamassiah]

Under the cut line by 6 pts, with Edelman (-9.0) and all of Kelce's pts. Only 256 teams own the Edelman/Kelce combo, so hoping that each can have a nice (or even "average") game tonight, which might allow me to squeak by this week. But not feeling overly optimistic.

 

[jdkapow]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

The only discrepancy in numbers I'm seeing is that you don't credit (well, debit) Roethlisberger for his -6 receiving yards (from the lateral play). QBs don't get ppr, but according to the rules, they should get receiving yards. Of course, he didn't have the reception on that play. It makes only a 0.05 change in the cut line, but of course it moves teams around at the margins.

If it was ruled a lateral, the -6 yds would go against his rushing stats.

Nope. For a lateral that comes after a forward pass, the player receiving the lateral gets receiving yards (but no reception) for any yards he accumulates past the point of the lateral.

 

[Sinn Fein]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

The only discrepancy in numbers I'm seeing is that you don't credit (well, debit) Roethlisberger for his -6 receiving yards (from the lateral play). QBs don't get ppr, but according to the rules, they should get receiving yards. Of course, he didn't have the reception on that play. It makes only a 0.05 change in the cut line, but of course it moves teams around at the margins.

If it was ruled a lateral, the -6 yds would go against his rushing stats.

Nope. For a lateral that comes after a forward pass, the player receiving the lateral gets receiving yards (but no reception) for any yards he accumulates past the point of the lateral.

he did not accumulate any yards past the point of the lateral - did he?

 

[Sinn Fein]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

The only discrepancy in numbers I'm seeing is that you don't credit (well, debit) Roethlisberger for his -6 receiving yards (from the lateral play). QBs don't get ppr, but according to the rules, they should get receiving yards. Of course, he didn't have the reception on that play. It makes only a 0.05 change in the cut line, but of course it moves teams around at the margins.

have not seen those yards associated with roethlisberger anywhere. Doubt they apply here

They're right there in NFL.com's stats listing.

nfl.com boxscore

Not seeing it.

 

[Adam Harstad]

They're right there in NFL.com's stats listing.

nfl.com boxscore

Not seeing it.

It's in the official NFL gamebook, though. 0 receptions for -6 yards.

 

[chad in Indy]

I'm 12 below the cut, but have Brady, Vereen, Gostowski, and Pats D to go tonight. Imagine I'm okay, but you never know!

 

[jdkapow]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

The only discrepancy in numbers I'm seeing is that you don't credit (well, debit) Roethlisberger for his -6 receiving yards (from the lateral play). QBs don't get ppr, but according to the rules, they should get receiving yards. Of course, he didn't have the reception on that play. It makes only a 0.05 change in the cut line, but of course it moves teams around at the margins.

have not seen those yards associated with roethlisberger anywhere. Doubt they apply here

They're right there in NFL.com's stats listing.

nfl.com boxscore

Not seeing it.

He's last on the list:

http://www.nfl.com/stats/weeklyleaders?week=4&season=2014&type=REG&showCategory=Receiving

Don't know why it doesn't appear in the box score.

 

[jdkapow]

I heard a rumor the cutline is currently at 125ish

Yep, you can always see the current cutline right here: http://o.ffense.com/fbg35k/

The only discrepancy in numbers I'm seeing is that you don't credit (well, debit) Roethlisberger for his -6 receiving yards (from the lateral play). QBs don't get ppr, but according to the rules, they should get receiving yards. Of course, he didn't have the reception on that play. It makes only a 0.05 change in the cut line, but of course it moves teams around at the margins.

If it was ruled a lateral, the -6 yds would go against his rushing stats.

Nope. For a lateral that comes after a forward pass, the player receiving the lateral gets receiving yards (but no reception) for any yards he accumulates past the point of the lateral.

he did not accumulate any yards past the point of the lateral - did he?

That's why he had negative yardage. I worded that badly: he gets receiving yards measured relative to the point of the lateral.

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

Not sure about the Roethlisberger thing. My stats would mirror whatever's on the NFL game center, so if it's not there then it's not going to show up in my stats. I didn't see the play but I agree that if Player A receives a forward pass and then laterals to Player B, Player B gets 0 receptions but gets credited with receiving yardage for whatever yards he gains after the lateral.

Anyway, I'll leave it as is for now and see what FBGs does with it when the official results come out tomorrow. If anyone reading this is within .1 of the cutline or whatever, keep that in mind.

 

[jdkapow]

Anyway, I'll leave it as is for now and see what FBGs does with it when the official results come out tomorrow. If anyone reading this is within .1 of the cutline or whatever, keep that in mind.

Teams that would drop below the cutline:

barrnone (105940)

114189

The line dropping by 0.05 would put six teams back over.

Of course, none of this means anything until after the Monday night results are in.

 

[dagman]

Cut line moved just over 6 points the first half to 131.35. At 140.15 I'm biting my nails to the quick. In one half I went from 6094th place to 6679th. If Brady, Gronk, Edelman and Vereen catch fire the second half, it's going to get real tight.

 

[Tennessee_ATO]

Do we have a bona fide LaFell sighting?

 

[Steeler]

I LOVE T. KELCE!!11!!

 

[dbc925]

Over 200 points. Crushed the cutline again. FLuck! *

*my weekly post disparaging Andrew Luck's INT in week 2, costing Adam Vinatieri an easy FG and knocking me out. Will continue to post "FLuck" weekly until I miss the cut again.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Chiefs finally showing me why I paid the extra $2 to have them

For those not glued to the Igomatic the unofficial cut line stands at 136.55

-QG

 

[FUBAR]

I'm 12 below the cut, but have Brady, Vereen, Gostowski, and Pats D to go tonight. Imagine I'm okay, but you never know!

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

This entry is still alive.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Provisional Igomatic final cut is 137.65

-QG

 

[dagman]

Well, unofficially at least, I survived a very tough week. If the cut line holds here at 137.65, I'll survive at 140.15 in 7318th place. I need to get Stewart back next week or I'll be down to 1 RB in Lacy. D. Williams, Ingram and Peterson are all sitting for the foreseeable future.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Fun search for Iggy - did the 6.60 that James White shockingly got save any teams?

-QG

 

[QuizGuy66]

(My other favorite is always the poor guys that get eliminated when the QB takes a knee at the end of the game)

-QG

 

[Dacomish]

I can't believe I didn't have a healthy/non-bye/non-suspended RB and still sneaked through in the 6000 range.....kind of wish this was over because I know its coming!

 

[dagman]

Fun search for Iggy - did the 6.60 that James White shockingly got save any teams?

-QG

It most definitely saved somebody, because I was watching every time he touched the ball and it moved the cut line each time.

 

[ochawkeye]

This entry is still alive.

This one isn't :grimacing:

Teddy Bridgewater $6 24.55 xNick Foles $19 7.85 Carson Palmer $11 0.00 b-----------------------------------Alfred Morris $20 18.00 xC.J. Spiller $23 11.40 xMaurice Jones-Drew $15 2.30 Andre Ellington $25 0.00 b-----------------------------------Eric Decker $15 14.80 xKenny Stills $10 8.20 xJulian Edelman $17 6.30 xPierre Garcon $22 4.80 xHarry Douglas $7 0.00 hJohn Brown $3 0.00 b-----------------------------------Zach Ertz $13 10.30 xJordan Reed $18 0.00 h-----------------------------------Blair Walsh $3 18.90 xDan Bailey $4 10.10 Matt Bryant $4 4.00 -----------------------------------San Francisco 49ers $7 9.00 xCincinnati Bengals $7 0.00 b-----------------------------------TOTAL 126.25 CUTOFF 137.60 Not sure what I'd do different next year. Need some bigger names at WR, but at the expense of what? MJD's $15 & Reed's $18 only go so far.

 

[jeaton6]

I'm 12 below the cut, but have Brady, Vereen, Gostowski, and Pats D to go tonight. Imagine I'm okay, but you never know!

Oof did you get through?

 

[Caesar]

Looks like I missed the cut by less than a point. As I said before.. F U Foles. (Also cost me in about 4 real leagues)

 

[Wadsworth]

Somehow breezed thru with only one RB this week. My team is pretty bad this year, but nothing beats luck.

 

[vegas1]

Made it thur but RBs are horrible

Peterson

McCoy

Ingram

Stewart

Hyde

I have more fun with this than any league Ive played in

 

[FUBAR]

3524 15 KICKER GUY 172.40

3971 100012 169.05

But at least I'm still alive.

 

[apalmer]

Provisional Igomatic final cut is 137.65

-QG

So much for the "cut line is going to be low" predictions.

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

The only discrepancy in numbers I'm seeing is that you don't credit (well, debit) Roethlisberger for his -6 receiving yards (from the lateral play). QBs don't get ppr, but according to the rules, they should get receiving yards. Of course, he didn't have the reception on that play. It makes only a 0.05 change in the cut line, but of course it moves teams around at the margins.

You nailed it. Looks like FBG accounted for Roethlisberger's -6 receiving yards in the official results. That was the only discrepancy in the results. I updated my site accordingly and everything on my site (queriers, ownership stats, team pages, etc.) should now be updated through Week 4. Let me know if anything looks off.