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2024 FBG Subscriber Contest (5 Viewers)

We started this week with 17 folks eligible for @Joe Bryant extra $100 prize. Sadly, we have to say farewell to @-OZ- @HairySasquatch @rzrback77 @themeanmachine @barackdhouse

Moving on to week 11 are:
@lsutigers @bamabuddha @Puppies @BlackCrowes @scottybo @Scoresman @Forte Yard Dash @JaBoo @apalmer @da_budman @IHEARTFF @a_troll00

Of note
- da_budman was this week's top dog with a score of 169.00 (42nd overall)
- bamabuddha was this week's lowest advancing team with 119.95 (1128th overall)

Good luck in week 11!
Thanks Winz and appreciate all the work you have done on this. I would like to think I can move on but alas, barring a miracle, Week 11 is where I get off the bus at the corner of Turk and FBG ave, Unlike the vast majority of you guys I put minimal effort in forming my team. Having 5 players off this week isnt Ideal, especially when 2 of them are your only quarterbacks. Good luck to anybody who moves on. Highly doubt I will be one of them.
So as I suspected.... poor scoring from my non qb team. Rbs were okish at 27.5 points for the pair.. wrs? 12.9 for the pair.....ughhhh. defense and kicker you say? 16.3 for the pair....not bad but not enough to save me. But then there was that Te position....ok Te plus 2 flexs all te's BEFORE Kittles I have Likely, bowers, and taysom hill scoring a crisp and exact 100 points for me!!!! sO MY QBLESS, Naberless, and irvingless team has 156.70 kickass points!!!!
 
Since being booted by less than 3 in week 5, I've made the cut each week by 18+, and am currently above the line
Same, but for me it was missing the cut by 4 points in week 8, and been above it every other week, including sitting at 175 this week. Ugh.
 
I wouldn't have thought that Lamar with be my third-ranked QB today:
Jackson: 19.95
Minchew: 25.8
Stafford: 38.75

150.85 points to far (cut line estimated at 124.15) with Dobbins, Palmer, McPherson, and Dicker to go. Probably safe and into week 12.
 
Ghost team rolling after 1pm
171.25 + (Burrow - 18.55) + (CMC/Javonte/Dowdle/Vidal - 0.00/5.90/9.80/37.80) + (Higgins - 9.80/12.50) + (Broncos/Chargers - 3.00)

No Kittle woulda been no problem with Hill, Bowers and Parkinson.

Good luck to the alive teams here.
-QG
 
Currently sitting at 148.7 with Chase Brown (-1.9)

No TEs are counting towards my score with Otton on Bye and Kittle out.

This week could be rather interesting.
 
I’ll be interested to see if any Taysom teams get the boot

I may be the lone Goff (46.7)/Taysom(48.7) owner sweating it or facing elimination this week at 157 and only the Texans D left to go. The rest of my roster is just a wasteland of mediocrity and never was.

You are probably about 98% guaranteed to advance. You are 9.95 above the cut line and I don't see the cut line moving that much Monday night. Plus, anything above 3 points from the Texas Defense would add to your score.
 
Well sure has been fun,but I think this is it for me. I have no TEs this week. Otton and Kittle have saved me multiple times not to be this week.
I think I'm going to buy 2 subscriptions just to have a 2nd entry next year.
I have done that in the past and may do it again next year. Warning - it is too easy to select the same players on each entry as you decide this player is going to crush it and they end up hurting both your entries.
 
Well sure has been fun,but I think this is it for me. I have no TEs this week. Otton and Kittle have saved me multiple times not to be this week.
I think I'm going to buy 2 subscriptions just to have a 2nd entry next year.
I have done that in the past and may do it again next year. Warning - it is too easy to select the same players on each entry as you decide this player is going to crush it and they end up hurting both your entries.

I have rostered 4 TEs every year for the last 5 years.

Before you laugh at me, consider this....

If you break down the numbers, you'll see that TE's on average, score more points per salary cap $ than WRs and by a long shot over RBs. So in this scoring system, it only makes sense to roster at least 3 if not 4, because you can get up to 2 flex scores from the TE position.

Through the first 11 weeks of this season I have gotten 12 of my 22 flex scores from the TE position, including 2 this week (21.60 from Njoku and 15.30 from Hunter Henry) in addition to my main TE score of 48.70 from Taysom Hill.

According to the final Football Guys projected fantasy points for all the players on the contest ticket, the average expected points per salary cap dollar by position were:
QB: 20.44
RB: 9.79
WR: 11.66
TE: 13.65

Be careful not to overlook the fact that this is a numbers game as much as it is a football contest. :wink:
 
Well sure has been fun,but I think this is it for me. I have no TEs this week. Otton and Kittle have saved me multiple times not to be this week.
I think I'm going to buy 2 subscriptions just to have a 2nd entry next year.
I have done that in the past and may do it again next year. Warning - it is too easy to select the same players on each entry as you decide this player is going to crush it and they end up hurting both your entries.

I have rostered 4 TEs every year for the last 5 years.

Before you laugh at me, consider this....

If you break down the numbers, you'll see that TE's on average, score more points per salary cap $ than WRs and by a long shot over RBs. So in this scoring system, it only makes sense to roster at least 3 if not 4, because you can get up to 2 flex scores from the TE position.

Through the first 11 weeks of this season I have gotten 12 of my 22 flex scores from the TE position, including 2 this week (21.60 from Njoku and 15.30 from Hunter Henry) in addition to my main TE score of 48.70 from Taysom Hill.

According to the final Football Guys projected fantasy points for all the players on the contest ticket, the average expected points per salary cap dollar by position were:
QB: 20.44
RB: 9.79
WR: 11.66
TE: 13.65

Be careful not to overlook the fact that this is a numbers game as much as it is a football contest. :wink:
100% agree. I have played this for 3 seasons now, I rostered 3 TEs my first two seasons, and this year I thought there was a ton of value there, and this year I rostered 4 (Engram, Kittle, Hill, Parkinson). I've gotten a flex score from that group all but 2 weeks, and one of those weeks (week 3), they were all out except Parkinson! I'll definitely be going with 4 from now on.
 
This will be my highest scoring week by far at 228.5. With Malik and Bucky on Bye.

Still have Dowdle and Ferguson to go, but they will have to explode for their scores to count.
 

According to the final Football Guys projected fantasy points for all the players on the contest ticket, the average expected points per salary cap dollar by position were:
QB: 20.44
RB: 9.79
WR: 11.66
TE: 13.65

Be careful not to overlook the fact that this is a numbers game as much as it is a football contest. :wink:


To corroborate this a bit, I pulled the total flex scores for the season from all the teams alive in week 10.

The way to read the chart is, "The 285 teams who rostered 4 running backs scored an average of 224.1 points from the two flex spots on their roster." It doesn't mean those flex scores came from running backs.

Looking at the biggest jumps in flex scores, I will consider rostering a minimum of 5 RBs, 3 TEs, and 5 WRs next year. This year I rostered 6 RBs, 6 WRs and 4TEs. And I have made it much further than ever before. While most of that is due to dodging injuries. Having depth at each position has lead to me scoring 255 flex points, vs the average of 236.

# rostered​
Teams w/ # RBs​
Avg Flex Score​
Teams w/ # TEs​
Avg Flex Score​
Teams w/ # WR​
Avg Flex Scores​
1​
0​
50​
226.6​
0​
2​
4​
216.7​
761​
230.7​
3​
194.6​
3​
51​
219.5​
729​
239.3​
15​
192.9​
4​
285​
224.1​
148​
247.1​
196​
215.9​
5​
608​
234.1​
37​
258.7​
518​
230.4​
6​
429​
240.2​
5​
259.8​
521​
239​
7​
207​
245.8​
0​
276​
246.3​
8​
89​
251.3​
0​
136​
253.7​
9​
38​
243.0​
0​
56​
258.1​
10​
10​
265.3​
0​
5​
253.4​
11​
7​
256.5​
0​
2​
228.1​
12​
2​
260.6​
0​
2​
224.3​
 
Yesterday at noon I fully expected to get cut. Nabers on bye, Rice out, McLaurin with a 2 point stinker on Thursday, leaving only my bottom 4 WRs. Singletary on bye, general consensus that Estime had made Williams irrelevant, Gus cutting into Dobbins's workload and Justice Hill playing the Steeler D leaving me with only KWIII as a reliable RB. McBride on bye and Kittle out, leaving only Taysom at TE. Then I watched Boswell put up 25, Taysom with 48, and Jamo with 22. When Odunze gave me double figures, I started thinking I might make it. Had to go to a dinner party and couldn't check my score until later--lo and behold, Nix has a 40 point day, Williams has 16 and Shakir has 15. Somehow, I'm over 200 points, with Dobbins still adding to the total, and I finish with my highest score of the year. Crazy.
 

According to the final Football Guys projected fantasy points for all the players on the contest ticket, the average expected points per salary cap dollar by position were:
QB: 20.44
RB: 9.79
WR: 11.66
TE: 13.65

Be careful not to overlook the fact that this is a numbers game as much as it is a football contest. :wink:


To corroborate this a bit, I pulled the total flex scores for the season from all the teams alive in week 10.

The way to read the chart is, "The 285 teams who rostered 4 running backs scored an average of 224.1 points from the two flex spots on their roster." It doesn't mean those flex scores came from running backs.

Looking at the biggest jumps in flex scores, I will consider rostering a minimum of 5 RBs, 3 TEs, and 5 WRs next year. This year I rostered 6 RBs, 6 WRs and 4TEs. And I have made it much further than ever before. While most of that is due to dodging injuries. Having depth at each position has lead to me scoring 255 flex points, vs the average of 236.

# rostered​
Teams w/ # RBs​
Avg Flex Score​
Teams w/ # TEs​
Avg Flex Score​
Teams w/ # WR​
Avg Flex Scores​
1​
0​
50​
226.6​
0​
2​
4​
216.7​
761​
230.7​
3​
194.6​
3​
51​
219.5​
729​
239.3​
15​
192.9​
4​
285​
224.1​
148​
247.1​
196​
215.9​
5​
608​
234.1​
37​
258.7​
518​
230.4​
6​
429​
240.2​
5​
259.8​
521​
239​
7​
207​
245.8​
0​
276​
246.3​
8​
89​
251.3​
0​
136​
253.7​
9​
38​
243.0​
0​
56​
258.1​
10​
10​
265.3​
0​
5​
253.4​
11​
7​
256.5​
0​
2​
228.1​
12​
2​
260.6​
0​
2​
224.3​
I went 6 RBs, 7 WRs and 3 TEs. Through 10 weeks, I got 143.6 flex points from 10 WR scores, 127.8 from 8 TE scores and 24.4 from 2RB scores for a total of 305.8. This week will add 12.5 at WR and 12.9 at RB.

I went with 6 RBs mostly because last year I had 5 and by Week 8 I was down to 1 guy playing each week.
 
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:lmao: it never fails.
Through week 10, my high score was 190, most weeks I was between 150-165.
Eliminated week 10.
Week 11, score 214. :shrug:
 
Since TE was a big topic for this week, I looked at the Kittle / Hill ownership. Going into this week, there were 368 live teams with Kittle, and of those, 144 also rostered Hill. Will be interesting to see how many of the Kittle teams without Hill survive this week.
 
Since TE was a big topic for this week, I looked at the Kittle / Hill ownership. Going into this week, there were 368 live teams with Kittle, and of those, 144 also rostered Hill. Will be interesting to see how many of the Kittle teams without Hill survive this week.
I'm in the 144. Highest point total of the year at 192! I'm hoping that if I make it past next week, Kittle and Hill together will give me a boost in the finals.
 
I went 6 RBs, 7 WRs and 3 TEs. Through 10 weeks, I got 143.6 flex points from 10 WR scores, 127.8 from 8 TE scores and 24.4 from 2RB scores for a total of 305.8. This week will add 12.5 at WR and 12.9 at RB.

I went with 6 RBs mostly because last year I had 5 and by Week 8 I was down to 1 guy playing each week.
Are you High Octane?
 
Well sure has been fun,but I think this is it for me. I have no TEs this week. Otton and Kittle have saved me multiple times not to be this week.
I think I'm going to buy 2 subscriptions just to have a 2nd entry next year.
I have done that in the past and may do it again next year. Warning - it is too easy to select the same players on each entry as you decide this player is going to crush it and they end up hurting both your entries.

I have rostered 4 TEs every year for the last 5 years.

Before you laugh at me, consider this....

If you break down the numbers, you'll see that TE's on average, score more points per salary cap $ than WRs and by a long shot over RBs. So in this scoring system, it only makes sense to roster at least 3 if not 4, because you can get up to 2 flex scores from the TE position.

Through the first 11 weeks of this season I have gotten 12 of my 22 flex scores from the TE position, including 2 this week (21.60 from Njoku and 15.30 from Hunter Henry) in addition to my main TE score of 48.70 from Taysom Hill.

According to the final Football Guys projected fantasy points for all the players on the contest ticket, the average expected points per salary cap dollar by position were:
QB: 20.44
RB: 9.79
WR: 11.66
TE: 13.65

Be careful not to overlook the fact that this is a numbers game as much as it is a football contest. :wink:

I rostered four TE’s and it is the MAIN reason I am still in this thing, I also rostered 26 players but TEs have been the ticket …so far.

1. Ferguson
2. Kittles
3. Bowers (dude has been a stone cold killer at the TE position, almost if not more valuable , than Kittles..was torn between Bowers and LaPorta…in the end went rookie because cheaper and oh, how important that decision ended up being)
4. T. Hill (did not have a counter on my team…until the last 3 weeks…)
 

According to the final Football Guys projected fantasy points for all the players on the contest ticket, the average expected points per salary cap dollar by position were:
QB: 20.44
RB: 9.79
WR: 11.66
TE: 13.65

Be careful not to overlook the fact that this is a numbers game as much as it is a football contest. :wink:


To corroborate this a bit, I pulled the total flex scores for the season from all the teams alive in week 10.

The way to read the chart is, "The 285 teams who rostered 4 running backs scored an average of 224.1 points from the two flex spots on their roster." It doesn't mean those flex scores came from running backs.

Looking at the biggest jumps in flex scores, I will consider rostering a minimum of 5 RBs, 3 TEs, and 5 WRs next year. This year I rostered 6 RBs, 6 WRs and 4TEs. And I have made it much further than ever before. While most of that is due to dodging injuries. Having depth at each position has lead to me scoring 255 flex points, vs the average of 236.

# rostered​
Teams w/ # RBs​
Avg Flex Score​
Teams w/ # TEs​
Avg Flex Score​
Teams w/ # WR​
Avg Flex Scores​
1​
0​
50​
226.6​
0​
2​
4​
216.7​
761​
230.7​
3​
194.6​
3​
51​
219.5​
729​
239.3​
15​
192.9​
4​
285​
224.1​
148​
247.1​
196​
215.9​
5​
608​
234.1​
37​
258.7​
518​
230.4​
6​
429​
240.2​
5​
259.8​
521​
239​
7​
207​
245.8​
0​
276​
246.3​
8​
89​
251.3​
0​
136​
253.7​
9​
38​
243.0​
0​
56​
258.1​
10​
10​
265.3​
0​
5​
253.4​
11​
7​
256.5​
0​
2​
228.1​
12​
2​
260.6​
0​
2​
224.3​

You got me curious so I went back and added my flex scores for 11 weeks.

I scored a total of 328.50 points from 22 flex scores over 11 weeks, for an average of 14.93.
Of that, 194.50 came from 12 TE scores (avg = 16.21)
84.30 came from 6 WR scores (avg =14.05)
and 49.70 came from 4 RB scores (avg= 12.43)

I have on my roster:
2 QB
7 RB
7 WR
4 TE
3 PK
3 DEF
= 26 total
 
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Well, I wasn’t the “top dog” this week (pun intended) … but I did post my highest score of the year at 213 points.

Tough 3 weeks ahead. Hopefully a few of us make it to the money round.

Good luck, everyone ‼️
 
Well, I wasn’t the “top dog” this week (pun intended) … but I did post my highest score of the year at 213 points.

Tough 3 weeks ahead. Hopefully a few of us make it to the money round.

Good luck, everyone ‼️
Congrats Dude! You rock.
 
UNOFFICIAL future Cut lines (A few ties pushed the number higher remaining this week but did not affect future weeks):

Start 11695
10% Week 1 Cut to Number – 10528
10% Week 2 cut to Number – 9477
10% Week 3 cut to Number – 8533
20% Week 4 cut to Number – 6828
20% Week 5 cut to Number – 5467
20% Week 6 cut to Number – 4375
20% Week 7 cut to Number – 3502
30% Week 8 cut to Number – 2454
30% Week 9 cut to Number – 1718
30% Week 10 cut to Number – 1203
30% Week 11 cut to Number – 843 now 844
30% Week 12 cut to Number – 591
40% Week 13 cut to Number – 355
40% Week 14 cut to Number – 213 (means the top 12 non-playoff teams this week win a prize)

Notes From Contest Rules:
- In weeks 1--14, the cut is based on scores from the current week only. Scores reset each week.

- Specifically, the cut will be determined as in the following example. Suppose it is week 7 and there are 2,394 entries at the beginning of the week. Because the cut percentage is 20% for that week, 2394 will be multiplied by 0.80 and the resulting number, if not an integer, will be rounded UP to the next greatest integer. In this case, 2394 * 0.8 = 1915.2. We round up to 1916. The entry with the 1916th-highest score, and all entries with an equal or greater score, will move to the next round.

- if fewer than 225 participants remain after week 14, then prizes will be awarded to eliminated participants according to highest score in week 14. If prizes are still unawarded after that, then highest score in week 13, and so on.
 
I was looking at survival rates from week 11 mostly to answer the question did anyone with Taysom get cut (Yes, 11 in fact which is Noahlott of teams). But then I wanted to take stock of the seasonal survival rates of players. Excluding the top 2 (Sorry Drew Lock, and Aiden O'Connell you don't count), the top 10 survivors through 11 weeks are:

Demarcus Robinson (16.6%), Cade Otton (16.1%), Chase Brown (15.2%), Bucky Irving (14.7%), Ja'Tavion Sanders (14.6%), Josh Downs (14.3%), Courtland Sutton (14.2%), Tyrone Tracy Jr. (14.1%), J.K. Dobbins (14%), Brock Bowers (13.7%)

Of this list, I only have Bucky. I wanted to put Cade in my lineup too, but since I am a Bucs fan, I thought I was just being a homer. To be honest I had to look up who Ja'Tavion even was, so for him to be on this list was surprising. The other surprise came as an omission. I expected King Henry to be here, as he has been kicking my butt all year, but he sits in 39th place with about a 10% survival rate.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are a number of really big names. Guys that haven't lived up to their price, but could absolutely blow up in the playoffs and be real differentiators. Guys like Puka who has a single roster remaining. D.Hop only appears on 3 live rosters, Kelce and Mike Evans with 4, and only 5 remain with CMC. Anyone of those could put up 30+ points in successive playoff weeks and be the reason their owners take the number 1 spot.
 
I was looking at survival rates from week 11 mostly to answer the question did anyone with Taysom get cut (Yes, 11 in fact which is Noahlott of teams). But then I wanted to take stock of the seasonal survival rates of players. Excluding the top 2 (Sorry Drew Lock, and Aiden O'Connell you don't count), the top 10 survivors through 11 weeks are:

Demarcus Robinson (16.6%), Cade Otton (16.1%), Chase Brown (15.2%), Bucky Irving (14.7%), Ja'Tavion Sanders (14.6%), Josh Downs (14.3%), Courtland Sutton (14.2%), Tyrone Tracy Jr. (14.1%), J.K. Dobbins (14%), Brock Bowers (13.7%)

Of this list, I only have Bucky. I wanted to put Cade in my lineup too, but since I am a Bucs fan, I thought I was just being a homer. To be honest I had to look up who Ja'Tavion even was, so for him to be on this list was surprising. The other surprise came as an omission. I expected King Henry to be here, as he has been kicking my butt all year, but he sits in 39th place with about a 10% survival rate.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are a number of really big names. Guys that haven't lived up to their price, but could absolutely blow up in the playoffs and be real differentiators. Guys like Puka who has a single roster remaining. D.Hop only appears on 3 live rosters, Kelce and Mike Evans with 4, and only 5 remain with CMC. Anyone of those could put up 30+ points in successive playoff weeks and be the reason their owners take the number 1 spot.
Can you post an extinct player list please?
 
Can you post an extinct player list please?
Sure! By my count these are all the players knocked out completely, along with how many times they were rostered at the start of the season.

Davante Adams​
68​
David Bell​
54​
Ian Book​
1​
Pharaoh Brown​
16​
Andy Dalton​
7​
Evan Hull​
28​
Josh Johnson​
5​
Jawhar Jordan​
16​
J.J. McCarthy​
33​
Elijah Moore​
60​
Rondale Moore​
49​
Brandon Powell​
17​
Deneric Prince​
43​
Isaiah Spiller​
40​
Cedric Tillman​
48​
Kadarius Toney​
62​
Tommy Tremble​
45​
Carson Wentz​
16​
Roman Wilson​
37​
 
Looked at my team Sunday morning and concluded it was done.

No QB this week was the biggest issue.

Second issue was known zero's from Kittle, James Conner, Tyrone Tracy, Nabers, Rice and McMillan.

Went ahead and added in zero's from Wicks and Vidal bringing my total zero's to 11 on a 24 team roster.

Checked this morning just to make it official and saw I actually made.

Looks like one of the lower scoring Taysom teams with a 168.4 but I made it. As a longtime Kamara owner I got to say this guy has annoyed me for years but today I'm a fan.
 
Ghost entry (elim week 6) continues on to week 12. I'm curious what the cut line would have been without Taysom's performance this week.

I've scored 284.2 from flex slots this year... flex was particularly strong the first 4 weeks (averaged 32.6).

Unused money is Samaje Perine, Dylan Laube (might get a shot this week!), Graham Gano, and Hayden Hurst. Only real dead money from injuries is Rashee Rice.
 
Ghost entry (elim week 6) continues on to week 12. I'm curious what the cut line would have been without Taysom's performance this week.

I've scored 284.2 from flex slots this year... flex was particularly strong the first 4 weeks (averaged 32.6).

Unused money is Samaje Perine, Dylan Laube (might get a shot this week!), Graham Gano, and Hayden Hurst. Only real dead money from injuries is Rashee Rice.
If you give Taysom a 0, and everyone else stays the same. The cutline drops to 142.25. 10.7 points is a lot for one player, but I thought it would be more.
 

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