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Who said he changed his team from week to week? To my knowledge, the contest was locked before the first game and NO ONE could change their rosters. I suspect he had this lineup from the begining. You are all overreacting, all they need to do is run some sort of routine to disqualify all of the people who have illegal lineups and then run the results from week 1, 2, 3 and 4 again. I'm confident they'll sort it out, hold off with the conspiracy theories though.
If there is only 1 hack, it would not affect week 1 or week 2. I searched the results and in week 1 8001 people made it. Minus the hack and it's 8000 like it should have been. Week 2 was 6001 and minus the hack 6000. I couldn't find a corrected score list in a hread so week 3 could be iffy.So as long as there is only one hack, there may not be a problem.
Espeically with the stat hounds in this forum. Hundreds of guys search those results and view teams. If there is a cheater, someone in the contest will find it.This week was easy with him winning it. But I'm sure more people will be searching other than the leaders teams from now on. I know I've search about 30 so far today.
So you think a person who is capable of hacking and went so far as to cheat (assuming this has happend) did not submit multiple teams knowing his chances are greater then most at winning 15k?Have you much experience with internet cheaters and hackers while participating in other online games?
Correct.
Correct.All rosters and teams should have been released before the first games were played.
1. Already been addressed. And, I'm sure they will reinstate anyone who was bumped when the shouldn't have2. It is generally a poor idea with web software to use only client side Java Script as your only error checking as this can easily be defeated. However, the contest rules were crystal clear about the $200 limit and no way this clown could have made a mistake and come up with $460 roster. No one is that stupid, and if they are then they should be DQ'd for being that dumb. No reason to start over.
Yes it is. The rules were clear on a $200 cap. If the rules were not followed how is it anyones fault other than the one who broke them?
So you are saying that you are the hacker.The hacker did not do this to win. Don't you think that someone would think to check the values of the players of the winning roster? No, the hacker did this to compromise the contest.
Because only he knows the reasons. As well as the number of entries. There could be several subtle ones as well as this this not so subtle entry. And being on the subject of hacking, why not just change his line up as he see's fit each week? Sorry, but I see lots of hacking/cheating in various online games that I play, and to underestimate the possibilities is to make yet another mistake.I do hope this is not the case here at FBGs.i didnt count my dollars as i was going, i put in something in the ball park of 200 and then made adjustments. If i went over 200 the first time i wouldnt have noticed if it allowed me to do so.
Nice to see a Delaware fan. You are a Delaware fan, right? All Michigan fans know that helmet was ripped off from the Fightin Blue Hens!I also put in exceeded the cap the first time i enterd my team, and it wouldnt allow me to enter my team. I made the adjustments from that and got to $200.
uh, no, that would make it appear he had somethng to do with the rigging of the contest.
We should certainly give them a chance to figure out and explain the problem...and, of course, what other choice is there? But if they stop the contest somebody is going to claim they only joined FBG to enter, that they had a legit shot at winning, and that they are entitled to something more than their 20 bucks back. Plus, stopping the contest is an overreaction if the problem can be fixed.
Why would I want to do that? If there's an error (and there certainly seems to be) the only recourse is to correct it. Covering up or hoping something blows over would be stupid. Every card is already out on the table. It's not like people forgot what roster they submitted or something. This contest is simply one big math exercise. It's in the open. Here's the rosters, everyone knows what players scored each week. It would be impossible to cover anything up.
Exactly. This thing is one big math exercise. There is no switching of rosters and, as far as I know (Joe?) no way that rosters can be altered. So you just eliminate the bogus entries, explain why/how they occurred, and re-run the results. Some people will be back in and, perhaps, some may be out that otherwise would have been in (if player A is back in in week 2, and outscores player B in week 3, Player B could be gone as a result). To suggest that Joe and Co. would engage in a coverup is an insult to them and to everyone here (most of us are not stupid enough to fall for a coverup, since all the number exist for everyone to see).
Man, some people are such boneheads 
