I am betting against the Patriots.Course from the sound of it, I dont think I have enough players going into a Seattle Denver SB.QB - Peyton Manning - 29QB - Russell Wilson - 24RB - Marshawn Lynch - 20RB - Arian Foster - 19RB - Ray Rice - 19RB - Knowshon Moreno - 17RB - DuJuan Harris - 13RB - Robert Turbin - 8RB - Alex Green - 2WR - Demaryius Thomas - 24WR - Andre Johnson - 22WR - Eric Decker - 20WR - Randall Cobb - 16WR - Torrey Smith - 14WR - Deion Branch - 3
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FBG Playoff Contest this year? (1 Viewer)
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Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
I had a ####load of Niners and Pats, plus Griffin, Dalton, Luck, and Peterson. I knew I was an absurd longshot going in. Unlike the regular season contest I have no interest in "staying alive" in this one.You didn't survive week one? List your team.'Ignoratio Elenchi said:I think my favorite part of this contest is the fact that every year there seem to be tons of people who are miles away from even understanding the rules. I definitely didn't survive week 1, which is fine. My strategy was to go ballsy and risk early elimination for the potential reward of being stacked if I picked the right Super Bowl teams. No sense prolonging the inevitable.'jdoggydogg said:
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
I think they were in Vegas for the weekend. Probably lost Drinen to a bad bet and are trying to get him back to calculate the results. Sort of like The Hangover, but with a better premise.'FUBAR said:
H8fulHuck
Footballguy
'Ignoratio Elenchi said:I think my favorite part of this contest is the fact that every year there seem to be tons of people who are miles away from even understanding the rules. I definitely didn't survive week 1, which is fine. My strategy was to go ballsy and risk early elimination for the potential reward of being stacked if I picked the right Super Bowl teams. No sense prolonging the inevitable.'jdoggydogg said:
Definitely the way to go. I'll be cut right behind you week 2 barring freak results. Too many of my round 1 players are out.
SanDawg
Footballguy
NE
QB - Tom Brady - 26
RB - Stevan Ridley - 14
RB - Shane Vereen - 4
WR - Wes Welker - 17
TE - Aaron Hernandez - 19
SF
QB - Colin Kaepernick - 26
RB - Frank Gore - 15
WR - Michael Crabtree - 19
TD - San Francisco 49ers - 11
SEA
RB - Marshawn Lynch - 20
WR - Sidney Rice - 10
Balt
RB - Ray Rice - 19
WR - Torrey Smith - 14
GB
WR - Greg Jennings - 13
WR - Jordy Nelson - 13
IND
RB - Vick Ballard - 10
Only 9 for Bowl….rip away
QB - Tom Brady - 26
RB - Stevan Ridley - 14
RB - Shane Vereen - 4
WR - Wes Welker - 17
TE - Aaron Hernandez - 19
SF
QB - Colin Kaepernick - 26
RB - Frank Gore - 15
WR - Michael Crabtree - 19
TD - San Francisco 49ers - 11
SEA
RB - Marshawn Lynch - 20
WR - Sidney Rice - 10
Balt
RB - Ray Rice - 19
WR - Torrey Smith - 14
GB
WR - Greg Jennings - 13
WR - Jordy Nelson - 13
IND
RB - Vick Ballard - 10
Only 9 for Bowl….rip away
QuizGuy66
Footballguy
Some of those will be "checker-on-checker" situations where one of 'em is locked out of winning by another entry though.-QG
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
I remember going back and forth with you last year a lot because we both had a BAL/SF Super Bowl and were alive in the conference championship week and had basically the same exact players from those rosters. You definitely had more players? I thought it was something like we each had the same amount but 1 different player or something.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Ahhh. So your skeleton crew didn't score enough points to survive last weekend?I had a ####load of Niners and Pats, plus Griffin, Dalton, Luck, and Peterson. I knew I was an absurd longshot going in. Unlike the regular season contest I have no interest in "staying alive" in this one.You didn't survive week one? List your team.'Ignoratio Elenchi said:I think my favorite part of this contest is the fact that every year there seem to be tons of people who are miles away from even understanding the rules. I definitely didn't survive week 1, which is fine. My strategy was to go ballsy and risk early elimination for the potential reward of being stacked if I picked the right Super Bowl teams. No sense prolonging the inevitable.'jdoggydogg said:
Cheesedawg
Footballguy
Didn't lose any players in the first round. In retrospect, I should have more than the 7 players I bought for my NE-Sea Super Bowl. Have to hope the entries with more NE and Sea players are eliminated before the Super Bowl. If I could do it again, I'd take my 29 Peyton dollars and spend them on Sea and NE players as I think I would have enough without him to advance (theoretically). I'm picking Sea over Atl this weekend. NE beats Houston. I think GB has a good chance to beat SF. I like Den to beat Balt but I do give the Ravens a chance. Most of the inspiration for my entry was thinking that Seattle was a live dog to reach the Super Bowl. I was hoping not many other entries would bet as many as $67 on a 5-seed. Was harder to deepen my NE list because you never know who Brady will decide is the best matchup in a given week. I'm sure all of us would like to change our entry one more time (after changing it 100 times before it locked). I'd can Pierce and Manning and bet another 36 bucks on Seahawks and Pats.QB - Aaron Rodgers - 30QB - Peyton Manning - 29QB - Tom Brady - 26QB - Russell Wilson - 24RB - Marshawn Lynch - 20RB - Arian Foster - 19RB - Ray Rice - 19RB - Stevan Ridley - 14RB - Bernard Pierce - 7WR - Wes Welker - 17WR - Sidney Rice - 10WR - James Jones - 10TD - Seattle Seahawks - 13TD - Houston Texans - 12
QuizGuy66
Footballguy
Yup. Checker on Checker. There was someone else that taunted me b/c they had me covered - they got knocked out in the 2nd week though I believe.-QG
The Beezer
Footballguy
SF vs DEN - figured it was hard so a lot f people would screw it up or do something easier. QB - Peyton Manning - 29QB - Colin Kaepernick - 26RB - Marshawn Lynch - 20RB - Knowshon Moreno - 17RB - Frank Gore - 15RB - Adrian Peterson - 14RB - Alex Green - 2RB - Jacob Hester - 2WR - Demaryius Thomas - 24WR - Michael Crabtree - 19WR - Reggie Wayne - 12WR - James Jones - 10WR - Andrew Hawkins - 7WR - Brandon Tate - 3PK - Matt Prater - 13PK - Steve Hauschka - 10PK - Blair Walsh - 9PK - Adam Vinatieri - 7TD - San Francisco 49ers - 11I think I squeaked by round 1 (88-ish) and have 8 players going in round 2. 9 players ($156) if I hit my SB pick.
Given you have two bye week teams, $151 is a good chuck of cap space budgeted for the SB. You should have a chance.
apalmer
Footballguy
Went Denver-Seattle, but rolled the dice wrong hoping Indy and Minn would survive Week 1. Since they didn't, I'll need huge (as in miracle) weeks from Kuhn and Grant to get to the Superbowl. QB - Peyton Manning - 29QB - Russell Wilson - 24RB - Marshawn Lynch - 20RB - Knowshon Moreno - 17RB - Adrian Peterson - 14RB - Ryan Grant - 5RB - Evan Royster - 3RB - John Kuhn - 2WR - Demaryius Thomas - 24WR - Reggie Wayne - 12WR - Golden Tate - 12WR - Doug Baldwin - 11WR - Sidney Rice - 10WR - Donnie Avery - 7TE - Kyle Rudolph - 8PK - Matt Prater - 13PK - Steve Hauschka - 10TD - Denver Broncos - 16TD - Seattle Seahawks - 13
Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
To be perfectly honest, I don't actually know that. I haven't added up the scores and have no idea what the cut line's going to be anyway. I'm just assuming that I didn't get enough points. Even if I did, I'd almost certainly be eliminated this week anyway since all four of those players' teams lost last weekend.Ahhh. So your skeleton crew didn't score enough points to survive last weekend?I had a ####load of Niners and Pats, plus Griffin, Dalton, Luck, and Peterson. I knew I was an absurd longshot going in. Unlike the regular season contest I have no interest in "staying alive" in this one.You didn't survive week one? List your team.'Ignoratio Elenchi said:I think my favorite part of this contest is the fact that every year there seem to be tons of people who are miles away from even understanding the rules. I definitely didn't survive week 1, which is fine. My strategy was to go ballsy and risk early elimination for the potential reward of being stacked if I picked the right Super Bowl teams. No sense prolonging the inevitable.'jdoggydogg said:
5 digit know nothing
Footballguy
I realize they probably have a Vegas hangover (assuming the staff is back), but it would be nice if they got caught up on content today, got waivers at 6PM tonight and I don't have the time/too lazy to go through who to target with the new pool of players being introduced this week from last week's byes.
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
Add Tom Brady
apalmer
Footballguy
Drop RG3 to make room
Solomon Grundy
Footballguy
Seattle PK Haushka placed on IR...sorry SEA SB hopefuls...
Holy...I just noticed the information in your sig. How'd you do in that 54 mile race?That schedule is almost as crazy as those 60-year old Aussies who plan on running a marathon a day for the entire year!
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JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
at least I'm still techincally alive in the contest because results aren't out yet...
Finished.
11 hour and 49 min which was just under my 12 hour goal. I think 80-85 signed up, 50 finished, I was 37th. It was a blast until about mile 42 and then I'd had enough. At mile 32 we climbed 1000 ft in 2 mi to the top of Table Rock. Fun times for the most part.I think my definition of fun is very different from yours.Finished.
fanofthegame
Footballguy
Worried about making the cut this past weekend. If I'm lucky enough to survive it and if we see a GB/Den superbowl, I've got a shot. Picked my team quickly and planned on revisiting before the deadline but never got a chance. Only spent $247 and I hope the $3 left over doesn't bite me in the ###:QB - Aaron Rodgers - 30QB - Peyton Manning - 29RB - Arian Foster - 19RB - DuJuan Harris - 13RB - Ryan Grant - 5RB - John Kuhn - 2RB - Alex Green - 2WR - Demaryius Thomas - 24WR - Andre Johnson - 22WR - Eric Decker - 20WR - Randall Cobb - 16WR - Greg Jennings - 13WR - Jordy Nelson - 13WR - James Jones - 10PK - Matt Prater - 13TD - Denver Broncos - 16
Kuz
Footballguy
Looks like you have upper 60's low 70's by just glancing. From the talk around here you are going to be really close
Erin Go Bragh
Footballguy
QB - Aaron Rodgers - 30QB - Peyton Manning - 29QB - Russell Wilson - 24RB - Marshawn Lynch - 20RB - Ray Rice - 19RB - Knowshon Moreno - 17RB - John Kuhn - 2RB - Jacob Hester - 2WR - Demaryius Thomas - 24WR - Eric Decker - 20WR - Brandon Stokley - 11WR - Sidney Rice - 10TE - Zach Miller - 7TE - Anthony McCoy - 6PK - Matt Prater - 13TD - Denver Broncos - 16
For me, it would have been a blast until about mile 5. My wife is a distance runner, and I find it difficult trying to make my fast twitch fibers slow then hell down when I try to keep pace with her. She wonders why I keep suggesting that we go to the track and run 200s and 400s. Ha. Good for you, man.Finished.
ShutdownStranger80
Footballguy
Never in my wildest dreams would I imagine people running 54 milesFinished.
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
still alive!
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
Where are you seeing that?
Not a lot of Thursday morning left.
Ouch your team looks pretty tough if SEA/DEN does happen. In another league I went GB/NEP so I wanted to spread out my chances instead of double down. I went GB/DEN in a 3rd league.We both have ARod and Rice as key players to help us get there. I have Jennings/Branch and you have Kuhn as differences. His big game was huge for you ... hope I make the cut.If we both make the Superbowl you have Hester, Stokley, McCoy, Prater, Broncos that I don't while I have GTate, Seahawks, Dreesen that you don't.My best chance is probably Tate/Jennings blowing up in week 2/3 and you missing a cut that I make ... if we both make the Superbowl you probably beat me.
Sake-Bombers
Footballguy
As I'm waiting for these to post, I just have a feeling the entries were low this year. Can you imagine how different your strategy would be if there was no week one cutoff?
Warrior
Footballguy
If the Broncos and Packers make the superbowl, I'll have the following players on my team (assuming I make the cut):Aaron RodgersGreg JenningsRandall CobbJermichael FinleyPeyton ManningDemariyus ThomasEric DeckerKnowshon MorenoAnyone else have all 8 of these players as well (and maybe more)?
Kuz
Footballguy
I can almost guarantee that people will have more than those 8.. Since the Packers played in the Wild Card Round they probably will be a popular pick. Someone will probably have at least 12 players from those two teams
Warrior
Footballguy
I'm not worried about sheer # from those two teams. Many teams with 10-12 Denver and GB players will be eliminated in the next cuts because they focused too much $ on those teams and will waste too many points. What I'm worried about it someone who has those exact 8 and completely overlaps my team, plus a kicker or defense or a cheap player like Kuhn.I'm reasonably sure that anyone who went with 'at least 12 players from those two teams' will be eliminated before the final cut.
WildGeneral
Footballguy
I've got:Aaron Rodgers
Greg Jennings
Randall Cobb
Jordy Nelson
DuJuan Harris
John Kuhn
Peyton Manning
Demariyus Thomas
Eric Decker
Knowshon Moreno
Brandon Stokley
It doesn't matter who we all have if we don't advance to Week #2 (and so on)...which, at this rate, we may never know.
[i got ~ 81 points in Week #1]
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I'm 99% sure that your statement is incorrect.
Kuz
Footballguy
Me too - If one of the Wild card teams makes the final there will be teams with 12 guys left..
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
Agree. There are a number of cheap players available for each team. They give you numbers for the SB but don't count much against the cap. I'm surprised how many people took 4-6 players for their SB teams but few if any cheap guys from those teams. I think that makes it much more difficult to have the $ left for getting to the SB. And surprising guys can score in the playoffs. Kuhn had a great game last week and Robinson scored for SEA.
Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
XThat's the inherent advantage to picking a wild card team to make the Super Bowl, you don't have to spend as much elsewhere to get through week 1, which is the biggest hurdle when loading up on Super Bowl-bound players. Go look at the final standings for last year. All the top teams had like 10-12 players between NYG and NE - and not a bunch of $2 guys, either. They all had Brady, Manning, Gronkowski, Cruz, etc. IMO eight players is not going to get it done if it's a DEN-GB Super Bowl, because GB played last week. Eight players might be enough if you were picking DEN-SF or something like that, although it still probably wouldn't get the job done.
Warrior
Footballguy
I'm going under a couple of assumptions:1) Significantly more entries this season, resulting in a higher cut line and more difficulty in moving on. FBG seems to be growing. This very well may be incorrect, but if I'm right, it will be more difficult to make the cut with a roster very heavily weighted (11 or 12+ players) toward the two superbowl teams.
2) Lets say Den and GB make the Super Bowl. If #1 above is correct, then you'll need very solid producton from the Arian Fosters, Ray Rices, Julio Jones', Wes Welkers, etc. to make the next couple rounds of cuts. That means that more and more teams with diversified rosters are going to move on and less rosters heavily weighted towards the 2 SB teams will make it. John Kuhn, Mason Crosby, Matt Prater, the GB Defense, Brandon Stokley, etc. probably are all going to get you 0's and that may not cut it with higher cut lines than in the past.
Another thing this ultimately comes down to is WHICH players from Den and GB put up huge numbers. Take GB for example: If Rodgers throws 5 TD passes to Greg Jennings, I'm screwed, because those 12 player teams (who likely all have Jennings) are getting into the next round too. If Rodgers throws 1 to Jennings, 1 to Nelson, 1 to Jones, 1 to Cobb, etc. then I have a lot better chance of those 12 player teams getting axed.
This could be trouble...here's hoping I'm correct on assumption #1 and teams like this don't make the first cut (nothing personal!) or get eliminated in the coming weeks. Or that Jermichael Finley goes off in the Super Bowl!
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There is if you're still in Vegas
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
Why don't you just use the querier to see how many people have 10-12 Den/GB players? 
