FFA Wagering Thread: THERE HE IS!@! (5 Viewers)

[Good Posting Judge]

Let's do a separate thread. If Tim can have a thread for his leag, so can we.

Also, still keeping the Capping Contest thing in mind. I'm thinking $100 per, close to the SuperContest rules as possible, except the proceeds aren't necessarily dedicated to an entry into the real SuperContest. It's just too tough logistically to get into that thing, even for someone like me who lives relatively close to LV.

 

[tonydead]

I'd really like to donate my $ in a capping contest if there is room.

I'm lukewarm on a fantasy league, but, if you find yourself stuck with an odd number I'd jump in.

Also, preseason junkie play tomorrow:

Seahawks -2.5

Seahawks are 8-0 straight up and 8-0 ATS the past two years in preseason

 

[John Bender]

lol

Let me drink about it.

I might start feeling more motivated after a few glasses of bourbon tonight.

I assume season long and weekly sidebets will be encouraged?

Absolutely.

I think we beg Lumpy and GooRoo to join up every year and they always turn us down.

I'll set it up later tonight most likely.

Chain can post is paypal addy on the league website and go from there.

The question then becomes, when to draft?

Slow draft in this thread would be very tough to keep track of. Don't want to start my own thread. How's that Mock Drafts R Us forum work? Will I get a computer virus from opening it?

Also, we could just pick a random weeknight and see if everyone could be on. That sounds like herding cats thought.

#### - I think I just talked myself back out of running this bad larry.

One of the owners in the league has hired me as a General Manager, so I will definitely be a participant this year!

For a $100 dollar league? Really?

 

[Raider Nation]

Truck, can I just throw a stick in the mail for you? I transferred $100 to my PayPal account today to take care of Saw but I forgot about the capping contest.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Truck, can I just throw a stick in the mail for you? I transferred $100 to my PayPal account today to take care of Saw but I forgot about the capping contest.

I was going to make a thread and hopefully get a lot of people involved (non-FFAWT dudes included), which made me think that someone like Rude would be best to hold the money? I'm also planning on starting it maybe a couple weeks out from Week 1, it's not like we've gotta draft or anything.

 

[Raider Nation]

NP, I'll just transfer more since there is no rush.

 

[TheGooRoo]

Played Salazar o 5.5 -120

 

[lumpy19]

lol

Let me drink about it.

I might start feeling more motivated after a few glasses of bourbon tonight.

I assume season long and weekly sidebets will be encouraged?

Absolutely.I think we beg Lumpy and GooRoo to join up every year and they always turn us down.

I'll set it up later tonight most likely.

Chain can post is paypal addy on the league website and go from there.

The question then becomes, when to draft?

Slow draft in this thread would be very tough to keep track of. Don't want to start my own thread. How's that Mock Drafts R Us forum work? Will I get a computer virus from opening it?

Also, we could just pick a random weeknight and see if everyone could be on. That sounds like herding cats thought.

#### - I think I just talked myself back out of running this bad larry.

I think I'm in. I'm starting grad school in the fall and won't be betting on sports(hopefully) so a side league with the ffawt regs might calm the shakes on the weekends.

 

[derek245583]

I'll probably get it set up.

My eyes hurt trying to look at the leagues with openings in the Looking for Leagues forum

*19th year dynasty - 30 teams - IDP - Double Punter with 2 openings - $500 dollars!

*Unique dutch auction double down survivor best ball scramble Stableford scoring LINEBACKERS ONLY LEAGUE - $100

*Combined NASCAR/NFL Super Countest! - $50

*Kalamazoo Local 1st year Auction League with no Quarterback position! $200

*Reverse three fingered mcgillicutty scoring system league with round robin random trades made every week! - $25

*ESPN 64 Team Super Fantasy Football Contest! - $500

 

[TheGooRoo]

Interesting bet here. Like RGIII here but Julio if he stays good could take it I think. Could see Gronk going nuts too. Guess too hard to tell now

2014-15 NFL Comeback Player of the Year
08:00 PM 301 Robert Griffin III +150 302 Julio Jones +250 304 Percy Harvin +500 305 Field (Any Other Player) +300 306 Rob Gronkowski +500

Muuuuuuuuch better odds at SB here. Griffin +600, Jones +700, Harvin +1500, Gronk +1000. About 20 others listed.

 

[swirvenirvin]

Interesting bet here. Like RGIII here but Julio if he stays good could take it I think. Could see Gronk going nuts too. Guess too hard to tell now

2014-15 NFL Comeback Player of the Year
08:00 PM 301 Robert Griffin III +150 302 Julio Jones +250 304 Percy Harvin +500 305 Field (Any Other Player) +300 306 Rob Gronkowski +500

Muuuuuuuuch better odds at SB here. Griffin +600, Jones +700, Harvin +1500, Gronk +1000. About 20 others listed.

Yeah I didnt touch those, the more I look the tougher these are. It Rivers won last yr so it doesnt have to be a guy who was hurt so lots of options

 

[ChainsawU]

You can argue that Peavy is better during the day. Since 2013 he owns a 4.85 ERA at night versus a 3.52 ERA during the day. Peavy has a 2.54 ERA in 10 career starts versus the Brewers, but his team is only 0-3 SU in their actual games in Milwaukee. That sucks. Even so, Sandoval, Pagan, Belt,and Crawford are all batting over .400 versus Peralta, albeit in only a handful of AB's. But Pagan is back in the lineup tomorrow. HPU Alan Porter started the season 14-4 to the under, but has turned that trend around and has since gone 3-0 to the over L3 with 11,11,10 runs in his L3 games. I'm thinking Giants and over. In his only home start versus the Giants last season Peralta allowed 6 R (5 ER) in 4.0 IP.

 

[John Bender]

You can argue that Peavy is better during the day. Since 2013 he owns a 4.85 ERA at night versus a 3.52 ERA during the day. Peavy has a 2.54 ERA in 10 career starts versus the Brewers, but his team is only 0-3 SU in their actual games in Milwaukee. That sucks. Even so, Sandoval, Pagan, Belt,and Crawford are all batting over .400 versus Peralta, albeit in only a handful of AB's. But Pagan is back in the lineup tomorrow. HPU Alan Porter started the season 14-4 to the under, but has turned that trend around and has since gone 3-0 to the over L3 with 11,11,10 runs in his L3 games. I'm thinking Giants and over. In his only home start versus the Giants last season Peralta allowed 6 R (5 ER) in 4.0 IP.

I tried setting up the league in Yahoo but the settings were confusing too.

I jumped ship when it was asking me from 6 choices about how waivers should be processed. This #### makes my head hurt.

Not sure why I quoted your post to make that point either. Chain> hey (you should set us up the leeg)

 

[Dan Lambskin]

#### it...I'll set it up

On me your emails

 

[ChainsawU]

I'll do it. Live draft on the evening/night of the 23rd cool? That's a Saturday. That gives us two weeks. I'm down for the simple scoring system too, so that won't be an issue.

Mr. Lambskin is doing it.

 

[ChainsawU]

My high-school buddy is an actor in San Antonio. Grew up with this dude.

School was out on Tuesday. My dude is coming through here tomorrow night and staying until Saturday. Might want to fade me until I detox, which will be roughly Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Once I get that poison in me it gets real.

 

[John Bender]

#### it...I'll set it up

On me your emails

You should be able to just post the League ID and password here.

Either way, I'll PM you my email and I've got 25 bucks of your buy in for doing this. No arguments on that either.

 

[got_nugs]

I woulda demanded fiddy.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I'll do it. Live draft on the evening/night of the 23rd cool? That's a Saturday. That gives us two weeks. I'm down for the simple scoring system too, so that won't be an issue.

Mr. Lambskin is doing it.

I set it up for offline draft though

12 teams 2 divisions 4 playoff teams (schedule will be unbalanced but oh well...NFL is too)

QB RB RB WR WR FLEX TE DEF K 6 bench slots (was gonna add a D Line slot for schtick but decided against it)

6 pts all TD's, no PPR

Cool?

 

[John Bender]

I'll do it. Live draft on the evening/night of the 23rd cool? That's a Saturday. That gives us two weeks. I'm down for the simple scoring system too, so that won't be an issue.

Mr. Lambskin is doing it.

I set it up for offline draft though

12 teams 2 divisions 4 playoff teams (schedule will be unbalanced but oh well...NFL is too)

QB RB RB WR WR FLEX TE DEF K 6 bench slots (was gonna add a D Line slot for schtick but decided against it)

6 pts all TD's, no PPR

Cool?

Sounds perfect IMO

 

[Dan Lambskin]

#### it...I'll set it up

On me your emails

You should be able to just post the League ID and password here.

Either way, I'll PM you my email and I've got 25 bucks of your buy in for doing this. No arguments on that either.

looks like I gives me an URL https://yho.com/nfl?l=639799&k=19f419f1b88481a7

let me know who you are so I can boot any non FFAWT regulars

Chain still holding the $ for everyone?

 

[Dan Lambskin]

prize structure?

75% to champ, 25% runner up?

I'm open to whatever though

 

[John Bender]

Signed up.

Chain - please sign up and post your paypal on the message board GB.

Also - would be nice if people could reference their board name in their team name so we know what's what.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

also I assume we can do a slow draft in another thread here? does anyone else mind setting it up? I'm on mobile 90% of the time so I was hoping someone else could mod that thread and keep a nice tally of who's been picked

 

[John Bender]

prize structure?

75% to champ, 25% runner up?

I'm open to whatever though

Let's see how many teams we end up with

If 10, top 2 seems reasonable.

If 12, top 3 seems reasonable.

IMOs

 

[John Bender]

also I assume we can do a slow draft in another thread here? does anyone else mind setting it up? I'm on mobile 90% of the time so I was hoping someone else could mod that thread and keep a nice tally of who's been picked

If someone starts the thread, I'll post in the 2nd and 3rd posts of it and keep track of things.

I don't like starting new threads - call it a phobia. But I'm happy to keep the log.

 

[NIU Kicker]

You can count me in, but I'm bust the whole weekend of the 23d. A slow FFA draft would work best for me.

 

[John Bender]

Yeah I think we're leaning towards slow draft - which we should get started soon.

It's just too difficult to get a bunch of iNerds together at the same time.

I'm gone both the weekend of the 23rd and Labor Day weekend.

That's why I originally suggested a random Tuesday or Wednesday night or a slow draft.

We just need to start that draft, I'd say, within the next week or so.

Man for someone who didn't want to be commish, I'm sure throwing out a lot of opinions.

 

[John Bender]

Ok - chain posted his paypal on the yahoo board.

I'll go through tomorrow and PM all the people that showed interest.

 

[John Bender]

100 sent for me

25 sent for Lambs

 

[Dan Lambskin]

also I assume we can do a slow draft in another thread here? does anyone else mind setting it up? I'm on mobile 90% of the time so I was hoping someone else could mod that thread and keep a nice tally of who's been picked

If someone starts the thread, I'll post in the 2nd and 3rd posts of it and keep track of things.

I don't like starting new threads - call it a phobia. But I'm happy to keep the log.

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=710030

100 sent for me

25 sent for Lambs

i'll get mine out tomorrow

 

[lumpy19]

Hard knocks is sooooooooooo good

 

[John Bender]

Hard knocks is sooooooooooo good

Nevermind that

Get yo rear end signed up for the LEEG, imo.

 

[Angry Beavers]

Signed up. Just let me know who to PayPal and I'll take care of it. TIA

 

[John Bender]

Signed up. Just let me know who to PayPal and I'll take care of it. TIA

Check leeg message board. Paypal addy is there.

Chain - keep that thread updated if you would with who's paid.

 

[got_nugs]

I'll pay when I get around to it or on Thursday.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I also made trades no waiting period, commish approval

I don't think any of us would collude and I would just put everything through, but if enough people want me to make it standard 2 day league vote or whatever let me know and I'll change it.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Someone be my partner.

 

[John Bender]

Would love to see Dr D get involved.

I'll email RN. He should have a guaranteed spot.

After RN and Dr D - 4 spots left? Going fast people!

 

[swirvenirvin]

eliminate kickers!

 

[Doctor Detroit]

I'm taking partner calls as we speak.

 

[tonydead]

Would love to see Dr D get involved.

I'll email RN. He should have a guaranteed spot.

After RN and Dr D - 4 spots left? Going fast people!

Talked me into it if that's ok, would be embarrassed to sign up just to get booted.

 

[John Bender]

Would love to see Dr D get involved.

I'll email RN. He should have a guaranteed spot.

After RN and Dr D - 4 spots left? Going fast people!

Talked me into it if that's ok, would be embarrassed to sign up just to get booted.

Make it happen! No one here is getting booted IMO

 

[tonydead]

Would love to see Dr D get involved.

I'll email RN. He should have a guaranteed spot.

After RN and Dr D - 4 spots left? Going fast people!

Talked me into it if that's ok, would be embarrassed to sign up just to get booted.

Make it happen! No one here is getting booted IMO

Paid. If it's my turn and I'm too slow on the slow draft just email me. Works been a btch lately.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

I'll partner up wif somebody. have enough leagues already but always up for more shtick.

 

[Tiger Fan]

using $10 free bet at SB to 7 pt tease all dogs/unders tomorrow to win $200

 

[modogg]

holy hell you guys fly fast on this thing. I think i'm throwing away 100 bones here playing with you dudes, so i will need to get another yahoo league or 2 to pay for it. went to sign up and realized i haven't signed into yahoo for years. so i'll be in there soon

ETA: haven't caught up on everything but i'm cool partnering up and whatever too.

 

[John Bender]

RaiderN is confirmed. He'll sign up late night tonight.

We have Rude looking to partner and Dr D looking to partner as well. That'd be an epic team IMO. Make it happen boysies.

 

[modogg]

RaiderN is confirmed. He'll sign up late night tonight.

We have Rude looking to partner and Dr D looking to partner as well. That'd be an epic team IMO. Make it happen boysies.

it will be fun to predict how the teams look. I am trying to figure out who will have the worst team in that league. The Rude-Dr.D team is one to keep an eye on.

the one i don't like is that we are all gamblers. My main fantasy league is a bunch of conservative ####### who barely take any chances cause they get too nervous. Everybody in this league will go balls to the wall so the gamble picks won't be as easy pickings

 

[Raider Nation]

I'm all set. Thanks for hooking us up, Lambskin. I'll settle up with Saw on Monday or Tuesday when my PayPal transfer clears.