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- Thread starter David Dodds
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Thanks. I thought that team was yours. I thought I had fallen into second or maybe even third place but I added something wrong and was pleased to see I'm still in first overall by 4 points. I tempered my enthusiasm after week 14 but I'm pumped now. To go into week 16 of a free contest with a chance at $20k is the greatest gift the fantasy gods have ever bestowed upon me.
RenegadeGM
Footballguy
9th place in Week 15 to move up about 100 places to #32. Way too far behind to win, but looks like I'll win some cash money!
isiahcleaves
Footballguy
I'm in 25th place.
In order to somehow get in the top 10, I'd need huge weeks from Palmer, Peterson, Jennings, Olsen, and... oh yeah... more than 1 friggin point from my kicker.
I would think the top 9 are the only ones with realistic chances at winning the big prize based on their current point standing.
In order to somehow get in the top 10, I'd need huge weeks from Palmer, Peterson, Jennings, Olsen, and... oh yeah... more than 1 friggin point from my kicker.
I would think the top 9 are the only ones with realistic chances at winning the big prize based on their current point standing.
The $35,000 will be paid out as follows:
1st Place: $20,000 + lifetime subscription to Footballguys.com + Titlecraft Trophy
2nd Place: $4,600 + 3-year subscription to Footballguys.com
3rd Place: $2,500 + 3-year subscription to Footballguys.com
4th Place: $1,500 + 3-year subscription to Footballguys.com
5th Place: $1,000 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
6th place: $500 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
7th place: $300 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
8th place: $200 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
9th place: $125 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
10th place: $75 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
11th - 15th place: $50
16th - 30th place: $40
31st - 100th place: $30
101st place - 150th place: $25
Going to be a nervous weekend for a handful of folks. The dropoff from 1st to 2nd would pay for a cheap car. $4600 for 2nd is nothing to sneeze at... an off weekend from your kicker and defense and your nice 4 digit payday turns into a nice dinner.
It would be interesting to hear from any of the top ten about how they are going spend their weekend. If it was me, I probably wouldn't even watch football and would check back in after the MNF game is over.
1st Place: $20,000 + lifetime subscription to Footballguys.com + Titlecraft Trophy
2nd Place: $4,600 + 3-year subscription to Footballguys.com
3rd Place: $2,500 + 3-year subscription to Footballguys.com
4th Place: $1,500 + 3-year subscription to Footballguys.com
5th Place: $1,000 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
6th place: $500 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
7th place: $300 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
8th place: $200 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
9th place: $125 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
10th place: $75 + 2010 subscription to Footballguys.com
11th - 15th place: $50
16th - 30th place: $40
31st - 100th place: $30
101st place - 150th place: $25
Going to be a nervous weekend for a handful of folks. The dropoff from 1st to 2nd would pay for a cheap car. $4600 for 2nd is nothing to sneeze at... an off weekend from your kicker and defense and your nice 4 digit payday turns into a nice dinner.
It would be interesting to hear from any of the top ten about how they are going spend their weekend. If it was me, I probably wouldn't even watch football and would check back in after the MNF game is over.
smackdaddies
Footballguy
Not so - all I need is Matt Flynn to be the QB, throwing 12 TD's to Jennings (and 36 passes), Witten to finally play like his adp, Brees to sit out by Devery Henderson to have Jennings numbers, and DWill actually playing football, and I am pretty sure that I can win this.Oh, and Javon Walker needs to have a good game
I come up with nine 24 player rosters in the top 10 and one 23 player roster. So much for the theory that the stud ladened 20 player rosters were built for the last three weeks. The first 20 player roster is in 11th place and carry two wwekly zeros. The only advantage I see here is ADP as all his other studs are covered by the teams above him.
I've always thought that 2 QBs was the way to go if you want to win this contest. The 3 QB teams survive at a better rate, but the third QB becomes dead weight when you need to post big numbers. Six of the top ten have rostered 2 QBs. Three of the remaining four have Leinart who was useless to them. Those guys are probably wishing they had spent that $4 on harrison/Meachum/Finley/etc. This may not be statistically significant, but it does counter balance the statements from many others posted here that have stuck in my head saying next year three QBs is a must.
I've always thought that 2 QBs was the way to go if you want to win this contest. The 3 QB teams survive at a better rate, but the third QB becomes dead weight when you need to post big numbers. Six of the top ten have rostered 2 QBs. Three of the remaining four have Leinart who was useless to them. Those guys are probably wishing they had spent that $4 on harrison/Meachum/Finley/etc. This may not be statistically significant, but it does counter balance the statements from many others posted here that have stuck in my head saying next year three QBs is a must.
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Hey there Doug. Is there a blimp in your sim? The 51-100 column takes a huge jump from team 16-17. I could understand that just looking at those two teams, but it also captures the teams around them.Also this team (currently 133 spot) http://subscribers.footballguys.com/contest/2009/109790.php has a chance (albeit slim) at taking the top prize. Taking his best scores at each position for the entire year you come up with 315 pts. I'm not sure that would be enough to jump all the people in front of him. The odds of all those best scores lining up in the same week have to astronomical. I ran out of zeros on my calculator.
I do wonder if this season might prove to be the exception and not the norm. I don't know stats on this but this year seems like a pretty healthy year for the top tier QB's. Going off memory I can only think of one pre-season top 10 QB who missed more than one game and that was Mcnabb out for two games. Looking at the general pre-season top 10 QB list I only come up with 4 games due missed in total due to injury with Warner and Rothlisberger missing one apiece and for that matter Ben was not a consensus top 10 preseason fantasy QB. So not knowing past stats 4 missed game in total for your top 10+ QB's seems better than usual. The part I'd worry about next year is half of the games missed were due to concussion. I can't say for certain but I think both Warner and Big Ben would not have missed a game with concussion symptoms last year or even earlier this year. It's only been a short time since the concussion policy changes and it's had a huge impact on missed games already for QB's and other positions as well. I fear next year the concussion policy is going to lead to more missed games for key NFL players than possibly ever before.
I have a .04 percent chance of finishing first. So your saying I have a chance.
The Amalgamated
Footballguy
8th place team here -- no one above me has Sproles!
It looks like a two-horse race
Team 102834 is in the clubhouse with a (roughly) 3-point lead over 109769, which has Earl Bennett and Percy Harvin minus 10.4 and 13.0, and Gould -12. Talk about a nail-biter!
Meanwhile Team 109063 could win it with an epic performace from Shiancoe, Team 107019 is holding onto a slim hope of a multi-TD game by the Vikings' D, Team 108773 needs a huge effort from Cutler, and a few other teams have a tiny chance.
Team 102834 is in the clubhouse with a (roughly) 3-point lead over 109769, which has Earl Bennett and Percy Harvin minus 10.4 and 13.0, and Gould -12. Talk about a nail-biter!
Meanwhile Team 109063 could win it with an epic performace from Shiancoe, Team 107019 is holding onto a slim hope of a multi-TD game by the Vikings' D, Team 108773 needs a huge effort from Cutler, and a few other teams have a tiny chance.
smackdaddies
Footballguy
out of the money - W1 140ish (bad) W2 180ish (respectable) W3 120ish (epic fail)
My team was good enough to get to the finals, however with no RB left, 1 qb, 1 kicker, my team now sucks.
Better question - of those with a chance to win it all, how many did they start with on their roster?
My team was good enough to get to the finals, however with no RB left, 1 qb, 1 kicker, my team now sucks.
Better question - of those with a chance to win it all, how many did they start with on their roster?
I had a question on the scoring for this event. Are negative yards not added into a players total? For instance Miles Austin caught 9 balls for 92 yards and ran one time for -13 yards. I added it up as him having 16.9 points but without adding in the negative yards he's at 18.2. The team currently in first had Austin and I'm chasing him and have Desean Jackson who also lost 3 yards on a run and his total does not reflect the 3 yard loss. If we add negative yards I trail by 1.1 points but if we don't add negative yards I trail by 2.1 points and would like to know for sure before the Monday Night Game so I know what what to root for.
You should PM Dodds and Drinen ASAP. You don't want this thin to go final before they address your question.GL tonite...which guys do you have going that we can root for???
Negative yards do count. Austin has 16.9 and Jackson has 13.0 for this week.
The Amalgamated
Footballguy
Go Shiancoe!
Thanks. Drinen responded before I could get this message out and negative scoring does count.So I trail by 1.1 points. I have a few ways to make it up. Schilens is in as one of my WR's with 10.4 points and I have Harvin and Earl Bennett going so if one of them hits 11.5 it would get me there. Secondly I have Prater in as my Kicker with 12 points and have Gould going so 14 points from him would do the trick. I would add there are two other teams with an outside chance of making up the ground but I'm focusing on the scenario above. Team 107019 which entered this week in second place looks like they could pass me with either 31.23 points from the Vikes D or 27.13 points from the Vikes D if Harvin hits 15.8 points or more and Bennett and Gould don't add to my totals. With Cutler at QB and Harvin in the return game I'd have to say this does concern me. Team 109063 can pass me with 34.55 points from Shiancoe or 29.75 points from Shiancoe if Harvin hits 15.8 or more and Bennett and Gould don't add to my total.I won't say I won't be disappointed to not win but this has sure been fun either way. I went into last nights game with about a 6 point lead and Romo while the team trailing me had Austin. I left that game trailing by a point or two but it sure was exciting to watch and I'm looking forward to more excitement tonight. Having something fantasy football related with fairly high stakes involved entering the MNF game in week 16 is pretty cool. So either way thanks to Footballguys.com for this contest.
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Sweet. So I trail by only 1.1 points. ETA the www.fantasystar.com website is not calculating the negative points for lost yardage.
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The Amalgamated
Footballguy
Everybody loves an underdog ... root for Shiancoe!
Sure...how many points do you need from him? Something like a career year in one nite???
It's not totally out of the question. Assuming The Amalgamated is 109063, then he needs Shiancoe to get about 24 and Earl Bennett, Percy Harvin, and Robbie Gould to all stay in single digits or close to it.EDIT: he also needs to Vikings D to stay under 20 or so. And a decent day from the Vikings D combined with a huge day from Cutler could hurt him too.BassNBrew said:
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The Amalgamated
Footballguy
yep, that's me! Wow I can't believe that. Sorry about the short posts but I'm checking this between holiday travel, visiting the inlaws and keeping an eye on my brother's blogging about the birth of his first child and doing it from my iPhone. What an incredible finish and (of course) great contest. Thanks footballguys!
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I think you need Shiancoe to add 24 points to your total not score 24 points. So he'd need to better Finley's 12.5 by close to 24 points. I think this is correct but Drinen can verify. I was wrong earlier about my total as I thought I trailed first place by 1.1 points but Drinen pointed out I trail by 2.3 points so maybe it's possible I'm wrong again but I see you as scoring 166.65 points this week which got you 5.75 points closer to me and currently trailing me by 21.5 points and the overall leader by 23.8. Finley gave you 12.5 from your TE spot and Rice 16 as your flex so any improvement over 12.5 would go towards your TE position which is why I think you need Shiancoe to score 36.3 to tie for first place. I understand you have Harvin but I do as well and I would actually gain more from him than you would if he produces. For me he would replace Schilens 10.4 but the best player he could replace for you is VJAX's 12.3.Anyway good luck and enjoy the game. I did not say any of this to burst you bubble just would hate to see someone celebrate and find out later they did not win which is why I'm very glad Drinen pointed out my error earlier.
The Amalgamated
Footballguy
Thanks for the update. Your number sounds right t o me (36ish). We'll see if the Turk can verify. Either way good luck to you tonight. It going to fun either way!
Yes. Meno is correct and I am a dope. Shiancoe does indeed need around 36 points for you to win.
The Amalgamated
Footballguy
36 it is! No one said it would be easy.
That's the spirit!
Matt Waldman
Footballguy
Good luck fellas...don't know who to root for, but looking forward to seeing who takes it.
Career half coming up....
I see you here dude. That takes some stones. GL!!!
The Amalgamated
Footballguy
Career quarter?
The Amalgamated
Footballguy
And Shiancoe appears to be done -- and my longshot chance too. Wow that was fun. Congrats to the winner!
Angry Cheesehead
Compulsive Gambler
Will we have final results tonight? Or have to wait until morning? 
Career OT comeback from injury????
