Varmint
Footballguy
I've run the same league for the past ten years with pretty much the same ownership involved in the fourteen teams. Scoring rule have not been altered for seven years....
Some of the phone calls I receive simply baffle me.....for example...
I come home last night and notice that I missed a call from one of the league's franchise owners. He's a great owner...very active and owns a resturaunt....therefore, is very generous when it comes to contributing food at our annual auction.
His division is very tight and any one of the seven teams have a shot at the playoffs. With a loss in Week 10, this owner's team is cast into a bloodbath of four teams fighting for the 4th playoff spot.
He calls to ask just HOW did Peyton Manning (QB of the team who just defeated him) score 6 pts.
I explain the scoring based on the scoring rules that have been in place for 7 years...
2 td's.....6pts
328 yds....4pts
2 pt conv...2pts
6 ints.... -6 pts.
Total.....6 pts
That is his point.
He wonders just HOW can a QB who throws 6 ints end up with 6 pts??
I offered the gambit of reasons...
"he overcame"....
"his later performance helped him"
"he would have had 12 pts without those ints"
He rambled on about RB's and 6 fumbles and stuff like that..
...the rambings of an owner seeing his season slip away from him....
I put the ball in his court...
"what would you like to see?"
"how many pts do you think he should have?"
No answer....he just wants me to "take a look a the scoring that penalizes a QB -6 pts for 6 ints....."
Ok..I looked......
...moving on...
...maybe he was drunk.
Some of the phone calls I receive simply baffle me.....for example...
I come home last night and notice that I missed a call from one of the league's franchise owners. He's a great owner...very active and owns a resturaunt....therefore, is very generous when it comes to contributing food at our annual auction.
His division is very tight and any one of the seven teams have a shot at the playoffs. With a loss in Week 10, this owner's team is cast into a bloodbath of four teams fighting for the 4th playoff spot.
He calls to ask just HOW did Peyton Manning (QB of the team who just defeated him) score 6 pts.
I explain the scoring based on the scoring rules that have been in place for 7 years...
2 td's.....6pts
328 yds....4pts
2 pt conv...2pts
6 ints.... -6 pts.
Total.....6 pts
That is his point.
He wonders just HOW can a QB who throws 6 ints end up with 6 pts??
I offered the gambit of reasons...
"he overcame"....
"his later performance helped him"
"he would have had 12 pts without those ints"
He rambled on about RB's and 6 fumbles and stuff like that..
...the rambings of an owner seeing his season slip away from him....
I put the ball in his court...
"what would you like to see?"
"how many pts do you think he should have?"
No answer....he just wants me to "take a look a the scoring that penalizes a QB -6 pts for 6 ints....."
Ok..I looked......
...moving on...
...maybe he was drunk.
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good luck!
