You can do this or you could submit your own giant list for all rounds and it would draft to it. MFL allows you to enter pre-selected picks. You will know about your league about a week before the draft.Personally I would create a list and get someone to draft for you. Give them $5K if you win and many on these boards would likely help you out. Well those not tring to win themselves.So if I can't make those two days, but really want to be involved, can I pay and skip the draft and just take my picks in the Top 250? Or is this a case where asking forgiveness is better than asking permission?
Special Teams aka Defense/Special Team"1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 PK and 1 ST would start each week."Excuse me but what position is 'ST'?
We will definitely have a defense. We need to figure how we would like to score it still. Too many people do not play IDPs to make that an option. We have eliminated IDPs, flex, strange scoring situations, etc as we just want to eliminate all the unnecessary extra problems where people think we scored stuff wrong. we feel our rules promote skillful drafting and resemble fairly common rules to play by (the 2 point per TE reception is a weird rule, but one we are embracing at Footballguys.com as a way to put the TE position more into play at drafts)ST positionJust my two cents but how about not including ST since IMO this is a total crap shoot position. Except for Tampa (and can they are due to have a down year) you can't really dictate which Defense will produce. I would hate for someone to lose just because they draft a Phily or TB or Balt but gets beat because KC returns three TD's in one week.As a compromise, how about 1 IDP?
Thanks DD. I'm in then!You can do this or you could submit your own giant list for all rounds and it would draft to it. MFL allows you to enter pre-selected picks. You will know about your league about a week before the draft.Personally I would create a list and get someone to draft for you. Give them $5K if you win and many on these boards would likely help you out. Well those not tring to win themselves.
I want nothing to do with that loser Zippy. Put him in the West!We think this works best as a Survivor league too because you can study intensely, draft and then just enjoy the ride. and yes I would imagine the message board will be having a lot of fun when the pairings come out and Zippy and Chemical Smoo are battling it out in the East Regional. The pairings will be based on Week 10 too so there will be number 1 seeds and everything. I really do think the drama of the final 64 in a contest like this would be very fun to see unfold.
:rotflmao:I am comfortable with:1. Shickwell holding the money2. If he doesn't want to, then TenTimes.3. If they don't want to, then me.4. If we are putting a guy with 12 alias' in charge of the money who was also one of the last ones into the league... then I'm out. Let Jot sit in my place.
It's on now...This is seriously flawed as everyone knows Chem.Smoo has no chance of winning more than one game in any respectable league.
The last people to sign up for that time slot will be given their money back if we don't fill up the league completely. All leagues will be full (no auto drafts). We will establish a cutoff date for signups and attempt to point people to the last available spots to make it all work. But the main point is that there will not be autodrafts and also to enter early so you secure a spot. I don't expect this to be much of a problem.2) If there are less than 1024 entries, does everyone just get a pass in week 7?Yes. It is hard to make one rules fit all, but we thought by making this cut off large enough, it could work for any league size. Same goes if there are less than 512 entries. We will not adjust the rules because less people than anticipated played because some people will likely have complex drafting strategies involving bye weeks, etc.1) How do you handle cases where there is not an even multiple of 12 in a drafting timeslot. E.g., draft time slot #1 has 68 people signed up for it. that gives you enough for 5 full leagues but 8 extras. -Does the 6th league go with 8 humans and 4 auto-picks?-Do you go with 2 leagues of 12 and 4 leagues of 11 with 1 auto pick? (what if an auto-pick team wins????)-Do you just have the 4 leagues go ahead with 11 and nobody is booted off one round (or only 5 advance to champions). Nevermind, this is unfair Unfair because players are not spread as thin as 12man leagues.-Do you go with 5 drafts and the other 8 are shuffled off to another timeslot to create full leagues there (what happens in the last time slot when every other one has even 12 member leagues.)
We will have 16 different drafting times over those two days. When you sign up, you choose one of those times that best fits your own schedule.Can you choose either the 16th or 17th as the day you draft? I could do the 16th but not the 17th.
WTF happened here???????How did this get posted by me???We will definitely have a defense. We need to figure how we would like to score it still. Too many people do not play IDPs to make that an option. We have eliminated IDPs, flex, strange scoring situations, etc as we just want to eliminate all the unnecessary extra problems where people think we scored stuff wrong. we feel our rules promote skillful drafting and resemble fairly common rules to play by (the 2 point per TE reception is a weird rule, but one we are embracing at Footballguys.com as a way to put the TE position more into play at drafts)ST positionJust my two cents but how about not including ST since IMO this is a total crap shoot position. Except for Tampa (and can they are due to have a down year) you can't really dictate which Defense will produce. I would hate for someone to lose just because they draft a Phily or TB or Balt but gets beat because KC returns three TD's in one week.As a compromise, how about 1 IDP?
You know, worst case you could try to take the people like me who are "auto-picking" and thus don't care which time slot we're in and move us around to fill in missing spots. As long as we still got a spot.The last people to sign up for that time slot will be given their money back if we don't fill up the league completely. All leagues will be full (no auto drafts). We will establish a cutoff date for signups and attempt to point people to the last available spots to make it all work. But the main point is that there will not be autodrafts and also to enter early so you secure a spot. I don't expect this to be much of a problem.
We will make an announcement on Monday if this is a go. Joe and I need to look over everything one last time.I'm in as well....sounds like fun.When do we find out if this thing will fly?
I agree. If the Blogger "goons" are allowed in, I would be in as well.David, I'm in. But you need to let us 'goons' know if we're allowed to participate since we're all officially employed by FBG.
Only in survivor format teams that tie will advance. For example instead of 512 teams advancing, 514 might advance. The next cut will still be 256 though regardless of how many make it the round before.There will be no ties once this contest becomes a bracket. Therefore a team would never have to beat two teams on a given week.Tiebreakers will be:1. Highest non-starting player on your roster (regardless of position)2. 2nd highest non-starting player on your roster (regardless of position), etc all the way to 13th3. Coin flipThis will be a 64 team seed at the end because head-to-head is generally considered more fun. It gives everyone an opponent instead of just a score needed. We expect the final 64 to be very exciting indeed and have a lot of community interest.Sounds great, but why go to brackets at all?Also, have you through through what happens on a tie? You say both teams advance, but how will that affect any three-team bracket in the next round? It's not fair to the third team to have to beat both tying teams. Better to have tiebreakers set from the very beginning, and take fractions all the way down to 1/20th of a point...
Yes see the very first post on this thread. First prize is $300 x # of leagues so there is no cap to the ceiling at all. Most all of the prizes are like this except for some FBG merchandise like hats/shirts.For $50 I'm in.I normally play CDMs USA Fantasy Football Challenge. Last year they had 6,250 teams and a team normally spends approximately $300 for a chance to win $22,600. At one time a few years ago they had over 11,000 teams participating.What I'm getting at is you could easily exceed 200 leagues with the proper marketing, maybe a little late this year, but if you get more than 200 leagues does the prize money keep increasing with each additional league?If so? next year with more notice and a year under your belt you could exceed WCOFF money.
yeah... if we can be in i am in... maybe twice... got to see how things go. i like this idea.I agree. If the Blogger "goons" are allowed in, I would be in as well.