David Dodds
Administrator
After some careful thought, we have decided to make this a Three Ring Circus.....or a Triathlon.......or a Trilogy of Terror......
Link to Nomination Thread
Here is the general concept:
1. There will be three seperate contests consisting of 6 staff members and 6 message board members per contest.
2. The contests will be the following:
A. PPR Survivor, 22 rounds, people eliminated most weeks, amnesty, etc.
B. Best Ball Auction (No PPR), no eliminations
C. FFTOC Format, high score through 16 weeks
3. We have opted to do each of these events for a few reasons.
A. We get more staffers and message board members involved.
B. We generate strategy discussion in each of these different formats
C. We think this cross-section of contests displays a wide range of skills.
4. Footballguys Staff (Dodds, Wood, Gray) will select the 18 message board members (Tick is already in because he won the Survivor last year). Once the team is selected though, it will be Tick's responsibility to correctly slot the 18 members into the appropriate contests.
5. There has been a lot of discussion surround staffer's choosing the entrants. We did not do it the last two years and we received a lot of complaints about the selection process. We have opted to open this up fully to everyone and will announce the signup process via the email update on Tuesday. I feel this is the fairest approach going forward. We are not trying to stack the team in favor of the staff. In fact I want the most knowledgeable people in these events because that is likely to generate the best strategies, etc. This is our overall goal. Get great content for the website.
6. Each of these unique leagues will have a strategy discussion component that both staff and Message Board participants will need to write about. This content will all be displayed post-drafts.
7. Besides the 18 message board members, we will also be selecting 3 message board reviewers to follow and comment on each of these leagues both after the drafts and through the season.
8. A signup page stating you are interested will be made available on Tuesday. We are going to limit everyone to 250 words max and only allow posts of interest. Discussion, etc should be in this thread (or others), but not the signup thread.
9. Scoring of each contest will be 10 points for first, 8 for 2nd, 6 for 3rd, 4 for 4th, 2 for 5th and 1 for 6th for each contest.
10. We are allocating the following dollars for the participants:
A. Each MB participant will get $50 for their writeups.
B. Each MB participant will get $15 per point they earn.
C. An additional $900 will be split evenly ($50 each) to the message board should they beat the staff team. 93 total points are available. The team scoring 47 or more will be considered the Champion.
D. Reviewers will get $100 for their writeups, but are not eligible for items A, B and C above.
11. Detailed rules for each of these contests will be published at a later date.
Link to Nomination Thread
Here is the general concept:
1. There will be three seperate contests consisting of 6 staff members and 6 message board members per contest.
2. The contests will be the following:
A. PPR Survivor, 22 rounds, people eliminated most weeks, amnesty, etc.
B. Best Ball Auction (No PPR), no eliminations
C. FFTOC Format, high score through 16 weeks
3. We have opted to do each of these events for a few reasons.
A. We get more staffers and message board members involved.
B. We generate strategy discussion in each of these different formats
C. We think this cross-section of contests displays a wide range of skills.
4. Footballguys Staff (Dodds, Wood, Gray) will select the 18 message board members (Tick is already in because he won the Survivor last year). Once the team is selected though, it will be Tick's responsibility to correctly slot the 18 members into the appropriate contests.
5. There has been a lot of discussion surround staffer's choosing the entrants. We did not do it the last two years and we received a lot of complaints about the selection process. We have opted to open this up fully to everyone and will announce the signup process via the email update on Tuesday. I feel this is the fairest approach going forward. We are not trying to stack the team in favor of the staff. In fact I want the most knowledgeable people in these events because that is likely to generate the best strategies, etc. This is our overall goal. Get great content for the website.
6. Each of these unique leagues will have a strategy discussion component that both staff and Message Board participants will need to write about. This content will all be displayed post-drafts.
7. Besides the 18 message board members, we will also be selecting 3 message board reviewers to follow and comment on each of these leagues both after the drafts and through the season.
8. A signup page stating you are interested will be made available on Tuesday. We are going to limit everyone to 250 words max and only allow posts of interest. Discussion, etc should be in this thread (or others), but not the signup thread.
9. Scoring of each contest will be 10 points for first, 8 for 2nd, 6 for 3rd, 4 for 4th, 2 for 5th and 1 for 6th for each contest.
10. We are allocating the following dollars for the participants:
A. Each MB participant will get $50 for their writeups.
B. Each MB participant will get $15 per point they earn.
C. An additional $900 will be split evenly ($50 each) to the message board should they beat the staff team. 93 total points are available. The team scoring 47 or more will be considered the Champion.
D. Reviewers will get $100 for their writeups, but are not eligible for items A, B and C above.
11. Detailed rules for each of these contests will be published at a later date.
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