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The Footballguys Bowl! - Was "Interest In A Footballguys Subscriber League?" (5 Viewers)
- Thread starter Joe Bryant
- Start date
baconstripdivots
Footballguy
Thanks for putting this contest out there, Joe & Staff. Had a blast.
Congratulations to Huskers707195.
It'll be great to see how this evolves for the 2025 season and beyond. Happy & Healthy New Year to everyone reading this thread, and all those you hold close.
- Bacon
Congratulations to Huskers707195.
It'll be great to see how this evolves for the 2025 season and beyond. Happy & Healthy New Year to everyone reading this thread, and all those you hold close.
- Bacon
psychobillies
Footballguy
I finished 3rd. Had I not benched Nabors for Jennings, i would have won it. The toe thing scared me off.
Never bench your studs
Dance with the girl that brought you
Blah blah blah
Congrats to Tom Gardner, our Inaugural Footballguys Bowl Champion!!!
BassNBrew
Footballguy
Ouch. That's a bad beat.
baconstripdivots
Footballguy
I finished 4th in my division, but had enough points to earn a wildcard slot. My team put up great numbers in the playoffs to finish 29th overall. To say I'm pleasantly surprised at my final result is an understatement.
Happy New Year, everyone.
- Bacon
joey
Footballguy
2nd in division 0083 but got bounced in the first week of the playoffs.
TheWinz
Footballguy
@Joe Bryant @Joey Wright
I know I am way early here, but just wanted to put a bug in your ear. Joey - thanx a ton for running this thing. You did awesome and it was fun playing against other FBG'ers. Sadly, I didn't end up in a league with any Shark Pool regular that I noticed, but still represented and made the playoffs! If this league will have a 2nd season, perhaps you can reserve the first, say 9 divisions for Shark Pool regulars/staff members, but only if they want to be slotted into them? Looking through this entire thread, only 79 folks posted anything before the drafts were complete, and another 24 chimed in midseason. We had 156 divisions last year (1872 entries total), but would it be hard to set aside 9 divisions for Shark Pool regulars in 2025? That would be 108 slots, and you'd be sure to recognize multiple regulars from the pool.
If this is something you could support, I would be glad to offer my assistance.
I know I am way early here, but just wanted to put a bug in your ear. Joey - thanx a ton for running this thing. You did awesome and it was fun playing against other FBG'ers. Sadly, I didn't end up in a league with any Shark Pool regular that I noticed, but still represented and made the playoffs! If this league will have a 2nd season, perhaps you can reserve the first, say 9 divisions for Shark Pool regulars/staff members, but only if they want to be slotted into them? Looking through this entire thread, only 79 folks posted anything before the drafts were complete, and another 24 chimed in midseason. We had 156 divisions last year (1872 entries total), but would it be hard to set aside 9 divisions for Shark Pool regulars in 2025? That would be 108 slots, and you'd be sure to recognize multiple regulars from the pool.
If this is something you could support, I would be glad to offer my assistance.
Thanks GB. I’m glad you enjoyed it. It’s something we had wanted to do for a while and I was super glad Joey and the team were able to make it happen. Joey is already actively working on it now and we’re building better systems to organize and place teams. I'm not sure we can do that exactly for the Shark Pool but we'll look. I can see how that would be fun. (And the toughest leagues in the whole contest!)
As we get deeper into this, let us look and see what we need there and if we need to add volunteers, we’ll let folks know. Thank you!
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pinkstapler
Footballguy
Early "in!" from me. I was late to the show last year, but would love to get in this year.
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
The good news is @TheWinz we are already doing exactly that for 2025! We are building a system where managers will be able to select their draft time and league. We still need to test out the system but there will be Shark Pool dedicated leagues for 2025 in the FBG Bowl.
joey
Footballguy
A few of us got into a SharkPool-only league last year (“League Uno” thread in the SharkPool) and it was a total blast to compete again people you “know”. It didn’t hurt that I was one of 4 (I think) Raiders fans in that league, so our names were all familiar to each other from the raiders thread. Big 
Pickle Rody
IBL Representative
IN - for the FBG message board member leagues. @Joey Wright probably already has this info in his notes from the conclusion of last years contest.
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
if we're submitting our wish to compete in FBG msg board league - I'd do that!
candian fantasy guy
Footballguy
Please no open WW this year!
Thank you
Thank you
Scoresman
Footballguy
I'm interested in how this will work. How do you let someone into a Shark Pool dedicated league? Is it by post count? Recognizable names? I don't know how to answer any of these questions and definitely don't know how to answer them without sounding elitist or "cliquey".
But that said, I'm all for it!
BassNBrew
Footballguy
A few of us got into a SharkPool-only league last year (“League Uno” thread in the SharkPool) and it was a total blast to compete again people you “know”. It didn’t hurt that I was one of 4 (I think) Raiders fans in that league, so our names were all familiar to each other from the raiders thread. Big
From following along, I can concur that it was a blast. Also of note, it was pretty soft compared to the random FBG Bowl league.
joey
Footballguy
What the ?!?!!!??A few of us got into a SharkPool-only league last year (“League Uno” thread in the SharkPool) and it was a total blast to compete again people you “know”. It didn’t hurt that I was one of 4 (I think) Raiders fans in that league, so our names were all familiar to each other from the raiders thread. Big
From following along, I can concur that it was a blast. Also of note, it was pretty soft compared to the random FBG Bowl league.
@Scoresman So I am still currently testing it with our developer. If we proceed with their portal (which has not completely been agreed upon yet), you will choose your desired Shark Pool dedicated league from a dropdown menu. It'll say something like "FBG Bowl League #004 (Shark Pool Only)" The goal for 2025 is not to be manually sending you your invites and allow you to pick your own leagues based on draft time. You'll select the league you desire and the portal will immediately send you your league invite link.
Scoresman
Footballguy
Cool. I like this, but how does it enforce the "Shark Pool only" rule? I could see lots of people who aren't Shark Pool contributors just joining up. Unless there's a link to the portal only given out here, which could work.
We are working on how best to coordinate this @Scoresman
MrJimiT
Footballguy
"Shark Pool contributors" is the key definition here!!
TheWinz
Footballguy
There are lots of Shark Poolers that only play redraft/contests, so they kinda disappear in early February and don't even visit the site again until early/mid August. Last year, all the drafts were done between Saturday 24 Aug and Tuesday 27 Aug. That's plenty of time for them to see the contest and join up.
As for what determines a "Shark Pool contributor", I could start digging through the threads and compiling a list of folks who posted if that would help?
Scoresman
Footballguy
At the risk of sounding like an elitist snob, I'm more concerned about non-Shark Pool regulars joining than the regulars missing the signup. I think the point for a lot of us is to be in a league with other people we recognize from discussions here. Just because someone has a forum account, doesn't make them a contributor.
At the same time, who am I or anyone else to determine what the cutoff line is for a "contributor". If it's very exclusive, some people will be upset. If it's incredibly opened up, it kind of defeats the purpose. So I was more curious how this was going to be determined.
TheWinz
Footballguy
We could do something like picking teams at recess. We start with Faust, who has to be the "regularest" Shark Pooler ever. The dude has over 122K posts! He then names someone, who names someone, and so on, until 108 regulars have been named. And there you have it.
Largent
Footballguy
I’d be interested for sure
Thanks Folks.
One big thing I want to do this is open up the Shark Pool to more people. Ideally, they contribute and discuss. But that's not everyone's personality and lots and lots of awesome folks will be mostly readers. And that's awesome too.
I regularly hear that the Shark Pool is not very welcoming to new people. I don't disagree. I don't think it's because regulars here are mean. I think it's human nature and it's comfortable to hang out with people you know and are comfortable with.
I'd like us to grow.
The most common negative thing I hear is how the forums are dying. On one hand, I've been hearing that for 25 years. On the other, it's a fact of life that people move off the forums. Some move to to other hobbies or different platforms. Some, unfortunately, are no longer with us on this earth. But bottom line, I think it's healthy to add new folks to the mix. And I'd like to do that. And that likely means being as inclusive as we can.
One big thing I want to do this is open up the Shark Pool to more people. Ideally, they contribute and discuss. But that's not everyone's personality and lots and lots of awesome folks will be mostly readers. And that's awesome too.
I regularly hear that the Shark Pool is not very welcoming to new people. I don't disagree. I don't think it's because regulars here are mean. I think it's human nature and it's comfortable to hang out with people you know and are comfortable with.
I'd like us to grow.
The most common negative thing I hear is how the forums are dying. On one hand, I've been hearing that for 25 years. On the other, it's a fact of life that people move off the forums. Some move to to other hobbies or different platforms. Some, unfortunately, are no longer with us on this earth. But bottom line, I think it's healthy to add new folks to the mix. And I'd like to do that. And that likely means being as inclusive as we can.
I think we are going to reach an easy solution with getting Shark Pool leagues set up for this year in FBG Bowl. Manually setting these leagues up connected to the Footballguys Bowl when the time comes shouldn't take too much extra effort. When we get closer to signups, we will start a signup process here on the Forums.
TheWinz
Footballguy
Sounds awesome! Personally, I don't really care if I don't recognize everyone in my division, but a few would be nice. The chat in my division was non-existent last year, and it wasn't loads of fun.
Gatorade
Footballguy
I did not recognize most in the league last year but it was still a lot of fun. The chat was low in mine too, but maybe this year it might improve now that more people are familiar with Sleeper. Plus it felt good to rank higher than the staff member in the league.
*joey checks to see if he was the staffer in @Gatorade league*
Gatorade
Footballguy
Nope.
I'll Never tell
joey
Footballguy
so let me clear something up here since I’m confusing this stuff in multiple threads….
Is the plan for FBG to offer “Shark pool only leagues” in BOTH this FBG Bowl Contest AND in the Home Leagues? (that a dozen of us were lucky enough to get into a last minute pilot of a shark pool home league last year, called League Uno, that had the pinned thread all last season)
Is the plan for FBG to offer “Shark pool only leagues” in BOTH this FBG Bowl Contest AND in the Home Leagues? (that a dozen of us were lucky enough to get into a last minute pilot of a shark pool home league last year, called League Uno, that had the pinned thread all last season)
I believe Shark Pool Only leagues are a part of Home Leagues as well, but I am not 100% sure. Let me send the coordinator of those contests a message and get back to you.
