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do you need to understand nancy american football to play?

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Originally posted by Growltigga:
do you need to understand nancy american football to play?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, I don't suppose. All we are doing is picking players that we think will do well in real life games and then we get points based on how they actually do. I guess you could draw names from a hat and have a chance at scoring as long as you start players that are actually in the NFL currently. The more you know about the various players the better you should do, but there is an element to luck involved.

I joined an NBA fantasay league once a few years ago despite not knowing a whit about the players beyond Michael Jordan, and he was retired at the time. I just stuck my nose in the various websites devoted to such topics and did the best I could.

Geoschmo

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I've played Fantasy Baseball, Football (American)and Basketball for a few years, and I would have to say that football is the one sport where luck is most involved -- QB goes down and the backup throws 3 TD passes, etc. Matchups (like what team is your main running back is playing against) determine a lot of the scoring, especially when picking which of your defensive teams to start (avoid anyone playing the Rams at all cost). Paying attention to which teams have the bye week is also important.

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That is true. A big part of the luck factor also has to do with the fact that most Fantasy Football leagues are head to head, and most other sports fantasy leagues are not. You can have the best team for the entire year and lose all your games cause the team you were playing each week happened to have their best week of the year when they played you.

Geoschmo

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Guys, we got ten players now. We are going with that. We had to go outside the SEIV group for the Last three. They are a couple of guys I work with and one of their friends. So if they act like they don't know what SEIV is, that's because they don't. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Also you amy want to keep serious league discussions out of here and in the league forum, since they don't come here.

I sent an email jsut now to everybody. Please respond to it and let me knwo that you got it at least. I am going to have to have good emails for all of you for the next couple weeks. I can keep them confidential, even form the other owners if you prefer, but I need a way to reach you.

Here's the email if you didn't get it. If you didn't let me know your email.

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Owners,

Welcome all! We have ten owners now, we're gonna stop there. I don't know what I was thinking but 14 was too many anyway.

We need to do two things now in short order cause the season will be starting before you know it. First of all, if you have any suggestions about scoring changes, post them in the league forum and we'll consider them and do them if there are no objections.

Secondly and more importantly, we need to get our teams drafted. Upon further review, I am not sure my grand idea for an email draft is practical. If everybody really wants to do that though I'd be willing to make a go of it. The worst that would happen I suppose is we would run out of time and have to let Yahoo autopick our teams. If we are going to do that I'd want to get started right away and so I need to make sure these are good emails for everybody. If you could reply to me just to tell me you got this message if nothing else.

We can also do a live draft over the course of a couple hours on Yahoo itself. They have an applet that allows this. If you are behind a firewall there may be problems though. If we do a live draft and some people can't make it they won't be totally screwed though because you can still rank your players and Yahoo will autopick them for people that don't show up. But if it's going to be half there and half not it's probably better just to do an autopick or email draft accross the board.

I selected a time for an autodaraft, we aren't stuck to it though. We can change to some other kind of draft. We can also try to get a different time, but the times are filling up fast, there aren't many left. They have a limited number of times for live drafts.

Anyway, the time I have selected is Tuesday Sug 27th at 1:00PM EST, 10:00AM PST. This would be during work for most people. I am thinking that would be the best time for everybody. Of course some people may not have internet access at work or can't do something like this while they are working. If that's the case we won't do the live draft. I don't think there is anyway we can get a time in the evening or early morning when everybody can get togehter at once. I have no problem nixing the live draft idea, I just picked that time because I had to pick a time before they were all gone.

So, let me know about the live draft idea. If you can do it a different time, or can't do it at all let me know. Also go to the football site and click the test system button to see if you can even do the live draft if we can get a time.

Again, I am thinking that the autopick or email draft is gonna be what we have to do. If we are going to do an email draft we need to get started soon, and go as quickly as possible. This will require people to give me a good strong email address where I can reach them, as well as times when they are available and a commitment frmo everybody to be availble during those times, and also a willingness to keep checking at pretty much all times until the draft is done.

Let's talk. You can email me, or post an opinion in the forum if you want to say something to everybody at large.

George "Geoschmo" Perley
I.G.C.P.F.L. Commissioner

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I know you were all dying to find out how this turned out...

It's been a long season, and it's not over yet. One more weekend of games and then the playoofs begin. On tap this weekend really only one game matters. The Zanzibarbarians against the Kansas Trailblazers.

Everybody above us, the Tygornian Alliance, the Remorhaz Roughriders, and the Kodiak Express, have cliched a playoff spot. Everybody below us is just playing for respect. But for Zanzibar and Kansas the playoffs start a week early. Win and you are in, lose and you are out.

By all rights my Zanibarbarians should be eliminated already due to this 4 game funk my team is currently riding. A month ago I was 7 and 2 and vying for first place in the league. But a couple of key injuries and now my team is just fighting for survival.

But the tie Last week between Kansas and gridironguru has allowed me to retain control over my own destiny. If Kansas had scored one more point Last week I would be facing an impossible task of needing to beat Kansas by several hundred points to make the playoffs. If Gridironguru had scored one more point I would have the edge on Kansas, but would need a win against Kansas and to outscore Gridironguru in their game, or hope they lost. But all that is past now, all I can do is look to this week and try to get a team of players that are actually going to show up and play.

This is why I love fantasy football. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo

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...Taz comes strolling into view carrying a very Spacey looking Couch and tossing a football made from potatoes...

As he nears the action, Taz gets a very confused look on his face and is heard to utter: Where are YOUR Inter-Galactic Couches and Potato Footballs?
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Time to deliver the killing blow and take home the gold. Sorry fellas, but this is MY year! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Wow, sounds like an interesting situation you all are in. I am in a league and I'm tied for first place with 2 others. We all stand at 9-4. I am in the playoffs for sure but I'm playing for first place now. I was in third place 3 weeks ago but I beat the number 1 team and the number 2 team lost as well. So I tied them. Then Last week I was tied for second, while the other second place player and the first place player fought it out. The second place player beat #1 and I won so we are all tied up. Should be an interesting week. I play one of the bottom teams in the league so I should finish at 10-4. Unless something bad happens of course.