Survivor NFL League

[WildBobAA]

Hey guys, I'm not sure who ran this league last year but I'll set it up. The buy in will be $20. Most of you are familiar with how these work I'm sure but you pick one NFL team per week that you think will win their game. If the team you pick loses during a given week, you're out, done, busto. You can't pick a team more than one time during the regular season. The last remaining person wins. If there is more than one person alive at the end of the regular season, this will continue throughout the playoffs (team restrictions reset in the playoffs). If more than one person is alive at the end of the playoffs, then these people will split the money, otherwise the payout will be winner-take-all.

If you're interested, join the group on Yahoo:

ID: 8786
password: poker

and ship me $20 on either Full Tilt or Stars.

FT: WildBobAA, (C), leprechaun
Stars: WildBob182 (Caledonia)

I do have the option of giving everyone two strikes before they're out instead of one so we can discuss this if we want to change it.

People who are in:
Me
ensign_lee (paid)
bode (paid)
b1eedb1ack (paid)
dranger7070 (paid)
swiggidy (paid)
kingnat (paid)
JC - kingnat's friend (paid)
drmcboy (paid)
Spenda (paid)

[bode]

i'll probably get in on this.

[ensign_lee]

I'm in. I'll ship monies tonight.

[b1eedb1ack]

Shipped. StealinUrMoniez on FTP.

[WildBobAA]

Shipped. StealinUrMoniez on FTP.

received

[bode]

shipped on FTP.

[WildBobAA]

got it

[dranger7070]

In, shipping tonight.

Shipped on FTP: ZOMGCOOKIES

[bigspenda73]

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[dranger7070]

You can't be a nit when it comes to football imo.

Edit: Also GAMBOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL

[bode]

fyp

[WildBobAA]

In, shipping tonight.

Shipped on FTP: ZOMGCOOKIES

confirmed

[WildBobAA]

bumpity

[WildBobAA]

bump.org

bode and dranger, you paid but you haven't joined the yahoo group yet fyi

[bode]

i'm signed up now. should we do 2 strikes since there are only 5 of us?

[WildBobAA]

i'm signed up now. should we do 2 strikes since there are only 5 of us?

I'll wait a bit but if there ends up being less than 10 people, I'll change it to 2 strikes.

[BooG690]

I may be in. Would you mind if a friend of mine also played? I'm assuming not since we're low on peeps...

[WildBobAA]

That's totally fine if you ship the buy in for him

[ensign_lee]

Yo Bob. Monies sent on Full Tilt.

[dranger7070]

I don't think I've ever used Yahoo for anything in my life. Link to where I need to put in the # and password?

[WildBobAA]

got it lee

I don't think I've ever used Yahoo for anything in my life. Link to where I need to put in the # and password?

Try logging in first and then going here.

Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Survival Football

[dranger7070]

ty

[swiggidy]

shipped and in

[WildBobAA]

got it

[swiggidy]

I told 2 friends. I think they both signed up, but failed to tell me, and inform me of their team name. I'll verify and get you the extra $$

[WildBobAA]

I told 2 friends. I think they both signed up, but failed to tell me, and inform me of their team name. I'll verify and get you the extra $$

Alright, sounds good

[bigspenda73]

how many ya got?

[WildBobAA]

uhmm 6 people are actually in the yahoo group right now but I'm not sure on the exact number

ensign_lee, are you "JC" in the yahoo group or is that someone else?

I think I'm going to move this to 2 strikes regardless of the number of people unless there is a huge uproar about it.

[kingnat]

In.

[bode]

2 strikes seems good bob. i've never played a survivor league, but i cant imagine that there are ever more than 2 people left at the end of the regular season.

[ensign_lee]

Bob I am not JC. I should be ensign_lee_ds9

[ensign_lee]

kafwaaaaat?

NOOO ONE STRIKE!

[swiggidy]

JC is one of my friends, I'll ship money for him

I'm cool with 2 strikes. Instead of 1/2 the field gone in 3 weeks we'll have more play. Maybe split the pool, $40 to the last person to get one strike, and the rest to the overall winner (which will likely be the same person?)

[WildBobAA]

kafwaaaaat?

NOOO ONE STRIKE!

I think the majority want 2, however if there is a tie at the end of the NFL playoffs, then the number of strikes will be used as a tie breaker. So say 2 players survive all the way but one lost a strike along the way. The other player gets all the money.

[WildBobAA]

buuuummmmmppppppp, there's still 3 more days to join!

[drmcboy]

I'm in, shipped on FT

[WildBobAA]

Got it

[kingnat]

Does anyone else think this opening weekend of games if a massive bitch for picking Survivor? The Titans at home is the "lock of the week"?

[bigspenda73]

shipped

[ensign_lee]

Just pick the Colts. 15-1 against the Texans lifetime.

Ez peazy lemon squeezy.



lol, just kidding. GO TEXANS!!!

[WildBobAA]

shipped

got it

[WildBobAA]

Just pick the Colts. 15-1 against the Texans lifetime.

Ez peazy lemon squeezy.



lol, just kidding. GO TEXANS!!!

Just pick whoever is playing the Lions imo

[kingnat]

Just pick whoever is playing the Lions imo

Honestly? The Bears? With Magic Mike Martz mInterception Machine in effect for the first time?... bleh.. too much variance.

[dranger7070]

Missed the sarcasm, I think.

I haven't even looked at who's playing who yet

[WildBobAA]

Just a reminder that the first game is tomorrow night so you must have your pick for this week submitted by then. If you forget to make a pick, it's a strike.

[ensign_lee]

oh shit. We can't wait until Sat.? Thanks for the reminder.

[WildBobAA]

oh shit. We can't wait until Sat.? Thanks for the reminder.

nevermind, I was wrong

The deadline is Sunday at 1pm, however if you want to pick the Vikings/Saints game tomorrow, your pick has to be in before that game. If you don't pick that game which I doubt anyone will, you can still make a pick up until Sunday at 1 pm EST. Note that if you want to pick a Monday Night game, you still have to pick before Sunday at 1pm.

Sorry for any confusion.

[bigspenda73]

There should never be a problem as long as Bob doesn't change the deadlines as shown. When you see "MAKE YOUR PICK" the deadline is listed right there.

[kingnat]

I really hate this week 1... I think I'm going Giants. I mean, is Matt Mauck REALLY going to lead the Panthers to victory to open New Meadowland Stadium? I think not.

[dranger7070]

Tennessee imo.

[bode]

Tennessee imo.

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[swiggidy]

EVERYONE SHOULD DEFINITELY PICK TENNESSEE BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE ARE PICKING TENNESSEE THAN ANY OTHER TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bigspenda73]

I'm just gonna wait til MNF each week to pick, hope I don't run out of teams!

[kingnat]

EVERYONE SHOULD DEFINITELY PICK TENNESSEE BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE ARE PICKING TENNESSEE THAN ANY OTHER TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've looked a lot, and there are SOO few good teams playing low quality opponents at home it's ridiculous. I'm splitting in my two leagues on Titans and Giants.

gogogog

[bigspenda73]

well when else are you gonna take TEN this year?

[kingnat]

well when else are you gonna take TEN this year?

Weeks 12 or 15 obv.

[bigspenda73]

loooooooooool San Fran

[WildBobAA]

fffffffffff

[bigspenda73]

Ed should have been fucked too right

[WildBobAA]

Yeah he should have, but he hits one-outers on the river.

Me and b1eedb1ack are the only ones losing strikes this week.

[ensign_lee]

Yeah, I should have. Damn...

[b1eedb1ack]

How the hellllll does SF get blown out? I thought I was taking a safe one this week, turns out I'm going to have to be flawless now.

[dranger7070]

EVERYONE SHOULD DEFINITELY PICK TENNESSEE BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE ARE PICKING TENNESSEE THAN ANY OTHER TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's a reason sir.

[ensign_lee]

Why would you take an away favorite in a survivor league?

Home favorites are where to be if you don't care about the spread.

[bigspenda73]

Ed it's pretty annoying that you actually said that

[ensign_lee]

Because discussing basic strategy in a survivor league is annoying?

[bigspenda73]

Yea, seeing how 4 people didn't follow that "basic" strat

[dranger7070]

Omg oh noes, $20 gonna be lost because lee said something that could help another person.

Relax.

[ensign_lee]

Assuming you mean it's annoying because it will help other people win instead of you,

my response is: Relax. It's a $20 for fun survivor league between buddies at FTR.

In fact, how is that materially different from us giving poker advice to people here on FTR?

~
Assuming you mean it's annoying because it's condescending,

my response is: ....what? Who would get offended from learning something about what they're doing?

[bigspenda73]

neither, the money doesn't mean shit, winning does

it's more comparable to educating the fish at a table than it is a poker forum, pretty big reach of an analogy there Edderoo

[dranger7070]

lol wtf

[bode]

spenda quit being such a nit

[bigspenda73]

I'm not being a nit at all, I'm just asking people in a league who are competing against each other to not be giving advice to one another. I thought that was assumed.

[drmcboy]

pm me for advice

[kingnat]

I'm not being a nit at all, I'm just asking people in a league who are competing against each other to not be giving advice to one another. I thought that was assumed.

I agree with spend 100%. Manies is manies.. and even if we weren't playing for manies... wtf? No coaching at the tables is sooooo [Acronym Renton Hates]!!