Posted by gillispie1 on 10/7/2015 11:39:00 AM (view original):
Posted by chapelhillne on 10/7/2015 9:23:00 AM (view original):
Thanks guys really appreciate it. This is really the second time something kind of like this has happened to me in HD. A few years ago I started an alternate ID Billy_Graham, in Rupp, with the idea that it would be interesting to create a team using only players with names from the Bible. Of course, we picked Nazareth for the school - LOL. Somehow, four years later, that team won a national championship. That was really unusual as well because my player pool was probably 20% of a normal pool, so that was pretty amazing.
touching story, sorry for your loss.
on the names part... do you just know all the names in the bible, offhand? or would you sometimes look them up in a database? whenever people talk about using a bible name in naming their children, i always wondered if looking to see if X was a bible name was cheating... sort of feels like cheating. would be cool or interesting i guess if your name selection was limited by your devotion, or something like that.
Thanks Gillispie - most of them I knew, although I think a couple of times I had to look to be sure. Most of the names were like James, John, Adam, Andrew, Peter. I believe I did not pick ones like Tim, which is short for Timothy, or Steve, or Steven, since the one in the Bible was Stephen. It was in year 53 in Rupp. I tried to go back and look up the roster. There was one player however that the Sim engine drafted for me in the first year for some reason named Victor, so that was the only blemish.