The 50% thing was stupid, I admitted and apologized for it. Spamming with BPI? It's all been HD related until this thread where I was seeking to get my staunchest adversaries to compete against me in fun, new, exciting games, which may eventually yield WIS GCs...thus I can make the argument that it's still WIS/HD related. I learned a fair amount from the Montevallo game/thread...still don't necessarily agree with the result, but it made me a better player, and for that I thank everyone involved. My gripes aren't about losing to sims, it's about how and why they happened. This latest one is a doozy too...let's not kid each other.

I did not have colonels blocked before this thread. Now I do. 

Posted by furry_nipps on 8/8/2010 4:50:00 PM (view original):
Well, if you play it there is a 50% chance of winning it regardless of how many people play. You either win or you lose.

hahahaha this made me laugh.

But actually, I decided to give time to what everybody else considered not worth their time.  This is what I took from it...

Dream Season- Seems like an over-complicated version of a suicide pool.  Also, the scoring seems a little vague to me.  I'd like to know the formulas before I play.  I think it might be more fun if I had to pick to games and maybe one of them had to be an underdog.  I probably wouldn't play this as is, but with a few tweaks I might actually do it.

Position challenges- I have no interest in the WR/TE one because it's such a crapshoot in general, so that's just off the table.  I have a major gripe with college fantasy games: there are just too many small schools with these guys who put up ridiculous numbers.  I'd rather pick guys only from big six conferences + MWC instead of guys from the MAC.  As for the pros, we already have fantasy football, so I probably wouldn't do those.  For QBs, I think every passing yard should be less than .1 points.  I don't think a 50 yards of passing should be the equivalent of a touchdown.  So in a nutshell, I'd play college QB (with scoring tweaks) and college RB if it was only big six +mwc guys.

Hopefully you'll get something from this because my opinions are amazing.

colonels, read these words carefully:

-you are not the smartest person that plays this game. you are, most likely, not even close. you definitely think you are; you are conceited.

-if you had anywhere near the ingenuity or logical reasoning required to "change the world of sports", trust me, you wouldnt be in the minority almost every time you engage in an argument

in the player griping thread, i tried to change the topic to fantasy football...just to see if you would 'take the bait' and engage in friendly conversation. you made a league, i figured you'd probably be somewhat interested in talking about it or have some sort of opinion or would be somewhat interested in having a friendly conversation...

you did not take the bait. no interest at all. without getting into it, this confirms many negative suspicions i've had about your personality. i'm done. i don't want to interact with you anymore, thus i am blocking you and leaving your fantasy league.

have fun responding to every character in this post, i'm not gonna read it.

Posted by tkimble on 8/8/2010 9:52:00 PM (view original):

Posted by furry_nipps on 8/8/2010 4:50:00 PM (view original):
Well, if you play it there is a 50% chance of winning it regardless of how many people play. You either win or you lose.

hahahaha this made me laugh.

But actually, I decided to give time to what everybody else considered not worth their time.  This is what I took from it...

Dream Season- Seems like an over-complicated version of a suicide pool.  Also, the scoring seems a little vague to me.  I'd like to know the formulas before I play.  I think it might be more fun if I had to pick to games and maybe one of them had to be an underdog.  I probably wouldn't play this as is, but with a few tweaks I might actually do it.

Position challenges- I have no interest in the WR/TE one because it's such a crapshoot in general, so that's just off the table.  I have a major gripe with college fantasy games: there are just too many small schools with these guys who put up ridiculous numbers.  I'd rather pick guys only from big six conferences + MWC instead of guys from the MAC.  As for the pros, we already have fantasy football, so I probably wouldn't do those.  For QBs, I think every passing yard should be less than .1 points.  I don't think a 50 yards of passing should be the equivalent of a touchdown.  So in a nutshell, I'd play college QB (with scoring tweaks) and college RB if it was only big six +mwc guys.

Hopefully you'll get something from this because my opinions are amazing.

Furry's comment references an actual thread where I made a total *** of myself, so honestly, feel free to laugh as hard as you want.

Dream Season is almost meant to be intentionally vague, because I, like every other person that does a ranking system out there, am not going to divulge my secrets on how I rank teams. I think there's enough information there to understand what it takes to be successful and what wouldn't be successful. Rightly or wrongly, all "rankers" keep their systems/rules close to the vest. There's a ton of strategy to the concept.

I understand your point about WR/TE...I considered not doing it at all, but a few people I talked to told me to keep it, so I did. I ran AQB for the first time last season and I thought it was very exciting and intriguing, and I think the people that played the game could vouch for it as well. It's a lot tougher to pick 15-16 QBs out of 120 than it is to pick them out of 60...I'm forcing people to broaden their cfb knowledge to succeed at this game. Just curious what you would put QB yards and TDs at point-wise. Please remember that this isn't fantasy football as you know it, thus weather QB yards are 25 per point or 10 per point, it's rather irrelevant, because it's its own separate competition, not directly tied in with GRB or GWR/TE.

Thank you for the post.

Posted by jetwildcat on 8/9/2010 12:17:00 AM (view original):
colonels, read these words carefully:

-you are not the smartest person that plays this game. you are, most likely, not even close. you definitely think you are; you are conceited.

-if you had anywhere near the ingenuity or logical reasoning required to "change the world of sports", trust me, you wouldnt be in the minority almost every time you engage in an argument

in the player griping thread, i tried to change the topic to fantasy football...just to see if you would 'take the bait' and engage in friendly conversation. you made a league, i figured you'd probably be somewhat interested in talking about it or have some sort of opinion or would be somewhat interested in having a friendly conversation...

you did not take the bait. no interest at all. without getting into it, this confirms many negative suspicions i've had about your personality. i'm done. i don't want to interact with you anymore, thus i am blocking you and leaving your fantasy league.

have fun responding to every character in this post, i'm not gonna read it.

I never said I was the smartest person that played the game. I think I have good/great ideas so I pitch them...what exactly is the proper alternative...don't say a word because you might get jealous/envious? I'm not trying to be an *** here, but that's what you're coming off like here as far as I can see. I mean really, you bashed me for creating a website to publish my cfb rankings back in 2004...something a hundred+ people do? Wow.

I would have to reread the part of the PG thread again that you're talking about, because I honestly must have just missed it...but by the same token, if all you're ever going to do with me is "test" me to see if I "pass" or "fail", then why did you even bother to begin with. If you really wanted to talk about FFB with me, I would have been more than happy to do so, but when you try to sneak it into a thread to prove your negative suspicions of me...then you'll always get what you're looking for. I'm as bad as you want me to be jet, but if all I'll ever be to you is your lab rat or your shock therapy patient, then I guess I don't really want any part of you either....which is rather sad because you're an intelligent guy.