BG Gridiron Playoff Challenge

[Byrd]

After a one-year absence, ESPN has brought back the Gridiron Playoff Challenge.

Home Page: http://games.espn.go.com/nfl-gridiro...e/2014/en/game

Group: Orderofthebluegartr
Password: repete

And if you can please incorporate your BG log in name into your team name, or at least list it here, that'd be great. I care just enough about getting it right that I'll look through this thread to see who you are if it doesn't match, but not so much I'll look through all the NFL threads.

Rules and stuff:

The excitement of fantasy football doesn't end when the regular season wraps up. With Gridiron Playoff Challenge, you can continue the fun throughout the NFL postseason, with the additional risk that the pool of available players shrinks as their teams are eliminated.

The basic gameplay is similar to the regular Gridiron Challenge game: You get $50 million in fantasy money to build the roster that scores the most fantasy points as possible each week. The team with the most points at the end of the playoffs wins a great prize.

However, there are a couple of wrinkles to this playoff version of the game that players should know when setting rosters.

First off, there are three scoring "weeks" in which you can adjust your roster: wild-card weekend, divisional playoff weekend and conference championship weekend. Thus, your roster for wild-card weekend should just include players with teams in those games. There's no reason to have players on your roster from the top two seeds in either conference during this week. You can put them in there for divisional playoff week.

Second, the roster you set for conference championship weekend lasts all the way to the Super Bowl. So not only are you predicting which players will score the most points in the conference title games, but you should also take into account which players you think will end up playing for the Lombardi Trophy.

So how well can you pick out the best fantasy performers given the constraints of a salary cap while also potentially predicting who's going to win the Super Bowl?

The ever-growing list of self-pretentious jerks:
2006 Bowl Pick Em: Makaveli
2006 BG Fantasy Football: Thuggy
2007 March Madness: Byrd
2007 College Football Pick Em: Ryany
2007 Bowl Pick Em: Akiyama
2008 NFL Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Tyr
2008 March Madness: Snoogans
2008 College Pick Em: Byrd
2008 Eliminator: Byrd
2008 Pigskin Pick Em: Weltall
2008 Bowl Pick Em: Laguna
2009 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Sekaran
2009 Super (Bowl) Pick Em: Stiker
2009 March Madness: MrW
2009 College Pick Em: Ryany
2009 Eliminator: Stiker
2009 Pigskin Pick Em: Weltall
2009 Bowl Pick Em: Alderon527
2010 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Driver
2010 March Madness: Biddinger
2010 World Cup Bracket Predictor: Decy
2010 World Cup Pick Em: Plow
2010 College Pick Em: Bregor
2010 Eliminator: Akiyama
2010 Pigskin Pick Em: Byrd
2010 Bowl Pick Em: Byrd
2011 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Bigrougabagel
2011 March Madness: Titanss
2011 College Pick Em: Byrd
2011 Eliminator: Intrinsic
2011 Pigskin Pick Em: Naafeih
2011 Bowl Mania: Vade
2012 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Valisk
2012 March Madness: WOMP, ElvFenrir
2012 College Pick Em: Julian
2012 Eliminator: Soa
2012 Pigskin Pick Em: Melena
2012 Primetime Playoff: Cail
2012 Bowl Mania: Izembo
2013 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Spaghetti
2013 March Madness: Aaron Borland (user name: ???)
2013 College Pick Em: Ryany
2013 Pigskin Pick Em: Byrd
2013 Eliminator: Byrd
2013 Bowl Mania: Recuperi (?)
2014 March Madness: Nicholai
2014 World Cup PickEm: Tyrath
2014 World Cup Bracket Predictor: Tyrath
2014 College Pick Em: Spaghetti
2014 Pigskin Pick Em: Azazael
2014 Eliminator: Byrd

[Abandon]

I AM COMING FOR THAT ASS

[Bregor]

Gotta get mah picks in

[Ksandra]

Can I get removed from this?

[FNH]

Can I get removed from this?

I don't see an option to leave the group, but there might be a way for the LM to do it. If you don't want to play just don't, it won't negatively impact the group.

[Byrd]

Can I get removed from this?

I just checked, and I can remove you if you want. However, as FNH said, there's no real need for you to do so. The only reason it was being discussed in Eliminator for the people that quit was because we were on the leaderboard and the non-pickers were dragging us down.

Let me know if you want out for sure, and I'll take care of it.

[Azull]

After screwing up wild card week and having a bad week this week I am all in on Greenbay Vs. Indy for the Superbowl... I am sorry fans of those 2 teams.

[Valisk]

Like the Seahawks, I failed to repeat and came in 2nd to a hoodie wearing villain.

[Palpatine]