BG FFL 2009: Champion incoming.

[Vade]

DRAFT TIMES

PS, PLEASE mark your calendars people:
ALL TIME EST

BGP 8/30 - 9:30PM - http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/418568
2QB 9/5 - 5PM - http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/418050
BG East 9/5 - 7PM - http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/253998
BG IDP 9/9 - 6:15PM - http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/897839
20man 9/8 - 9: 15PM - http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/429524
BG West 9/2 9:30PM - http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/424585

It's that time of year again, when work place productivity falls to zero.

BG's third annual College Pick Em is starting, along with our second Eliminator and Pigskin Pickem. All three are reachable by going to ESPN's home page, clicking on Fantasy & Games on the top, then picking the right games. You will have to register with ESPN to sign up, if you don't already have an account. Don't worry, it's free.

The proper name of the three games are:

Eliminator, College Pickem, Pigskin Pickem.

All three of them have the same league name and password, cuz I'm lazy.

Leaguename: Bluegartr
Password: Neckbeard

Note that Eliminator is not a Suicide pool, although it's similar. You pick one winning team a week for all 17 weeks, and you can't pick the same team twice. If someone at the end has the same total points, the tiebreaker will go to the person who had the longer streak to start the season. If that's still the same, we'll go with ESPN's obscure tiebreakers. There will be one winner, not multiple winners. Screw ties.

Pigskin Pick Em is a straight up "pick the winner" for every regular season NFL game. Tiebreakers are whatever ESPN has drawn up. There's an option to drop your worst week in this game, so I selected that in case people miss a week.

College Pick Em chooses 10 games a week and asks you to pick a winner and prioritize them from 10 to 1 (10 being highest, 1 being lowest). For every pick you get correct, you get that many points. So for that Florida-NE Tennessee School For the Blind game, you might put 10 on Florida. On a game you're not so sure about... say, Washington-Washington St, you might put 1 on that one. This game goes for 13 weeks, starting with 9/5.

I always say this, and it rarely works, but try to incorporate your BG login into your team name somehow so we know who the hell you are. You will need to sign up for ESPN.com if you haven't previously, but it's free and you can set up everything so that you don't receive junk mail. I wouldn't go in with a dummy e-mail because there are grand prizes for the best entries across all 100,000 entries or whatever. Only prize for winning the BG contest is bragging rights, +1" to your e-peen and your name on the list below.

All of these need to have your picks made fresh every week, although I think you can plan ahead with Eliminator and the NFL Pick Em. They have a function where they can send you an e-mail reminder every week; I suggest you use them.

Picks are up and ready to be made.

If you have any problems getting signed up or registered, send me a PM or post here and I'll get it taken care of.

One entry per person in the group, please.

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 NFL Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Sekaran
2009 Super (Bowl) Pick Em: Stiker
2009 March Madness: MrW

And before anybody asks, BG FFL titles aren't on the list because we've never had one winner, we've always had multiple and tried to figure out how to have a playoff in Week 17, but that's never worked. And I'm not going to list six winners for one event.

Regarding the number of threads, I figure we can keep this open with a periodic bump until the games start, then close it down and keep the discussion to the pro & college ball threads. I'll bump it again at the end of the season to congratulate the winners.

EDIT: Editing for shit hitting fan in IDP. Draft change for IDP Set.

http://games.espn.go.com/gridiron/en...entryID=114016 -- Gridiron Challenge. Join now! D: Password is lolvy

[tyven]

where is Tyr. i need some draft dominator updates asap

[BarthelloSylph]

I'd like to join in the East this time if there's room. I finished 3rd regular season last year in BG West, and got bumped in the semi finals.

[Tyche]

where is Tyr. i need some draft dominator updates asap

^

Also, throwing in my vote for another auction draft for east.

[recuperi]

I'd like to join East if there's room also. I never got to beat Tyche once last year

[Kailee]

Throwing in another vote for auction, are we doing IDP this year too? I hope we don't combine the two, that'll make for one really long draft.

[Demosthenes11]

get me in this shit this year
I don't get to watch too many games in real time since I'll be in china all fall but it just means while you fuckers sleep I'm going to be wheelin and dealin

[Headspace]

2nd Place in BGWest last year, time to win it.

[Fistandantilus]

As a previous champion of IDP, I'll second the vote to continue with that, although no way we should auction draft in IDP, the entire preseason would finish before that draft. For BG East, I'd love to auction if we can get everyone online, it's way more fun and strategic I think just hard to setup. I'm going to go out on a ledge and guarantee that this year I will place higher in BGE than in any previous year, assuming Tyche doesn't rip me off in any trades.

[Akiyama]

Same for IDP, but honestly.. I'd rather do a regular draft for East. D: That auction draft was so eh. Everyone was way more expensive than they should have been, lol

[Fistandantilus]

I think if we do an Auction we should make sure everyone has done one before, Auction drafts really give an advantage to people who have experience vs those who haven't done it before. Everytime I do one I see new people bidding way too high early and then at the end there is a ton of sleepers getting picked up for less than 5$.

[Boyiee]

I'll play whatever

[Mizango]

TeamOrton ready to roll!

UNDEFEATED.

[Fistandantilus]

TeamOrton ready to roll!

UNDEFEATED.

I'm gonna pick Delhomme up from the FA the week I play you just to beat you with him.

[Dimmauk]

Yeah I want in too.

[Mizango]

I'm gonna pick Delhomme up from the FA the week I play you just to beat you with him.

I fucking hate you.

[Andarvi]

If there is any space in the league at all, I'd love to get in as well.

[izembo]

id like in if possible

[sekaran]

I'd like in if there's room.

[Fistandantilus]

Looks like we're going to have to add another Division, BG East, West, soon to be North?! (Because we all know the South just doesn't count.)