I just started a Pick 'Em league for SOMB at Yahoo Fantasy:

In order to join the group, just go to Pro Football Pick'em, click the "Sign Up" button (or "Create or Join Group" if you are a returning user). From there, follow the path to join an existing private group and when prompted, enter the following information...

Group ID#: 10177
Password: somb

Are we using spreads?

yeah, have any more deatils, regardless I'll sign up after I cut my neighbors grass

We can use spreads, if that's what everybody wants. I don't care, either way.

Details:

Group ID#: 10177
Group Password somb
Maximum Teams 50
Confidence Points Yes
Spread No
Tiebreakers Yes
Start Week 1
Drop Scores No, use all weeks
Deadline 5 minutes before the first game of each week

i don't love spread or confidence... whatever you guys want though.

I think spreads would be interesting. I'm fine without though, but I'm going to be a bad motherfucker if we don't.

what are confidence points?

For a week with 16 games, you try to select 16 winners. The team you're most confident in winning you would mark a 16 with your pick, 2nd most confident gets a 15, and so on down to the team you are least confident in marked with a 1. For every confidence interval that actually does win, you get that many points. For the picks that lose, you get no points.

I prefer just point spreads, but the confidence is ok as well, I just think that shit will drive me even more insane.

alright, i'm in for this. any chance of a college football pick'em league?

yeah, i'm in. my preference is confidence w/o point spreads, just cuz that's the easiest for me to breeze through without really having to think alot. but however you set it up i'm ready.

I would go in on one if it was only big games, I have no desire to get involved in a Illinois vs Ohio State 33 point spread game

yahoo's college football pick 'em only includes games played by top 25 teams in AP poll. i guess that'd be 25 games at most, and probably fewer most weeks.

My beef with confidence is that it takes away the greatness of the upset pick.
You can make an amaizing call only to have it dubbed worthless by a confidence rank of 1 or 2.

Of course you could always rank it higher up, but nobody's that ballsy.



then on the other hand, it's a good way to make things interesting from week to week. hmm....

Man, you all with your "confidence" this and "spread" that...I'm so glad I never understood that shit.

































Sure, I'm a wee bit jealous.

Not true, you just have to hedge properly. For instance, if you have a gut feeling about the Colts losing to Detroit, you can put a low number on Indy while everyone's riding a high teen. If the Colts lose, everyone in the league would lose a high number while you lose your deuce. If they win, hopefully you picked up that high teen on some other game.

But unfortunately, you'll never be put in a situation where Detroit beats Indy.

EVER.

I'm in.

I'll go with whatever rules are decided, but, all other things being equal, I agree with shampoo's post against confidence because it discourages picking upsets.

I;m not sure if Ole Gunnar Solkjaer is worth the risk after the 20 months's he has been out injured despite the low price.

This is far from true....

somb fantasy football league would be pretty cool. top 3 finishers would receive indie cred.

bump

well put

Confidence pools are great specifically because they reward upset picks. MattW's on the money here. It's not about how few points you get from an upset pick (which is your choice, by the way), but about the point differential between your upset pick and what everyone else loses on the favorite.

I'm in. Say your prayers, losers.

okay. confidence points , no spread.

= I'm making everyone my Baby Back Bitch.

So, we're good with how it's currently set, then?

I also set the picks deadline to be on Friday before the game. (I assume this translates to Wednesday as deadline before the Thursday games.) Is this cool with everybody? I could also set it to 5 min before the first game starts.

ah, that makes a lot of sence now. thanks








I'd prefer 5 minutes before, or at least saturday. somebody's guaranteed to forget either way, but the less that happens the more people will stick with this thing all the way through.

I prefer 5 minutes before, so everyone has a chance and elimainates a big excuse people would use. I also much, much prefer point spread and no confidence, but Stan is the commish.

i don't really have a preference about spread and/or confidence, but i would like at least saturday for picks to be in. i usually don't comb injury reports until then anyway.

It seems to me, at this point anyway, that the concensus is leaning towards confidence points. So, we'll go with that.

We can ALSO do spread alongside confidence, so weigh in on that.

I will change the deadline to 5 minutes before *each* game, as Rocks makes a good "excuses" point.



Football can't come soon enough.

I'm in. Even changed my avatar to reflect this unholy convergence of obsessions.

If an either or? I'd say confidence.........confidently.

I want both, but I definitely want confidence first and foremost.

Point Spreads only

Bonds trainer: I spoke with Brady
By Associated Press
Thursday, August 17, 2006 - Updated: 06:59 AM EST

SAN FRANCISCO - Greg Anderson, the personal trainer at the heart of the Barry Bonds steroids scandal, evoked the name of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in a statement to prosecutors.
Anderson, who is refusing to testify before a newly assembled grand jury, said he had spoken to Brady over the phone but never made further contact.

“I had only one brief conversation with Tom Brady regarding a potential future workout,” Anderson said in the statement to prosecutors that was included in court documents unsealed yesterday. “I never had another phone conversation with him and never discussed it with anyone.”
Paula Canny, an Anderson attorney and friend, said Brady’s name appears along with “10 to 20” other athletes that Anderson’s grand jury subpoena lists as people the trainer should be prepared to answer questions about. Canny said investigators may have gotten Brady’s name from Anderson phone records seized by the government, though Anderson doesn’t refer to any other athletes in his brief statement.
Brady attended the same Bay Area high school as Bonds. His agent, Donald Yee, couldn’t be reached for comment yesterday, and the Patriots declined comment on Anderson’s statement.
“I don’t have any information on it,” Patriots spokesman Stacey James said. “I’m not going on hearsay.”
Anderson has refused on four different occasions to testify before federal grand juries investigating Bonds. He was released from prison July 20 after serving 15 days for refusing to testify, but only after that grand jury’s term expired.
“I will not ever make statements about other people,” Anderson said in the June 23 statement filed with the court. “That has always been my position and will continue to be.”
Today, prosecutors plan to ask U.S. District Judge William Alsup to send Anderson to prison if he stands by that policy.
Government lawyers are investigating whether Bonds lied under oath when he told an earlier grand jury he didn’t know whether the substances given to him by Anderson were steroids.

The Puerto Rican Fog Bank is in and ready to take residence in the cellar.

Thank you very much.

so any takers on a fantasy league? if so we should get it going

I'm down.

Sure. I'd love to dominate the league during the regular season again like I did last year, only to lose in the first playoff game (I was the the Indy Colts of SOMB).

i'll try to join somb FF, but i know yahoo sets a limit on how many teams you can have. i've already got 3...

You must have been the proud owner of Shaun Alexander.

Scratch that. The bolds are the home team...

Week one is a tough one, especially with confidence points. My picks are in there, nobody elses are.

Get em in there bitches! I want to see how it's gonna pan out...

Signed impatient

Too early for me.

My picks will change when Tom Brady is suspended for steroid abuse findings.

you can't see anyone elses until the games start. i'm sure a bunch of us have them done temporarily.

if you click on group picks, double dashes across the row denote that picks have been made.

ah, alright. thanks

i'm sure mine will change but i'd rather not take a chance on forgetting

are you talking week1 of the regular season or can we make picks for this weekend