a few weird things....

1) RG3's YPA is pathetic. he's approaching rich gannon status.
2) chris johnson, RB, sucks. he got fewer carries than my backup, david wilson, and has a pathetic YPC. messed up.

Sioux Falls off to a really nice 2-0 start.

Pleased with this team.

Corona with a 38-35 OT win!
The Lights went up 35-28 at 6:13 left in the 4th on a Chris Long sack and fumble recovery. That led to a Vick Ballard 9 yd TD run.
Ben Rapelesslately led the Lone Wolf Pack on a tying drive with :13 left on the clock.
Ten minutes of OT later, FG FTW!

This hurt. Tackled on the 6 yard line as he tried to win the game on a dramatic play.

Oklahoma City 20, Seattle 19
Seattle
4th Q 4:01 1st and 10 Seattle 36 Arian Foster rushes for 1 yards.
4th Q 3:19 2nd and 9 Seattle 37 Arian Foster rushes for -1 yards.
4th Q 2:58 3rd and 10 Seattle 36 Joe Flacco passes complete to Randall Cobb for a gain of 15 yards.
4th Q 2:13 1st and 10 Oklahoma City 49 Joe Flacco passes complete to Vincent Jackson for a gain of 17 yards. Two minute warning.
4th Q 2:00 1st and 10 Oklahoma City 33 Joe Flacco passes complete to Doug Martin for a gain of -3 yards. PENALTY. Defensive Holding on Antoine Cason. 5 yards.
4th Q 1:52 1st and 10 Oklahoma City 28 Joe Flacco passes complete to Jason Witten for a gain of 1 yards. time out Seattle
4th Q 1:44 2nd and 9 Oklahoma City 26 Arian Foster rushes for 1 yards.
4th Q 1:23 3rd and 8 Oklahoma City 25 Joe Flacco passes complete to Doug Martin for a gain of 2 yards. time out Oklahoma City
4th Q 1:15 4th and 6 Oklahoma City 23 Matt Bryant field goal attempt from 40 yards. Good.
Oklahoma City 20, Seattle 22

Oklahoma City
4th Q 1:10 free agent kicks 57 yards, returned for 26 yards by free agent
4th Q 1:02 1st and 10 Oklahoma City 34 Alex D. Smith passes complete to Marshawn Lynch for a gain of 7 yards. time out Oklahoma City
4th Q 0:54 2nd and 3 Oklahoma City 41 Alex D. Smith passes complete to Stephen Hill for a gain of 15 yards.
4th Q 0:40 1st and 10 Seattle 44 Alex D. Smith spikes the ball to kill the clock.
4th Q 0:38 2nd and 10 Seattle 44 Alex D. Smith passes complete to Jordan Shipley for a gain of 6 yards. time out Oklahoma City
4th Q 0:30 3rd and 4 Seattle 38 Alex D. Smith passes complete to Mario Manningham for a gain of 2 yards.
4th Q 0:07 4th and 3 Seattle 37 Alex Henery field goal attempt from 54 yards. Good.
Oklahoma City 23, Seattle 22

Seattle
4th Q 0:02 Alex Henery kicks 61 yards, returned for 90 yards by Randall Cobb
Oklahoma City 23, Seattle 22

Oh damn. So close, Randall Cobb. Isn't that 1 yard short?

We had such a nice drive to tie it up, but then couldn't move the ball in OT at all.

We kick off from the 35 now, so he was six yards short. Must've been a heckuva play by some special teams defender to chase him down.

Anchorage is off to a disappointing 0-2 start as our offense is struggling and our defense is getting shellacked. We're benching Nigel Bradham and A.J. Jefferson to see if Jarrett Johnson and Mike Jenkins can do any better.

My lord, the Law Firm is just a trash halfback.

Justin Forsett, you're gonna get your shot - you can't possibly be worse than that !@#$ing bum.

PS - Dear Matt Schaub: A 55% completion percentage when you faced only a 7% pressure rate is completely unacceptable. Get your shit in order, son.

As well as Little Rock played in Week 1, they played equally poorly today. Not a good effort at all.

My #1 WR now has 8 total targets in 2 weeks

I just now updated player availability to week 3. We'll sim Saturday night.

If you had a pending bid on a free agent, it was likely just awarded. It may not show up on your line-up until week 4. Please reduce your rosters to 53 players. I'll run a check on all the rosters soon and publicly shame any offenders.

Greg hardy with the big time sack and forced fumble at my three yard line to preserve the win. Wow

Anchorage finally got a win, but it took a touchdown with 2:15 left to do it, and a monster game by Lesean McCoy.

Yeah, that was brutal. Seattle's a strong team, and yet they're 1-2 right now.

Provo now has the league's #1 offense.

Rancho Cucamonga put 8 sacks on the board this week, and still managed to pull out the win only with a heroic drive in the final minute of the game.

Our game was crazy rain man. Defensive battle, my defense has given up just 15 points through three games.

That's pretty darn impressive. Your rushing defense seems to be the key. They're shutting people down.

The Sioux Falls/Waco game is a comedy of errors.

I won, but felt like I lost.

2.1 YPC LMAO

Santonio Holmes lead the Pembroke Pines Patteeus in receiving again, but he also had 3 drops. As expected, my skill position players, outside of Matt Ryan, are dismal.

Turnovers helped us win for the first time this year though so "Yay Defense!"

Santonio Holmes racking up mad numbers for you is making me seriously considering making him my #4 WR next week.

Is he starting for you?

Yes, I'm going to use him while I have him. Here's the rest of my sterling WR corps:

Kevin Walter
Marvin Jones
Riley Cooper
Rod Streater
Santonio Holmes
T.Y. Hilton

I'll probably start Hilton from game 5 on.

2 of my OL starters were out. My lack of holes kept my RB's at bay.

Week 4 lineups and game planning are ready. I tried one last time to update the availability table. I'm sure it's still not perfect.

Sims on Tuesday night.

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I write the songs that make the whole world sing.
I write the songs of love and special things.
I write the songs that make the whole world cry.
I write the songs, I write the songs.

Sims on Thursday night. We see the dust rising on the horizon.

No C. Geathers
D. Florance
J. Simpson (leaves 3 available WR)

As of now, you can set your week 4 rosters for Thursday's sims.

rtmike -- I had not yet reset the rosters before you posted last. But all of the players you listed missed time due to injury in 2012.

I assume it is too late to get in on this, so Rain Man, could you kindly post the information so I might be prepared for next year?

I'm sure Rain Man can identify a team for you to manage this year. As soon has he posts which one, I'll get you set up. Are you registered yet?

If not, register using the acccess code 6Lanier3.

Go through the registration screens until you get to the screen where you pick your team name and STOP. Post back in this thread and I'll assign you the team Rain Man indicates.

Dustin Keller?

Sorter, Rancho Cucamonga is an intriguing team in League 2 with good potential. I think you'll like them. They're currently tied for the division lead.


Robert Turner C
Scott Wells C
Aqib Talib CB
Buster Skrine CB
Chris Houston CB
Corey White CB
Dre Kirkpatrick CB
Nolan Carroll CB
Antonio D. Smith DE3
Arthur Jones DE3
Glenn Dorsey DE3
Marcus R. Spears DE3
Wallace Gilberry DE4
Ahtyba Rubin DT
Billy Winn DT
Christo Bilukidi DT
Letroy Guion DT
Peria Jerry DT
Michael Robinson FB
Amari Spievey FS
Ryan Clark FS
Amini Silatolu G
Lance Louis G
Bernard Pierce HB
DeMarco Murray HB
Joe McKnight HB
Mike Goodson HB
Bradie James ILB
Jovan Belcher ILB
Kai Forbath K
DeMarcus Ware OLB
Dwight Freeney OLB
Larry English OLB
Matt Bosher P
Drew Brees QB
Vince Young QB
Eric Winston RT
Gosder Cherilus RT
Nate Solder RT
Akeem Ayers SLB
Atari Bigby SS
Da'Norris Searcy SS
Jordan Babineaux SS
Brandon Pettigrew TE
Weslye Saunders TE
Austin Spitler WLB
Brad Smith WR
Domenik Hixon WR
Golden Tate WR
Jeremy Kerley WR
Juron Criner WR
Percy Harvin WR
Ted Ginn WR

Set your lineup based on the players you have now for tonights sims. I'll fix the few injury issues in time for week 5. I'll sim in about 3.5 hours.

I just registered.

Edit: Learned to read posts.

I'm predicting a wild shootout between Sioux Falls and the KC Fubar.

Okay, you're all set.

Under the game planning thread you can set your line up on offense and defense, and make your game plans.

I'll run sims around around 9:00 EST tonight and you can see how your team did under the "league schedule" menu item. The best way to do it is to read the play-by-play before you know the outcome of the game.

That would mean my offense actually does something. :clap:

I may bench Tannehill in hopes Norv Turner has straightened out Weedon. Another reason why I traded with you for him to begin with.

GIVE ME SIMS!!!!

I have a feeling this is going to take me a very long time to even remotely figure out.

just don't over think it, its actually very easy to understand.

Running now.

YES!!! lol

Very true.

Initially I was overwhelmed trying to figure out the game planning, etc. One thing's for sure, there's several things I probably would have done different now that I'm starting to get a grasp of things.


RM, cd, how many owners' short are you? I've been in a league for 5 years. The commissioner runs about 5 leagues. He has a waiting list for owners' wanting to join. If you're not active for a couple weeks you're history. So that's 50-70 dedicated managers'. Well, he's taking this year off.

If you'd like I can hit the email list up with a Sandbox invite, your call. I'm willing to bet you'd get whatever owners' needed.

What would you have done differently?

good god, st louis put up 59 points on lexington.

Yikes. I need help at Wr and te.

Is there a way to view other teams depth charts?

Additionally, I feel as if I joined at the worst time.

ya you missed the entire draft, trading, and free agency.

We'll be doing the 2013 rookie draft in August. We'll turn on trades then too, so within a few weeks you should be able begin working on your roster to shape it in your own image.

cd did anything change with the sack simulations? I had 10 sacks this week.

Click on a link of another team in the standings or league schedule and you can see their roster.

Across both teams or just one team?

Week 1 and 2 sacks and QB pressure were artificially low due to a database error. They've been correct for week's 3 and 4.

Sweet.

that was just my team, Greg Hardy had 5 alone. I was just curious.

Fixed, but he did miss significant time in 2012.

Week 5 rosters are available. Sims on Saturday night.

check out RG3's statline this week:

Player Att Comp Yards TDs Int Comp % YPA Rating
Robert Griffin III 21 5 37 0 4 23.8 1.75 0

yeah, something smells like shit. that's WITH a nice mix of wildcat and a somewhat conservative gameplan (EXACTLY like the mike shannahan offense).

am I wrong in saying that this doesn't seem like a correct sim of RG3? he was dynamite in the NFL. thought this correlated! a ****ing free agent QB could do better than this shit.

My Sandbox coach is Herm Edwards.

Good god.


In any case, Brees only completed 54% for me.

Defense held up alright. I probably need to adjust my 3wr personnel and my base personnel/philosophy.

Murray is going to get a bunch of carries until the draft, me thinks.

Annnnnnnd Jay Cutler loses the game.

Annnnnd Jay Cutler loses the game again just to make sure.

Interesting read. I went with a pass heavy and blitz heavy game plan and anticipated a shoot out. The exact opposite happened.

Thanks, Jay.

Who in the blue hell is Robert McClain?

Also, I wonder if I'm cursed for having Belcher on my roster.

McClain is a very good young corner for Atlanta.

Some guy.

My OL sucked horribly this game. 39 percent pressure allowed. That's what happens when you have a mediocre guard starting at RT.

Not as bad as the line I faced 50% pressure rate and 10 sacks.

I thought that was Bryce McCain. Im probably confusing the two though

And I was. Didn't even spell poor Brice's name correctly.

Yeah, I couldn't figure out what was up with that myself. :hmmm:

Surprised you didn't burn me with some passing plays or I didn't at least get a sack out of my safeties since I thought I'd try something new with you & bring everything + the kitchen sink in my nickel packages like 95% of the time too. :eek: I figure with this being my 1st year I'd try some new shit to see if it worked.

Robert McClain is an under rated CB for the Falcons. I thought I needed to have a starting CB so I traded off Ware for J. Norman & a LB. Norman didn't last very long, McClain is opposite C. Rogers now, well has been anyways.

Aaron Rodgers is on pace for 52 TDs.

Adrian Peterson is on pace for 2348 yards rushing.

Not bad.

It definitely worked.

Poor game from Jay. With these receivers, he should be toasting the blitz.

That's some crazy shit there cause I did the same thing. 2nd & short...pass. 3rd/4th & short...pass.

I tried all kinds of different schemes hoping to make something happen.


It's all good. One more win & this rebuilt team will have equaled last year's win total......and I just jinxed myself.

I've checked the database and his underlying stats seem to be correct. I honestly thought he would get better with time.

His stats in league 1 are at least reasonable:

Robert Griffin III Cedar Rapids 138 80 904 7 4 58 6.55 82.5

Seattle is sure having trouble putting points on the board despite lining up Arian Foster and Doug Martin as our running backs. Our loss this week was heartbreaking.

I would like to apologize in advance to the Lexington Akitas.

Lexington has a big turnaround project on their hands. I felt kind of bad assigning eaglerob that team once I took a look.

Dominating win again by St Louis.

Week 6 lineups ready, sims Monday night.

Damn, for some reason Peterson ran it 38 times. I can't be having that.

I'm reading the Sioux Falls-Lexington play by play and Lexington just took a 7-3 lead. This is horrifying.