[Rain Man]

Congrats to the two winning teams, and to all of the team owners this year who invested their time to build teams from scratch. I thought it was a fun process.

In response to DJ's question, one of the main goals in the design is to prevent people from "gaming" the system. So we've got controls built in to keep people from taking a QB who went 4 for 4 with a TD in his one appearance and using that guy all season as a superman. Same with RBs and other positions. The challenge arises in the fact that it's not a clear demarcation. You can do that with a guy who had 4 attempts, but how about a guy with 50? 100? 150? The 300-carry rule is just one of several governors we've built in to manage any odd cases that may sneak through the system.

This initial season was a good test of cdcox's system, and we (we being cdcox, but occasionally chatting with me) made some adjustments to tweak it. I suspect it'll be an ongoing evolution.

With regards to the specifics of the game system, we don't want to share too much because if we do, someone will eventually use that information to game the system. So I think we'll remain mum on most issues as they relate to the calculations. I will say, though, that things like the 300-carry rule are really more about managing the game mechanics than modeling/modifying future player performance.

One thing we would appreciate would be hearing from people on how they could have gamed the system this year. I never saw anything untoward, but it also looked like everyone was playing the game sincerely and in good faith, and no one was trying to pull workarounds.