Your Chance To Participate In A New Football Phenomenon (Sandbox Simulations) - Page 147

**Rain Man** · 09:15 AM

I apologize if the mods think this is soliciting, and I guess it is, but at the same time it's beta testing a new product developed by long-time planeteers, and it's free.

cdcox and I have been developing a new football game for the thoughtful fan, where players build franchises and compete against each other. A description is below.

If you're interested, we're offering the game for free in Year 1 to Chiefsplanet members, with the goal of both giving the system a dry run and also hooking you like Phillip Morris. You can go to www.sandboxsimulations.com to sign up, and use the access code 6Lanier3.

Here's the overview:

Build and manage a full 53-player roster over multiple seasons, as an offseason activity to give you year-round football

Select your personnel to match your offensive and defensive scheme. Every position matters – even your blocking tight end.

Realistic and accurate simulations of league games based on head-to-head matchups against other teams in your league.

This is essentially a new concept in fantasy football that attempts to simulate as closely as possible the management of a real NFL franchise over a multi-year period. Unlike regular fantasy football, every position on the offense and defense contributes to your success or failure. On special teams, the punter, kicker, and kick returners matter.

In Sandbox Football you will build a team – an entire 53-man football team – via an initial draft, and will maintain it year after year in annual rookie drafts, trading periods, and free agency. You compete against teams in your league. In the first year of the game, before the start of the NFL season, you will build your roster by drafting veterans and rookies through separate drafts, and through trades with other teams in the league. Your roster is frozen at the beginning of the NFL season. During the real regular NFL season, you can focus on your traditional fantasy games and perhaps keep on eye on your Sandbox roster as our statistical models build the data on player performances. At the end of the regular NFL season, the Sandbox season begins. There will be 16 games in the season. In real time, the season will run about 8 weeks (2 alternate reality games per week).

Game outcomes will be simulated based on the performance of individual players during the just-completed NFL regular season. The simulations, developed by a PhD statistical expert, estimate how individual players will perform in the context of your alternate reality team competing head-to-head against other teams in the league and with the specific team that you have built. The simulations will consider the offensive and defensive schemes that you select. So you can build your roster to support a power running game or a high-flying passing attack. You can run a 3-4 or 4-3 base defense. You can run nickel formations or four-wide receiver sets. You can rotate your DL to keep them fresh.

The game is more about building a team than playing video games. So this isn't Madden, but you will have the ability to tweak your game plan to take the best advantage of your roster and the weaknesses of your opponent. Injuries are a factor in the game. If a player is unavailable during weeks 3 through 6 in the NFL, he is also unavailable during the same weeks in the alternate reality season. So roster depth matters. The game simulations are based on the most advanced statistics and the latest research regarding what matters in winning an NFL game. But, the outcomes of the games have a random component, just like real NFL games.

The calendar for the alternate reality league year will look something like this:
• Jan to Mid March: Alternate Reality regular season and playoffs.
• Mid-March to the beginning of NFL season: Roster building through trades, veteran draft (first year), free agent drafts (2nd year and beyond), and rookie draft.
• Beginning of NFL season to end of regular NFL season: Alternate reality league is dormant, but the NFL players are generating their performance stats for the up-coming AR league.
• Rinse and repeat.

Copyright Sandbox Simulations, all rights reserved.

We're still finalizing the cost structure, but this won't be an expensive game to play at all. It might range from a few bucks a year to $50 per year, depending on a few factors.

Year 1 will require a couple of days of drafting with rather high intensity, but we've got it set up where you can put your draft list together and do customized and automated drafting if you like.

So...go! Now! Time to get ready for the draft!

Note that we are still in beta testing, so things could change if we find problems in the system.

How Free Agency Works:

Free Agency will begin before the 2012 season after the rookie draft.

Our process is as follows for the 2012 season. In 2013 and beyond there will be minor changes as noted later.

1. We will unveil the list of available free agents so you can check out the talent pool.

2. If you look in "Standings", you will see that you have a salary account value of $1,300. You will use this to sign your veterans to contracts, sign your rookies to contracts, and (in a competitive bidding process) sign free agents to contracts.

The cost of a contract is as follows for players already on your roster (both veterans and rookies).

$0 - 1 season contract
$10 - 2 season contract
$22 - 3 season contract
$37 - 4 season contract
$55 - 5 season contract
$76 - 6 season contract
$100 - 7 season contract

You will sign your existing players to contracts using an interface that we will unveil shortly. If your 53-man roster is set you can spend your $1,300 on your current roster. However, it may be worthwhile to hold some money back so you can compete for free agents.

3. The free agency period begins.

Bidding for free agents will be open and competitive. As players come available, teams will be allowed to sign them if they are the high bidder. The contract length is automatically calculated by rounding down the bid to the chart below.

Contract Length (Seasons) Salary Points Bid
1 0 to 9
2 10 to 21
3 22 to 36
4 37 to 54
5 55 to 75
6 76 to 99
7 100 or more

For example, if you submit the winning bid for a player at a price of 25 salary points, that player becomes yours under a 3-year contract. If you submit a bid for 35 points and win, it’s also a 3-year contract. If you submit a bid for 38 points, it’s a 4-year contract. If you submit a bid for 120 points, it’s a 7-year contract.

For the 2012 free agency period, we will enforce the 53-man rule. You will need to cut down to 53 players before the free agency period starts, and if you sign a player to go above 53, you will need to cut a player to stay within the roster limit. NOTE: DON'T CUT YET UNLESS YOU WANT TO. WE'RE STILL FINALIZING THE SYSTEM AND WANT TO BE SURE THAT THIS RULE WORKS IN 2012.

4. Ending Bidding and Ending Free Agency.

Bids on an individual player will begin once the first player places a bid. For the 2012 season that bid must be $1 or more. Bidding ends when the existing high bid had not been raised for 72 hours. At that point, the high-bid team is awarded the player under the contract terms described in Step 3.

The free agency period in 2012 will end once there have been no bids on any players for 72 hours.

5. Unused Salary Points

If you do not use all of your salary points in a given year, they will roll over from year to year. This is experimental and we'll have to see how it works. If it doesn't work, they'll expire each year, or maybe a portion of the points can roll over. Right now, assume they all roll over.

6. Salary Points and Roster Management

In the Sandbox system, salary points and the salary cap are used only for acquiring players. You will never have to track the number of salary points “on your roster” and you will never have to cut a player for salary cap reasons.

Additionally, you are not obligated to keep a player for the full length of his contract. You can cut him or trade him at any time. However, recognize that it’s a waste of salary points to cut or trade a player before the end of his contract. But it doesn't hamstring you going forward - it's just past money that you wasted.

7. Free Agency and Contract Length - Retaining Your Current Players

When a player reaches the end of their contract, they go back into the free agency pool and teams will bid for their services. You are eligible to bid on them to get them back, just like you can bid on any free agents.

There is one exception to the rule of free agents going into the free agency pool, as follows:

• At the end of the bidding process, you have the opportunity to re-sign your own players by outbidding the high bidder. Your bid must be the minimum points to increase their contract period by a year over the high bid. (Example: your player goes to free agency, and another team bids 50 points for him, which equates to a 4-year contract. You can keep the player by paying 55 points for him, which is the minimum amount for a 5-year contract.) If the high bidder offered a contract of 100 points or more (7-years), you can keep the player by bidding 10% more points than the high bid.

8. Free Agency and Trades

If you trade for a player, their contract length is a consideration. Trading for a player with 6 years left on his contract will give you his services for that amount of time (unless you cut him or trade him, or he retires). Trading for a player with 1 year left on his contract means that he’ll go back into the free agency pool at the end of the season. (Of course, you can still retain him via Step 7.)

9. Future Years

In future years, the process will be identical to that shown above, with the following exceptions.

a. Because you will have a lot of veteran players under contract, you won't need $1,300. You'll get a new annual allotment of signing dollars. We're still working on the exact amount, but it looks like it'll be between $500 and $600.

b. In the 2012 season, we will introduce all free agents at once to catch up. In the 2013 season and beyond, the free agency period will occur during the actual NFL season. We will sprinkle the free agents in one division at a time over the course of the season. (The divisions may be randomly selected or we may release a calendar. It doesn't matter that much.) This system should be interesting because some free agents will come available early in the season when you don't know their performance for the year - greater risk, greater reward - while other free agents will come available later in the season when you know what their performance will be, but so does everyone else.

c. In the 2013 season and beyond, you will be able to retain more than 53 players through the rookie draft and the main free agency period. You will then have a cutdown period to get to 53 and we will have a final free agency period where you can sign any players who have been cut. In that final period you will have to enforce a 53-man roster, so if you sign a player you have to cut one.

10. When you think about the schedule in 2013 and beyond, it will go like this:

a. Sandbox season goes from February through April.
b. Rookie draft in May. No 53-man limit.
c. Free agency from (likely) September through December, with free agents sprinkled in throughout that period.
d. January. Roster cuts to 53.
e. Late January. Final free agency period to flesh out rosters and sign players cut in Step d.
f. New Sandbox season begins.

**cdcox** · 06-28-2012, 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lostcause

Game 3:

3rd Q 3:02 1st and 15 Abilene 19 Danny Ware rushes for -2 yards.
3rd Q 2:12 2nd and 17 Abilene 17 Peyton Hillis rushes for 2 yards.
3rd Q 1:22 3rd and 14 Abilene 19 Jamaal Charles rushes for 0 yards.
3rd Q 0:32 4th and 14 Abilene 19 Jamaal Charles rushes for 17 yards.

A stretch of 4 consecutive running plays for 4 different distances and 50 seconds exactly comes off the clock for each play. May be an abberation, but seems rather odd.

Edit, 50 second run offs exactly happens several times:

4th Q 5:08 1st and 10 Allentown 46 Jamaal Charles rushes for 4 yards.
4th Q 4:18 2nd and 6 Allentown 42 Peyton Hillis rushes for 6 yards.
4th Q 3:28 3rd and 1 Allentown 37 Peyton Hillis rushes for 2 yards.
4th Q 2:38 1st and 10 Allentown 34 Peyton Hillis rushes for 3 yards. time out Allentown

I use fixed times for the duration of each play type. This is a very slight simplification, unlikely to affect game play or enjoyment.

I'm allowing 5 seconds for the play and the referee/timekeeper to get things going and a 45 second play clock. Smart teams are going to be very close to this number in a must run situation.

**cdcox** · 06-28-2012, 01:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lostcause

Game 2:

Allentown
4th Q 1:01 1st and 10 Allentown 44 BenJarvus Green-Ellis rushes for 7 yards. time out Abilene
4th Q 0:53 2nd and 3 Abilene 49 Fred Jackson rushes for -5 yards.
4th Q 0:03 3rd and 7 Allentown 47 BenJarvus Green-Ellis rushes for 2 yards.
Allentown 41, Abilene 21

Why run the ball and even risk a fumble, when Allentown can qb kneel 3 consecutive times and run out the end of the game?

End of game 3:

Abilene
4th Q 0:01 1st and 10 Allentown 39 Peyton Hillis rushes for 3 yards.
Allentown 7, Abilene 32

Why not kneel down?

Yeah, I need to add a kneel function.

**cdcox** · 06-28-2012, 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lostcause

Game 1:

4th Q 0:10 2nd and 5 Allentown 22 Mark Sanchez spikes the ball to kill the clock.
4th Q 0:08 3rd and 5 Allentown 22 Mark Sanchez passes complete to Calvin Johnson for a gain of 6 yards. PENALTY. Offensive Holding on Chris Kuper. -10 yards.
Allentown 27, Abilene 24

Abilene down by 3, passes up a fg to tie the game from the 22 with 10 seconds left and no time outs and runs a 6 yard pass play? Real poor decision making here.

fixed.

**cdcox** · 06-28-2012, 01:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lostcause

Game 1 - End of first half:

2nd Q 0:21 3rd and 9 Allentown 41 Mark Sanchez passes complete to Dwayne Bowe for a gain of 4 yards.
Allentown 17, Abilene 3

It would seem that there was enough time to get to the line of scrimmage and attempt a throw into the end zone from 41 yards out on 4th and 5. Or even attempt a long field goal. Either way, on a 4 yard pass and down by 14, Abilene should have been trying to score at the end of the half and 21 seconds seems like it would afford enough time to run a play.

Same deal with using fixed times for specific play types. It's likely that 21 seconds would elapse on a typical short completed pass under hurry up conditions. It is also likely that if it were the last play of the half, they would find a way to get the play off, like you suggest. I'm on the fence about adding a lot of code to handle 1 play per half.

I do need to add a function so teams that don't have Matt Cassel for a QB will throw for the end zone in these kinds of situations.

The remaining things you found are legitimate bugs that I need to track down. Tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback, it is very helpful.

DJ's left nut · 06-28-2012, 01:08 PM

I'd have lost this one anyway, but Clearwater vs. Anchorage, 4th and 4, down 3 with 28 seconds left in the game and evidently 1 timeout (judging by the 2 plays run afterward)....and my team punted.

That seems...wrong.

DJ's left nut · 06-28-2012, 01:13 PM

I'm not sure if I just can't find it, but is there anyplace to see individual/team statistics thus far? Sorry if this has already been addressed.

DJ's left nut · 06-28-2012, 01:23 PM

This also seems unnecessarily reckless:

4th and 8 from my own 36 with 32 seconds left against Vegas in a tie ballgame....and we go for it (after punting the week before on 4th and 4 while losing).

Vegas managed to go for 32 yards and evidently get stopped at the 4 as time expired to send it into overtime. Otherwise I'd have been one sad panda.

lostcause · 06-28-2012, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I'd have lost this one anyway, but Clearwater vs. Anchorage, 4th and 4, down 3 with 28 seconds left in the game and evidently 1 timeout (judging by the 2 plays run afterward)....and my team punted.

That seems...wrong.

I brought that play up to cdcox and he says he fixed the AI. No place yet for stats.

**Iowanian** · 06-28-2012, 03:22 PM

Stacey Andrews should be a G not a TE

**cdcox** · 06-28-2012, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdcox

I'll look at these lineup issues tomorrow evening before I run the sims.

I thought these just require a changing positions in some of my tables, but it is more complicated than that. The line up issues are going to take a little while longer to dig through.

On with the simulations!!

**AustinChief** · 06-28-2012, 09:53 PM

Why did Matt Cassel start in my last game instead of Andy Dalton? Dalton should have been available... but instead Cassel played and just like in real life... was awful.

I probably would have lost anyway.. but damn, having Cassel in just killed me!

Hammock Parties · 06-28-2012, 10:08 PM

Holy SHIT. I CRUSHED Rain Man.

How the hell did that happen.

I made several radical changes in my lineup and gameplan...I wonder if they had any effect.

Hammock Parties · 06-28-2012, 10:13 PM

Somehow Ricky Williams got 31 carries in my game. WHAT? LOL

And he's now listed as my starter.

CONFUSED

In fact, there are several lineup changes in effect now that I didn't authorize.

**cdcox** · 06-28-2012, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AustinChief

Why did Matt Cassel start in my last game instead of Andy Dalton? Dalton should have been available... but instead Cassel played and just like in real life... was awful.

I probably would have lost anyway.. but damn, having Cassel in just killed me!

My best guess...

The way it is set now, if you do not at least point your browser to your lineup page for more that 1 league week, a bot takes over the management of your lineup.

I need to make it so that if you look at any of your line up, game planning, standings, or schedule, that it logs you in as active. I'll do that now.

My simulator says that Scott Pioli is a bot. Wow, this thing is scary accurate.

**cdcox** · 06-28-2012, 10:27 PM

More info. Somehow league 1 got set to league week 8 and many active players show that they have been inactive for 3 weeks. I must have inadvertently hit the advance week link for league 1 a couple extra times, but I'm not sure how that happened. Grrrr.

08-08-2011, 02:01 PM
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-542449 VARSITY	Your Chance To Participate In A New Football Phenomenon (Sandbox Simulations) I apologize if the mods think this is soliciting, and I guess it is, but at the same time it's beta testing a new product developed by long-time planeteers, and it's free. cdcox and I have been developing a new football game for the thoughtful fan, where players build franchises and compete against each other. A description is below. If you're interested, we're offering the game for free in Year 1 to Chiefsplanet members, with the goal of both giving the system a dry run and also hooking you like Phillip Morris. You can go to www.sandboxsimulations.com to sign up, and use the access code 6Lanier3. Here's the overview: Build and manage a full 53-player roster over multiple seasons, as an offseason activity to give you year-round football Select your personnel to match your offensive and defensive scheme. Every position matters – even your blocking tight end. Realistic and accurate simulations of league games based on head-to-head matchups against other teams in your league. This is essentially a new concept in fantasy football that attempts to simulate as closely as possible the management of a real NFL franchise over a multi-year period. Unlike regular fantasy football, every position on the offense and defense contributes to your success or failure. On special teams, the punter, kicker, and kick returners matter. In Sandbox Football you will build a team – an entire 53-man football team – via an initial draft, and will maintain it year after year in annual rookie drafts, trading periods, and free agency. You compete against teams in your league. In the first year of the game, before the start of the NFL season, you will build your roster by drafting veterans and rookies through separate drafts, and through trades with other teams in the league. Your roster is frozen at the beginning of the NFL season. During the real regular NFL season, you can focus on your traditional fantasy games and perhaps keep on eye on your Sandbox roster as our statistical models build the data on player performances. At the end of the regular NFL season, the Sandbox season begins. There will be 16 games in the season. In real time, the season will run about 8 weeks (2 alternate reality games per week). Game outcomes will be simulated based on the performance of individual players during the just-completed NFL regular season. The simulations, developed by a PhD statistical expert, estimate how individual players will perform in the context of your alternate reality team competing head-to-head against other teams in the league and with the specific team that you have built. The simulations will consider the offensive and defensive schemes that you select. So you can build your roster to support a power running game or a high-flying passing attack. You can run a 3-4 or 4-3 base defense. You can run nickel formations or four-wide receiver sets. You can rotate your DL to keep them fresh. The game is more about building a team than playing video games. So this isn't Madden, but you will have the ability to tweak your game plan to take the best advantage of your roster and the weaknesses of your opponent. Injuries are a factor in the game. If a player is unavailable during weeks 3 through 6 in the NFL, he is also unavailable during the same weeks in the alternate reality season. So roster depth matters. The game simulations are based on the most advanced statistics and the latest research regarding what matters in winning an NFL game. But, the outcomes of the games have a random component, just like real NFL games. The calendar for the alternate reality league year will look something like this: • Jan to Mid March: Alternate Reality regular season and playoffs. • Mid-March to the beginning of NFL season: Roster building through trades, veteran draft (first year), free agent drafts (2nd year and beyond), and rookie draft. • Beginning of NFL season to end of regular NFL season: Alternate reality league is dormant, but the NFL players are generating their performance stats for the up-coming AR league. • Rinse and repeat. Copyright Sandbox Simulations, all rights reserved. We're still finalizing the cost structure, but this won't be an expensive game to play at all. It might range from a few bucks a year to $50 per year, depending on a few factors. Year 1 will require a couple of days of drafting with rather high intensity, but we've got it set up where you can put your draft list together and do customized and automated drafting if you like. So...go! Now! Time to get ready for the draft! Note that we are still in beta testing, so things could change if we find problems in the system. How Free Agency Works: Free Agency will begin before the 2012 season after the rookie draft. Our process is as follows for the 2012 season. In 2013 and beyond there will be minor changes as noted later. 1. We will unveil the list of available free agents so you can check out the talent pool. 2. If you look in "Standings", you will see that you have a salary account value of $1,300. You will use this to sign your veterans to contracts, sign your rookies to contracts, and (in a competitive bidding process) sign free agents to contracts. The cost of a contract is as follows for players already on your roster (both veterans and rookies). $0 - 1 season contract $10 - 2 season contract $22 - 3 season contract $37 - 4 season contract $55 - 5 season contract $76 - 6 season contract $100 - 7 season contract You will sign your existing players to contracts using an interface that we will unveil shortly. If your 53-man roster is set you can spend your $1,300 on your current roster. However, it may be worthwhile to hold some money back so you can compete for free agents. 3. The free agency period begins. Bidding for free agents will be open and competitive. As players come available, teams will be allowed to sign them if they are the high bidder. The contract length is automatically calculated by rounding down the bid to the chart below. Contract Length (Seasons) Salary Points Bid 1 0 to 9 2 10 to 21 3 22 to 36 4 37 to 54 5 55 to 75 6 76 to 99 7 100 or more For example, if you submit the winning bid for a player at a price of 25 salary points, that player becomes yours under a 3-year contract. If you submit a bid for 35 points and win, it’s also a 3-year contract. If you submit a bid for 38 points, it’s a 4-year contract. If you submit a bid for 120 points, it’s a 7-year contract. For the 2012 free agency period, we will enforce the 53-man rule. You will need to cut down to 53 players before the free agency period starts, and if you sign a player to go above 53, you will need to cut a player to stay within the roster limit. NOTE: DON'T CUT YET UNLESS YOU WANT TO. WE'RE STILL FINALIZING THE SYSTEM AND WANT TO BE SURE THAT THIS RULE WORKS IN 2012. 4. Ending Bidding and Ending Free Agency. Bids on an individual player will begin once the first player places a bid. For the 2012 season that bid must be $1 or more. Bidding ends when the existing high bid had not been raised for 72 hours. At that point, the high-bid team is awarded the player under the contract terms described in Step 3. The free agency period in 2012 will end once there have been no bids on any players for 72 hours. 5. Unused Salary Points If you do not use all of your salary points in a given year, they will roll over from year to year. This is experimental and we'll have to see how it works. If it doesn't work, they'll expire each year, or maybe a portion of the points can roll over. Right now, assume they all roll over. 6. Salary Points and Roster Management In the Sandbox system, salary points and the salary cap are used only for acquiring players. You will never have to track the number of salary points “on your roster” and you will never have to cut a player for salary cap reasons. Additionally, you are not obligated to keep a player for the full length of his contract. You can cut him or trade him at any time. However, recognize that it’s a waste of salary points to cut or trade a player before the end of his contract. But it doesn't hamstring you going forward - it's just past money that you wasted. 7. Free Agency and Contract Length - Retaining Your Current Players When a player reaches the end of their contract, they go back into the free agency pool and teams will bid for their services. You are eligible to bid on them to get them back, just like you can bid on any free agents. There is one exception to the rule of free agents going into the free agency pool, as follows: • At the end of the bidding process, you have the opportunity to re-sign your own players by outbidding the high bidder. Your bid must be the minimum points to increase their contract period by a year over the high bid. (Example: your player goes to free agency, and another team bids 50 points for him, which equates to a 4-year contract. You can keep the player by paying 55 points for him, which is the minimum amount for a 5-year contract.) If the high bidder offered a contract of 100 points or more (7-years), you can keep the player by bidding 10% more points than the high bid. 8. Free Agency and Trades If you trade for a player, their contract length is a consideration. Trading for a player with 6 years left on his contract will give you his services for that amount of time (unless you cut him or trade him, or he retires). Trading for a player with 1 year left on his contract means that he’ll go back into the free agency pool at the end of the season. (Of course, you can still retain him via Step 7.) 9. Future Years In future years, the process will be identical to that shown above, with the following exceptions. a. Because you will have a lot of veteran players under contract, you won't need $1,300. You'll get a new annual allotment of signing dollars. We're still working on the exact amount, but it looks like it'll be between $500 and $600. b. In the 2012 season, we will introduce all free agents at once to catch up. In the 2013 season and beyond, the free agency period will occur during the actual NFL season. We will sprinkle the free agents in one division at a time over the course of the season. (The divisions may be randomly selected or we may release a calendar. It doesn't matter that much.) This system should be interesting because some free agents will come available early in the season when you don't know their performance for the year - greater risk, greater reward - while other free agents will come available later in the season when you know what their performance will be, but so does everyone else. c. In the 2013 season and beyond, you will be able to retain more than 53 players through the rookie draft and the main free agency period. You will then have a cutdown period to get to 53 and we will have a final free agency period where you can sign any players who have been cut. In that final period you will have to enforce a 53-man roster, so if you sign a player you have to cut one. 10. When you think about the schedule in 2013 and beyond, it will go like this: a. Sandbox season goes from February through April. b. Rookie draft in May. No 53-man limit. c. Free agency from (likely) September through December, with free agents sprinkled in throughout that period. d. January. Roster cuts to 53. e. Late January. Final free agency period to flesh out rosters and sign players cut in Step d. f. New Sandbox season begins. Last edited by Rain Man; 05-27-2013 at 09:15 AM..
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06-28-2012, 01:08 PM	#2195
DJ's left nut Sauntering Vaguely Downwards Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Columbia, Mo Casino cash: $-720901	I'd have lost this one anyway, but Clearwater vs. Anchorage, 4th and 4, down 3 with 28 seconds left in the game and evidently 1 timeout (judging by the 2 plays run afterward)....and my team punted. That seems...wrong. __________________ "If there's a god, he's laughing at us.....and our football team..." "When you look at something through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
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06-28-2012, 01:13 PM	#2196
DJ's left nut Sauntering Vaguely Downwards Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Columbia, Mo Casino cash: $-720901	I'm not sure if I just can't find it, but is there anyplace to see individual/team statistics thus far? Sorry if this has already been addressed. __________________ "If there's a god, he's laughing at us.....and our football team..." "When you look at something through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
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06-28-2012, 01:23 PM	#2197
DJ's left nut Sauntering Vaguely Downwards Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Columbia, Mo Casino cash: $-720901	This also seems unnecessarily reckless: 4th and 8 from my own 36 with 32 seconds left against Vegas in a tie ballgame....and we go for it (after punting the week before on 4th and 4 while losing). Vegas managed to go for 32 yards and evidently get stopped at the 4 as time expired to send it into overtime. Otherwise I'd have been one sad panda. __________________ "If there's a god, he's laughing at us.....and our football team..." "When you look at something through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
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Hammock Parties I'll be back. Join Date: Nov 2002 Casino cash: $940478	Holy SHIT. I CRUSHED Rain Man. How the hell did that happen. I made several radical changes in my lineup and gameplan...I wonder if they had any effect. __________________ Chiefs game films
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06-28-2012, 10:13 PM	#2203
Hammock Parties I'll be back. Join Date: Nov 2002 Casino cash: $940478	Somehow Ricky Williams got 31 carries in my game. WHAT? LOL And he's now listed as my starter. CONFUSED In fact, there are several lineup changes in effect now that I didn't authorize. __________________ Chiefs game films
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06-28-2012, 10:27 PM	#2205
cdcox www.nfl-forecast.com Join Date: Sep 2000 Casino cash: $-498231	More info. Somehow league 1 got set to league week 8 and many active players show that they have been inactive for 3 weeks. I must have inadvertently hit the advance week link for league 1 a couple extra times, but I'm not sure how that happened. Grrrr.
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