Sandbox football is gearing up - room for new owners.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Ebolapox

OH HEY I HAVE PICK TWO! I GET TO GO FROM PEYTON MANNING TO ANDREW LUCK/RG3/RUSSELL WILSON!

hell... anybody want to trade for peyton manning?!?!?

Trade offer sent.

As an FYI to all new owners, your players' injuries in 2012 correlate perfectly to their injuries in this game. So if a player missed Week X last year, they will miss Week X in this game. Remember that as you think about your rosters.

In my case, for example, Ray Lewis went down with an injury and missed ten weeks of the season. He will miss those same ten weeks for me.

[allen_kcCard]

Registered...username kizvaar

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by allen_kcCard

Registered...username kizvaar

Is that Baltic?...

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by allen_kcCard

Registered...username kizvaar

We'll assign you a team soon.

[TambaBerry]

Ok i am registered now user name on there same as here tambaberry

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by tambaberry

Ok i am registered now user name on there same as here tambaberry

You're all hooked up as the St. Louis Spiders owner.

[tsyou606]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Hi all,

For those of you who haven't participated, our Sandbox Simulations football game had a good initial test, and we're gearing up for Season Two now. We have some openings for new team owners, and the current leagues will be free forever since we're still beta testing.

The league works like this:

1. You get a team. Since we're in Season Two, you will be hired to run an existing team as coach/owner.
2. The teams currently have their end of year rosters from 2011, so you'll be able to do a fair bit of rebuilding. We'll hold the 2012 rookie draft and a veteran free agent acquisition, and then we'll conduct a season. You'll build a full 53-man roster.
3. The seasons are just like NFL football. You'll develop a general offensive and defensive philosophy and game plan for your team, and you'll deal with lineup shuffles as players get injured. Each week you'll get a play by play to see how your team fared.
4. The season is played on an accelerated basis so we should be done with it before the real NFL training camp starts. At that point we'll hold a 2013 rookie draft, and you'll be able to pick up veteran free agents over the course of the real NFL season.
5. Repeat as desired.

It's quite fun, actually, and the game engine works superbly. It's quite enjoyable to pull up the play by play and watch the game unfold, and to grumble as you have to shuffle lineups when injuries occur.

We'll be going commercial with the game at some point soon, but the two beta leagues will always be free. You'll be like George Halas with the Bears - at some point these franchises will be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.*

So if you're interested, let me know here and I'll assign you to a team. As with the real NFL, you don't have control over the team you inherit, so your challenge may be maintaining a powerhouse or more likely rebuilding a team that was managed poorly - you know, like the Chiefs.

* - Financial performance not guaranteed.


I need notice from the following owners that they are playing this year, or whether they are ceding their team. Our records show that these folks haven't yet logged in to look at their rosters and start building their draft board. Please let us know if you're going to participate (the draft is coming up fast) or if we need to give your team to another willing owner.

League 2:

Pompano Beach Pandas - ozona
Lexington Akitas - tyoung509
Fort Collins Horseteeth - magichef
Rancho Cucamonga Red Rage - dtforever
Little Rock Nine - kstater
Seattle Undertakers - andchiefs
Oklahoma City Outlaws - jreid18
Wichita Shox - Shox
Kansas City Fubar - Shorman22
Pembroke Pines Patteeus - Patteeu
Waco Compound Fires - Sully
Round Rock Tamba Tornados - Stanley Nickels
Topeka Thugs - KCChiefsman
Sioux Falls Swagger - Hootie2485

If I don't hear from you in this thread or via pm, I'll assume that your team is up for grabs and could give it away. Let me know before this tragedy strikes.

I'll update League 1 when I'm back home. I'm traveling right now.

I will play. My team is in bold

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by tsyou606

I will play. My team is in bold

Whoops, we gave your team away to EagleRob. I'm going to let Rain Man sort this out when he checks into the thread again.

[tsyou606]

ok cool, no worries

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by tsyou606

I will play. My team is in bold

Sorry. Given the last activity date, your team was reassigned to EagleRob. You're welcome to approach him about a trade, but your new team is now the ... Wichita Shox in League 2! Wichita went 5-11 last year but has plenty of stars to thrill the Wichita fanbase, particularly in the passing game.

[MagicHef]

Ok.

It's been working on my phone, so I'm in. Now, since my team apparently won the division without me last season, we'll see if I make them better or worse.

[Rain Man]

Okay, my train is landing or whatever trains do. I might be taking my wife out for a Mother's Day dinner and then I'll get on this.

My train actually broke down. It was kind of exciting, especially sing it only lasted for about ten minutes. And I might have seen a herd of elk, but they were pretty far away on a big ridge and could have been deer, bighorn sheep, or mountain goats.

[Rain Man]

My train is now stopping to pick up a "private railroad car". A private railroad car? What does that mean? I'm envisioning Wild, Wild West.

[mrroandrro]

Keep trying to get on but I'm at the screen where it says to name my team and its location. Now either I haven't been assigned a team or I'm doing it wrong. Help please.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by mrroandrro

Keep trying to get on but I'm at the screen where it says to name my team and its location. Now either I haven't been assigned a team or I'm doing it wrong. Help please.

You haven't been assigned a team yet. Hang on for a sec; I'm on the case now.