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

[Rain Man]

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!

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by patteeu

I think that sounds alright. I don't think it matters that much whether the draft finishes before the first games or not.

I wouldn't want the draft to go much faster early on when the picks really matter, but at the end of the draft, if you draft a round or two late it doesn't matter so much.

The only reason I want to finish before the real games start is in case someone unknown plays better than expected. I don't want to reward some bird dogger who just happens to have a pick available.

[cdcox]

Now playing starting QB for the Pittsburgh Tacos:

Seneca Wallace!

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

So are the draft clocks going faster now?

[brorth]

Originally Posted by Gif Horse

So are the draft clocks going faster now?

Not that I can tell.

League 2 is at 1053, though.

[cdcox]

League 1 has a draft clock of 10 minutes now.

League 2 has a draft clock of 18 minutes now.

We will still stop the draft clocks at night.

All drafting will be shut down just before the kickoff on Thursday.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Originally Posted by cdcox

League 1 has a draft clock of 10 minutes now.

[brorth]

Originally Posted by Gif Horse

0:

Ask and ye shall receive like a mother****er.

[DMAC]

Ive missed some picks, I have been in the wilderness for a couple days.

I will catch up in the morning.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Less than 200 picks to go

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Can I interest anyone in Sam Acho?

Looking for depth player at LB or OL. Might trade for a FB or TE.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

There goes Randy Moss.

I was gonna take him with my 1100 pick.

[lostcause]

Originally Posted by Gif Horse

There goes Randy Moss.

I was gonna take him with my 1100 pick.

too slow, sucka

[Old Dog]

I keep getting an error "there is no such team"
Normally I click my team a half dozen times or so and then it FINALLY comes up, but it isn't seeming to now.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Originally Posted by truebigdog

I keep getting an error "there is no such team"
Normally I click my team a half dozen times or so and then it FINALLY comes up, but it isn't seeming to now.

http://sandboxsimulations.com/index.php/

[Old Dog]

Thank You