OONFL Survivor Football 2010 (Should be working again!)

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:05 pm

Time for Survivor Football again...

Group Name: Octopus Overlords
Group ID: 15649
Password: innsmouth

Going with a 2 strikes and you are eliminated vice the 1 strike we have run in the past.

Rules: Pick one team each week you are certain is going to win. Each team can only be used once, until the playoffs when it resets to playoff teams. Pool will continue through the playoffs. If you get 2 weeks wrong, it is game over for you. Winner will be the last man standing.

To sign up: Click on this link
Select Join Group
Use Group ID and password from above
Create your team.

Good Luck!

Request one of the mods move this to Forum Games please. Thanks.

WHEEAATTON!!! · Post by **WHEEAATTON!!!** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:24 pm

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:43 pm

In. Now I can get away with my obligatory Detroit pick and not have it cost me the season.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:46 pm

msteelers · Post by **msteelers** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 3:03 pm

Semaj · Post by **Semaj** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:22 pm

theohall wrote:Time for Survivor Football again...

Group Name: Octopus Overlords
Group ID: 15649
Password: innsmouth

Going with a 2 strikes and you are eliminated vice the 1 strike we have run in the past.

Rules: Pick one team each week you are certain is going to win. Each team can only be used once, until the playoffs when it resets to playoff teams. Pool will continue through the playoffs. If you get 2 weeks wrong, it is game over for you. Winner will be the last man standing.

To sign up: Click on this link
Select Join Group
Use Group ID and password from above
Create your team.

Good Luck!

This because last year half the league+ was gone like week 3?

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:14 pm

Semaj wrote: This because last year half the league+ was gone like week 3?

Partially. Primary reason is Yahoo added the option for 1, 2 or 3 strikes, and I'm all about trying the new rules, at least once.

Semaj · Post by **Semaj** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:58 pm

theohall wrote:
Semaj wrote: This because last year half the league+ was gone like week 3?
Partially. Primary reason is Yahoo added the option for 1, 2 or 3 strikes, and I'm all about trying the new rules, at least once.

Did I win last year? I have no idea... I am probably down... I just know I'ma spend a week or two in October flying from Vancouver to Buffalo

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:20 pm

Semaj wrote:
theohall wrote:
Semaj wrote: This because last year half the league+ was gone like week 3?
Partially. Primary reason is Yahoo added the option for 1, 2 or 3 strikes, and I'm all about trying the new rules, at least once.
Did I win last year? I have no idea... I am probably down... I just know I'ma spend a week or two in October flying from Vancouver to Buffalo

The Rules wrote:If you fail to make a pick during a given week, you will be credited with a "Strike" (i.e., an incorrect pick). If your group's setting is "1 Strike and You're Eliminated," then you will be eliminated. If, however, your group allows more than 1 Strike, you may remain Active if you fail to make a pick, depending on how many Strikes you had previously.

Not sure if you can post picks early. Cannot find anything about that in the rules, so may have to wait until week 1 to find out.

Don't remember who won last season. I don't think I participated and cannot find a thread. My OO-fu search skills need enhancing.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:44 pm

IBTL (in before the loss)

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:51 pm

Remus West wrote:In. Now I can get away with my obligatory Detroit pick and not have it cost me the season.

Ditto. Especially on week one.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:08 pm

They're playing the Bears. Based on how Chicago has played this preseason, I'm confident that Chicago is the new Detroit.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:10 pm

Zaxxon wrote:They're playing the Bears. Based on how Chicago has played this preseason, I'm confident that Chicago is the new Detroit.

I find that impossible to believe. But we'll see soon enough.

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:17 pm

LordMortis wrote:
Remus West wrote:In. Now I can get away with my obligatory Detroit pick and not have it cost me the season.

Ditto. Especially on week one.

That is what I thought two years ago when they were off to play Atlanta.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:22 pm

LordMortis wrote:
Zaxxon wrote:They're playing the Bears. Based on how Chicago has played this preseason, I'm confident that Chicago is the new Detroit.
I find that impossible to believe. But we'll see soon enough.

I hope I'm wrong, and I know it's just the preseason, but I've seen very little encouraging. At all. Cutler being sacked 74 times in 3 games, the INTs still happening, the running game sucking it up for the most part, etc. Not looking like a promising season-to-be in Chi-town.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:38 pm

I don't like any of the games week one, so I'm going with a bit of a reach.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:52 pm

Zaxxon wrote:They're playing the Bears. Based on how Chicago has played this preseason, I'm confident that Chicago is the new Detroit.

Not true! The Bears are only three pieces away from a return to Super Bowl glory.

An offense.
A defense.
Special teams.

Damn, why does it sound like there's an echo coming back from eastbound I-94?

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:58 pm

IN! If I remember to login when I get home.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:10 pm

Zaxxon wrote:
LordMortis wrote:
Zaxxon wrote:They're playing the Bears. Based on how Chicago has played this preseason, I'm confident that Chicago is the new Detroit.
I find that impossible to believe. But we'll see soon enough.
I hope I'm wrong, and I know it's just the preseason, but I've seen very little encouraging. At all. Cutler being sacked 74 times in 3 games, the INTs still happening, the running game sucking it up for the most part, etc. Not looking like a promising season-to-be in Chi-town.

But the Rams were the new Detroit... And then Detroit stayed Detroit. And KC was the new Detroit and Detroit stayed Detroit. And it was Miami as the new Detroit and Detroit stayed Detroit... It seems like Tampa Bay may eventually give Detroit a run for the money. But even they have a while to go.

The Lions have been the Lions a long damned time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Na ... %28team%29" target="_blank

* Longest Road Streak Without Win

* 24 Detroit Lions 2001-2003
* 20 Detroit Lions 2007-2009 - current

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:58 pm

bumped - 6 days until the season starts.

Currently have 12 victims participants.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:49 pm

LordMortis wrote:
* Longest Road Streak Without Win

* 24 Detroit Lions 2001-2003
* 20 Detroit Lions 2007-2009 - current

And yet I was still unable to pick the Bears this week..preseason was that abysmal, leaving us without even a modicrum of hope.

Talk about setting low expectations...

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:08 pm

I could not pick the Bears either.

Lions - Stafford with WRs + Best at RB + what looks like an improved OL

Bears - Cutler + Martz, a disaster of an OL, and no other significant changes at WR while only adding Chester Taylor at RB = yet more INTs and sacks than last season. Don't be surprised if Martz winds up fired sometime mid-season when the GM finally realizes Cutler can't run a Martz offense. Heck, most QBs in the league can't run Martz kind of offense.

Semaj · Post by **Semaj** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 9:24 pm

just signed up

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:25 pm

Bump as reminder.

Last chance to enter pool since games start tomorrow night - 9SEP10

Also, get your pick for Week 1 in before the game starts tomorrow night.

Jiffy · Post by **Jiffy** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 8:00 am

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:31 am

In! Though on the submission page it states: "Deadline to submit pick: 9/12/2010 11:00 am MDT" Maybe I should have held off until tomorrow morning to have made this pick?

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:38 am

It says you can change your picks. Funny, you should bump this right as I entering my pick.

So my annual pick for the Loins to win on week one is in.

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:08 pm

Thanks for the heads up! Deadline thing is fixed to the way it should be. 5 minutes prior to the start of the first game each week.

moghedian · Post by **moghedian** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:46 pm

I'll give it a go

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:56 pm

Pyperkub wrote:I don't like any of the games week one, so I'm going with a bit of a reach.

And I got away with it! Yay Tampa Bay! LOL. I probbably should have gone with Tennessee, but they had that horrid start last year, and the Raiders looked pretty good @ the end of last year... they need to start Gradkowski - Campbell isn't ready yet.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:34 pm

Yahoo already has it marked down that San Diego was the correct pick for this week. Sweet!

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:36 pm

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Yahoo already has it marked down that San Diego was the correct pick for this week. Sweet!

SDG has not turned green yet.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:35 am

Week 2 picks are made. (Had to really seek to find this thread -- by the rules it should be in Forum Games, which would also make it much easier to find each week...)

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:57 am

Whew. Almost forgot to make my pick.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:26 pm

Remus West wrote:Whew. Almost forgot to make my pick.

Bumping on the off chance the players who didn't make picks can go for the last 2 games.

and it appears all the bears dismay above may be displaced... may be

Semaj · Post by **Semaj** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:52 pm

My goal is a perfect season

moghedian · Post by **moghedian** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 7:08 pm

chose my team today

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:42 am

Don't forget your team selections for today.

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:41 am

theohall wrote:Don't forget your team selections for today.

I did

With this thread being in this subforum, I never see it. I haven't had a reason to visit this subforum ever, since I don't care for forum games

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:37 am

Never noticed this got moved to Forum Games.

WTF is that about? Weird. It's not a forum game at all.