Octopus Overlords

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.

In.

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

In.

In!

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?

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.

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

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.

IBTL (in before the loss)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

bumped - 6 days until the season starts.

Currently have 12 victims participants.

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...

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.

just signed up

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.

In!

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?

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.

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.

I'll give it a go

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.

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

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.

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...)

Whew. Almost forgot to make my pick.

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

My goal is a perfect season

chose my team today

Don't forget your team selections for today.

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

Never noticed this got moved to Forum Games.

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