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Good show. Anyone else got a design?

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Exactly the same thing I've been thinking this whole time.

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Here you'll learn all about me: my interests and hobbies, the people in my family, my pets, and more. I've even included a list of my favorite links to other sites.

On this home page, I'll introduce myself and talk about my reasons for wanting a web site. I might put a picture of myself on this page...or just a picture that I especially like.

--Wow...I didn't know fantasy first was so personal. :D

Nice site

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i was lazy and started it off of a personal site...

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Sounds great. Count me in!

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when are we going to start this draft?

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DRAFT WILL BE HELD ON THE 8TH time is TBA by Koko ED

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It would be interesting if next year if we broke this down even more. Kinda to incorporate every aspect of FIRST.

Like Include winning awards along with the competition aspect.

Wins losses and ties Sure.

But Getting a team that might win a lot of awards and not a lot games should count for something also.

It'd be like Fantasy baseball, you'd want a bit of both worlds.. pitching and hitting.

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You are in.

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Sounds alot like Ventures.

John V-Neun's Top Picks!
 

JVN's Top Picks!
(and guide for Fantasy FIRST picking)

Okay... so I've been asked to play the role of the professional sports analyst, and post some of my "Top Picks" for the fantasy FIRST league. Since I'm participating in this little game, I'm not going to go so far as to post my list, but I will share some insight into how I'm making my list.

Basically, the first thing to consider is... "What criteria is this being judged on?"
The answer: "Wins and losses" then "Overall points".
So when we all go to make our draft picks, we will want the "best" teams. This doesn't mean "the teams that will win nationals" this means, "the teams that will win the most matches". So based on this, it is important to snag the teams we feel are going to win most.

So how do we go about picking which teams will do best?

Well... this is how I'm doing it:
I'm going to pick (in this order):

1. The kick-butts- Those teams that I have seen (or heard of) kicking butt this season. That is, the ones who have seeded highly, and performed consistently. Obviously, the ones who did so against stronger competition are rated higher on my list. I'm also taking some of the "luck" factor into account. Yes, it's true... some teams rank highly, without playing well. This occurs for a number of reasons. When I make my list I'll try to keep these teams off of it.

2. The prospects - Those teams that I THINK will do well. The ones that haven't performed as strongly as others, but may get their act together in time for nationals. Everyone also needs to take into account that the game has been evolving over the past 5 weeks of competition. This means that teams who kicked-butt week 1, may not be NEARLY as competitive in Atlanta. Maybe they performed poorly, because of the way the game was played, but in Atlanta they will be very powerful. There is a lot of prediction going on here. Pick whoever will do best. (this applies above as well... even if someone kicked butt, I may not think they should be on the top of my list).

3. The darkhorses - Those teams that NO ONE expects to do well, except for me. The ones who could take it all, if they get a little luck. The trick to drafting well (in this, and in the "real" FIRST draft) is to get picks that will perform well, even though no one else expects them to. You need to find that random powerhouse that somehow slipped until the 2nd round, and scoop them up.

4. The statistics - Let's face it... no one has seen everybody. There are enough people participating that I'm likely going to get "stuck" with someone who I've never really heard of. This means that I need some way of evaluating these "last ditch" picks. The ones I don't know anything about. How do I do this without being able to talk to them? (blech)... statistical analysis. So for this, I've made a spreadsheet which contains all the seeding data from ALL the regionals played (I will post this as a whitepaper). From this I've ranked everyone in terms of average points awarded per match (2 for a win, 1 for a tie, 0 for a loss). I've combined the data for teams that have played multiple regionals. From this, I can have my final comparison, and maybe pull out something good, from a field I don't know much about.


All in all, this is a pretty cool game.
I can't wait to see how it plays out.
There is a LOT of luck involved, but also a lot of strategy.

Good Luck to all,

John

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This is my try at a logo.

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Thanks John. You're the best. :D

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please if you are going to make a logo, remove the sm(selling mark) from firsts logo and use a vetor image of the first logo. if you need one pm me for it but please keep this thread on topic and not do a huge discussion on the first vector.

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JVN you rock!!! this is what we need you are awsome :D

good insight on how to chose your teams

NEXT YEAR i promise all of you fantasy FIRST will have many more options and "game types" once we have a good site set up we will be able to run our own games and login etc......