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You're in.

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this is how im thinking we run this thing.

We could get some hosting (i could provide it for now) On which, we could be running 2 SQL databases. One would be for team data, the other for user data. Then you can link certain users to certain teams and set up some kind of system for scoring. This whole thing would be run on its seperate entity, say www.fantasyfirst.com or something. We could get pit Bull 1126 to work on the info part of the site, and me and a few others would do the programming. You would be able to log in to the site, and check all of your stats and stuff

just an idea..

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gives us what u got and do what u can....

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Sounds like a plan. Get with Pitbull1126 on it.

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i know circuitrunners are offering free hosting to teams but i wonder if they would be willing to do it for this. the post is here http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=24872

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this is the hosting i am using for my teams site www.team195.com

theyve been great so far

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UPDATE: Webiste is now 50% done
Members updated
contacts page

other stuff on the way check it out!
http://fantasyfirst.cjb.net

sorry no chat this time they don't have it nay more BUT they do now have a Forum so do we...

http://forum.cjb.net/cgi-bin/forum.c...m=fantasyfirst

Fantasy FIRST Forum, website is also on the http://fantasyfirst.cjb.net site

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

If it's not to late, I would also like to join.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

You're in.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

Hey Everyone,
I finally got the paper uploaded.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pa...le&paperid=319

This ranking is based quantitatively on average seeding data only.

Note: I am NOT using this for my pick list, only as a last resort for when I haven't seen a team. Please refer to my above post.

John

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that is awesome, thanks!

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

Im in

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What the heck, I'm in. I've never done one of these before!

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i'll add both of you to the list and on the website

another addition:
Mechman108
cutiebethy

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I am IN! :D

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:: officially recruited by Pit Bull 1126 ::

So though I am absolutely clueless to how this is exactly going to work, I'm in.

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website is now updated:

79 people so far! our goal 92!!

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If we reach 90 I'm going to suspend regisrtation temporarily til I see how many more teams are avialable.

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Ed we can actually hit 92 spots

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Sewoiusly, you are going to have to post a concrete explanation of how to do this, cause I'm totally lost.

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is there room for one more?

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welcome aboard, you are on the website

We have reached 80
 

1 KoKo Ed
2 Jones571
3 JVN
4 Mike M.
5 Big Mike
6 Sigmakid108
7 Computheif263
8 HhsJosh
9 Jeremy Roberts
10 Rob Colatutto
11 Matt D
12 Dez250
13 Team311
14 Voltage
15 Aaron Lussier
16 Akuu
17 Guyute
18 Solace
19 Coreyjon
20 Tomman B182
21 Will Hanashiro
22 SarahB
23 Ryan Dognaux
24 *Andy Baker
25 *Andy Grady
26 OneAngryDaisy
27 George1083
28 Lil' Lavery
29 MisterX
30 Ogre
31 Karthik
32 Joe Ross
33 Pin Man
34 Alex Pelan
35 SwaDan
36 gsensel
37 Fireworks 234
38 Ricky Q.
39 Pit Bull 1126
40 ngreen
41 Eric Bareiss
42 BionicAlumni
43 BadKarma
44 Steve Horn
45 KingsvilleKukes
46 David66
47 Brant Bowen
48 Henry_222
49 Ryan_team710
50 rforystek
51 T967
52 Keiko173
53 Joel J.
54 Levin571
55 David Hoff
56 ahecht
57 Jack
58 M. Krass
59 AsimC
60 "Greg Needel
"
61 "Erin Rapacki
"
62 "Anne Bergeron
"
63 "Crop-Circles
"
64 Eric O
65 "Sscamatt
"
66 "Xufer "
67 tkwetzel
68 "Budda648 "
69 jagman2882
70 TierraDelDiablo
71 Amanda Aldridge
72 Stud Man Dan
73 Diobsidian
74 Ah27
75 Joe3
76 BoyWithCape195
77 Jessica Boucher
78 mechman108
79 Cutiebethy
80 jjdebner

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If you have ever played fantasy sports before basically you choose three robots from the list of teams at the championship and you basically add up wins and losses from your three robots and the cumalative scores from their matches. The alliance with the best record (with highest score as the tie breaker).

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hmmm i just found this thread (im a little slow) but it sounds like fun...count me in....just what do i gotta do to like sign up...like send somebody a pm or what....put me on your list if its still open though....sounds like loads of fun (sorry if all this information was already posted but i dont have the attention span to read 15 pages of posts)

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Your post here will get you signed up. So that makes 81 ppl signed up. I've got my list made, a nice variety of great bots.

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Congrats. You're in.

Re: We have reached 80
 

i've never played any fantasy sports before....doesn't seem too hard....what the heck, i'm in.


...this is starting to sound like a script for a verizon commercial "Are you in?"

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geocities ... if you guys make the site ill post it on the halflifetwo.us server as a sub domain so you'll have no ads and such, and im sure the owner will gimme some space heh. who evers designing it get me on aim ill see what i can do. Aim: Xuf3r

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ok this is what i have for how its going to be run...

Teams will be scored on their win/loss record
They will get an "score" - percentage of wins (ex 3 wins 1 loss - 75%)

Users will pick 3 teams
The average of those 3 teams scores will be that users score

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ok two new updates to the website
RogerR
Terminator6

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Guys... I hope you made your lists long.
With 92 people picking, a meager 25 team list is gonna go real fast.

I'm planning on making a list that consists of EVERY SINGLE TEAM going, ranked in order. (Just in case... heh).

John

Re: We have reached 80
 

Your already in??

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It is usually the cumulative score...so instead of averageing them...just add them all together.

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that would be great.. i will throw that in the "Team" table.. then each team wil have a win/loss record that can be edited by a mod

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Hello,
i am very interested in Fantasy First and will like to join

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john or anyone else feeling motivated.. i need a list of team numbers and theyre win/loss records for the year so far

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you designed the logo and din't join? Welcome aboard!

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'bout time you joined up.
Welcome!

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Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

scroll back a few pages. JVN already attached a spreadsheet with everyone's win loss records.

It's in the white papers also

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Im in

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Every one pleae give some rep points to thoughtful. he rocked us a great logo and deserves it!

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Suggestion for the draft:
While you are at it with the random number assignments, you should get a second set of random assignments. The first round can be the first assignments, the second round can be the first round picks inverted, and use the second set of assignments for the third round. Just so everyone has a little more of a chance, and there is much less possibility that someone has the last pick in two rounds. Whoever that would be would be shafted, having the last pick in the first round and the last pick over-all.

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i'll add you to the website! thnkas we need a few more!

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how are you going to do the "lottery" for the order of pickings will there be a lottery or what ? how will that be setup ? will it be based on anything ?

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No.
Do the foward to back and back to forward otherwise there is a chance the guy with the first pick could end up with the first pick in every round. That wouldn't be fair.

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About the rep points for awards (I don't feel like searching through all these pages for a quote):
Someone's rep points will increase mighty fast if everyone playing gives them rep points. However, I know someone will forget or ignore fantasy first if they realize their teams didn't do very well. But it has the potential of skyrocketing someones reputation.

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EVERY ONE THERE WILL BE A DOCUMENT POSTED TOMMAROW WITH ALL THE DRAFT INFORMATION.

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Eh.
Rep is more about popularity than it is about a person's status in FIRST.

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That would not happen. I stated that you can flip the list for the first and second rounds. And it will make the third round more fair to do it randomly, because then one person does not have a good chance of ending up with the first pick in the first and third rounds. But flipping the list for the first and second rounds would keep it fair...the first pick would get the last pick in the second round.

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We now have 83 people! goal 92!

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I disagree. Almost everyone with high rep points on CD is highly regarded in the FIRST community. Most of them are very active and have been for many years, they volunteer, and help many people out by mentoring and such. This dedication has led to their popularity on the CD forums. I agree that they are popular, but that is because they are dedicated FIRSTers. I know I respect anyone with lots of rep points.

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Now THAT is just downright dangerous.
With an attitude like that, you might end up respecting some young punk like me!

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Id like to be in. Esp. because i cant really be there!

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Yous is in.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

I won't make it obvious by stating the team number or ranking (in order to hopefully be able to pick them), but one of the VCU winning alliance partners is ranked in the bottom 5th of the list that JVN posted. Showing that that list won't always give you a good look at many teams.

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you will be my last add for the night.... il get back to it fter the meeting after school for SparX.... Good Luck to all!

on the website and on here tomorrow we will post the info on order and times and such... check back tomorrow!
we now have 84 our goal 92
Fantasy FIRST

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Except to him, you're an old punk :p

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

This contest isn't about who is gonna win nationals. This is about who is going to win the most matches.

If a team goes 0-8, then gets picked by some powerhouse, and ends up winning nationals, they still aren't a GREAT pick for this.

Though... they'd be a good pick for the actual competition ;)

But you're right.
Statistics tell whatever lies you want them to. When it comes to FIRST picking, I stay away from them. There are better ways to gauge a FIRST team.

John

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I should have mentioned that I do use some discrepency based on the posts I read and what I have heard from others ;) .

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

Tyler is right. After an even number rounds, the average drafting positions of everyone is the same. However, when you have an an odd number, whoever drafted first, has a distinct advantage over those who drafted last. Making it random can only help to even out that last round.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

Well I guess that can be done.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

Is it too late to join? I just registered on ChiefDelphi yesterday. Please.

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I heard you guys needed more people to join. I saw this thread when there were about 16 posts. I decided not to join at first since it sort of seemed a bit like gambling, but now looking at this, it sort of looks like fun. So what the heck, I will join.

How will we determine who goes first? Hopefully it will be random; since that seems fair. ;)

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You are in.

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Randomizer.
BTW you are in.

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up to 86 goal is 92

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i just suggested this to ToMMaN, but what if uploaded a picture of each robot picked to the site, that would be kinda super nifty

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that's gonna be tough.
Not every team has a website to get a picture of the robot from.

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we have pics of all the utc regional teams already.. mayeb scouts form teams have some from others?

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Any chance that I could get in on this? Sounds like a ton of fun. Finally, a fantasy sport that makes sense to me. =P

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well you could do it for most teams between private sites and CD there are the majority of teams plus there are the teams that scout with digital cameras that have pictures of other teams robots i.e. 195 :-p

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everyone has scouting pics though :)

for example: http://www.pbase.com/sscamatt/utc_scouting_pics_2004

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

I am in too. I am too addicted to FIRST, Fantasy Sports games, and CD not to join. Are you going to do an online draft? (I didnt have time to read the entire thread, that would take hours :D )

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

document about the draft will be posted tomorrow.

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ok heres an example of how im setting up the scoring

JVN Picks: 254, 11, 237
Koko Ed Picks: 571, 195, 16


Wins get 2 points
ties get 1
losses get 0
easy enough?

In this case, JVN would have the cumalative scores of: 254(16), 11(14), and 237(18)

16+14+18 = 48

Koko Ed would have: 571(15), 195(20), and 16(8)

15+20+8 = 43

JVN Wins

Even though koko ed has the best team, 195, he still looses because john's alliance was better overall

does this seem fair?

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...wow ive spent the past hour or so doing picks and this is a whole lot harder than it seems....

thanks to _______ (insert whose name should go here) for the list of the people in order....made picks easier because everything starts to look the same after a while....i have my preliminary pics but ill be redoing them probably right up until the picks start....

anyway just wondering what peoples top picks are gonna be because outside of the top like 10 its a bit difficult (i couldnt resist putting my team at the top tho...were only 75 so its not too much of a stretch right?)

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88 now, getting down to the wire, just a few more teams and that's it

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AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! See what happens when you don't look @ CD for one day?!!? Well, according to the Fantasy FIRST website (thanx Pit Bull), there's still a few spots left, COUNT ME IN!!!!!

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this thread is getting QUITE long so maybe we could start a differecnt thread for talking about top teams or somthing because otherwise people aren't going to be able to find stuff and it is gonna be all confusing. Just an idea

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Okay..I have one question for you people...I realize that this is sortof off topic..and this is already a huge thread...but how do you give reputation points to people..because I definetly think some deserve it here.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

Trusting HHSJosh's counting. There is 89 people our of 92. 3 spots left. Grab them quick!

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click on the little x with the check on it on the top right corner of each post.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

i am making 2 new threads

Selections for Fantasy FIRST
and
Signing up for Fantasy FIRST

both in Chit Chat

Ladies and gentlemen, we've hit 90
 

1 KoKo Ed
2 Jones571
3 JVN
4 Mike M.
5 Big Mike
6 Sigmakid108
7 Computheif263
8 HhsJosh
9 Jeremy Roberts
10 Rob Colatutto
11 Matt D
12 Dez250
13 Team311
14 Voltage
15 Aaron Lussier
16 Akuu
17 Guyute
18 Solace
19 Coreyjon
20 Tomman B182
21 Will Hanashiro
22 SarahB
23 Ryan Dognaux
24 *Andy Baker
25 *Andy Grady
26 OneAngryDaisy
27 George1083
28 Lil' Lavery
29 MisterX
30 Ogre
31 Karthik
32 Joe Ross
33 Pin Man
34 Alex Pelan
35 SwaDan
36 gsensel
37 Fireworks 234
38 Ricky Q.
39 Pit Bull 1126
40 ngreen
41 Eric Bareiss
42 BionicAlumni
43 BadKarma
44 Steve Horn
45 KingsvilleKukes
46 David66
47 Brant Bowen
48 Henry_222
49 Ryan_team710
50 rforystek
51 T967
52 Keiko173
53 Joel J.
54 Levin571
55 David Hoff
56 ahecht
57 Jack
58 M. Krass
59 AsimC
60 "Greg Needel
"
61 "Erin Rapacki
"
62 "Anne Bergeron
"
63 "Crop-Circles
"
64 Eric O
65 "Sscamatt
"
66 "Xufer
"
67 tkwetzel
68 "Budda648
"
69 jagman2882
70 TierraDelDiablo
71 Amanda Aldridge
72 Stud Man Dan
73 Diobsidian
74 Ah27
75 Joe3
76 BoyWithCape195
77 Jessica Boucher
78 mechman108
79 Cutiebethy
80 jjdebner
81 Terminator6
82 RogerR
83 thoughtful
84 activemx
85 minic@HYPER69
86 ThirdRide
87 CrazyBear
88 EvanG
89 The Lucas
90 tb222


And just i time for bed.
Good night.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

wohooo90 already,
i dont wana seeem dumb but how is this gonna work, when are we gonna get to pick , how frequently will the database be updated, will it follow the whole first tournament or just the nationals?

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

Just the nationals this year.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

You can throw my name in the pool.

-Pat

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I hope we can get this to be real professional next year. Maybe even our own user sections to check out our picks. Maybe we could even have a bidding system, I don't know how feasible that would be.

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I think you should start a waiting list, because I'm sure several people will not remember that they signed up, or will miss the draft, etc.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

great to hear that we have reached 90! once i get home i will add the remaing people to the website and any other news and info that will help us get this started. :cool:

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

Hey ed i think i have a program that would help you out for the web site you want to build. IT would let you pick teams for a draft even if you are not around to be able to do so. If you want more info on it e-mail me at nuggetsyl@aol.com

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

TOM- know what you’re talking about
1st:dont talk about things you don’t know.
2nd: there are now 287 teams singed up for the regional do some math we will be able to have 95 people play as of now.

So that would mean that there is stillroom for 5 more people. Also there are some "saved" spots were people have not yet gotten back to us. SO TOM THAT WOULD MEAN IT IS NOT FULL

5 More people are still able to join. After Which there will be a watieing list.

Re: Ladies and gentlemen, we've hit 90
 

hrm...is this a sign? seeing as 71 is my lucky number, quite possibly!

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

u can count me in on this also, if there is room left

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

if there's still room, i'd like to join!

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hmm if any of the people organizing this need some help id can contribute a few hours here and there inbetween my term paper.

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

LOL id like to join, if theres room :) :rolleyes: :cool: :ahh: :p

I like smilies (im new if u cant tell)

Re: FANTASY FIRST
 

devin and solyd welcome aboard! also l head and T134guy