[FF]: 2008 Seaon Long Fantasy FIRST Discussion
 

This thread is for discussing all things affiliated with the 2008 Season Long Fantasy FIRST League. Standings will be posted here as well as rankings for individual teams. I'll even allow some trash talking (so long as you're willing to back it up or have lots of ketchup to force down all that crow).
Enjoy.

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The first thing I want to discuss is the awards that will be given out at the end of the season. Besides the Championship trophy for the league winner there will be an award for the top seeded performer dedicated to our first Fantasy FIRST winner called the Elgin Clock. There will be an MVP award for the best performing team and a rookie of the year award.
Any other award suggestions?

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Will the MVP and the rookie of the year awards go to the teams, or to a fantasy player? I also had a thought on Chairmans for Championship, will each player who has a team win a regional Chairmans keep that team for Championship just for Chairmans, or will it go to the player who picked them then for Championship?

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I'll volunteer to help collect/check data for awards. I'd just collect data, though--the FIRST awards site can be helpful. :D (If I'm remembering, I might do some on-scene at L.A., but the odds of my remembering anything there are slim.)

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All week 1 rosters are now locked.
Good luck guys!
LET'S GET READY TO RRRRRRUUUUUUMMMMMBBBLLLLEEEE!!!!

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The awards are for teams.

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Right now, I'm feeling pretty good about the majority of my week 1 picks.

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That's because you actually showed up to make picks.

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Way to be snappy on the scores, there was some work put into that thing.

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Left out the high score equation.

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Here's Joisey!

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In the Midwest scores, you didn't give 1625 points for 2nd seed.

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Fixed.

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We have scores for St. Louis!

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And finally Oregon.

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I thought I'd be helpful and do my own score. Its past midnight, so perhaps a recheck on my math is a good idea.
BAE 20+11-3 = 28
Nj 99+77+28 =204
MW 72+29-1=100
STL 80+64+4=148
ORE 120+9+6=135

Total 615 for Week 1.

How is everyone else doing?

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I may as well...

BAE:10-4+0=6
MWR:51-4-8=39
Oregon: 39+15+2=56
New Jersey:25+26+28=79
STL: 64+4+35=103

total=283

All I can say is, I was surprised a little by BAE and MWR--I thought it would be the other way around!

And, of course, wait till next week...

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I did okay with

Midwest: 63+40+47=150
BAE: 69+13+8=90
NJ: 25+26+0=50
St Louis:101+12+0=113
Oregon: 7-8-6= -7

Total: 396

Oregon was a little sad but oh well.

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OY!
This is taking forever.
Could someone make me an excel spreadsheet of all the teams all the members picked for the season so I don't have to crawl up and down the leagues to find out?
Thanks.

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I'll see what I can do this evening if someone doesn't beat me to it.

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You know EricH I might be able to do it some time this week. I'm on mid-semester break and don't really have to worry about school until saturday or sunday, which gives me a lot of free time.

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Thanks you two. I appreciate it greatly.

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Here is the Fantasy FIRST top 25 after week 1:

1.1540
2. 148
3. 103
4. 121
5. 217
6. 368
7. 2590
8. 1114
9. 126
10. 25
11. 45
12. 1024
13. 1444
14. 40
15. 381
16. 830
17. 1280
18. 816
19. 1512
20. 71
21. 501
22. 58
23. 2041
24. 2046
25. 525

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I'm keeping all of the picks in one excel workbook, and right now I have BAE and Midwest done. It's been about 2 hours since I started and I'm hoping to get the first week done either tonight to tomorrow morning. I would like to get this weeks regional done by the end of the weekend. It might be some time next week when I finish all of the regionals.

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That's great.
Post it when your finished.
Thanks!

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I too am working and am about halfway through BAE and have a tier apiece for Midwest and Oregon.

Issues so far: Tier 5, BAE, 238 picked twice. Tier 6, Midwest, blakcheez has no first-round pick.

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Is that because of 2651 or there was no pick at all?

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No pick at all; the time is still there, reading 6:55.

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Here is Week One. Besides what EricH has said is wrong is, Rohith Surampudi has no spot in Midwest or BAE, Oregon Tier 1-957 is picked twice, and 135 picked twice in St. Louis Tier 5. Missing picks - Tim Delles Tier 5 Round 3, wpdrummer New Jersey Tier 2, and Jonathan Norris St. Louis Tier 6.

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I'll see about finishing up the one I'm working on later today. I've picked up some other oddities, but I haven't finished any drafts to confirm those.

EDIT: Jay and Robotcanuck are NOT in Oregon at all, as far as I can tell! Nowhere in the draft!

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I PM'ed KoKO Ed about who's not in the league any more and Greg Needel, Freddy Schurr, Jay Trzaskos, robotcanuck1676, iCurtis, and InfernoX14 are no longer competing.

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Wayne Doenges took over InfernoX14 spot.

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Does he keep all of his picks?

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I would assume so, but it'll be a long battle...I don't think he had any Week 1 drafts.

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I'll give Rohith Surampudi Greg Needel's old picks since he was supposed to be in Tier 2.

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Fortunately, I haven't gotten to Tier 2, BAE, yet. (I'm going one draft at a time. Currently about 1/3-1/2 of the way through.)

More issues: FLR 6, 1126 twice and Doug G has no second pick; Arizona 2, 698 picked twice; two unresolved pool trades in VCU 1 and 4; unresolved pool trade Detroit 3. (I know there are more unresolved trades, but they haven't made it onto the sheet yet. I'll call them out when they show.)

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All right, I'm done for the night...but I'm only about half done with the spreadsheet. I expect I'll have it done tomorrow night, or maybe Wednesday.
Currently, it's missing most of Midwest, all of Buckeye and anything after L.A., and a tier each from BAE, Kansas City, and Lonestar. That'll take a little while...

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While I'm still in the spirit of delegation is there any chance I can have someone compile up all the total scores for everyone this week (and post it, of course) so I can focus on scoring the individual regionals?

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STL: 80, 30, -11
BAE: 20, 11, 13
NJ: 65, 10, -1
Midwest: 40, 47, -8
Oregon: 39, -2, 18

total: 351 :)

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Note in LSR: LightWaves1636 is in two tiers: 2 and 4.

I'll probably hold off on further notes like this until the spreadsheet is finished. Well, other than that Waterloo 2 is incomplete--the last 4 picks weren't made.

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Remove Lightwaves1636 from 4.

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Have a similar situation in L.A. with Joel J., but blakcheez isn't in any draft, so he gets the round 4 picks for Joel.

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I might get through all the regionals earlier than I thought. The picks won't be in their own cells, like before, but you still will be able to read it.

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I got a total of 425, and i picked the top 2 teams in their regionals :D

is 425 good for week one or not?

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Boston, too... Not placing picks in 4.

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All right, I finished. Spreadsheet is posted in CD-Media. It's a good idea to read the description before using it.

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I guess I can stop with mine. I'm just past week two, it looks very nice.

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All week 2 rosters are locked.

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After much delay FINALLY here is the week one standings for the Season long Fantasy FIRST league.

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Here are the FLR standings.

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Here is the San Diego scoresheet.

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I just double checked. I got 148 *points* for st louis.

St L
70
217
45

4+80+64


603 total


*edit*

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Was that had or didn't have? The spreadsheet shows Pavan having 148, no trade requested. The teams you listed are the ones you had.

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I'm pretty sure he meant 148 points, eh?

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Yeah, probably. It's just that there was a team there with the number 148... And as I recall, they were high on the list. Lack of units...

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All week 3 rosters are now locked.

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I can't wait to see the scores for Detroit. I was looking at my picks and I think I just dominated it. My picks are 27, 1, and 1718.

1718 has a judges award and ranked 5th with a 7-3 record. They went 1-2 in the Quarter Finals.

1 is ranked 8th and had a 6-4 record. They went 2-3 in eliminations and made the semis and also won the Regional Engineering Inspiration Award.

And Finally 27 was ranked 2th with a record of 9-1, was a finalist with a 4-4 record and won the chairmans award.

It's really, really, really going to be hard to wait for them to come out.

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Well, I had 217, the winners, 27 finalist and chairmans,and 1025 a semifinalist.

Should be fun!

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in Florida, i had 108, semis and 1st ranked, 233 winner and 2nd seed, and 348, semi finalist.
Should be nice =]

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Arizona scores up.

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i can't find there team 443...

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Greater Kansas City Regional Points.

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can't find 935 in the Greater Kansas scores.
Just wanted to let u guys know...

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VCU scores.

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No team 443 at the event.

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WEEK 2 Top 25:

1.1086
2.540
3.148
4. 103
5. 39
6. 987
7. 968
8. 60
9. 121
10. 217
11. 368
12. 2590
13. 1114
14. 207
15. 126
16. 191
17. 1717
18. 25
19. 45
20. 65
21. 1024
22. 1793
23. 1444
24. 20
24. 40
24. 842

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well, they were my FF pick, what should i do?

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I took care of it.

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All week 4 rosters are now locked!
Good luck!

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What about the trade in Israel between JamesBrown and i?

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And while you're at it, I had a pool trade request in L.A. ;)

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I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor right now...I just got done looking at my Seattle teams (This after L.A.(partial), Buckeye, and LSR self-scores got in.)

488
1983
1778

Between the three, CA, EI, Winner, Finalist, and semifinalist, plus various other awards and an impressive record for 236 points off that regional alone, if I'm right in my scoring. :ahh:

It's not looking much worse for other regionals either...

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Finally got the week 2 standings up!

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Brazilian Regional scores.

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Detroit Regional scores.

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Its missing the Gracious Professionalism Award. That was my team 599 :)

I hope I can join the fun next year, seems exciting. Ill see if I can catch any more mishaps.

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Barry is just dominating!! I hope he is just getting lucky so I have a chance to catch up. My week 3 and 4 scores look pretty decent. Maybe they will help close this 379 point gap.

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Pittsburgh Region scores.

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Boilermaker scores are up.

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Chesapeake scores are up.

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The Ouija Board never fails. What method did you use?

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You can always just do what he pros do, Eenie, Menie, Minie, Moe, oh just give me one form the randomizer.... But wait there is a great team left! I want to trade my third pick for (Insert team number)!!!!

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Hey, Ed, how does a team in 4th-8th seed not get at least a QF? (1027, Chesapeake)[Edit] After a check of the FIRST event site, match results, QF. Edit 2: And they don't have a 5-4 record... more like 7-3 after losing two in the quarters.[/edit]

Actually, Jherbie, I prefer the "OOH LOOK!!! TEAM SO-AND-SO didn't get picked!!! I want!" after setting up a good alliance without the randomizer.

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I actually went through the team lists for the events and made lists for Ed of the teams with more awards and obviously the teams I know are good. It's working out pretty well considering I am 3rd, but you are just crushing the rest of us. I am not sure if I will be able to catch up to you but hopefully I can move into 2nd by the end of this.

I also showed up for most of the drafts, giving me an advantage in getting the better teams.

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SVR scores are up.

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For those who have 192, they were finalist...even though the sheet doesn't show that.;)

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Week 5 is amazing!!! I have 9 of the 33 regional winners with chances of getting 2 more. My team finally got past SF's and won Colorado along with Engineering Inspiration. I can't even believe how amazing this week was!!

And watch out Barry Bonzack, I am coming for you!! lol

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You just made my day... I grabbed 1625 as a pool trade late last week. Barry...you got more than just hill to worry about.

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muhahaha....

anyone pick an entire alliance yet?

i took 148, 118 and 49 for bayou. :)

yeah, only finalists, but ain't that cool?

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Not yet...but my Seattle alliance was better than a full winning alliance.

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ok... how about getting CA, EI, Winner and a finalist?

thats what i got for pitt! :)

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That's my Seattle...With a Semifinalist on the CA and a good set of records and some miscellaneous awards to boot. Right now I'm trying to figure up Hawaii--but not all the awards are up yet. (I'll try Vegas in a bit, but there's an unresolved trade for a free agent there. Still, having 987 isn't anything to sneeze at. If the trade goes through...boy I'll be happy. If you look at my tier, you'll see why easily.)

I've also picked up several #1 seeds.

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Check this out:

Colorado: 1625 undefeated champions and EI, 1592 champion
Bayou: 16 champion, 118 finalist, 148 finalist
Boston: 40 and 1474 champions
Long Island: 358 finalist
Palmetto: 386 champion, 342 finalist
Hawaii: 233 champion, 968 and 25 SF's
Las vegas: 987 champion, 1724 finalist
Minnesota: 93 champion
Philly: 341 champ and chairmans

10 champions, 5 finalists, and quite a few awards in the mix

I am rather happy with this week in FF!

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Connecticut scores are up.

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Peachtree scores up.

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West Michigan scores up.

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LA Regional scores are up.

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Got any total standings updates, Ed?

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I think the next one would be week 3. Also, there are changes needing to be made in 1 & 2 that weren't found earlier, some of which may have major implications in the standings.

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Buckeye scores are up!