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Mark, Coach and (pffft) Cole, you're on.
You'll have to do all the ciphering when this is over, Cole. :D
I'm still taking all comers, 3 to 1. How the heck can you not take a shot at that? Plus I got lucky 2 weeks in a row and won all my bets (I think). No way I can win again. Ask Cole. It's humanly impossible.
PLUS, last time I played Matt he whooped me 192 to 122.
It's a no-brainer. I might even bet myself.

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If I were you I would bet against myself Scott!

Just start digging now, you are losing this time....your luck has run dry :D

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Quite frankly, Cole, I thought it was gonna run dry two weeks ago. :lr :lr

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yeah me too...but it HAS to be for real this time :r

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Now that's good stuff.

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Its going to be a crazy weekend!!! Good Luck to everyone :tu

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After an 80 point drubbing at the hands of Matt, I can still land in the playoffs if Shonn Greene scores 6.4 points tonight.
My guess is that he gets carted off in the 1st quarter.

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HAHA that would be very unfortunate for him and you! I am thinking you will be in, he is playing against the Titans...I predict he gets like 18+ points!

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Jeremy, any news on the Puts/Takes of the pass? Have you shipped it off to Sofaman?

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Little matter to me at this point. I was thinking I might get to play spoiler, but my bro handled his own business by :sl you around! Of course, I always like to win, even if it is the lowest scoring matchup this league has seen this season. So to that end, good luck in the playoffs Shilala. I am confident that Shonn will score enough to get me the win. (and not enough to keep me out of the finals in another league, where I have a 43 point lead in the semis.)

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If Jeremy puts his ff entry smokes in there, they'll get to me in plenty of time for sending prizes. Will you drop him a pm to that effect, Cole? (I'm thinking we're still waiting on him, Stephen and Matt? I know Matt and Stephen have their smokes ready, they just suck at post office. :lr)
I think that next year we should give up cell #'s to the main man (you) so you can burn off text announcements and reminders if necessary. Many guys just aren't here all the time and that'd be a huge help to keep them looped, ya think?

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Matt has had an awesome team all year. With the matchups we had, I expected a pretty good whooping. I was pressed for time this week or I'd have built a new team, not that it would have helped. I even forgot about the Thursday night game, Weeze and I missed it. We NEVER miss a game. I left Bryce Brown in by mistake and I knew that set the tone for my beatdown. :D

I'm sure Matt will share his smokes with you, you win no matter what, my friend!!! :tu

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It's actually 6.3 points. If Jarrod and Mark tie, I'm in. ;)

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Jarrod could always pay Mark off and have him sit Greene! :D

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Yeah, the texting thing would work for me. I have Jeremy's number, and texted him last Friday (or Thursday :sh ) I'll shoot him another and see what's up. I told him to put his entry smokes in...probably wouldn't fit though :r ...the pass and that would be acceptable too.

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And fantasy football. Mustn't forget fantasy football.

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:r I am eminently bribable. :banger

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I guess Scott didn't think that needed to be said :r

that would totally F Scott! :noon

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LOL!!!
That was my very first thought. I must have been thinking too loud. :lr :lr :lr

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Ah I shouldn't have let it come down to this. I lost to Steven in like week 3 or 4 by 5 points because I didn't start a flex or a kicker. That was my fault, just didn't have the time to fully participate like I did in baseball. Maybe I'll put up a better fight next year! :) Best of luck to the guys that made the playoffs!

PS Mark I have a nice T52 pig waiting for you to sit Shaun Green. Lol!

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wow, this has been great to read this morning, thanks guys,sorry if cluttered the thread. I would have loved to see the weeks finals of the FF games while I was reading, but only as a entertainment purposes.

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Come on Green tweak your toe and be out for the game!

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It's sad that that could actually happen to these millionaires and they are out :r

Oh..and I applaud the fact that you are trying to make it look like you didn't buy Mark off! :D

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Talk about coming down to the wire! 1 point separates us with 6:00 remaining. :r

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Damn that reception does it.

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Yeah, I was joking about the bribe man. Tempting as a T52 pig is... Although young mr. Green did make it very interesting.

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YTD Troop Bets

Chaase321 owe's 5 troop sticks. (Chaase321 vs. JenksAnejo 9/2/12) (paid, betting bal = 40 sticks)

Week 1
Coach Deg owe's 5 troop sticks. (Coach Deg vs. Mattso3000) (paid, betting bal = 35 sticks)
Stephen owe's 5 troop sticks. (Coach Deg vs. Stephen)
Sofa man owe's 5 troop sticks. (Coach Deg vs. Sofaman)
Mkarnold owe's 5 troop sticks. (Coach Deg vs. MKArnold1)
MKarnold owe's 5 troop sticks. (MKArnold1 vs. Chaase321)

Week 2
JenksAnejo owe's 5 troop sticks. (JenksAnejo vs. Mattso3000)

Week 3
Chaase321 owes 5 troop sticks (undefeated bet) (paid, betting bal = 35 sticks)
Chaase321 owes 5 troop sticks (Chaase321 vs. Sofaman) (paid, betting bal = 30 sticks)
Mattso3000 owes 30 troop sticks (Mattso3000 vs. the field)
Jenksanejo owes 5 troop sticks (JenksAnejo vs. The Spread)
CoachDeg owes 5 troop sticks (Coach vs. Mattso) (paid, betting bal = 30 sticks)

Week 4
No bets

Week 5
MKarnold owes 5 troop sticks (MKarnold vs. Mattso)
JenksAnejo owes 5 troop sticks (JenksAnejo vs. Stephen)

Week 6
No bets

Week 7
Mattso3000 owes 10 troop sticks (Mattso3000 vs. Chaase321)

Week 8
No bets

Week 9
Stephen owes 5 troop sticks (and a personal 5'er to Shilala) (Shilala vs. Stephen)
chaase321 owes 5 troop sticks (chaase321 vs. Shilala) (paid, betting bal = 25 sticks)
Coach Deg owes 5 troop sticks (Coach Deg vs. Shilala [NFL teams bet]) (paid, betting bal = 25 sticks)
Shilala owes 5 troop sticks (Coach Deg vs. Shilala [head to head bet]) (paid, betting bal = 49 sticks)
Shilala owes 5 troop sticks (Jkim05 vs. Shilala) (paid, betting bal = 44 sticks)

Week 10
chaase321 owes 5 troops sticks (chaase321 vs. mkarnold1) (paid, betting bal = 20 sticks)

Week 11
chaase321 owes 5 personal sticks (chaase321 vs. Shilala) (paid)
chaase321 owes 10 troops sticks (chaase321 vs. Shilala) (paid, betting bal = 10 sticks)

Week 12
No bets

Week 13
Coach Deg owes 5 troops sticks (Coach Deg vs. Chaase321) (paid, betting bal = 20 sticks)
Coach Deg owes 5 troops sticks (Coach Deg vs. Shilala) (paid, betting bal = 15 sticks)
Sofaman owes 5 troops sticks (Sofaman vs. Shilala)

Week 14
Chaase321 owes 10 troops sticks (Chaase321 vs. Shilala) (paid, betting bal = 0 sticks)
Coach Deg owes 5 troops sticks (Coach Deg vs. Shilala) (paid, betting bal = 10 sticks)

Week 15
Shilala owes 15 troops sticks (Shilala vs Mkarnold1) (paid, betting bal 29 sticks)
Coach Deg owes 5 troops sticks (Coach Deg vs Shilala) (paid, betting bal 5 sticks)
Chaase321 owes 15 troops sticks (Chaase321 vs. Shilala)

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I texted with Jeremy this morning. He said he would send out the box to Scott (Sofaman) today, for sure, and that he sent this sticks for the buy in to Scott (Shilala) on Monday, so they should be getting there soon.

He also said that he probably wouldn't be taking anything from the pass this go around...things were crazy this past week for him.

Just wanted to give an update.

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This ^^ is from the first post...and since this applies to me now, is this still applicable Scott? :D I'll prob lose this week anyway! lol

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Absolutely, Cole. It usually works really good, too.
We generally have good competition in the loser's bracket, then I remember to send the cigars about 8 months later, right Matt? :D

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HAHAHAHA, well if I win, I'll try my best to not let you forget :D

Yahoo only shows the teams 5-8 playing in the consolation bracket. Do you think we should include everyone (asked to everyone)? If so, how should we do scores?

Ideas:
-Top two teams (no head to head) from this week play next week for "winner of losers bracket"?
-Top two teams (no head to head, BUT, 5th place gets spotted 25 points, 6th, 20 points, 7th 15 points, 8th 10 points, 9th 5 points, 10th 0 points) gives everyone a chance at it?

Just trying to be fair and throwing out some ideas...what you all think?

If you guys want to do something outside of Yahoo! I can keep track of it...I think I am pretty good at that ;)

Or we can leave it alone and let the head to head this week play out for teams 5-8 and then the winners play for the next round.

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This is the best choice IMO. I hate getting (and giving) points in FF. It's already unpredictable enough that everyone has a good shot. Good call Cole.

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Clearly faster than I would have...winning the loser's bracket is pretty sweet:banger:banger

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Clearly! :D

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I think it's a great idea to let all 6 teams in the loser's bracket in. I can't imagine there will be any argument, and that'd be cool to let Stephen and Jeremy in on the action.
You guys do whatever you want, I'm fine with it. :tu

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Oh I was too man, lol I would never cheat Scott out of a FF game like that. :)

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:lv

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Is that a pnoon sighting! Damn...we almost got to 500 posts!

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Ok, here is what I think we should do based on Mark's comment and to be as fair as possible.

all 6 consolation bracket teams are in a running at winning the bracket.

the 3 top scoring teams from this week (week 16) in the consolation bracket will move forward to next week's championship.

The top scoring team from next week (week17) will win the consolation bracket.

This eliminates 3 teams in week 16, and allows 3 chances at the winnings.

If no disagreement, I will keep track of this and post in the thread who moves on and who is out. Good luck to all!

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I will say right now- I will win the whole thing!!!! If I do not I will give 5 sticks to the troops.

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I'll bet ya a bundle it ain't gonna happen, Coach. :D

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I still like the idea of the top two teams out of 6 going head to head for the consolation prize. Anyone else have an opinion on this?

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If you're going to do that, you'd almost have to seed this week. 5, 10, 7 and 6, 9, 8 go head to head, then the winner of those two brackets go head to head in week 17.
I don't think it's a bad idea, and I'd probably vote for it, but I think Cole's setup is more fair to everyone involved and more likely to bear out the fairest result.
Plus it's nice and simple. :D

We should also set this up at the beginning of the year next year and jam it in the rules. That way a guy can work his matchups for the playoffs and trade/make moves to prepare for week 16 and 17.

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I'm not sure how this more simple. :tf If we split into two groups of 3 teams, then it is possible that all 3 teams from one group would score higher than the others. Under this sort of arrangement it is possible to have the highest scoring team playing against the 4th highest, leaving the 2nd highest scoring team out.

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You missed me, Mark. The highest scorer in the 5,7,10 group would play the highest scorer of the 6,9,8 group in week 17. Standard Tournament seeding.
I had thought the highest two scorers of the bottom 6 teams should play next week for the championship. Cole's idea just improved on that by allowing one more team in next week, and I'm good with that. Great idea.

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I guess I'm still not sure what you're saying Scott. What I think you're saying is that we would split into 2 groups of 3 teams seeded by record and then the 2 winners of those groups in week 17 would play in the final week for consolation champ.

Edit- I am also assuming you are thinking this for next year

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Scott if I don't win I will send a bundle!!! Now we need the other 2 to agree, also!!!

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I'm in on that bet. Hoshmazode...lock it in. Championship!

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Mark, I think the disconnect here is that you're going for what you want to do and Scott is going for what he can do based on the parameters of the website...