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RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:03 pm
by Grollub
I can always speak INP-ese (pardon the pun) [:D][8D]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:05 pm
by Grollub
Doing the new improved Banana dance in peace. [:'(]

RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:20 pm
by nashvillen
Grollub - For the game, you can start here:
http://www.nfl.com/rulebook
For Fantasy Football, you need to look at each individual league's rules for that league. The rules for each vary, some quite wildly, but most are either based on what a player does in points or his performance in other statistics gathered on that players performance. You pick players from the whole real NFL and they are then on your team. Each week you "play" against another team and tally the performance/points score for each player together and compare. Highest score wins.
Very simplified description.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:26 pm
by Grollub
ORIGINAL: nashvillen
Grollub - For the game, you can start here:
http://www.nfl.com/rulebook
For Fantasy Football, you need to look at each individual league's rules for that league. The rules for each vary, some quite wildly, but most are either based on what a player does in points or his performance in other statistics gathered on that players performance. You pick players from the whole real NFL and they are then on your team. Each week you "play" against another team and tally the performance/points score for each player together and compare. Highest score wins.
Very simplified description.
Thanks Mike [:)]
I almost always watch the Sunday evening games so I dare to say I have at least *some* insight into the game. It was that "Fantasy Football" thingy I was curious about. Who is administrating it? Some web site? NFL themselves? Some private person/league?
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:14 pm
by nashvillen
Ah, wasn't sure. NFL, ESPN, Yahoo come to mind on the online FF hosting. It did start, long ago, with paper and pencil and stat sheeets from games. Now, you get live updates as the games happen. The leagues I am in are hosted by Yahoo. See here:
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/
If you have a Yahoo account you can log right in. It is a little late to join a league, but next year watch the Matrix announcements for their leagues they have every year. Look for help from the other players and like everything here, never take yourself, or your team seriously! [:D]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:19 pm
by treespider
ORIGINAL: nashvillen
Ah, wasn't sure. NFL, ESPN, Yahoo come to mind on the online FF hosting. It did start, long ago, with paper and pencil and stat sheeets from games. Now, you get live updates as the games happen. The leagues I am in are hosted by Yahoo. See here:
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/
If you have a Yahoo account you can log right in. It is a little late to join a league, but next year watch the Matrix announcements for their leagues they have every year. Look for help from the other players and like everything here, never take yourself, or your team seriously! [:D]
I remember running a small 10 person league 20 some odd years ago having to wait on the USA Today to come out so I could hunt for the stats using paper and pencil... haven't played for quite a while and might find it challenging to name more than a a dozen or two players that currently play.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:48 pm
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Grollub
Doing the new improved Banana dance in peace. [:'(]
It looks like a cross between "Twerking" and the Charleston. [:D]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:57 pm
by Mynok
ORIGINAL: USS America
ORIGINAL: Symon
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
An incomplete list. They omitted my favorite, a "Havana". As in "Heaving a Havana."
Speaking of Havanas, there was this thread on on the main forum that mentioned Des. Got a git teary eyed, so put on the cap he sent me and went out to find some cigars. Bought some Perdomo, Habanos, with Connecticut wrappers, Honduras, a serious good smoke.
Put my cap on and smoked the whole thing, thinking of Des. Hours of enjoyment. So long as he lives in the hearts and minds of his friends, he is not gone.
Remember Des. Ciao. John
Amen!
Ah, our Kiwi fell during my absence. Here's one to Des. Fair winds and following seas.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:46 am
by Apollo11
Hi all,
Good morning!
Leo "Apollo11"
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:09 am
by fodder
Good Morning! [:)]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:12 am
by fodder
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
Hard week in the NFL, Denver coach goes out for the season, Texans coach out for who knows how long, players dropping like flies....
Chaos Theory is now needed to pick a contender [:(]
Jack Del Wrongo as coach, the Broncos are doomed.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:58 am
by USSAmerica
Good morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:41 am
by DuckofTindalos
Welp, the land battle for New Caledonia is now over, and unfortunately the Penguin won. Remnants of two Australian and three US divisions are going into captivity and the SLOC from the US to Oz is once again cut. Yaaaaay...[8|]
I'm scared to look at how many points that cost me...[X(]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:43 am
by Lecivius
Top 'O The day! Tithe

RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 11:04 am
by USSAmerica
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Welp, the land battle for New Caledonia is now over, and unfortunately the Penguin won. Remnants of two Australian and three US divisions are going into captivity and the SLOC from the US to Oz is once again cut. Yaaaaay...[8|]
I'm scared to look at how many points that cost me...[X(]
Bugger! What's the game date? Have you been able to kill off a useful number of penguin ships during the extended battle to make your next offensive easier?
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 11:06 am
by DuckofTindalos
It's October '42. A few turns back, I had a three-day naval battle down there that exchanged 4 US CV's and 2 BB's for 3 IJN CV's and 2 BB's, plus sundries.
If he doesn't get auto-victory, I'm delaying any offensive in CENTPAC and SOPAC until late summer of '43.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:18 pm
by Mundy
Fantasy Football...
It's like Dungeons and Dragons for guys who beat up guys who played Dungeons and Dragons.
Ed-
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:48 pm
by Lecivius
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Welp, the land battle for New Caledonia is now over, and unfortunately the Penguin won. Remnants of two Australian and three US divisions are going into captivity and the SLOC from the US to Oz is once again cut. Yaaaaay...[8|]
I'm scared to look at how many points that cost me...[X(]
Dang, that's going to be hard to buff out [:(]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:15 pm
by USSAmerica
ORIGINAL: Mundy
Fantasy Football...
It's like Dungeons and Dragons for guys who beat up guys who played Dungeons and Dragons.
Ed-
What if you play both? [X(] [:D]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:20 pm
by USSAmerica
ORIGINAL: Terminus
It's October '42. A few turns back, I had a three-day naval battle down there that exchanged 4 US CV's and 2 BB's for 3 IJN CV's and 2 BB's, plus sundries.
If he doesn't get auto-victory, I'm delaying any offensive in CENTPAC and SOPAC until late summer of '43.
Ah, I forgot about that recent battle. Yeah, even though you trimmed his ship numbers down a good bit it took most of your striking power to do it.
Looking for other possible silver linings.... how well have you been able to check his expansion in other theaters while drawing all his efforts into New Caledonia? [:)]