The Great Playoff Cash Giveaway
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Just to make sure you are following the same steps as me:
I click on the link from the very first post on this thread.
I am logged in already.
I see a page with Game Home, My 2014 Entry.
Under My 2014 Entry > Group(s), I click on SonsofTomBrady
This takes me to the My Groups tab.
To the left of My Groups, I click on My Entry. This is drop down list that shows my name.
I click on my name.
I see a page with three boxes Wild Card (dark gray), Divisional (light gray), Conference + Super Bowl (dark gray).
I see my selected players each with a yellow edit button to the left of their name.
If I click on the yellow Edit button next to my QB1, I am then taken to my roster.
To the left it shows QB1 highlighted in yellow and to the right it shows all available QBs. My two selected QBs have a red tag for "drop" next to their name.
If you want to send me your login info I can try to make the edits for you. Ahmad Bradshaw is a steal at only $5.40.
I click on the link from the very first post on this thread.
I am logged in already.
I see a page with Game Home, My 2014 Entry.
Under My 2014 Entry > Group(s), I click on SonsofTomBrady
This takes me to the My Groups tab.
To the left of My Groups, I click on My Entry. This is drop down list that shows my name.
I click on my name.
I see a page with three boxes Wild Card (dark gray), Divisional (light gray), Conference + Super Bowl (dark gray).
I see my selected players each with a yellow edit button to the left of their name.
If I click on the yellow Edit button next to my QB1, I am then taken to my roster.
To the left it shows QB1 highlighted in yellow and to the right it shows all available QBs. My two selected QBs have a red tag for "drop" next to their name.
If you want to send me your login info I can try to make the edits for you. Ahmad Bradshaw is a steal at only $5.40.
I'm way behind, which means I'm having to gamble on some players this weekend under the assumption that most people won't pick them.
Three more days to update your lineup! Come up with the answers, find the best players, win the battle.
One more day to get your picks updated. This weekend is much more difficult that last weekend was. You could take all studs last weekend. This weekend, sacrifices must be made. Will you make the right ones? No, you won't.
How late tomorrow can we put our picks in? I need maximum planning time before I kiss that number 1 spot goodbye!
Preacher said:
I am not sure. Probably 5 minutes before gametime. I'm sure it says it on the site but better be safe than sorry. 4pm tomorrow is probably a good deadline to keep.
"Roster slots lock individually at the scheduled start time of each player's game." according to the How to Play page. I do remember last week seeing Edit buttons next to players who had games Sunday while I was checking for point updates during the Saturday games. I did just read that the rosters are locked in after next weeks games for the Superbowl.
http://games.espn.go.com/nfl-gridiron-playoff-challenge/2014/en/story?pageName=gridironpc\howtoplay
http://games.espn.go.com/nfl-gridiron-playoff-challenge/2014/en/story?pageName=gridironpc\howtoplay
Brilliant pick. Brady / Gronk / Edelman were fairly obvious picks for many people, but if people added a 4th Patriot, it was by and large Vereen, who didn't do much.soxhop411 said:
Had him too. Decided to go big with others and take a shot with him instead of spreading it out. Nice.soxhop411 said:
weeba said:
Anyone taking any D but the Seahawks should be removed from this pool and, frankly, banned from this site. There was really only one no brainer pick for the weekend and that was Seattle.
It doesn't help that Can Newton sucks and the D got "credit" for his awful pick 6. Hoping that gets adjusted but doubt it will make much of a difference at this point.Byrdbrain said:
Got burnt pretty badly on the Blount pick. I was hoping he'd get a goalline TD or two, and he was so much cheaper than the other RBs that it let me splurge elsewhere. Looked smart on 1st and Goal from the 1, but pretty bad when he got stuffed and never was seen again.
Same. I knew Seattle was likely good but they were a lot more expensive. I didn't like any Def but them so Carolina was my get lucky pick, playing well Seattle is no power house. Looked good early... Sigh.weeba said:
Nelson is killing me right now.
johnmd20 said:
Yup ban from me the site - taking the Pats D over Seattle cost me from sitting in 2nd place with a comfortable margin down to 8th place.
13th place with a zero from one of my RB spots. I'll be second guessing myself for a while on that one.
I had Vereen and Jordy Nelson. AWFUL. Terrible terrible terrible. Took me out of the running, I think.
Soxhop's lineup was legendary. Edelman and Amendola were brilliant. Wilson and Brady. Solid work. He's still in the 100th percentile.
Soxhop's lineup was legendary. Edelman and Amendola were brilliant. Wilson and Brady. Solid work. He's still in the 100th percentile.
Wild card weekend killed me (Forsett, Antonio Brown) but I'm hanging just outside the top 20. If I finish anywhere close to that area it will be a moral victory.
johnmd20 said:
The distance between first and second place is the same as between second place and sixteenth place. Soxhop, man. Hilton was a miss for me this week but everything else worked, got really lucky when forced into a couple guys I didn't love (Forsett and Daniels) with the fluky Edelman pass to boot. Never would have chosen Amendola though.
I had Amendola in my lineup but talked myself out of 5 Pats "and if you leave Vereen in there, it's like a 4th receiver anyway!" Cobb didn't disappoint, but oh, what could have been.
Honestly, if you're not within ~20 points of the top and don't pick the Colts' players, you have no chance of winning.
I'm 20th right now, well outside the variation range (assuming we all go Pats) and I can't bring myself to follow this strategy.
I'm 20th right now, well outside the variation range (assuming we all go Pats) and I can't bring myself to follow this strategy.
Devizier said:
I thought of this as well, pursuing a strategy of all underdogs hoping to catch lightning in a bottle, but at 13th I feel like I'm close enough to the money to play it straight up. I think if I were around 30th or lower I'd just go full contrarian.
My comment wasn't meant as a sneaky play from outside the top. It's a strategy I think I could talk myself into more if I was higher up the food chain in fact. It's most amusing due to the fact that we have a RB on the roster who ran for just under a million yards against our upcoming opponents, yet...I'm not sure he even takes a hand off on Sunday.
Winning this for the top 10 or so entries is completely based on picking the two teams that are going to move on, and then picking the correct wide receivers. If the top 10 entries go with the two favorites, and one loses someone with a NE/GB lineup will win. If I pick the correct two teams I am going to be upset with not picking SEA defense this past week for about 10 minutes, left 12 points on the board.
RFDA2000 said:
That was absolutely my strategy if Denver had won. But the Colts and the 480 yards and TEN touchdowns that the Patriots have run for in their last two meetings is a tasty nugget that's very tempting too.
Just went through the Top 20. Four took Green Bay/no Seattle, Sixteen took Seattle/no Green Bay. Doesn't look like much bet-hedging at the top in this scenario. Two people in the Top 30 had a mix of GB and SEA players.
Interesting to see the strategies really. It looks like the Green Bays start to even out as you go into the next bunch where you need to catch up.
FTR, I took Green Bay and New England exclusively. I figure if either lose I'm out and I liked Seattle going in, but if I bet SEA/NE and was right, I'm right with a lot of people. If I hit this duo, I'm in a great spot.
Interesting to see the strategies really. It looks like the Green Bays start to even out as you go into the next bunch where you need to catch up.
FTR, I took Green Bay and New England exclusively. I figure if either lose I'm out and I liked Seattle going in, but if I bet SEA/NE and was right, I'm right with a lot of people. If I hit this duo, I'm in a great spot.
