930 Survival Football 2011

Seth wrote:
who's in for the big boy pool?

come on, it'll help me keep beer prices down

If you're in, please put a + sign in next to your name.

For example, your ID would be:

vansmack for $5 pool.
vansmack* for $100 pool.
vansmack*+ for $100 pool and $1000 pool.

to be clear: if you're in the $100 and/or $1000 pool, you still need to be part of $5 pool, right?  so people should be paypal'ing you $5, $105, $1005, or $1105?

sweetcell wrote:
to be clear: if you're in the $100 and/or $1000 pool, you still need to be part of $5 pool, right?  so people should be paypal'ing you $5, $105, $1005, or $1105?

Traditionally, the Big Boys have settled up in-person over a nice lunch on the winner's dime.

ggw wrote:
Traditionally, the Big Boys have settled up in-person over a nice lunch on the winner's dime.

This. Do not pay pal me  $1000.  I'm not picking up that fee!

But yes, pay pal me $5, $105 or that plus fees if you're so inclined.

Can we wager on how long each of the pools lasts?  What's the money line on the big rollers one?  I say it doesn't go longer than five weeks.

Brian

Is the deadline really Sunday at 1:00? Regardless of Thursday or Saturday games?

Seth wrote:
who's in for the big boy pool?

come on, it'll help me keep beer prices down

the more i think about it, the more this gets my vote for POTW.

ggw wrote:
Is the deadline really Sunday at 1:00? Regardless of Thursday or Saturday games?

If you want to pick the Thursday or Saturday game, then you must do so before kickoff of that game.  However, I've never thought it was wise to force folks to pick the Sunday games by 8:00PM ET on a Thursday.

This is how it has been for a few years now.  What is your concern?

ideally, we could pick any game that hasn't kicked off yet (or withing 15 mins of kickoff, whatever).  so if you space out on sunday and forget to make a selection (as some have been known to do here), you can still have a crack at the monday night game.  not sure if yahoo allows for such flexibility.

sweetcell wrote:
ideally, we could pick any game that hasn't kicked off yet (or withing 15 mins of kickoff, whatever).  so if you space out on sunday and forget to make a selection (as some have been known to do here), you can still have a crack at the monday night game.  not sure if yahoo allows for such flexibility.

It does not.  The options are still:

(1) 5 minutes before the kickoff of the first game of the week, or
(2) 1:00 PM ET on Sunday

We changed it to option #2 two seasons ago (the first time they allowed the option).

vansmack wrote:

ggw wrote:
Is the deadline really Sunday at 1:00? Regardless of Thursday or Saturday games?

If you want to pick the Thursday or Saturday game, then you must do so before kickoff of that game.  However, I've never thought it was wise to force folks to pick the Sunday games by 8:00PM ET on a Thursday.

This is how it has been for a few years now.  What is your concern?

No concern really.  I just couldn't remember what we had done in the past.  It looks like the issue two seasons ago was that one of the Yahoo pages indicated the deadline was 1:00PM Pacific Time.  That was an error and it was fixed. 

ggw wrote:
No concern really.  I just couldn't remember what we had done in the past.  It looks like the issue two seasons ago was that one of the Yahoo pages indicated the deadline was 1:00PM Pacific Time.  That was an error and it was fixed. 

Yes, back in 09 it was different on my page then it was on you east coasters page.  That has been fixed…

Looks like we've got 21 people this year.
8 people in the $100 pool.
3 people in the big boys pool - Seth, GGW and Smackie

And dammit, I had Houston all week until Foster was out. Now they're drubbing the Colts with Ward and Slaton…

When do we start a second chance pool for everyone who picked Cleveland?

eros wrote:
When do we start a second chance pool for everyone who picked Cleveland?

The price of beer just went up too.

Lets see how the rest of the day plays out and decide soon.

son of a bitch, I picked Cleveland too

Can't believe so many people picked Cleveland and Kansas City… yuck.

For real. I'm a Bengals fan, and today's game at Cleveland is one of the few I was confident they would win this season.

Why wasn't everyone else picking Houston? Without Manning, Indy is a 3-13 team at best.

I thought Cleve was a sure thing with the Bengals having a rookie QB and bad preseason.  Thought Colt Mccoy would have a big year.  Guess that just shows I suck at gambling  ;D

if only cam newton could have pulled it off….