Red Mosquito

spike wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:I put Joey Harrington and Aubrey Matthews on my team because I like them.

the most matt millen post of all time

That reminded me of this...

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2acb1b ... a0117d5e8f

So it looks like we're just waiting for Kaius to set the Bears and Mecca to set the Bills.


I was thinking with the play calling each team would PM me before each matchup what style they wanted. That way their opponent wouldn't know what they were going with (if a team failed to PM they would just be run with the balanced play calling option). In keeping with this, I would have someone else sim the games when the Packers played. Any thoughts?

Also, with weather variables, I was leaning towards letting the home team pick the weather settings (assuming they were realistic for the location and point in the season). Opinions?

Seems like a lot of work on your part to make the playing style overly secret. I would think that in "real life" the coaches would already know the style of offense opponents like to run, and then try to adjust accordingly. I personally have no problem with people seeing what offense I'm going to run, especially since it seems like WhatIf thinks that both Elway and Manning ran "balanced" offenses, even though they were two very different offenses in real life.

As for weather, how tough would it be to just pull up a list of average temperatures for the eight cities in question (or seven if Skitch chooses to play in a dome) in the fall, and just input that in? We could start the season mid-September and conclude around late December.

Also, while I think that I entered this upon creating my team, I very much want my home stadium to be Mile High Stadium and not [Corporate Sponsor] Field at Mile High--gotta ramp up the decibels, after all.

One way to do play call style is to let the home team put theres in after the away team, that way there's a bit of home field advantage, unless there's already one built in I'm not aware of.

I like the "average weather" idea.

And I feel ya GH, I almost went with the Cotton Bowl for old time's sake.

sorry for not posting in here sooner. I gotta look over everything first

I was going dome.

Im not sure the benefit of keeping the offensive style a secret. It's not like we have multiple defenses to pick from to combat it.

Yeah it would be nice if the defensive scheming got as much attention as the offense.

every game should be a goddamn snow game!

spike wrote:every game should be a goddamn snow game!

i agree

Everyone should look forward to playing my Chiefs team. I fully expect to win exactly zero games. In fact, if your all-time team loses to mine, you should be completely ashamed and probably quit the board forever.

Mecca wrote:

spike wrote:every game should be a goddamn snow game!

i agree

Same

fuck no it shouldn't. Unless all you idiots want Lament and Mick to win every damned game.

@SkitchP wrote:fuck no it shouldn't. Unless all you idiots want Lament and Mick to win every damned game.

Maybe I should have gone with Vinatieri instead of Gostkowski.

username: chris_mecca
team: Slice and Dice

QB
1991 Jim Kelly
2002 Drew Bledsoe
2015 Tyrod Taylor
1999 Doug Flutie

RB
1973 OJ Simpson
1992 Thurman Thomas
2012 CJ Spiller
2007 Marshawn Lynch
2001 Larry Centers (FB)

WR
1989 Andre Reed
2002 Eric Moulds
2006 Lee Evans
2012 Stevie Johnson
1991 James Lofton
1996 Steve Tasker (Specialist Teamer)

TE
1993 Pete Metzelaars
1967 Paul Costa
2001 Jay Riemersma

2004 DEF
1975 Oline
2012 ST
2013 Dan Carpenter K
2011 Brian Moorman P

nice squad, mecca. how empty will it feel if the bills win it all?

@SkitchP wrote:fuck no it shouldn't. Unless all you idiots want Lament and Mick to win every damned game.

excuse you?

spike wrote:nice squad, mecca. how empty will it feel if the bills win it all?

about as empty as nicole brown simpson's veins

so anyone got a spreadsheet?

numbers wrote:

numbers wrote:username: somenumbers
team name: All-Time Patriots

QB 2007 Tom Brady
QB 1994 Drew Bledsoe
QB 2008 Matt Cassel
RB 1966 Jim Nance
RB 1995 Curtis Martin
RB 2004 Corey Dillon
WR 2011 Wes Welker
WR 2007 Randy Moss
WR 1986 Stanley Morgan
WR 2013 Julian Edelman
TE 2011 Rob Gronkowski
TE 1994 Ben Coates
TE 2011 Aaron Hernandez
Any/RB 1977 Sam Cunningham
Any/RB 2003 Kevin Faulk
Any/WR 1996 Terry Glenn
Any/WR 1991 Irving Fryar
Any/WR 2005 Deion Branch



DEF 2003 New England Patriots
OL 1976 New England Patriots
ST 2007 New England Patriots
K 2015 Stephen Gostkowski
P 2011 Zoltan Mesko

BTW guys, this tourney ended when I posted this.

I ran one Sim against your team and enjoyed this stat line
Sam Adams got an interception

Spoiler: show

Ok, then we won't worry about keeping the playcalling a secret. We'll just have everybody post what they want to go with before each game.

I like the average weather idea. We'll go with that for temperature (first three games = September, second four = October, third four = November, final three = December). I'm still up for suggestions for how to do precipitation/wind (unless you guys just want to ignore it).