Red Mosquito

I don't like to let Mecca down. So here it is.

We're gonna attempt an NFL Franchise Tournament on whatif. We need 8 teams. We'll have everyone play everyone twice, with a playoff at the end for the championship. Same rules apply as in the MLB and NHL Franchise Tournaments regarding eligible players. It has to be a season the player spent with said team (for example, the Green Bay Packers cannot use 2009 Brett Favre, and the Minnesota Vikings cannot use 1996 Brett Favre), and a player can only appear on each roster once (the Detroit Lions cannot have three different Barry Sanderses on their depth chart). There is no payroll limit. Each team is comprised of 23 skill players (3 QBs, 3 RBs, 4 WRs, 3 TEs, and 5 other players from any of those skill positions), an defensive unit, an offensive line, a special teams unit (these are selected by whole squads), a kicker, and a punter.

TEAMS

Spoiler: show

Buffalo Bills - Mecca
Owner: chris_mecca, Name: Slice and Dice

New England Patriots - numbers
Owner: somenumbers, Name: All-Time Patriots

Kansas City Chiefs - Joey
Owner: JoeBodeClark, Name: Derrick Thomas

Denver Broncos - Green Habit
Owner: greenhabit, Name: GH-Broncos

Detroit Lions - skitch
Owner: skitchp, Name: SkitchP Lions

Dallas Cowboys - Orpheus
Owner: Tarkovsky, Name: The Searchers

Chicago Bears - Kaius
Owner: kaius, Name: mauled by bears

Green Bay Packers - Lament
Owner: lament, Name: Cheezus

SCHEDULE
WEEK 1
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 82#p768382

WEEK 2
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 95#p768595

WEEK 3
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 67#p769067

WEEK 4
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 14#p769614

WEEK 5
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 50#p770350

WEEK 6
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 41#p770641

WEEK 7
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 97#p771197

WEEK 8
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 27#p771627

WEEK 9
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 42#p771942

WEEK 10
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 84#p772184

WEEK 11
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 31#p772531

WEEK 12
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 72#p773072

WEEK 13
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 55#p773655

WEEK 14
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 83#p774183

FINAL STANDINGS
AFC
Broncos 6-8
Bills 5-9
Patriots 5-9
Chiefs 2-12

NFC
Packers 10-4
Cowboys 10-4
Bears 10-4
Lions 8-6

WILD CARD GAMES
Patriots 24, Bills 17
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 78#p774678

Cowboys 20, Bears 17
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 78#p774678

AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Patriots 34, Broncos 10
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 09#p775009

NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Packers 27, Cowboys 24 (OT)
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 09#p775009

SUPER BOWL
Patriots 30, Packers 21
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 36#p775336

ALL-TIME FRANCHISE SUPER BOWL I CHAMPIONS

Are you in for the Chicago Bears, Kaius?

Maybe GH will join!

I'm just gonna assume Joey and doug are going to team up to run a Raiders team.

@SkitchP wrote:Maybe GH will join!

He's a Broncos guy, right?

Lament wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Maybe GH will join!

He's a Broncos guy, right?

Finally, a sport I know enough of to actually be able to play in one of these. Put me down for the Broncos.

On the one hand, I hate how the simulation, just like most fantasy football, breaks down the skill positions but not the defense. On the other hand, I'd probably end up cramming most of my defense with 2015 Broncos anyway.

I should probably get a refresher on any other general rules I should be aware of.

Lament wrote:I'm just gonna assume Joey and doug are going to team up to run a Raiders team.

I'm sure they'd push quickly to get JaMarcus Russell on the team.

I might need a rundown of all the rules here given that I didn't participate and/or even read the MLB and NHL franchise threads.

But count me in for a Chiefs team. I fully expect to get my shit pushed in because no one cares about The Chiefs. But I'll play. Why not.

durdencommatyler wrote:But count me in for a Chiefs team. I fully expect to get my shit pushed in because no one cares about The Chiefs. But I'll play. Why not.

Vermeil era offense + Schottenheimer era defense could be very formidable. And that's not even counting all the great players they had in the 60s-early 70s.

Lament wrote:Are you in for the Chicago Bears, Kaius?

Yes

And Hello,

I hope you're doing well during these trying times.

Green Habit wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:But count me in for a Chiefs team. I fully expect to get my shit pushed in because no one cares about The Chiefs. But I'll play. Why not.

Vermeil era offense + Schottenheimer era defense could be very formidable. And that's not even counting all the great players they had in the 60s-early 70s.

Aw huh

Green Habit wrote:I should probably get a refresher on any other general rules I should be aware of.

The only rules you need to know right now are the ones in the main post about eligible players. Since we haven't done a football one yet, we'll have a bit of discussion about specifics before we start the season. For now what you'll probably find best is to just open a whatif account, start putting your team together, and then run some simulations against various historical teams to get a feel for how whatif works.

For the football simulations the person running the team controls the depth chart for each game, as well as the play-calling style (Balanced, Pass Heavy, Run Heavy, or West Coast). The depth charts appear to be like the lineups in baseball, where they default to whatever the team owner had them set as in his last simulation, so you'll be responsible for making sure you have your desired depth chart ready and loaded before each game. I'll (or if someone else is filling in for me, they'll) set your play-calling mode when I run the simulations.

The weather is also a variable, but we'll discuss here how we want to do that (I'm thinking right now we'll let the home team set the weather, but they'll be required to keep it realistic based on where they're located and what point of the season it is).

Kaius wrote:I hope you're doing well during these trying times.

Thanks, man. I appreciate that. It's been pretty rough.

I'll do this if you still need someone.

Orpheus wrote:I'll do this if you still need someone.

Perfect. What team do you want?

Looks like Cowboys will balance it out NFC and AFC, so I'll take them.

Awesome. I'll start putting together a schedule, and we can start discussing specifics. This should be fun.

Lament is back, people.

Now we just need to figure out a spreadsheet.

I kinda want to do the Niners in remembrance of lenny.