It's Starting to Look a Lot Like Football
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We had a little preseason meeting of the MGoBloggerati last week. Due to some oversight, we unfortunately had this meeting at a bar with TVs and the Lions preseason game on those TVs. So no, we didn't get much planning done with a table full of football bloggers who had football in front of them, but Brian had this fantastic idea:
What if the NFL preseason actually counted? Teams would have unlimited rosters, but you could only play your 1st stringers for the 1st quarter, and your 2nd stringers in the 2nd, and so on. Play in a quarter and you lose your eligibility for the rest of them. Everybody wins!
In things that somebody wins:
Football season means we're gonna start getting back to picking daily/weekly fantasy games to congregate in with our fantasy partner Draft Kings. This week's is an NFL preseason contest because frankly that's what we're all paying attention to right now (sorry boss). And since it's early we just went with a free one anyone can play:
Details:
- $100,000 prize pool.
- First place wins $10,000
- FREE for everyone to join - no deposit required
- Top 23,150 scores win guaranteed
- Starts on Sunday, September 13th at 1:00 PM EST
- Salary Cap Style Drafting. $50,000 to select 9 spots. 8 players and 1 defense.
- Roster Format: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 Flex and 1 Defense
- Hit the link to join.
Smart pick:
I noticed Kelvin Benjamain has torn his ACL. Although the rookie vying to take his targets tweaked his hamstring last week and missed the Miami game, Funchess should be good to go. And the nice thing is you have to scroll a loooong way to get to him.
August 24th, 2015 at 6:26 PM ^
Ahhh, no wonder I didn't get banned for starting that Lions-Redskins thread - you guys were occupied.
August 24th, 2015 at 6:29 PM ^
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August 24th, 2015 at 7:53 PM ^
I'm starting to really dig Draft Kings. You can have an amazing amout of fun for $3.
August 24th, 2015 at 8:20 PM ^
I live in Iowa, one of five states where fun like Draft Kings is verboten.
August 24th, 2015 at 8:27 PM ^
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August 24th, 2015 at 8:45 PM ^
Also think how valuable a guy like Denard Robinson would be for a team. You sign that guy and hell you could create a special spread package for him for the 3rd quarter.
So many awesome football dudes could be thrown at this. And the teams could protect their stars and really come away with some good competitive football.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:12 PM ^
I like the idea of forcing the whole roster to play in pre-season, incliuding the starters. If they want to be eligible for the first game(s) of the season, they must appear in at least one quarter.
American sports leagues have shot themselves in the feet in the past by playing exhibition games abroad where the stars and regulars never play, leaving lots of disappointed fans in their wake, who resolve never to get duped again. The NBA had to make the games regular season games in order to draw a crowd.
NFL cities are not willing to give up a home game when there are so relatively few already. But as the NFL dreams of world domination anyway, what if EACH team plays one of their late pre-season games abroad- a couple in London, some in Europe, Mexico, South America, Australia, etc.,
Make the last couple of pre-season games COUNT as part of the post-season tie-breaking process. Maybe it should be part of the draft tie-breaking process as well.
August 25th, 2015 at 9:08 AM ^
I can't express how bad of an idea I think that is.
Let's have the JV game count for 1/2 a game in high school sports, and the 9th grade for maybe 1/10th game and the 7th/8th for .002 percentage point adjustment on winning percentage.
We can score the cheerleaders on looks and give points on their cheering, and the band has to count for something right? How would we rate their show performace vs their in-game performance.
It's like the YMCA... Everybody plays... Everybody wins.
August 25th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
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