Well, it was a long day on Saturday for many of us. Thanks to all of you who stopped in for anywhere from 0-20 drinks. I was only stuck with a couple of envelopes, Hammer & Oge, so I will get those to you two ASAP...unless you want me to keep it and just enter you in each of the 4 upcoming Major Golf Tourneys at $10 each?!?!? For those of you who missed it, we lasted at BWW from about 11am-8pm, when we were told that we were drinking above the average drinks per hour and for too many hours. I don't think we were asked directly to leave, but they started bringing a lot of water and very few Jameson's...so we grabbed Chipotle next door and bailed.
The night moved back to my place where 2 miracles were witnessed, JG won a poker game...and then JG won another poker game. We entertained ourselves with PJ turned up to 11 and the KFAN button bar on my phone. I started a drunk text rally late in the evening, if I hit you up on one of those I'm sorry. Our brilliant golf idea the next day was good until the 30 mph winds had us ready to cry and quit by about hole 12. JG and I posted dueling 103's, so whenever I play with you guys next we're each going to be listed as 31 handicaps. It was ugly, but it was golf in March...so it was good.
We talked multiple times about FC topics and I think we're in a consensus on most of the rule changes for next year, but here's the list in case you missed it on Saturday or couldn't comprehend my words, which is totally possible.
1.I will use ACTUAL Tuesday lines for all games instead of the opening lines listed in USATODAY.
2. We will be giving out 1 point for ties and 2 points for wins so we eliminate the tie = loss conundrum.
3. The payout scale will add in extra payouts for the overall NCAA W% champ and the NFL W% champ
The only one that wasn't decided and is still up for debate is the tiebreaker or carry-over question. This year, with 17 guys, we did the carry over method and This came into play in 7 of the 18 weeks, or a little under 50% of the time. I think it put more emphasis on certain weeks, which made it fun, but it also hurt those of us who tied for the win on multiple weeks and had nothing to show for it. We will be adding members next year and I'm expecting to be somewhere in the 20-30 range for players. This in turn will likely add a few more ties if we continue with this method. The other option would to have a payout every week and make up a weekly tiebreaker. This could be consistent every week, or it could be something that changes every week. I'm thinking the best thing to do is make it a total point number for one game (MNF, SNF, Vikes game, Biggest game of the week?) or a pick the largest winner or largest loser each week for either NCAA or NFL (ARK will beat VANDY 44-3 and be a +41 for the week).
PLEASE LET ME KNOW YOUR OPINIONS ON THIS AND WHAT YOU THINK WILL BE BEST FOR THE GROUP AS A WHOLE. IF YOU HAVE OTHER IDEAS FOR A TIEBREAKER I WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED TO HEAR THOSE AS WELL. SHOOT ME A NOTE, I'LL COMPILE THE REPSONSES OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEK AND WE'LL HAVE A VERDICT...DEMOCRACY, SORT OF.
The last and final point of this update is that it's officially RECRUITING SEASON for the FOOTBALL CHALLENGE. If you have buddies who you know want to play or guys you think may be interested but haven't talked with as of yet - please send me their name and email and I will put them on the list. It's tough to get guys to commit in March, but I'll put them on the list so we can narrow it down by August when the fun starts. Also, if you don't want to play any more - please let me know that, too. We've only lost 1 member in our history and it sounds like he's back on board for next year...so it's like we haven't lost anyone in the 5 years of the FC...but let me know if you are out. More importantly, send me any and all potential new recruits and their contact info so we can start working on the FC 2012.
As always, I really don't like the name Football Challenge, but I guess I'm not creative enough to come up with something else...but maybe one of you guys are. I'm looking for something a little more clever and interesting and a little less bland and obvious...so please send me your suggestions on that as well.
So here's your checklist for the next few weeks:
1. Rule changes - Tiebreaks Y/N and what should a tiebreaker be?
2. New Recruits - name/email address
3. Are you in for next year? Y/N
4. What should we rename the Football Challenge?
That's it - once again thanks to all those that made it out to the 'burbs on Saturday. It was a ton of fun hanging with you all and watching a little basketball, wrestling, golf, baseball, and anything else we could make a wager on!! Great times, like always. I'll start working on the golf tourney planning...but I won't be bringing that up for a while since all my get out of jail free cards are used up for a while. I think JG picked the date of June 23 late on Saturday night...but we'll see. If it doesn't work out this year, maybe we'll try and hook up for a couple of rounds through the extended golf season with each of you. Throw me an invite and I'll try and make it work out.
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