So looks like an 8 person league. And I'll have to draft from my phone for the first few rounds :/...changed the divisions back to 1 since its useless with less than 10 (I think).

Eti307

Canada3442 Posts

October 06 2014 15:04 GMT

#24

I'm fine with 8 as well, see you guys tonight

QuanticHawk

United States32130 Posts

October 06 2014 18:23 GMT

#25

Get ready bitches

Jer99

Canada8159 Posts

October 06 2014 22:51 GMT

#26

post your teams :D

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

October 07 2014 02:48 GMT

#27

D: didn't make the fantasy draft

i guess it's okay because i got perry!! :D fav player

my team is solid but not spectacular

couture
bergeron
parise
steen
perry
eberle
keith
OEL < YEAH BOY
krug
wisniewski
spezza
turris
semin
franzen
kuznetsov

bishop
howard
smith

Battleaxe

United States843 Posts

October 07 2014 14:09 GMT

#28

Fell asleep, missed draft :'( Super sad, but auto-draft didn't seem to do me too dirty. My dreams of drafting an all former flyer team have been shattered for this season

Stamkos
Seguin
Skinner
JVR
Hossa
Saad
Karlsson
Kronwall
Suter
Green
Toews
E. Staal
Hartnell
Drouin
Barrie

Fleury
Niemi
Mason

Dknight

United States5223 Posts

October 07 2014 14:34 GMT

#29

Haha, so how many made it?

I drafted a few rounds from my phone. Thank god I got the snake for that...

GolemMadness

Canada11044 Posts

October 09 2014 05:37 GMT

#30

Kane
Backstrom
Daniel Sedin
Henrik Sedin
Vrbata
Ovechkin
Okposo
Hornqvist
Palat
Stastny

Weber
Hedman
Ehrhoff
Bieksa

Miller
Lehtonen
Holtby

Wow!

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

October 10 2014 04:43 GMT

#31

aiya i can't add the players i want :/ what is up with that? do they only show at the end of the week?

edit: also who is up's metal god cause we are neck and neck haha

Dknight

United States5223 Posts

October 30 2014 21:00 GMT

#32

Woohoooooo. Entering week 3. Let's get this shit more active.

GolemMadness

Canada11044 Posts

January 17 2015 01:14 GMT

#33

Does anyone else find this format to be really boring? It just feels like it doesn't matter until the final two weeks, and then depending on how lucky you get over those two weeks, you win or lose. Other than setting my line up for the week, I rarely even look at the pool.

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

March 20 2015 03:14 GMT

#34

Eh, it's fair. I tried making trades earlier but no one accepted or replied so I stopped. I'm 4th and I get a chance to get into the top 3 if I do great this week, versus not having any chance at all, but I can't actually pass 1st. The last time I was vs 1st it ended 8-2 as well, so the only reason I'm still in this is from being very solid the last while. Plus a lot of picking up from FA.

Wow that was in January lol

iunno, i think you really could've screwed yourself over if you didn't pay attention 100% of the time, I've lost a couple of points because I played the wrong person and missed getting 2 hits or something, those points would've helped a lot right now. 1st place was wayyyy ahead at some point but everyone else clawed back, even 5th place has a chance if 5th 10-0s and me and #3 tanks hard. It's more fair.

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

March 23 2015 10:10 GMT

#35

If y'all are still paying attention, shit got real, playoffs!

GolemMadness

Canada11044 Posts

March 23 2015 10:23 GMT

#36

Wow, I thought 6 teams made it into playoffs, not 4. I would have actually done something over the past few months if I'd realised. This format is just so boring.

Dknight

United States5223 Posts

March 23 2015 15:09 GMT

#37

6 out of 8 teams is a bit much...It would've helped if we had more sign ups. Suggestions on making it more exciting for next year?

In any event, first round of the championship is all rematches.

GolemMadness

Canada11044 Posts

March 24 2015 10:36 GMT

#38

Yeah, I forgot that there are only 8 people this year instead of 10. Personally, I'd prefer a points or even a rotisserie pool. I just don't like how you can have an amazing team and be doing the best all year, but then all that matters in the end is how you do in the final two weeks. Just makes so it's way too luck-based.

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

March 25 2015 03:02 GMT

#39

That's exactly like NHL playoffs though :p

GolemMadness

Canada11044 Posts

March 25 2015 23:44 GMT

#40

It's not like the actual playoffs at all though. When you're playing in the playoffs, everybody tries their hardest, they play through injuries, etc. In this, it's just a week of regular season games that for some reason decide who wins the pool, and there are a TON of factors that make it enormously luck-based:

- How many games your players happen to have in that final week
- Which teams your players play in the final week
- Every injury is now hugely magnified
- One player getting a misconduct will often make you win or lose the PIM category
- If a team's a lock for their position, the players will generally not try as hard or even be given the game off
- If a couple of players just happen to have a couple of off games, you now lose the pool, regardless of how well you did for the rest of the season

Like, I get that people want to emulate the playoffs, but it makes zero practical sense. A pool should be about how well you draft and what players you pick up/trade. Not about if you have good or bad luck in a week of regular season games.