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Post by falconsfan7007 on Jun 24, 2016 17:42:10 GMT -5
LOL @ contacting panther - lostabroad2 as you're probably aware, everyone is gone as far as getting a group together. Whoever is still here, I totally get why that other site is just bad. It's not the 'faggots' and other words per se. It's a pervasive sophomoric, overly gratuitous crap Whatever happened to Panther? He created this place and I remember having good arguments as well as agreements with him at NFL.com and one day he just vanished from here.
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Post by MrCincinnati on Jun 24, 2016 20:32:53 GMT -5
I don't have much left to discuss about the pick'em, so I'll just say this. I don't want to do it on two separate forums. Some of you guys don't realize how much more work that will make me, and there's no reason for it in the first place. And since LAcroBat already offered to manage one for those that don't want to do it on PSR, that will save me a lot of trouble. It may not be the same setup as mine, but 2013 was different also and nothing happened in 2014. I myself would like to try it as well. I did some research on how PSR did there's, and it will take some work to convince them, which I will give more details another time.
Now as for PSR, I'm going to assume most of you already saw my little speech I made, that sparked up quite a lot of talking, and I'm mostly directing it towards the one's that already have posted there at least once. I understand why most of you don't want to post there, but I think all of you are taking this way too seriously. Fair enough that there are some things we don't like on there, and I agree with some of the stuff you guys said. But the quote that I liked the most was from fleet in which he responded to Innocent "Its just freedom man. We are already too censored in our daily lives." And If I recall, guys like Nateball and Morkim who is beloved by most of you, would blend right in with this type of group, and yet nobody goes on a rampage to get those guys off of here.
Maybe me personally isn't as bothered by it since I've always been a guy who cusses a lot and keeps my nose out of the politics section. Trying to restrain myself from not offending people for the past few years was hard, and not having to worry about that is great. You guys could always google more options to find another forums, as there are other options, but you might quickly realize some places have way too much activity and way too strict. I'd say the best option for some of you is to wait until the NFL season is back up and enjoy some of the finer things in life in the meantime.
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Post by lostabroad2 on Jun 24, 2016 21:04:07 GMT -5
Excuse my ignorance but what do you mean I broke every favorite mark? I chose the team that was the favorite the most or the least amount of times? I apologize. I should have tagged xdeadlyxmirage as the regular season Champion and mentioned you as the only other person to beat the 'every favourite' mark. By definition favourites are more likely to win than underdogs. The 'every favourite' mark is just the score someone would have gotten if they had picked every favourite. There are 256 regular season games. Last season 163 games were won by favourites and 93 games were won by underdogs. With the scoring system that applied to this Pick'em the 'every favourite' mark would have been 70. xdeadlyxmirage picked 169 winners and 87 losers. You picked 164 winners and 89 losers with 3 missed picks. Beating the 'every favourite' mark means someone has correctly identified more winning underdog picks than losing underdog picks. That is generally very difficult to do. I don't know which teams you picked throughout the season so I cant quantify if you were 1-0, 4-0, or 14-13. Assuming the games you missed were Thursday games you were at least 3-0 with underdogs.
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Post by lostabroad2 on Jun 24, 2016 21:34:08 GMT -5
I don't have much left to discuss about the pick'em, so I'll just say this. I don't want to do it on two separate forums. Some of you guys don't realize how much more work that will make me, and there's no reason for it in the first place. And since LAcroBat already offered to manage one for those that don't want to do it on PSR, that will save me a lot of trouble. It may not be the same setup as mine, but 2013 was different also and nothing happened in 2014. I myself would like to try it as well. I did some research on how PSR did there's, and it will take some work to convince them, which I will give more details another time. Now as for PSR, I'm going to assume most of you already saw my little speech I made, that sparked up quite a lot of talking, and I'm mostly directing it towards the one's that already have posted there at least once. I understand why most of you don't want to post there, but I think all of you are taking this way too seriously. Fair enough that there are some things we don't like on there, and I agree with some of the stuff you guys said. But the quote that I liked the most was from fleet in which he responded to Innocent "Its just freedom man. We are already too censored in our daily lives." And If I recall, guys like Nateball and Morkim who is beloved by most of you, would blend right in with this type of group, and yet nobody goes on a rampage to get those guys off of here. Maybe me personally isn't as bothered by it since I've always been a guy who cusses a lot and keeps my nose out of the politics section. Trying to restrain myself from not offending people for the past few years was hard, and not having to worry about that is great. You guys could always google more options to find another forums, as there are other options, but you might quickly realize some places have way too much activity and way too strict. I'd say the best option for some of you is to wait until the NFL season is back up and enjoy some of the finer things in life in the meantime. I don't know how you keep records for everyone participating in your Pick'em. I convert everything to Microsoft Excel sheets. I have everything ready to go so I could post you my Excel sheets for all 17 weeks in 2016 if that would help. They're in ESPN game time order which might not match your Pick'em site order. They're set up so that I just have to enter the handicaps, people's picks and which teams win. Obviously you're using a variation of a 1 point for a win system but I can convert it to that. For Excel purposes your system is 2 points for a win, 0 for a loss, and 0 for a missed pick and then a -1 point deduction for every game. I'd recommend getting rid of the -1 element or dealing with it as a -256 point element either before the season starts or after the season ends. I could leave a variable space below each participant so so could just enter the number of games every week as a weekly -, but it would be a bit messy. The problem is that Excel will treat a blank rectangle as a 0 rather than a -1. I'm sure you have an alternative system so my Excel sheets are probably of no use to you.
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Post by Divebitch on Jun 24, 2016 21:37:29 GMT -5
I did not leave. I was banned for.... no time to explain, but trust me, it is coming. Fleet took any negative thing I said about PSR, and even MarchingOn , and spin-doctored the hell out of it. Many, many errors of omission, and a few lies. I had no issues with a single soul there except for Kimber, who Fleet is probably obsessed with. Gotta run... I'll be back here, and CTM too of course. Honestly, I'm just as embarrassed at how many of the people from our site have been acting at PSR. I didn't agree with everything you said, nor the way you handled the disagreements over there. Same goes for Craig and many of the others; and I would expect that many feel the same way about me. I don't think we are any better than they are. It's just that the way things are done there, it brings out an uglier side of many of us. To me it's the same as if you start working at a job where people swear more. You will likely start to swear more yourself, because you've been exposed to that and it starts to become natural for you. At PSR, they treat everyone like shit; each other and new people. After a while, the instinct isn't to talk things out rationally, it's to call them a fucking moron (or retard, though I don't like to use that word at all) and shit all over anything they have to say because that's just how people have done things there for a while.
I still read a bit on that site because there is a lot of interesting discussions if you can block all the other 80% that's just pettiness and garbage, I just refuse to comment on anything for now, because it's pointless. I read Craig's meltdown where he went around demanding an apology for a guy making a personal attack on him. That was pathetic to read, and I don't blame them for mocking the way Craig was acting. On that site, calling people a little bitch is the norm... demanding apologies and respect has no place there.
Please be specific, on the emboldened. Probably the stuff about them not caring about us? My only issue was a separate lousy football section. Maybe a fantasy one. I never asked for 32 freaking team rooms, and not 100% sure, but I think there was some other fantasy crap they deleted that I never asked for. SOMEONE ELSE (not from here) asked about why there wasn't a football section. So it struck a nerve I admit, not for the ones who said "we don't care, we're just happy to be here". Fine. But I never badmouthed PSR on their site. Nor said I was leaving, but looking back, I can see how it was off-putting to some. It just didn't suit my and some others needs for football. Saska, you don't do FF leagues, right? So you would never get it. It involves trades, keepers, settings, injuries - the tip of the iceberg. But nuff said cuz I really don't know what you mean. On your last sentence, FTR, I was not bothered much by the little bitch and fucktard name-calling. I was active in a thread by Richie, who was giving some guy all kinds of shit for his fucked up advice on McCoy for a keeper in his dynasty league. It was funny. And the bad advice guy thought so too. Really, I get it. No apologies or respect were expected, it was nothing personal. What annoys me in terms of sophomoric behavior is incessant sexual & toilet puns and innuendo, and gratuitous cuss words when they add nothing. But never ever to the point I'd say this is not for me. It was just an annoyance on top of the football thing. Yes, there was plenty of interesting discussion. I started a new job right after we moved there, so have little free time. You know my forays into the topics you most got into are far and few between. My arguments were almost exclusively with Patsk1d and Morkim, both Peyton and Broncos haters. And Mork is in 2 leagues I run, and a 3rd I co-LM w/njc71 (neil). lol
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Post by lostabroad2 on Jun 24, 2016 21:38:26 GMT -5
LOL @ contacting panther - lostabroad2 as you're probably aware, everyone is gone as far as getting a group together. Whoever is still here, I totally get why that other site is just bad. It's not the 'faggots' and other words per se. It's a pervasive sophomoric, overly gratuitous crap Whatever happened to Panther? He created this place and I remember having good arguments as well as agreements with him at NFL.com and one day he just vanished from here. I don't know. He used to sign in every so often even if he didn't post. He hasn't signed in in a long while. I sent him an email recently but i'm not expecting a response.
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Post by Divebitch on Jun 24, 2016 21:51:08 GMT -5
Whatever happened to Panther? He created this place and I remember having good arguments as well as agreements with him at NFL.com and one day he just vanished from here. I don't know. He used to sign in every so often even if he didn't post. He hasn't signed in in a long while. I sent him an email recently but i'm not expecting a response. There were lots of folks here that were invisible, or signed in as guests. Although many who did that (like Morkim) still posted a lot. It is kinda mysterious though. He did the same thing w/our GY league, just trailed off activity 2014 til it was no more.
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Post by larryb on Jun 25, 2016 13:49:50 GMT -5
I did not leave. I was banned for.... no time to explain, but trust me, it is coming. Fleet took any negative thing I said about PSR, and even MarchingOn , and spin-doctored the hell out of it. Many, many errors of omission, and a few lies. I had no issues with a single soul there except for Kimber, who Fleet is probably obsessed with. Gotta run... I'll be back here, and CTM too of course. Honestly, I'm just as embarrassed at how many of the people from our site have been acting at PSR. I didn't agree with everything you said, nor the way you handled the disagreements over there. Same goes for Craig and many of the others; and I would expect that many feel the same way about me. I don't think we are any better than they are. It's just that the way things are done there, it brings out an uglier side of many of us. To me it's the same as if you start working at a job where people swear more. You will likely start to swear more yourself, because you've been exposed to that and it starts to become natural for you. At PSR, they treat everyone like shit; each other and new people. After a while, the instinct isn't to talk things out rationally, it's to call them a fucking moron (or retard, though I don't like to use that word at all) and shit all over anything they have to say because that's just how people have done things there for a while.
I still read a bit on that site because there is a lot of interesting discussions if you can block all the other 80% that's just pettiness and garbage, I just refuse to comment on anything for now, because it's pointless. I read Craig's meltdown where he went around demanding an apology for a guy making a personal attack on him. That was pathetic to read, and I don't blame them for mocking the way Craig was acting. On that site, calling people a little bitch is the norm... demanding apologies and respect has no place there.
You must have missed all the posts he was making. He posted in lots of threads that I wasn't even a part of. About all he said was Craig is a little bitch. He deleted them soon after. I don't think I "Went around demanding an apology" I was trying to find out why he was doing that. I did't even know him. If he had a problem he should have stayed in the same thread and discussed it. Going to all threads reminded me of that time that guy went to all threads in NFL.com and said I was a pedifile. And you are right calling people stupid names at random is standard procedure there. Respect has no place there. So enjoy it. Guess I should log out and log in as Craig but I'm lazy. haha. I am on lots of meds that I don't understand yet. Some of them don't agree with me, but we don't know which ones they are yet. Mix that with a couple of beers and that was me. I didn't go back and read any of it. No need. Miss Lacy posted "What are you doing Larryb? Your better than this." I remember that.
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Post by The Green Minion on Jun 25, 2016 15:08:14 GMT -5
Larryb is just a monkey. Hes as good as good can get. I love him.
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Post by larryb on Jun 25, 2016 17:39:40 GMT -5
Larryb is just a monkey. Hes as good as good can get. I love him. Thanks, But I can beat my own chest thank you. Larryb
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