Post Season HoldEm - Mock Contest

[Deadheadz]

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Final Leaderboard

MarkNYM2 1000.07
MarkNYM1 936.88
Steveymer 916.77
Deadheadz 904.3
MarkNYM3 885.12
Chimpat 663.18

Please let me know if you have totals that differ from these.


Let's play it out. Post your picks for bragging rights only.

So long as it's not stepping on the toes of the NFBC, I'd like to offer my time to do a spreadsheet tracking of the teams for managers who are interested in seeing how their lineups would shake out against competition.

Let's welcome anyone to post their lineups and we'll run a mock contest just for bragging rights.
If we keep up the interest in the game it could make a difference in whether the product is successful next year.

Here's my single roster. Can yours outscore mine?

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[steveymer]

I'm in, and thanks for offering! Are lineups still viewable somehow? If not, it may be that few people have evidence of them. My screenshot thingy wasn't working so I just took pictures with my phone so I could dream of all the money I almost certainly would have won. It looks like the files are too big to attach, but I put them up on Google Drive, so hopefully that works.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0AqD7 ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0AqD ... lNUOHJVRFk

As you'll see there, roster was:
C: Lucroy
1B: Rizzo
2B: Rendon
3B: Beltre
SS: Seager
OF: Trumbo, Bautista, Fowler, J. Ramirez
UT: Ortiz

P: Bumgarner, Darvish, Kershaw, Lester, Syndegaard, Jansen

[Deadheadz]

I'm in, and thanks for offering! Are lineups still viewable somehow? If not, it may be that few people have evidence of them. My screenshot thingy wasn't working so I just took pictures with my phone so I could dream of all the money I almost certainly would have won. It looks like the files are too big to attach, but I put them up on Google Drive, so hopefully that works.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0AqD7 ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0AqD ... lNUOHJVRFk

As you'll see there, roster was:
C: Lucroy
1B: Rizzo
2B: Rendon
3B: Beltre
SS: Seager
OF: Trumbo, Bautista, Fowler, J. Ramirez
UT: Ortiz

P: Bumgarner, Darvish, Kershaw, Lester, Syndegaard, Jansen

Thanks for sharing your picks.
As there are no prizes we will be on the honor system but I'd like to take lineup submissions no later than the end of the first round. I'm guessing anyone who wants to take part won't wait that long.

Once I've got picks from a few people I'll post the spreadsheet on Google Docs too.
Maybe this thread can have a leaderboard in the top post just to make it easier to follow.

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[chimpat]

Having trouble accessing a screenshot but mine was as follows (only a single entry):

C: Lucroy
1B: Rizzo
2B: Kipnis
SS: Seager
3B: Bryant
OF: Betts, Trumbo, Bautista, Trea Turner
U: Ortiz

P: Bumgarner, Thor, Kershaw, Scherzer, Lester, Price

Thanks for offering to compile these.

[Deadheadz]

Having trouble accessing a screenshot but mine was as follows (only a single entry):

C: Lucroy
1B: Rizzo
2B: Kipnis
SS: Seager
3B: Bryant
OF: Betts, Trumbo, Bautista, Trea Turner
U: Ortiz

P: Bumgarner, Thor, Kershaw, Scherzer, Lester, Price

Thanks for offering to compile these.

I've got your picks. Will post a leaderboard tomorrow morning.
Thanks

[Deadheadz]

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Steveymer 155.53
Chimpat 151.37
Deadheadz 86.97

Great game by Lester helps Steveymer grab the lead.
Anyone else want to post their picks and measure up?

[marknym]

Thanks for taking this on. I had 3 entries, I'd like to play along but might be obnoxious for me to ask you to put 3 teams in.

As an aside, as much as I'd like to do another one of these for real in the future, if I don't see the word "guaranteed" in the contest description, I'm not gonna risk it. I'm not trying to use my time to be part of some kind of litmus test for the NFBC to gauge level of interest. Time is money.

[marknym]

So here's the 3 teams I had entered. No where to pull a screenshot from, so I'll just list them here:
Team 1
C Lucroy
1B B Belt
2B Trea Turner
3B Bryant
SS Lindor
OF Cespedes
OF Hanley Ramirez
OF J Bautista
OF Trumbo
U Ortiz
P Lester
P Hendricks
P Porcello
P Hamels
P Darvish
P Kershaw
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Team 2
C Lucroy
1B B Belt
2B T Turner
3B Machado
SS Lindor
OF Bryant
OF Cespedes
OF Bautista
OF Hanley Ramirez
U Ortiz
P Lester
P Hendricks
P Hamels
P Darvish
P Kershaw
P Porcello
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Team 3
C Grandal
1B B Belt
2B T Turner
3B Bryant
SS Lindor
OF Bautista
OF Hanley Ramirez
OF Trumbo
OF Cespedes
U Ortiz
P Kershaw
P Kenley Jansen
P Lester
P Hamels
P Porcello
P Darvish

[COZ]

Thanks for taking this on. I had 3 entries, I'd like to play along but might be obnoxious for me to ask you to put 3 teams in.

As an aside, as much as I'd like to do another one of these for real in the future, if I don't see the word "guaranteed" in the contest description, I'm not gonna risk it. I'm not trying to use my time to be part of some kind of litmus test for the NFBC to gauge level of interest. Time is money.

Noted. Everybody, Mark Evans will not be playing again unless he sees "guaranteed" in the contests description because for the sixth time his time is very valuable and he doesn't care if a company would lose money on the deal just so everyone knows how affected he is by the cancellation of this post-season contest and how much of his valuable time was lost....as an aside, he has failed to note that everyone else lost valuable time picking teams too, but none of whom have taken to piss and moan about it continuously & repeatedly like a child who had their beloved binky taken away.

[marknym]

Thanks for taking this on. I had 3 entries, I'd like to play along but might be obnoxious for me to ask you to put 3 teams in.

As an aside, as much as I'd like to do another one of these for real in the future, if I don't see the word "guaranteed" in the contest description, I'm not gonna risk it. I'm not trying to use my time to be part of some kind of litmus test for the NFBC to gauge level of interest. Time is money.

Noted. Everybody, Mark Evans will not be playing again unless he sees "guaranteed" in the contests description because for the sixth time his time is very valuable and he doesn't care if a company would lose money on the deal just so everyone knows how affected he is by the cancellation of this post-season contest and how much of his valuable time was lost....as an aside, he has failed to note that everyone else lost valuable time picking teams too, but none of whom have taken to piss and moan about it continuously & repeatedly like a child who had their beloved binky taken away.

I never said or implied, nor do I feel that my time is more valuable than anyone else's.

I didn't like the way this was handled, so I voiced it. Not sure how that offends you personally, or why it would. I dont appreciate you coming at me personally with insults, and since I don't even know you, I won't stoop to that.

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid.

[Deadheadz]

So here's the 3 teams I had entered. No where to pull a screenshot from, so I'll just list them here:
Team 1
C Lucroy
1B B Belt
2B Trea Turner
3B Bryant
SS Lindor
OF Cespedes
OF Hanley Ramirez
OF J Bautista
OF Trumbo
U Ortiz
P Lester
P Hendricks
P Porcello
P Hamels
P Darvish
P Kershaw
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Team 2
C Lucroy
1B B Belt
2B T Turner
3B Machado
SS Lindor
OF Bryant
OF Cespedes
OF Bautista
OF Hanley Ramirez
U Ortiz
P Lester
P Hendricks
P Hamels
P Darvish
P Kershaw
P Porcello
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Team 3
C Grandal
1B B Belt
2B T Turner
3B Bryant
SS Lindor
OF Bautista
OF Hanley Ramirez
OF Trumbo
OF Cespedes
U Ortiz
P Kershaw
P Kenley Jansen
P Lester
P Hamels
P Porcello
P Darvish

I'll add your teams.

[marknym]

Thanks Deadheadz, and thanks for doing it!

[Doctor Who]

Thanks for taking this on. I had 3 entries, I'd like to play along but might be obnoxious for me to ask you to put 3 teams in.

As an aside, as much as I'd like to do another one of these for real in the future, if I don't see the word "guaranteed" in the contest description, I'm not gonna risk it. I'm not trying to use my time to be part of some kind of litmus test for the NFBC to gauge level of interest. Time is money.

Noted. Everybody, Mark Evans will not be playing again unless he sees "guaranteed" in the contests description because for the sixth time his time is very valuable and he doesn't care if a company would lose money on the deal just so everyone knows how affected he is by the cancellation of this post-season contest and how much of his valuable time was lost....as an aside, he has failed to note that everyone else lost valuable time picking teams too, but none of whom have taken to piss and moan about it continuously & repeatedly like a child who had their beloved binky taken away.

I never said or implied, nor do I feel that my time is more valuable than anyone else's.

I didn't like the way this was handled, so I voiced it. Not sure how that offends you personally, or why it would. I dont appreciate you coming at me personally with insults, and since I don't even know you, I won't stoop to that.

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid.

I guess that is the difference in the people that go to live events and meet Greg and Tom in person. Not coming at you, but I worked on 21 teams right before the deadline to try and help them fill it and even had trouble with it saving my lineups. So when it got cancelled, it sucked but fully understood their position. They can't call 200 owners in 90 minutes to let them know prize money would be less and guarantee you that people would have dropped out because of it. They can't lose 10k every year on a contest either. I'd rather them cancel a contest and be here next year to play then run a contest and lose money and have the company fold. Ask some people in here what they think about contests that fold with people's money. It isn't a good thing when that happens and at least the NFBC gives us a platform to play year after year.

[marknym]

Doctor Who, thanks for approaching this in a level-headed manner. I'm not sure what you're saying though...it sounds like you think no one should complain either? I could have easily emailed my complaints and not posted them here but I figured this is a community that would appreciate hearing people's opinions.

[Deadheadz]

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When you go into a poker tournament they often have a guaranteed prize based on around 50% of expected turnout. If they get a lot of players the rules allow for the prizes to exceed the guarantee.

Tom suggested we lower the prize AND cap the entries at 200. I'm not sure why you'd cap the number of entries unless it's because you don't want the hassle of reworking the prize structure.

Why not a lowball $10,000 prize for 1st place with a stipulation that X entries must be sold? Then have a sliding scale that ramps up the prizes for every additional 50 entries.
This way excitement has a chance to build if the pot grows.

With a pre-published scale for prizes NFBC might actually make a little money if the number of entries goes over 200 but falls short of 250.

But I'll agree that it's helpful to have a hard number where a failure to sign up that many entries would cancel the contest.

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[steveymer]

Just tallied my score through yesterday's games at got 123.38. I'm not great at spreadsheets, so I may have messed something up, but can't seem to find an error so thought I'd mention it.

[Deadheadz]

Just tallied my score through yesterday's games at got 123.38. I'm not great at spreadsheets, so I may have messed something up, but can't seem to find an error so thought I'd mention it.

Thanks for pointing this out.
It turns out I did a bad copy/paste on some of the pitcher formulas and the LAD and WAS guys were being counted twice.

I've corrected the math and added in the game from today.
Here are the new standings.

Leaderboard

Steveymer 122.63
Chimpat 120.35
MarkNYM3 84.06
MarkNYM1 73.36
Deadheadz 71.77
MarkNYM2 67.36


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[Deadheadz]

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Hell of a game 4 Cubs vs Giants. What a comeback!

Leaderboard

Chimpat 171.25
Steveymer 168.55
MarkNYM3 140.63
Deadheadz 139.65
MarkNYM1 122.16
MarkNYM2 116.16

[Deadheadz]

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A win for the ages. Kershaw gets the save? Amazing.

Leaderboard (includes games Oct 13)

Chimpat 189.55
Steveymer 171.98
Deadheadz 154.8
MarkNYM3 141.38
MarkNYM1 125.15
MarkNYM2 119.15

Numbers checked and corrected Oct 14. Errors were found in each of the totals for Mark's 3 teams.

[Deadheadz]

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Teams need to replace the following players:


Chimpat
TEX Eliminated Lucroy
BOS Eliminated Betts
BAL Eliminated Trumbo
BOS Eliminated Ortiz
SF Eliminated Bumgarner
NYM Eliminated Syndergaard
BOS Eliminated Price
WAS Eliminated T Turner
WAS Eliminated Scherzer

Steveymer
TEX Eliminated Lucroy
TEX Eliminated Beltre
BAL Eliminated Trumbo
BOS Eliminated Ortiz
SF Eliminated Bumgarner
TEX Eliminated Darvish
NYM Eliminated Syndergaard
WAS Eliminated Rendon

Deadheadz
BAL Eliminated Machado
BOS Eliminated Hanley
BOS Eliminated Betts
BOS Eliminated Ortiz
SF Eliminated Bumgarner
NYM Eliminated Syndergaard
TEX Eliminated Darvish
WAS Eliminated T Turner

MarkNYM1
TEX Eliminated Lucroy
SF Eliminated Belt
BAL Eliminated Trumbo
NYM Eliminated Cespedes
BOS Eliminated Hanley
BOS Eliminated Ortiz
TEX Eliminated Hamels
TEX Eliminated Darvish
BOS Eliminated Porcello
WAS Eliminated T Turner

MarkNYM2
TEX Eliminated Lucroy
SF Eliminated Belt
BAL Eliminated Machado
NYM Eliminated Cespedes
BOS Eliminated Hanley
BOS Eliminated Ortiz
TEX Eliminated Hamels
TEX Eliminated Darvish
BOS Eliminated Porcello
WAS Eliminated T Turner

MarkNYM3
SF Eliminated Belt
BAL Eliminated Trumbo
NYM Eliminated Cespedes
BOS Eliminated Hanley
BOS Eliminated Ortiz
TEX Eliminated Hamels
TEX Eliminated Darvish
BOS Eliminated Porcello
WAS Eliminated T Turner

Please post your replacement players by 8pm Friday.
Remember to follow HoldEm contest rules for eligible replacements.

[marknym]

Thanks again for doing this...

MarkNYM1
C Grandal
1B Encarnacion
2B J Baez
3B J Donaldson
SS Lindor x2
OF Bryant x2, Bautista x2, Fowler, Jose Ramirez
U J Turner
P Lester x2, Hendricks x2, Kershaw x2, A Chapman, Aaron Sanchez, M Stroman

MarkNYM2
C Grandal
1B Encarnacion
2B Kipnis
3B J Donaldson
SS Lindor x2
OF Bryant x2, Bautista x2, Fowler, Jose Ramirez
U Javier Baez
P Lester x2, Hendricks x2, Kershaw x2, Kluber, A Chapman, Aaron Sanchez

MarkNYM3
C Grandal x2
1B Encarnacion
2B Jose Ramirez
3B J Turner
SS Lindor x2
OF Bryant x2, Bautista x2, Pederson, Fowler
U Donaldson

P Kershaw x2, Jansen x2, Lester x2, R Hill, Aaron Sanchez, M Stroman

[Deadheadz]

Thanks again for doing this...

MarkNYM1
C Grandal
1B Encarnacion
2B J Baez
3B J Donaldson
SS Lindor x2
OF Bryant x2, Bautista x2, Fowler, Jose Ramirez
U J Turner
P Lester x2, Hendricks x2, Kershaw x2, A Chapman, Aaron Sanchez, M Stroman

MarkNYM2
C Grandal
1B Encarnacion
2B Kipnis
3B J Donaldson
SS Lindor x2
OF Bryant x2, Bautista x2, Fowler, Jose Ramirez
U Javier Baez
P Lester x2, Hendricks x2, Kershaw x2, Kluber, A Chapman, Aaron Sanchez

MarkNYM3
C Grandal x2
1B Encarnacion
2B Jose Ramirez
3B J Turner
SS Lindor x2
OF Bryant x2, Bautista x2, Pederson, Fowler
U Donaldson

P Kershaw x2, Jansen x2, Lester x2, R Hill, Aaron Sanchez, M Stroman

Thanks Mark for your replacement picks.
Here are Steve's and my own. I haven't yet heard from Pat.

Steve

C Contreras Replacement
1B Rizzo x2
2B Kipnis Replacement
3B J Turner Replacement
SS Seager x2
OF1 Reddick Replacement
OF2 Bautista x2
OF3 Fowler x2
OF4 J Ramirez x2
DH Encarnacion Replacement

P1 Arrieta Replacement
P2 Kluber Replacement
P3 Kershaw x2
P4 Lester x2
P5 Chapman Replacement
P6 Jansen x2


Deadheadz

C Martin x2
1B Rizzo x2
2B J Ramirez x2
3B Donaldson Replacement
SS Seager Replacement
OF1 Chisenhall Replacement
OF2 Bryant x2
OF3 Bautista Replacement
OF4 Contreras x2
DH Encarnacion Replacement

P1 Arrieta Replacement
P2 Lester Replacement
P3 Kershaw x2
P4 Maeda x2
P5 Hill x2
P6 Hendricks Replacement

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[Deadheadz]

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Leaderboard
(includes games as of Oct 14)

Chimpat 192.55 (no replacement picks)
Steveymer 191.19
MarkNYM3 160.13
Deadheadz 158.55
MarkNYM2 155.61
MarkNYM1 143.9



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[Deadheadz]

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Who can stop the Cubs??!?


Leaderboard (includes games as of Oct 15)

Steveymer 216.43
Chimpat 216.29 (no replacement picks)
MarkNYM1 207.37
Deadheadz 200.37
MarkNYM2 196.91
MarkNYM3 184.33

[Deadheadz]

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Leaderboard as of games including Oct 16

MarkNYM2 260.8
MarkNYM3 257.98
Steveymer 250.96
MarkNYM1 250.84
Chimpat 249.57
Deadheadz 227.8

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