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The 2015/2016 NFL Thread v. yfw da jest win da superb owl

AFC North: The expected resurgence of the Ravens gives the division three legitimate contenders, not to mention three bona fide human starting quarterbacks now that Andy has obliterated the Dalton Scale. The schedule won't help the Browns.

2. NFC West: No division has a better 1-2 punch of Super Bowl contenders. The NFC West would be back into the top spot if the Rams can play outside of the division like they play against Seattle and Arizona.

3. AFC West: This could be the deepest division in football. It boasts the defending champion and every team has realistic playoff hopes. The Raiders enjoyed a nice offseason, as did the Chiefs until Justin Houston's injury. To put it another way: The AFC West might have the best last-place team in the league. Then again.
 
DrinksWithEvil said:
AFC North: The expected resurgence of the Ravens gives the division three legitimate contenders, not to mention three bona fide human starting quarterbacks now that Andy has obliterated the Dalton Scale. The schedule won't help the Browns.

2. NFC West: No division has a better 1-2 punch of Super Bowl contenders. The NFC West would be back into the top spot if the Rams can play outside of the division like they play against Seattle and Arizona.

3. AFC West: This could be the deepest division in football. It boasts the defending champion and every team has realistic playoff hopes. The Raiders enjoyed a nice offseason, as did the Chiefs until Justin Houston's injury. To put it another way: The AFC West might have the best last-place team in the league. Then again.
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alasdairm said:
both the afc north and the nfc west are tougher divisions than the afc west...
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so now you're just agreeing with me? thanks.

also, it's traditional, when copypasta-ing somebody else's work to give them credit so, you know, it doesn't look like you might be trying to pass of those comments as your own: 2016 NFL division power rankings

alasdair
 
Heh, seems fair enough. ^ kinda wondering how competitive the afc South is going to be this year. should be improved from last year. Thinking jax might win it. Nfc east def struggled last year lol.


You guys wanna do some other way of doing pick ems this season? Something more automated?
 
alasdairm said:
also, it's traditional, when copypasta-ing somebody else's work to give them credit so, you know, it doesn't look like you might be trying to pass of those comments as your own: 2016 NFL division power rankings

alasdair
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LMAO. I was like, damn, that was really well written, confident sounding, knowledgeable, whatever … should've been ringing alarm bells
 
jammin83 said:
You guys wanna do some other way of doing pick ems this season? Something more automated?
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An idea that I had last season that never took off was to do a thread game of play money betting like each poster starts with $10,000 (or whatever) and each week can place bets with one poster acting as the "bookie" and keeping track. Largest balance by the end of the season wins. We might even be able to put in some kind of award. We could make it as simple or as elaborate as we care to. Is this the sort of thing that anyone might be interested in? I think it would be a lot of fun if there is enough interest.
 
Sounds fun. im down. degenerate gamblers...sheesh. =D

idk if you guys want to do picks off site but there is a couple i found:

http://weeklypickem.fantasy.nfl.com/
http://www.nflrush.com/pickem/2016/1/0/


and there is some pool sites too, yahoo, etc.

just remember scoring was kind of a pain in the ass and we might have fudged a number here or there. old way is fine too if we still want to do straight up. wasn't that bad but not everyone was available to score.
 
Cool. I'll start a thread for recruiting for the play money betting then sometime soon and come up with whatever rules and stuff but really it's not gonna be complicated.
 
If you are interested in participating in the play money sportsbook, please post in this thread, and maybe invite a BL friend who might miss this post here.

Also we will need people to act as the bookie, which is going to rotate weekly among the players, all this really involves is collating all the bets after game nights and afterwards credit the accounts of winning bettors. It's basically just some simple math (we could make a spreadsheet on Google Docs maybe even) and will require only a bare minimum of sports betting knowledge. Just that no one person probably can do this for every game in the season so we need to divide up the work. Ideally we'll have a volunteer for each week but we'll see. We may even give the bookie a small credit for his efforts.
 
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Anyhow. Registration is open. Please post if you're interested. Will recruit more aggressively as the season begins but would like to get some solidly interested people in when possible. Not talking about a great deal of time commitment right now but just to measure how many people may be interested.
 
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