WhiteWonder

sad to see KSB go open to a 10th but i'd say don't force it. better to roll with 9 vets than someone who might ultimately flake. also with shallower talent pools, 9 instead of 11 this year might have us feeling like we are drafting a full team of professionals

I thought Finau was more likely to go anyway. Glad Hov is staying. Not because I care very much about PGA vs LIV... it will end up merging eventually. I'm just glad he stayed to keep more fire power in our edex drafts

cool i wasnt necessarily opposed to 10 events. I stayed away from a lot of the non sanctioned ones in the second half of this past season, but Edex 10 events probably works. Just wasn't sure when it changed and the thread for the Sentry caught me off guard. Also wanted to make sure we were not adding watered down or small field events where we don't draft full rosters (until the tour championship at least) . I see we eliminated the TC, which makes sense. So we have 2 in Mar, 2 in May, 2 in June. I wouldn't even know which two to cut out of API/memorial/wells fargo anyway so might as well draft them all! the May-June schedule will be 4 drafts in 6 weeks.

Haha, sorry if it bothers you / glad you feel better I honestly never need to get in the last word. when it comes to sports and fantasy (the stuff I come to FFToday for) I simply enjoy discussion and if someone @'s me, I assume they want my attention . Bier asked for a dedicated Geek Balls forum and I think part of that was for discussion purposes. Granted, it seems that often when true discussion begins, people "don't have time for discourse"... but I don't see the issue with giving my reasoning against something that I anticipate will be voted on in the offseason shit, sorry if this counts as getting in the last word

@edjr is this cool with you? Since Lager already paid you for PNC, you good with skids and pat sending you $25 each and putting $100 on my ledger for the season?

check out my posts in the winter meetings thread.... both concerning the schedule as well as payouts

he also would have a hell of a time getting the ball for a carry

Brain says #1 because I can do nothing and just invest that free million.... My gut says #2 because I am athletic BUT... do i ONLY get 10 carries? or do i need to survive a minimum of 10? 5 yards is definitely doable but the issue is any negative yardage carries. IF/As soon as I have my 5 yards, I am purposely botching the handoff on every remaining run. I legitimately believe I could fall forward for no gain upwards of 2 yards and even possibly find a hole for 4-5 on a single play and lay down. But the potential to get blown up in the backfield for a 4 yard loss makes that pretty risky. There is no way any geek is accomplishing #3 since a decent amount of starting NFL lineman can't accomplish it (the ending up on the ground 3 times or less part)

I've been here (FFToday, not the geek club) for 17-18 years on this handle and 5 or so on "TheWhiteWonder" before I lost the login and was never able to recover it I am not necessarily disagreeing with you, although I think the geek club has turned too much into political nonsense... and I think it was trending this way even before the FBG invasion that everyone likes to blame it on. I'd prefer a separate political forum because even though the geek club is supposed to be discourse on everything, people can't help themselves and political drivel dominates. A few political threads? thats one thing. Non stop new political threads started all the time by certain posters for the most mundane nonsense in a clear attempt to troll? thats another thing. Sadly, even with a dedicated politics forum, I think the usual suspects would still find a way to turn good threads into slap fights. Regardless, I just wanted to clarify that Mike did not appoint new moderators for the geek club. No new moderators got together and made any types of decisions on board content. No purposefully appointed moderators abused any mod powers. I am very rarely "in the know" about things happening on this board, nor do I care to be, but in this situation I know exactly what transpired.

yes that part is correct. the notion that the board intentionally had any new mods or that it was multiple mods deciding how the board would run is incorrect.

a big part of this explantion is incorrect. i'll just leave it at that

I have no idea if payout breakdown has already been determined but i'll add the following..... Assuming this is really 10 events with each event being a $50 buy in ($40 for the event and $10 to edex cup) 9x$40 = $360 pot for each event and the edex cup being 10x9x$10 = $900 Everyone's entry fee for the whole season of 10 events is $500. It kind of feels like winning 2 events should at least cover your season entry fee. Winning 2 out of 10 events is pretty impressive. But if we definitely want to pay 1st,2nd,3rd, I guess $250 for winning an event isn't realistic. $360 pot could be $210/$100/$50 so 3rd place basically gets their entry fee back. and the Edex could be something like $500 - $250 - $150 I would say keep all the events the same. The bonus for the majors is higher edex points on the line. If 6 of our 10 events only paid $160 to the winner, you could win 3 events and not even cover your entry fee for the season, which seems out of whack. .

I posted in the "winter meeting" thread. The fact that this is now just the Sentry and include the top 50 from 2023 fedex standings seems like it could be a real event for us with a full 6 golfer draft. I still question 10 overall events though. 8 always seemed like the perfect amount. more or less 1 per month through August.

@bostonlager this is all I see in regards to going from 8 to 10 events. Your main post quotes a schedule edjr came up with (i'm not sure where or when he suggested that) and then I mentioned that we had more events than prior seasons and it looks like Pat mentioned the same. Neither of us got a response. I know I'm THAT guy. I am okay with 10 events if it makes sense, I just know more than a few people got tired of doing non sanctioned add on events. I don't want to see people get edex burnout because we are now just adding some of those into the regular schedule.

I would agree that this is more spread out than I often see.... of course it rewards top weeks.... It's just not really needed in a league where owners are active and trying. I have seen it implemented by commissioners who needed to combat absentee owners who start checking out once their teams are not doing well, but if you have a solid group of league members, it just seems kind of silly to pay out small amounts for a weekly high score. You end up rewarding random high weeks from otherwise below average teams (herbie ... no offense), OR if you do have one or two teams consistently putting up high scores, those teams are likely playoff bound anyway or in the running for season long total points. Rewarding the season long points champ is much more palatable and at least indicative of rewarding a consistently good team. Especially in a lower stakes league, I don't get diminishing the pot for 1st-2nd-3rd. but that's just me

congrats edjr for holding on and advancing. good luck this week @BiffTannen . i'd feel a lot better if my #1 pick wasnt dealing with an injury and my #3 pick wasn't in danger of being shut down for the season with no herbert to throw him the ball and nothing for the team to play for

i dont disagree that they need a pitcher but i'm also not going to feel sorry for a team that brought in a stud catcher last year while still keeping dArnaud, and replaced freddie with Matt freaking Olson. what I wouldn't give to bring in established players instead of the continuous cycle of prospects that we develop and then trade away. Rays tend to win a lot of their trades but Snell did just win another cy young (even if it was a lot of fluke metrics) and Glasnow feels like a guy who will finally stay healthy and be an all-star

If someone with authority could pin this for 2023 looks like a Monday March 13th start to Round 1 of our draft. Bone Rolling… maybe Monday March 6th at the latest. We can do this as early as you guys want but then there is quite a lull. 6th gives us enough time for me to set up the draft threads and all of us to enter back end exclusives.

okay. i thought we were all settling up afterwards. @jerryskids @patweisers44 you guys okay with sending venmo or whatever method you prefer to edjr? @edjr you okay with taking my $100 and applying it to this seasons edex?

This was a non sanctioned event last year. when did we add it to the official edex schedule?

Final Scores WW: -40 (-21, -19) [-15] Skids: -39 (-25, -14) [-7] Pats: -38 (-22, -16) [-7] Lager: -38 (-19, -19) [-19] Edjr: -33 (-19, -14) [-13] I can PM my Venmo or you can all Venmo Ed if he is willing to take it for an Edex down payment.

Gracias

I think @jerryskids has it. We are both -39, my team Goosen has 1 hole left and Langer has 2 left but you’d win a tie breaker

obviously. if he didn't run the team, Hackett would have been fired months ago

Good lord, give it a rest