WhiteWonder

First off, thanks for explaining how the ML works . I thought money line meant they needed to win by double the spread. Second, you're "wagering 50k" (which I am 100% sure you did not) to win maybe 45k and this would determine you moving?

Watched with a bunch of family. My father and myself being the only Trump supports (more so anti liberal). Aside from the food the evening was terrible. Not only was the game shit, but as soon as they showed Trump, the groans and comments from the rest of the family began. I love my Aunt very much. We are very close, she's my godmother etc. but she is a classic TDSer. The rest of the game, I was counting the little snide comments she made about Trump. The pre game theatrics featuring black people.... "Trump must be loving this" .... the halftime show... even the commercial about breast cancer awareness, the same aunt, while pondering why mens health commercials show carrots instead of the actual pelvic region, slipped in a comment about Trump being orange. Everything finally came to a head when there was a commercial that I guess was promoting womens sports as being awesome and another Trump comment was made and a lengthy debate ensued about trans in women's sports, trans in general and eventually ended up in DEI stuff. That lasted close to an hour. Sure, I ended up getting involved in it but for focks sake I just want to enjoy my sports. Leave your non stop MSNBC and The View watching at home. It's the Super Bowl

It’s the Super Bowl. Anyone not expecting theatrics and a drawn out pregame is . Advertised start time was 6:30 est. game didnt start much after that.

Game is already tainted.

I like option 3 because I think you can find 2 non elevated events that still have good fields. WMPO would have been more than fine to draft… and then we have 3 events where we draft 4 including the Sentry

I was surprised they gave up Wiggins. He's been pretty solid over there. I guess you have to give up something but I would have assumed they would send someone younger along with Schroder and a pick.

yeah, I definitely have to make it a point to go once. As for the strategy, I don't know that it changes a ton. Maybe in the last rounds you look for a steady Adam Hadwin instead of a boom or bust Jonny Vegas . But drafting 4 counting 3 certainly seems to result in the teams that start out strong finishing strong. Less jockeying up and down the leaderboard when we all have 4 players the whole time. Theres a place for it. I'm sure we've done this at least once the past 2-3 years. But I just don't remember starting a season out with 3 straight... and it will be 4 straight and 5 of the first 8, I believe.

I think this is what's making me lose interest. (that and my really bad picks ). It's just way less interesting to draft only 4 and have no cut monster to worry about. It's more fun drafting 6 and seeing how many you can get to the weekend to help out your team. Trunk slamming sucks but I'm sure when drafting, people started looking for "cut makers" toward the end and the teams that had 5 or 6 make the cut had those extra bullets. having 1 or 2 events where we have to do this is okay and a nice change up, but that's 3 straight events and i'm guessing will be 5? total.... i'd have rather drafted the WMPO

I mean, even the most hardcore Lib can't defend the idea of Sleepy Joe having access to classified information with his mental state.... but as someone else already mentioned, this should probably be the norm for all former presidents and elected officials.

Wonderful to see cuts on needless and wasteful spending

To be fair it’s pretty hard to tell with Asians plus peds are rampant

Pity bump

If this is Rusty, you should have went with Pink Purple and Blue

Regular NFL game or playoff game even he probably gets a much louder ovation than he will at the Super Bowl with all the swift fans and entertainers in attendance. The stands are not filled with your every day, typical Americans.

It seemed like expansion was trending toward a no, anyway. We have 2 owners against it, no one besides CMH really championing for it, and the odds of us finding another owner who is not a Cdub or Edjr is probably slim.... I responded to your post specifically because it was the first I heard that anyone would consider leaving if we expanded, including your own prior posts on the subject. I totally understand not having enough time to devote. I dont feel like having 2 additional teams to factor in would push things over that line but now sounds like you were wavering regardless of expansion. Guess you need to decide your own future and if we need to find a 12th.

Yikes. Didn’t know people would actually leave at the idea of expansion like it takes a ton of time to figure out shared players but I guess we will stick with 12. I doubt we’d get 1 more anyway let alone 2

another reason why FB, cash pickup is superior

my only memories of early ebay, circa 2005, was my friend asking me to bid up his item so it didn't sell for less than he wanted and then once I won he would cancel the sale. Maybe you could not set a reserve price? I don't remember. I think I ended up doing the same thing one time. I also remember attempting to flip a PS3 when they came out and someone bought it for a ton and then backed out of the purchase and ebay sided with them

I know this is just a list of items for review but we probably don't need a bunch of separate threads for each item where only 3-4 people will chime in anyway. - Schedule: 2 vs division, 1 vs other teams. ..... This should be a given since it is really a fix in the scheduling. It's how I had things set up on Yahoo but BL didn't carry it over when he created the ESPN version. 12 teams, 3 divisions, 14 regular season weeks sets up perfectly to play your division opponents 2X and all other teams 1X. - higher league fees: sounds good to me but I am also of the mindset that if it's going to turn off too many people then we can keep it as is. I have enough leagues where I don't need this to be a higher stakes league if it's going to risk it falling apart or having to replace good owners with dbags. - high score payouts: I think everyone knows my stance on those. Bigly against them, especially weekly high score. I think it just dilutes the pot which is better served going to podium finishers. Are we really going to waste $140 of the pot giving 10 bucks to the team who has the high score each week? I've only ever seen that being useful if a league is trying to motivate owners from getting bored and being deadbeats if their team gets off to a bad start. We don't seem to have that problem. - Do we want to consider going to a system where you get a win or an additional win for being in the top 6 scoring for the week? Edjr is really the only one who has cried about having a high weekly score but losing to the top team that week. I'm probably against having the only wins go to the top 6 scoring teams because then there really is no point in divisions or head to head stuff.... but I am not totally against awarding a win for the matchup as well as an additional W for the top 6 scoring teams and an L for the bottom 6.

please tell me one of you is not actually HellTupee

Do we want to bump the recruitment thread to see if we can find a good 14th member to go along with BiffTannen (BostonLager)? Or do we want to stick with what's been working with 12?

have not sold on ebay since shortly after they stopped using PP as a middle man. That's not why I stopped, just a coincidence and it's not like I was running a business. the last shit I sold on ebay was stamps. I had a huge excess of forever stamps and for some reason people were paying a lot for them. I just sent them out in a plain envelope and hoped no one was a richard. I think only 1 time someone claimed to have not received them. I find FB Marketplace to just be easier. I guess it depends what you are selling and what you need your reach to be. I was simply flipping vintage/antique items, including furniture, with my uncle before he passed away in Sept. so it's much easier to list on FB for local buyers only, pickup and cash only. I just have zero interest in having to package up an item, cover shipping (or bake it into the price), send it out, have Ebay take their cut and know that Ebay will side with the buyer almost always.

Still curious about this. What do you think is the logic behind the 2+ points over their season average? You think it means that the books are indicating a game where they think that player is likely to go off, so as bettors we should expect them to really go off? I find it hard to believe that books don't have this properly priced in and seems like you are hitting about 50% of the time just going by the losses you posted before the games and the wins you've posted after. Personally when I bet NBA the first thing I do is look only at games I think will be close (this is harder in today's NBA with how often stars sit or how often teams are willing to give up and rest those stars in the 4th). I don't want to need 3 points from a star who doesn't play the last 8 minutes of the game. Then, personally I look for stars who's point lines have fallen because of a few underwhelming performances. I don't always stick to stars though. Sometimes I will target guys who I think will have expanded roles due to another player being out. That's why I played Dante Exum last night. his line was 7.5. He's just been back recently and had gone over that number in 2 of his 3 games back. No AD and someone else was out, i forget who. I almost played it up to 10+ points but stuck with the line. But it kind of feels like the real "strategy" here is sticking to 3 leg parlays and utilizing FD's profit boosts and no sweat tokens. Perhaps, as someone mentioned earlier in the thread, playing the totals down (ex. Curry 23.5 using Curry to score 20+) and making the parlay 4 legs to qualify for the boost or the no sweat token.

ah, the funny argument that putting a stop to DEI practices means NOT hiring women and minorities when in actuality it means putting a stop to hiring less or underqualified women and minorities in order to fill a quota. We should all want the best candidates to be hired for jobs. If that is a black woman, it's a black woman. If it's a white man, it's a white man. Making sure everyone has equal opportunities... getting the interviews... getting the proper training for advancement etc. is commendable. Hiring to fill a quota is not.

Yes you do