| Message Board Is Back Up |
9/2/10 |
Of course, minutes after I put the previous message out, the message board comes back online.
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| League Update |
9/2/10 |
With the message board down for around 36 hours now, I'll use the website to give a few updates that would likely get sorted out on the message board otherwise.
First, the Message Board's server needs to be rebooted. The only person with suddenlaunch that can do that is being hunted down currently. It should hopefully be back up in the next 24 hours, but I'm setting that timetable and ultimately don't know.
Second, I'll likely wait to send out Fantasy Hockey league designations until after the message board is back and I've had a chance to post a note on all active ASFL2 Yahoo! leagues and groups. They should be sent by Sunday at the latest either way.
Third, I've been working to make sure MLB Day-to-Day Pickem is properly scored since last night and will continue to work a few kinks out after tonight's MLB games. If one of your picks goes missing, please wait until the morning to inform me and I'll fix sort things out.
And finally, I've come to a decision on the New Message Board. I had originally planned to copy over most of the information from the old board before utilizing the new message board. Instead, I'll be entering information on all active threads and slowly moving everything else over as I can. I'm currently working to pre-register all ASFL2 members in a manner that will hopefully allow for members to be universally logged in throughout the website and message board...though that's still going to be well in the future and may still be beyond possible.
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| Message Board Down, Again |
9/1/10 |
The message board server is down....again. I can't do anything about it, but I'm working to find out information. I'll pass it along as I find it out.
The Point Logs Assignment was the first step toward moving the message board to the website and I will continue to work on it through the fall. If it were any other time of year it would be managable in a few weeks. I hope to get a few more things done then re-assess whether or not to switchover without much of the information yet moved.
Please email Kevin Whorton with your CFL Pickem choices and email me your Fantasy Hockey & Fantasy Basketball draft time preferences.
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| Fantasy Baseball Standings Updated |
8/30/10 |
The Fantasy Baseball standings pages have been updated through week 21. Check out how your team stacks up against the other 167 and how your league stacks up against the other 11. Dave Berrong has the best record at 133-68-9. Steve Campbell has the best WWL record at 16-4-1. Tim Quinley has the best roto score at 33. Matt Campbell has the lead in the combination score standings at 0.412. |
| Bonus Point Assignments |
8/28/10 |
I began what I hope to be my last semester of college last Monday and because I need to make sure I'm focusing on school (arguably for the first time), there will be a larger number of assignments in the coming months than usual.
Given that, I need as much help as I can get for a few months. I can offer Bonus Points to volunteers, which add into your championship point total at the end of the season and can lead to a second team in draft sports among a few other things. The amount of bonus points each assignment is worth will be noted on the assignment post.
Currently, there are three assignments available with at least two basketball assignments forthcoming and the potential for a third.
The most important current assignment is the Point Logs Assignment, where I need help moving the points logs on the message board to excel files to create a database for the website. This is the first step toward moving the message board to the website and improving the general abilities of the website. There are 150 bonus points available for the assignment to be split between all who contribute in any fashion. If you have any questions please reply to the thread.
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| Fantasy Hockey Draft Times Now Available |
8/28/10 |
ASFL2 Fantasy Hockey's 8 draft times were announced Thursday on the league message board.
Please reply to this thread with your preferred times or via email if necessary. The times include (all ET):
Sunday, September 26th at 3:30 PM ET
Thursday, September 30th at 10:45 PM ET
Saturday, October 2nd at 5:15 PM ET
Sunday, October 3rd at 7:30 PM ET
Monday, October 4th at 8:30 PM ET
Tuesday, October 5th at 9:45 PM ET
& two autopick leagues.
League designations will be sent out in a few days via email. Watch for your league ID and password and join your designated league as soon as you receive it. The sooner you give me your preferences the more likely you are to avoid a draft time you can't handle. With just a month to fill leagues, I intentionally create fewer spots than would normally be the case. It's very important that you give your draft time preference to secure a spot in the game. If you don't intend to participate you still need to inform the commissioner to avoid being locked out of Fantasy Football, as per league rules.
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| Fantasy Basketball Draft Times Now Available |
8/28/10 |
ASFL2 Fantasy Basketball's 9 draft times were announced Thursday on the league message board.
Please reply to this thread with your preferred times or via email if necessary. The times include (all ET):
Monday, October 18th at 9:30 PM ET
Tuesday, October 19th at 9:00 PM ET
Wednesday, October 20th at 8:15 PM ET
Thursday, October 21st at 10:45 PM ET
Saturday, October 23rd at 3:30 PM ET
Sunday, October 24th at 7:30 PM ET
Monday, October 25th at 10:00 PM ET
& two autopick leagues.
League designations will be sent out in around 7-10 days via email. Watch for your league ID and password and join your designated league as soon as you receive it. The sooner you give me your preferences the more likely you are to avoid a draft time you can't handle. Those who don't respond may potentially miss out on the game entirely. If you don't intend to participate you still need to inform the commissioner to avoid being locked out of Fantasy Football, as per league rules.
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| More Server Problems |
8/25/10 |
I'm aware of the problems with all PHP files on the website and have notified the hosting company. Unfortunately, I have to wait for their technicians to get the job fixed and I have no idea how long that will take (I've been told within the night). If it's your pick in any of the Keeper League drafts, please email me your selection and I'll edit the database.
I will be adding time onto the deadline for all current picks. The server went down at 7:03 PM ET at the earliest. No one is less fond of this situation than me.
UPDATE: The problem was fixed an hour later.
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| Salary Cap Football Update |
8/20/10 |
I'm sure many of you have realized the change with Salary Cap Football this season already. For those that haven't, Yahoo! will be moving the game from their website to Facebook via Citizen Sports. ASFL2 won't be following. I don't intend to require league members to have a facebook account to participate in every game the league offers.
To compensate for the loss of points this season, a few of the other games will see a small boost in points (likely tier 3 and the other tier 4 games that haven't finished) and the bonus points cap will likely be upped to 12% of the final total of the highest score before bonus points are added instead of 10%. I'll have more information when I can run over the numbers in a more in-depth fashion.
The game can certainly return in the future, but it will be years before I'll be in a position to create a salary cap game on the league website. The short term scenario would require Yahoo! to bring the game back to where it's always been.
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| Draft Pick Deadline Edit |
8/18/10 |
My nightmare of a week continued with the website's server being down for two hours Wednesday evening (7:45 PM ET to 9:45 PM ET). As a result, I'm adding two hours onto the deadline for all picks that were due when the server went down. If you have any questions or problems, please email me as soon as possible.
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| NBA Standings Pickem Now Available |
8/18/10 |
The eleventh fantasy game to be featured on the league website is now available. NBA Standings Pickem is the ninth official game to be featured on the league website as part of tier 5. In order to participate, go to the game page and sign up for the game before submitting the standings portion of your entry and then the playoffs portion of your entry. The system will let you know if you've made any mistakes within either portion.
The deadline for entries is October 26th at 7:57 PM ET.
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| Message Board Back |
8/17/10 |
The message board is functioning again. Please post any CFL picks before the deadline even if they were emailed.
I still anticipate moving to a new message board on the website properly, watch the League Office section for any postings about an assignment to help in that move.
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| CFL Pickem Week 8 |
8/17/10 |
With the message board down, please email picks to Kevin Whorton (kwhorton01@hotmail.com). This week and next week are the two bye weeks in the CFL with each having only two games.
Week 8's Games are:
Winnipeg at Montreal- Thursday, 8/19 at 7:30 PM ET
Hamilton at Toronto- Friday, 8/20 at 7:30 PM ET
Please make sure you email him before the week starts.
As for the message board, the people that run suddenlaunch are MIA (and that's been known for around 18 months), but a similar problem fixed itself in a few days. Hopefully the message board will be back by tomorrow at the latest.
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| NHL Standings Pickem Now Available |
8/17/10 |
The tenth fantasy game to be featured on the league website is now available. NHL Standings Pickem is the eighth official game to be featured on the league website as part of tier 5. In order to participate, go to the game page and sign up for the game before submitting the standings portion of your entry and then the playoffs portion of your entry. The system will let you know if you've made any mistakes within either portion. The standings submission page will automatically calculate team point totals when you enter in each team's record.
The deadline for entries is October 7th at 11:57 AM ET.
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| Message Board Down |
8/16/10 |
The message board server is down. I can't do anything about it because it's not on the website, but I'm trying to find out information. I'll pass it along as I find it out.
I believe I'm ready to deem this the last straw with suddenlaunch. When I'm done with updating Fantasy Baseball standings and finishing NHL Standings Pickem, hopefully this evening, I will begin setting up a message board that is actually hosted on the league website. I have been putting it off because preserving the information on the old message board will take a lot of manual work to import into the new database, but I'll be setting up an assignment to help me get it done as quickly as possible.
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| NFL Standings Pickem Now Available |
8/11/10 |
The ninth fantasy game to be featured on the league website is now available. NFL Standings Pickem is the seventh official game to be featured on the league website as part of tier 5. In order to participate, go to the game page and sign up for the game before submitting the standings portion of your entry and then the playoffs portion of your entry. The system will let you know if you've made any mistakes within either portion.
The deadline for entries is September 9th at 8:27 PM ET.
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| Server Problems |
8/5/10 |
The website's hosting service is having database and mail server problems and as a result, neither are working particularly effectively. Please email me your picks for Day-to-Day Pickem if you cannot enter them in yourself. This will pause the process to finish filling in the Keeper Leagues vacant teams because the rosters won't be accessable (though I'll take the problem now instead of it occuring during the drafts). Unfortunately, I have no control over the issue and will have to wait it out after alerting them to the problem.
UPDATE: Things are functioning normally again. |
| Fantasy Football League Designations Sent |
7/30/10 |
All Fantasy Football league designations have now been sent out via email. Please get into your designated league as soon as possible to secure your place in an ASFL2 Fantasy Football league this season.
I received 88 draft time preferences for 132-154 spots. I tried to accomodate preferences as best I could while providing times that suited European and West Coast members. If you didn't receive a league designation, please email me at commish@theasfl.com for your league.
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| Four Y! Games Now Available |
7/29/10 |
The busy fall season is officially here.
College Football Pickem: ID = 315/Password = 123456.
NFL Pickem: 431/123456
NFL Survival Pickem: 264/123456
& Fantasy Premier League: 524/123456
Fantasy Premier League is run through the Yahoo! Eurosport website, but is normally visible from your normal Yahoo! Fantasy Sports home page.
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| Email Change/Account Deletion Follow Up |
7/28/10 |
I've sent an email to all registered members with my new email address, how the account deletion will effect games currently running, league designation info and information on games opening. Consider it a Newsletter #14.5. Please remember to make sure commish@theasfl.com will get through your email's junk filter going forward. As a side note, please notify me of any mention of theasfl@yahoo.com on the website so I can correct it. This includes any system emails with that return address. |
| Account Deletion |
7/24/10 |
Yahoo! has deleted my primary account for the league which included my old email. As a result, I've changed the email I'll use for league purposes to commish@theasfl.com.
Unfortunately, the development means I don't have access to groups and leagues I had been viewing through that account. I'll need a member in Fantasy Golf group 3 and Fantasy NASCAR groups 2 & 3 to tell me the ID of their group so I can access them from a new ID. I'll be saving my teams' score from both games after this weekends competitions and combining the total with a new team for the rest of the season while making sure I don't use more than the allotted amount of allocations for each game through the season.
For Fantasy Baseball, I'm going to have to have a member in league 1 and 2 allow me to be their co-manager (without making any moves) so I can view the results. The same goes for the Keeper Leagues Premier Division and the Champions League. Unfortunately, I don't foresee a means through which I'll be able to control my own teams.
I'll be sending out an email to all members today with more information on the results of the deletion which I believe was due to my advertising for the league, but haven't received an official email from them.
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| Yahoo! World Cup Pickem Results |
7/14/10 |
Yahoo! World Cup Pickem results are now reflected in the 2010-2011 Bonus Points Standings. Congrats to Mike Brekke for winning the game.
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| Off Day |
7/12/10 |
Today, the day before the MLB All-Star Game, is typically the only day on the yearly calendar without any competition ASFL2-related to tend to. The day after the All-Star Game features the need to prepare for the following day's MLB games while any other potential off days through the year should also fall under that premise. The day of the All-Star Game itself? Well, you need to pick one of the teams or pass the day for MLB Day-to-Day Pickem.
Enjoy your day off. I know I'll be working as much as possible over the next three days on what needs to get done.
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| World Cup Pickem Results |
7/11/10 |
ASFL2 World Cup Pickem results are now official. Congrats to Gianfranco Lintas for winning the game with 287 points. Four other members finished within ten points of his total. The Bonus Points Standings have been updated with bonus points earned from the results. The Yahoo! World Cup Pickem bonus points should be factored into the standings within the next two or three days around me finally sending out the year-end newsletter and sorting out the upcoming drafts.
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| Fantasy Football Selection Deadline Reminder |
7/11/10 |
The deadline to select your players to be kept is now ten days away at 11:59 PM ET on July 21st, if you are having any problems or questions please contact me as soon as possible.
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| New Championship Standings Available |
7/7/10 |
Three new types of championship standings will now be available each season. The Rookie Championship Standings for each season will be a ranking of the members to have joined ASFL2 on or after November 1st of the year prior to the first year of the ASFL2 season in question, i.e. for the 2010-2011 season the cutoff is 11/1/09. The New Member Championship Standings will give the championship standings for all members involved in a particularly season that were not registered for ASFL2 before January 1st of the first year of the ASFL2 season in question (1/1/09 for the 2009-2010 Season). And finally, the Partial Season Championship Standings will list the standings for members who registered for ASFL2 on or after May 1st of the first calendar year of the season involved.
The standings have also been produced for previous seasons. Congrats to Robert Casares for winning the Rookie & New Member Championships for the 2009-2010 season. Congratulations also go out to Matt Burton for winning the Partial Season Championship for 2009-2010.
The current overall leader for the 2010-2011 ASFL2 Season is also the leader of the 2010-2011 Rookie Standings.
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| 2010-2011 ASASFL Qualifiers Determined |
6/29/10 |
The 2010-2011 ASASFL Qualifiers have been determined. Congrats to Anders Nilsson, Mike Miles, Jay Soester, Brad Wilson, Robert Casares, Ryan Drzik, Nathan Susanto, Aaron Freeman, Russ Goatcher, Tim Schneider, Vern Lemke, Nick Hall, Tyson Hester & Bill Isley for qualifying for the Champions League. Congrats also go to Aaron Burton, John Wright, Robert Flatt, Kevin Whorton, David Synychak, Christian Giovannetti, Doyle Ashe, Greg Krause, Jason Oroszi, Ed Peck, Susan Gantz, Chad Luik, Andrew Senger & Don Greenslate for qualifying for the Super League. Qualifiers are still subject to change pending feedback received from qualifiers.
How did they qualify? Check the ASASFL qualification page.
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| 2009-2010 History Section Standings Now Available |
6/28/10 |
The 2009-2010 History Section is now available. It features the breakdown of the season standings based on nine separate measures: draft games only, baseball, basketball, football or hockey games only, college games only, Yahoo!-run games only, non-Yahoo!-run games only or the standings without bonus points. Don't forget the History section of the website features all-time overall, conference and tier standings as well as all-time standings for some of the league's games with more on the way.
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| CFL Pickem Available |
6/24/10 |
CFL Pickem is back on the message board for the third year in a row. Kevin Whorton will be in charge for the second year in a row. It was hoped to be moved to the website for the first time, but time ran out.
This is the simplest unofficial game offered as all you need to do is predict the four (or two if it's a bye week) winners of the CFL's games each week. Consider it a light warm up to NFL Pickem. No spreads, no confidence points, just winners. Unlike the NFL, the season is 19 weeks with each team playing 18 games. The postseason takes three weeks with a total of five games.
The scoring is just as simple. Each win is worth a point. At the end of the regular season each member's lowest score is dropped. The postseason is included in the final standings.
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| Official 2009-2010 Championship Results |
6/21/10 |
The final 2009-2010 ASFL2 Championship Standings are now available. Congratulations to Anders Nilsson for winning the league's second championship with a total 109 points higher than last season's top total. His winning margin of 41 points is more than four times the margin of victory from last season as well.
Mike Miles (637) and Jay Soester (621) also finished on the podium for the season and will earn trophies for their accomplishment.
The maximum amount of bonus points that were added into any member's championship total was 62. That is 10% of Nilsson's championship point total of 616 before bonus points were added. Any member with a light blue bonus point total on the overall standings page exceeded that amount, but only had 62 points added in.
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| Message Board Down |
6/21/10 |
The message board serve has gone down. Unfortunately, I have no control over the situation, but I'm trying to find out what I can. In the mean time keep checking the website and twitter feed for updates.
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| Potential Delay |
6/19/10 |
The official 2009-2010 final championship standings are only lacking bonus points being factored in, but when combined with the multitude of tasks (mostly course work and moving) I need to get done this weekend and by next Wednesday, the standings along with a few other tasks may be delayed. Among the list of things I hope to get done as soon as possible aside from finishing the championship standings are ASASFL qualifications, the year-end newsletter, the 2009-2010 review survey, upgrading the Fantasy Football slow drafts for the Keeper Leagues, ASASFL and the Money Leagues to allow for lists in each round as well as creating an example draft and sorting out the information for the season's trophy winners.
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| Overall Standings Pickem Final Results |
6/18/10 |
Overall Standings Pickem results are now official. Congrats to Brad Wilson for winning the game with 547 points. All championship points are now reflected on the championship standings pages.
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| Overall Playoffs Pickem Final Results |
6/18/10 |
Overall Playoffs Pickem results are now official. Congrats to Kevin Whorton for winning the game via tiebreaker over Anders Nilsson after both finished with 97 points. All championship points are now reflected on the championship standings pages.
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| NBA Standings Pickem Final Results |
6/18/10 |
NBA Standings Pickem results are now official. Congrats to Matt Burton for winning the game with 167 points and earning the most championship points at 14. All championship points are now reflected on the championship standings pages.
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| NBA Playoffs Pickem Final Results |
6/18/10 |
NBA Playoffs Pickem results are now official. Congrats to Kevin Whorton for winning the game with 48 points. Whorton also earned the most championship points with 12. Matt Burton and Jeff Mazurek tied for second at 43 points and for the second highest championship point totals at 11. All Championship points are now reflected on the championship standings pages.
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| NHL Playoffs Pickem Final Results |
6/11/10 |
NHL Playoffs Pickem results are now official. Congrats to Russ Goatcher for winning the game with 36 points via tiebreaker over Brian Secord and Bryan Crouch. All Championship points are now reflected on the championship standings pages. Only points from NBA Standings Pickem, NBA Playoffs Pickem, Overall Playoffs Pickem & Overall Standings Pickem remain along with bonus points. The 2009-2010 ASFL2 season will conclude on Tuesday, June 15th or Thursday, June 17th with the end of the NBA Finals.
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| NHL Standings Pickem Final Results |
6/11/10 |
NHL Standings Pickem results are now official. Congrats to Brad Wilson for winning the game with 118 points and Ryan Drzik for earning the most championship points at 11. All championship points are now reflected on the championship standings pages.
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| Fantasy Football Draft Times Now Available |
6/4/10 |
ASFL2 Fantasy Football's 11 draft times were announced Thursday on the league message board.
Please reply to this thread with your preferred times or via email if necessary. The times include (all ET):
Wednesday, August 25th at 8:30 PM
Thursday, August 26th at 8:15 PM
Saturday, August 28th at 3:45 PM
Monday, August 30th at 8:45 PM
Tuesday, August 31st at 10:30 PM
Wednesday, September 1st at 9:30 PM
Thursday, September 2nd at 10:00 PM
Friday, September 3rd at 9:00 PM
Saturday, September 4th at 7:15 PM
Sunday, September 5th at 5:45 PM
& an autopick.
League designations will be handed out in around three weeks via email. Watch for your league ID and password and join your designated league as soon as you receive it. The sooner you give me your preferences the more likely you are to avoid a draft time you can't handle. Even if you can't plan that far in advance, try to provide me with a guess to avoid losing bonus points.
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| Keeper Leagues Fantasy Basketball Drafts Available |
6/3/10 |
All three ASFL2 Keeper Leagues Fantasy Basketball 2010-2011 drafts are now available. Those involved can set their players to be kept for next season. Those who were relegated last season can keep up to four, while everyone else can keep up to five. There is also a limit of two players per position plus a utility spot that doesn't count against the two per position limit. Emails will be sent out with instructions for each draft in the next 24-48 hours. If you have any questions or comments feel free to reply to the drafts discussion thread on the message board.
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| New Drafts Email Feature |
5/29/10 |
You can now email any other member of your division through the draft page via the "Send Email" link at the far right of the top navigation line. Member emails are still hidden (unless you send one, then someone can see the email to reply to). The feature is meant to be an aid to offseason trade negotiations.
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| Keeper Leagues Fantasy Hockey Drafts Available |
5/27/10 |
All three ASFL2 Keeper Leagues Fantasy Hockey 2010-2011 drafts are now available. Those involved can now set their players to be kept for next season. Those who were relegated last season can keep up to six, while everyone else can keep up to seven. There is also a limit of two players per position plus a non-goalie utility spot that doesn't count against the two per position limit. Emails will be sent out with instructions for each draft in the next 24-48 hours. If you have any questions or comments feel free to reply to the drafts discussion thread on the message board.
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| Trivia is Back |
5/23/10 |
After a hiatus due to technical issues (of the message board) and time constraints, the trivia section is back. The first person to answer each question I post within 24 hours earns a bonus point. However, members can't guess twice in a row and can't change their answer once it has been posted (give or take a minute or two to notice a typo).
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| Follow Up League Poll |
5/21/10 |
Which league have you been watching in the last month or so? Click here to vote.
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| Message Board Emails |
5/18/10 |
A few have pointed out to me that the message board is sending out a number of old emails. These are backlogs of emails that should have been sent out months ago, but because the message board has had problems with them for around a year they were never sent.
Unfortunately, I have no control whatsoever over the website message board's server or scripts and can't do anything about the problem, but I anticipate that it's a one-time issue that's correcting a year worth of problems. Ultimately, I hope to have a new message board on the league website proper at some point in the future.
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| World Cup Pickem Available |
5/15/10 |
The league will be running two unofficial World Cup Pickem Games, one on the league website and the one provided by Yahoo!.
ASFL2 World Cup Pickem is now available as the second unofficial game on the league website. All that's required on your entry is to submit your predicted scores for the 64 games of the tournament before the tournament begins. The deadline for entries is 9:57 AM ET on June 11th. If you have any questions feel free to email the commissioner or use the game thread on the league message board.
The ASFL2 Yahoo! World Cup Pickem group ID is 611 and the password is 123456. The Yahoo! game is scored solely on game scores and winners and allows games to be predicted up until five minutes before their start.
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| Fantasy Premier League Final Results |
5/10/10 |
The Fantasy Premier League season ended on Sunday and the final results can be found on the Fantasy Premier League overall standings page. Ryan Drzik hung on to win the competition for the second straight year by 17.5 points over John Wright. Wright earned the most championship points for the season with 32 thanks in large part to his scoring the most points in the second half of the season and his earning the most week wins for the year. You can view the overall standings in the same format as during the season via this page. The championship standings pages are also updated to reflect the points earned from FPL. The results also mean Anders Nilsson is the Tier 4 winner for 2009-2010 and earns an automatic spot in the 2010-2011 Champions League as a result.
With the end of FPL, only NHL Standings Pickem, NBA Standings Pickem, NHL Playoffs Pickem and NBA Playoffs Pickem remain along with the overall Standings Pickem and overall Playoffs Pickem points as well as bonus points. There should be a maximum of 60-65 championship points remaining as well as around up to 60-63 bonus points for each member.
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| MLB Day-to-Day Pickem Game Stats Available |
5/8/10 |
The MLB Day-to-Day Pickem Game Stats page is finally finished. It links to nine separate pages with various information based on member picks or MLB results. For more information, check out the related Day-to-Day Article
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| Keeper Leagues Fantasy Football Drafts Available |
4/21/10 |
All four ASFL2 Keeper Leagues fantasy football 2010-2011 drafts are now available. Those involved can now set their players to be kept for next season. Those who were relegated last season can keep up to five, while everyone else can keep up to six. There is also a limit of two players per position aside from a limit of three WRs. Emails have been sent out with instructions for each draft. If you have any questions or comments feel free to reply to the drafts discussion thread on the message board.
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| 2009-2010 ASFL2 Keeper Leagues Final Results |
4/15/10 |
With Fantasy Basketball's conclusion the final championship standings were determined and the inaugural winner is Mike Miles with 871 points. He edged out Jay Soester by four points after Jay edged him out by ten for the inaugural ASFL2 championship last season. Miles clinched the victory by advancing to the Fantasy Hockey championship game despite losing it. Ultimately, Miles credited the victory to advancing to the Fantasy Basketball playoffs in the final week of the regular season while Soester credits his downfall to Carlos Beltran's injury last summer and falling four regular season places in the final week of Fantasy Baseball. Let that be a lesson to all that every point can matter in any ASFL2 competition throughout the year.
Third place also came down to the end as Brad Wilson finishes on the podium via tiebreaker thanks to Kevin Whorton losing to Mike Miles in the Fantasy Basketball Premier Division third place game despite Wilson's losing to Jay Soester in the Fantasy Basketball Premier Division championship. Both finished on 814 points for the season. Matt Humpal finished fifth with 789 points. Colt Ciccone gets the award for lower division member of the year with an overall finish of 14th at 679 points despite participating in the Second Division of all four sports.
The coming season will see a bit of a tweak to the championship point scoring system to prepare for the possibility of a Fifth Division and to try to slightly improve the chances for a podium finish of someone participating in a single Second Division to compete with those who are in all four Premier Divisions.
The coming weeks will see the drafts put together for Fantasy Football, Fantasy Hockey & Fantasy Basketball to allow for members to designate their keeper players.
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| Fantasy Basketball Final Results |
4/15/10 |
The Fantasy Basketball standings pages are updated with the final playoff results and final championship point totals. Tom Buske recorded the most championship points form the game with 81. The championship standings saw entrants into the top 10 for the first time in months. A number also moved up into the top 20 and top 30 from farther back to give themselves a shot at a Super League berth or even a Champions League berth if the rest of the season goes there way. There are around 95-100 possible points remaining between Fantasy Premier League, NHL Standings Pickem, NBA Standings Pickem, NHL Playoffs Pickem, NBA Playoffs Pickem, overall Standings Pickem and overall Playoffs Pickem.
With the results, Mike Miles clinched the most points from Tier 2 games and as a result clinched a spot in next season's Champions League
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| Fantasy Baseball Overall Standings Pages Now Available |
4/13/10 |
The Fantasy Baseball standings pages are now complete. You can view the league designations of all members participating this season as well as the results for the first week of the season. I hope to update league and overall standings by record, weekly win/loss record and rotisserie standings. As all 12 leagues have 14 teams, there is also an overall rotisserie standings section. Each league's schedule is also available. Please let me know of any errors throughout the pages.
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| Fantasy Hockey Final Results |
4/12/10 |
The Fantasy Hockey standings pages are updated with the final playoff results and final championship point totals. Mike Miles & Jay Soester tied for the high championship point total at 78. The championship standings received a bit of a shake up particularly in the qualifying regions for next season's Champions & Super Leagues.
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| NHL Playoffs Pickem Update |
4/11/10 |
The final NHL seeding has been updated throughout NHL Playoffs Pickem. The deadline to submit your picks is 6:57 PM ET on Wednesday.
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| NCAA Tournament Pickem Results |
4/6/10 |
The NCAA Tournament Pickem results are now available to put member names to the team names you've seen for three weeks. The Second Chance Pickem results are also available via that page. The Championship Standings have also been updated to reflect the results and the standings should be largely influenced by them for a few months. Matt Humpal was the winner at 88 points thanks to Duke's championship. Gianfranco Lintas finished second and wound up with the most championship points earned at 31 thanks to his third place finish in Second Chance Pickem.
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| MLB Day-to-Day Pickem Reminder & Improvements |
4/4/10 |
ASFL2 MLB Day-to-Day Pickem will kickoff as the first unofficial game to run on the website at 8 PM ET tonight. Make sure you get your picks in for day one by then or you'll be given -2 points for your first day.
Before the game kicks off, I've added two important features to the game. First, the entire admin team will be working to provide updated MLB Probable Starters to make picking a little bit easier and provide you information without having to go to an outside website. Second, the game will feature it's own article News & Notes section (lower right of the game front page) with articles about MLB & game happenings. Both will hopefully greatly improve the game experience for all participants.
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| MLB Standings Pickem Reminder |
4/4/10 |
The deadline to submit and edit your entry for MLB Standings Pickem is tonight at 8 PM ET. Make sure your entry doesn't have any penalty points associated with it or you'll be giving points to the competition. There's also one instance where I'll need to manually edit in penalty points to an entry- if a member submitted the playoffs portion, but changed their standings portion which in turn changed their playoff seeding.
You'll be able to view all other entries once the deadline passes. Each member's name will link to their entry on the participants list and any standings page.
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| Keeper Leagues & ASASFL Fantasy Basketball Regular Season Results |
3/25/10 |
The Fantasy Basketball regular season results are now updated for all Keeper League divisions and ASASFL leagues with the respective championship standings also updated.
The first ASFL2 Keeper Leagues champion will be crowned at the conclusion of the Fantasy Hockey & Fantasy Basketball playoffs. The top two have separated themselves from the pack, but the fight for what the league hopes to be the last trophy spot is still alive.
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| Keeper Leagues & ASASFL Fantasy Hockey Regular Season Results |
3/25/10 |
The Fantasy Hockey regular season results are now updated for all Keeper League divisions and ASASFL leagues with the respective championship standings also updated.
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| NFL Standings Pickem Results Available |
3/24/10 |
After a lengthy delay to make sure I could get fantasy games onto the website in time, I've finally finished scoring, setting up the page and updating the standings for NFL Standings Pickem. I hope this is the last time I'll have to score and update a tier 5 game the old fashioned way. I plan to start on NHL Playoffs Pickem once my jury duty situation is sorted out.
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| MLB Day-to-Day Pickem Now Available |
3/15/10 |
The first unofficial game to be featured on the website is now available. Day-to-Day Pickem has been a part of this website since the ABL was being run, before ASFL2 existed. The game had it's own section on the message board and lasted for five seasons and now through two MLB seasons in ASFL2. I'm quite pleased to get a detailed, home grown game on the website.
Why participate in an unofficial game? Two reasons. The first is true of all unofficial games, bonus points. They're used to determine second teams in draft sports, to determine the participants in the ASASFL Third League and factor in to the championship point totals at the end of the season. The second reason is only true of ASFL2 MLB Day-to-Day Pickem, the league will be offering a non-trophy prize for the first time in it's history as the regular season and playoff champions will each receive a $10 credit toward a 2011 ASFL2 Money Leagues Fantasy Baseball team. That's up to 251 Mexican Pesos up for grabs or 1,801 Japanese Yen.
The game is very simple. Pick one MLB team to win each day. If that team wins, you gain points. If they lose you lose points. You can only pick an MLB team twice in a week. Click here for the full rules page.
The game also features detailed MLB Standings & MLB Schedules that could help you keep track of the season in general. |
| League Poll |
3/10/10 |
February's a pretty quiet sports month, which upcoming event are you most looking forward to? Vote Here.
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| ASFL2 Drafts App Improvement |
3/5/10 |
From now on delayed & default picks will automatically be checked for by the system every fifteen minutes. Previously, the links had to be manually clicked in order to move the drafts forward, but switching hosting companies has allowed for the change.
In the future, I hope to improve the draft list and round designation system to continue to upgrade.
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| Fantasy Baseball League Designations Sent |
2/22/10 |
All Fantasy Baseball league designations have now been sent out via email. Please get into your designated league as soon as possible to secure your place in an ASFL2 Fantasy Baseball league this season.
I received 116 draft time preferences for 144-168 spots. Twenty-three members requested March 21st as their first choice draft time. I tried to accomodate preferences as best I could while providing times that suited European and West Coast members.
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| MLB Standings Pickem Now Available |
2/22/10 |
MLB Standings Pickem has been finished well ahead of schedule. You are now free to sign up and submit your entries. You'll need to submit the standings portion of your entry before submitting the playoffs portion. Your cumulative record must come out to 2430-2430 or you'll be deducted points. The system will automatically calculate your record and any penalties once you have submitted your entry. Please notify me of any bugs as soon as possible.
MLB Day-to-Day Pickem is currently in the works. Other games for the baseball season may follow depending on how quickly it's put together.
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| Fantasy Baseball Drafts Underway |
2/18/10 |
The ASASFL Third League draft has begun with the Champions League draft still scheduled to begin at 3 PM EST Saturday.
If you've been assigned to a Keeper Leagues draft, please get into your designated league on Yahoo! before it's slated start time or you may be replaced.
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| Fantasy Baseball Example Draft |
2/15/10 |
I've set up an example draft page for Fantasy Baseball to help those who aren't familiar with the ASFL2 Slow Drafts application. The example draft now functions entirely as a normal ASFL2 slow draft would. Type "Team #" in any "Your Name" field with "team#" being the corresponding password. The only feature not available is the ability to change a password. If you have any questions, feel free to email me.
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| New ASFL2 Money Leagues |
2/12/10 |
The league has opened up Money Leagues in an effort to expand the portfolio of offerings, provide a new means of competition and most importantly...raise funds for the league to make it viable for the long term.
There are four different buy-in options (three for basketball and hockey), four different league sizes, two draft options and two max transaction options. If interested, fill out the purchase form (top link on the left). If you have any questions feel free to reply to this thread or email me.
With the new addition, the league's navigation has been adjusted. The old history section is now linked from the Standings tab.
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| Fantasy Baseball Draft Times Now Available |
2/12/10 |
ASFL2 Fantasy Baseball's 12 draft times were announced Wednesday morning on the league message board. Please reply to this thread with your preferred times or via email if necessary. The times include:
Sunday, March 21st at 4 PM EST
Tuesday, March 23rd at 9:45 PM EST
Wednesday, March 24th at 8:15 PM EST
Thursday, March 25th at 8:30 PM EST
Saturday, March 27th at 4:45 PM EST
Sunday, March 28th at 6:30 PM EST
Monday, March 29th at 8:45 PM EST
Tuesday, March 30th at 10:30 PM EST
Wednesday, March 31st at 9:15 PM EST
Thursday, April 1st at 11 PM EST
Friday, April 2nd at 9 PM EST
& an autopick league.
League assignments will be handed out in 10-14 days via email. Watch for your league ID and password and join as soon as you receive it. Everything will be first come first serve. The sooner you give me your preferences the more likely you are to avoid a draft time you can't handle.
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| 2010-2011 ASFL2 Keeper Leagues Fantasy Baseball |
2/12/10 |
All available teams have been given out. It would take about 5-7 new sign ups by the end of February for me to attempt to start a new Fifth Division. Those who are participating this season will receive their ID and password overnight along with further draft information. I expect most drafts to start in the final ten days of February. All draft pages should be ready to go by Saturday evening.
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| Fantasy NFL Playoffs Results |
2/9/10 |
Fantasy NFL Playoffs standings have been made official with their results now factored into the championship standings pages. Congrats to Mike Brekke for winning with an astounding 381 points and Chad Gumm for earning the most championship points with 19. Thanks to all who participated.
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| NFL Playoffs Pickem Results |
2/9/10 |
NFL Playoffs Pickem standings have been made official with their results now factored into the championship standings pages. Congrats to Donnie Massey for winning on 23 points and Cecilia Elliot for earning the most championship points with 12. Only members who scored 11 points or more had their ties broken through the official tiebreaking procedure as that was the final score to factor into the championship points earned for the game.
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| We've Moved |
2/6/10 |
I've officially changed the website's servers over and as a result there are likely to be a few errors on the website as a result of the move. Please help out if you find any via this thread.
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| We're Moving |
2/3/10 |
That's right, ASFL2 is moving, but don't worry it won't require you change your bookmarks. I've changed the website's hosting company as it should cut the cost nearly in half to improve the long term viability of the league.
Due to the move, I'll have to fix a few lines of code on each page of the ASFL2 website, if you notice any display errors in the next two weeks please let me know via email as it's likely due to the move. I don't anticipate any down time, but there is a chance of it. Please submit your ASFL2 Fantasy NFL Playoffs entries for the Super Bowl as early as possible to avoid any possible problems.
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| ASFL2 Super Bowl Pool? |
1/26/10 |
In preparing to work on create the ASFL2 Money Leagues website, the idea to run an ASFL2 Super Bowl Pool popped into my head. It's likely too late to run one for this season, but I can't help but try to put a feeler out.
Blocks will be $1 with no limit to the amount you can purchase. Any unpurchased blocks will go to the "house" with a minimum of 50 needed to be sold for the pool to go on. Ideally I would have liked to of done some research on frequencies and changed the odds up for block selections, but it's too late for that. For this go round, I'm open to it either being randomized or member's selecting depending on the popular choice amongst those participating.
For more information on how it works and how the payouts will work and/or to express your interest please go to this thread on the message board. Paypal is the strongly preferred method of payment. If you can't get to the message board thread, email me if interested.
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| ASASFL & ASFL2 Keeper Leagues Standings Upgrade/Update |
1/26/10 |
I've spent over a week upgrading the ASASFL & ASFL2 Keeper Leagues's Fantasy Hockey, Fantasy Basketball and Fantasy Baseball standings pages to the same standard as the regular ASFL2 competition's. They've also now been updated through results of this past Sunday. You can view each league's weekly won/loss standings, roto standings and projected championship standings points before the end of the season now. You can also view the schedule for each league as well.
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| Fantasy Basketball Standings Now Available |
1/20/10 |
The Fantasy Basketball standings pages have been created on the website and are now updated through week 12 of the Fantasy Basketball season. Check your weekly won/loss standings, roto rankings and how your team and league compare to the other 111 teams and 7 leagues in all of ASFL2.
League schedules and all-encompassing rotisserie standings are also available.
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| Fantasy NASCAR Now Available |
1/15/10 |
The 2010-2011 ASFL2 edition of Fantasy NASCAR is now available. The ID is 28092 and the password is 123456.
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| College Bowl Pickem Results |
1/8/10 |
The first game to be run entirely on the website in league history has completed and Bryan Crouch gets the distinction of winning it. You can view the final standings on the game standings page and the final championship point totals on the championship points standings page.
Remember the deadline for NFL Playoffs Pickem is tomorrow at 4:27 PM EST. That is also the deadline for Wild Card Round lineups in Fantasy NFL Playoffs.
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| New Season, New Standings |
1/7/10 |
When Michael Bradley & Martin Laird tee off at 1:50 PM EST today, the 2010-2011 ASFL2 season will be underway. As a result of that, the new standings pages are now available in prepartion for Sunday's first update. Go to the Standings Home Page to view the new standings. Members will be added to the overall standings if they are confirmed and are a part of an ASFL2 fantasy game before it's start or once they earn a championship point in a game, or once a game they've participated in has completed. All who join Fantasy Golf this weekend will be added to the game standings page as the weekend goes along.
All relevant history standings pages have also been set up to update along with golf results Sunday and with each subsequent update.
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| 2009-2010 Season Deadline |
12/31/09 |
It's the 365th day of 2009 and that means it's the last day for members who sign up to be able to earn championship points for the 2009-2010 season. From tomorrow on, new members will only be eligible for fantasy games of the 2010-2011 ASFL2 season.
Members who join after midnight on the first day of the year will still be able to participate for free in 2009-2010 games run through the league website by choosing the "No" option when asked about their membership status to seclude them from the championship points calculations. If you have any questions email me.
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| ASFL2 Newsletter #11 |
12/17/09 |
Newsletter #11 has been sent out. It gives out information on the new website features for each fantasy game, information on games available, information about games soon to become available and much more.
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| Hunt for a New Logo |
12/14/09 |
In trying to redoing a few aspects of the website, primarily the front page of the domain and the new Fantasy Games section, I'll need a new logo to center things around. There are 16 samples on this message board thread to comment on. I expect to take parts from each logo to make the final one. There may finally be an ASFL2 store when all is said and done.
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| College Bowl Pickem |
12/12/09 |
With Army's loss to Navy today, UCLA earned the final bowl berth and College Bowl Pickem is now ready to go. Register for the game, but be sure to type your name as it appears in the ASFL2 Member's database (First Last format, case sensitive). From there submit your picks by December 19th at 4:27 PM EST. You can review and change your picks up until the deadline. Once the deadline passes, keep checking the game page for scoring updates. I'll be updating the bowl results as soon as I can once they're known and the game standings & championship points projections will update automatically with them.
If you have any problems registering, submitting or otherwise feel free to email me for help.
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| Fantasy Golf Now Open |
12/7/09 |
The 2010-2011 season is here. ASFL2 Fantasy Golf is open on Yahoo!, the ID is 9905 and the password is 123456. The season starts January 7th.
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| Help Needed: Recruiting Team |
12/4/09 |
I'm looking for volunteers to help with recruiting while I focus on improving the website and coding the various fantasy games that need to start going on the website. Now is the most important time of the year for recruiting, those who can help please reply to this thread on the message board. Suggestions for improvement are also welcome.
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| New Fantasy Hockey Standings Available |
12/2/09 |
After a few weeks of development the overall Fantasy Hockey standings pages have been completed. They are arguably the most advanced feature on the website and are a major step in a positive direction.
Each league's regular season standings, weekly win/loss record standings, rotisserie standings & championship point allotment will be updated weekly with playoff results and final league rankings updated immediately following the update of their official results. The rotisserie standings can even be sorted by category to see how your score is totaled up.
The overall metrics will be updated weekly as well as the overall standings by record, weekly win/loss record, roto ratio and combination score will be available with the corresponding would-be bonus championship points shown also. League strength rankings are also available each week.
Perhaps the best result of this advancement is that it will allow me to update the championship standings earned at the end of the season within a day or two instead of the usual week-long marathon of work.
As an added bonus, the complete standings of all 98 ASFL2 Fantasy Hockey teams by each statistical category will be available each week along with the complete rotisserie standings of all teams. Now you can really see how your team stacks up against everyone else.
Finally, each of the ASFL2 leagues will have it's entire schedule available and can be sorted by league as a whole or by individual team.
I hope to finish the same set up for all Fantasy Basketball leagues in the next week to ten days.
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| Trade Vetoing Memo |
11/19/09 |
With the many new faces in the league and a flurry of activity around the Fantasy Football trade deadline, I need to touch upon the veto procedure again, this is from the four draft sport rule pages:
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Veto Procedure:
The ASFL2 commissioner will only be direct commissioner of two individual ASFL2 Fantasy Football leagues. For that reason all potential veto suggestions need to be emailed to the commissioner if the trade isn't taking place in League 1 or League 2. Assistant commissioner's do not have the power to veto or put through a trade in Yahoo!.
The commissioner has set up all ASFL2 leagues to send Yahoo! transaction emails to a secondary email account which also receives website form submissions or confirmations. All trades are analyzed by the commissioner when received. If the commissioner feels at first glance a trade isn't fair he will post a poll for the trade on the message board in the Big Four Fantasy Sports section. If upon first glance at a trade the commissioner feels a trade might be unfair he'll wait for further feedback email agreeing with his notion from the league in question. If a few emails are received a veto poll is posted on the message board. All emails to the commissioner need to be sent directly to commish@theasfl.com, any emails through Yahoo! will be sent to an address that cannot be replied from and the emails may not be seen in time for action. If a trade veto goes to the league message board a notification will be posted on the Yahoo! league message board as a warning.
If the poll thread produces a result which the commissioner decides agrees with a veto the commissioner will sign onto the appropriate Yahoo! ID to veto the trade. The commissioner will never allow a trade before it's expiration time or interfere with a trade before it's expiration time otherwise. This is done to ensure consistency between trades amongst all leagues as they are observed by assistant commissioners of different activity levels.
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| New ASFL2 Drafts Application |
7/30/09 |
The new ASFL2 Drafts Application is now ready to go public. The informational thread on the message board has details on features and what it can do. The password for Scott Ludeviks has been temporarily set to "test" so that all members of the league can test the application out and bring up any questions now before the drafts start around August 16th.
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| Interested in Joining? |
5/8/09 |
If you're interested in joining please skim the rules and contact the commissioner on AIM at Heggis27 or via email if you have any questions. The Sign Up Form can be found via the link in this sentence, or on the left hand side of the page. After you submit the form you'll be added to the members list and if you submit a signup form without contacting the commissioner you will be emailed the information needed to get started; please make sure, commish@theasfl.com is going to get through your bulk or junk email filter.
Step 1: Fill out the SignUp Form
Step 2: Register for the league message board
Step 3: Reply to the New Member Introduction Thread in the same format as the first post of the thread.
Step 4: email the commissioner about joining a Fantasy Football league with your preferred draft times from the list found on the message board.
Once you complete step one you will be emailed further information on the other steps and beyond.
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Contact the Commissioner |
5/8/09 |
If you have any questions about the league ask Jay Soester at Heggis27 on AIM or via email at commish@theasfl.com.
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