| MLB Day-to-Day Pickem Update |
9/2/10 |
The playoffs got underway yesterday with the majority of members picking correctly. Congrats to those who have made it this far. I'll be spending time each night after all MLB games have finished making sure the picks are being scored correctly. If a pick gets cleared out, please wait until morning to notify me that I need to fix it. If you notice something other than scoring acting incorrectly, please let me know.
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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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| 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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| 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. 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 properly again. |
| 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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| 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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| 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.
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| World Cup Pickem Available |
5/15/10 |
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.
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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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| NBA Playoffs Pickem Update |
4/11/10 |
The final NBA seedings have been updated throughout NBA Playoffs Pickem. The deadline to submit your picks is 2:57 PM ET on Saturday.
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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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| NBA Playoffs Pickem Now Available |
4/8/10 |
NBA Playoffs Pickem is available a bit early as the NBA playoffs are set to start in 9 days with the seedings set in 6 days. You can register in preparation for the seedings being set. Any submissions before the seedings being set may be erased.
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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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| NHL Playoffs Pickem Now Available |
4/1/10 |
NHL Playoffs Pickem is available early as the NHL playoffs are set to start in 14 days with the seedings set in 11 days. You can register in preparation for the seedings being set. Any submissions before the seedings being set are likely to be erased.
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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. |
| MLB Home Run Pool Now Available |
3/15/10 |
I had hoped to get the Home Run Pool on the website this season, but was unable to do so due to time constraints. Fortunately, Ryan Drzik has agreed to run it on the message board again this season.
Before the season starts you'll pick 12 MLB batters and watch them amass points via the home runs they hit through the season. Click the link for the full rules.
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| Fantasy Formula 1 Available |
3/10/10 |
Due to Yahoo!'s decision not to run a Fantasy Formula 1 game, two members (Mikes Miles & Nathan Susanto) will be running an unofficial Fantasy Formula 1 game on the league message board. Click the link on the left side of the screen to participate.
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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 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.
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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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| Olympic Hockey Pickem Available |
1/24/10 |
I had hoped to either create a complete Fantasy Winter Olympics game on the message board or create an Olympic Hockey pickem game run through the website, but I've had to focus my efforts in other areas of late and going forward. The game will still be available via this thread on the message board, simply reply with your entry in the format of the template to participate. Bonus Points will still be awarded based on the results.
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| Fantasy NFL Playoffs Scoring Clarification |
1/10/10 |
Michael Jenkins fumbled for Dallas' defense after an INT on Saturday night with Reggie Brown recovering for Philadelphia. As a result, the Cowboys' defense has been credited with a lost fumble (-2 points) while Brown has been credited with a recovered fumble (+2 points). Those two stats won't show up in any of the displayed player stats on the game pages, but are factored into each's point total for the round.
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| Fantasy NFL Playoffs Mistake |
1/10/10 |
I've accidently cleared out the Fantasy NFL Playoffs member database while updating the playoff stats. I coded an email log of entries as a back up for this instance, but to save time I didn't code a method for email logs of member log-in information. As a result of the latter, I've had to set everyone's password to whatever was used for NFL Playoffs Pickem, but I have added a link to the game page that will allow you to reset your email or receive an email reminder with your password.
My apologies for the inconvenience. The deadline for next week is next Saturday, January 16th at 4:27 PM EST.
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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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| Fantasy Games Section Now Open |
12/13/09 |
With the debut of our first game, College Bowl Pickem, a new section for all games to eventually be moved onto the website from the message board or Yahoo! has been created. The hope is to have Fantasy NFL Playoffs & NFL Playoffs Pickem ready by the start of the NFL Postseason, but with Fantasy NFL Playoffs about halfway done, there's still a chance both will be on the message board this season. Watch the website and this section for updates throughout December.
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| Unofficial vs Official |
12/13/09 |
The games are separated to the left based on their status with the league. Official games are part of our competition's game list and result in direct championship points earned. Unofficial games aren't part of the official game list and result in bonus points earned which can turn into championship points at the end of the season. They tend to be unique to ASFL2 at large, or at least hard to find elsewhere.
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