Yahoo Survival Football

[tomalak301]

Posted this in the Pick'em thread, but figured it might get more traction in it's own thread:

Anyone want to do the Survival (Eliminator as it's called on ESPN) football this year? Pretty much the rules are easy. Pick a game each week you think will be the lock of the week, and if the team you picked wins, you advance. Get it wrong, and you're out.

Group ID: 18960
Password: football

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/survival

The more people who sign up, the better it will be.

 

[tomalak301]

Stupid me, I forgot to mention what the catch was. You can only pick each team once.

 

[tomalak301]

We have 4 people so far. Anyone else. Maybe we can get into double digits by thursday?

 

[Danny99]

I'm in!

San Diego over Oakland for Week One.

 

[Scout101]

OK, i'm in

 

[SmoothieX]

Hey this sounds cool, let me get an account set up this afternoon. It beats doing actual work!

 

[Garak]

Ya I'm in. New Orleans over Detriot, if I get effed on that I'm giving up survival forever.

 

[SmoothieX]

I'm in!

 

[Yoda]

WTF, why not!

I had to go San Diego over Oakland... srsly

 

[SmoothieX]

OK, I took Minnesota and won. So I'm still kickin'.

My theory is at first to take marginally decent teams to beat cupcakes the first few weeks until we can see how the teams are sorting out.

Plus it would be nice to have some easy weeks down the road, where the big boys take on some 2-7 teams.

Naturally, I'll lose by week 3!

 

[Scout101]

Lost one already, huh?

 

[Garak]

Ouch, taking Cincinatti and then losing like that - that's gotta hurt.

 

[Danny99]

Worrying about Oakland beating San Diego and screwing me over in week one!

 

[Skywalker]

Lost one already, huh?

Ouch, taking Cincinatti and then losing like that - that's gotta hurt.

Yeah, it does kinda suck. I took Cincinnati because I was going by the same theory as SmoothieX. I'd almost picked Denver, but I figured I'd rather save them for later in the year.

Oh well. That's what I get for relying on the Bungles.

 

[Scout101]

Picking Cincy as "marginally decent" is where you lost it, though.

Personally, I like to try and pick 2-3 "trainwreck" teams, and just pick against them until I can't do it anymore. Frankly, most of these leagues don't get past week 6 or 7, so trying to save the good teams for later can be a waste. There's plenty of matchups where you can find really strong teams against total shit, at least enough to get you through most of the tourney...

 

[SmoothieX]

I got the Browns out of the way quick. The NFc West could be my meal ticket with this strategy...

 

[Skywalker]

Picking Cincy as "marginally decent" is where you lost it, though.

True. I think I was expecting them to be better this year. Oh well.

 

[SmoothieX]

Wow, cooked already in Week 2. Never saw Cincy beating the Pack.

Plop.

 

[tomalak301]

^I'm thinking a lot of people are having that reaction. In two other Survivals, I had the Pack, but in this one, I went with the Falcons. Lucky I guess.

 

[Commander Vaughn]

Looks like I forgot to make a pick this week. Oops. Too bad I can't just go with the Monday Night game as a last gasp.