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This is shamelessly stolen from last last year's OP, with minor changes. Hat tip to Hockles for running this in 2015 and 2016 and providing a good OP. How do I play 1000 Yards or Bust? Every week, a player submits a list of offensive players and lists whether they wish to count their passing, rushing, or receiving yards for that week's game. The goal is to get as close to 1000 total yards without going over. You don't necessarily have to use the player's native position's stats. Which allows for Matt Ryan's Rushing Yards or a running back's receiving yards. Please only use a player once, so gone are the days of listing every player for every kind of stat and listing "New York Giants Offense." Also, please put the team of the player, which makes it easier for me to find. Please, for the sake of making results easier to calculate, use players' actual names instead of nicknames (no Megatron, Purple Jesus, RG3, etc.) and make sure that you spell them correctly. And try to keep lists to 10 players and under. Thanks to our own Forever_Peace I'll be using a Python query on the nfldb database (https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb) to put everyone's scores together. Feel free to PM me if you'd like info on how to set this up on your end. This database is why we're being a lot more strict this year with properly formatted roster submissions. It's a real pain to manually score and/or correct these, so thank you in advance for meeting the formatting requirements. To that end: This year there will be no exceptions to the list formatting rule. If your post is formatted incorrectly it will not be counted. Lists are formatted as such: DEN - Peyton Manning - Passing Yards MIN - Adrian Peterson - Rushing Yards DET - Calvin Johnson - Receiving Yards B#: PHI - Carson Wentz - Passing Yards (this is your Brady number) And so on. Obviously, players can only be added to a list before their respective games start, so if you wake up halfway through the 1pm games on Sunday and realize you haven't submitted a list yet, you can still cobble one together from the afternoon games and be fine. Once the game of the first player on your list to play starts, your list is FINAL for the week and cannot be edited. If you want to make changes to your list before the games start that's fine, but please alert me to that edit in a separate post. I'm going to copy down people's lists before each set of games start if I start feeling I have a reason to be suspicious. The objective, as of the game implies, is for the entirety of your list to get as close as possible to 1000 yards without going over. But there's a twist: every list must have one, and only one, player from Monday Night Football included to be counted. The name for the mandatory MNF number has changed from year to year in honor of various football figures who made an impact in Monday Night Football games. Last year it was immortalized as the Goodell Number, but this season the MNF number will be called...  The Brady Number! Long live the GOAT! Lists without a Brady Number will be disqualified from scoring for the week, and players that include multiple players from the MNF game will only have the one designated as the Brady Number counted for their score. But, a Brady Number is the only requirement for a valid score, so if you somehow miss getting an entry in by the end of Sunday, you can always pick the player you think will get the most yards on Monday Night and at least get on the scoring table for the week. How does scoring work? The highest score of the week without busting (unless they hit 1000 exactly, but we'll get to that later) is awarded points equal to the number of entries for that week. Each player following will be rewarded points sequentially, and busted players are added after all the players who did not bust have been counted. Busted players receive more points the fewer yards they were over 1000. So, in a hypothetical week where 5 users submitted entries: Player A: 1200 yards (1 point) Player B: 995 yards (5 points) Player C: 1005 yards (3 points) Player D: 1050 yards (2 points) Player E: 800 yards (4 points) So as you can see, the easiest way to succeed in 1KoB is to A) enter every week (even busting is better than earning no points at all), and B) not bust. Coming short by 200 yards will get you way more points than busting by even a single yard. Points are cumulative across the entire 17 week season, so keep playing even if you get off to a bad start! One or two bad weeks won't kill you in the long run. Playoffs? PLAYOFFS? People seemed to be cool with the way the playoff system has been run, so I'm going to keep it this year. Because the Super Bowl obviously only features two teams, the final week of 1KoB is actually the conference championships. The top 27 regular season scorers get a playoff berth, and after each week of the playoffs the bottom two thirds of the field are eliminated. So 27 entrants in the Wild Card round becomes 9 in the divisional round, and then only 3 move on to the final round of the 1KoB season. So what happens if someone hits 1000? Hitting 1000 exactly is extremely rare. Dozens of users submit lists to 1KoB every week (with many many others doing so infrequently), and perfect scores still happen only once or twice a year, if at all. Therefore, a perfect score entitles you to replace your lowest scoring bust with the highest score of that week (bumping every other player down a point in addition to all the points you make up). And, if you've managed to get a perfect score without getting any busts in a season, you will instead receive double the high score value for the week. For example, if you hit a 1k on a week with 100 players, you will receive 200 points while the next highest player will only receive 99. So in short, it's really really good to hit 1000 and not constantly play conservatively out of fear of busting because it gives you a huge leg up in the season standings. Gimmicks  TOKENS ARE BACK BABY Yes that's right, because I'm a crazy fucker I'm going to let y'all use tokens again. What's a token you ask? Good question: Because 1KYOB is inherently a game about selecting offensive players, tokens were originally created to celebrate the superlative defenders of the NFL as well as introduce another strategic element to the game. The tokens apply to your Brady Number player and only your Brady Number player, but you can't cheat and edit them in if you're heading into Monday about to bust: if you haven't declared you're using a token before the first player on your list starts, you're SOL. Each token can only be used once except for the final special token. This means no refreshes as there were in the 2015 and earlier seasons. To play a token please copy and paste the image as well as the name of the token after your Brady Number. This year we will have 5 fun token flavors. But pay attention! These are new, awesome flavors and some of these tokens can come with a downside! The five current tokens in play are: THE COX TOKEN  Thrusts through the line to stop your running game! You may play the Cox Token when your Brady Number is a Running Back. If your Brady Number would bust your score, this token will zero out their score! THE OSWEILER TOKEN  A memorial to the greatest trade in history, the Osweiler token is a powerful reminder that teams can build via subtraction just as well as addition. You may play the Osweiler token regardless of your player's position. If your Brady Number would bust you, instead of adding points the Brady Number removes that many points from your score. THE PRATER TOKEN  Kickers are people too! You may play the Prater token if your player is a Wide Receiver or Tight End. If your Brady Number would bust your score, this token will replace their score with the longest field goal in NFL history - 64 yards. THE ILL-ADVISED RELOCATION TOKEN  Sometimes despite years of loyalty and good will you just have to chase after the dollar bills. You may play the Ill-Advised Relocation token if your Brady Number is a Quarterback because the fans only care about Quarterbacks! If your Brady Number would bust your score, this token will replace their score with the score of the opposing QB. For example, in Week 1 the LA Chargers are playing the Denver Broncos. If your Brady Number, Phillip Rivers, would bust you, you instead will get the score of Trevor Siemian. But since relocation doesn't always work out, if the replacement still busts you, tough luck! And as always there is one special token... THE 28-3 TOKEN  A reminder of the greatest choke job in all of sports and that no one should ever count out Touchdown Tom. If you declare the 28-3 token during a given week, it gets you 50 bonus points for a top 10 score and 100 bonus points for the best score of the week, but if you finish outside the top 10 you get zero, so you better manage that comeback! In addition, you can use the 28-3 token as much as you want if you keep getting the bonus, but if you use the 28-3 token and fail to make the top 10, you can't use it again for the entire rest of the season unless you hit a perfect thousand. Not for the faint at heart! Prizes and ~*THEME WEEK*~ Athanatos has offered a free avatar change to whoever wins this season! Buane has also very graciously promised actual cash prizes for players this year. And we will have some fun theme weeks to give them out. Here's his explanation: Buane posted:Fitting that the Monday night number would be named after #12, Tom Brady, in 1000 Yards or Bust's 12th season. In honor of this milestone, and because this game continued to survive despite my absence/negligence, I would like to contribute the following cash prizes this year: Please do note that theme weeks are not mandatory. You can still play to your heart's content without following the theme, but you will not be eligible for that theme week's prize. Each week will have its own theme, which I will reveal in the OP and week title. Good luck everyone! Theme Weeks Week 1: GOAT WEEK (vanilla 1kob, just win baby) Week 2: ??? Week 3: ??? Week 4: ??? Week 5: ??? Week 6: ??? Week 7: ??? Week 8: ??? Week 9: ??? Week 10: ??? Week 11: ??? Week 12: Thanksgiving Turkey Week (biggest Turkey wins, list can only have one turkey) Week 13: ??? Week 14: ??? Week 15: ??? Week 16: ??? Week 17: ??? Theme Week Announcement As this is the first week of the season this week's theme is: GOAT WEEK  In celebration of Tom Brady, the GOAT, this week's $10 weekly winner will just be the player who happens to do the best. Week 1 Schedule Thursday Night KC @ NE Sunday - 1pm EST NYJ @ BUF ATL @ CHI BAL @ CIN PIT @ CLE ARI @ DET JAX @ HOU TB @ MIA OAK @ TEN PHI @ WAS Sunday - 4pm EST IND @ LA SEA @ GB CAR @ SF Sunday Night NYG @ DAL Monday Night NO @ MIN LAC @ DEN For this week, since there are 2 Monday night games, please only select 1 total player. You cannot use a player from any of the 3 remaining teams as a normal player or a Brady Number. Just 1 player. Good luck, have fun! axeil fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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IND - Scott Tolzien - Passing Yards LAR - Todd Gurley - Rushing Yards NYG - Eli Manning - Passing Yards CHI - Mitchell Trubisky - Passing Yards B#: MIN - Sam Bradford - Passing Yards Fixed to be as worse as ever. Elephanthead fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 01:08
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PHI - Carson Wentz - Passing Yards PHI - Alshon Jeffrey - Receiving Yards BUF - Jordan Matthews - Receiving Yards PHI - LeGarrette Blount - Rushing Yards BUF - LeSean McCoy - Rushing Yards B#: MIN - Sam Bradford - Passing Yards 18-1 begins...right...now! Ex-Eagles are also allowed I guess.
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Sep 6, 2017 01:19
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Elephanthead posted:IND - Scott Tolzien - Passing Yards Hey can you please edit this post so it has the Brady number formatted correctly? Thanks!
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Sep 6, 2017 01:23
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CIN - A.J. Green - Receiving Yards OAK - Amari Cooper - Receiving Yards ATL - Julio Jones - Receiving Yards NYG - Paul Perkins - Rushing Yards CAR - Christian McCaffrey - Rushing Yards PHI - Alshon Jeffrey - Receiving Yards WSH - Jordan Reed - Receiving Yards DET - Theo Riddick - Rushing Yards ARI - David Johnson - Rushing Yards CAR - Cam Newton - Rushing Yards B#: NO - Michael Thomas - Receiving Yards Young Hegelian fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 01:26
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Yesss my favorite forum game is back  Godspeed for doing this, axeilTEN - Marcus Mariota - Passing Yards WAS - Kirk Cousins - Passing Yards TEN - DeMarco Murray - Rushing Yards PIT - Le'Veon Bell - Rushing Yards CIN - A.J. Green - Receiving Yards B# - MIN - Dalvin Cook - Rushing Yards
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Hell yeas! Thank you. Maybe this year I'll rock all regular season like last year and actually play during the playoffs unlike last year!? NE - Tom Brady - Passing Yards ARI - David Johnson - Rushing Yards PIT - Le'Veon Bell - Rushing Yards NE - Chris Hogan - Receiving Yards ARI - Larry Fitzgerald - Receiving Yards B# - LA? - Phillip Rivers - Passing Yards
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Sep 6, 2017 02:32
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TEN - Marcus Mariota - Passing Yards BUF - LeSean McCoy - Rushing Yards CLE - DeShone Kizer - Rushing Yards CAR - Christian McCaffrey - Rushing Yards B#: MIN - Sam Bradford - Passing Yards Watch Bradford drop 500 yards on the Saints defense.
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Sep 6, 2017 05:08
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ATL - Matt Ryan - Passing Yards TEN - Marcus Mariota - Passing Yards KC - Tyreek Hill - Receiving Yards PIT - Le'Veon Bell - Rushing Yards B#: DEN - Jamaal Charles - Rushing Yards Let's see how lovely at this game I am. 
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Sep 6, 2017 05:13
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NE - Tom Brady - passing yards ATL - Matt Ryan - passing yards ARI - David Johnson - rushing yards NE - James White - receiving yards NE - Chris Hogan - receiving yards HOU - DeAndre Hopkins - receiving yards B#: MIN - Stefon Diggs - receiving yards barnold fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 05:45
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NE - James White - Receiving Yards GB - Aaron Rodgers - Passing Yards SEA - Eddie Lacy - Rushing Yards IND - T.Y. Hilton - Receiving Yards B#: NO - Drew Brees - Passing Yards Infidel Castro fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 19:06
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You're doing the Lord's work, axeil. (Do you pronounce it "AX-EYE-L" or "AX-EEL"?) PIT - Ben Roethlisberger - Passing Yards NYG - Eli Manning - Passing Yards B#: LAC - Philip Rivers - Passing Yards
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Sep 6, 2017 19:12
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PHI - Carson Wentz - Passing Yards WAS - Kirk Cousins - Passing Yards PHI - Alshon Jeffrey - Receiving Yards PHI - Zach Ertz - Receiving Yards WAS - Terelle Pryor - Receiving Yards WAS - Jamison Crowder - Receiving Yards PHI - Wendel Smallwood - Rushing Yards B#: NO - Drew Brees - Rushing Yards (axeil do you need me to put the Sr for Terrelle Pryor?)
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Shangri-Law School posted:You're doing the Lord's work, axeil. (Do you pronounce it "AX-EYE-L" or "AX-EEL"?) I always have pronounced it AX-EEL but it's a forums handle I came up with when I was like 13 and I don't think I've ever actually said it aloud in my life.
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OAK - Derek Carr - Passing Yards BUF - LeSean McCoy - Rushing Yards JAX - Leonard Fournette - Rushing Yards PIT - Antonio Brown - Receiving Yards NYJ - Bilail Powell - Rushing Yards CHI - Jordan Howard - Rushing Yards B#: NO - Drew Brees - Passing Yards Oh God this could go all go horribly wrong. Wonderful!
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Sep 6, 2017 19:37
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NYJ - Bilal Powell - Rushing Yards NYG - Odell Beckham Jr. - Receiving Yards OAK - Amari Cooper - Recieving Yards CAR - Cam Newton - Passing Yards B#: - NO - Drew Brees - Passing Yards Alright. I am ready to bust!
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Sep 6, 2017 22:07
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NE - Rob Gronkowski - Receiving yards BUF - LeSean McCoy - Rushing yards CLE - Corey Coleman - Receiving yards LA - Todd Gurley - Rushing yards JAX - Allen Robinson - Receiving yards ATL - Matt Ryan - Passing yards DAL - Ezekial Elliot - Rushing yards B# LAC - Melvin Gordon - Rushing yards
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Sep 6, 2017 22:17
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DET - Matt Stafford - Passing Yards ATL - Matt Ryan - Passing Yards GB - Jordy Nelson - Receiving Yards OAK - Amari Cooper - Receiving Yards B# MIN - Dalvin Cook - Rushing Yards I choose to believe the Brady number will become increasingly cathartic as TB12 deteriorates before our eyes this season.
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Sep 6, 2017 22:42
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PIT - LeVeon Bell - Rushing Yards OAK - Derek Carr - Passing Yards GB - Aaron Rodgers - Passing Yards Brady Number: Trevor Siemian - Passing Yards
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This is my first time doing this so let's see how this goes: NYJ - Josh McCown - (Passing Yards) CLE - Isaiah Crowell - (Rushing Yards) CHI - Kevin White - (Receiving Yards) IND - Scott Tolzien - (Passing Yards) BUF - Zay Jones - (Receiving Yards) LA - Todd Gurley - (Rushing Yards) JAX - Blake Bortles - (Passing Yards) SF - George Kittle - (Receiving Yards) HOU - Tom Savage (Rushing Yards) B# Drew Brees, Passing Yards
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GB - Aaron Rodgers - Passing Yards ATL - Matt Ryan - Passing Yards CIN - Andy Dalton - Passing Yards B#: NO - Coby Fleener - Receiving Yards
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Sep 7, 2017 16:24
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I saw the thread title: is Metapod posting again?
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Hey everyone, great news! Buane has very graciously promised actual cash prizes for players this year. And we will have some fun theme weeks to give them out. Here's his explanation:Buane posted:Fitting that the Monday night number would be named after #12, Tom Brady, in 1000 Yards or Bust's 12th season. In honor of this milestone, and because this game continued to survive despite my absence/negligence, I would like to contribute the following cash prizes this year: As this is the first week of the season this week's theme is: GOAT WEEK In celebration of Tom Brady, the GOAT, this week's $10 weekly winner will just be the player who happens to do the best. Please do note that theme weeks are not mandatory. You can still play to your heart's content without following the theme, but you will not be eligible for that theme week's prize. Each week will have its own theme, which I will reveal in the OP. Good luck everyone! axeil fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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ATL - Matt Ryan - Passing Yards LA - Jared Goff - Passing Yards HOU - Lamar Miller - Rushing Yards TEN - DeMarco Murray - Rushing Yards DAL - Dez Bryant - Receiving Yards DET - Golden Tate - Receiving Yards CAR - Greg Olson - Receiving Yards B#: MIN - Dalvin Cook - Rushing Yards
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OAK - Marshawn Lynch, Rushing Yards CHI - Jordan Howard, Rushing Yards TEN - DeMarco Murray, Rushing Yards JAX - Leonard Fournette, Rushing Yards PIT - Le'Veon Bell, Rushing Yards CLE - Isiah Crowell, Rushing Yards ATL - Devonta Freeman, Rushing Yards LA - Todd Gurley, Rushing Yards B#: DEN - Trevor Siemian, Passing Yards
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BUF - LeSean McCoy, Rushing Yards NYJ - Bilal Powell, Receiving Yards ATL - Julio Jones, Receiving Yards Andy Dalton: Passing Yards Joe Flacco: Passing Yards B#: DEN - Trevor Siemian, Passing Yards
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CIN - Andy Dalton - passing yards DET - Matt Stafford - passing yards SEA - Eddie Lacy - rushing yards B# - LAC - Philip Rivers - passing yards
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ATL - Matt Ryan - Passing Yards CAR - Cam Newton - Passing Yards LAR - Jared Goff - Passing Yards SEA - Thomas Rawls - Rushing Yards DAL - Jason Witten - Receiving Yards Brady #: NO - Adrian Peterson - Rushing Yards Week 1 is always so unpredictable so I figure its totally sensible to do this:
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NE - Tom Brady - Passing DAL - Ezekiel Elliot - Rushing ARI - David Johnson - Rushing GB - Martellus Bennett - Receiving CIN - Joe Mixon - Rushing OAK - Amari Cooper - Receiving CIN - AJ Green - Receiving B# NO - Michael Thomas - Receiving korrandark fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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GB - Aaron Rodgers - Passing Yards ATL - Matt Ryan - Passing Yards OAK - Derek Carr- Passing Yards B#: MIN - Latavius Murray - Rushing Yards
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Sep 7, 2017 22:31
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NE - Tom Brady - Passing Yards GB - Aaron Rodgers - Passing Yards NYG - Eli Manning - Passing Yards Brady Number: Dalvin Cook: Receiving Yards
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Sep 7, 2017 23:55
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This reply is to all of you. Using quarterbacks for passing yards is either, depending on whether or not you do better than me this week: a) stupid, or b) cheating. Good luck to everyone except your quarterbacks.
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Young Hegelian posted:This reply is to all of you. Sam Bradford is going to make me a champion/utter failure and you can't stop me! Also please post itt if you have good theme week ideas. Buane and I already have some but I welcome community feedback
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Sep 8, 2017 01:04
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Young Hegelian posted:This reply is to all of you. I've been doing it this way since 2011 I think
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I'm banking on Matt Ryan "only" getting 300ish yards so I am fully prepared to be option A in that binary.
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Sep 8, 2017 01:20
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Diqnol posted:I've been doing it this way since 2011 I think How has it worked?
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axeil posted:Hey everyone, great news! Buane has very graciously promised actual cash prizes for players this year. And we will have some fun theme weeks to give them out. Here's his explanation: Let's do this, thread. Can't believe this is season 12 of this game. If you want to collect the weekly bonus pools, you need to accept payment on Venmo. That is all! I'll make a list later this week
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Young Hegelian posted:How has it worked? I usually make "playoffs" which it's good for. It'll generally get you a solid score without busting and consistent production isn't bad.
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GB - Aaron Rodgers - Passing Yards PHI - Carson Wentz - Passing Yards OAK - Amari Cooper - Receiving Yards B#: DEN - Trevor Siemian, Passing Yards
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I feel like there may be a curse to being the MNF 1KYOB namesake. Last year Goodell got dunked on all year and this year well... Perhaps week 2's theme should be ALEX SMITH WEEK?
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