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Eliminator is back for its 16th Season. That's 15.5 more seasons than the AAF! Your favorite clown-car of an admin team has continued to stare down the barrel of Ruby just for you— many thanks to Rura Penthe for doing all the actual hard work in seasons 1-13 so we can just poke at it successfully. --- What is eliminator? A free game running on the intarwebs that lets you obsess about NFL football in exciting ways! Running out of SAS/TFF since 2004, it contains survival mode and pick'em with reverse and spread variants, as well as a fake money betting mode called funbuck that allows spread, moneyline, over/under, and parlay betting like a real sports book except you don’t get any actual money at the end. Important Links: Log in or Register Make some picks! --- Games -Eliminator: An inevitable march toward a sure thing that isn't -Reverse Eliminator -Spread Eliminator (pick against the spread) -Reverse Spread Eliminator (because why not) -Pickem: 16 chances to pick against the Browns, and 240 other games to ponder -Reverse Pickem -Spread Pickem (pick against the spread) -Reverse Spread Pickem (also because why not) -Funbucks: Gamble with fake stacks that are still easier to cash out than Bitcoin Also there are groups! Maybe you don’t want to lose to randos from the internet, but you think you can show up people you actually know! Good news, you can do exactly that. Group owners can set their groups to be public/private, control the game types that are allowed, and email invitations to users. There are leaderboards for every game type and every group, so there have never been more chances to show how bad you are at picking NFL games! --- Season 15 recap: Nobody won public season 15 eliminator, and only one person, cohomology, ended up with 16 wins. They were caught up in 2018's greatest bloodbath-- week 3 when the vikings forgot to come out of the locker room versus the bills. riparian was the pickem winner with a 68% final correct pick percentage on 183 victories. riparian also used that skill to net some fake dollars, with a final total of $68K (of which $61,710 came in a 7-way week 17 parlay. --- Worst Bloodbaths Ever! 2004 Week 9 First year of eliminator and very few bets, but the Giants and Chiefs went down and when the smoke cleared only 25% of players were still standing. 2005 Week 1 The game that made Rura swear off Rams bets forever. 4 complete seasons since and not once has he bet on that cursed team. 2006 Week 7 Cards and Jags combined to break the hearts of well over 100 people. 29.76% remained. 2007 Week 10 Damned Saints! This was the year the Saints had suddenly become good. Unfortunately the ghost of Archie Manning put a hex on the team and they went down, taking 76 brave souls with them. (The hex was made more powerful by Archie not being dead.) 27.86% survived. 2010 Week 16 The latest mass elimination in the history of the game. 6 of the top 8 teams (ordered by # of bets) went down in flames and only 20.9% survived. 2013 Week 10 Jaguars beat Titans. Whoops. 15.49% made it through. 2015 Week 2 The god damned Saints again. Brees takes a massive L in his own stadium at the hands of Jameis Winston and the Buccaneers for Winston's first ever NFL win. Later that day, the Ravens give up a touchdown with 30 seconds left in the 4th to go down 33-37 against the Raiders. Yikes. Only 12.3% survived the worst bloodbath in Eliminator history. 2018 Week 3 In an exciting change of pace, it was the Vikings letting everyone down. Only 25.57% made it through. --- Preseason is ready for bets if you want to practice being bad, or discover exciting new bugs resulting from software updates!
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Aug 7, 2019 17:46
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oh hell yeah
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Aug 7, 2019 18:07
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It seems to have the Raiders favored by five points over the Rams in the season opener... is that really possible?
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Aug 7, 2019 20:40
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And still haven't updated the Bucs logo. smh
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Aug 7, 2019 20:53
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Play posted:It seems to have the Raiders favored by five points over the Rams in the season opener... is that really possible?
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Aug 7, 2019 21:03
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Ditch posted:It's currently showing the preseason. So like... don't make any picks yet. I thought that might be the case but I don't remember making preseason picks at all last year e: it won't let me cancel my pick em picks lol. I can still change the pick but can't cancel it entirely. I imagine the preseason as far as pick em goes is just for fun or am I hosed already lol?
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Aug 7, 2019 21:23
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Preseason is separate from the regular season-- it goes up when I get my poo poo together. Records don't carry into the regular season so bet, don't bet, live your best life! It's mainly to make sure all the weekly automated scripts are working (mailers, odds, schedule updates... etc) before the regular season.
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Aug 7, 2019 22:34
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Qwijib0 posted:Preseason is separate from the regular season-- it goes up when I get my poo poo together. Records don't carry into the regular season so bet, don't bet, live your best life! It's mainly to make sure all the weekly automated scripts are working (mailers, odds, schedule updates... etc) before the regular season. nice. living my best best life as we speak, or trying to
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Aug 7, 2019 22:37
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wandler20 posted:And still haven't updated the Bucs logo. smh just for you I will update all the image maps. all of them. but not today.
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Aug 7, 2019 23:02
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Signed up and hoping to do better than last years trash season.
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Aug 9, 2019 05:12
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Oh you know I'm down for this.
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Aug 10, 2019 18:52
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I still say you win Eliminator if you're the last goon standing, without the requirement to never make a wrong pick all season.  this year I will do better than last year, because it would be hard to do worse than last year
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Aug 12, 2019 02:27
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Winning eliminator with a loss on your record is just being 1st place of the losers. Galaxy Brain is losing week 1, and then making it 0-17.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:44
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Leperflesh posted:I still say you win Eliminator if you're the last goon standing, without the requirement to never make a wrong pick all season. I mean sure, the person with the best record wins against all the other people. But it's still a lesser accomplishment
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Aug 12, 2019 17:03
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Play posted:I mean sure, the person with the best record wins against all the other people. But it's still a lesser accomplishment no no, not necessarily! Say in week 14, one goon is left standing. He has zero losses, while there's a dozen goons with 1 loss. Then, over the remaining weeks, that one goon loses 2 more games, while one of the others loses none. At the end of the season, one of those other goons has the fewest losses: but the first goon I mentioned should still be the winner. That's what "elimination" means. If we just crown whoever had the fewest losses at the end of the season, it's not an elimination bracket.
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Aug 12, 2019 17:09
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Leperflesh posted:no no, not necessarily! They're winning at different games, friend. It's all in how you think about it *gestures repeatedly to temple*
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Aug 12, 2019 17:14
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then we should rename it "football most wins contest" or at least "eliminator where nobody is eliminated"
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Aug 12, 2019 17:32
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Leperflesh posted:then we should rename it "football most wins contest" or at least "eliminator where nobody is eliminated" Last goon standing.
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Aug 12, 2019 17:33
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Leperflesh posted:then we should rename it "football most wins contest" or at least "eliminator where nobody is eliminated" just think of it as two different games. one to go the longest without being eliminated, and one to get as few losses as possible throughout the season the cool thing is you can play both at the same time
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Aug 12, 2019 17:57
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Play posted:just think of it as two different games. one to go the longest without being eliminated, and one to get as few losses as possible throughout the season sure but if you win the first one but not the second one then you don't get your name in the hall of fame on the OP, or get to sleep with the other goon's wives, or whatever the fabulous secret prizes I assume are
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Aug 12, 2019 18:23
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Leperflesh is right
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Aug 13, 2019 00:14
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im ready for some football mans to dissapoint me
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Aug 13, 2019 00:27
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Power of Pecota posted:Leperflesh is right oh, you have a wife to offer up?
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Aug 13, 2019 00:34
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Leperflesh posted:no no, not necessarily! I don't necessarily disagree, but not enough to code the ruby that would let me see who that was 
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Aug 13, 2019 16:09
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Qwijib0 posted:just for you I will update all the image maps.  . Also I just remembered most of those were for/from the previous design waaaaay back, luckily only a few logos ever had to be changed. If I went to tweak one I’d be tempted to just redo everything...I’ll just leave that to you.Did anyone ever push out retro logos? I remember having some dumb idea to push out alternate image maps when the NFL did throwback uniforms. I had a bunch of crap ready for that at one point.
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Aug 14, 2019 23:20
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Never bet on the Rams.
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Aug 15, 2019 04:16
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Qwijib0 posted:-Pickem: 16 chances to pick against the Browns, and 240 other games to ponder For the first time in years, this might not be such a good idea...
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Aug 16, 2019 11:31
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Qwijib0 posted:2015 Week 2 Ah yes, my yearly reminder that I survived the worst bloodbath in Eliminator history  Totally forgot to log in for preseason but I'm coming for that eliminator title this year baybeeeeQwijib0 posted:I don't necessarily disagree, but not enough to code the ruby that would let me see who that was I don't see why this would need any Ruby whatsoever. Look at the results after a week ends, if there is one goon left with zero losses, write their name down somewhere (like the OP of the thread, for example). Do the same thing at the end of the season with whoever finishes top of the leaderboard. Problem solved and no programming required barnold fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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Aug 21, 2019 17:32
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Leperflesh posted:then we should rename it "football most wins contest" or at least "eliminator where nobody is eliminated" This fuckin' debate about nothing again. Look, the name "eliminator" is not about eliminating players it's about eliminating TEAMS. We're not picking players in pickem, we're not eliminating players in eliminator. You can't use the same team twice? So it's eliminated? From your choices? Eliminator. Is this revisionist history? Maybe. Do I care? I do not. This is what eliminator means now if it's not what eliminator always meant, we've always been at war with Eastasia etc. Write it down, refer to it later when you feel aggrieved about how the scoring works, take deep breaths and recognize that you're probably losing anyway so who cares, take another long pull off the bottle of cheap gin next to you on the table, gaze vacantly into the middle distance and contemplate the meaninglessness of your existence, etcetera etcetera.
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Aug 22, 2019 18:14
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Some of you may have noticed the sportsbook numbers weren't updating this week. Our "provider" Pinnacle went and changed their website again, we assume to ruin everything for us in particular. Luckily, I hold a continuous grudge against them that will go with me to the grave, so rather than moving on to a different site that isn't interested in loving us over regularly, I've hacked and slashed yet another scraper together because these assholes can bite me. So for you gambling degenerates, the odds should be updating again as normal and let's all just take a moment to collectively put out into the universe that Pinnacle can get eternally bent for taking away their XML odds feed that was both free and convenient. I hope they choke on their reactjs.
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Aug 22, 2019 18:23
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Can my dad play. He wants to have a little contest with me and the easiest way I figure is just get him in goon eliminator
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Aug 22, 2019 21:38
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Play posted:Can my dad play. He wants to have a little contest with me and the easiest way I figure is just get him in goon eliminator Of course, anyone can sign up for an account and play: https://saseliminator.com/register/register
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Aug 22, 2019 21:53
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elfurbe posted:This fuckin' debate about nothing again. Look, the name "eliminator" is not about eliminating players it's about eliminating TEAMS. We're not picking players in pickem, we're not eliminating players in eliminator. You can't use the same team twice? So it's eliminated? From your choices? Eliminator. Qwijib0 posted:What is eliminator? like this is not my crusade, nor a hill I need to die on, I'm just gonna keep playing and having fun and it's all good. ...but your idea of what "eliminator" means does not jive with how the game is presented, at all. It's all about players being eliminated whenever they pick a team that doesn't win. It's just weird that that's not what we're looking at at the end of the season (anymore?).
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Aug 22, 2019 22:40
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Leperflesh posted:etc. etc. Updated statement: Is this revisionist history? Yes. Do I care? No I do not. I just don't want to go round and round on this in the threads anymore. Maybe no one is trying to die on this hill but we sure do take a stroll up it more often than we need to. I can assure you that the welcome email this year will reflect the history I have indicated was always the truth because I write the welcome email. Qwijib0 went rogue, I can't control him, no one can, it's folly to try.
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Aug 22, 2019 23:40
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you play. to win. the game.
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Aug 23, 2019 02:07
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elfurbe posted:Of course, anyone can sign up for an account and play: https://saseliminator.com/register/register Thank you, I thought I remembered a verification process for having an SA username but that is perfect Rooster Brooster posted:you play. to win. the game. speak for yourself, i play to lose. less competition that way *eddie murphy pointing to his forehead*
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Aug 23, 2019 17:12
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Play posted:speak for yourself, i play to lose. less competition that way *eddie murphy pointing to his forehead* 
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Aug 23, 2019 18:45
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Play posted:Can my dad play. He wants to have a little contest with me and the easiest way I figure is just get him in goon eliminator My dad's been playing for several years. He won in 2017 with a perfect 17-0 and is generally better at this than I am 
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can't wait to waste all my funbucks as extravagantly as possible
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