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Oh wow, football starts tonight. Guess it's time to put up the thread (but 144 of you already made picks, excellent job!) That's right, the 20th season of everyone's favorite game is back. What's new? Nothing. Click button, receive fake dollars and real internet praise. --- Season 19 recap: Congrats to nobody who went 18-0 in eliminator.  (but drewville, Cowfish, and Yamsta went 16-2) Grittybeard was the pickem winner with 180 victories. Leperflesh managed to eek out enough to buy a used car, ending the season with a balance of $22,706.44 Season 19 thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4011698 -- 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. In raw terms, a 44% survival rate isn't as dramatic as most of the bloodbaths, but in terms of comedy value, A+. 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. 2019 Week 10 Oh look, the Saints again, who could have predicted. Luckily the Colts pulled it out... oh wait, neither did they. 13% survival rate. 2022 Week 1 Who is good, who knows anything? 66% of bettors certainly didn't. I guess you can blame the rain for the 49ers, but the Titans and Broncos had no excuse. 34% Survive to week 2. --- What are you waiting for, go click some buttons! Qwijib0 fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Sep 7, 2023 |
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thank you bubby. i love to eliminate
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Sep 8, 2023 00:07
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You're doing the lords work Qwijib0, god bless ya.
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Sep 8, 2023 00:50
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I'm going to try to win the money game by only betting unders the entire season. Hoping to be an eliminator legend
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Sep 8, 2023 01:05
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Welp, I'm done with reverse eliminator.
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Sep 8, 2023 04:30
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1-0 in pick'em and +450 funbucks. Playing a hunch worked out for ol' Kalli.
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Sep 8, 2023 04:31
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Lions, Bitch
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Sep 8, 2023 04:33
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Pretty pleased with my last minute switch from the Lions to the Pats for reverse eliminator. This space reserved for when I edit this Sunday when the Pats win too. Pain of Mind fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Sep 8, 2023 |
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Sep 8, 2023 04:35
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You are receiving this broadcast as a dream...We are transmitting from the year one nine... nine nine ...You are receiving this broadcast in order t
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Pain of Mind posted:Pretty pleased with my last minute switch from the Lions to the Pats for reverse eliminator. Y'know, I had a feeling. And I decided to ignore it. Don't do that.
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Sep 8, 2023 04:37
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Wasn't quite gutsy enough to switch my Pickem to the Lions but I did take them for Spread Eliminator and Chiefs for Reverse Spread
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Sep 8, 2023 04:40
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14 people out already in Eliminator and some goon named borickel accidentally picked Detroit and got lucky.
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Sep 8, 2023 12:29
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All hail to our king, borickel
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Sep 8, 2023 13:41
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I may have made some mistakes
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Sep 10, 2023 20:47
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I may have made some mistakes Welcome fellow week one eliminated.
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Sep 10, 2023 20:51
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Commanders win! that was close
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Sep 10, 2023 21:05
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was wise to bid against the cardinals and broncos. lol vikings and lol saints not beating the spread.
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Sep 11, 2023 01:52
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daslog posted:I'm going to try to win the money game by only betting unders the entire season. Hoping to be an eliminator legend Betting the under: boring for actual games, cheat code for Funbucks 
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Sep 11, 2023 01:59
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Let's see, I forgot to pick the Thursday game (but probably would have picked the Chiefs), I busted all 4 eliminator games, and I went 7-7 (4-10 ATS) in pickem. So another typical season for me
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Sep 11, 2023 18:40
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Bucs ML has me leading the Funbucks!
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Sep 13, 2023 21:10
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A belated gently caress you to the Vikings for knocking me out in the first week. I haven't had to experience that shame in a couple of seasons.
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Sep 17, 2023 17:29
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Neat, I'm leading both regular and spread Pick Em after Week 2. Which is a good thing because other than ReverseElim I'm doing horrible on everything else!
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Sep 20, 2023 21:29
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Mega64 posted:Neat, I'm leading both regular and spread Pick Em after Week 2. 21-9-2 goddamn
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Sep 21, 2023 00:51
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The Patriots versus Jets over under is 37 points. That's a sign of horrible quarterbacking. I might take the under
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Sep 21, 2023 01:51
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 drat you, Jags  But currently tied for #1 in Pickem, hell yeah.
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Sep 24, 2023 22:14
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I forgot to put in pickem picks for the 1pm games today 
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Sep 25, 2023 05:09
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Out because Dallas lost but also lol Dallas lost
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Sep 25, 2023 15:55
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shyduck posted:Out because Dallas lost but also lol Dallas lost same
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Sep 25, 2023 16:48
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Sep 26, 2023 01:11
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I'm going along well since the Pats were there for me.. But somehow I picked Bengals in reverse in a fugue state? So that's gonna be fun for me to watch.
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Sep 26, 2023 01:14
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I'm another dallas victim. I even told myself last week "don't just pick everyone who plays the cards, they're bound to win a game sooner or later" and then I ignored that excellent advice.
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Sep 26, 2023 01:21
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The choices this week for eliminator, given my internal rules are, woof. *no divisionals *no tnf *no snf *no mnf this leaves me with a bunch of really tight games. go, uh, bengals!
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Sep 28, 2023 17:06
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I ain't too worried about the eagles prevailing over their division rivals the washington commanders this weekend, but I think generally those are some good internal rules yeah
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Sep 29, 2023 01:22
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Qwijib0 posted:The choices this week for eliminator, given my internal rules are, woof. yup i am out of the other eliminators but hitching my 3-0 wagon to joe burrow's calf
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Sep 29, 2023 02:46
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I'm betting on the Chargers says person about to be eliminated
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Sep 30, 2023 01:46
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JPrime posted:yup i am out of the other eliminators but hitching my 3-0 wagon to joe burrow's calf this is not looking wise
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Oct 1, 2023 19:32
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JPrime posted:this is not looking wise 
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Oct 1, 2023 19:55
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Hey Qwijib0 if you don't mind, can I ask what API you use for the site? I'm thinking of building something similar for practice
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Oct 3, 2023 01:02
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None, they've all gone pay over the last several years as sports gambling has assured everyone that you can afford to pay. At this point the site is reliant on data espn.com can be coerced into providing as JSON with get variables that elfurbe does some wizardry on to conform it to the format eliminator expects. If you search around for "espn json api" you'll find a lot of examples.
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Oct 3, 2023 14:19
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Qwijib0 posted:None, they've all gone pay over the last several years as sports gambling has assured everyone that you can afford to pay. I noticed about the APIs! Quite annoying. But thanks a ton, that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for
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Hey this is really minor, but I've noticed that sometimes when I drag a slider all the way to the right, it doesn't use up all my available funbux: I can still edit in the correct amount but sometimes when I have an uneven amount of funbux like 1242.87 I don't notice and I leave five fake dollars on the table unrisked
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