JackassRampant
Joined: Feb 26, 2011
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Sep 08, 2013 - 06:18 |
 
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There's about a week to the next power rankings, but right now the rising stars are looking like Carolina and the Jetz, plus of course Seattle (their rise is old news by now) and Chicago and Indy, now that their coaching situations are worked out. Smeat was on his way up before he left: let's see how Elliott_The_Lame handles the squad. As of this moment, the last two Superbowl champs are falling, Green Ball possibly even out of the top ten.
As to where you stand, Licker... well, if I had to set up the rankings now, I'd set you (3-0-2) up exactly one spot higher than the Krakens (2-1-2), to build drama for the head-to-head in Week 6. So yeah, probably a little bump up. But the actual JRPRs will probably come out after that game, when one of you will be around #12 and one of you will be around #20. Or not.... |
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JackassRampant
Joined: Feb 26, 2011
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Sep 08, 2013 - 06:29 |
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By the way, I'm gonna do ten power rankings every season.
Post-Builders
Week 1
Week 3
Week 5
Week 7
Week 9
Week 11
Week 13
Postseason
Pre-Draft
Additionally, I'm going to do a special feature for Week 8. Stay tuned. |
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licker
Joined: Jul 10, 2009
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Sep 08, 2013 - 06:49 |
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Hehe...
I don't really care where I stand, the lower the better as far as I'm concerned. 
My goal for this season was still player development, wins are just a bonus, but NA lacks so many fundamentals to be a 'top team' that I hardly worry about the record. |
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oryx
Joined: Jun 08, 2005
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Sep 08, 2013 - 08:39 |
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That's basically where I am too... I play to win, because I barely know another way to play. But records hardly matter when you're still mostly rookies! |
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JackassRampant
Joined: Feb 26, 2011
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Sep 08, 2013 - 16:08 |
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Guys, I don't know where you're coming from.
Licker especially, you should know better, oh Season IX AFC Champ. Burgun came in with low expectations and looks like he won't meet them, and Bullroarer got off like a shot but he's a paper tiger. Yeah, there's Apojar, so your missing the playoffs wouldn't stun me, but I think your efforts to sandbag what's clearly an in-the-pack team are hilarious.
Oryx, you're carrying a big albatross in an inherited four losses. I'd be stunned if you made the playoffs from that division. But record most definitely matters. Last season, we didn't have an Expansion Draft (though the depth on the main draft was a little better), and the expansion teams did terribly. I managed to post 7-2-5, and I'm quite proud of that record considering the circumstances. Playoffs? Heh, I felt like I had a prayer, but that just breaking even or a little better would be a good statement. Your math is different (your team is stronger than mine was then, but you start four games in the hole), but your goal should be the same. Anything near .500 (I'd set a target like 18 victory points, 6 wins or 5 wins 3 ties) says you made chicken salad out of you-know-what, and if you make the playoffs or whatever that's gravy. |
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licker
Joined: Jul 10, 2009
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Sep 08, 2013 - 17:21 |
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I'm not sand bagging, this isn't the NWFL 
I'm just saying my expectations for this season were low because I know what the team lacks to compete with the top teams in the league. Loosing Drew didn't help any either, though I think it was the right thing to do as I wasn't happy with the performance of that particular build on that particular bull.
Of course I'm trying to win my games, but I'm also trying to have a core of blockers to use for the future. So far so good, if I get some luck with skills for them then who knows, but for now, it's painfully difficult to play against developed teams as I lack the necessary pieces to reliably beat them. So, I play to undevelop them |
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Bullroarer4
Joined: Oct 22, 2012
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Sep 08, 2013 - 18:16 |
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I happen to agree with licker. JR's early preview of my team was accurate. Undeveloped pact generally doesn't have the tools to beat a developed anything. With this cycle, my opponents play the meat grinders before playing my team. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes my bigs just don't cooperate. At the beginning of the season I expected my wins and ties to equal my losses. I may luck out and break the 0.500 mark. |
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happygrue
Joined: Oct 15, 2010
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Sep 08, 2013 - 18:21 |
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Back in my day, we didn't get no pansy tushed expansion draft. We lost our sole draftee within minutes, and we LIKED it. |
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oryx
Joined: Jun 08, 2005
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Sep 08, 2013 - 22:56 |
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And that's kind of what I'm looking to avoid. I don't know what "sandbagging" is, but here's my perspective -
As a new team, this isn't my season to go for glory. If glory should find me along the way, well then I hope I'll be ready for it. But in the meantime, my goals are to preserve my draft picks, skill up to hit the basics - enough tackle, enough guard, a ball handler, a killer - and prepare for the following seasons.
Perhaps I simply don't understand the system very well. My perception is that, yes, record matters very much - it's ideal either to win em all, or lose em all for draft picks. Since I'm carrying 4 losses and I'm not comfortable with the team yet, it makes sense to lose em all - I just don't have it in me.
Then again, by winning I get spps, and ultimately winning consistently and scoring and maiming a lot is going to get me further than hanging back for better draft picks, so there's advantages to both.
Other than winning enough to make it to the playoffs, losing enough to get good draft picks, and building divisional and inter divisional rivalries, how does record matter? |
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JackassRampant
Joined: Feb 26, 2011
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Sep 08, 2013 - 23:09 |
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Ah, there's more to it than that. Pride matters. In the NFL history, there are only two teams ever to have winless seasons, and it's a source of shame for both franchises. One of these teams, it was their expansion season, it was 40 years ago, and they've won a Superbowl since... but it is what it is and there's no ditching it.
You can't measure your success this season in wins or in draft position (though hint: better to draft 20th than 1st) this season. You measure your success in pride, in what you did with what you had. Sure, the playoffs and SB aren't your target, though I'm sure you'll make the run if the cards fall right. But coming out with an expansion team, you want to beat the expansion teams, you want to play most of the better squads close, and maybe beat a couple, and you want to go down swinging. That matters more than any draft pick ever could, and it's more plausible than any postseason pipe dream from 1-0-4. |
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oryx
Joined: Jun 08, 2005
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Sep 08, 2013 - 23:59 |
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Well then we're in complete agreement =D For me, it isn't too much about pride - after all, pride cometh before a fall - but coming out swinging, ending up on top even as the underdog, and generally having a good old fashioned mashup is what it's all about! |
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Jeffro
Joined: Jan 22, 2009
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Sep 09, 2013 - 02:28 |
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My glory last season, for my floundering Buffalo squad was to beat the eventual AFC Champs during the regular season (granted I rather diced Duder's Texasaurus with early cas, but still )
Team development happens... but winning is the thing you remember, cuz players die. Wins live on in history. |
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ex-convict
Joined: Jun 28, 2005
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Sep 09, 2013 - 02:49 |
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Seriously, wtf are you guys talking about. There's only one way to play this game: Just Win Baby |
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licker
Joined: Jul 10, 2009
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Sep 09, 2013 - 03:09 |
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No body is playing to lose.
Some of us are looking more forward than others though.
My expectations for this season were not to win a super bowl though I'll certainly be trying to do that. However, along the way I have other issues to take care of because I know what the draft usually has to offer for those who pick in the 20s or later. Not a lot of help for a team that has shitty linemen... |
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Arktoris
Joined: Feb 16, 2004
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Sep 09, 2013 - 06:06 |
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hi Matt,
I'm having computer problems. I receive PMs but cannot reply. |
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