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| Topic | No one ever said "Ness" or Sness" when the consoles were current. |
| ShatteredElysium 11/26/18 10:28:51 PM #8 | I'm from the UK but we always called it NES and SNES assuming you mean pronouncing it as a word rather than each letter individually |
| Topic | Character Battle X Oracle Challenge - Winners Bracket Round 1 |
| ShatteredElysium 11/26/18 6:58:59 PM #76 | Link - 82.7% |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/25/18 8:44:48 PM #286 | Does anyone need an extra 2nd or 3rd rounder this year? I'd be willing to swap it for 2nd or 3rd next year straight up. I'm going to have significantly more picks than holes if my other trades go through so I'd rather give up picks this year for picks next year. |
| Topic | NBA Discussion Topic 2 - More drama than a soap opera |
| ShatteredElysium 11/25/18 6:30:00 PM #92 | Well Magic got a win against the Lakers. Only the 2nd time ever we have swept them in a season. 10-10 on the season now. We have Warriors, Portland, Suns, Heat all the on the road. Get me 2 wins out of that and I'm ecstatic (so basically beat the Heat and Suns!) |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/25/18 11:55:45 AM #282 | Can you send Jablax PMs now KCF? He thinks he has read his messages |
| Topic | Black Friday Topic |
| ShatteredElysium 11/25/18 10:05:56 AM #96 | Corrik posted... ShatteredElysium posted...I mean the one with Pokemon for $288 is still a good deal I think? Not sure, not really shopped for Switchs Just to follow up on this. A Switch using the BF18 code now is $240. |
| Topic | Post Black Friday Deals here |
| ShatteredElysium 11/25/18 10:04:32 AM #90 | Is a Switch for $240 the best deal I'm going to find? As that's the best I've seen so far EDIT: Also looking for a 3DS or whatever the best version of that is nowadays. Gave mine up when I got divorced a few years ago and never replaced it. |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 205: Now 100% More Fabulous! |
| ShatteredElysium 11/25/18 7:08:17 AM #249 | Just started watching Fate Apocrypha. Jesus fucking christ, I see where the Astolfo trap memes come from. I knew he looked girly but I didn't realize they gave him a girly voice and had him play up to it. Or maybe it's a plot point because they haven't actually said he's a boy yet. |
| Topic | NBA Discussion Topic 2 - More drama than a soap opera |
| ShatteredElysium 11/24/18 11:10:11 PM #77 | Did the Warriors game really end on a wedgie like Wob posted on twitter? |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/24/18 6:31:05 PM #276 | I'm still interested in Kenny O'Neal, I just need to work out if I can get him with my cap situation. If someone else wants to jump in for him though, by all means go ahead as I think it will be a struggle unless I deal some guys away |
| Topic | College Football Ladder Contest Week 13: Last Chance |
| ShatteredElysium 11/24/18 4:12:48 PM #13 | Man where the fuck was this team all year. Was the most worried this year about losing and it turned into a curbatomp |
| Topic | NBA Discussion Topic 2 - More drama than a soap opera |
| ShatteredElysium 11/24/18 11:34:42 AM #61 | Do people using league pass not get the games on their normal TV? Like every Magic game I watch is in Fox Sports Florida which is a standard channel I think I guess if you live out of local market? |
| Topic | College Football Ladder Contest Week 13: Last Chance |
| ShatteredElysium 11/23/18 7:23:00 PM #11 | That UCF QB is so bad, you don't wish that on any player and that is such a terrible thing to happen to a Heisman candidate on the cusp of back to back undefeated seasons |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 10:41:17 PM #263 | You could always create a second google account and sign in on an incognito tab and see if it let's you chat / chat shows up Sometimes sheets is weird as hell. My positions comparison sheet from last season it literally will not open on mobile but if I copy and paste it over to a new sheet it works fine |
| Topic | NFL Week 12 discussion |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 6:56:01 PM #40 | LeonhartFour posted... I was just afraid to play him with Chase Daniel starting. Oh well. Should have been a real man like me. I picked Daniel up off waivers and played him! |
| Topic | NFL Week 12 discussion |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 5:17:31 PM #33 | Saw this on twitter Since the start of the 2015 season, Bears S Eddie Jackson leads the NFL with 5 defensive touchdowns. |
| Topic | Black Friday Topic |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 5:08:10 PM #74 | I mean the one with Pokemon for $288 is still a good deal I think? Not sure, not really shopped for Switchs |
| Topic | Black Friday Topic |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 5:02:39 PM #72 | I don't see the Switch for $240? It doesn't give the same 20% off option when you click on it, just a 20% off for first order with a cap of $20 from what I can see. The one with Pokemon for $360 let's you apply the code I think. If the codes double stack that's $268 I think. Edit: No double stacking so $288. Lemme try the other one Edit2: Standard Switch only reduces to $280, won't take the larger 20% off code |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 3:26:45 PM #256 | Also I do want to say I appreciate everything you said KCF and I don't want my posts to be taken overly negatively. I just wanted to defend myself if it was my trades that raised the issue as I never intentionally misled anyone or tried to take advantage of another user in a trade. So sorry if it comes across negatively I actually made the position comparisons sheet because I wanted to help users make fairer trades and to be able to evaluate the worth of their players more. Like Emerald I typically avoid trading with new users and try help them evaluate player values better. I know my opinion of player values now is vastly different to my first 3 seasons where I made some big blunders with trades and drafting. |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 9:52:13 AM #253 | My take on cap management / team development is this (and this may/may not be wrong) If your team isn't very good then players are typically worth more than draft picks. Dropping draft picks into a bad side just results in them not developing. Whereas dropping in established players will likely improve performance and possibly result in development of existing players. And undeveloped rookie contracts are awful (see RG3 picking up 4.9m this year as a 78 QB when an 81 QB wants 3.5m per year) so can lead to cap issues / team being perpetually bad. Plus trading draft picks for players likely saves you cap space due to the guaranteed money being paid by the original team. An example of this is I drafted DT Gerald McCoy who went from 80 > 83 after his rookie year. Then I started him as DT1 and he dropped from 83 > 82 after a bad season. I brought in DT Randy Starks (88) and McCoy jumped from 82 > 85 and played a lot better. I'm sure my better win record played a factor too. If your team is good or has good parts of then draft picks become more valuable since you can drop those players into the team and there's a good chance they will develop. They don't always have to even be bonafide starters. Just rotating in for snaps or due to injuries is sometimes enough. The drafted players then becomes more valuable due to his rookie contract being cheaper than his rating. KCF is a prime example of this. He can bring in those later round picks who sit behind established starters in great units and keep developing. He had Osmele (91), Fletcher (89) and Bell (85) up for RFA this year which means they were all likely drafted in the 2nd-4th round as like 75-80 rated players who were able to sit and develop and by RFA time he's either getting back 1st rounders for them or gets that cheap RFA year of contract before deciding to either keep them or move them on in a sign and trade. Like last season he drafted C Weston Richburg as a 75 and I doubt he played much, if at all, but he jumped up to an 81 this year. Whereas I'm sure if he was drafted to a worse team I doubt he sees that growth. 2nd to 4th round picks are actually really good for cap purposes I think just due to that 4th year being an RFA year. So you either get a cheap year contract out of them or you get a high draft return on them. Even if the player doesn't develop at all, the lowest tender is very likely cheaper than any similarly rated player at that position. I guess theoretically you can offer 5-7th round picks 3 year deals too to trigger RFA but I know rookies can throw out silly demands if you mess with the years on their initial contract. |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 9:11:17 AM #252 | Banks/Cox Trade Wiz Steelers Receive: SS Ian Cox (91) Shattered That's a really good offer. I'm definitely interested but I have another offer on that pick right now so I have 2 counter offers. Wiz I'll take offer #2 if you still want to. |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 9:11:12 AM #251 | Vinson Trade (I was mistaken, it was the 36th pick not 42nd) Shattered Hey Scare Im down for that Murdock Trade Shattered Hey, Nee Yes, we can work this out. Would Murdock for Youboty work? If you need to offset the cap difference between the players, I can take Levi Marquardt too, but I don't need that player otherwise. Marquardt Trade Shattered Hey, Deadpool Yeah I'd be interested in this. |
| Topic | B8 NFL Pick'em Topic Week 12 |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 8:45:26 AM #43 | Thursday, November 22nd Chicago Bears Dallas Cowboys New Orleans Saints Sunday, November 25th Jacksonville Jaguars Cincinnati Bengals New England Patriots Philadelphia Eagles Tampa Bay Buccaneers arolina Panthers Baltimore Ravens Los Angeles Chargers Pittsburgh Steelers Indianapolis Colts Green Bay Packers Monday, November 26th Houston Texans |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/22/18 7:06:19 AM #250 | Now I feel bad because I'm guessing that is partially down to me saying I traded for desirable contracts? So now I feel the need to explain as I think that may have been taken the wrong way. These are the contracts I picked up last year that I would say are desirable MLB Bryan Vinson (84) from 49ers SS Levi Marquardt (77) from Wildcats WR O.J. Murdock (83) from Lions CB Trumaine Banks (85) from Cowboys Vinson and Banks I wanted regardless of the contract attached to them and involved me sending away really high draft picks (9th overall and 42nd overall I think). Their contracts being good was coincidental. Wiz came to me with the Banks trade and the Vinson trade, I had tried getting an MLB from 4 different people before that so it's not like Vinson was my first choice. The Murdock trade was made for cap reasons but not for the contract itself. I had excess CBs with a hole at WR. Nee had excess WRs. So I offered to send Nee what would be a CB1 for him for one of his WRs. I feel it's important to note I didn't pick the WR I took back, I let Nee pick whichever WR he wanted to send back and he picked Murdock. I also offered to send a cheap contract back to fill one of his holes as part of the trade which he declined (Marquardt fwiw). This ended up backfiring anyway as then I drafted a WR to be a returner In Marquardt's case I sent back the draft pick (high 5th) I would have used to draft a SS and the dead money involved was pretty minimal (like 300k total). Deadpool also had 3 SSs on his roster and was in a rough cap spot so taking an SS off him for a draft pick helped him more than me. Most trades inherently involve desirable contracts due to the guaranteed money being paid by the original team. What I meant by me trading for desirable contracts was that I gave up draft picks for players basically knowing that would save me money and help offset the large amount of dead money I was eating this year. I wouldn't ever intentionally present an unfair trade to another user. I have also never pressured anyone into a trade. I typically send a PM saying would you be interested in X player or would you be interested in trading away X player. If I get told no, I simply tell them no worries and move on. I have all my trade PMs (because apparently B8NFL is the only time I use the PM system) and have no problem showing any of them. |
| Topic | NBA Discussion Topic 2 - More drama than a soap opera |
| ShatteredElysium 11/21/18 8:21:41 PM #19 | I gotta buy into all the Magic stuff until we implode The Lakers only loss (5-1) since adding Tyson Chandler is to Orlando. The Sixers only loss (3-1) since adding Jimmy Butler is to Orlando. Coincidence? |
| Topic | Character Battle X Oracle Challenge - Winners Bracket Round 1 |
| ShatteredElysium 11/21/18 7:44:51 AM #26 | Link - 81% Mega Man - 54.5% Cloud Strife - 63% Crono - 56% Solid Snake - 53% Sonic the Hedgehog - 56% Samus Aran - 55% Mario - 51% |
| Topic | NBA Discussion Topic 2 - More drama than a soap opera |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 9:16:28 PM #4 | Fuck me. It's hard to be disappointed running the Raptors that close but we really should have won that game |
| Topic | NBA Discussion Topic: We're Back! |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 8:59:36 PM #497 | This is so frustrating. Magic forced Raptors to turn it over on 7 of the first 8 possessions and held them to 3/6 shooting in the first 7.5 mins of the 4th. We should be long out of sight except we have shot 1/14 so. 83-82 to Magic |
| Topic | NBA Discussion Topic: We're Back! |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 8:33:06 PM #496 | Magic were down by 18 very quickly in this game but now in the 3rd we are ahead for the first time all game at 61-59 |
| Topic | Steam Link for $2.50, ceasing production. |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 6:33:29 PM #41 | Xiahou Shake posted... ShatteredElysium posted...Well and I guess I need a 360 controller since I only own Playstations Oh the Steam Link page only specified supporting Xbox 360 controllers, it didn't mention Playstation at all. |
| Topic | Steam Link for $2.50, ceasing production. |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 6:31:18 PM #39 | Xiahou Shake posted... ShatteredElysium posted...So is it basically a way of screen sharing? So if I can already screen share from my laptop without it, it's pointless? Well I have a spare gaming laptop right now so my plan was to make that essentially a steam console for my TV. It's an older gaming laptop but should be fine for the older games on Steam I think. I guess I'll pick one up, worst case it's only $10. Well and I guess I need a 360 controller since I only own Playstations |
| Topic | Steam Link for $2.50, ceasing production. |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 6:23:18 PM #31 | So is it basically a way of screen sharing? So if I can already screen share from my laptop without it, it's pointless? |
| Topic | Steam Link for $2.50, ceasing production. |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 6:18:58 PM #29 | So basically if I have a spare laptop/computer I could leave it turned on in a corner somewhere and use this box to play games on the TV with a controller? And any controller works? That's amazing, how did I not know about this earlier. |
| Topic | Post Black Friday Deals here |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 1:40:32 PM #19 | Wait, what happened to Wang? |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 12:32:45 PM #240 | Needs more trades! This might be the longest I've gone in an offseason without trading yet |
| Topic | NBA Discussion Topic: We're Back! |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 10:17:19 AM #495 | Magic have the Raptors tonight. Time to see how much we have really progressed |
| Topic | The Best Board 8 Fantasy Football League 2018 Topic 3 |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 7:51:30 AM #116 | Oh apparently I'm not mathematically eliminated in the league where I got 215 and 197 the last 2 weeks 6 playoff spots. 4 teams already have 7+ wins, I cap out at 6 wins. So I would need at least 2 other teams to not reach 7 wins and I'd win the tiebreaker over any of them right now. Which means I need: 6-4 Team A to lose twice (looks like they get 1-2 wins) 6-4 Team B to lose twice (looks like 0-1 wins) 5-5 Team C to not win twice (looks like 1 win) 5-5 Team D to not win twice (looks like 1-2 wins) Me to win twice (both matches 50-50) So it's a very outside shot but could happen |
| Topic | NFL Discussion Topic - Week 11 |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 1:33:04 AM #259 | The Tampa Bay Buccaneers had more yards against the Washington Redskins than the Los Angeles Rams did tonight against the Kansas City Chiefs. The Bucs scored 3 points; the Rams scored 54. |
| Topic | The Best Board 8 Fantasy Football League 2018 Topic 3 |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 1:31:50 AM #112 | Some leagues have minus points for missed kicks. I know our league has that |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 12:46:56 AM #233 | Ideally changes come at start of offseason but honestly I don't think changing it after RFA makes a big deal. It's not like you know your cap room when bidding anyway. Like sure you have total cap space but you're blind on your free agent demands which are going to take up most of your space. I was over 5m off in my guesstimate of free agent demands. Plus I then lost extra cap room through losing a CB (because no way can I replace him for the same price as RFA tender value) I agree for consistency it should come at offseason start but I think ultimately if KCF changed it now for this season it wouldn't make a difference competitive wise to if he had made the change pre RFA. Actually I might be the one most affected as I likely bid Osmele over Fletcher and give McGuire a higher tender if I had 3m more cap space. But as I've said, I'm ok with leaving it as it is if KCF wants to keep it simple and reevaluate at season end. Whatever KCF decides is good with me. |
| Topic | What is your current contest bracket score? |
| ShatteredElysium 11/20/18 12:29:38 AM #3 | 207 |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/19/18 11:52:41 PM #226 | The game tells you the dead money each team has for the year otherwise it would be miserable just to work out the 157m we currently have. (That was in respond to Emerald rather than KCF) I wouldn't mind the cap going up this year but I'd be okay with it staying the same if that's what everyone else wanted. |
| Topic | NFL Discussion Topic - Week 11 |
| ShatteredElysium 11/19/18 11:47:37 PM #206 | Should hope for a FG so we can get OT! |
| Topic | NFL Discussion Topic - Week 11 |
| ShatteredElysium 11/19/18 11:45:27 PM #197 | The Bills have 137 points for the year. They scored 41 against the Jets so in 9 games this year they scored 96 points. There's 104 points scored so far in this game. |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/19/18 11:30:36 PM #222 | I hesitate to suggest this because I'm wary of how much extra work it would be for you but maybe instead of increasing the cap, you could have 'Dead Money Forgiveness'. Where the first X amount of dead money (3-5m?) is ignored. That way it would possibly still encourage the better teams to trade to make use of it. Whereas if they opted not to trade, they effectively don't get to make use of it unless they cut. It would also allow teams in dire straits to get rid of a bad contract without screwing themselves. I know that would be slightly double edged in that it could encourage people to be irresponsible with contract offers and the point of dead money is to punish people for doing that. EDIT: Also maybe make a note of what the AI spend this year and move ours accordingly. If all the AI are at like 175m+ for example then maybe we need to be in the 160s. However if quite a few of the AI are at 157m or lower (or even like 165m or lower) then maybe we are making too big a deal out of it. Be interesting to see where the Broncos are at too. |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/19/18 11:23:00 PM #221 | For the record I'm not saying it's out of control or anything, just that it's something that needs to be monitored. Like I cannot realistically see how a user team could catch the Broncos whilst they remain AI controlled. Any user team is going to hit a ceiling where progress halts due to the cap. Essentially the Dolphins are the best the users can hope for. Butting up against the cap ceiling and making flurries of trade for draft picks to stay under the cap and then hoping the players come in develop slightly better than the players going out whilst still on cheaper rookie deals. I'd imagine that will start becoming problematic soon too though as rookie contracts are likely scaling up too. |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/19/18 11:10:06 PM #219 | theawesomestevr posted... KCF0107 posted...I can consider going up to $159-160 mil next season. The in-game cap space is something like $204 mil, which is insane. It's at 157m and I want to say it has stayed at that for maybe 4 seasons now. The issue with 204m is that the AI won't pay over the odds for players so when users were on equal footing with them, AI would never get the good players as users had too much cap room to throw about. The issue now seems to be that users have no money to play with so have to let good players go. Whereas the AI never needs to let good players go and they get the good players in FA too. And whilst some AI will still do bad, it does mean that teams like the Broncos are now always going to be good. They don't have to let their excellent players go (unless they demand due to play time) and they also develop way better than users due to how good they are. I'd imagine we'll start seeing more AI teams like that as time goes on too. |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/19/18 11:08:55 PM #218 | I think the game is just scaling contracts with the increasing cap and now we are a few years behind the increasing cap, we are seriously feeling the crunch. What was the cap last season for AI? For some reason I had it in my head that it was ~170m but it can't have been if the cap is now 204m And I echo Emerald's statement. My largest concern is the gap between the users and the AI. We will have to make tough decisions whereas the AI is never going to have to let their best players go due to cap reasons. It's kind of double edged. It does force the better user controlled teams to share the wealth but there is now a larger advantage to developing players and having them under cheaper contracts than their OVR is typically paid. And the lesser teams struggle to develop players leaving them struggling against the cap. It's a tricky one. Like I don't feel like I've been horrible with my contracts in recent years (Turner being the outlier but I shouldn't feel the effects of that yet) but I feel like I'm about 10-13m short of where I need to be (So realistically maybe we are 5-6m light?). I even made the conscious effort to trade for players with desirable contracts last season to try help out the cap situation. I can cut players and sign some garbage to fill holes but it feels like that shouldn't be the solution every year. |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1308 |
| ShatteredElysium 11/19/18 9:52:05 PM #433 | Link versus Cloud posted... LeonhartFour posted...TheOneAboveAll posted...I don't like this format. It's double-elimination until the final battle? But then it suddenly becomes not? So whoever wins through the bracket the first time (**cough** Link **cough**) would lose the final even if it's just a one-off? How do you even do this though? Run the same poll again the next day? That would be stupid. |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 11: The Offseason |
| ShatteredElysium 11/19/18 9:39:17 PM #209 | Actually found a few other examples too Last contract demands WR Carlos Thomas (80) 3 / $8.76 mil / $1.47 mil TE Tate Casey (85) 3 / $6.81 mil / $1.17 mil TE Derek Schouman (76) 4 / $5.60 mil / $840k New Demands WR Carlos Thomas (80) 5 / $17.50 mil / $2.90 mil TE Tate Casey (85) 3 / $9.30 mil / $1.71 mil TE Derek Schouman (77) 3 / $5.43 mil / $810k Significant jump in demands despite rating staying the same or only a minor increase. I thought maybe it was a case of guys demanding higher as they got older / more years in the league buuuuut C Brad Meester (94) - 3 / $10.56 mil / $2.79 mil <---- 33-34 years old at time of contract C Andy Levitre (87) 2 / $6.28 mil / $1.40 mil <---- 29 years old at time of contract No idea what it is but something is causing players to demand more money (at least for me anyway) |
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