Board 8's proudest and least-ridiculous tradition is back- the User of the Year Fantasy League! We'll be drafting B8ers on Sunday night after the Giants/49ers game.
The always reliable Alec will be serving as Commissioner for draft night. A little bit ago in Board 8 Chat he drew the order we'll be drafting in, so this year's 12 Fantasy managers are, in order....
2012 Fantasy Managers 1. Bartz 2. Chris 3. Zazi 4. voltch 5. Mer 6. Justin 7. RPGLord 8. Lockes 9. Wigs 10. Boko 11. foolmo 12. Ngamer
Here's the sheet with all the info for this season, including what 220 B8ers are available to be drafted and what category each of them falls into.
If you're one of the 12 managers, be on AIM after the football games! Current plan is to start at 11pm EST, but we might be able to start a little sooner depending on when people get home. But if you can't make it to the draft for sure...
- you could pm Alec your list of who to pick in order, and he'll "auto draft" for you - could you pick someone else to draft for you (could talk strategy with them beforehand so you're on the same page) - you could drop out and be replaced by one of our subs, MSG or Angelo
CHANGES FOR THIS YEAR:
* everyone gets up to two Free Agent pickups after the draft is over!
* player trades will be allowed after the draft!
More details on that later.
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Also, if anyone needs me to draft for them, I'm available. I make no promises about how good the team will be, but I guarantee it would either be successful, controversial, or bro. Either way you make your mark.
220 B8ers compete in User of the Year every season, earning a final ranking somewhere from #1 to #220. The goal of this Fantasy League is for your team of 10 players to do better than anyone else's team.
Standard Fantasy rules apply- we use a snake ordered draft, and you have to pick one player to fill all 7 "positions" on the board. For NFL leagues that would be QB, RB, WR, etc. Here on Board 8 we have groups like "Stats Nerds" and "Mafia Players" that you have to fill instead!
Teams earn one point for every round their players advance out of. So making it to R3 = 2 pts, to R6 = 5 points, and so on. You add up all the points earned by your 10 players, and whoever has the most is the winner.
Last year's Champ was Wigs, who scored a clean win despite drafting from the #12 position; quite impressive! We'll see if he can defend his crown in 2012.
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B8 Socialite - people who are generically "social" on the board, not getting involved in many Contests or projects or talking on AIM or whatnot. aka the "who's that again?" category
AIM Super Bro - the kind of bro who's pretty active on AIM, especially Board 8 Chat, or hangs out with the Tinychat crew
Project Whore - users who do all kinds of projects and contests and whatnot
Stats Nerd - Contest Stats and Discussion, the Guru, the Oracle, the Show... if you follow this stuff, you'd be in this group
Mafia / Anime - this category used to be for mafia + Mercs players, but Mercs died so we replaced them with the B8 Anime Crew for some reason
Multimedia / Gamer - people mostly on B8 to talk about music, movies, TV shows, or video games themselves. OR people more likely to be playing multiplayer on Live/PSN/steam than posting on B8
Athletic Supporter - people who love discussing sports and/or wrestling
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- last year's final ranks are on the way left. Alec is going to put a line through everyone as they get picked this season, so by looking in the column you'll have a decent idea what people you should be considering next
- click the R1 + R2 tab on the bottom to see the placements everyone drew. you might want to avoid picking TOO many people from the same area... for instance if all 10 of your players are in Chris or Tom's divisions, some of them are going to knock each other out and cost you points
(remember that R1's division one plays division two in R2, 3 plays 4, and so forth)
- keep in mind that everyone gets 3 "Flex" positions. so if you think Projects is a really strong group this season, you can draft 4 people from that area if you want. but you can't take 5 or more- have to fill the other positions
- some groups have 1 or 2 decent choices and then a big falloff after that. in cases like that, it might be smarter to grab one of those players earlier than you normally would, so you're not stuck with garbage at that position later in the draft
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- once a player's R1 match starts, they are LOCKED DOWN and cannot be traded or waived. so for instance if you draft Dilated Chemist with your 10th round pick, you'll only have until Monday night to cut him and pick up someone from the free agent pool instead, because he's in Division #1. but Haste2 is in division #22, so he's unlocked and tradeable/cutable until 23 days after the draft
- the Free Agent pool is anyone who didn't get drafted plus anyone who someone else cut
- you only get two Free Agent pickups, so use them wisely!
- first person to post in the topic gets that free agent, there's no "pickup priority"
- remember that your team still has to meet the position requirements! if Heroic Mario was undrafted and you want him on your team, you'll have to drop a Gamer to make room for him (or someone in your Flex)
- for a trade, both people trading have to post in the topic to confirm it
- the Commish has veto power over any trade he thinks is tooooo lopsided (doubt it will come to this, but ehh)
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I was the one that moved you from mafia to AIM, plum. Matter of not having enough people in that category, and I felt you were known more for AIMplum than MAFIAplum this past year.
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