Board 8 > NFL Ladder Contest - Final Results

(+) Yeah! (+)

It came down to the wire, and Naye nearly advanced, but in the end he was hurt by failing to get any bonus points this season. Thus your winner, with 1 tiebreaker point, is cyan1001! Congratulations to cyan, and thank you all for participating this year.

As always, I'll take this time to open the floor for suggestions and discussion about future improvements. Ideas for new/replacement levels, adjusting current levels, or where on the "rung" certain levels are.

One big suggestion that came up is allowing the possibility for people to skip a level. If implemented, it would probably have to come with some balancing/tiebreaking implications. Maybe having to try the level for x number of weeks first? (Downside to that being more work for me to keep track of that.) Does this break the spirit of the game, or is it a good thing to help out those frustrated on the same level for several weeks? I do hate seeing people getting frustrated by failing the same level constantly, then I wonder if I should make the level easier but worry if a change would make it too easy.

Ultimately, I feel like there has to be that element of challenge and difficulty, and the element of increasing difficulty that the game was built on. But I prefer to see people pass levels than fail, especially failing several times over and getting frustrated. In the end, the most populated level was Level 6, which, if picking every week, means just five correct picks in 17 weeks (four in 16 if you don't include Level 1 which is usually a gimme). That's not a very fun ratio.

Anyway, thanks again for playing along this year. Let's get to the rankings.

FINAL RESULTS

Level 9
cyan1001****** [1] - WINNER
Naye745

Level 8
Arti**** [1]
Paratroopa1******* [6]
Reg***** [5]
TheKnightOfNee***** [9]
Thrillwell******** [9]
ZeroSignal620** [6]

Level 7
baubeta**
Camden******
crazyisgood*
Dancedreamer******
davidponte***** [5]
Emeraldegg**
foxhead84******** [7]
HBJDubs****
thekitchensink****** [14]
TsunamiXXVIII**
WalkingWiki****

Level 6
5tarscream******* [2]
Cody11533*** [1]
DpOblivion*****
Dr_Football***
fortybelowsummer****
Jukkie** [5]
kevwaffles**
KingBartz*****
Logicblade
meche313*****
Meow1000*****
Mewtwo59* [1]
MrSmartGuy***
pronouncemyname***
Ringworm****
Runemistress***
SpikeDragon*******
Stripperiffic*****
terpaholic*****
th3l3fty** [4]
theawesomestevr*** [6]
Wicklebee***** [1]
WiggumFan267***** [1]
Wizardsfan1000******
xp1337**** [4]
Xuxon***** [4]

Level 5
Crescent-Moon***
ExquisiteSamurai*
KCF0107***** [3]
KommunistKoala*****
MartinFF7** [2]
mccheyne*
MZero11**
Vengeful_KBM***
voltch*
Whiskey Nick******* [6]

Level 4
VeryInsane**

Level 3
dowolf
Evil_REmade*** [3]
guffguy89
HanOfTheNekos
HotDogButts*

Level 2
Eddv
SwiftyDC*

Level 1
bng_mmmk
Jakyl25*
ProfitProphet
SeabassDebeste
WweJth*

* - Bonus points
[ ] - Tiebreaker points
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Yeah it took me 2 attempts at most for the first 5 levels and then I spent like at least half the season on level 6. So ideally would be cool if that didn't happen but I'm not gonna pretend I know the perfect solution because I don't.
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bump
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I feel like if I gave the contest more time/consideration, I could have moved on from level 6 - if that's good for anything.

That's pretty crazy though that Naye had zero TB points. I thought I was doing bad on them this year, and still had 3 opportunities.

third place!

(or am I fourth?)
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TheKnightOfNee posted...

third place!

(or am I fourth?)

I think we locked up in a 3rd place tie. So if that's the case, we cut the bronze medal in half and put it flat side up to reveal our bronze taco trophies. Which is way better than winning, cause hey... tacos.
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Congrats
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I guess for Level 6 either make it 1 TD each instead of needing 4. I was pissed that 1 week all 3 guys got TD's and I still didn't advance. Or maybe if the RB gets a receiving and rushing score that should count if it doesn't already.
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Dang. I was doing well and this and just literally forgot about it for the past few weeks. I couldve moved on, but oh well
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So close, and yet so far.

I think level 6 is mostly fine btw, though obviously I'm a minority. Pretty sure I've never been on that challenge for more than two or three weeks tops, though.

Level 7 is ass though.
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Congrats to Cyan!

I think rather than allowing people to skip a level, maybe have a better sliding scale of difficulty.

OR... and I don't know if this would be difficult to keep track of or not, but maybe let people choose the challenge they try that week? Like... instead of having different levels you have 16 challenges, and people pick which one they want to do. That way when people get stuck on a challenge, they can just try a different one. Not sure if that'd be harder to keep track of or not though. Once you've completed a challenge, you move to the next level--but then you're through with that challenge, and can't do it again.

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