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September 03, 2014
SportsFilter NFL Pick 'Em, 2014 Edition: I've set up an NFL Weekly Pick 'Em group for SportsFilter on NFL.Com for the season, which begins Thursday night with Green Bay at Seattle. It's a straight-up league with no point spreads. The password to join is kickoff. This will be the first contest in the SportsFilter Cup, a year-long competition to find the best fantasy sports player in this site.
I think I know who the cup should be named after...
posted by grum@work at 01:34 PM on September 03, 2014
Not a great start. I enter my registration information, and it crashed out when I hit finished.
It did, however, seem to save the info as the link in the post title worked and took me to the group when I clicked it again.
That interface for choosing teams? Too fancy, by half.
posted by grum@work at 01:42 PM on September 03, 2014
I'm in as Krumrie's Floppy Leg. Look upon my historical 40% success rate, all ye mighty, and despair!
posted by tahoemoj at 02:45 PM on September 03, 2014
I think I'm in. Weird site.
I hope to do one better than last year.
posted by owlhouse at 09:42 PM on September 03, 2014
Whoah! The administrator for MySpace is a part of our group?
...
Psych! It's just me!
posted by NoMich at 10:02 PM on September 03, 2014
I think I'm in also. It didn't ask me for a password but shows (I think) that I'm in the group SPORTSFILTER.
posted by ic23b at 11:10 PM on September 03, 2014
I keep looking for a Save button or some kind of confirmation that I picked things. There isn't one, is there?
Also, another vote here for the Jigger Statz Memorial Cup.
posted by Etrigan at 09:05 AM on September 04, 2014
No save button, fooled me also (although that doesn't take much).
If you look at the info for the page it mentions picks are automatically frozen at a certain time before the game commences ... auto-submission, I assume.
posted by cixelsyd at 10:35 AM on September 04, 2014
How do I join the league? I registered on the site but the league search shows nothing for SportsFilter.
posted by billsaysthis at 10:49 AM on September 04, 2014
Click on the link in the post title, and it should take you directly to the group.
posted by grum@work at 10:56 AM on September 04, 2014
35 entries so far.
posted by rcade at 01:52 PM on September 04, 2014
I'm in (I think), but the site sure was none too intuitive. Wanted a better team name, but it wouldn't let me use "Vulgar Rebellious Rabble". Alas.
posted by Howard_T at 07:32 PM on September 04, 2014
If you are still having trouble joining the group, join the weekly pick 'em on NFL.Com anyway. That way you can be added later and your picks will count.
posted by rcade at 07:53 PM on September 04, 2014
I managed to get into the group, but it doesn't show any score for me. (It shows 0 for everyone else.) I looked at my picks, and they were there as I left them. I guess that means I'm in the group, my picks, including tonight's game which is shown now as "locked", are in for all games, including tonight. I'm confused but amused.
posted by Howard_T at 10:10 PM on September 04, 2014
I also think we should have a year-end "Costanza Trophy" as well. Eligible are those that entered every official SpoFi/Jigger Statz Cup tournament. It is calculated by simply reversing the scoring system (counting bottom 5 qualifiers in each tournament instead of top 5) and awarding the trophy to the highest point scorer.
posted by grum@work at 02:22 PM on September 05, 2014
Woo hoo! I'm in the lead!
posted by Etrigan at 06:34 PM on September 05, 2014
I beez in. Belatedly.
posted by billsaysthis at 09:41 PM on September 05, 2014
I checked the new user process and it looks like there's no phone requirement. If there are other concerns about running this on NFL.Com, let me know now.
I figured that a no-spread league would be more popular, but let me know if that's not the case.
The SportsFilter Cup may get a better name and a grand prize. The rules will be close to what grum@work proposed and finalized in the next few weeks. This contest will have a point multiplier of 5 since it requires weekly entries.
I was hoping to run this using SportsFilter code, like the World Cup, but I'm finishing a book on Minecraft programming in Java.