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Helloooo, BRFLers!
Just love this gif with The Best Damn Band In The Land big horns rising up, over Will Howard's outstretched arms, as Ohio State eviscerates Oregon in Pasadena this year.
Never gets old.
Enjoy.
Anyway, on to next season.
It's kind of important that you read this here post (looking at you, SockPuppet and especially you, Q).
We need to make an adjustment in the preseason points. And post-season play.
There are no right answers here. Only lame-brained ideas advanced by nincompoops with no clue.
I'll go first.
Regarding the AP Top 10 teams;
Pick number 1 in the AP : start at minus 10
Pick #2, minus 9
Pick #3, minus 8
Pick #4, minus 7
Pick #5, minus 6
Picks #6 - 0, free lunch. No penalty points. Start at zero.
Why, you ask?
This gives Big Losers, from 2024, with early picks, a better chance to make some serious money in 2025, despite their historically awful picking.
Bottom 5 in the AP:
No points. You've picked a ranked team. Good luck to you.
Pick an unranked team:
Start at +3. You're picking an unranked team. Risky. We'll give you a little something for that. But that team better really catch fire or you're shit out of luck. Picking an unranked team has always (until last year) had that, "I don't give a shit", "wild-stallions-must-run-free" cachet about it. A certain je ne sais quoi. It's time to bring that all back home.
Post-season:
Conference Championship Game: win = +2.
Any old Bowl game ( not a CFP Playoff game) : +3
CFP First Round Bye: +1
CFP Round 1: +4
CFP Qaurter Final: +6
CFP Semi Final: +8
CFP Final: +10
Again why, you query.
It was glorious watching Teebs and PSU bounce Breaux's Broncos out of the tourney. It was great fun watching them thoroughly fuck up Big Dom's Ponies in the Quarter final. And who didn't love McLovin's epic run, featuring his whipping of Psycho's Tennessee Vols like a rented mule?
Well, okay. Sure. McLovin and I were the only people who got a kick out of that. But still. Imagine if it had been another team, not Ohio State. People might have enjoyed it.
What's my point? What's my mission here?
I want to keep as many BRFLers wasting precious hours ( that they will NEVER GET BACK ) in front of their TV sets, angsting-out over whether some team they have no connection to at all, in real life, wins and advances. Fuck yeah. I want like fourteen BRFLers trying to cut each other's throats on Saturday afternoons for as long and deep into the season as possible.
Alternatives? Thoughts? Tweaks? At least read this post for God's sakes.
Also, pay me, so that I may pay others. @James-LaCava-2 is my Venmo handle.
Lance Herbstrong
Commissioner for Life
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No, no no. In all likelihood, no one from outside the top 15 will be in the playoffs, yet the reward for taking a #6 team will probably be a 5-11 point bonus. This changes the greatness of the BRFL, from picking an underrated team to picking playoff teams. Instead, reward the bold picks (as we do with the diddle) to teams that were unlikely to make the playoffs but do as a sleeper.
ReplyDeleteJust spit balling here: 1 point for playoff bye, 2 points for round 1 win, 3 points for quarter final win, 4 points for semifinal win. A whopping 6 points for the winning the NC game. No additional points for no drop once the playoffs start.
Now here where it gets interesting: Pick an unranked team that goes to the playoffs? You get the +3 as the commish mentions but it is also the multiplier in the playoffs. So you pick an unranked team that wins round 1 of the playoffs, that's your 3 poitns times the 2 point round one win: 6 points! C'mon, man, reward unranked team that wins a playoff game rather than a Georgia, OSU, Alabama lame ass pick.
I like it. Let me crunch some numbers and we'll palaver. Might want to put teams #6,7 and 8 in the penalty box. #6 is minus 5, 7 is minus 6, 8 is minus 7.
DeleteI think you mean #7 is minus 4, #8 is minus 3, #9 is minus 2, and #10 is minus 1.
DeleteAnd the Grahams should start at -20. Let's just get it out of the way. To think each season they start with the hope of at least breaking even, only to have reality fuck 'em in the ass. Hope is a dangerous thing.
Yes, That is what I meant. Still some detais to work out. There is a possibility that the BRFL will need to red shirt this year. I separated my R shoulder and had an interesting surgery on 7/24. Key-boarding with one hand is no bueno. We'll talk.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Big Dom is a more than capable score keeper, as is BreauxFreaux. Your abusive prose could be refreshing. Consider a year as Inerim Commissioner?
Fuck you and your wonky wanking shoulder, you degenerate chimp.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
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