IWS #198: The Results! Congrats to...

[PurdueBrad]

1- What is the ideal number of minutes allowed per pick for a live draft? (This question brought to you by SterlingIce)

2 minutes- 13
1 minute- 11
5 minutes- 4

You guys are nice and generous. 1 minute is the perfect amount of time but Stupid disagrees.


2- Let's put the FANTASY back in fantasy football, which beautiful woman would you most like have calling your league's picks on draft day? (brought to you by PurdueBrad)

Kate Upton- 14
Stacy Kiebler- 6
Scarlett Johannson- 3
Erin Andrews- 2
Angelina Jolie- 1
Hannah Storm- 1
My wife- 1

My wife was really flattered that somebody picked her but then I had to explain to her that the person that said this was likely referring to their own wife. Stupid loves them some Hot or Not BUT Kate Upton and her cute little Dougie dance upset the HON reigning champ.

3- Which stud running back will be the first one to tear his ACL this year? (Brought to you by Pyser)

Arian Foster- 9
Adrian Peterson- 8
Maurice Jones-Drew- 3
Ray Rice- 3
Chris Johnson- 2
Trent Richardson- 2
Matt Forte- 1
Pretty sure that MJDIII would actually have to show up to camp for this to happen but I enjoyed the duel between Foster and Peterson for weakest ACL. I was surprised that a speedster like Ryan Matthews didn't get any love here but, as a Steelers fan, I do like the Ray Rice selection.

4- A bunch of baseball players decide that 162 games is too many and they join the NFL. Which current baseball player would you draft highest? (Brought to you by Pyser)

Mike Trout- 6
Andrew McCutchen- 4
Bryce Harper- 3
Joe Mauer- 3
Jeff Samardzija- 3
Matt 'Don't Call me Shawn' Kemp- 2
Alex Rodriguez- 2
Ryan Braun- 1
Carl Crawford- 1
Adam Dunn- 1
Josh Hamilton- 1
Derek Jeter- 1

HEY, leave 'Cutch with the Pirates! My favorite answer here was probably Alex Rodriguez because I would love to see him go over the middle against Troy Polamalu or James Harrison. As usual though, Stupid loves him some Trout!!!

5- After Jimmy Graham and Gronk, in what round is the next tight end taken? (Brought to you by PurdueBrad)

Round 5- 11
Round 4- 4
Round 3- 3
Round 6- 3
Round 10- 2
Round Aaron Hernandez- 2
Round 7- 1
Round 8- 1
Round Antonio Gates- 1

I never thought of naming each round, perhaps the Drew Brees Round (1), Larry Fitzgerald Round (2), and the Memorial Mark Sanchez Round (27, honoring the death of his career). Some reaches there for the Round 3 voters but I figure that Stupid would take the round that is the number of the question.



6- Who is the best kicker in fantasy football history? (Brought to you by SterlingIce)

Adam Vinatieri- 14
Morton Anderson- 4
Sebastian Janikowski- 3
Mike Vanderjagt- 2
David Akers- 1
Mason Crosby- 1
Jason Elam- 1
Lou Groza- 1
Jeff Wilkins- 1

Vinatieri runs away with it. I figured that Stupid would go for the big leg and Ecstasy of Sebastian Janikowski.

And now, to the individual results...

An Undrafted, Unsigned Free Agents
Julio Riddols 351
Suburban Rhythm 384

The Phone Rang...but it was your Grandma
Packer Fanatic 936
Claphamsa 1232

Undrafted but signed Free Agents (Of course, it was by the Browns)
Kinketr 2,184
Spleen1015 2,184
RaidersArmy 5,082
DanGarion 5,616

Mr. Insignificant
Panerd 7,292

5'th Rounders
Albionmoonlight 14,256
jbergey 16,848
Toddzilla 19,656

3'rd Rounders
Lathum 20,328
Grover 21,168
Barkeep49 26,136

2'nd Round Selection
MIJB#19 33,264
CU Tiger 48,384
Chief Rum 52,416
Nilodor 54,208
Subby 71,148

Late 1'st Round
RPI-Fan 123,552
Hoopsguy 155,232
Comey 183,456

Mid 1'st Rounder
General Mike 216,216
Korme 284,592

1'st Round, 3'rd Overall Selection
bhlloy 426,888

1'st Round, 2'nd Overall Selection
Logan 550,368

#1 Overall Selection...

digamma 672,672



CONGRATS digamma!!! Thanks everyone for participating and a special thanks to Pyser and SterlingIce for sharing the spotlight with me!

[Young Drachma]

Nice work digamma.

[bhlloy]

Fricking MJD. As if it wasn't bad enough that he once nearly ran me over in the UCLA student parking lot, he now costs me an IWS.

grats digamma

[Suburban Rhythm]

Wow...I completely jacked up two questions.

I AM STUPID!

[Logan]

Congrats dig.

Damn...saying 4th round instead of 5th prevented me from getting the perfect score. Why the hell did I do that? Round numbers dummy.

[Comey]

MJD cost me too. Oh well. Karma's a bitch.

Congrats dig.

[General Mike]

Kicker question screwed me. Shouldnt have changed my original answer

[DanGarion]

Kate Uptoon? Stacy Kiebler is the Hot or Not Champion, bitches...

[digamma]

Thanks everyone. Will try to turn this around and get a new game up pretty quickly.

[MIJB#19]

Baseball questions... :(
'grats, digamma!

[sterlingice]

Random bump for the old IWS since I just had a few moments to reflect on it. We whittled this down from about 20 questions to 6 and were thrilled with the positive response. It was nice working on it with 3 people (PurdueBrad and Pyser were great) because we could talk about what we thought stupid would do. So, here's the behind the scenes look of what we decided on:

Looks like there were no true eliminators as no question even got more than half (14) of the total (28) responses. That was the goal: splitters with no Googling.

For the minutes one, I thought there'd be more 5s and some 3s and 10s for a live draft but as long as 1 and 2 didn't get the same, we were gold.

For the "fantasy" question, we were concerned that people would look at the HoN results and just go off of that but that seemed like a lot of effort. And there's no go-to star right now so we got a really mixed bag.

I had come up with the injury question but it was too vague and Pyser gave it some nice specificity. As there are quite a few fragile RBs, it gave a lot of choices to pick with no standout.

At first, we only each threw out one or two possible questions before pooling a larger number but the baseball one was one of the first suggested and we all loved it instantly. There are no Bos or Deons right now or even a "who is the consensus best athlete" and we really had no idea what we would get answer-wise. But, at the same time, we figured everyone could come up with some star players to fill in.

The TE round one was just a solid, all-around question from PurdueBrad. It's a real meaty fantasy question and the only other one of those we considered fairly strongly was a "who is your best sleeper pick for this season". But we were worried people hadn't even started looking too closely at fantasy football so it would require googling.

Lastly, I fell in love with my "best kicker in fantasy history" question even tho it gave the only real runaway response. I wanted some sort of "history" question in there and it was the only one I could think of where I couldn't come up with a really obvious response. I'd be curious what people would say if you asked "Greatest fantasy season of the last 20 years for a running back" as a few come to mind but the trick is not getting a consensus from Stupid.

On the whole- I loved the whole endeavor as, again, great participation. But there were no perfect scores and only 2 identical scores so it left a lot of answers for everyone. Again, all, thanks for playing!

SI