FOFC - ESPN NFL 2k5 league
 

When do you guys want to get the ball rolling? Here's the list, sound off if you have the game.

Sun Tzu - 49ers
SirFozzie - Patriots
Eaglesfan27 - Eagles
Pumpy Tudors - Broncos
Kingnebwsu - Bungles
ageofquarrel - Chefs
Bearcat729 - Browns
Hell Atlantic - Giants
gstelmack - Panthers
cartman - Cowboys
Ironhead - Falcons
RPI-Fan - Steelers
JeeberD - Titans
SackAttack - Ravens
Balldog - Redskins

I got my copy earlier today. Good stuff :)

Got the game.

RPI-Fan - Steelers.

Edit: Just bought the game.

Is this X-Box version?

Got the game

Yep (AFAIK).

AFAIK?

Yes I have the game, I just went out and bought xbox live. But I thought the cat5 cable I had at home was long enough to reach my xbox to the router. But it wasnt so I have to set it up tommorrow.

As Far As I Know.

got it

I've got it and am ready to get rolling at any time. I figure it will take a week or two for the league to get set up and get rolling, so we ought to create it soon and start figuring out the league stuff.

I've got the game. I can't play tonight as I actually just fell asleep playing a game. I'm awed by it, but very sleep deprived ;)

Still, I just walked to the laptop which woke me up and I'm going to fool around with one more short exhibition game before I go to bed.

I might be interested, how often are you guys talking about playing?

I'll go ahead and reserve the Titans for now...

I'm in. Usually more available after 12:30 AM EST almost every day. Let me know! This is a blast! :D

I want the Ravens!

Sun Tzu - 49ers

YEAH, that's what I'm talking about :)

GO NINERS !

I thought there was a feature that you can see your league posted on the internet? Anyone know about this feature??

Thanks

The Xbox Live Online Leagues Website is
currently unavailble. You can continue to
join leagues and play games through your Xbox
and all your stats will be here when
it becomes available.

(through leagues.espnvideogames.com)

A post on the ESPNVideogames board says it should be up later this week

Thanks for the reply Fozzie - will the PS2 have this feature also or just the XBOX?

PS2's league interface is apparently live

You have any clue how I can access my leagues site?

I'm in a PS2 online league but have no clue how the website works....

Have you logged in with your PS2 name and password?

Nevermind - I found it...

I would like the Redskins.

It looks like we can either do a "Season" league or a "Tournament" (playoffs) league. I'm guessing with this crowd we want to do an entire season. I did not see an option for a career league with drafting and the like; did I miss it or is that what "season" is?

Got the game yesterday and didn't turn it off for 5 hours. Came to work bleary eyed this morning. Looking foward to playing some of you guys. :)

I don't think you can play Franchise mode online...

I'm sure it would be possible to turn this into a franchise. If a couple guys are willing to do some work, we could age/progress the players, hold a draft, and start up another fresh season. I'm in an online franchise with Madden 2004 for the PC where we do all of the offseason stuff offline. We're currently in the 10th year and it's going extremely well.

Ok I got it hooked up and created an account - ageofquarrel

Hmmm, but that was the pc. Are we sure yet, that we can edit players in an xbox league? If we can that would be awesome. I am good for pretty much most days except after 9 est on tuesday and thursdays. So i can play games pretty much whenever

Why isn't my name in the first post? I signed up for the Colts in the other thread..

I'd like the Dolphins, but I still need to go out and get XBox live...

The game comes with a 2 month subscription...

A PC game can do it, but the Xbox version, rosters are standardized for everybody as soon as you connect to Live. Online franchises are undoubtedly coming, but I don't think it's gonna be possible to do it that way this year.

I don't have the game yet. I'm out of town on a business trip, but I'll pick up a copy this weekend when I get back.

It depends on how often you are all planning to play. I would love to do a league where we played a game every weekend (once a week) or so... But I'm not sure I could handle playing 1 game per day or anything like that.

If it's once a week or less, I'd like the Seahawks (user name on XBox Live is MGadfly).

Once a week sounds like a good amount, plenty of time to schedule the play (then play other FOFC'ers in the time off ;))

I don't have time to do more than one game a week either, so that sounds best.

If no one else has done so, I'll probably create a league tonight. Even if it only lasts through a week or two, I figure we ought to start one, try it, see what we don't like, and if necessary restart with tweaked settings.

I'm assuming we'd like to try a season league?

correct. I was actualy going to start the league, but I just haven't had any free time lately to get onto live and get things started. Keep us posted gstelmack.

Wow, looks like a nice big league. I count 17 entrants so far (I have the Colts and Dolphins late entries above that are not in the big list at the top). I'll create the league in a few hours, then post the details.

Can we get an 18th team?

I think if you count me for the Seahawks, we do have 18.

And I jut picked up the game on the way home from the airport. Gonna be a night of NCAA 2005 and ESPN NFL 2K5 :)

Okay, initial season league created. League size goes by 4, so since we don't have a commitment on 20 teams I had to go with 16 (tournaments are powers-of-2, so it's 16 or 32 there). Since this is our first league, it has a fair chance of being canned, so anyone who misses out shouldn't have to wait long (or we'll get a second league going in parallel for those who want to play more often). And maybe by then we'll have enough to go to 20 or 24.

Settings are:

- 16 players
- 8 make the playoffs
- 8 week season
- 7 days max between rounds
- All Pro
- 5 minute quarters
- Injuries on
- Challenges on
- Trading on
- Performance EQ off
- Random Weather on

Most of those settings can be tweaked while people are joining, so I'm open to suggestions.

Season name: FOFC
Password: elitist

Join up! I'll create the schedule once we hit 16.

I'd prefer 8-10 minute quarters, but that works.

Agreed, I play with 6 minute quarters and get pretty accurate statistical results. I also think Performance EQ (isn't that where players get hot and cold?) should be turned on, otherwise it's like we're just playing a bunch of exhibition games strung together.

I agree about 6 minute quarters, but I'll play with whatever. Performance EQ "equalizes" the teams ratings, so no team has a ratings advantage over another. It just puts every team on a level playing field.

Oh, well nevermind then. :)

Is the league full already? I don't see it listed with the other available leagues.

if you hit the black button pumpy you can search by name.

Hmmm...to steal the Cowboys from cartman or not... :D

I just got my new network and as a result X-Box live finally working. I now have a consistent "excellent" rated connection with speeds of 54 Mbps listed by my X-Box, so hopefully I will continue to connect smoothly now :)

Anyway, I'm about to head out to the French Quarter, but I'll be joining the league in the game tomorrow :)

How do you check how well you are connected?

I'm doing it by going to network settings on the X-box virtual dashboard, then clicking advanced, then clicking wireless. It then gives me a listing of my network SSID, the channel, the speed, and the strength of the connection.

The league web page is up. Go to http://leagues.espnvideogames.com/login.php to log in, and you can view the leagues you've joined. If anyone wants access to post news articles, etc, just let me know. Since Sun Tzu has helped organize this, I'll probably give him co-commissioner powers on everything it will let me, but there are other permissions I can give to people like posting articles on the news page, etc.

Gstelmack, I'm wondering if we should switch the quarters from fives minutes, to six or seven minutes. Is it possible to just scrap/recreate the league with the same name and registration info? Perhaps we should take a poll of how many minutes each person would prefer to play on, and then go from there.

By the way, thanks for the co-commissioner...commission ;) . I will PM each person that is listed as having reserved a team also, just to be sure everything gets rolling.

I'm going to see if I can just change the setup. There was some indication last night that I could, but I have not verified. I don't want to go much over 6 minutes, though, as then people like me with a family may have a hard time finding enough time for a game (I'd like to see the total time for a game take about an hour of real time).

If I can't change it, I'd still like to see us run a week or two to see if anything else doesn't match up, then scrap and recreate with all the settings we like. It would not surprise me if we find other things in the setup that need tweaking.

OKay, I can change most of the league settings, and have set the quarter length to 6 minutes. We currently have 5 of the 16 spots spoken for.

Played my first game today.. while the player I was playing was a bit sack happy, I learned from his mistakes (he had one key receiver, which I double teamed throughout the 2nd half), and I broke one of his blitzes for a 60 yard Corey Dillon Run, and won 17-3. I'm willing to take anybody on, NFL2K5 or NCAA2005

I played my second online game. I won 21-19 (Seahawks vs. Steelers). It was another great experience. I tried to meet a friend online to play last night, but we couldn't get a connection.

Anyone else having problems playing games sometimes?

Right now I've scrolled through about 400 leagues looking for ours. Is there a better way to find it?

EDIT: Never mind, a help item just popped up saying hit the black button to search by league name. Joining now.

I also had a question for those of you with headsets. How well do they work? Are they worth it?

My friend and I just talked on our cell phones (we have headsets) last night when we were trying to get a game going.

How do we get the league password so that we can join?

quotung gstelmack post#45

Season name: FOFC
Password: elitist

Thanks SirFozzie, I tried to type you a message on LIVE. I wrote:
I have to go help a friend move. How do I get the password to join the league?

I see by your post that I missed it, but the message system wouldn't let me send the you the message because it had inappropriate language. ???

had ass in it i bet

I actually kept deleting one word at a time until it would let me send it. I got all the way back to I have before I just decided to delete everything and write "cant"

I suck at the game, but if you are still around when I get back from helping my friends move, lets try to set one up.

10 people have signed up for the league. Need 6 more. Including Sun Tzu ;-)

I've got interest from at least one person not in the original list, so sign up quick if you want to keep your spot.

Yeah I am going to sign up, but I haven't had time to play the game in the last two days at all. I'll see if I can get myself set up in the league before tommorow.

It only takes about 5 minutes to sign up for the league in the game.

Woohoo! Beat RPI in Double OT (6 minute quarters) Fair Warning.. you WILL have to have someone spying on Vick EVERY. SINGLE. Play :)

I'll remember that ;)

He ran wild on you with Vick too, huh? Ask him about the 8 times I sacked Vick. :D

I'll join if you still have open teams.

Just Joined as the Ravens...

I'd still like the Redskins, bear with me I am in the process of moving.

I just realized that SackAttack wanted the Ravens on page one... Let me know if you want me to switch or if I can even do that now... SORRY SACK! :-(

I just tried to join (after finally getting my Xbox live account moved from Italy). But it appears that the servers are down because I couldn't pull up a league list. Anyone else having problems?

Oh, and JeeberD, if you steal the Cowboys from me, I'll kick you squah in the nuts :D

BTW, my Xbox live ID is MoneyG

Dola,

The service came back, and I'm now signed up. Looks like we need 3 more coaches to sign up.

Yup, 3 more slots. I'd say if you're interested but are holding back for other coaches who spoke up sooner, go ahead and register (registrations have been open for 48 hours). I'd like to get this filled and started so we can find out all the things we don't like about the setup so we can restart if necessary with a lot of momentum (and if we do restart, looks like I'll have to up the league size given all the interest).

BigDPW, damn you, you took my team. Did you not fucking pay attention to the signup list?

Sigh. Guess I'm the Packers.

Dammit, it would have been a much better idea to fucking PM THE LEAGUE INFO to those who've signed up already, and THEN let the rest of the board at large know, if we had needed anymore spots. Sorry, but I'm really pissed about this.

Why not have BigDPW and you SackAttack both leave the league, and then you rejoin as your rightful team SackAttack?

I believe a player can leave the league by pressing Y after hitting my leagues and with the FOFC league highlighted.

Eagles, I leave for work shortly. So let's say BigDPW does leave to free up the Ravens, and somebody else swoops in and snags not the team, necessarily, but the league spot, and BigDPW ends up on the outside looking in. How is that fair to him when he made what seems to be an honest mistake?

And frankly, I'm not willing to risk that happening to me by leaving the league shortly before going to work. So it's the quintessential rock and a hard palce.

Just leave it the way it is, I'll deal with being the Packers. But I did (and do) want it known that I'm not happy with the way league signups were handled.

Sorry, I just did not have the time to send that many PMs. As excited as people were, I never expected to hit Sunday night and still have teams not signed up yet...

It's not War and Peace, gstel, we're talking about four words:

League: FOFC
password: elitist

Boom. PM sent. move to the next name on the list.

Not hard.

No it ain't, but it's 17 of them. Never even occurred to me that this would be an issue, given how many people wanted in and how quickly people grabbed teams in the forums. I reiterate, we're 48 hours after signups began, over a weekend, and we still don't have all 16 slots full.

What teams are still open? I'm off all day tommorow (finaly!!!), and I'll handle the PM's, as well as straightening out any team mix ups.

Current list of signees is at: http://leagues.espnvideogames.com/t/...ngs.php?l=5351

Not sure when but sometime this week I will get signed up.

2 Openings left.

I'm not going to argue about it anymore. We're 48 hours after signups, and we're, what, maybe 96 hours since the game came out? And you didn't think that there might be a second wave of folks while things got sorted out?

More importantly, you thought people would actually go back to read an entire thread once signup info was posted?

Maybe I'm just a cynical bastard, but I think you're putting entirely too much faith in human beings to assume that there wouldn't be screwups like this.

Ummm...I'm in the process of moving and my XBOX is in a box somewhere.

Sorry - bad mood - Monday morning.:)

Sack... I will be glad to back out as the Ravens... It is an honest mistake... Sorry I got the team you wanted... Let me know if you want and I will go on an back out of the league so you can have them... I am pretty busy at work so I will have to do it between about 7 and 9pm one night this week... If it is a big deal to you I will just back out tonight and let you pick them up anytime... If I end up not in the league that is cool I will try again next time we organize...

Again Sorry... :(

Big, don't worry about it. I know it was an honest mistake. I'm not going to have the time this week to sit and pounce even if I were so inclined as to 'force' you out of Baltimore, and I'd really rather not see either of us get aced out of a slot in the league over something so ultimately trivial. Keep the Ravens. There'll be another time.

Sorry, scratch that whole having the day off yesterday...and today. Wednesday I'm not scheduled to come in.

*cries*

Any teams still open? :)