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.