Interest in a new real player league?

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

I concur. I was referring to a real college player draft file in my earlier post so that we could draft the McFadden's/etc. of this years class. Wishful thinking as I don't know if one's in the works.

Looks like Legendsport has the tools. Someone just needs to take the reins. How bout we fire up a forum? Any suggestions as to a reliable one?

[BigDawg]

I will have a forum up this weekend....promise.

Now should we just create the files from the stock NFL set up or is their a nice roster file you guys can point me too, I am also all for and real draft file if one exists for this coming draft but would need someone to tell me how to import it. I assume this doesn't need to be done till the end of season 1 anyways??

Sims will be twice a week , most probably on Monday and Friday Mornings with the interims done the day before. Probably your stock set of rules but once the board is up we can talk about what you guys want to see in the league.

[legendsport]

Get me a league name so I can create the domain and I'll have a forum up today.

I liked Elvis' logo and could create "http://rlf.simsportleagues.com" right now if 'Real League Football' is the league's name.

[BigDawg]

Idea's for league name....


( Intense Football League )


( United Professional Football League )


( Xtreme Football League )


( Ironman Football League )

[BigDawg]

Take your pick .. I am not married to any of the names.

If you do get it up before I have time to tinker this weekend can you drop me a line if I need any info, I assume your gona give me admin privaliges in the forum?

Need to set up a signup / owners spot than I gona go thru some leagues rules and possibly get that together as well.

[legendsport]

Originally Posted by BigDawg

Take your pick .. I am not married to any of the names.

If you do get it up before I have time to tinker this weekend can you drop me a line if I need any info, I assume your gona give me admin privaliges in the forum?

Need to set up a signup / owners spot than I gona go thru some leagues rules and possibly get that together as well.

Yep. I am leaning towards phpBB3 Portal, which is basically a front-end on a forum, so GMs can just write stories on the forum and they'll post to the front page - and you can create links to the stats and so forth too. Easy to admin - much easier than a Joomla-based site like I use for AUFL.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

Good job guys and ty both.

All the logos look great. I don't have a vote one way or the other.

[Koprnkc]

Really like the looks of the UPFL logo. Can pass on the XFL, Wouldnt want anyone thinking we are associated with the WWF / WWE, or whatever they call themselves nowadays.

If we go with UPFL Logo, anyway to make it the backdrop on the main page of the Website? I think that would look great!

[freddylamar]

My vote is for the UPFL. Love the logo.

[Anthony]

why do all these online league have to have "football league" in the name? can't we think of something more creative, American Football League of Associated Clubs (AFLAC). a duck with a football could be our league logo.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

A duck!?! Are you crazy? This is serious business!

Actually, I like that idea a lot. Has a certain, jenny say kwane to it.

[Anthony]

yeah, the duck can have an old-fashioned leather helmet. hahahaha

[zbuckley]

I'll take the Vikings

[legendsport]

OK. There's a site up. I spent almost all freakin' day getting it set up and just as I feared, it kept me from getting a couple of things done that I wanted to do for AUFL. Completely my fault as I went with something I haven't used before because it's folded in with a forum and seamless - I just had to figure out how to configure the thing. Oh well... at least this should be a one-shot deal as far as taking that much time.

The URL is http://ifl.simsportleagues.com. Since we didn't get a consensus on the name I just went with 'Intense Football League.' That's possible to change, but it's just a name... the league will be what we make out of it regardless of what the hell it's name is.

Be warned: the site is still very raw and there's basically no content yet, but the shell is there waiting to be fleshed out.

I set it up so you can register, pick your team logo as your avatar and basically get settled in and start posting. Once Craig (BigDawg) has a league file and some html output from FOF to upload, I will add links to the file & pages to the homepage.

Once you're registered you should be able to post news to the homepage, so management on the web-side should be minimal. There are currently three categories to post in - League News, AFC News and NFC News. Depending on how things look, I can add more categories. There's also a forum sitting behind the homepage with your typical MP-league categories.

I will add Craig as a mod once he signs up. I don't think anyone else will need mod access but we'll play that by ear.

Enjoy!
- Joe

[flying-elvis]

Joe,

You're a star.

[claystone]

Hey guys, I just register on the site, but I'm having trouble finding my team logo to download as my avatar. Can someone show me where to find it. I've also sent a PM to the admin.

Texans is the team I want. Thanks

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

Thanks Joe!

We are so close to text based bliss right now.


Giants-HELL ATLANTIC
Eagles-GREG_PURCELL
Redskins-GENOANDO
Cowboys-TASAN

Packers
Bears-FREDDYLAMAR
Lions- BIGDAWG
Vikings-ZBUCKLEY

Buccaneers-ALMIGHTYCHEEZUS
Panthers
Saints-DUNLEAVY
Falcons

49ers-LEGENDSPORT
Seahawks
Cardinals-BMERRYMAN
Rams-FLUZAO

Bills
Patriots-DINOBASSI
Jets
Dolphins-AQUATIX

Steelers-NORVTURNEROVERDRIVE
Browns
Ravens
Bengals-HOOSIERBUCKEYE

Colts-BROWNKEG8
Titans
Jags
Texans-CLAYSTONE

Chargers-FLYING-ELVIS
Raiders-SERRANO77
Chiefs-KOPRNKC
Broncos-TARCONE


Yet to choose:
PIEMASTERUK
MILITANT

I'll msg all that responded. Only 8 spots left!!!

[Anthony]

i need the forum confirmation message to be sent to a new email address, i can't confirm my username.

please set my email address to: anthonycasso AT gmail.com

thanks.

btw, there already is an IFL - it's one of the best. Imperial Football League. i'm in that league and the commish said he's gonna take a shit in the mouths of your children if you don't change the league's name to something else.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

Originally Posted by Hell Atlantic

btw, there already is an IFL - it's one of the best. Imperial Football League. i'm in that league and the commish said he's gonna take a shit in the mouths of your children if you don't change the league's name to something else.

Oh Dear g-d, no. Think of the children.


Let's go outside the box for a league name. There's too many *FL's out there.

[Anthony]

isn't this a tad cooler:

[Anthony]

or even this:

[legendsport]

A handful of items in no particular order:

Switched the name to AFLAC - and the website's now http://aflac.simsportleagues.com

Hell Atlantic - your account is all set and activated with the email changed. Let me know if you have trouble logging in.

If BigDawg would like, I can commish the league. I'm already commishing a FOF league and I've put in a good amount of work on this already so....

I also have an idea that might be cool. What if we start with 2008 instead of 2007? That'll give us something to seperate us from the crowd. I can put together a player database. Heck I did it for 28 NFL and 14 USFL teams for the 1985 AUFL kickoff, so doing 32 NFL teams and a draft class should be cake.

The way it'd work is this - we'd draft the rookies while the rating is going on since we can't do it in game. Biggest downside is that you wouldn't have ratings to look at during the draft, but there's a ton of draft coverage on the web, so we could use that in making our picks (since that's what I'll be using to rate these guys anyway).

Or we can go the easy & quick way and start with 2007 rosters. By the time we finish the 2007 season, we'd have a real 2008 draft file I'm sure. I'd either have made one, or one of the other roster makers will have boiled one up by then.

[tarcone]

I registered but havent been sent an activation key. How long is that process?
last message board i never got the activation key.

[legendsport]

Post or PM me your username for the AFLAC site and I'll manually activate you if you haven't gotten an email yet. The email is sent by an automated process; I'm not sure how long it takes.

EDIT: Forget it. I manually activated you and Koprnck. You should be all set.

[BigDawg]

Joe, man you got a ton done... couple things...

Name is cool I can live with the Duck..hehehe

Joe can commish if he likes, I could even be a co commish if you need, or if you want to split sims or I can fill in and give you a day off and sim now and than... up to you realy. I take on as much work as you want me to.

Files... I say we go with 2007 rosters than we have a 2008 draft file by the time we hit the draft.

[legendsport]

Originally Posted by BigDawg

Joe, man you got a ton done... couple things...

Name is cool I can live with the Duck..hehehe

Joe can commish if he likes, I could even be a co commish if you need, or if you want to split sims or I can fill in and give you a day off and sim now and than... up to you realy. I take on as much work as you want me to.

Files... I say we go with 2007 rosters than we have a 2008 draft file by the time we hit the draft.

Yeah, the duck idea is pretty good. I'll commish and you can back me up as co-commish in case things get dicey at some point. I think it'd be cool to go with 2008, but I certainly can understand going with 2007 as it'd be faster. I will probably at least tweak the city files so that all the cities aren't identical. That way down the road if somewants want to relocate, the choices would be fairly realistic (LA anyone?).

Weekends are a little tough for me time-wise, but I'll try to have a league file up sometime this weekend.

Sign-ups on the site are going pretty well. Hopefully everyone will get signed up there in the next few days and we can really get rolling.

[Anthony]

youch, still can't log in but i do see my email was updated. i have graduated college, i swear. i like the league name/theme, it's different.

[Anthony]

that border at the top of the forum looks very vanilla. here's some sprinkles.

[legendsport]

Very nice - I'll work that in and make an image map to team pages. But probably not til next week.

[Anthony]

btw, i just wanna comment on something. i think this is the first time a league has been formed where the guy who started the thread looking to start the league doesn't even wind up being in it. i laugh at this. that'd be funny if he went away on vacation and by the time he got back an entire league was created, filled and launched before he could grab a team. i hope his dog pisses in his slippers too, just to really twist the knife.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

Did someone say sprinkles?


Introducing, the AFLAC girls.

[flying-elvis]

Originally Posted by Hell Atlantic

that border at the top of the forum looks very vanilla. here's some sprinkles.

Absolutely awesome....i love it

[AlmightyCheezus]

you guys have done a terrific job with this, i love it

[BriOSU99]

I'm interested...I'll take the Packers if available.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

Originally Posted by BriOSU99

I'm interested...I'll take the Packers if available.

Man, Shoeless Joe was right. They're yours buddy. Fire it up. http://aflac.simsportleagues.com

What's left:
Panthers
Falcons
Seahawks
Bills
Jets
Browns
Ravens
Titans
Jags

Yet to choose:
PIEMASTERUK
MILITANT

7 to go!!!

[Militant]

Aww man i thought i picked the packers but i see my post never made it LOL

I will take the Falcons

[BigDawg]

Nice work guys... I have to say after a couple trips to the site the DUCK is realy growning on me. This league is gona rock and has the best name ever...LOL

Now I sit back and cross my fingers that the files are kind to me, I tested creating a nfl league 10 times and 8 of those 10 times the Lions realy blew, a little xfactor luck and who knows...LOL

My last try Calvin Johnson and Row Williams were 85 and 91 but Kitna came out 25

[flying-elvis]

Yea, I cant wait to see what all the ratings are. Have we decided on a sim schedule yet?

I like 2 sims a week, Wed and Sun perhaps with an interim sim the day before so we can get our rosters in order. What's the general concensous on this?

[legendsport]

Originally Posted by flying-elvis

Yea, I cant wait to see what all the ratings are. Have we decided on a sim schedule yet?

I like 2 sims a week, Wed and Sun perhaps with an interim sim the day before so we can get our rosters in order. What's the general concensous on this?

It'll most likely be game sims on Monday & Thursday. Midweek stages on the day following, Tuesday & Friday. I can't sim on the weekends. That's probably the only schedule that will work for me because I do game stages for AUFL on Tuesday/Friday and midweeks on Monday/Thursday. Midweeks are easy, but game days can be a lot of work and I definitely can't have two leagues with game stages the same day.

[flying-elvis]

Mondays and Thursdays are cool. I'm just not a big fan of schedules that are too fast (ie. 3 or 4 games a week).

[Militant]

Whatever works for the commish works for me

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

What's left:
Panthers
Seahawks
Bills
Jets
Browns
Ravens
Titans
Jags

Yet to choose:
PIEMASTERUK

Browns n' Brady? Tasty. Champ ready Hawks n' Panthers? Nasty O-line in Jersey or VY in TEN? Find a QB in BAL or inherit the soon to be Toronto Bills? Anyone???

[r00k]

I'll take my shot with the Bills

r00k

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

And then there were 6:

What's left:
Panthers
Seahawks
Jets
Browns
Ravens
Titans
Jags

YTC:
PIEMASTERUK

[legendsport]

There's currently a poll going on over at the AFLAC site to determine whether we start with the 2007 default rosters as provided by Solecismic (which will have about 1300 fictional scrubs along with the 1700 or so rated, real players) or start with 2008 with all rated players (3200 total - 2900 or so "veterans" and 300+ rookies from the 2008 NFL Draft pool).

The description of how 2008 would work can be found here.

The poll to vote on whether to start with 2007 or 2008 can be found here.

[NYJets1369]

I'll take the Jets.

[legendsport]

Originally Posted by NYJets1369

I'll take the Jets.

Awesome - head over to http://aflac.simsportleagues.com and create an account there. We're getting ever closer. There's also someone who emailed me about the Browns, so we may be down to just needing four more (assuming PiemasterUK picks a team).

[NYJets1369]

Done, glad to see Hoosier and BigDawg in as well!

[legendsport]

The voting on "when" to start is pretty close, 10 to 8 in favor of 2007 rosters. We have more than that signed up, so there have to be a few guys who have not yet voted. Make sure your preference is known by heading over and voting.

I am personally operating under the assumption that it'll be 2007 because the more vocal arguments seemed to be on that side of the equation.

[MrKordell]

I'll take the Titans.