IWS#233 Results

[digamma]

To kick off the holiday weekend, some IWS results. I was happy with the set of questions. Let's get to it.


1. Stupid got lucky and drew the first pick in his fantasy football draft. Everyone figures he'll take Charles, Peterson or maybe Rodgers. But the real question is who Stupid can get in the second round when it snakes back around to him. In his 10 man league, who does Stupid take with 2(20)?

A.J. Green 6
Odell Beckham Jr. 3
Aaron Rodgers 2
Demarco Murray 2
Alshon Jeffery 2
Randall Cobb 2
LeSean McCoy 2
Gronk 2
Andrew Luck 2
Tom Brady
James Jones
Jamaal Charles
Phillip Rivers
T.Y. Hilton
Drew Brees

A few people commented that this was the hardest question. Certainly a lot of answers, but Green emerged as a clear leader. I was expecting it to be a WR and he makes as much sense as anyone.


2. Stupid's significant other ("SO") has vowed to get into football this year. SO is new to the game and needs to pick a favorite team. SO decides to pick based on who has the prettiest uniforms. Who does Stupid's SO pick as a favorite team?

Seahawks 10
Cowboys 5
Dolphins 4
Chargers 3
49ers 2
Jaguars
Vikings
Panthers
Titans
Falcons

I thought the Seahawks or the Dolphins would be the play here. People in the Pacific Northwest love their fancy uniforms.


3. Stupid lives in Southern California and is excited when the NFL awards Los Angeles an expansion team. Even better, Stupid wins a contest to give the team a nickname. What does Stupid decide to call the new Los Angeles franchise?

Stars 6
Rams 5
Express 2
Quake/Quakes 2
Outlaws
Raiders
Riots
Lakers
Angels
Dodgers
Angelenos
Avengers
Moguls
Producers
Suns
Bandits
Sharks
Blockbusters

This was my favorite question I wrote. Obviously a hard one and difficult to match with Stupid, but the Stars makes sense. I was surprised more didn't hone in on the Express from the USFL.

4. Stupid is in a pick 'em league where he assigns confidence points to the game he's most sure about each week. With team does he pick in Week 1 this season as his highest confidence winner?

Packers 14
Seahawks 7
Patriots 3
Cowboys 2
Dolphins 2
Colts

Stupid makes the easy play and goes with the Packers (the largest point spread of week 1).


5. Stupid decides to put a deposit down for season tickets for the new Los Angeles _____ inaugural season. How much is Stupid willing to put down as a deposit to guarantee good, non-end zone seats?

$1,000 17
$10,000 5
$500 3
$5,000 2
$2,500
$2,000

Stupid continues to love the round numbers. Pure eliminator.

6. Stupid gets to go to a meet and greet with an existing NFL general manager. Stupid starts talking to him about this great text sim game called Front Office Football, where you get to be the GM of a football team. The GM is interested and immediately logs onto Steam to buy copies for his entire front office, with the hope they can learn something from the game. Which team's GM is Stupid talking to?

Redskins 7
Browns 5
Raiders 4
Lions 3
Cowboys 2
Seahawks 2
Eagles 2
Jets
Jaguars
Colts
Falcons

This ended up being a fun one. The top three are certainly obvious candidates.

[digamma]

And the results

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Subby 56
Chief Rum 204
kurtism 210
radii 210
panerd 280
cuervo72 336
Ragone 340
CU Tiger 420
Nobody Here 510


These guys look good in their pretty uniforms.

Comey 1,200
JeeberD 1,225
hoopsguy 2,856
cmp 3,060
Toddzilla 3,570
MizzouRah 4,998
Alf 5,250


I'd let them name a team.

timmae 10,080
claphamsa 11,760
nilodor 12,600
QuikSand 14,280
britrock88 16,320
albionmoonlight 22,848
Umbrella 28,560
corbes 32,130
MIJB#19 38,080
PurdueBrad 47,600


Third Place

Pyser 57,120


Second Place

Sublime 2 99,960


And your IWS #233 Champion

Vince, Pt. II 166,640

Congrats Vince!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Hello!

What happened to my answers? I sent them to you last week? I wouldn't have won though. Sad face.

[digamma]

Ummm....don't know?

I don't have anything in my PM inbox, so unless I deleted it without reading it by accident, then I really don't know. Sorry. Do you want to check your sent items?

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

Hello!

What happened to my answers? I sent them to you last week? I wouldn't have won though. Sad face.

Yeah, same here.

[digamma]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Yeah, same here.

Found this one. Sorry about that.

Adding above. No material placings were affected.

[digamma]

Worst run IWS ever.

[panerd]

I didn't read question #6 close enough and thought it was asking for a GM's name. Since Elway, Jerry Jones, and Bellichick are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head I thought stupid would go with Jones. Now I see that I just had to say a shitty team!

[britrock88]

I really enjoyed thinking through #6.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by digamma

Ummm....don't know?

I don't have anything in my PM inbox, so unless I deleted it without reading it by accident, then I really don't know. Sorry. Do you want to check your sent items?

9:31 am on the 29th of August. It's in my sent box still.

I think I only had 2 #1 answers, it wouldn;t matter for me

[digamma]

Sorry, Abe. I don't have it. I really apologize. If you want to shoot it over I can tell you where you'd stand.

[Abe Sargent]

It looks like there's a glitch with it. Ben will be trying to fix it. Looks like it wasn;t your fault

Front Office Football Central

When you click on it, I get an error.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Definitely wasn't confident going in - excellent questions. I'm out of town this weekend, I'll try to put something together by Monday.

[MIJB#19]

This one was all over the place: I had just two #1 answer, but still managed to finish in 5th place.

Congrats, Vince!