12-06-2009, 09:17 PM | #1 | ||
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I did this last year, but let way too many teams into the tournament. It's fun to see if someone can upset a big juggernaut, but it also makes for dull competition.
Still, I'm always curious to see if we can get an upset. So I'm going to run two tournaments. A 16-team tournament that's the actual tournament and a fantasy tournament with all of the bowl eligible teams like the NCAA tournament. The Omnivore tournament will be the 64-team (or bowl eligible) tournament, the FOFC (Front Office Fake Championship) will be the 16-team tournament, where the 5-12 seeds will play each other for the right to enter the 8-team bracket. I'm going to start with the 64-team tournament first. I'll probably sim through most of those games to start, because it's such a long list, except for the particularly compelling matchups. So anyway, let's get started. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-10-2009 at 10:51 PM. |
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12-06-2009, 09:27 PM | #2 |
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I'm going to use the flawed BCS standings for the seeding for the FOFC playoff and use the Omnivore rankings for the 64-team tournament.
I changed my mind about the FOFC tournament settings. I'll explain in a minute. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-07-2009 at 07:56 PM. |
12-06-2009, 09:41 PM | #3 |
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For the 64-team Omnivore bracket, I took all of the bowl eligible teams (71) and put them on a list. Then, I removed all of the bowl eligible teams that only have 5 FBS wins, which leaves us with 62 teams for the tournament. Those nine teams that aren't eligible automatically will play an elimination series to get into the main bracket of 64.
(Omnivore rank) Florida State (42) South Florida (50) Minnesota (61) Michigan State (65) Marshall (64) Wyoming (72) UL-Lafeyette (74) UL-Monroe (75) Iowa State (69) Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-06-2009 at 10:14 PM. |
12-06-2009, 10:05 PM | #4 |
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All games are simmed at 8 minutes and CPU v. CPU (I super sim them, otherwise, it takes too long.)
ELIMINATION ROUND 1 UL-Lafayette @ UL-Monroe (51-20, UL-Monroe) ELIMINATION ROUND 2 UL-Monroe @ South Florida (41-24, UL-Monroe) Wyoming @ Minnesota (41-35, Minnesota) Iowa State @ Michigan State (41-14, Michigan State) Marshall @ Florida State (34-28, Florida State) ELIMINATION ROUND 3 Michigan State @ UL-Monroe (31-10, Michigan State) Minnesota @ Florida State (42-21, Minnesota) Michigan State & Minnesota enter the bracket of 64 Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-06-2009 at 10:22 PM. |
12-06-2009, 10:35 PM | #5 | |
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The Bracket of 64 is set!
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I didn't end up changing the brackets for teams that are from the same conference. Just figured it'd increase the Q factor. There are only a few instances of it anyway in the 1st round. (Like 2 or 3 tops. You can view the bracket from the PDF I attached. |
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12-06-2009, 11:58 PM | #6 |
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I'm done for the night. Here are the games I've simmed in total:
Texas 40, Michigan State 14 Oklahoma 45, East Carolina 7 Oregon State 20, Navy 10 Cal 43, Central Florida 18 Virginia Tech 20, SMU 14 Nebraska 27, Troy 17 Oregon 27, Idaho 17 Utah 17, Tennesse 14 Georgia 48, Northwestern 10 Cincinnati 45, Northern Illinois 3 TCU 30, Air Force 10 Arizona 35, Temple 30 USC 24, Fresno State 3 Central Michigan 41, Missouri 38 Texas A&M 32, Boise State 30 Florida 35, Rutgers 9 Houston 52, Auburn 48 North Carolina 27, Boston College 24 Notre Dame 35, Iowa 18 West Virginia 41, Bowling Green 7 LSU 52, UConn 0 Texas Tech 45, Clemson 35 Alabama 42, Minnesota 14 Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-07-2009 at 09:31 AM. |
12-07-2009, 09:23 AM | #7 |
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Neither the Mizzou nor Rutgers contingents are going to be very happy with your results. Although Rutgers obviously would not expect to win against Florida. But Mizzou losing to Central Michigan???
Boise State goes down! Tarcone will not accept that his Hawkeye defense would surrender five touchdowns against Notre Dame. |
12-07-2009, 01:14 PM | #8 |
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Yeah, it's clear NCAA10 is rigged towards the bigger programs/big names. I didn't really have a way to offset that and I'm using the rosters of a guy from OS who has been raved about and has updated his ratings all seasons. Nothing seems out of the ordinary and way better than whatever the out of the box rosters came looking like.
The Notre Dame/Iowa game wasn't really even a contest. Boise completely fucking choked on their home turf, Rutgers actually kept it close for a while before getting spanked and I didn't expect Missouri to win that one, even though it was supposed to look like a slam dunk to the untrained eye. But CMU almost choked on it. It's all pretty pedestrian stuff so far, but it'll get more interesting in the later rounds I'm betting. |
12-07-2009, 06:11 PM | #9 |
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Here is the rest of the first round matchups:
UCLA @ BYU (52-24, BYU) MTSU @ Pitt (10-7, Pittsburgh) Ole Miss @ Wisconsin (41-38, Wisconsin) South Carolina @ Miami (55-41, Miami) Arkansas @ Stanford (14-0, Arkansas) Kentucky @ Georgia Tech (40-14, Georgia Tech) Nevada @ Oklahoma State (31-0, Oklahoma State) Southern Miss @ Ohio State (41-20, Ohio State) Ohio @ Penn State (14-0, Penn State) Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-07-2009 at 07:43 PM. |
12-07-2009, 07:50 PM | #10 |
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Here's the 2nd round playoff bracket:
Texas Tech @ Alabama West Virginia @ LSU Notre Dame @ North Carolina Houston @ Florida Texas A&M @ Central Michigan USC @ BYU Pittsburgh @ Arizona Wisconsin @ TCU Georgia @ Cincinnati Arkansas @ Miami Oklahoma State @ Georgia Tech Utah @ Oregon Nebraska @ Ohio State California @ Virginia Tech Oregon State @ Penn State Oklahoma @ Texas |
12-07-2009, 08:09 PM | #11 |
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Ok, now that we've got the Omnivore tournament going, I'm going to go ahead and start the FOFC tourney. In part because it's more interesting since there are fewer games for me to run and I can get a winner faster. Yay results.
I've decided I like Dan Wetzel's plan from SI.com today, so we're gonna use that rather than my original 12-team bracket. We'll just lift it straight from Dan's article: 16-teams. All of our games will be at neutral sites and I'll give accounts of these games in more detail than I'm doing with the other tournament. Because I'm a northern snob, we'll have some of the earlier games at cold weather locales, as well as warm ones. Sucks to be you if you have to play in Philly, but hey...thems the breaks. ROUND OF 16 PHILADELPHIA BIRMINGHAM GLENDALE SAN FRANCISCO ROUND OF 8 ST. PETERSBURG SAN ANTONIO FINAL FOUR DETROIT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PASADENA |
12-07-2009, 08:13 PM | #12 |
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ROUND OF 16 (FOFC TOURNEY)
Alabama 52, Troy 31 The Tide didn't let the venue deter them from putting up a ton of points on their in-state compatriots. At halftime, they led 31-10 and despite a third quarter push from Troy, the Crimson Tide combined for 533 yards of total offense in the victory. Greg McElroy went 24 of 40 for 310 yards passing, with 2 TDs and a pick. Confident, seemingly, in their chance to win, the tide started freshman Trent Richardson and had 40 carries for 168 yards and 2 TDs in the win. Troy's QB Levi Brown was impressive. He threw for 287 yards and 3 TDs with no interceptions on 28 of 54 attempts. Bama gets the winner of Georgia Tech and Ohio State next week in St. Petersburg. ROUND OF 16 Ohio State 27, Georgia Tech 24 Aaron Pettrey was the difference maker, kicking two field goals including the one that proved to be the game winner in the 4th quarter with about 3 minutes to go to give the Bucks the win and a date with Alabama next week. Josh Nesbitt went 10-17 for 151 yards passing and 2 TDs for Tech, but was outgunned by the fantastic Terrelle Pryor and his 255 yards passing and 2 TDs on 15 of 23 passing on the day, along with 19 yards on the ground. Brandon Saine was the difference maker for OSU, with 132 yards rushing on 36 carries and a TD. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-07-2009 at 08:23 PM. |
12-10-2009, 10:51 PM | #13 |
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Meh, this is a mess. I think I'm gonna start over with a smaller field, even smaller than the 16-team playoff. Too many games, it's not interesting enough for me to keep it up.. Maybe there's an argument right there against a playoff. I can't even make a virtual one interesting.
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