Your Fantasy Olympics Committee hopes you are enjoying the already epic Olympic competition. (Did you see that swimming relay? Amazing.)
In case you’ve not noticed, all medal counts will be updated by the Commissioner or a member of the Fantasy Olympics Committee. We aim to update medal and division counts by the end of the working day (Eastern time). So keep checking back to see where you stand.
Also, we recap here the Rules and the Announcements to reiterate how we score the league:
1. For this Olympiad competition, we randomly divided 85 teams into 11 leagues. In light of the increased number of athletes at the summer games (nearly 600 on Team USA), each team picked 12 athletes plus 1 tiebreaker country. We will crown 11 league winners, in addition to an overall champion. The prize will remain the same as in the past: unending respect and admiration, and maybe a free drink from each of the other participants the next time you see them.
2. Remember: Each player will select a total of 12 athletes. Any athletes not drafted will be deemed Free Agents. Teams may add, drop or trade players through their first event. Whoever holds the athlete at the time of his or her first event is locked in and cannot remove the athlete from the roster. A player may draft a tiebreaker country in any round, but remember that the medals won by that country will only come into play in the event of a tie.
3. Medals in team sports can only count once toward the final total, and team sports can only be chosen by one person per league. For example, someone pinning their medal hopes on USA Basketball should choose the team, not LeBron James. After that team is chosen, no one else can choose that team.
4. However, anyone who competes in an individual sport (i.e., swimmers, runners, etc.) should be chosen individually, and each relay medal will count toward your total. The basketball player can't win an individual medal. However, if you take Lezak—SERIOUSLY, HOW GREAT WAS THE 400 FREE RELAY!?!—you do so because he can win medals in several events. Same thing with Venus or Serena. The point is that you get all medals for any athlete who compete in individual events, even if some of those medals come in relays.
5. The winner will be the team with the most points at the end of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Points will be assigned as follows: 3 points for a gold medal, 2 points for a silver medal, and 1 point for a bronze medal. Each team’s final score will be based on an aggregate score from his or her 12 players.
6. Each player will also select one non-USA country whose gold medal count will be used to determine a winner, in the event of a tie among two or more players’ aggregate scores. If the gold medal count fails to break the tie, then the silver count, and finally the bronze count, will be used.
7. We do not weight any sports.
8. Have fun. And tip your waitstaff. They’re working hard for you.
Monday, August 11, 2008
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The 400 relay was a thing of beauty...
And I get some points for it! ;-)
Kat (Ray Ewry Div)
How is this competition completely even? Some of the divisions were allowed to use Australian swimmers and some weren't? That's a big deal for the women, especially!
We are monitoring the Australian division closely. If the winner of that division gains an advantage by using Australian athletes, we will also name another overall winner because of the obvious disparity.
However, we anticipate that the overall winner will come down to a contest between everyone who has Phelps... and the team with Phelps in the Australian league chose all American athletes.
But yes, we are aware of that situation. It's all part of the growing pains as we have more than 20 times as many participants this year, so we are having to adjust on the fly. Stay tuned... we won't let anyone get screwed by our unexpected growth.
Yeah, pretty much the winner will be someone with Phelps. Next time, we should open it up to all countries. That's where the real Olympic die-hards will excell.
@anonymous: due to international interest, we created one division that was allowed to draft atheletes from non-US countries. This was done in the Olympic spirit of inclusion. Think of it in baseball terms as the NL and the AL.
Also: We're still getting a handle on how to efficiently update the scores. If your medal count isn't correct right now, everything will be corrected this evening EST.
Even though I was able to take Australians I didn't know enough about them to take any and I felt more comfortable with just Americans. So it works out (I'm the team with Phelps) that we can tell how the Ausies do in comparison.
And by the way, great job with the competition, so far everything seems to be running pretty smoothly (at least from my end). And I am having a ball. I actually cheered at the end of the relay and even though that was amazing, I probably would not have done that otherwise.
That relay was amazing. I have had a lot of fun watching this year's games.
Jeremy, I would recommend awarding a Gold, Silver and Bronze to each division and then an overall Gold, Silver and Bronze.
That way it parallels what we did in 2006. And it will keep more people interested until the end.
Another highlight from last night's coverage - Bela Karolyi saying anything he wants.
The FRENCH? are FRIED! I will be going there in OCTOBER, wearing a MICHAEL PHELPS SHIRT and cycling thru BON-A-PART LE Streets!!! VIVA LE AMERICAN!
I think someone screwed up on the Peter Vanderkaay scoring....Vanderkaay has swam in one event so far: the 200 Freestyle, where he got a bronze. Everywhere I look, there's a three next to Peter's name? Why is that?
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