Week 3 Discussion

[Guest]

<table align="center" border="1" bordercolor="#040404" width="95%"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#040404"><td colspan="3" align="center">Regular Season, Week 3</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Las Vegas Outlaws (1-1)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">St. Paul Bandits (2-0) (-2)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Charlotte Cougars (0-2)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">San Francisco Bayhawks (1-1) (-2)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Columbus Catfish (1-1) (-2)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Yuma Aces (0-2)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Chicago Reapers (2-0) (-1)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Brooklyn Hitmen (1-1)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Kalispel Stags (1-1)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Lake County Xtreme (2-0) (-4)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">North Liberty Enforcers (0-2)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Boston Fighting Irish (1-1) (-3)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Los Alamos Monsters (0-2)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Washington Bombers (0-2) (-1)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Motor City Mechanics (2-0)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Memphis Admirals (1-1) (-3)
</td></tr></tbody></table>

[Guest]

<table align="center" border="1" bordercolor="#040404" width="95%"> <tbody> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Punxsutawney Phils (1-1)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">New Orleans Stingrays (2-0) (-3)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Camden Cutters (2-0)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Morgantown Maniacs (2-0) (-1)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Portland Phantoms (1-1)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Ohio Valley Showboats (1-1) (-5)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Utah Bees (2-0) (-1)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Anchorage Gladiators (1-1)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Pearl Harbor Defenders (0-2)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Dakota Totems (0-2) (-4)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Port City Steam (1-1)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Denver Grizzlies (1-1) (-4)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">S. Maryland Jaguars (1-1)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Gainesville Gaels (1-1) (-3)
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Waco Warhawks (0-2)
</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Phoenix Riders (1-1) (-3)
</td></tr></tbody> </table>

[Andrew]

Did you have to split it up because of the character limit? I'll work on this today.

[Guest]

Yes, the character limit forced the split. In a small environment like this, I don't know of a reason to have a character limit at all, really. Like I said earlier, I don't even have one set at FOFC. If someone were to do something to abuse it (which hasn't happened in the nearly five years we've used vbulletin), I'd just address it with that person.

[Andrew]

Yes, the character limit forced the split. In a small environment like this, I don't know of a reason to have a character limit at all, really. Like I said earlier, I don't even have one set at FOFC. If someone were to do something to abuse it (which hasn't happened in the nearly five years we've used vbulletin), I'd just address it with that person.

Fixed. I set it to 0, which should allow unlimited characters.

[Guest]

Test...

<table border="1" bordercolor="#040404" width="95%"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#040404"><td colspan="3" align="center">Regular Season, Week 3</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Las Vegas Outlaws</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">St. Paul Bandits</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Charlotte Cougars</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">San Francisco Bayhawks</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Columbus Catfish</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Yuma Aces</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Chicago Reapers</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Brooklyn Hitmen</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Kalispel Stags</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Lake County Xtreme</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">North Liberty Enforcers</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Boston Fighting Irish</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Los Alamos Monsters</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Washington Bombers</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Motor City Mechanics</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Memphis Admirals</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Punxsutawney Phils</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">New Orleans Stingrays</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Camden Cutters</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Morgantown Maniacs</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Portland Phantoms</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Ohio Valley Showboats</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Utah Bees</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Anchorage Gladiators</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">Pearl Harbor Defenders</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Dakota Totems</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Port City Steam</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Denver Grizzlies</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eee8d2"><td align="center" valign="middle">S. Maryland Jaguars</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Gainesville Gaels</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#e4dbba"><td align="center" valign="middle">Waco Warhawks</td><td align="center">at</td><td align="center" valign="middle">Phoenix Riders</td></tr> </tbody></table>

[Lintyfresh85]

ha... 4 point dogs? Wow. We should be about 17 point dogs to everyone we play. We're that bad.

[Delandis]

I don't think I've spent as much time on gameplanning as I did last night. I'm still not finished. Allen is too good to be having interception issues.

[Acid]

I'm hoping my team can turn it around, we got Randy the ball more in this last game, hopefully he gets about the same this game.

He's been good in the passing game, 10 targets 10 catches 56 yards.

[Clay]

Memphis is #1 in the Power Rankings - Favored by 3 - Picked to win - Given the advantage in nearly every category...

I feel lucky to be able to even share their field.

At least this is our last of 3 in a row on the road to open the season.

[SoobieTech]

Power rankings are like ex-wives.....You ignore them because they are meaningless.

We are favored against Vegas, but since it's a home game for us, it's basically a pick 'em. This should be a really good test for us. Unlike last year, we play a real schedule with tough opponents this season. Let's see if we can prove the naysayers wrong.

[rollaway]

being only a 1 point dog just doesn't seem right. my team is much worse than that. looking at the grey sheet i saw how brooklyn lost two very good d-linemen in free agency. after i saw that i threw up. it didn't make me feel any better.

[Guest]

FYI, the power ratings, and therefore the betting lines, get better and better as the season goes along, just like in real life. (I'm fairly certain that the betting lines are based on a comparison of power ratings modified by home field advantage.) We have a "Betting" section on the side in IHOF that uses the in-game point spreads. In Weeks 2-5 or so, there were several "easy" bets against the spread. But now that we're in Week 8, all of the spreads seem pretty spot-on, and I find myself going money line instead of betting against the spread.

[UNC_Pete]

In real life the betting line is just a line made to get the bets on one side just about equal to the other side. This way the books always win because they get the juice on a bet that is close to 50% to each side as possible..

[Clay]

Big game with Memphis this weekend. The only other time we played in the regular season, we had a shootout in Week 17 of 2006. I blew a 27-9 halftime lead and needed a two minute drive to pull out the win.

New year... new teams... new challenge. Should be a good one.