Tuesday, December 29, 2015

2015 Hazelweird Cup - Finals


Week 16 Results

1. Abe 11-0 (146.54)
2. Nate 10-1 (144.51)
3. Jerod 9-2 (141.19)
4. Bryan 8-3 (135.67)
5. Jon 7-4 (133.83)
6. Kiah 6-5 (124.47)
7. Tony 5-6 (123.93)
8. Joe 4-7 (118.90)
9. Adam 3-8 (112.51)
10. Chris 2-9 (106.56)
11. Brad 1-10 (75.56)
12. Justin 0-11 (61.11)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 138-38
2. Nate 110-66
3. Chris 104-72
4. Kiah 100-76
5. Tony 99-77
6. Justin 94-82
7. Jerod 92-84
8. Brad 76-100
9. Bryan 76-100
10. Jon 59-117
11. Joe 56-120
12. Adam 53-123

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

2015 Hazelweird Cup - Semifinals


Week 15 Results

1. Abe 11-0 (169.66)
2. Chris 10-1 (163.11)
3. Nate 9-2 (146.09)
4. Jerod 8-3 (144.00)
5. Tony 7-4 (143.81)
6. Adam 6-5 (129.24)
7. Jon 5-6 (120.33)
8. Brad 4-7 (116.81)
9. Bryan 3-8 (116.74)
10. Joe 2-9 (110.70)
11. Kiah 1-10 (97.73)
12. Justin 0-11 (94.13)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 127-38
2. Chris 102-63
3. Nate 100-65
4. Tony 94-71
5. Kiah 94-71
6. Justin 94-71
7. Jerod 83-82
8. Brad 75-90
9. Bryan 68-97
10. Joe 52-1113
11. Jon 52-113
12. Adam 50-115

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

2015 Hazelweird Cup - Quarterfinals


Week 14 Results

1. Nate 11-0 (169.84)
2. Chris 10-1 (134.94)
3. Tony 9-2 (121.06)
4. Kiah 8-3 (114.56)
5. Bryan 7-4 (111.01)
6. Abe 6-5 (108.56)
7. Jerod 5-6 (105.43)
8. Adam 4-7 (100.61)
9. Brad 3-8 (96.07)
10. Joe 2-9 (88.39)
11. Justin 1-10 (86.84)
12. Jon 0-11 (84.20)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 116-38
2. Justin 94-60
3. Kiah 93-61
4. Chris 92-62
5. Nate 91-63
6. Tony 87-67
7. Jerod 75-79
8. Brad 71-83
9. Bryan 65-89
10. Joe 50-104
11. Jon 47-107
12. Adam 44-110

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

2015 Hazelweird Cup - Round 1

Week 13 Results

1. Tony 11-0 (155.69)
2. Abe 10-1 (155.29)
3. Nate 9-2 (152.50)
4. Joe 8-3 (149.62)
5. Kiah 7-4 (149.62)
6. Brad 6-5 (122.76)
7. Jerod 5-6 (121.99)
8. Chris 4-7 (111.33)
9. Justin 3-8 (110.70)
10. Bryan 2-9 (110.16)
11. Adam 1-10 (106.54)
12. Jon 0-11 (76.56)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 110-33
2. Justin 93-50
3. Kiah 85-58
4. Chris 82-61
5. Nate 80-63
6. Tony 78-65
7. Jerod 70-73
8. Brad 68-75
9. Bryan 58-85
10. Joe 48-95
11. Jon 47-96
12. Adam 40-103

Monday, November 30, 2015

Week 12 Results

1. Jerod 11-0 (155.87)
2. Nate 10-1 (154.90)
3. Tony 9-2 (142.83)
4. Chris 8-3 (136.16)
5. Joe 7-4 (128.43)
6. Justin 6-5 (127.17)
7. Abe 5-6 (110.93)
8. Adam 4-7 (106.70)
9. Kiah 3-8 (104.04)
10. Brad 2-9 (101.93)
11. Jon 1-10 (85.86)
12. Bryan 0-11 (60.61)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 100-32
2. Justin 90-42
3. Kiah 78-54
4. Chris 78-54
5. Nate 71-61
6. Tony 67-65
7. Jerod 65-67
8. Brad 62-70
9. Bryan 56-76
10. Jon 47-85
11. Joe 40-92
12. Adam 39-93

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Scores through Sunday, Week 12

1. Jerod 155.87
2. Nate 154.90
3. Chris 136.16
4. Tony 132.83 (Duke Johnson)
5. Justin 127.17
6. Joe 110.03 (J.Allen)
7. Adam 106.70
8. Brad 101.93
9. Kiah 95.04 (Ravens K)
10. Abe 94.83 (Barnidge)
11. Jon 85.86
12. Bryan 60.61

Monday, November 23, 2015

Week 11 Results

1. Kiah 11-0 (139.36)
2. Justin 10-1 (122.76)
3. Chris 9-2 (121.13)
4. Joe 8-3 (97.60)
5. Jerod 7-4 (95.16)
6. Nate 6-5 (87.51)
7. Jon 5-6 (79.00)
8. Brad 4-7 (78.91)
9. Abe 3-8 (78.66)
10. Tony 2-9 (76.23)
11. Bryan 1-10 (74.67)
12. Adam 0-11 (65.39)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 95-26
2. Justin 84-37
3. Kiah 75-46
4. Chris 70-51
5. Nate 61-60
6. Brad 60-61
7. Tony 58-63
8. Bryan 56-65
9. Jerod 54-67
10. Jon 46-75
11. Adam 35-86
12. Joe 33-88

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Week 10 Results

1. Justin 11-0 (147.91)
2. Jerod 10-1 (129.61)
3. Chris 9-2 (127.76)
4. Tony 8-3 (115.43)
5. Brad 7-4 (114.40)
6. Abe 6-5 (113.91)
7. Jon 5-6 (110.76)
8. Kiah 4-7 (109.67)
9. Nate 3-8 (109.57)
10. Joe 2-9 (72.43)
11. Adam 1-10 (72.00)
12. Bryan 0-11 (54.17)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 92-18
2. Justin 74-36
3. Kiah 64-46
4. Chris 61-49
5. Tony 56-54
6. Brad 56-54
7. Nate 55-55
8. Bryan 55-55
9. Jerod 47-63
10. Jon 41-69
11. Adam 35-75
12. Joe 25-85

Monday, November 9, 2015

Week 9 Results

1. Abe 11-0 (166.14)
2. Justin 10-1 (156.80)
3. Tony 9-2 (154.80)
4. Kiah 8-3 (149.80)
5. Bryan 7-4 (126.86)
6. Chris 6-5 (124.00)
7. Jon 5-6 (117.66)
8. Brad 4-7 (114.64)
9. Adam 3-8 (110.63)
10. Nate 2-9 (106.89)
11. Joe 1-10 (102.79)
12. Jerod 0-11 (94.89)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 86-13
2. Justin 63-36
3. Kiah 60-39
4. Bryan 55-44
5. Chris 52-47
6. Nate 51-48
7. Brad 49-50
8. Tony 48-51
9. Jerod 37-62
10. Jon 36-63
11. Adam 34-65
12. Joe 23-76

Monday, November 2, 2015

Week 8 Results

1. Kiah 11-0 (166.70)
2. Abe 10-1 (154.89)
3. Jerod 9-2 (154.30)
4. Nate 8-3 (138.80)
5. Brad 7-4 (137.67)
6. Tony 6-5 (121.94)
7. Chris 5-6 (110.11)
8. Jon 4-7 (93.74)
9. Adam 3-8 (91.09)
10. Bryan 2-9 (75.60)
11. Justin 1-10 (68.10)
12. Joe 0-11 (65.90)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 75-13
2. Justin 53-35
3. Kiah 52-36
4. Nate 49-39
5. Bryan 48-40
6. Chris 46-42
7. Brad 45-43
8. Tony 39-49
9. Jerod 37-51
10. Adam 31-57
11. Jon 31-57
12. Joe 22-66

Scores through Sunday, Week 8

1. Kiah 166.70
2. Abe 151.20 (Panthers K)
3. Brad 137.67
4. Jerod 136.20 (A.Johnson)
5. Nate 135.00 (Moncrief)
6. Chris 110.11
7. Jon 93.74
8. Adam 91.09
9. Tony 68.54 (Gore, Olsen, Stewart, Carolina D)
10. Justin 68.10
11. Joe 65.00 (Hilton)
12. Bryan 55.50 (Luck)

Monday, October 26, 2015

Week 7 Results

1. Justin 11-0 (153.76)
2. Tony 10-1 (152.16)
3. Kiah 9-2 (148.30)
4. Abe 8-3 (146.70)
5. Chris 7-4 (137.11)
6. Bryan 6-5 (134.61)
7. Nate 5-6 (122.00)
8. Joe 4-7 (114.50)
9. Jerod 3-8 (97.66)
10. Brad 2-9 (93.04)
11. Jon 1-10 (91.37)
12. Adam 0-11 (86.16)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 65-12
2. Justin 52-25
3. Bryan 46-31
4. Chris  41-36
5. Nate 41-36
6. Kiah 41-36
7. Brad 38-39
8. Tony 33-44
9. Adam 28-49
10. Jerod 28-49
11. Jon 27-50
12. Joe 22-55

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Scores through Sunday, Week 7

1. Justin 153.76
2. Tony 152.16
3. Kiah 144.30 (Ravens K)
4. Chris 129.11 (Arizona K)
5. Abe 128.90 (S.Smith, Arizona D)
6. Bryan 118.11 (J.Brown)
7. Nate 103.80 (C.Johnson)
8. Joe 100.30 (Flacco)
9. Jerod 97.66
10. Jon 91.37
11. Brad 72.74 (Fitzgerald, Forsett)
12. Adam 68.10 (Palmer)

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Week 6 Results

1. Kiah 11-0 (164.47)
2. Chris 10-1 (153.29)
3. Nate 9-2 (131.96)
4. Brad 8-3 (122.81)
5. Bryan 7-4 (120.81)
6. Abe 6-5 (120.76)
7. Jerod 5-6 (117.80)
8. Tony 4-7 (116.90)
9. Adam 3-8 (115.33)
10. Justin 2-9 (106.39)
11. Jon 1-10 (97.53)
12. Joe 0-11 (92.54)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 57-9
2. Justin 41-25
3. Bryan 40-26
4. Nate 36-30
5. Brad 36-30
6. Chris 34-32
7. Kiah 32-34
8. Adam 28-38
9. Jon 26-40
10. Jerod 25-41
11. Tony 23-43
12. Joe 18-48

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Scores through Sunday, Week 6

1. Kiah 164.47
2. Chris 153.29
3. Abe 120.76
4. Adam 115.33
5. Nate 112.86 (Beckham)
6. Bryan 111.41 (Randle)
7. Jerod 106.20 (Manning)
8. Justin 105.39 (Giants K)
9. Brad 101.51 (Murray)
10. Jon 97.53
11. Joe 92.54
12. Tony 91.80 (J.Matthews, Bradford)

Monday, October 12, 2015

Week 5 Results

1. Justin 11-0 (151.89)
2. Abe 10-1 (146.77)
3. Jerod 9-2 (125.50)
4. Bryan 8-3 (123.77)
5. Brad 7-4 (119.86)
6. Adam 6-5 (113.40)
7. Nate 5-6 (112.04)
8. Jon 4-7 (110.46)
9. Tony 3-8 (107.61)
10. Kiah 2-9 (103.53)
11. Chris 1-10 (89.00)
12. Joe 0-11 (84.67)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 51-4
2. Justin 39-16
3. Bryan 33-22
4. Brad 28-27
5. Nate 27-28
6. Adam 25-30
7. Jon 25-30
8. Chris 24-31
9. Kiah 21-34
10. Jerod 20-35
11. Tony 19-36
12. Joe 18-37

Scores through Sunday, Week 5

1. Abe  131.27 (Brown, Chargers K)
2. Jerod 125.5
3. Bryan 123.77
4. Brad 119.86
5. Justin 119.19 (Bell, Pitt D)
6. Adam 113.4
7. Nate 95.64 (Gordon)
8. Tony 95.01 (Woodhead)
9. Joe 84.67
10. Kiah 83.10 (Rivers)
11. Jon 80.26 (Gates)
12. Chris 77.30 (Allen)

Monday, October 5, 2015

Week 4 Results

1. Abe 11-0 (128.20)
2. Bryan 10-1 (122.90)
3. Justin 9-2 (117.96)
4. Chris 8-3 (113.90)
5. Kiah 7-4 (106.56)
6. Brad 6-5 (106.24)
7. Jerod 5-6 (106.06)
8. Jon 4-7 (96.61)
9. Joe 3-8 (95.90)
10. Tony 2-9 (94.37)
11. Adam 1-10 (90.40)
12. Nate 0-11 (84.73)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 41-3
2. Justin 28-16
3. Bryan 25-19
4. Chris 23-21
5. Nate 22-22
6. Jon 21-23
7. Brad 21-23
8. Adam 19-25
9. Kiah 19-25
10. Joe 18-26
11. Tony 16-28
12. Jerod 11-33


Sunday, October 4, 2015

Scores through Sunday, Week 4

1. Abe 128.20
2. Justin 117.96
3. Bryan 117.10 (Stafford)
4. Kiah 106.56
5. Jerod 106.06
6. Brad 99.84 (Abdullah)
7. Tony 94.37
8. Adam 90.40
9. Chris 89.80 (Wilson, Graham)
10. Jon 80.01 (Seattle D, Baldwin)
11. Nate 78.93 (Rawls)
12. Joe 76.30 (C.Johnson, Seattle K)

Monday, September 28, 2015

Week 3 Results

Week 3 Results
Abe 11-0 (184.99)
Chris 10-1 (165.51)
Tony 9-2 (161.74)
Adam 8-3 (140.71)
Jon 7-4 (134.74)
Joe 6-5 (128.49)
Nate 5-6 (125.89)
Bryan 4-7 (111.03)
Brad 3-8 (101.53)
Justin 2-9 (97.99)
Kiah 1-10 (97.63)
Jerod 0-11 (88.86)


Updated Standings
1. Abe 30-3
2. Nate 22-11
3. Justin 19-14
4. Adam 18-15
5. Jon 17-16
6. Chris 15-18
7. Joe 15-18
8. Brad 15-18
9. Bryan 15-18
10. Tony 14-19
11. Kiah 12-21
12. Jerod 6-27

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Scores through Sunday, Week 3

1. Abe 184.99
2. Chris 166.51
3. Tony 161.74
4. Joe 128.49
5. Nate 117.89 (Packers K)
6. Jon 107.84 (J.Jones)
7. Justin 97.99
8. Kiah 97.63
9. Brad 93.53 (Packers D)
10. Bryan 80.83 (Charles)
11. Adam 69.30 (Rodgers, Cobb)
12. Jerod 33.06 (Maclin, Lacy, Kelce)

Monday, September 21, 2015

Week 2 Resuts

1. Abe 11-0 (156.24)
2. Brad  10-1 (138.57)
3. Jon  9-2 (133.87)
4. Nate 8-3 (129.54)
5. Justin 7-4 (121.00)
6. Adam 6-5 (119.61)
7. Tony 5-6 (118.99)
8. Bryan 4-7 (104.64)
9. Joe 3-8 (104.57)
10. Chris 2-9 (83.69)
11. Jerod 1-10 (82.47)
12. Kiah 0-11 (71.49)

Updated Standings
1. Abe 19-3
2. Nate 17-5
3. Justin 17-5
4. Brad 12-10
5. Bryan 11-11
6. Kiah 11-11
7. Jon 10-12
8. Adam 10-12
9. Joe 9-13
10. Jerod 6-16
11. Tony 5-17
12. Chris 5-17


Sunday, September 20, 2015

Scores through Sunday, Week 2

1. Abe 155.24 (Indy K)
2. Jon  133.77
3. Adam 119.61
4. Tony 118.99
5. Justin 115.30 (A.Johnson)
6. Brad 114.87 (Decker)
7. Nate 106.44 (Marshall)
8. Joe 104.57
9. Bryan 90.10 (Luck)
10. Jerod 82.47
11. Chris 75.66 (Ivory)
12. Kiah 71.49

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Week 1 Results

1. Kiah 11-0 (142.14)
2. Justin 10-1 (137.20)
3. Nate 9-2 (135.43)
4. Abe 8-3 (129.73)
5. Bryan 7-4 (124.24)
6. Joe 6-5 (122.77)
7. Jerod 5-6 (121.11)
8. Adam 4-7 (107.80)
9. Chris 3-8 (107.70)
10. Brad 2-9 (104.73)
11. Jon 1-10 (94.71)
12. Tony 0-11 (87.74)

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Scores through Sunday, Week 1

1. Kiah  142.14
2. Nate  123.03 (R.White)
3. Joe    122.77
4. Justin 122.60 (Bradford)
5. Bryan 118.24 (Philly K)
6. Jerod  108.81 (M.Wallace)
7. Chris  107.70
8. Adam 103.10 (Ch. Johnson)
9. Abe 91.63 (J.Jones, Vikings D)
10. Brad 76.03 (Murray, V.Davis, Vikings K)
11. Tony 66.54 (J.Matthews)
12. Jon   53.30 (M.Ryan, Peterson, Falcons K)

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Rule Changes from draft week, 2015



The following is added to the Emergency Draft Procedure:

"When Emergency Draft Procedure is used, all managers are required to draft a full starting lineup."

The following is cut from the Free Agency Rules:

"Players who are dropped in Week X are not eligible to be picked up by another manager in Week X; those players become eligible for free agency the following week.

"If Yahoo does not make a player eligible for the Tuesday waiver bidding (i.e., the player was dropped too late to clear midnight Tuesday waivers), that player will not be an eligible free agent for that week, including during the free for all period.  The player will be an eligible free agent the following week."

(NOTE: the second paragraph here was not specified in our vote, but I believe it is implied by the intent of the vote--that we should generally allow whatever Yahoo! allows, that we want rolling waivers, and that we want players cut during Week A to be eligible to be picked to during Week A and be started in Week B--that this rule should be cut as well).

and replaced with this:

"There are rolling waivers: players who are dropped will go onto Yahoo!'s waivers, where they may be claimed during Yahoo!'s waiver period.  Players who clear waivers may be picked up at any time.  If you are able to pick up a player before the start of that player's game, you will be able to start him (in other words, players dropped during Week X are now allowed to be picked up later in Week X according to what Yahoo! allows).   While you are generally allowed to do what Yahoo! allows for, you may not drop a bench player who has already played his week's game in order to pick up a different player who has not played that week."

But note that the following is still a part of the Preseason Free Agency Policy:

"Players dropped during the preseason FA period are not eligible to be picked up until the Week One FA period."



Sunday, July 5, 2015

A Brief History of the Skillz Competition

Origins
From 2002 to 2006, HZW did not use Yahoo!: Justin then Joe would tally up scores manually using box scores, and that we maintained rosters on our own (shared) documents.  And while there was at some point an original document stating the league's rules and scoring, over time this was not consulted or updated in any way.  But we still voted on any rule changes--we just remembered them.  It wasn't that complicated: at one point the majority of the league had to vote to approve a trade, and then we voted that this was a bad idea and trades should be made without approval, and then trades were just made (the announcements were made via email so the commissioner could update documents and the league could be informed).  This system was not great, but it worked.  We did end up with a lot of complex rules, but we basically knew what they were and acted accordingly.

In 2007, we made the switch to using Yahoo! for our roster management and scoring.  This meant a lot of our old rules did not apply, were no longer necessary, or were basically maintained with Yahoo!'s features.  We had rules for how free agency worked, for example, that we followed (we essentially had to wait our turn to use or weekly FA pick), but the most relevant rules were frequently applied, and easily known.  2007 also happened to be Bryan's first year in the league, and so Bryan was not familiar with many of the precedents that were established by previous rule issues, or the less-frequently used rules.

Before 2007, HZW's "Team Kicker" rule meant that you selected a team, and then you got all of that team's extra points and field goals, regardless of who kicked them.  If the team's kicker got some points, then got injured mid-game, and then the team's punter got some points, your fantasy team got all of those combined kicking points.  When we switched to Yahoo! scoring, this would not work, but we maintained the Team Kicker rule by a) allowing a manager rights to a team's replacement kicker (if you have Team A Kicker, and that team's kicker is injured our cut, you get to pick up his replacement, and it would not count as your one free agent pickup that week).  We also had enhanced rosters for unbalanced trades, so if a team had two kickers (it happens occasionally when there are injury concerns), a manager could carry both kickers on the roster without it counting against the roster cap (but would still have to pick a kicker to start to get those points).  But it must be noted, as you might guess, that this was rarely done, and so this Team Kicker rule garnered very little attention.  A member who joined the league in 2007 would likely not notice it.

In 2009, Kiah made a move that came to be notorious for Kiah, in which he makes a dubious move based on a dubious interpretation of an occasionally ambiguous rule, which often forces a vote to determine the move's legitimacy, to establish precedent on rule interpretation,  Kiah went ahead and picked up a kicker based on the Team Kicker rule, and announced to the league that he assumed he could do this.  Bryan was perplexed by Kiah's move that didn't make any clear sense without knowledge of our pre-Yahoo! rules (I don't remember the specifics, but it may have been this move which forced the issue on some of the rules listed in the previous paragraph).  At this point two members of the league had joined after the Yahoo! transition (Bryan and Nathan).  How many other weird rules are there out there?  What other things will older members be able to that newer members don't know about?  And what other things could newer members be doing that they didn't even know? I announced that this was indeed a problem, and that after the season was over, I would try to compile (with consultation with the rest of the league) a formal rulebook that would specify many of HZW's strange traditions, precedents, and obscurities.

In 2010 I began drafting that famous Rulebook that has become more crucial to HZW business.  The process of writing and discussing the rulebook also helped to formulate, solidify, or innovate some of our rules.

While writing the section on Auction procedure, I was initially going to write that the seating order (and thus the order of throwing out names, and the order in which bids are made) would be determined randomly at the time of the draft. In the past this was done by a simple drawing of cards. But something struck me about this.  It would be fine to keep this up, but why, for the first time, put this down in writing?

So I informed the league that while writing this section, I would leave it a little more vague.  Instead of specifying the random draw of cards, I would include a statement like "Seating order will be determined in a method of our choosing before the draft."  We could do anything we want.  We could have some sort of competition.  I think my original quasi-joke was that, heck, we could have a Punt, Pass, and Kick competition to determine the seating order.  This was immediately received with enthusiasm.

The Competitions
2010: quarterbacking (champion: Justin)
The first annual HZW Skillz Competition was a quarterbacking competition, both for accuracy and distance.  Jon (the 2010 host) acquired a tire to use for the accuracy portion of the competition: we would be ranked on how many times out of 10 we could throw a football through the tire from a set distance (ties broken with a throw-off).  Then we were ranked by how far we could throw the football.  The rankings of the two rounds was added up Grand Prix style, with the winner being the top combined score.  Justin won, giving him the opportunity to throw out the first player for bid.  And the first player for bid, in the Skillz Competition era, something we now debate and discuss for hours and even have a trophy for?  The 49er Defense.

2011: mini-golf (champion: Kiah)
We had a team mini-golf competition at Goodrich Golf Dome.  The winning team would sit in seats 1-5 (ranked by scores), the losing team in seats 6-10 (ranked by scores), with the person with the lowest score sitting in the first seat no matter what team he was on.  Once again, ties within teams were broken with a putt-off on a single hole.  This year, the Skillz winner was also the Hazelweird winner.

2012: HOH bean bag toss (champion: Jon)
We used a bean bag toss game purchased by Abe which assigned different scores for different holes.  As I watched Big Brother, I considered how to use the structure of that show's competitions for our HZW competition.  The format: two people would compete head-to-head for the best score in the bean bag toss.  The loser was eliminated from the competition, and would get the lowest seat.  The winner would be "Head of Hazelweird," and would choose the next two people to compete to avoid elimination.  This would be repeated until there was one champion remaining.

2013; Arcade (champion: Justin)
We went to an alien-themed restaurant/arcade, and each used $10 of our own money for tokens.  We could use our tokens in the arcade however we chose, and the order of seating would be determined by who had won the most tickets.

2014: Fun Run, Wiffle Ball, Home Run Derby, HOH frisbee throw (champion: Joe)
The winner of the 2014 NCAA tournament bracket would choose the 2014 Skillz Competition.  Joe won and established a four-round skillz competition

Round One: Fun Run.  Anybody who chose could participate in the three mile run/walk, with the top two finishers getting to be captains and choose teams for the second round.

Round Two: Wiffle Ball.  The two teams played wiffle ball for an established amount of time.  The members of the winning team earned the right to compete for levels of immunity in round three, while the members of the losing team competed to be the first Head of Hazelweird in Round Three.

Round Three: Dinger Derby. Everybody took a swing at a wiffle ball off the tee, with measuring tape to measure distance.  All members of the winning wiffle ball team had immunity for the first matchup of Round Four: they earned extra matchup immunities based on their order of distance in the dinger derby.  Earning immunity for a matchup meant you could not be selected to compete in that matchup.

Round Four: Frisbee Toss Accuracy. Two people would throw a frisbee at a tree from a set distance.  If both hit the frisbee, they took a step back.  If both missed, they took a step forward.  If one person hit the tree and the other missed, the one who hit the tree was the new HOH, and the one who missed was eliminated, getting the next lowest seat available.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Proposed Rule Changes for 2015

1. PPR League: Passed
Yes (7): Bryan, Kiah, Joe, Justin, Chris, Adam, Tony
No (2): Abe, Nate

2. QB: 5 pts per TD, 1 pt per 35 yards: PASSED
Yes (7): Bryan, Kiah*, Joe*, Justin*, Chris, Adam, Tony 
No (2): Abe, Nate

*Switch to No votes if #1 fails.

3. Roster Change to 15: PASSED
Yes (7): Bryan, Kiah, Joe, Justin, Chris, Tony, Adam
No (1): Abe

4. Lineup Change: QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, TE, WR/RB/TE, K, D (adds one RB and switches the flex to include TE): PASSED
Yes (7): Bryan*, Kiah*, Joe*, Justin*, Chris, Tony, Adam*
No (1): Abe

*Switch to No votes if #1 fails.

5. In the event of a year end tie... Player with best head to head, week to week record is the winner.: PASSED
Yes (7): Bryan, Kiah, Joe, Justin, Chris, Tony, Adam, Nate
No: