Great game......

Congrats Packer for deserving trophy....also congrats to many ex-Bucs on roster on winning the ring :)

Another epic battle with another 16-0 hollyhh2000 team in the championship.

Great game friend. I won with luck and some timely defense. My $128M receiver caught 2 passes for 8 yards and was hurt on the pick-6 I handed you in the first quarter. After that, the algorithm was with me today.

As is my custom, I hereby retire from this league. I enjoy rebuilds, not repeats. Nothing personal to any of you in this league. It has been great fun and I'm sure there will be a worthy owner for the Packers heading into the 2019 season.

To my good friend hkpman7180. It has been fun bartering with you and, of course, I benefited from the trades in building my championship team. I wish you much luck in the upcoming draft.

To all, this is the second time in recent weeks that I've won a championship in a very similar way and I feel it's worth sharing the method to my madness. Read on, if you're interested. If not, fare well and I hope you have luck and success in life.

Early in the pandemic, I made a spreadsheet. I just listed all of the plays and looked at my last however many games (varied by league) to get a picture of what plays worked, and what didn't. Once I ran an offensive play 10 times, or a D play 20 times, I would look at the average yards per play. Offensive plays less than 3 yards and defensive plays more than 5 were "retired" from the spreadsheet and new plays took their place. Plays that averaged more than 10 ypp on O or less than 3 on D were set aside for a master playbook I was building.

I spent three seasons in five leagues (so 15 seasons) running 40 plays in my playbook (offense, 30 on D) and trying to run each one at least once per game. It meant I had to set all of the sliders in the "gameplanning" tab, which was a real pain (especially knowing I was going to get crushed in the upcoming game).

The trick (I think, this is all speculation) is that I built in a factor to account for touchdowns and interceptions, on both sides of the ball. Since I was looking at Yards per play, I realized that a 39-yard touchdown pass could've been a 90-yard (or 7-yd) TD, so I needed to put in a formula to standardize this disparity. Also, importantly, I didn't want the run plays that were good at the goal line or short yardage to get buried because it only went for 3-4 yards each time.

Anyway, in the end, I had 35 plays that I wanted my offense to run every game and 25 defensive plays that would be mathematically the most likely to slow down any crazy skilled offense like hollyhh2000's always are.

Also, a secret I've not revealed on any boards, is that I use just the last 6 games for scouting. On offense, I set it at "Yards Per Play" for six games and scout the top 10 plays with at least 10 uses. On defense, I use "Times Used" and select the top 9 used plays by my opponent and then throw in a random 10th. Very few teams use more than 9 plays often (hollyhh2000 is an exception, he has lots of plays too!)

Congrats to the Packers!

Congratulations Packers and Outdoorelli. VERY sorry to see you go and of course are welcome back any time. If you are looking for some challenges , take a look at some of my other leagues, die-hard has 3 openings ;)

Very interesting write up, some of which I employ too.

All the best my friend

Many congrats eli!! Impressive win.
Great 16-0 regular season holly h
Enjoy the offseason everyone!!

congrats outdooreli and unlucky holly.

coach i respect your choice walking away after winning a title but at this time finding good reliable coaches is tough and having wrong guys involved in a league can severely restrict enjoyment of playing in these leagues,i hope you return to both leagues where you are champ or reconsider your strategy of walking away.otherwise no offence ill be rooting for everyone except you as i dont want you to leave :)

First of all thanks for your kind words......I equally enjoyed out offseason sessions....I rooted for you always ..... I am big on traditions but hearing the words you would leave the league breaks my heart......this is one of the best league due to all of us being active and giving our best.....you my friend is the big part of it......so will not ask you to stay as the Packers owner but if there is new opening in our league and it's another rebuild can you pls consider to stay ......as it would mean a lot to all of us,specially to Bucs

Ah yeah sorry I missed that part. Real shame you’re going as I was looking forward to a few seasons of rivalries up there in NFC north. All the best dude

Hey all. Thanks for the kind words. I'd love to stay, but...

I had five teams when this pandemic started, and none were the franchise I've rooted for my whole life, my beloved Cleveland Browns. For a while I had time, as while I am an "essential" worker, my schedule got all screwed up and I found myself at the kitchen table at 11am with nothing to do but play MFN. It was super fun, but those days are gone and now I'm back to a full schedule and no time for updating spreadsheets or even watching games in some leagues (I always watched the tape in this league!!).

I missed an entire draft in MFN-2 two weeks ago -- I just didn't have the bandwidth to keep up with so many teams.

I told myself I would keep playing all five leagues until I won a championship in each one. Then, I'd find a Browns franchise and do a full rebuild from the ground up. Then, I'd run that team to 20 straight Super Bowl wins to make up for all the suffering I've endured as a Cleveland sports fan (save for one miracle by the Cavs, the best night of my life).

Honestly, I didn't think it would happen so quickly in this league (and AGS) but I know when to walk off into the sunset.

If anyone noticed, my head coach also retired. So, I'll take that as a sign.

Fair winds and calm seas, friends. See you in another league when my Browns are at full strength.

Oh, and I also have just one defensive rule.
It's called
"Don't play goal line when you're not on the goal line."

It seems to have worked well for me, so I'll recommend it.