Can't believe this is off the ground. Awesome. I'll try my hardest to get together with Shag soon.

Hehehe...well, I saved one, but forgot to do the whole uploading thing. My game was against the CPU, though. I should have saved a clip of the CPU running back a punt against me!

I say rollforward when all games are done, or 7 days. I think you also have to take into consideration vacations and valid excuses to postpone the roll forward. For the most part, I think we won't have to wait the full 7 days. It's been 4 days of gaming for this week, and we have 12 of 16 games played, and I think half the games remaining have been scheduled to play tonight. Not to mention we will sometimes have two XBox opponents playing each other that can be simmed.

I have been chatting with Bean through e-mail, I figured I'd throw this idea into the pot as well:

Make the deadline Mondays. If the league gets their games done by Friday, roll forward, and give everyone the extra couple of days and keep the deadline for the regular Monday. Of course, if the extra time is so extensive that it spans 2 Mondays, cut the deadline a week early, as long as everyone still has a week to play games.

Example:
Week 1 ends on a Friday. Now 10 days to play week 2
Week 2 ends on a Wednesday, now 12 days to play week 3
Week 3 ends Monday, instead of 14 days to play week 4, move the deadline back to 7 days.

I feel like you'll have more instances of taking 4 days to run one week, and then another 10 to complete the 2nd, and we really haven't lost any time, where as if you make it every Monday, and you get a bad week, you might have games left to play when the deadline hits. Though, if the popularity of the league stays strong, deadlines won't be a problem.

I can't run the ball worth a damn against the computer. I still won my game but it was a very high scoring affair against the jets.

Agreed...i think im going to break my controller fighting for those things.

I wanted to come in here and completely rant about the web experience so far. Hopefully its just things on EA's end that need to be tweaked.

I'd say 60% or more of the times I try and login, I get authentication errors or server not responding.

When I do login, I have tried to change my depth chart on multiple occasions. After I make my changes I hit save. I can go to different screens like overview, roster, etc and then go back to depth chart and it looks saved. As soon as I close the website and go back in, all depth chart changes are reverted to default.

Stat tracking seems way off. Maybe once the week is rolled forward it will fix. But I was looking at stats from a few games and they were off. I remember the one that really stood out was under individual stats, Peyton Manning was showing up under the wrong team. Not that its a concern for league leaders, as the individual players seem to be getting the right stats, its just how they are being reflected in the games box score under "individual players". Example of Wonky Stats HERE. Both Manning and Wayne showing up under Jags amongst other errors.

Being that they finally added a proper web based interface to the game, they had to expect that it would be hammered with users constantly. They advertised it as "be involved in your league at any time" and pitched "at work, from your iphone, etc etc". They had to have been prepared for that much bandwidth usage right?

Okay, my rants over. Im still impressed that they got a web based interface up, and I like to see that trades, free agents, depth charts and other things can be modified from there. I look forward to the point where its fully functional and things save properly and things are tracked properly. Hopefully it won't take too long for that to happen.

One more funny thing: I turned off the 'fight for the fumble' QTE thing for offline play. I was playing a franchise game a few nights ago, and the opposing team fumbled the ball. My players came up with it. I got an achievement (30 points) for coming out of the pile with the recovered fumble...even though I did nothing but watch the canned animation (you know, with that one guy leaping over the top of the pile?).

Nice?

Maybe everytime I tried it was during some of their connectin issues, I dunno.
I got fed up and finally changed it in the xbox itself.

Also, note to all owners, please check your depth charts. I had 3 LBs listed as my priority for RE. I talked to Kush today and they had his punter doing field goal attempts (ask him how that turned out for him by the way!!).

Lastly, there are three games left to play. we have plenty of time to get them in, but if we finish early, we can roll forward and it will leave us more time for the following week.
I talked to shag today and said him and DS would likely play tonight, so that leaves two games

Philly vs Carolina and Bills vs Pats.
Hopefully you guys have started the ball rolling on setting up times to play.

The flats are so broken.

Almost. I managed to get some good defense going against wildcat, but it still did some damage. He has one or two other weapons in his arsenal once you bite too hard on the wildcat.

1 slap....deal

Millertime10282 - You need to reverse your Free Agent pickup of Marvin Harrison and pick up the dude you dropped for Harrison.

Read the top of the original post for a refresher of how we are going to handle Free Agent pickups.

Click this for the link to the Free Agent thread.

sh*t... my bad... will do

I got a pick six last night running Cover 2 against Panthers (OutdoorJanitor) attempts to run the flats. There are options, just don't get yourself caught if someone sees the cover 2 coming.

Asante Samuel, MVP of the game.