APF2k8 - Legends League S1 - Week 1

Alright, more stats: due to my massive game with JHer, no-star Jeremy Smith (OLB) is leading the league in tackles with 8. This in a LB corps that includes Mike Singletary and Otis Wilson.

You guys still to play can't let a no-star player lead in the stats!!

EDIT: Speaking of the website, don't dig too far into the thing...wow. If you look up the schedule from your team page, you get a list of teams that all start with A and are in alphabetical order (though if you mouse over them, you can see who you actually play). From the front page, I clicked on the "View Settings" link under the League Info bit...I learned that our league has turned off the NHL divisions, and we're using the International team type. Icing penalties are off, thank goodness.

Yeah, I noticed some oddities like that as well. I was wondering why Donan didn't get called for icing when he busted loose with Charlie Taylor for a 90-some yard kickoff return for a touchdown. He clearly took the ball across the entire field, the red zone line and the end zone line while my players were beyond said lines.

Man I wish you could save replays in online games. That would have been a sweet one to see again later. League highlights or something like that.

I just noticed I play every game on the schedule at home. Strange, even the schedule knows I suck and need any advantage I can get.

Yeah, the website is quirky, to put it lightly. Which is really unfortunate because it's designed with good intentions and so so close to being a really cool place to visit regularly and keep tabs on the league almost as if it were espn.com or something like that.

Yeah, it would be nice if they could actually ace the web site. I'd love to see us be able to customize the schedule and create divisions, as well. Those were the same things I was hoping before. Hopefully enough people buy this to create a sequel.

BTW, Gumbie and anyone else, I shold be one this evening and able to play. I may get kicked off for awhile while my wife watches The Closer but I suspect she will be working pretty late tonight.

If I remember, the 2k5 league websites were done to look like the ESPN NFL site, since it was ESPN -coupled. This is close, but is much rougher around the edges than those old ones.

Just a quick recap of mine and RuthlessMuffins game.

The game went back and forth in the first half with each person scoring when they had the ball. Towards the end of the half I got a safety. After getting the ball back I planned on taking a knee to finish out what little time was remaining, but going against my better judgement I threw it up.......directly into Ruthless's CB. With less than a minute in the half he turned the INT into 7 points.

I went downhill from there in the 2nd half. I was lucky to have the game end at 42-30 as many mistakes as I made. Looking at the stats after the game, I realize I gave up on ground game way too early. I only gave Barry the rock 12 times in the whole game for 6.0 avg yards a carry.

Basically I just panicked and went to the passing game too early and too much when I started getting behind.

With all that said this game is a blast, I already hyped about the next season game.

With all that said this game is a blast, I already hyped about the next season game.

Tell me about it. I was so jazzed up last night that it took me an hour and a half to fall asleep.

Kush15 wrote:

Prederick, tonight's the best night, I will be on late tomorrow and Thursday however, but we'll try to get the game in tonight, I'm home after 5pm EST

8 PM sound good?

8pm is fine with me, I'll be on then

Slumberland wrote:

Let's do 9pm... that'll give me time for a little practice to re-acquaint myself. See you then.

Game on. Are you sure you don't want to play *Madden* until then? Curses...

Well guys, my Xbox has starte looking pretty pixalated and gross. Actually started last night, during my game with firesloth. A quick look into the casue and it seems to be the precursor to a bricked 360. Today it is much worse. So I may have a problem for a few weeks. As of now, I'm still in.

I am wondering if I can keep my hard drive when I send it in. If so, I may by a new one weh n I send this in, and then sell what MS sends back to me on eBay. Any suggestions in the best way to deal with this?

Sucks so bad, I posted it twice.

That does suck. I know Best Buy is pretty forgiving when it comes to returns. But they no longer carry the Core (as far as I know), so that would eliminate the cheapest way for you to get your hands on one. If you can float the $350 you could always return it later. Or else sell the one you get back from MS and pick up an Elite or try to get one with HDMI. Bad timing.

Well Grump and I got our game played.

I won pretty much purely on the strength of my defense and turnovers. I did put together one nice drive that was pretty much all Marino and one run by Ottis Anderson but the rest of them were pretty reliant on crazy field position from an interception.

Good game anyway Grumpicus. Hopefully next week makes for a more exciting game for ya.

Bagga and I tried to get our game in tonight, but gave up after a network conditions disconnect and constant 'waiting for opponent' interruptions during both attempts, even after resetting our modems. We'll give it another shot soon.

DSGamer wrote:

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That does suck. I know Best Buy is pretty forgiving when it comes to returns. But they no longer carry the Core (as far as I know), so that would eliminate the cheapest way for you to get your hands on one. If you can float the $350 you could always return it later. Or else sell the one you get back from MS and pick up an Elite or try to get one with HDMI. Bad timing.

Yeah, real bad timing. I guess I need to add my woes to the Brick thread. Tonight, no video, no rings of death. For right now, I'm out. I'll see how soon I pick up another or if I just get this one fixed. I'll keep you all posted.

Slumberland, sorry about your connection issues last night. Just an FYI, we play Week 2, but with the exception of late Wednesday or Thursday, I'll be out of commission until Sunday night. Good Luck in your Week 1 matchup. I should be on after 10pm (EST) tonight if you feel like a double-header tonight.

Prederick, good game last night, Payton was a BEAST for you.

DSGamer wrote:

Speaking of the site, I like the 2k site for stats. I wish they showed which Randall Cunningham was from which team.

Also, they only show 10 teams right now for the standings. So unless I go into the game I can't see who hasn't played yet this week. Still a fun site, though. I plan on using the "recap" functionality to right up a recap of a future game. I didn't have the heart to do it with the game Donan and I played, because things went so wrong for Moon on his side of the ball.

I love the 2K site too. Great stats and such. And hey DS', go for the recap. I had some glory in Charlie Taylor (and tho' not a stat for kick returns is evidently not listed, I am first in Special Teams because of Charlie) and I was sooo close on a few TD's, but hang-over brain and typical klutz key stroking probably contributed to some of the slaughter. But your secondary was just picking me apart. AND of course my usually extremely reliable Biletnikoff dropped at least one that he was totally in the clear and the goal line ahead. Plus I just couldn't get it thru my head that the playbook on one was showing my HB passing ...and I certainly did not want that! *Chuckle* (and I'm getting that dang formation out(!) of my playbook pronto).

Anyway, as I mentioned before, despite the score I had a great time and I'm looking forward to playing again. Looks like Bagg' and Slumber' will play their game tonight (or was it last night. I don't see the scores posted) and we can then go to 2nd game of the season. Looks like it's you and me Thin', so we can coordinate. I'm usually on by 7pm PDT, which might be too late for you. If so, Saturday or Sunday morning will work. But I can just keep an eye out for you during the week too. (oh yea, I'm sorta of back from my out of town excursion, but probably not up to spead till tomorrow. Oh, that reminds me too, if bagg' and Slumber do play, I will be around tomorrow day time Thin' if you want to play, or earlier then usual for me in the evening).

Kush15 wrote:

Just an FYI, we play Week 2, but with the exception of late Wednesday or Thursday, I'll be out of commission until Sunday night. Good Luck in your Week 1 matchup. I should be on after 10pm (EST) tonight if you feel like a double-header tonight.

If it works like it did in 2k5, even if all the games are played, the week doesn't roll forward until 1) the deadline is hit or 2) the commissioner rolls us forward manually. This is to give the commish time to resolve any issues that need resolving before the week is in the proverbial books. So unless DS is online and such when the last game finishes, I wouldn't be counting on getting a doubleheader in tonight.

ETA: I've just got one thing to say about last night's game: My tight ends suck. From the website - thrown to: 6, receptions: 0, drops: 5. And of course, you know if I'm throwing to my TE, it's third and too far to run.

Bagga, if you're around tonight we can give it another spin on the late side. I don't get home until 9 or so tonight.

Anybody up for a pick-up game or two today?

I could probably go for an unofficial rematch if you want to get together later tonight.

Slumberland wrote:

Bagga, if you're around tonight we can give it another spin on the late side. I don't get home until 9 or so tonight.

OK. Let's go for... 11? I'm guessing the later the better, from a network health standpoint.

Sure. Maybe I'll break out the 50 ft. ethernet cable. See you at 11.

Ok, so I did the towel trick. was that supposed to fix it, or kill it? Because it seems to be working perfectly now.

Kush15 wrote:

Prederick, good game last night, Payton was a BEAST for you.

Not as much as Thiesmann and Metzelarrs were for you. You just burned my secondary. Those lazy bastards will be running suicide sprints until next week.

Awesome job getting games in guys! Week one is already in the books!

Since my 360 has come back to life, I am ready to take on week two! Frankie, when do you want to play? I'm assuming we will be able to start week two soon, right?

Jayhawker wrote:

Awesome job getting games in guys! Week one is already in the books!

Since my 360 has come back to life, I am ready to take on week two! Frankie, when do you want to play? I'm assuming we will be able to start week two soon, right?

I think this calls for a week 2 thread!

Bagga and I again were unable to complete a game without a connection error. Between all of our attempts, however, we got maybe half a game played. This time we just let it go to arbitration, and it kept the score at the time. Curious to see if it was a quirk of our particular connections talking to one another or if either of us will have problems going forward. In any case, bring on week 2!