APF2k8 - Legends League S1 - Week 2

Donan: My HT room seems to be insect free. I *should* be able to be on late tonight.

There's a lot of other stuff going on though. The house is packed with relatives as Saturday is my Sister's wedding. No guarantees yet again, but I'll do my best to be online this evening.

Thin_J wrote:

Donan: My HT room seems to be insect free. I *should* be able to be on late tonight.

There's a lot of other stuff going on though. The house is packed with relatives as Saturday is my Sister's wedding. No guarantees yet again, but I'll do my best to be online this evening.

Don't worry about tonight, my wife's birthday (one of the kids taking her out and I get to tag along;). I 'may' be on later and if so I'll look for you. Maybe tomorrow night, or if you can, I might be able to get on by 4pm(you 7), give or take a half hour tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday). (sooner if that is better, but probably no earlier then 3:15pm)

There's really no particular time constraints for tonight or tomorrow at the moment. Just whenever you're available.

Thin_J wrote:

There's really no particular time constraints for tonight or tomorrow at the moment. Just whenever you're available.

O.k. Let's shoot for around 4pm(PDT) tomorrow afternoon(7 you). I may be on later tonight, and if I see ya', we can go for it.

Slumber, I should be on tonight from about 6:45pm (EST) on tonight, I feel well rested, so should last until late. I'll be playing some Burnout Revenge, but I'll take a break to get the game in, let me know if you're game tonight.

Yes, tonight's perfect. Right after work might be the best time actually, so let's say 7pm?

Sounds excellent, see you at 7pm.

Week 2 is drawing to a close (in real time). I hope we can keep the season moving. Especially as I'd like to play another later without a gimpy second-string QB. So are those who haven't played able to play soon? Are the bugs conquered and other various hurdles?

I think Donan and I should be playing tonight. There's been some oddities as far as our uh, communication I guess, back and forth but we should be good to go this evening.

Thin_J wrote:

I think Donan and I should be playing tonight. There's been some oddities as far as our uh, communication I guess, back and forth but we should be good to go this evening.

Well I'm not sure what the 'oddities' are. I've giving out specific times trying for confirmation. Anyway, as my post above mentioned, I was there at 4pm PDT (7 you) today, Wednesday, the 22nd, but no show. I was actually on earlier at 3 too just in case. I have to go do some stuff and I guess stating specific times ain't doing for us. I'll just try and see if you are on or not Thin'. You did mention 'tonight' so hopefully we can play later tonight. But I do have plans too and I wish we could spot up on specific times. But I know you are busy with a wedding and had quite an invasion bugs to boot:>)

Re: oddities

I was referring to you sending the message regarding time last night on xbox live... when I wasn't online. How was I to know? I've been checking the thread here for times. I tend to not hop on Live unless I have a reason to or feel like playing something. I don't get on just to check messages.

I got that message this morning and just kind of threw up my hands.

As for the message about playing today, again, we have an entire house full of family, distant relatives, and friends, the makeup of which seems to change by the hour all day long. This week remains crazy and is only going to get more so. If you have plans for late tonight then we might just miss the game this week as there just isn't a lot of time tomorrow for it and I go back to work again Friday morning.

I had planned to play Bioshock until the given time. Then I ended up pausing that and leaving my computer for over an hour and a half to take care of other things. I got back and you were not online when I checked xbox.com.

And now that I check again it says online 18 minutes ago. This is boiling down to a case of conflicting schedules, partially because of time difference and partially because really I just don't have anything resembling a reliable schedule this week. I didn't expect it to be the way it has.. but people seem to keep changing things on me.

If there's no chance for a late game, say 10:30ish my time or later, then it's just going to have to get simulated.

I've gotta go help replace all the screen doors on the house now.

Understood. I know you have a wild schedule going on right now. I'll keep checking tonight. Do you know you can check whose on via:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US

from your PC. That's what I tend to check as I go around the house doing chores and such.
Hope to see you later.

Take care.

Yeah, the website is invaluable. Especially for getting messages/sending messages. Donan did this to me a few times and it really threw me off at first. He sent me very long messages and I'd wonder why they weren't via the board. Plus I assumed he either had the most dexterous hands ever made or else he had one of those thumb keypads. I was very perplexed.

Then he explained to me that that's how he kept up with what people were doing, communicated with them, etc. via XBox Live and via the website. So now that I know to expect that I check both here and there. It is kind of weird, though, to have 4 different ways to communicate...

Via XBox Live
Via the GWJ Forum for the league
Inside APF2k8 via the in game messaging, setting desired time to play the game, etc.
Via the APF2k8 online website

Donan's dexterity aside.. it would probably be a good idea if we all agreed on where we were sending messages primarily and thus where to look. By default I look here first, personally. Not sure what other people are doing. Either way my goal in posting my last message wasn't to kick anyone in the butt. I follow the thread and I fully appreciate circumstances being crazy. Believe me. I just hope this isn't a sign that people have strayed to Madden, Bioshock, etc. God help us when Halo 3 comes out. I'd like to keep the league running and I know there are people dying to play. Myself included, gimpy QB and all.

So my point was just to hopefully prod everyone to get their games wrapped up when they could so we could proceed with the season.

I actually very much prefer to handle messages and scheduling on here due to being able to access it at work, that and I tend to not check the xbox.com site. I know about it and I know about sending messages on it but it's not something I check on a regular basis.

That said, we got our game in tonight so all would seem to be well, short of the one remaining game we have to go. I was sure we'd be last to play what with all the crazy stuff going on in my house. If it wasn't for all this junk we'd probably have played days ago

Slumber, good game last night. I made my players run laps chasing an imaginary Earl Campbell. Last night also gave me another reason on why I hate Joe Theisman, because he threw 2 Ints for me....................no, the person controlling Theisman had NOTHING to do with it, lol.

OK, maybe a little.

Ready for Week 3!

We still have Jayhawker and Frankie, right?

Thin_J wrote:

I actually very much prefer to handle messages and scheduling on here due to being able to access it at work, that and I tend to not check the xbox.com site. I know about it and I know about sending messages on it but it's not something I check on a regular basis.

That said, we got our game in tonight so all would seem to be well, short of the one remaining game we have to go. I was sure we'd be last to play what with all the crazy stuff going on in my house. If it wasn't for all this junk we'd probably have played days ago :D

Good game last night Thin'. Enjoyed the socializing and gaming. (great runs!). I soooo love the animations in this game of hits, runs, you name it. Just great.

DSGamer wrote:

We still have Jayhawker and Frankie, right?

Yep. I've seen Jay' on-line, but no sign of Frankie lately.(EDIT: Correction, I checked and he was on his 360 about 11 hours ago).

Btw, the only reason I use XBL site allot is when I'm at work I can see whose on and send them quick notes if there is some playing to be done or hook up. I see their on and just see it as the most expeditious way to 'talk' to them.

I just fooled around at the 2K Sports site just to see if it all worked:>)

Good game, Kush. As insane as Campbell was, you were still within striking distance in the 3rd. That second interception sort of sealed it.

I'm happy to report that our connection was rock solid, as well.

I so dig the 2K Sports League play pages. All those cool stats and pic's to boot for the leaders. And even tho' I'm 0-2 in 2, I still have some leaders in a couple categories and a few other's in top 5. It's great to look at the box scores and even play-by-plays. All that they offer is pretty darn cool imho.So besides just enjoying the games with my fellow GWJ'ers, I can also take some solice in these leaders from my team. Sweet (a small sweetness:>)

Hey, I'm going to be the king of moral victories the next 6 weeks. I have to find a way to get SOMEONE on my team to lead in some category, snatch the MVP, something.

I feel for ya DS. I've definitely been there.

In the last 2k5 league I played in I lost Donovan McNabb in like the fourth week or something(in a full 16 week league...) and ended up stuck chucking the ball with Jeff Blake for most of the season after that. Couple that with my inability to ever make use of the running game with a speedy running back like Brian Westbrook and I was boned.

I remember winning maybe one or two games in the entire league and it was less than fun at a few specific moments.

Hence my vote to kill injuries for the next league

Well, we've already killed injuries for this season. I made that decision after my injury. People can disagree and veto me, but for now it's done. The gap between All Pro and backup is just too large at some positions. Having to suffer with Jeff Blake would be bad. Having to suffer with Mark Blake, my no name QB is something special.

Quarterbacks, sorted by rating.

Man, DS, (your version of) Cunningham was the best QB in the league until he went down. You'll find Mr. Blake at the other end of that list. ...but the real point of my post is to note that guy second from the bottom. Yeah, the one with the 21.8 rating. You'll note that I'm #6 in pass attempts so I am trying but R.C. just isn't getting it done for me. Expect to see a lot more Earl Campbell from here on out. :wicked:

I'll have to relish my early days in the middle of the pack. I figure my first game against frankie or ruthless will be the start of my destined downhill slide.

I remember losing to both repeatedly in the past

No 360 for me yet. I'd move along without me for now. Sorry guys.

What's the timeframe? That bleak?

I'd say next week sometime, I may pick one up. I haven't been able to get the rings of death yet, so I haven't sent mine out.

I'd say next week sometime, I may pick one up. I haven't been able to get the rings of death yet, so I haven't sent mine out.

So then roll it ahead? You don't really sound sure you'll play soon?