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Surviving in Fantasy Survivor Pools
Author: Bill Parsons
Do you watch the NFL? More importantly, do you play fantasy football? Well, why not make things a bit more challenging this year? Get yourself involved in a Survivor Pool. Use your knowledge of the NFL to see if you can hang around the longest and become the last player standing to be declared Champion!
The Survivor Pool concept is a pretty simple one; survive in the pool the longest in order to win. This is achieved, in most pools, by correctly picking the winner of a game every week. There is a variation that is the complete opposite; picking a losing team each week.
Survivor Pools are most commonly used with the NFL since there are fewer teams than in the NCAA and the teams are followed more widely. However, a Survivor Pool can easily be modified to work in union with other occasions, such as college bowl seasons. In the case of NFL Survivor Pools, you are asked to pick one team per week who you think will win the game. If that team does win, you move onto next week. If that team loses, so do you and you are out. The game continues until one player is left in the pool. That person is then pronounced the winner and will merrily collect their prize.
You basically have two choices to play in a Survivor Pool; you can either start your own pool, such as at your office, and get co-workers to join or you could choose to join a pool that is already in existence. If you set up your own pool, you decide the rules. If you join an existing pool, then you have to follow the rules set out by the person who set up that particular pool. All rules should be clearly defined and documented in advance of the first game. These rules are also known as the pool configuration. What settings are commonly available for configuration of a Survivor Pool?
There are many sites that will host your Survivor Pools, though few that will host your pools for free. Common settings of all sites include; the maximum players allowed in the pool, the tiebreaker rules to be followed in event the season end with more than one player still active, if Rebirths are allowed and, if so, how many Rebirths are allowed per team and if there is a Cutoff week. Rebirths allow a team who is out to buy their way back into the pool. Other settings include allowing autopicks and the total number of weeks autopicks are allowed, whether the players need to pick winning teams or losing teams and what the charges are for the league (Entrance fee, Rebirth fee).
Survivor Pools are also called Last Man Standing Pools, Eliminator Pools, Knockout Pools and Suicide Pools. These aren't the only fantasy football pools involving NFL teams. You can also participate in Point Spread or Pick 'em Pools, Confidence Pools and Super Bowl Squares Pools. Descriptions of these pools can be found in different articles.
Depending on the amount of people taking part in the pool that you are in and the entrance fee, you could win hundreds of dollars! It is not all about the money, though that is clearly the best prize. It is also about getting involved and enjoying being more than just a spectator in the NFL, so get yourself signed up!
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/football-articles/surviving-in-fantasy-survivor-pools-919877.html
About the Author
Bill Parsons is the owner of MaximumFantasySports.com and a rabid
fantasy sports participant. He began creating his own football and baseball
fantasy leagues at the ripe old age of seven; tracking stats and standings on paper. Bill decided to create a real-time
fantasy football league website that includes all of the best features and some of which have never been attempted at any other website.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am
Yahoo is very good and I also heard that fleaflicker.com was just as good.
Just stay away from Fox Sports. Had it last year and they screwed up every week.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am
If I were you i’d consult a lawyer. I’m not sure what you mean by a “money league” but i’m pretty sure, being a law student, that you’re not allowed to conduct a website that has gambling on it given the fact that Bush has recently passed legislation limiting online gambling even further. If its a free website you don’t necessarily have to trademark or copyright anything unless you want to copyright the java or C++ code you are using for your site (which is debatable). you cannot copyright an idea so that’s out of the question but you can trademark anything you want if you have a symbol for your website. but like i said earlier, i’d consult a lawyer. you probably don’t need to do any of that stuff if you’re planning on keeping it a free website.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am
NFL.com has something similar to what you’re talking about. Below is also a link to a great article I read on the Top Fantasy Football Players for this year. It analyzes the best players and their potential. Yahoo isn’t hyperlinking these days so you may have to copy and paste the link in your address bar.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2031756/top_10_offensive_players_for_2009_fantasy.html?cat=14
November 30, -0001
12:00 am
I’ve played on yahoo, nfl.com, and espn in previous couple years… I would say yahoo is easiest to use, set up, and draft. Yahoo is also really good with projections and trends during the season. With free live scoring starting this year, I wouldn’t play elsewhere.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am
You’re going to need to learn about the following topics to accomplish such a task. There are many good books on these topics.
Server side programming
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You will need to write some code on the server which will take form submissions to store player records, perform the game logic, and generate the dynamic web pages.
One of the most simple ways to get going here in my opinion is to use Microsoft IIS. You can write pages using VBScript, one of the easier languages to lean and use. If you go this way you’ll want to know more about the .Net framework.
There are many other options in other languages as well. If you prefer Java, then using Tomcat as a web and application server is probably a good place to start.
If you host the web page with a hosting company then they will tell you what languages they support and you’ll need to pick from them, or pick a hosting provider that supports the language you prefer.
Databases
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You’ll need to have access to a database and you’ll need to know basic SQL. It’s no rocket science, but if you haven’t worked with databases and SQL before then pick up a book, maybe the dummies book. A database should be used to store player records. Don’t try to over engineer it, just use it to store what you need.
Web design/HTML
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You may already know how to create a web page. Remember that you will probably be writing a special form of web page that is dynamically built on the server. Generally the way these are developed is to create the HTML page and then add in special tags such as < % %> which will include programming logic that is executed on the server and generates a dynamic page – often based on the results of a database query. For example, in the case of a page that displays a players current points and statistics you would write one page to display the results and the code would determine which user is logged in and query the database for the relevant stats.
Hope that gives you some direction in this. Good luck.
August 2, 2007
5:57 pm
What Fantasy Football website is best for a lot of teams and offline draft?
I am looking for a website that offers Fantasy Football for about 15-20 teams. Also, we were planning on doing the offline draft. Thanks for all your help.
November 28, 2007
10:31 am
I want to start a fantasy football website but need help?
I have come up with a different type of fantasy football game which is a mix of a survivor leage and regular fantasy football. I have a website and am looking to do a full launch for the 2008 season. Do I have to trademark my site or do anything before I fully launch? I am going to offer my game for free, as well as a money league. Does anyone know of a gaming regulations website? Any helpful comments would be greatly appreciated as I am just getting started.
January 1, 2009
8:45 am
How would you go about creating a fantasy Football/Baseball website?
I am new to web design, but I would like to create a fantasy baseball/football website where you could pick players create a team and based on their performance earn points etc. Could someone help me out, perhaps points me to a how to or something, any help would be appreciated.
August 11, 2009
2:32 pm
Help looking for a printable fantasy football draft auction style website?
The topic might be a little confusing. I am looking for a up-to-date printable fantasy football website where i can print out the top picks in each category. It also needs to have the value for a auction draft where you get $200 dollars to start and every touchdown is worth 6 (the ones i am finding are either $100 to bid or 4 points for a td for a QB).
Thanks a lot!!
September 3, 2009
10:02 am
Which fantasy football website is the best for me?
So me and probably around 8 of my friends want to set up a little fantasy football league for some fun. I know some of the websites used are espn, foxsports, yahoo, nfl.com etc.
Its pretty much our first time in a fantasy league, we just want a free, simple, quick, compact, easy to use and not very complicated website. Which one would be best for us to use?