SportsFilter NCAA Bracket Competition on CBS Sports: If you'd like to prove that you're a better basketball prognosticator than President Obama, SportsFilter's NCAA Bracket competition is set up on CBS Sports. Visit the link, create an account (or login) and use invitation code "setshot" (no quotes). The deadline is noon Eastern on Thursday.

posted by rcade to fantasy at 08:02 PM - 10 comments

CD Swap 2010 Part III - Track Lists: The final chapter of CD Swap 2010. Please post your track lists here. The previous thread exceeded the time limit allowed for new comments. (A feature that I think should be disabled in the lockerroom, yes?) YYM and owlhouse - I have transferred your posts here.

posted by BoKnows to gametime at 09:08 PM - 8 comments

Premier Fanstasy League: How come no one is keeping track of our Football Fantasy League? :( I blame this lack of updates on my poor performance...

posted by StarFucker to fantasy at 01:56 AM - 7 comments

Fantasy Baseball?: Don't know who's set up our league in the past, but I'll set one up this weekend if there's interest. Gimme a holla, yo!

posted by The_Black_Hand to fantasy at 01:40 PM - 8 comments

CD Swap 2010: Sign up deadline is tonight! Mailing deadline and groups will be posted by tomorrow evening.

posted by BoKnows to gametime at 09:34 PM - 30 comments

Profile Updates: This is not a huge deal, but has anyone else had problems updating their profile under the "customize" link? I've tried several times to change my information up a bit, but I haven't been able to get the information to save. I'm on Google Chrome 4.0.249.49 beta, Mac OS 10.6.2. Also tried it on Firefox 3.5.7, same results.

posted by boredom_08 to bugs at 05:26 PM - 10 comments

NFL Playoff Pick'em - SuperBowl Round: The end is finally here. The final round of our pick 'em. Some shuffling in the ranks, but the top 3 are still the same after the ProBowl. Make your picks inside.

posted by apoch to fantasy at 05:10 AM - 48 comments

SportsFilter Turns 8: Sunday was the eighth birthday of SportsFilter. Accomplishments of the past year include the server move, the de-redesign (to the way things were in the first place), our collective rediscovery of profanity and the time SportsFilter's admins were thisclose to banning each other. Don't make me sorry I reconsidered, Gary!

posted by rcade to navel gazing at 03:08 PM - 43 comments

NFL Playoff Pick 'em - ProBowl Round: TZelda nails another monster round to keep a hold of the lead with THX-1138 and littleLebowski rounding out the podium. Make your ProBowl Picks inside.

posted by apoch to fantasy at 11:46 PM - 26 comments

NFL Championship Round Playoff Pick 'Em: After 3 blow outs and one close game, Yzelda jumps into the lead with an astonishing 8 point week.

posted by apoch to fantasy at 11:52 AM - 30 comments

CD Swap 2010: So.......anyone interested this year? Also, has anyone heard from Jamey since his last update?

posted by BoKnows to gametime at 05:08 PM - 21 comments

NFL Division Round Pick 'em: Three out of Four losing teams could only score two touchdowns, but littleLebowski nails the Cards by 6 to leap out of the starting gate.

posted by apoch to fantasy at 09:34 AM - 40 comments

Greatest Teams Of All Time?:
What were the greatest teams of every major sport (Baseball, Football (American), Football (Rest of the World), Ice Hockey, Basketball, etc.) ever assembled?
(more inside)

posted by grum@work to navel gazing at 01:48 PM - 12 comments

NFL Wild Card Weekend Pick 'em: Worst division winners vs the best of the rest. Make your picks inside

posted by apoch to fantasy at 05:07 AM - 35 comments

Problems with Yahoo?: Avast goes nuts fairly frequently when I try to access our fantasy hockey page, saying the page is infected with some type of malware. I know this isn't Yahoo support, just wondering if anyone else here is having the same problem. I've tried to see if there was a notice or something on Yahoo about it, but when I get this warning, Avast won't let me view whatever page I was trying to access...

posted by MeatSaber to fantasy at 12:06 AM - 4 comments

How to create an NFL playoff pick em?: As the commissioner of my company's fantasy football league, I'm currently putting up with tons of bitching as people are being knocked out in the playoffs and don't get to play any more. In the interest of shutting them up and getting myself another month or so of peace, I'm thinking that I will probably run a pick 'em. I'm soliciting advice for how to do that, particularly from those who have been there and done that, either as organizers or participants. - What scoring rules do you use? In pick 'ems that we've run on Spofi in the past, I recall a points system something like this: you pick the winner and point spread in each game, and you get a certain number of points for each correct pick. But how many points should you award for each? Do you do "on the nose" spread or plus-minus? - Of course it is illegal to gamble, and of course we would never do such a thing, but if we were to play for...say...Skittles, I'm thinking about something like this: everyone kicks in 10 skittles (or maybe 20). Post-Superbowl, the points leader gets 50% of the skittles pool, second place gets 30%, third place gets 20%. If there's a points tie they split (so for example, if two people tie for first, they each get half of 50%+30%, and the next person gets 20%). Sound good? - Bonus questions: good idea, bad idea, what? How many points to give, and what are some good bonus questions? - Any other pitfalls or ideas for making this more funner? Thanks!

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 02:13 PM - 6 comments

Book Giveaway: Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours: I'm giving away 20 copies of my new book Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours to people who know people who want to learn Java. I can send them from you as a Christmas gift, and nobody needs to know I was involved. See the link for details.

posted by rcade to navel gazing at 01:25 PM - 14 comments

Viewing Bug: Just found this when I got back tonight. Every page I visit on the site is full of many copies of this message: "Warning: strftime() [function.strftime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York' for 'EST/-5.0/no DST' instead in /www/php/includes/smarty/plugins/modifier.date_format.php on line 53". Anyone else seeing this? I'm in Google Chrome, Mac OS 10.6.2.

posted by boredom_08 to bugs at 12:43 AM - 17 comments

Recent Comments Bug: Looks like there's a bit of an issue with the recent comments.

posted by yerfatma to bugs at 03:37 PM - 8 comments

CFL Playoffs Pick 'Em, Final Standings: Crazy endings both in Calgary and closer to home. Well, if you consider the narrowest of over/under margins a "crazy ending". I know I sure do. Break the suspense and c'mon inside to make your peace with the 2009 CFL season.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 09:43 PM - 9 comments

CFL Pick 'Em, Grey Cup Edition: This is it! This is for all the marbles. If you want any of 'em, you'd better make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 06:35 PM - 22 comments

CFL Pick 'Em, Division Finals Edition: Big playoff games lead to big playoff points. If you're not named Edmonton or Hamilton, pick yourself up off the mat and make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 06:41 PM - 18 comments

Matt Haughey's Excellent Hospital Adventure: Matt Haughey, original coder of SportsFilter and a great inspiration to the site, has a post up on his personal blog today about his recent brain tumor diagnosis. The tumor appears treatable with hormones and surgery if needed. Our thoughts and prayers are with you, Matt.

posted by rcade to navel gazing at 08:13 PM - 13 comments

CFL Pick 'Em, Division Semi-Finals Edition: Missed out on the 2009 regular season pick 'em? Unhappy with your rank in the final standings? Simply bored on a Friday afternoon? Have no fear: the Playoff Pick 'Em is here! Playoff action kicks off this Sunday, so locate your heart and grit and make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 10:49 AM - 18 comments

CFL Pick 'Em, Final Standings: It takes until the final week of the season, but we have a winner. It takes some Grade 10 math, but we also have a Costanza winner.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 10:18 AM - 8 comments

MLB Post-Season Pick 'Em, Final Standings: Lots of good picks and just enough bonus action to make things interesting. C'mon in and find out what side of the revenue sharing pool you're on.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 11:36 PM - 9 comments

Should SportsFilter Think of the Children?: Kerrycindy, a new SportsFilter user with an 11-year-old son who reads the site, is upset that profanity appears here. Although we discourage some profanity and delete most profanity that's personally abusive from one member to another, we've never had a rule here to keep it as clean as a PG-13 movie. Our archives will show lots of examples of George Carlin's seven dirty words. Should we reconsider this policy and clean our act up?

posted by rcade to editorial policy at 11:38 AM - 37 comments

CFL Pick 'Em, Week 19: Tight week for points, but an even tighter race at the top. Heading into the final week of the 2009 Pick 'Em, we have a tie for first. Even if you've done the math and eliminated yourself, play for pride and make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 10:40 PM - 18 comments

Hooking Delicious and Twitter to the Huddle: I'm thinking about connecting Delicious and Twitter to the huddle, so that SportsFilter users can contribute sports links and comments on those sites and have them automatically end up here. I know there are Twitter users who might use a #spofi hashtag. Anyone here actively posting sports-related bookmarks on Delicious?

posted by rcade to feature requests at 02:36 PM - 13 comments

CFL Pick 'Em, Week 18: With two weeks to go, we have a lead change in our battle for the pick 'em crown. Get your jabs in and make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 11:45 PM - 20 comments

EPL Fantasy 09-10: Week 10 standings, in which I sneak back into 1st

posted by billsaysthis to fantasy at 11:51 AM - 6 comments

MLB Post-Season Pick 'Em, World Series Edition: An underdog-free year means lots of points for everyone, withe the possible exception of the L.A. faithful. But now it's time to fly east into the rain and snow of November, and wonder whether baseball actually got around to writing up a rule which would prevent last year's Game 5 fiasco. Crack open your rulebooks and make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 01:40 AM - 22 comments

CFL Pick 'Em, Week 17: Threes rule the day, so if you picked any spreads between two and four, crack open a can of '67 and wince your way to the top. Do what you gotta do and make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 10:11 PM - 17 comments

CFL Pick 'Em, Week 16: Three weeks to go and everyone has something to play for. Everyone, of course, except the Argos, and pretty much anyone with fewer than 50 points in our standings. Even if you're one of the unfortunate ones, suck it up and make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 10:04 AM - 18 comments

MLB Post-Season Pick 'Em, LCS Edition: One sweep short of a clean house, and we're onto that pennential part of the post-season. So squint like Phil Cuzzi and make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 12:54 AM - 23 comments

CFL Pick 'Em, Week 15: It's Thanksgiving, and our standings are stuffed with as many surprises as this turkey is with bad metaphors. Ignore the cranberry stains and make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 01:25 AM - 20 comments

MLB Post-Season Pick 'Em, LDS Edition: I'm still writing up the standings table from the One-Game Playoff Edition, but given our tight turnaround, y'all should go ahead and get your picks in.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 11:09 PM - 27 comments

MLB Post-Season Pick 'Em, One-Game Playoff Edition: Get a jump on your postseason prognostication with a portentous playoff puzzle. The Tigers and Twins have seen fit to offer an extra three points to sacrifice on the altar of the SpoFi pick 'em gods. Pause your TiVo, pull out your stat sheets, and make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 06:41 PM - 25 comments

CFL Pick 'Em, Week 14: Huge points this week seriously shake things up. Find a bandwagon, jump on it, and then make your picks inside.

posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 05:31 PM - 18 comments

Pushing an Agenda on SportsFilter: "I don't like to come to SPORTSFILTER, to defend my religious or political views. It's not fun. We share a common thread here and it's sports." Longtime member Tselson has a beef with the high school baptism link.

posted by rcade to editorial policy at 09:18 AM - 50 comments