Bug: Spofi eats comments: Apparently if a comment is considered "too long" (I'm guessing), Spofi simply trashes it without warning or option for recovery.

posted by lil_brown_bat to bugs at 11:51 AM - 25 comments

Link dump: kicking it off with something special for yerfatma.

posted by lil_brown_bat to navel gazing at 10:27 AM - 9 comments

NFL.com fantasy football vs. Yahoo fantasy football: besides participating in the Spofi head to head, I usually run a h2h league at work. In the past I've used Yahoo, but I wondered if anyone has experience with the NFL.com free fantasy game and has an opinion of their respective goodness. Any thoughts?

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 12:49 PM - 3 comments

Is spofi ailing? : Is it just me or is anyone else seeing many many many "connection failed"s lately?

posted by lil_brown_bat to bugs at 01:48 PM - 26 comments

Link dump! : Inspired by this.

posted by lil_brown_bat to navel gazing at 10:23 AM - 32 comments

Guess I didn't get the memo: Newbies have to take a sports quiz to join SpoFi, but they can't view a chunk of the site "guidelines"? More inside.

posted by lil_brown_bat to editorial policy at 11:16 AM - 22 comments

Thread-pissing: can we have a little civil discussion about what constitutes thread-pissing, and what editorial policy toward it is (and should be)? There's been a bit of it lately, or at least allegations of same (I'm thinking of three, possibly four different threads, which I'll reference if anyone wants).

posted by lil_brown_bat to editorial policy at 02:39 PM - 56 comments

Guidelines update request: can we put something in there about no damn AOLisms? The influx of "LOL" makes me want to hurl.

posted by lil_brown_bat to editorial policy at 09:11 PM - 55 comments

Would you know the right thing if you saw it? : Currently, the front page has the most recent of several FPPs about injured NFL players being tossed on the scrap-heap. We know it happens, now let's talk about doing the right thing.

posted by lil_brown_bat to navel gazing at 07:40 AM - 21 comments

Grand Slam Fantasy Wimbledon edition : the express version. Fourth round results!

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 03:20 PM - 7 comments

Grand Slam Fantasy Wimbledon edition : on to the...semis?: Courtesy of the annual English monsoon, the schedule got seriously skewed, forcing us to have to hang back and wait for the results of Nadal vs. Soderling and V. Williams vs. Sharapova before the third round was complete. And now the women are nearly done with the quarterfinals while the men haven't even started. What a tournament.

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 07:21 AM - 10 comments

Grand Slam Fantasy Wimbledon edition : well, not much to talk about, is there?

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 07:12 AM - 19 comments

Grand Slam Fantasy: all is confusion -- and my fault for not catching it earlier. Weedy and owlhouse, gents, you can't substitute except in case of injury. As long as your "first four" are healthy, you have to play 'em, although of course you can change the order. Can you resubmit your lineups, please?

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 07:12 AM - 6 comments

SpoFi 2007 Grand Slam Fantasy Game : Wimbledon draws have been posted. Men's -- excuse me, gentlemen's singles here and ladies' singles here. Play begins Monday, so please have your entries in before now (I've got owlhouse's already). You have up until the start of play to submit your entry.

For anyone who wants to play but didn't enter the French Open: you can still play in Wimbledon and the US Open. Please go here for horribly detailed rules of the game.

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 01:10 PM - 6 comments

SpoFi 2007 Grand Slam Fantasy Game: on to Wimbledon!

The French Open is over and the weary, clay-streaked SpoFites of the 2007 Grand Slam Fantasy Game are ready to cross the Channel for England's green and pleasant land. And, just to extend (expand?) the fun, we are re-opening the game for new teams! So if you missed the French Open window (which I think was all of about twelve hours) but would like to play some fantasy tennis for the two remaining Grand Slam events, c'mon in!

Rules inside...

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 11:31 AM - 7 comments

Grand Slam fantasy game French Open champions : and the winners are...

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 11:55 AM - 18 comments

Updated Grand Slam fantasy standings after semifinals : quelle surprise.

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 06:45 AM - 1 comment

Updated Grand Slam fantasy standings after quarterfinals : that wasn't very pretty, was it?

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 09:58 AM - 4 comments

Updated Grand Slam fantasy standings after round four : rien a faire!

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 07:30 AM - 12 comments

Updated Grand Slam fantasy standings : after round 3. Honi soit qui mal y pense.

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 07:35 AM - 6 comments

Updated Grand Slam fantasy standings : after round 2. Zut alors!

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 03:21 PM - 2 comments

Updated Grand Slam fantasy standings : after the completion (finally) of Round 1. Oh, the humanity.

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 09:49 AM - 9 comments

SpoFi 2007 Grand Slam Fantasy Game : is on! See inside for rules and instructions for how to sign up. *** Play for the French Open starts the morning of 5/27 -- picks must be submitted prior to start of play ***

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 09:02 AM - 23 comments

Fantasy Grand Slam: : okay, folks from Down Under, I suck because I failed to get this together before the Aussie Open...however, I'm thinking about a fantasy game for the remaining Grand Slam events. Look within and see what you think.

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 07:39 AM - 13 comments

Fantasy Tour de France: has this been done, or does anyone have an idea for how it might be done? Half of the people I work with bike to work, so for this summer's tour I want to organize an office Tour de France pool or something like that (and kick off the Tour with that greatest of bicycling movies, the Triplets of Belleville).

posted by lil_brown_bat to fantasy at 08:34 AM - 13 comments