2018 Rajah Forums NFL Pick ‘Em Challenge

**BigAl** · August 11th, 2018, 1:38 PM

Now that the NFL season is less than a month away from starting, does anybody have any interest in doing this again this season?

To make things a little more difficult we can A) set it up so we choose the winners based on the spread or B) add a “confidence” value to each pick based on how confident you are in that selection. The more confident you are, the more points you score. Or we can keep it simple and make it straight picks. What does everybody think?

Also, any interest in doing the Eliminator Challenge again?

**Chris Scott** · August 11th, 2018, 4:42 PM

IN

**Fanny Batter** · August 11th, 2018, 5:39 PM

Sounds good, I'm in.

**Fro** · August 11th, 2018, 6:14 PM

In for eliminator challenge

Bagel · August 11th, 2018, 10:48 PM

In. Preference would be just picks but something different is.... something different. Any way is good with me.

**Mr. Boombastic** · August 11th, 2018, 11:05 PM

I've never done an eliminator , I would be in for that

**Matthew** · August 12th, 2018, 11:38 AM

as the only person on here to ever win the entire season in eliminator, i will gladly destroy all of you

**BigAl** · August 12th, 2018, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by Matthew

as the only person on here to ever win the entire season in eliminator, i will gladly destroy all of you

I won this one last season.

**Matthew** · August 12th, 2018, 1:06 PM

i went a full season im the best

**Pablo Diablo** · August 12th, 2018, 1:21 PM

In for whatever

**Kdestiny** · August 12th, 2018, 2:26 PM

**MTR** · August 13th, 2018, 12:57 PM

Count me in.

**Bandit** · August 13th, 2018, 12:58 PM

I am interested

**hithit** · August 13th, 2018, 1:02 PM

👍

**BigAl** · August 14th, 2018, 1:58 PM

Ok gents, here they are:

Pick Em:
Decided to do just a straight pick 'em league. No spread or anything like that.
ESPN League Name: Rajah 2018
Password: BigAleforPotty

Elimination Challenge:
ESPN League Name: Rajah 2018
Password: BigAleforPotty

**TimeSplitter** · August 14th, 2018, 2:24 PM

In

**Bandit** · August 14th, 2018, 6:12 PM

I joined both.

**Kneeneighbor** · August 15th, 2018, 12:40 PM

I can find them but cant figure out how to join them.

**BigAl** · August 15th, 2018, 12:43 PM

I think you have to be signed into ESPN to see a place to put in the password?

**Bandit** · August 15th, 2018, 3:00 PM

Originally Posted by Kneeneighbor

I can find them but cant figure out how to join them.

I remember struggling with it a bit yesterday. Just kinda fucked around until I figured it out. I def remember thinking they should make this more intuitive though (or that I am just dumb).

**BigAl** · August 15th, 2018, 3:23 PM

I can invite people if you're comfortable giving me your email. I'll try to keep the dick pics to a minimum.

**MTR** · August 15th, 2018, 3:35 PM

It is not straight forward and I have to fumble around to figure it out anytime I join a pick em type game on there.

**Fro** · August 15th, 2018, 5:18 PM

joined eliminator

http://fantasy.espn.com/nfl-eliminat...?groupID=66316

maybe this link will help? not sure.

**Chris Scott** · August 15th, 2018, 8:23 PM

Joined both of them.

**Randolph** · August 21st, 2018, 2:15 AM

I went to the link and saw no button to join. What am I missing?

**BigAl** · August 22nd, 2018, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by chrisrandolph1985

I went to the link and saw no button to join. What am I missing?

Are you signed in to ESPN?

**Randolph** · August 22nd, 2018, 4:27 PM

Yeah I was. I want at first but I still had the same problem afterwards

**BigAl** · August 22nd, 2018, 4:53 PM

Originally Posted by chrisrandolph1985

Yeah I was. I want at first but I still had the same problem afterwards

Strange. There should be a button on the right hand side that says join group and a place to put the password. I’ll take another look at it either tonight or tomorrow morning.

**BigAl** · August 24th, 2018, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by chrisrandolph1985

Yeah I was. I want at first but I still had the same problem afterwards

I couldn't figure it out on my phone but was able to do it on a computer. You just have to search for the league name, click on it when it comes up, and then click join group. There should be a blue button.

Image, spoiler'd for size:

**Randolph** · August 24th, 2018, 12:49 PM

When I went to the Rajah 2018 eliminator group page, I get none of that. Just this.

- - - Updated - - -

I can't even click that blue button that says to play for free

**BigAl** · August 24th, 2018, 1:35 PM

Yeah I don't know why that would be that way. I can search for any group and there's a spot for me to enter a password and join. Maybe reach out to ESPN to see what's up?

**Fro** · August 24th, 2018, 2:19 PM

Originally Posted by chrisrandolph1985

When I went to the Rajah 2018 eliminator group page, I get none of that. Just this.

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I can't even click that blue button that says to play for free

Originally Posted by BigAle

Yeah I don't know why that would be that way. I can search for any group and there's a spot for me to enter a password and join. Maybe reach out to ESPN to see what's up?

yea idk why the Join Group button wouldnt show up. there is an option to "invite friends", maybe just get his email and invite him that way? although I think that just provides the following link to join:

http://fantasy.espn.com/nfl-eliminat...tesource=email

**BigAl** · August 24th, 2018, 3:21 PM

Yeah, that's probably the easiest way to do it at this point. @chrisrandolph1985 just PM me your email and we'll give that a shot.

**TimeSplitter** · September 5th, 2018, 10:19 AM

Don't forget to make your picks! Had a tough time with the eliminator choice.

**Bandit** · September 5th, 2018, 5:39 PM

Can't remember if I made mine already. Will check momentarily just in case lol.

**BigAl** · September 6th, 2018, 7:19 AM

Still have a few more hours if anybody else wants to sign up!

**Fro** · September 9th, 2018, 9:55 PM

eliminator challenge update. better luck next year to:

kdestiny
smeagol
pablo diablo
kneeneighbor
matthew

I almost picked the Saints myself....

**TimeSplitter** · September 10th, 2018, 8:13 AM

My strategy might be to just pick whoever plays the bills...

It worked week one

**Matthew** · September 10th, 2018, 8:15 AM

i'm still gonna win

**BigAl** · September 11th, 2018, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by Fro

eliminator challenge update. better luck next year to:

kdestiny
smeagol
pablo diablo
kneeneighbor
matthew
FRO

I almost picked the Saints myself....

Fixed that for you.

**Fro** · September 11th, 2018, 10:49 AM

**BigAl** · September 11th, 2018, 10:52 AM

You did call it though, that the Lions would shit the bed.

**Fro** · September 11th, 2018, 11:03 AM

I still don't understand the way the eliminator game works on ESPN. we all know what a survival pool is. and they call it ELIMINATOR which to me tells me they are going for the survivor game. and yet, when you get a game wrong, they don't ELIMINATE you. you can keep picking. so when I look at our 2017 group, beefy shows up as 2nd because he kept making picks even though he was out week 1.I guess they just mean ELIMINATOR because when you pick a team, that team gets eliminated from your pool of teams to pick from.

this frustrates me. I like a real survivor pool and that's sort of how I treat this even though ESPN wants you to keep coming back to make picks for the whole season even if you are wrong every week. but nah, I'm out!

Bagel · September 11th, 2018, 1:13 PM

Right. I did one last year thinking it was survivor so I was like "Wait... it's like survivor but not?" I already made all 17 picks anyway.

**Kneeneighbor** · September 11th, 2018, 2:14 PM

I am the same Fro, if its ovah its ovah.

**TimeSplitter** · September 11th, 2018, 2:32 PM

I've always stopped picking when i got it wrong. it is weird that ESPN doesn't do it that way.

Bagel · September 12th, 2018, 12:41 PM

I'm trying to go 0-17 since I got week 1 wrong. New strategy.

**Pablo Diablo** · September 12th, 2018, 12:55 PM

I will join you Smeagol. The reverse eliminator.

**TimeSplitter** · September 12th, 2018, 12:57 PM

That's a pretty great premise. Do the opposite of my strategy, and only pick the BIlls.

**Pablo Diablo** · September 12th, 2018, 12:58 PM

No no, still can only pick a team once. Just you are trying to pick a team that will lose.

**BigAl** · September 12th, 2018, 1:07 PM

Oh man, I can see that being just as tough at the end of the season when it comes to trying to figure out if teams will rest their starters or not. Do you save the Browns and Bills until then? Do you risk using the worst teams early? It's intriguing and probably not as easy as it sounds.

**Kneeneighbor** · September 12th, 2018, 1:19 PM

Perfect, I am in.

**Fro** · September 12th, 2018, 1:26 PM

ok I'm in too

**Bandit** · September 12th, 2018, 1:31 PM

My manager at my old job did a loser challenge. Where every week you have to pick a team to lose , and once you pick a team, you cannot pick that team again (and you truly got eliminated after a wrong selection). Was a lot of fun.

**TimeSplitter** · September 12th, 2018, 2:27 PM

Originally Posted by Pablo Diablo

No no, still can only pick a team once. Just you are trying to pick a team that will lose.

I know, you just can't pick the AFC east twice. Just a joke about how bad they are

**Kneeneighbor** · September 12th, 2018, 2:37 PM

Josh Allen starting for them next week.

**Pablo Diablo** · September 26th, 2018, 10:56 PM

Just realized I lost my reverse eliminator thanks to the Lions. No the Patriots. Fuck you Patriots.

**Kneeneighbor** · September 27th, 2018, 8:23 AM

Originally Posted by Pablo Diablo

Just realized I lost my reverse eliminator thanks to the Lions. No the Patriots. Fuck you Patriots.

I lost mine as well with the Vikings and Bills.

**Bandit** · September 27th, 2018, 10:11 AM

I lost mine by picking the Jags over the Titans lol

**Fro** · September 27th, 2018, 10:17 AM

so no one made it through 3 weeks, lol

**Kneeneighbor** · September 27th, 2018, 10:18 AM

Same thing happened in a promotional one run by a sports apparel company here in my town. 50 out. It restarted this week.

**Kneeneighbor** · September 27th, 2018, 10:20 AM

At least the pigskin pick'em game is competitive.

**MTR** · September 27th, 2018, 10:52 AM

I had a decent week last week that helped me. I am sure I will be back down towards the bottom soon enough though.

**MTR** · October 24th, 2018, 11:50 AM

How in the hell am I am in third place. I don't even watch the NFL....

**Kneeneighbor** · October 29th, 2018, 11:28 AM

Yeah missing a week of picks didn't help me.

**MTR** · October 30th, 2018, 1:01 PM

And now after a perfect week I am in first place.

Again I don't even watch or keep up too much with what is going on.

**BigAl** · November 5th, 2018, 1:26 PM

Pretty good back to back weeks for me. One wrong last week, possibility to go perfect this week.

**BigAl** · November 13th, 2018, 10:54 AM

First place feels good.

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