This stupid pickem is still fucked up after a week. Someone check to see if my picks registered for 144, as I cannot login normally. I can login through http://mmapickemchallenge.com but not http://fantasy.sherdog.com and none of the of the messages or scores have updated.
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MMA |OT2| - Thread of Athletes, Fighters, Personalities, and Sports Entertainment
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Don't worry, you're playing for second now.
I don't think they're taking picks for 144 yet.
They takes picks for a week prior (check to see if mine registered). The site is just bizarre though. It looks exactly the same as the real one (which I can't login to), but before the Fuel show. It still shows me in the lead.
Okay yeah that is weird. It just flat out won't let you log into fantasy.sherdog.com?
Maybe email them: fantasy@sherdog.com
Ah, maybe it's just a Facebook thing then. I created an account with Sherdog and haven't had a problem.
I wouldn't mind starting all over again to even the playing field, but we always end up having lopsided scoring eventually. They should really add leaderboards for each event...
I wouldn't mind starting all over again to even the playing field, but we always end up having lopsided scoring eventually. They should really add leaderboards for each event...
TheKaeptain
Banned
See how many of you guys remember this name. Jason Von Flue being a jackass...
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Wheeee!
Russow's follow up on the ground always makes me laugh.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
They takes picks for a week prior (check to see if mine registered). The site is just bizarre though. It looks exactly the same as the real one (which I can't login to), but before the Fuel show. It still shows me in the lead.
I don't know how to put the comment things in. I'd make mine "I'll fight whoever Joe Silva wants me to fight."
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
omg you guys are still on the Condit-Diaz shit?
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Everyone unanimously agrees Condit won.
Maklershed
Member
?
If you're referring to the comments on the screenshot of the Sherdog leaderboard - that screen was from right after the Condit/Diaz fight. Looks totally different now. Heel is the new overlord. :/
Has fedora been officially plucked from the strikeforce stable?
parrotbeak
Member
Ya, he was cut after losing to Hendo.
BigJonsson
Member
Diaz suspended
Maybe we can get GSP vs Diaz in a streetfight
Maybe we can get GSP vs Diaz in a streetfight
Over the long haul, Heel's bad mma instincts are hard to overcome.
Don't worry, I have a feeling I'm going to make some very poor decisions on this Japan card. I'm not talking about picking Bendo either. That's a lock, brah.
The PPV picks are fine. It's these damn FuelTV and Strikeforce undercards that bring me down.
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
Yeah that's why I didn't join. No point in sweating out picks for a bunch of guys I have no idea who they are. If I'm going to pick randomly then it kills the fun for me since it takes any analysis and "skill" out of it. That's why I much prefer NFL pick 'em and suicide pools.
DKehoe
Member
I've thought for a while we should do an elimination pick 'em using just the main event. Everyone picks who they think will win the main event, if you are right you continue to the next event if you are wrong you are out. Keeps going until it's just one person at which point we start over again. Anyone interested?
TheKaeptain
Banned
Would you really want to see a guy with no takedown defense in a street fight with a wrestler? I think Diaz is douche but would not want to see him dead after his head gets slammed in the concrete.
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
If it included the main card and people aren't allowed to pick the fighter they picked for the rest of the year/until it starts over again then I'd be down, that'd be a true suicide pool. Main event only is too limiting, it'd be like only picking SNF games in football.
I already lost.
DKehoe
Member
I'm open to expanding it but just don't want to alienate people by having picks include fights between two guys they have no clue about.
EDIT: I consider the main event of this weekends show Mark Hunt vs Cheick Kongo
parrotbeak
Member
I think we would all have to create a new profile for each event. The pools still use the cumulative scores to rank.
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
Not only that, we all pitch in and buy that person a UFC championship belt.
There's a Jon Jones joke in there but I'm in zombie mode after an awful night of sleep.
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
Jacare's opponent has been named: something called Bristol Marunde, whatever that is.
Couldn't we just collect all the individual scores from each event ourselves while still maintaining the current pool?
polyh3dron
Banned
yeah I deem it acceptable for dream to ask who/what this is.
AwesomeSauce
MagsMoonshine
I second this idea.
I procrastinate like a mofo, and because of it, I missed out on a bunch of events lol.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Yeah, overall score is shit house. Single event is where it's at.
dream
Member
The UFC's first of six live shows on Fuel set the all-time ratings record for the station, which isn't as impressive as that sounds given it's the lowest rated national cable station and it was averaging 7,000 viewers per show last week if you exclude the UFC programming.
The 2/15 show was the beginning of a long-term plan. The idea for FOX is to build Fuel into its own sports channel, and in doing so, the short-term goal is to sacrifice live UFC show audiences to create a climate of UFC fans calling their cable operators asking for the channel. It's one thing for replays of old PPV shows or even UFC Tonight and some live cards are on the channel to help in that direction. Where it becomes negative is when the Countdown shows are on the channel. The effectiveness of those shows is to get eyeballs who are on the bubble or not buying, into beoming PPV buyers. Airing on a channel only viewed by the most hardcore of fans and few others isn't going to be effective in that goal.
The first live full card on Fuel came from the Omaha Civic Auditorium, and was headlined by local fighter Jake Ellenberger, who got a hero's ovation. Now he didn't draw big, but those who were there were behind him in a big way. Ellenberger graduated from high school at the Civic Center and went on to wrestle at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He survived a late onslaught and got a late escape that may have saved him from either being on the wrong end of a finish or a 10-8 final round. That allowed him to hold on and decision Diego Sanchez by straight 29-28 scores.
Ellenberger won the first two rounds handily, and Sanchez won the third, but by not quite enough to get the 10-8 that would have seen the fight end as a draw.
The fight was so spectacular, and the tide had turned so much at the finish that it caused Dana White to change the company's directives on main events once again. Once the fights that are already under contract are completed, all main events will be five rounds. The rule had been that if a PPV show didn't have a title match, that the main event would go five rounds, and the same would go for shows on FOX. However, FX and Fuel cards were to have three round main events. When the fight was over, Sanchez said he wished it would go five rounds.
Another change is that Brian Stann got a shot at doing pre and post-fight analysis on this show and was so good that it appears he's going to be a regular for Fuel in this role, working with Jay Glazer. It may not be every show, because this coming week, Rich Franklin will be in the spot.
The show did 217,000 viewers, or an 0.5 rating, making it the most watched show in the history of the network. But it was all but guaranteed this show would set the station's all-time record. It was also the most watched evening and the most watched full day in the history of the network. 60% of the viewers were Males between the ages of 18-49, putting Fuel at No. 9 for the night in that demographic. It's also the epitome of a narrow appeal, whether it be the product, or the nature of the hardcore fan base that will go out of their way to find a station they aren't familiar with.
The Sanchez vs. Ellenberger fight did 315,000 viewers and an 0.7 rating. On the flip side, that was less viewers than any UFC or WEC show had ever done, but that was guaranteed to be the case on a network with limited clearance, as this show was available in barely half the homes Versus was. And it was available in barely half the homes MTV 2 is in and did a comparable number to what Bellator does, and in fact, beat many of the Bellator broadcasts for total viewers.
UFC has six events scheduled for Fuel, with the idea not necessarily doing big numbers, but more to have people call up cable companies asking about getting Fuel. Anecdotal reports have it that a lot of those calls were made, but whether that leads to more clearances remains to be seen.
The Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen fight may be moving to Rio de Janeiro instead of Sao Paulo due to the noise ordinance in Sao Paulo which wouldn't allow an event at the stadium ending past midnight. A UFC event would end closer to 2:30 a.m. there because of the time difference. No other venues in the city would be available on 6/16.
White noted that he had a meeting with Showtime last week and he's going to have more decision making power over the Strikeforce events. Exactly what that means is not known, but said the changes would be evident shortly. White is going to be heavily promoting the 3/3 Miesha Tate vs. Ronda Rousey fight.
White also addressed Forrest Griffin vs. Tito Ortiz, after Lorenzo Fertitta talked about the fight. White said it's not happening when Lorenzo thought but it could happen. As noted last week, the plan was originally for the 5/5 show, and then for the 5/26 show, but Ortiz isn't likely to be ready as he's pretty banged up. There were hopes of putting it on 7/7 and promoting it as Ortiz's retirement fight and making a big deal about it, if he can make it by that date.
The death of Mike Bernardo, the K-1 star from the late 90s, is now being reported to be a suicide caused by depression at the age of 42.
The 2/15 show was the beginning of a long-term plan. The idea for FOX is to build Fuel into its own sports channel, and in doing so, the short-term goal is to sacrifice live UFC show audiences to create a climate of UFC fans calling their cable operators asking for the channel. It's one thing for replays of old PPV shows or even UFC Tonight and some live cards are on the channel to help in that direction. Where it becomes negative is when the Countdown shows are on the channel. The effectiveness of those shows is to get eyeballs who are on the bubble or not buying, into beoming PPV buyers. Airing on a channel only viewed by the most hardcore of fans and few others isn't going to be effective in that goal.
The first live full card on Fuel came from the Omaha Civic Auditorium, and was headlined by local fighter Jake Ellenberger, who got a hero's ovation. Now he didn't draw big, but those who were there were behind him in a big way. Ellenberger graduated from high school at the Civic Center and went on to wrestle at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He survived a late onslaught and got a late escape that may have saved him from either being on the wrong end of a finish or a 10-8 final round. That allowed him to hold on and decision Diego Sanchez by straight 29-28 scores.
Ellenberger won the first two rounds handily, and Sanchez won the third, but by not quite enough to get the 10-8 that would have seen the fight end as a draw.
The fight was so spectacular, and the tide had turned so much at the finish that it caused Dana White to change the company's directives on main events once again. Once the fights that are already under contract are completed, all main events will be five rounds. The rule had been that if a PPV show didn't have a title match, that the main event would go five rounds, and the same would go for shows on FOX. However, FX and Fuel cards were to have three round main events. When the fight was over, Sanchez said he wished it would go five rounds.
Another change is that Brian Stann got a shot at doing pre and post-fight analysis on this show and was so good that it appears he's going to be a regular for Fuel in this role, working with Jay Glazer. It may not be every show, because this coming week, Rich Franklin will be in the spot.
The show did 217,000 viewers, or an 0.5 rating, making it the most watched show in the history of the network. But it was all but guaranteed this show would set the station's all-time record. It was also the most watched evening and the most watched full day in the history of the network. 60% of the viewers were Males between the ages of 18-49, putting Fuel at No. 9 for the night in that demographic. It's also the epitome of a narrow appeal, whether it be the product, or the nature of the hardcore fan base that will go out of their way to find a station they aren't familiar with.
The Sanchez vs. Ellenberger fight did 315,000 viewers and an 0.7 rating. On the flip side, that was less viewers than any UFC or WEC show had ever done, but that was guaranteed to be the case on a network with limited clearance, as this show was available in barely half the homes Versus was. And it was available in barely half the homes MTV 2 is in and did a comparable number to what Bellator does, and in fact, beat many of the Bellator broadcasts for total viewers.
UFC has six events scheduled for Fuel, with the idea not necessarily doing big numbers, but more to have people call up cable companies asking about getting Fuel. Anecdotal reports have it that a lot of those calls were made, but whether that leads to more clearances remains to be seen.
The Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen fight may be moving to Rio de Janeiro instead of Sao Paulo due to the noise ordinance in Sao Paulo which wouldn't allow an event at the stadium ending past midnight. A UFC event would end closer to 2:30 a.m. there because of the time difference. No other venues in the city would be available on 6/16.
White noted that he had a meeting with Showtime last week and he's going to have more decision making power over the Strikeforce events. Exactly what that means is not known, but said the changes would be evident shortly. White is going to be heavily promoting the 3/3 Miesha Tate vs. Ronda Rousey fight.
White also addressed Forrest Griffin vs. Tito Ortiz, after Lorenzo Fertitta talked about the fight. White said it's not happening when Lorenzo thought but it could happen. As noted last week, the plan was originally for the 5/5 show, and then for the 5/26 show, but Ortiz isn't likely to be ready as he's pretty banged up. There were hopes of putting it on 7/7 and promoting it as Ortiz's retirement fight and making a big deal about it, if he can make it by that date.
The death of Mike Bernardo, the K-1 star from the late 90s, is now being reported to be a suicide caused by depression at the age of 42.
Maklershed
Member
1070 = UFC on Fuel 1
1080 = UFC 143
790 = UFC on Fox 2
820 = UFC on FX 1
780 = UFC 142
900 = Strikeforce: Rockhold vs Jardine
parrotbeak
Member
If any lurkers are in Hawaii, I've been told you can call Oceanic and get Fuel for free if you have digital. If you're still on the old cable, you're shit out of luck.
Maklershed
Member
"Akiyama's aggressive, slugging style has made him a favorite among hardcore fans in the U.S. Once a huge star in Japan, he embarked on dual fighting and acting careers before scandals in fights against Kazushi Sakuraba and Kazuo Misaki damaged his profile."
What's this about?
(I wasn't aware of Akiyama until his fight with Belcher)
What's this about?
(I wasn't aware of Akiyama until his fight with Belcher)
parrotbeak
Member
He's Japan's answer to GSP
Wtf, it took me 3 minutes to copy and paste a quote from wiki.
Maklershed
Member
That bastard. No Kim Winslows in Japan to rub him down slowly before they get in the ring I take it.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Bunch BJ fanboys all on this page.
How about someone post that Gif of Anderson
Before fighting Maia? Oh because he didn't beat the shit out of BJ's fat no cardio ass.
How about someone post that Gif of Anderson
Before fighting Maia? Oh because he didn't beat the shit out of BJ's fat no cardio ass.
very astute comparison.
Yet another reason why www.mmaplayground.com is the only site you need.
This looks fantastic.
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