I'm going to run this again. Those of you who participated in the past will have received an email just a little while ago. If you didn't get it, or if you're new and interested, please send an email to survivetheepl@gmail.com.
Here's what I sent out for anyone new interested in playing:
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Hi Everyone!
The season is fast approaching, with the early start due to the World Cup. The first game is only three weeks from tonight, August 5 - with Crystal Palace (yay!) hosting Arsenal (boo!) to kick things off.
I'd love to have even more people join this time, so please feel free to share with anyone who is into the sport, friends, degenerate gamblers, people you don't like whose money you want to win, etc.
I'm posting the rules from last year below this email, but want to get some feedback about two potential changes to perhaps make the game last a bit longer:
Proposed Change 1: Two losses to be eliminated from the competition instead of just one.
Proposed Change 2: Each team may be selected up to 3x per season instead of 2x.
I'm happy to take any other feedback on how better to organize the game.
Hope you'll all be playing again, and hopefully bringing some friends along. Please let me know if you won't be joining, and I'll take you off the list -- otherwise I'll expect you!
Jeff
Here are the rules as given last year:
Here's what I sent out for anyone new interested in playing:
________
Hi Everyone!
The season is fast approaching, with the early start due to the World Cup. The first game is only three weeks from tonight, August 5 - with Crystal Palace (yay!) hosting Arsenal (boo!) to kick things off.
I'd love to have even more people join this time, so please feel free to share with anyone who is into the sport, friends, degenerate gamblers, people you don't like whose money you want to win, etc.
I'm posting the rules from last year below this email, but want to get some feedback about two potential changes to perhaps make the game last a bit longer:
Proposed Change 1: Two losses to be eliminated from the competition instead of just one.
Proposed Change 2: Each team may be selected up to 3x per season instead of 2x.
I'm happy to take any other feedback on how better to organize the game.
Hope you'll all be playing again, and hopefully bringing some friends along. Please let me know if you won't be joining, and I'll take you off the list -- otherwise I'll expect you!
Jeff
Here are the rules as given last year:
1. | Each game week you must pick one team to win or draw their match. |
2. | You may pick each team in the league up to two times. |
3. | If the team you selected in a given week loses their match, you are eliminated. |
4. | Entry fee is $20. |
5. | Entries must be sent to survivetheepl@gmail.com before the first kickoff of the week. |
6. | Understand that games may be postponed for a variety of reasons. Most of them are announced well in advance, but I'll try to keep an updated list of which games are available during a given week. |
7. | If a game is postponed AFTER the kickoff of the first game of the week (weather, Covid, protests, who knows anymore), you will have the option of selecting another game that will be played that week, or doubling up the following week. |
8. | If there is a very limited number of games one week (say, a covid outbreak among many teams), I may combine games from multiple game weeks at my discretion. |
9. | If for some reason, due to scheduling and prior team selection, you have NO possible choices, you survive to the next week, but will required to make two picks. |
10. | If you miss making an entry before the first kickoff, you will be given the same entry as selected by the largest number of players. If that team is not available to you, then the second most, and so on. |
11. | If you miss making a second entry before the first kickoff, your entry will be eliminated from the competition. I'LL TRY TO REMIND PEOPLE, BUT REMEMBER THOSE RANDOM FRIDAY GAMES! |
12. | The last player standing will take the pot. In the unlikely event there are 50 or more entries, it will be split 70%/20%/10% among first, second and third place. |
13. | If more than 10% of the players are still alive after game week 30, picks are for teams only to WIN their game. Selecting a team that draws would elimnate you. |
14. | Beginning with the final two game weeks of the season, if there are more players alive than prizes available, you will need to select two teams to win each week. That is, you will have used up every possible team for your selections. |
15. | I don’t see that EVER happening. |