The 2nd Battle of the Phillies Posters

[moses]

We had one at the beginning of the Phillies season. It went well, but it seemed like everyone thought it would be a better idea to have one at the end of the season.

Personally, I wouldn't want to run it. And I don't know who would since the previous runner of it is no longer with us. But I thought I'd throw it out there just to generate some more activity on the boards.

[moses]

As a sidenote: I would guess, as not to interfere with Newt's GM game, that they would not run at the same time (if there even is a 2nd BOTPP)

[LWolf]

We had one at the beginning of the Phillies season. It went well, but it seemed like everyone thought it would be a better idea to have one at the end of the season.

Personally, I wouldn't want to run it. And I don't know who would since the previous runner of it is no longer with us. But I thought I'd throw it out there just to generate some more activity on the boards.

What did ever happen to Thomeismyhomie anyway?

[Invader Newt]

we traded him to Chicago for Rowandismyhomie and two Espn posters who may one day make an impact on these boards.

[HamelsToe]

I finished second in the last BOTPP to thomeismyhomie

Thomeismyhomie is never around, hasn't been here in at least 3 months

Therefore, I am the best poster here

So no, we don't need a second battle

[Invader Newt]

I wasn't posting regularly when the last battle happened....and i still came close to winning...behold the power of breasts.

[Hey Look Its Chase Utley!]

Don't get me starter how I got jobbed in the elite eight.

[domenick2x]

I finished second in the last BOTPP to thomeismyhomie

Thomeismyhomie is never around, hasn't been here in at least 3 months

Therefore, I am the best poster here

So no, we don't need a second battle
I'd run a smear campaign to bring you down.


All hail Noot! And her breasts!

[Invader Newt]

well yours are bigger Dom.....

[domenick2x]

well yours are bigger Dom.....
But not nearly as appealing.


Unless I jiggle them!

[Invader Newt]

i have a nicer ass though

[moses]

Don't get me starter how I got jobbed in the elite eight.
That was a sad day. I forget what happened.

[manny]

i have a nicer ass though
dom has the equivalent to 8 asses.

[domenick2x]

dom has the equivalent to 8 asses.
It's the old quantity vs. quality debate.

[manny]

It's the old quantity vs. quality debate.
absolutely, dom has so much ass it takes him two trips to haul ass.

[phan52]

i have a nicer ass though

...link...

And that was to Newt, dom. Not you.

[Invader Newt]

No link. I prefer to keep you guessing. Besides I don't want my fans recognizing me in the grocery store and asking for autographs.

[moses]

No link. I prefer to keep you guessing. Besides I don't want my fans recognizing me in the grocery store and asking for autographs.
The human mind and imagination can do wonderful things...

I forget where I was going with this.

[Hey Look Its Chase Utley!]

That was a sad day. I forget what happened.

I, an upstart poster, was beating Jroll by three votes with an hour left when a bunch of non-Phillies posters came in and gave the tie. Then is a tiebreaker, the same thing happened.

[Invader Newt]

didn't I beat Jroll?

[Hey Look Its Chase Utley!]

didn't I beat Jroll?

Yeah, but it would have been more fun if you had beat me.

[moses]

I, an upstart poster, was beating Jroll by three votes with an hour left when a bunch of non-Phillies posters came in and gave the tie. Then is a tiebreaker, the same thing happened.
Oh yeah. He got a bunch of Bears and other-teams' posters to come over and vote for him.

Quite absurd, if I remember.

[PhilaVa]

I wasn't posting regularly when the last battle happened....and i still came close to winning...behold the power of breasts.

What? Could you repeat that?

*Stares at Newts chest*

[Invader Newt]

In the end he was defeated thogh so it went all for naught. Kinda fitting he got beat by a girl anyway, since he was even more girly than me

[Domino427]

I'd be willing to run it.

Maybe a thread for all Phillies fans to sign up? Then some form of ranking...maybe have everyone rank the posters before hand, and the seeding goes on a point scale (such as the polls for college sports?)

Like I said, I'd be willing to run it...just let me know how you guys think it should be done.

[Invader Newt]

eh I dom't think we should go to all that length, I wouldn't sign up for it. It's kind of fun to do but signing up makes it more of a contest than it already is

[moses]

I'd be willing to run it.

Maybe a thread for all Phillies fans to sign up? Then some form of ranking...maybe have everyone rank the posters before hand, and the seeding goes on a point scale (such as the polls for college sports?)

Like I said, I'd be willing to run it...just let me know how you guys think it should be done.
I would say that we should not have everyone rank the posters before hand -- only because that might defeat the purpose of the entire thing (not that there is a purpose, it's supposed to be fun, entertaining). But if you have everyone rank who should be #1 beforehand, then you kind of have your #1.

If there needs to be a seeding, I would go by posts on the Phillies board or percent of posts on the Phillies board or a combination of that (which I think is what JRoll did). i.e. some objective way to value them.

But if you are volunteering to run it, I'm not going to criticize how you do it. Just offering a suggestion.

It really doesn't matter to me. You could do it alphabetically for all I care.

[moses]

eh I dom't think we should go to all that length, I wouldn't sign up for it. It's kind of fun to do but signing up makes it more of a contest than it already is
Agreed.

I don't even know if there is that much interest in doing it. I just thought I'd throw it out in the air to see what people thought.

[kwahraps]

I would say that we should not have everyone rank the posters before hand -- only because that might defeat the purpose of the entire thing (not that there is a purpose, it's supposed to be fun, entertaining). But if you have everyone rank who should be #1 beforehand, then you kind of have your #1.

If there needs to be a seeding, I would go by posts on the Phillies board or percent of posts on the Phillies board or a combination of that (which I think is what JRoll did). i.e. some objective way to value them.



Perhaps there could be a Sports Board Phillies Olympics.
Phillies board posters (we know who they are and some of the veteran posters) could rank the posters in various categories, and the total final score would be the equivalent of your winner.

Categories could be :

Knowledge
Humor
Style
Trade Ideas
Statistics
Arguments and Debating Tactics
Ability to infuriate others with mindless statistical banter 8)


Perhaps each poster could post a paragraph under each category on why they might deserve the vote of others. Then, the rest of us could mock, er, I mean constructively criticize them in an open forum.

Another idea would be to this in Survivor fashion. Put a bunch of us on the island. An outside person would act as Jeff Probst, and each of us would send him/her an e-mail telling them who we would like voted off the island. This could happen each week, or faster, depending on time. Instead of challenges, maybe all of us would have to answer questions to explain why we belong on the island.

There has to be an efficient method to waste a lot of time doing this.

Thank you for your time.

[Domino427]

Perhaps there could be a Sports Board Phillies Olympics.
Phillies board posters (we know who they are and some of the veteran posters) could rank the posters in various categories, and the total final score would be the equivalent of your winner.

Categories could be :

Knowledge
Humor
Style
Trade Ideas
Statistics
Arguments and Debating Tactics
Ability to infuriate others with mindless statistical banter 8)


Perhaps each poster could post a paragraph under each category on why they might deserve the vote of others. Then, the rest of us could mock, er, I mean constructively criticize them in an open forum.

Another idea would be to this in Survivor fashion. Put a bunch of us on the island. An outside person would act as Jeff Probst, and each of us would send him/her an e-mail telling them who we would like voted off the island. This could happen each week, or faster, depending on time. Instead of challenges, maybe all of us would have to answer questions to explain why we belong on the island.

There has to be an efficient method to waste a lot of time doing this.

Thank you for your time.

Really good ideas there...I'll take it into consideration.

Moses...the pre-ranking thing would be just for seeding. So while say abreu might get the most points, some people might prefer noot over him. So in a head-to-head the result might be different than a rankings. Anyways, thats just the first thing to pop into my head...I can come up w/something.

Noot...it wouldnt really be signing up so much, just posting your name in a thread so I dont miss anyone...I dont wanna leave anyone out.


But heres what I'm thinking...if we could get the results from last year, I could use them as the rankings for this year, and fill in w/new posters. Let me see if I can get a hold of them.

[pennstpat]

Really good ideas there...I'll take it into consideration.

Moses...the pre-ranking thing would be just for seeding. So while say abreu might get the most points, some people might prefer noot over him. So in a head-to-head the result might be different than a rankings. Anyways, thats just the first thing to pop into my head...I can come up w/something.

Noot...it wouldnt really be signing up so much, just posting your name in a thread so I dont miss anyone...I dont wanna leave anyone out.


But heres what I'm thinking...if we could get the results from last year, I could use them as the rankings for this year, and fill in w/new posters. Let me see if I can get a hold of them.

Can there be a section for minor league knowledge?

[Domino427]

Alright...I found a way to find out how many posts each user has made on the Phils board...we'll use that for seeding. I have yet to decide on whether or not re-seeding will occur, or if it will just be one unadjusted bracket. I think it depends on how many people we have.


The Olympics/Survivor idea I'm thinking we could wait on, maybe until after Noot's GM draft-thing because of how involved that would be.

Also, I'll leave khwaps w/the chance to take that on if he so wishes, as he came up with the idea.


If this sounds good, let me know, and I'll get a thread started for those to say if they wish to participate.

[pennstpat]

Alright...I found a way to find out how many posts each user has made on the Phils board...we'll use that for seeding. I have yet to decide on whether or not re-seeding will occur, or if it will just be one unadjusted bracket. I think it depends on how many people we have.


The Olympics/Survivor idea I'm thinking we could wait on, maybe until after Noot's GM draft-thing because of how involved that would be.

Also, I'll leave khwaps w/the chance to take that on if he so wishes, as he came up with the idea.


If this sounds good, let me know, and I'll get a thread started for those to say if they wish to participate.

Oh I'll holla at that fo sho.

[PhilaVa]

Everyone who doesn't vote for me will be banned.

[Domino427]

Everyone who doesn't vote for me will be banned.

I could just not include you.

That would solve that problem.

[pennstpat]

Everyone who doesn't vote for me will be banned.

Everyone who doesn't vote for me won't get any of that sweet psp lovin'.

[PhilaVa]

I could just not include you.

That would solve that problem.

Banned.

[moses]

Alright...I found a way to find out how many posts each user has made on the Phils board...we'll use that for seeding. I have yet to decide on whether or not re-seeding will occur, or if it will just be one unadjusted bracket. I think it depends on how many people we have.


The Olympics/Survivor idea I'm thinking we could wait on, maybe until after Noot's GM draft-thing because of how involved that would be.

Also, I'll leave khwaps w/the chance to take that on if he so wishes, as he came up with the idea.


If this sounds good, let me know, and I'll get a thread started for those to say if they wish to participate.
I think kwahraps was being totally sarcastic. But that was my take on it.

I'll let him clarify if there is a misunderstanding.

[Y.O.M.]

Banned.
Huzzah!

Now Phila has to run the BOTPP.

[PhilaVa]

Huzzah!

Now Phila has to run the BOTPP.

Fuck. That. Domino reinstated.

[Y.O.M.]

Fuck. That. Domino reinstated.
I was expecting a response like this. I got a kick out of that 1 minute dialogue. We'll have to do this again sometime, sweetheart.

[PhilaVa]

I was expecting a response like this. I got a kick out of that 1 minute dialogue. We'll have to do this again sometime, sweetheart.

Yes, we have been drifting apart as of late. How are the kids?

[Y.O.M.]

Yes, we have been drifting apart as of late. How are the kids?
The boys are fine, it's winter now so I don't see too much of them these days. *tear*

[Domino427]

Hmm...it seems its not going to be possible to find out the total number of posts on the Phils board, as the search seems to be limited to 500 posts, and many of us have over that amount.

Any other suggestions?

[Y.O.M.]

Hmm...it seems its not going to be possible to find out the total number of posts on the Phils board, as the search seems to be limited to 500 posts, and many of us have over that amount.

Any other suggestions?
Just use a simple formula. You're right, it's impossible to calculate the total amount of posts a Phils fan has on the Phillies' board alone, so you simply can't use that as criteria. Do something like this:

-postcount
-rep power
-#days as a member

Then, weight those according to how important you deem them in the evaluation process. I would say rep power should be weighted X3, days as a member X2 and postcount X1. That will give you a good basic ranking system for each poster....after that the voters will take care of the rest.

I can help further if you'd like, I still remember pretty well how I did the thing for the Eagles' board awhile back.

[Domino427]

Just use a simple formula. You're right, it's impossible to calculate the total amount of posts a Phils fan has on the Phillies' board alone, so you simply can't use that as criteria. Do something like this:

-postcount
-rep power
-#days as a member

Then, weight those according to how important you deem them in the evaluation process. I would say rep power should be weighted X3, days as a member X2 and postcount X1. That will give you a good basic ranking system for each poster....after that the voters will take care of the rest.

I can help further if you'd like, I still remember pretty well how I did the thing for the Eagles' board awhile back.

That sounds pretty good to me....any objections?

[kwahraps]

I think kwahraps was being totally sarcastic. But that was my take on it.

I'll let him clarify if there is a misunderstanding.

Actually, I wouldn't mind running a survivor-type contest.

[ill]

Actually, I wouldn't mind running a survivor-type contest.

could we have alliances?

[kwahraps]

could we have alliances?
Yes, and I am considering an immunity idol for best answer to a question.For instance, we could have 20 members involved.

Week 1 question : What impact will the Sal Fasano signing have on team morale in the clubhouse?

Best answer (as judged by me, or a committee) would get immunity, then everyone would e-mail me there votes for who to get rid of. Most votes gets booted, followed by a final speech, which you may mock for pure entertainment value. Private messages to discuss voting strategies is encouraged. At the end, we can discuss strategies and members can choose to reveal alliances.

This could be done on every sports board.
We could inspire a whole new wave of fantacism.
Or not.

[Invader Newt]

being someone who always disliked reality shows I have to say, This is a good idea the more things we have to keep us intrested the better the quality of posting will stay.

[kwahraps]

being someone who always disliked reality shows I have to say, This is a good idea the more things we have to keep us intrested the better the quality of posting will stay.
Could anyone enlighten me as to why my posts are all jumbled together now?

It's probably a button or a feature that I must not be using since the layout changed.

Thanks.-kwahraps

<ok, i changed my options to basic text box and it appears to be working now . . . strange>

[thejerseydevil]

Oh yeah. He got a bunch of Bears and other-teams' posters to come over and vote for him.

Quite absurd, if I remember.

Didn't someone notice that there were a ton of signups during this popularity contest? Last years mods took it a bit too seriously (if they really did create users just to vote for themselves)... I don't think JayGlo cares that much so it should be run a little better.

[Domino427]

Didn't someone notice that there were a ton of signups during this popularity contest? Last years mods took it a bit too seriously (if they really did create users just to vote for themselves)... I don't think JayGlo cares that much so it should be run a little better.

Yup, no brand new posters (join date after lets say today) are going to be allowed to vote. I'm going to look closely to make sure these arent being fixed like last year.

So, I guess you could say I do care a lot...just not about if I win or not.

[Hey Look Its Chase Utley!]

Let's have fun with it, and it should be alright.

[domenick2x]

That sounds pretty good to me....any objections?
It's the only sensible way.

GO!

[Y.O.M.]

Yup, no brand new posters (join date after lets say today) are going to be allowed to vote. I'm going to look closely to make sure these arent being fixed like last year.

So, I guess you could say I do care a lot...just not about if I win or not.
The tourney will go well because of you caring like this. It'll be fun.

Expect problems though. There will always be at least ONE bitchy hammerknocker that has an axe to grind....and the one running the show gets to put up with him/them.

[tj11887]

I wasn't posting regularly when the last battle happened....and i still came close to winning...behold the power of breasts.

yes everybody loved you noot

[tj11887]

Don't get me starter how I got jobbed in the elite eight.

Hey you completely owned me.

[LWolf]

The tourney will go well because of you caring like this. It'll be fun.

Expect problems though. There will always be at least ONE bitchy hammerknocker that has an axe to grind....and the one running the show gets to put up with him/them.

I have a fairly good idea who the most likely perps (or hammerknockers as you call them) will be when the circus gets going