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I trying to think of a way we could do a cool MMA league. Kinda like fantasy football.
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03.28.2011 | 10:29 AM ET
Any ideas?
Does that sound cool or am I crazy?
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03.28.2011 | 10:51 AM ET
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03.28.2011 | 11:13 AM ET
We track it on this site. https://sites.google.com/site/fightleagueufc/
It makes the fights a little more interesting when you have something riding on them.
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03.28.2011 | 11:59 AM ET
We all get together with some beers and throw $50 in the pot, draft 2 fighters from each weightclass than just let them battle it out till everyone has fought.
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03.28.2011 | 11:05 PM ET
"Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity."
03.29.2011 | 12:22 AM ET
"Break a deal, spin the wheel"
03.29.2011 | 12:28 AM ET
I think we should get Gregory and crew to work on some kind of automated site for this!
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03.29.2011 | 12:47 AM ET
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03.29.2011 | 1:23 AM ET
I actually have a blogspot where I put all the sheets up (shameless plug). If anyone out there does the same kind of thing, you can take a look at my sheets at MMA Pool Sheets.
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03.29.2011 | 7:01 PM ET
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03.30.2011 | 7:00 PM ET
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03.30.2011 | 7:35 PM ET
I just wish I had the brains to build a site where you could just plug in the draft picks and fight results and it would automatically take care of the rest.
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03.30.2011 | 7:58 PM ET
Awsome! I've been trying to put something like that together for about a year now! I keep running into problems with my buddies being too broke or too cheap to bet, which is troubling considering I only have about 4 good buddies who are in to MMA, when 1 or 2 of em are not down on about 50% of the cards it gets tricky, and hard to believe that its worth while. A site with a fantasy draft would be wicked cool once all the kinks are iron'd out!!!
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03.30.2011 | 8:08 PM ET
Takes about an hour to put it together and 15-20 minutes after each fight to update it.
I'd like to see more guys doing it so we can compare our rules, problems, additions etc. between our leagues.
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03.30.2011 | 8:40 PM ET
My friends and I also have a league... but its a free league and we do it card by card, no drafts. I'll be taking a look at geezhound's stuff though... maybe incorporate some of his/his friends ideas... sounds cool.
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03.30.2011 | 8:45 PM ET
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03.30.2011 | 8:47 PM ET
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03.30.2011 | 8:56 PM ET
I've also seen a more complicated version done where they incorporate fighter rankings and if you draft a fighter in the "B" class and he beats a fighter in the "A" class, you get more points and stuff like that. I believe that the simpler the better, especially when it's done by human hand and not an automated scoring machine like ESPN or Yahoo.
Since geezhound wants to compare, here's the thread on the forum that I'm doing the league. I'm AMPLine4Life over there: http://www.wrestlingforum.com/sports/535565-wf-ufc-fantasy-league.html
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03.30.2011 | 9:10 PM ET
I really like the idea of a bonus for an underdog win and may figure a way to incorporate it into our league when this season is over.
Our group likes things REALLY simple, so it's hard to get them to accept changes.
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