TooSerious

Season is just about to kick off, and we're all obviously obviously that there has been some serious changes to the site.

First things first, shout out to Jo who has been very understanding with the time that I've sunk into this thing.

Next up, features- and I'm kinda thinking that this post might become a manual of sorts, so I'll reserve a bunch of posts at the start and edit them as I go.

So whilst you are all busy making your last minute adjustments to your SC/DT teams, here at TipBetPro we are getting ready to use SC stats (amongst others) to predict the outcome of every AFL match. We’ll be sharing these tipping predictions every week on our website (http://www.tipbetpro.com/) along with key statistical insights right here at TooSerious.

Last year we tipped 152 games correctly (72%), which was 4 more than the bookies favourites, 8 more than the Swinburne University Super Computer (we use fairly standard laptops!) and we finished 1,665th out of nearly half a million footytips.com.au users.

Check it out our predictions and more over the break.

Where did all the rookie-priced players go?

Please join in the final edition of RMT below.

The final list has been compiled. I will be asking people to join leagues in the coming days, however, I will need individuals from each league to set them up and PM me the code (or send it to all the league members). If anyone could volunteer that would be fantastic, it shouldn't take long to only do one league.

You will have a week from when you receive the PM to join your league, otherwise your spot will be offered to someone else.

Please ensure you join promptly to make the process easy for us all. We have exactly 4 divisions, however, if we get 18 people in this thread requesting to join a league a new one can be made. The top 4 leagues are final and will not be changed.

DIVISION 1
Sauce_17 - 18
Polly (witz wizards) - 43
Jason (The Floggers) - 155
dict8 (dict8orship FC) - 173
Simply The Bruest (port_leschenaut) - 289
jordy06 (Qual Bants) - 420
tyze1 (SF Bulls) - 451
Mada42 (BALLSnALL) - 488
pete_d (Wando Cans) - 494
TN (wanderers) - 605
Megalomaniac (Kardiac Kids) - 891
Crockett (Crockett's Blues) - 1039
Malteaser (Malteaser) - 1100~
ViQBoZ (Markov Distinction) - 1130
Waldo666 (Tongala United) - 1200~
BillyBass (DeepInCider) - 1200~
Eleviathans (ELeviathan) - 1300~
ShagsNags (Shagga05) - 1482

DIVISION 2
FlyUp (Dump Crew) - 1500~
Gummy (Miyagi'sChopsticks) - 1500~
HomerJ (007GoldenGuns) - 1635
Bunza52 (Bunza's Biatches) - 1737
stevebbb (Bafingwood FC) - 1747
EreCumDeOtSteppaFC (Mick) - 1844
Isco (Coll Isle Lads) - 2000~
Team Stripey - 2739
clintwaight (WolvesofClinterfel) - 2889
Jackosdream (Jacko's Dream) 3000~
DannyG (BLUBAGGERS) - 3028
Snoz (simonoz) - 3048
Tomster - 3430
Steamshovels - 3615
Bearded Burbler (Bearded Burbler) - 3782
TheNightmares (pacman81) - 4000~
Dekka (FUCTTIM) - 4350
LeeMatty - (4278 div 1 last year)

DIVISION 3
Samwell (Dizzlekicks) - 4635
poljockw (weanswi'skintknees) - 4887
Danners (Dann's Stars) - 4952
SeanyG (CityHall) - 5000~
12Chill (Isle of Carl) - 5000~
Serengeti Buffaoes (wrightbrendan) - 5000~
redwhite&blue... Final leagues over the break...

The TS Fantasy NBA Grand Finals kicked off today!

Have a look over the break for details of who made each of the grannys, with links to their TS profiles and to the game page.

And there is one huge game taking place in terms of relegation too! Check it all out over the break.

The donor team, where donors come together to put together the greatest team possible. By committee.

Great fun, so if you want to input your thoughts on the initial squad, head over to the official thread

http://tooserious.net/forum/threads/donor-team-2016.89309/#FgVsoPo5TUxv2X0I.97

What's that? Can't see the thread? Might need to hit that donate button up the top there.

You get access to the donors forum, downloadable spreadsheets of data, higher attractiveness levels to members of both sexes and various other awesome attributes from subscribing.

And there's also a pretty nifty secret new feature that will be going in this year, only available to donors (aka, the beta testing team. ) - but more details will be up on that as the season fires up.

So, it's been years and years since I've written an article about how salary movements work in this game, and you sometimes forget that not everyone has been around for the past 10 years.

Thankfully, Father Dougal from over at SupercoachTalk has put together this fantastic article on the matter.

Fecking Prices, How Do They Work?

Ok, the title isn't quite a work of art, but the contents are a fantastic refresher on some of the salary mechanics that make SuperCoach the quality product that it is. Well, well worth the read! (Even if just for the walesy cameo in the comments )

Luckily, they aren't FastasyAFLTalk though, cause Fantasy AFL's movements and their weighted scalings on past rounds is less fun to work with.

Ok, put it on the line here for fame, ridicule and all time. Extra points for bold predictions that come true.

LADDER
1. WEagles
2. Freo
3. Geelong
4. Dogs
5. Hawthorn
6. Collingwood
7. Sydney
8. Richmond

9. GWS
10. Port
11. North
12. Gold Coast
13. Adelaide
14. Melbourne
15. St Kilda
16. Brisbane
17. Carlton
18. Essendon

Premiers: Hawthorn
Runner up: Eagles
Brownlow: Dangerfield
Coleman: Kennedy
Rising Star: Mills
Richmond finals wins: 0
1st Coach gone: Scott

The divisional SC leagues will be running again for TS this year. Sign up in this thread!

The SC leagues will be created based on ranking from the past two years. Post your top ranking, along with team name below, and you will be put in a league with players of similar ability.

There is a 12 day deadline - to guarantee your place in a league you will need to have posted in this thread by March the 11th.

If you have any further ideas, post them below or PM me. Don't forget the deadline!

Edit by TTH - and also don't forget to join the TS Group via http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/afl/classic/group?cic=980322

Apologies for the lack of posts this year.

We are now into the finals, so I wanted to get a post up to remind everyone of the agreed promotion and relegation rules for this season, as well as point out the situation in each league.

Firstly, remember we all decided on a different format for next season.
This:

All leagues still with 12 teams in each.
A Premier League
A Division 1 league
Any other leagues as conference leagues, could have 1, 2, 3, 4 or any ammount of these leagues which sit at the same level of the hierarchy and all feed into the Division 1 league through promotions.

We do still need to work out how many teams move between the leagues at the end of the season, but we can work that out prior to the '16/17 season.

It was decided that the promotion and relegation setup for the '15/16 season is the following:
Keep the promotion/relegation rules between Premier and Division 1 exactly the same as last season.
5 teams move from Division 1, down into the Conference leagues (allows for the wildcard to still come into play this season)
4 teams move up from Division 2 into Division 1 (same as last season)
1 team moves up from Division 3 into Division 1 (Grand final winner)

Promotion:

The 3 teams going up from Div 1 to Premier will be:
the GF winning team;
the team with the best regular season 'Points For' (excluding GF winner of course);
And (excluding 2 already promoted teams) the team with the best rank during regular season.

The 4 teams going up from Div 2 to Div 1 will be:
the two grand final teams;
and (excluding the two GF teams) the team with the best 'points for' during regular season;
and (excluding said Points For winner) the best ranked team at end of our regular season.

The team going up from Div 3 into Div 1 will be: the grand final winner

Relegation:

The 3 teams going down from Premier to Div 1 will be:
the bottom team at the end of the regular season;
and (excluding the team with the worst reg season...