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NEWS AND NOTES

December 30, 2002

December 10, 2002

Round two of the play-offs are now over, Congratulations to the winners! Rodeo Monkeys are hot and have given notice to watch out. The head-to-head matchups are now posted to the respective websites, including the consultation bracket.

Overall Playoff Bracket can be found here -- > http://www.gr8mutato.net/ltffl/LTFFL2002/LTFFL2002playoffs.jpg
Consolation Bracket can be found here --> http://www.gr8mutato.net/ltffl/LTFFL2002playoffsC.jpg

December 3, 2002

Week one of the playoffs is behind us and like normal there were a few surprises and upsets. The smack talk is limited this morning which is surprising and only makes me think that the Rodeo Monkeys are still in shock and the Beavers are still looking through life through the bottom of the bottle. Love and Vomit has come out of nowhere to be a top contender, and the Ribbed Trojans are poised to defend their title. I have adjusted the head-to-head matchups on each site for this next week.

You will also notice that those that lost this last week also are matched up for a consolation bracket. Since I have the time (unemployment is very boring) and the software allows it, I thought it might provide some additional entertainment to allow for continued play. So here is the consolation bracket. Same rules still apply, it is only for bragging rights at this point but the competition lives on. The consolation bracket will not have a final game between the two leagues, it will just determine the individual leagues 2nd place team.

LTFFL 2002 Playoff Bracket | LTFFL 2002 Consolation Bracket

As always if you have any questions or comments feel free to let me know.

September 5, 2002

Hi all -

By the time you read this, especially for those that stumble out of bed at the crack of noon, we will be down to under 10 hours for the start of the NFL season. I wanted to send out a final reminder to look at the line-ups submitted and make sure they are all right and working. You will still be able to change those players not playing in tonight's game, and it looks like most everyone is all set, but there are a couple of teams that might be missing a player or two (hint, hint).

Did you know that the webpages will have live scoring? You can follow along your fanasy team as the stats are updated live. This is what they at least advertise, I wonder how the bandwidth will handle Jeff (Goaline Girly Men), or Josh (Captain One Eyed Ball Movement . . . look I said it!) hitting refresh every 12 seconds, but I am sure I will give it a try.

Don't forget . . . no, actually stop what you are doing right now and head out to ESPN to enter the LTFFL Pigskin Pickem and LTFFL Gridiron Challenge contests. If you don't enter before tonight's kickoff, you are surely to lose to both Jeff and Ted and they will never let you live that down. So follow the directions and links below and get entered.

Lastly - head on over to /Page 2 of Mutatoville, my personal website and critique my team on ESPN Fantasy Football. I pride myself in being able to field a team. I actually bought the 3-pack this year, but will be focused on this team since the Goaline Girly Men joined this league and has already offered me 7 trades and the games have not even begun. I say this, as I will publish Friday my predictions for both leagues. I guarantee you that will not be predicting that the Steelers make the Superbowl like I have been hearing this year. My predictions will focus on the LTFFL

As always if you have questions or issues:

Email: dacomish@gr8mutato.net

IM:
AOL: thegr8mutato
Yahoo: thegr8mutato
MSN: gr8mutato@hotmail.com

Cell: 801-403-5163

Pigskin Pickem


ESPN's pickskin pickem and show us all why we should be giving you our money to go to Vegas!

Jerhi Wilcox has put together a group on ESPN.com's Pigskin Pick'em Fantasy Game and would like you to join.

Group name: LTFFL Pickem

Helpful links:

Create a new account:
https://register.espn.go.com/fantasy/chooseAge?appRedirect=http://games.espn.go.com/pigskin/frontpage

Already have an entry? Go to your entry page and then click on the following link:
http://games.espn.go.com/pigskin/group?groupID=11543

Learn more about how to play the game at http://games.espn.go.com/content/pigskin/2002/story?page=howtoplay

Pigskin Pick'em Fantasy Game
http://games.espn.go.com/pigskin/frontpage

Gridiron Challenge

ESPN.com's Gridiron Challenge Fantasy Game and would like you to join.

Group name: LTFFL

Helpful links:

Create a new account:
https://register.espn.go.com/fantasy/chooseAge?appRedirect=http://games.espn.go.com/gridiron/frontpage

Already have an entry? Go to your entry page and then click on the following link:
http://games.espn.go.com/gridiron/group?groupID=9998

Learn more about how to play the game at http://games.espn.go.com/content/gridiron/2002/story?page=howtoplay

Gridiron Challenge Fantasy Game
http://games.espn.go.com/gridiron/frontpage

August 21, 2002

Press Release: LTFFL Draft Lottery

Taylorsville, UT (LTFFL) : The LTFFL Draft Lottery will be conducted today at the Coffee Tree coffee house located at 1720 W 5000 S (basically next to the army navy store on redwood road). Teams from each league will be pulled from a hat to determine the draft ranking for this Saturday's LTFFL draft. All owners, friends and familyi are invited to attend. Heck just stop by to talk some smack.

Contrary to popular rumors circulating throughout the league, Dacomish again reiterated that there would be no recognition or moments of silence for the impending retirement of Terrell Davis.

Final results of the LTFFL Draft lottery, as well as the final location for this Saturday's draft will be emailed out after the draft lottery.

Press Release: Team "A Bear and a Rabbit" discloses Stadium delays and inability to compete

Herriman, UT (LTFFL): LTFFL Team: "A Bear and a Rabbit" issued a press release yesterday indicating that with their planned relocation to Herriman, their new stadium will not be completed in time for this years LTFFL season. As such they will not be able to compete. Team owners Erica and Stuart were very disappointed with this news, and Primary Owner Stuart Fitton gave the following statement.

"We thought for sure the stadium would be completed by the time the season started, but we have had numerous "Sod" delays, and the additional time with my new commute have created more time away from the stadium where I was not able to kick some butt!"

Minority owner, who also wears the pants in the ownership as she would hate to be caught dead in a dress, followed-up this statement by saying, "We were really looking forward to a great year, Jack Plummer is looking good again this year, and our profits were marked to support Stu's daily commute".

Ted McCune, franchise owner for "Love and Vomit" upon hearing the news, claimed "They just were afraid of me again this year! I could see Stuart trembling in his boots from here."

Dacomish, of the LTFFL, mentioned that they will be missed, and said that "Stuart is an avid fan, he ran that league with a broken back last year, directing his team while flat on his back." Dacomish also added that with this news the Knobbyboys will be moved to League "SlobberKnockers" and there is an open slot in League Megahurtz. If you know of anyone interested in this team please let him know.

LTFFL-O-RAMA

Hi All,

I hope you are all preparing for the draft this Saturday. Thing are getting close so get those lists ready. Just a reminder because I can't say it enough, that the draft is this Saturday, the 24th at 11:15am or 2:30pm depending upon your league. If you name is on this list and you DO NOT plan on participating please let me know. If your name is NOT on this list and should be please let me know. This message contains some important info you don't want to miss. (also please make sure that everyone gets this, there are some of you that are sponsoring other owners and I still don't have their emails, but you KNOW who you are).

Updates in this message:
- League Assignments
- League Draft Times
- Online Transactions
- New Prizes
- LTFFL 2002 Balance Sheet


First here are the league assignments:

I tried to accommodate all wishes and this is the best I could do. You can make arrangements to switch among yourselves you just need to let me know before the draft on Saturday.

Owner/Owners Team Name League
Ted McCune Love and Vomit Slobber Knockers
Al Delacruz TBD Slobber Knockers
Dave Cloes Smut Miners Slobber Knockers
Jeff Neathery Goaline Girly Men Slobber Knockers
Jason Supino Phat Penguins Slobber Knockers
Stuart and Erica Fitton A Bear and a Rabbitt Slobber Knockers
Channing Wankier The Chumps Slobber Knockers
Todd Hatch Todd's Tornado's Slobber Knockers
Mel Welliver TBD Slobber Knockers
Brittan Anthony Sunday Sinners Slobber Knockers
Brandon Anthony Weekend Warriors Slobber Knockers
Frank Tovar Xaviers Warriors Slobber Knockers
Rob Trebilcock Canadian Dream Team MegaHurtz
Jason and John Webster Peagram Beavers MegaHurtz
Matt Bradley Ribbed Trojans MegaHurtz
Rex Griffiths and Shawn Wright Rodeo Monkeys MegaHurtz
Jason Murphy Wild Cards MegaHurtz
Josh and Jonathan Mills TBD MegaHurtz
Steve Kimball Superchargers MegaHurtz
Matt Browning and Jeff Blanda TBD MegaHurtz
Phil Jensen and Dew Modal TBD MegaHurtz
Scott Shaw and BJ Butler TBD MegaHurtz
Richard Head The Knobby Boys MegaHurtz
Shawn Cahoon Rough Riders MegaHurtz

League Draft Times:

The SlobberKnockers will draft on Saturday at 11:15 am and the MegaHurtz will draft at 2:30 PM. As you have probably seen from the emails going on we are still undetermined for a draft location, but one will be decided by Wednesday night at the draft lottery and I will send out an update.


Online Transactions:

Just and FYI that we will be using new software this year. There might be some kinks to work out, but it is a proven package and the good news is 100% of all transactions, trades and rosters submissions will ALL take place online. So you had better upgrade that modem. Some of you have already seen a demo, for the rest of you, you can check out www.myfantasyleague.com and run through their demo to see how things look. I will finalize all teams after the draft lottery, and it is critical I know if there are any teams that are bailing out.


New Prizes:

I have included below the proposed balance sheet for this year. You will see the cash flows and that there are some new prizes that will be awarded, even to the effect of given some money to the team that ends up in the toilet.



LTFFL 2002 Balace Sheet
Y2002
Assets
Cash $ 840.00 (24 Teams at $35.00 per team)
Total Assets $ 840.00

Liabilities
Stats and Software $ 159.90
Weekly Winner 1 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 2 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 3 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 4 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 5 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 6 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 7 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 8 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 9 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 10 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 11 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Weekly Winner 12 $20 ( 1 $10 winner for highest point total per league)
Total Weekly Winner $240

League Winners $125.00 ( Each league winner receives $75, this is the winner of the individual league playoff)
Tuttle Bowl Champion $150.00 (League winners play each other and winner receives $150 for tuttle bowl victory)

Regular Season Awards
First starting QB injury $30.00 (Team with first starting QB that goes down for injury, QB must be in Franchise starting lineup, tie will split money)
Second starting QB Injury $30.00 (Team with first starting QB that goes down for injury, QB must be in Franchise starting lineup, tie will split money)
Best Logo $30.00 (Team with best logo - voting by 4th week by all franchise owners)
Most Productive Charger $30.00 (Team with highest fantasy point getter on the Chargers - Tie splits money)
Weirdest Injury $30.00 (Team with the weirdest injury, voted on my owners, tie splits money)
Toilet Award $15.10 Lowest scoring team [total pts score] both leagues

Total Liabilities $840.00

August 12, 2002

Hi all, I wanted to send out an update and let everyone know that things are moving along. This seems like a different year for football for me and it isn't just because I don't have NFL Sunday Ticket, but traditions are good and it is good to see LTFFL will be back for another year.

Before going to much further I wanted to tell you to forward this on to others that are not in the mailing list, (Jeff and Jason this means you). I still don't have email addresses from a lot of the new owners (and some of the veterans to LTFFL) so tell them to get me their email address and forward this along to them.

It looks like we will have to break from tradition a bit this year in that our usual draft place is booked. Can you believe it! But I have another place reserved (though they don't serve Beer) and I am looking for something even better (meaning they serve Beer). More info on this will follow, but still plan on it being on the 24th. If anyone has any suggestion let me know as well. I am looking for something very similar, and someplace where one can bring kids, but also drink some beer.

We have enough interest, we are looking at 23 teams so far if everyone pans out. You can see the list below. There are two issues arising, 1 is with 23 confirmed teams needing to either have 2 - 12 team leagues or 3 -10 team leagues and find some additional owners. Or we could just kick out 3 teams and keep it at 2 - 10 team leagues. This is something that we need to decide in the upcoming days, so if you have any comments reply back to the list (remember if you are a member you can send email to it by sending it to ltfflsmack@gr8mutato.net or just send your comments to me directly.

We will also as usual have an interesting time on getting the right people in the right leagues. Seems like everyone always wants to beat up on Ted and Jeff. Plus they have their friends that they want to strategize with.

Lottery:
I will plan on having the draft lottery, to assign draft picks on the 21st of August, where everyone can meet if they like and participate. This is really just an attempt to do something since I am bored out of my mind since I was laid off. So if you want to join in, talk some smack, plan on 6:30pm on the 21st at The Coffee Tree (approximately 4900 So Redwood road, right by the Army Navy Surplus store).

Software and System:
No news here, I will be looking at some other options. I am tempted to stay with what has worked in the past, but there are some of you out there that are suggesting other options. We will see.



Teams expressing interest so far: (if I missed anyone let me know)

Owner/Owners Team Name
Ted McCune Love and Vomit
Al Delacruz TBD
Dave Cloes Smut Miners
Richard Head The Knobby Boys
Jeff Neathery Goaline Girly Men
Jason Supino Phat Penguins
Channing Wankier The Chumps
Todd Hatch Todd's Tornado's
Mel Welliver TBD
Shawn Cahoon Rough Riders
Brittan Anthony Sunday Sinners
Brandon Anthony Weekend Warriors
Frank Tovar Xaviers Warriors
Rob Trebilcock Canadian Dream Team
Jason and John Webster Peagram Beavers
Matt Bradley Ribbed Trojans
Rex Griffiths and Shawn Wright Rodeo Monkeys
Jason Murphy Wild Cards
Josh and Jonathan Mills TBD
Steve Kimball Superchargers
Matt Browning and Jeff Blanda TBD
Phil Jensen and Dew Modal TBD
Scott Shaw and BJ Butler TBD

As always if you have any questions let me know at dacomish@gr8mutato.net

July 25, 2002

It is time to start the kickoff of the 2002 LTFFL Football season. Check back here for the latest and greatest news or send an email to dacomish@gr8mutato.net to be subsrcribed to the LTFFL mailing list. The entire LTFFL staff is dusting off the computers and office space and starting to investigate to alternatives to software and stat services. A date for the draft has been set for the 24th of August, this is less then a month away.

January 1, 2002

It was a hard fought game but the defense of the Ribbed Trojans held Photo Finish to only 37 points, while Marshall Faul led the way for the Trojans scoring 39 points alone and the Trojans team putting up 83 total points.

Congratulations to the Ribbed Trojans for a job well done, and added pressure from a first time LTFFL owner.

A reconciliation of adds/drops and weekly payouts will follow shortly. Thanks for another Great Year!