Thursday, Feb 11th, 9:00 PM EST, FCP Olympic Pool

Draft Order

1. Wayne (babying)

2. Dale

3. John (untilted)

4. Chris

5. Adam

6. Zach

7. Arp

8. Taxlayer

9. Sinc

10. Kevin (Coesillian)

11. Serge


These are the people who said they would like to join. Serge has (once again) temporarily quit the forum but is welcome as usual.

Serge (Paid + confirmed draft date)
Zach (Paid + confirmed draft date)
Arp (Paid + confirmed draft date)
Wayne(babying) (Paid + confirmed draft date)
Adam (Paid + confirmed draft date)
Chris (Paid + confirmed draft date)
Sinc
Taxlawyer (confirmed draft date)
John(untilted) (Paid + confirmed draft date)
Coesillian (Paid + confirmed draft date)
Dale (confirmed draft date)

http://www.armchairpools.com/ will track the stats for us for a 5$ fee for the entire pool, so we'll go with them. I will collect the money as of now, once you send me your payment I will send you your invite to the league. 20$ per person sent via paypal to kevin_gendron@hotmail.com , payment by paypal is by far the preferred method for me and most people here seem comfortable with it now.
Draft Date

we should have it close to the start of the Games (Feb 14th) in case of injuries or what not. How about 9:00 PM EST, Thursday Feb 11th.

The date is probably fine by me. Where do I ship PayPal?

send to kevin_gendron@hotmail.com via paypal

date+time looks good to me. thanks Co-co.

ummm, when did Serge quit again? I missed it.

I think it was 1 post blow up in the leafs thread that went mostly unnoticed. He let me know he's still in for the pool.

I found out about it on Facebook, I think.

I wish I had money.



Here is the post where serge declared his exit. Click on the red arrow to see the post that set him off.

ahhh, thanks.
funny enough, I wasnt even aware when I ripped on the Habs guys in the anti-Leafs thread.

you leave for a week, and this is what happens.
I love how cordial everyone is in person when they meet, and how different it is online.

Is Serge on twitter yet?
Maybe that would just make it easier.

Isn't it though. Well I think I am fairly the same online and offline. I can be sarcastic but I try not to pull that off online as it is usually taken the wrong way. But serge can be unbearable at times here but he was a great guy in person, not at all like his online self.

Zach though, he is still a bitch online and off.

I'm still in, I'll ship the week of the draft if that's ok.

Me too!!!!!

no problem, whenever it works for you guys as long as it gets in before the draft.

Is it Canadian or the useless American money?

American dollars.

PayPal has been sent.

I've got it zach.

I'll keep the OP updated with payments and confirmations

Paid

In, and paid.

This.

draft date is good. Gov owes me money from the Survivor pool. If he can somehow send it over thru Poker Stars, that would be great. If not I will send the $ thru paypal shortly

pokerstars doesn't work for me, I've never withdrawn from there, don't know how and hardly ever use it.

Draft date works for me. I will ship via Paypal as date gets closer.


I probably missed it but what type of rules are we looking at?

Here's how I thought it would go : Draft about 100 players total, G and A worth 1 point each, no goalies, no limitations on number of FW or D.

Not saying I don't like your idea but I think we should throw out ideas and see what we can come up with.

My idea: we have to pick at least ____ players from every team. I think this will increase the interest in the games involving lesser teams...like the USA

We had a whole thread where we talked about ideas, and everyone who voiced their opinions said they'd like to see it mirror the playoff pool we do, where it's goals and assists only.

I like the idea of just goals and assists. And the thought of some of us cheering and hoping that Konstantin Koltsov picked up an assist on the lone Belarus goal makes me a little giddy.

How about something like 60 players each. A max of 5 players from 1 team. You must pick at least 3 players from each of the 12 (?) teams. This should help prevent ties and make every game interesting.

That would be pretty interesting. That way we don't have to coordinate for a draft, it'd just be like the old newspaper pools I used to do in Thunder Bay where you pick one player per group.

http://www.iihf.com/channels10/olympics-2010/rosters.html

Id really much rather prefer a live draft style.

But I also like Dale's idea of taking from all teams somehow.
We do something like this for one of my playoff pools, where we each pick 1 player from each team, but this is done with a live draft, so once youve taken Datysuk, Detroit is off for you, and so on.

Perhaps the first thing we need to agree on is whether or not each player can only be on one team. If I draft Konstantin Koltsov is he unavailable to everyone else?

That's how it was going to be, exactly like the playoff draft.

Co was saying 100 players total, so 8 or 10 each depending on how many people we have in the pool.

i don't like when people have duplicate players, I think drafting is the preferred method here.

There is something macho about drafting. It feels more degenerate. It feels right.

If each team had to draft at least 1 player from each country then we could draft at most 2 players from the same country. We could either set a min of 1 and a max of 2 or simply a max of 2.

or no min and max at all.

1 player from each country would be so ridiculous, we'd be seeing 4th liners from Norway...

I like the 'no more than 3 from any one team. Then you have to decide whether a canadian or russian 3rd liner is worth more or less than a swiss centre.

You're going to have to do that anyways. You really think in a 10 team snake draft you'll be able to get better than 2 top 6 Canadian forwards ever?

Even if you took the entire roster for Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden (which you won't always do), you're still left with 20 guys to split up from the other teams.

Do we have 10 or 12 entrants in this? If we have 12, and taking 10 players each, the min/max will sort itself out without having to be specified.

I agree with Zach.

Too bad we can't do the women's Olympic teams, I would take all of China!!!!!!!!!!

we're 11 teams.

There are 145 NHL'ers participating in the Olympics out of about 270 I believe.
we could have 12 players on each team for a total of 132 players drafted if we wanted to.

That sounds about right. You're definitely going to forego some NHLers for KHL and SELers in some case too, it leaves some decisions up to us, and we won't completely ignore non-NHL players.

132 players is a lot in this format, when there's such a steep drop off after the top 4 or 5 teams, or so.

Just confirming my entry and that my money will be shipped shortly.

I am ok with any format, as long as the draft is held past 9 if on a week night.

Has any betting site come up with the odds for each team to win this thing yet?

I do too, in a 11 team snake you're not going to get more than 3 players from the elite teams anyway, and if you do more power to you.

We're overthinking this. Let's just get 11 guys together to snake draft 12 players apiece (no doubles or anything like that, once Crosby is gone he's gone) and we'll see who wins.

I think this will work best.

Agree

Bump to remember.

I just saw this thread, like I said in the first one I don't have paypal so I can't pay or collect. So you can bump me off the list, gl to everyone in the pool.

If you'd like to play we can arrange something.

is this dead?

EDIT

never mind..I guess its Thursday night

This may sound like a dumb question but Thursday at 9pm. How are we doing this? On MSN, FCP Forum?

Im wondering the same.

Everyone still in for this?

i am in..but confused like Bob Gainey the hour before the trade deadline.