2018 NFL Survivor League.

[Taltarzac725]

I will set up a public one of these as soon as they allow it to happen. We seemed to have a lot of problems with people getting into the private Survivor League.

Please keep Survivor player's name you pick family friendly as well as considerate of other players.

NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/)

[JohnN]

thanks for doing this again, taltarzac

[Taltarzac725]

thanks for doing this again, taltarzac

You are welcome. Does not seem to be up just yet. I only get the 2017 results not any 2018 stuff. It is very early though.

[Taltarzac725]

Looks like it will probably start up in early August.

[Taltarzac725]

1. Registration Period:
Registration for the Game begins at 3:00:00 pm Eastern Time (ET) on 8/5/18 and ends at kickoff of the final regular season game, scheduled to take place 12/30/18.

The Survivor League opens up on Sunday 3:00 PM EST 8/05/2018. :welcome:

[Taltarzac725]

This opens up for registration today at 3 PM EST.

Good luck.

I will make it a public group as we had a lot of problems with it when I started with a private group last year.


Sure miss zcaveman and all the work he did on this when he was with us.

[Taltarzac725]

Does not seem to be open just yet.

[Taltarzac725]

This is set up as a public group. Good luck. :icon_wink:

The group's name is TOTV 2018 NFL Survivor League.

Hopefully, we can get as many people in it as last year.

Group Directory - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/directory?groupType=deadline&offset=46)

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

[Taltarzac725]

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

We have four Survivors so far. I hope we can pick up many more.

[Taltarzac725]

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

Six players now. I hope we can get some more.

[Taltarzac725]

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

Up to eleven people now. :bigbow::a040::clap2:

[Taltarzac725]

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

Up to eleven people now.


Fourteen survivors now on Monday night. :)

[Taltarzac725]

Fourteen survivors now on Monday night. :)

20 players now for the TOTV NFL 2018 Survivor League.

Would be great to get quite a bit more survivors in this. :a040:

[Taltarzac725]

20 players now for the TOTV NFL 2018 Survivor League.

Would be great to get quite a bit more survivors in this. :a040:


We have lucky 21 players now. :bigbow:

[Taltarzac725]

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

26 players now. Hope we get quite a bit more survivors!!! :bigbow:

[Taltarzac725]

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

26 players now. Hope we get quite a bit more survivors!!! :bigbow:

We now have 28 people playing the NFL 2018 TOTV Survivor. Very cool. :a040:

[Taltarzac725]

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

Now up to 39 survivors. That is cool! :bigbow:

[Taltarzac725]

46 contenders as of 9:11 AM this morning. :bigbow:

I still am having trouble with my pick for the first week. Still not enough information available for me to make it just yet.

[Taltarzac725]

46 contenders as of 9:11 AM this morning. :bigbow:

I still am having trouble with my pick for the first week. Still not enough information available for me to make it just yet.

We now have 55. Old enough to live in the Villages!!!! :popcorn::super:

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

[Taltarzac725]

HI are you doing the yahoo pick em this year?

Yes. That is on another thread. There was a Problem | Pro Football Pick'em | Yahoo! Sports (https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/pickem/556)

[Taltarzac725]

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

58 people now. :)

[Taltarzac725]

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

58 people now. :)

We now have 61 people.

[Taltarzac725]

NFL Picks and Predictions for Week 1 - National Football League - ESPN (http://www.espn.com/nfl/picks)

Good luck this week. We have 73 people playing as of 9:50 AM EST. 9/06/2018.

I must say some people have really sick senses of humor judging from the handles they chose for this specific pool but that is life and the First Amendment.

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164)

[Polar Bear]

...I must say some people have really sick senses of humor judging from the handles they chose for this specific pool...
Hmm...unless I went through the list too quickly and missed them, I didn't really see any handles that were that sick. :)

[Taltarzac725]

Hmm...unless I went through the list too quickly and missed them, I didn't really see any handles that were that sick. :)

I am not going to dignify some others of them with pointing them out but one is of Rodney Halbower, the main suspect in the murder of 5 young women in the San Mateo area as well as a nursing student near the University of Nevada, Reno on 2-24 in 1976. This was the 19 year old daughter of my then Earl Wooster High School teacher Mrs. Barbara Mitchell. Halbower killed her on my birthday of 2-24. They convicted Cathy Woods falsely around 1979 or 1980 for Michelle's murder because she was a paranoid schizophrenic and made a false confession to the murder so she could get a better room in a mental hospital in Louisiana. Halbower was found out as a murderer of Michelle Mitchell after a DNA test on a cigarette butt found at the crime scene. This was in 2014. Halbower is one sick S.O.B. The San Mateo murders are also called the Gypsy Hill slayings.

Post traumatic stress comes in different forms but this kind of use of handles in a Football League is just extremely mean spirited and nasty.

They are some rather cruel people out there and some show up on Talk of the Villages, unfortunately.

I do see this as a form of cheating. Using a name to upset others as much as possible is extremely low even for some of the people on Talk of the Villages.

[Taltarzac725]

Now with 82 players and we already have some winners this week with their Philadelphia picks.

[Taltarzac725]

Green Bay is not looking very good in this opening game.

[Kenswing]

Green Bay is not looking very good in this opening game.
You were saying? lol

[Taltarzac725]

Green Bay is not looking very good in this opening game.

Aaron Rogers pulled it out with 21 points in the last quarter. Exciting game.

[l2ridehd]

I picked Green Bay and they made me watch it until the end. And they were an 8 point favorite when I picked them. Oh well, got by week 1. On to week 2.

[Taltarzac725]

I picked Green Bay and they made me watch it until the end. And they were an 8 point favorite when I picked them. Oh well, got by week 1. On to week 2.

Had a lot of emotion while watching this. I used to root for Da Bears when I lived in Chicagoland. Spent three months or so taking care of a uncle who lost a leg, arm and part of his skull to a German panzer tree burst which also wiped out 6 men from his 8 man squad at the landing in Anzio. Had to take care of him before he went into the nursing home up the street in late 1994.

And we lived in a suburb of Milwaukee the first ten years of my life up through late 1969.

I did think I was going to be out the first week of the Survivor game when I saw that score of 0 to 20 in favor of Da Bears.

Packers face Vikings next week and I lived in Minneapolis for 5.5 while getting a law degree and working at the U of MN Law Library.

Also another tough one for whom to back as far as emotions are concerned.

[Taltarzac725]

Official Site of the New York Jets (https://www.newyorkjets.com/)

Jets are doing well tonight. My 2nd or 3rd cousin-- my father's father's brother's grand kid-- used to be the General Manager of the NY Jets. John Idzik, Jr.

He is with the Jags now.

[Taltarzac725]

Lost about 40 of our survivors in the first week. Would have been more if not for the great work of Aaron Rodgers to pull 21 points out of his team mates the last quarter against Da Bears. Great end to the game, 23-24.

Aaron Rodgers Reminds NFC North Who Runs the Division | Bleacher Report | Latest News, Videos and Highlights (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2795012-aaron-rodgers-reminds-nfc-north-who-runs-the-division)

[Taltarzac725]

The continued cyber bullying by a quite nasty group of people on the message board of the TOTV NFL Survivor League is very disturbing. First the use of names creating to deliberately upset me and then the continued stalking and harassment online. Very sad. This harassment also looks organized via e-mails or however this group communicates with each other.

I am just letting the Moderator know about this problem. And I believe some of these people are TOTV posters or were before they were kicked off.

[Taltarzac725]

Down to 36 from 99 at the very start of the TOTV Survivor League a few weeks ago. Some tough breaks with upsets this past week. How about the Bucs and the Jags! Quite the unexpected outcomes.

Good luck this week, survivors!

NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/)

[Taltarzac725]

For some reason it is only 98 who signed up. Not sure what happened there. 36 survivors as of Week 2 out of 98 who started.

I have often been kicked out by the second week. Usually because I backed New Orleans or Pittsburgh and they did not come through for me and others who chose them to win.

[Taltarzac725]

The continued cyber bullying by a quite nasty group of people on the message board of the TOTV NFL Survivor League is very disturbing. First the use of names creating to deliberately upset me and then the continued stalking and harassment online. Very sad. This harassment also looks organized via e-mails or however this group communicates with each other.

I am just letting the Moderator know about this problem. And I believe some of these people are TOTV posters or were before they were kicked off.

This cyber bullying continues. And it looks like it definitely breaks the FL Statutes against cyber bullying.

[Taltarzac725]

The Jets were good last night until they weren't.

[Taltarzac725]

Down to 97 from 99 Survivors listed. With 36 still eligible to play as of 9/21/2018 Friday 10:06 PM.

Good luck this week.

I wonder what Jeff Glor knows about the Buffalo Bills? Jeff Glor - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Glor)

[Taltarzac725]

Down to 97 from 99 Survivors listed. With 36 still eligible to play as of 9/21/2018 Friday 10:06 PM.

Good luck this week.

I wonder what Jeff Glor knows about the Buffalo Bills? Jeff Glor - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Glor)

Book club is the MVP of Patriot wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell's career - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL4ECiMiUx4)

Whenever I think about CBS News I often remember fondly Steve Hartman's report on Malcolm Mitchell, formerly of the Patriots, and his love of reading.

[Taltarzac725]

This week is looking to be a very tough one for many of us including me with my pick of the Minnesota Vikings. 27 - 0 in favor of the Buffalo Bills. What did Jeff Glor know?

[My Post]

I'm in a $20 Suicide pool with 7,000 people. There are 3800 left and 2800 have MIN!!!! Also a lot of people in the next 1000 have JAX and Philly.

My ship may finally come in!!! Culver's Tilapia Sandwiches on me!

I feel like that HOU coach is giving Todd Bowles a run for his money as worst coach in football. How does that guy keep his job. They look awful. And with all those guys on D???

[Taltarzac725]

I'm in a $20 Suicide pool with 7,000 people. There are 3800 left and 2800 have MIN!!!! Also a lot of people in the next 1000 have JAX and Philly.

My ship may finally come in!!! Culver's Tilapia Sandwiches on me!

I feel like that HOU coach is giving Todd Bowles a run for his money as worst coach in football. How does that guy keep his job. They look awful. And with all those guys on D???

Well about 20 of us are out including me. The experts sure got that Bills-Vikings game wrong. All of them that I checked had the Vikings to win. And the line was 16 or so for the Minnesota Vikings.

[Taltarzac725]

I see four people changed their names on the Survivor League last night or early this morning after surviving another round. It has been noted. I will make a record of it for future reference.

12 players remain. 4 of these players changed their names last night to ones they know will cause very bad memories to keep coming up for one other player while the other kinder players also see these post traumatic stress inducing names.

Someone made a suggestion that we go back to the way the late ZCaveman had it set up. I would do it all on here figuring out who had won and lost and the like. And the Moderator would be able to keep things fair and above-board to all of the other players.

That seems like an excellent idea of having it next year on this board and not using the NFL site as all kind of cyber bullying has occurred there this year and it does not present an accurate picture of how friendly and fair most of the people I have met here in the Villages since June 2005 really are. It presents an image of some extremely immature and just plain nasty cyber bullies as being common to the Villages. This is an inaccurate image.

[Taltarzac725]

It also upsets me that the winner from last year, the poster using the name Gene Coppola, had lost this week but now is back after a friend of his wrote that name in as a handle.

That seems like cheating as do the three names these posters changed their names to those they well know are targeting me as a means to bring back very painful memories involving decades of very intense experiences.

It is OUTRAGEOUS behavior.

I see four people changed their names on the Survivor League last night or early this morning after surviving another round. It has been noted. I will make a record of it for future reference.

12 players remain. 4 of these players changed their names last night to ones they know will cause very bad memories to keep coming up for one other player while the other kinder players also see these post traumatic stress inducing names.

Someone made a suggestion that we go back to the way the late ZCaveman had it set up. I would do it all on here figuring out who had won and lost and the like. And the Moderator would be able to keep things fair and above-board to all of the other players.

That seems like an excellent idea of having it next year on this board and not using the NFL site as all kind of cyber bullying has occurred there this year and it does not present an accurate picture of how friendly and fair most of the people I have met here in the Villages since June 2005 really are. It presents an image of some extremely immature and just plain nasty cyber bullies as being common to the Villages. This is an inaccurate image.

[Polar Bear]

Good luck, survivors!

(Dang Pats. Argh.)

[Taltarzac725]

Good luck, survivors!

(Dang Pats. Argh.)

They knocked me out of one my other Survivor leagues as well with that loss last night.

The experts sure weren't giving very good advice for this week's games. Or, at least, a few of them.

I still wonder what Jeff Glor knew about the Bills vs. the Vikings? He seemed to think that had a chance before they went into the game.

[Taltarzac725]

I will set up a public one of these as soon as they allow it to happen. We seemed to have a lot of problems with people getting into the private Survivor League.

Please keep Survivor player's name you pick family friendly as well as considerate of other players.

NFL Survivor - NFL.com (http://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/)

Wanted to quote my very first post for this Survivor League of choosing handles that are not intentional upsetting to other Survivors as well as being family friendly.

I do hope that whatever happens with this Survivor next year that sportsmanship and fair play return.

[Taltarzac725]

Down to 11 Survivors with 4 having changed their handles so we will never know who actually won this Survivor pool unless one of the 7 good sportsmen and women come through with the win. Sure hope that honesty and fair play prevail.

I probably will not be able to do all the very hard work that zcaveman did so I hope someone else under the eyes and ears of the MODERATOR will do this.

I am done with TOTV Survivor connected with the NFL as there is way too much VENOM and cheating on there and it is more likely than not from the usual suspects for most of the bad behavior on TOTV the past few years. They just found another outlet for their bile.

[Taltarzac725]

No one had the Rams nor the Vikings last night. So, no new rankings.

I am going to be looking at this Survivor web link as little as possible because of continued and persistent cyber bullying on the NFL Survivor web-site. By the usual cyber bullies, it looks like who have been on Talk of the Villages for quite some time.

I will check back late Sunday and late Monday.

Good luck this week.

[Taltarzac725]

Everyone is through for this week among the remaining eleven Survivors. Congratulations. Good game between the SF Forty-Niners and the LA Chargers. I was a little worried about the people who picked the LA Chargers but they pulled it off at the end.

[Taltarzac725]

Good luck tonight with your picks especially if you have the New England Patriots. :icon_wink:

I have them as my pick in some of the remaining pools I am still surviving in this week.

[Taltarzac725]

Panthers pulled it off and so did two of our survivors. Congrats to all three.

The Carolina Panthers and two pickers. :bigbow:

[Taltarzac725]

Hope the remaining player(s) who have not picked a team yet get their choice in by the deadline.

[Taltarzac725]

10 players going into next week as one person did not make a pick in time today.

[Taltarzac725]

Eight of the ten surviving players have their picks in for games on right now. I hope everyone gets their selections in this week.

[Taltarzac725]

Down to nine Survivors now as a pick as not made in time.

Great game between the Forty-Niners and the Packers late last night. :popcorn:

[Taltarzac725]

Looks like I might keep the tenth position in this 2018 NFL Survivor League associated with Talk of the Villages. At least, I invited people to it from here. Started with 98 players but the database whittled this down to 95.

I was out of the running when the Vikings lost but had made picks for the rest of the year before that.

[Taltarzac725]

Close exciting game at the end. Congrats to LA Chargers. :bigbow:

[Taltarzac725]

We are down to seven players now. Here is a list of the top ten as of 11/06/2018.

Dallas losing last night was kind of a game changer for two of our Survivors.



RK NAME RECORD
1
Cathy Woods
9 - 0
2
Kleehammer44's picks 5
9 - 0
3
RodneyHalbower
9 - 0
4
DeniseLampe's picks
9 - 0
5
Gene Coppola
9 - 0
6
TanyaBlackwell's picks
9 - 0
7
steelerbeaters's picks
9 - 0
8
skinstight's picks 9
8 - 1
9
MichelleMitchell
8 - 1
10
Forthelobster
8 - 1

[Taltarzac725]

The Jets and the Falcons lost so far today. So, the rankings will change. I altered my handle to Robert Trueblood a dear great uncle of mine who died in 1992 in Mesa, AZ. Was my pen pal from 1977-1992 as well as someone I visited whenever we were in the Tempe, AZ or Apache Junction, AZ area.

May alter it again though soon.

Always liked the name Trueblood. My grandfather Trueblood was a railroad lawyer who had some rather impressive job for the US military in WWII.

[Taltarzac725]

Three people left but each seems to change his or her name so there is no way to tell who actually won. And these people play tag for cyber bullying, so to speak.

So. I will just leave this TOTV Survivor League 2018 alone from now on. And not participate in any additional TOTV football league. Or any other sport league where there are no controls on name changes nor on online treatment of other players.

[Taltarzac725]

Group Home - NFL Survivor - NFL.com (https://survivor.fantasy.nfl.com/group/48164?fbclid=IwAR2QGWMagsgqI7XZDyGCXq_kp5w5wGkCEvz 2xE-A0ziVFdT93M2yAAaA3bQ)

I doubt if this or any other name this person used in this NFL Survivor League is his or her real moniker. Congratulations anyway.

Do feel it is really contemptible to use a name deliberately aimed at upsetting the person who set up this NFL pool-- me-- in the first place with "Tanya Blackwell" and ending with Gene Coppola. 'Gypsy Hill Killer' sentenced to two life in prison terms (https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/10/gypsy-hill-killer-sentenced-to-two-life-in-prison-terms/)

This is the kind of cruelty you would have found on some other parts of Talk of the Villages that borders on cyber bullying of the worst sort.