NCAA Football Pick 'Em -- Week 1 Results

Week 1 Picks have been made and compiled here: Week 1 Results. I'll be updating this intermittently throughout the weekend.

Week 1 NCAA Football Picks Due Today

REMINDER: For those of you participating in the $25 ALACS NCAA Football Pick 'Em Game, picks are due by 4 PM PST today (the first game is at 4:30). Week 1 lines can be found here. Please e-mail your picks to alacspickem@gmail.com.

Ready for some football?

On Tuesday night, the USC Division held the third and final auction draft of the 2008 ALACS Fantasy Football season. Now that all three drafts have been completed, we can compare the results to determine who was most highly valued by the 36 teams that drafted in the ALACS. Here will you find that comparison: ALACS Auction Values. It’s worth noting that the GU Division’s values had to be adjusted (x1.33) since they auctioned with a $150 budget rather than $200.

The most exciting pick of the three auctions had nothing to do with LT, Adrian Peterson, or Tom Brady – but instead, when the Chargers D/ST was nominated as the 7th pick of the LO Division’s auction. According to witnesses, ALACS newcomers John Rosinbum and Kasey McCabe engaged in a prolonged bidding war so flagrantly outrageous that the rest of the auction room was stunned into complete silence during the bidding. Rosinbum ended up with the Chargers D/ST for $23.

A more sinister plan was hatched by Mike Marty, who held the first nomination of the GU Division’s draft. Marty nominated Adrian Peterson – except this wasn’t the AP who was expected to be a top three pick. Marty nominated the Adrian Peterson with the CHI next to his name – the Bears’ RB. Before the rest of the league had caught on, the bidding had hit $45. Once everyone had settled down, the Commish rolled back the pick as if it had never happened…perhaps wanting to extend an olive branch to the entire GU Division after the 1.5-hour delay they experienced at the hands of Fantasy Auctioneer.

Some other significant price discrepancies between the three divisions:

- LaDainian Tomlinson ($60 LO, $70 USC, $77 GU)
- Tony Romo ($25 LO, $37 GU, $47 USC)
- Donovan McNabb ($13 LO, $19 GU, $35 USC)
- Patrick Crayton ($3 GU, $15 USC, $26 LO)
- Laurence Maroney ($24 USC, $25 LO, $47 GU)

A couple things that apply to the rest of the season:

- Remember that you are only allowed to use one position SIX TIMES in your Flex/Offensive Utility spot over the course of the season. That does not mean you can only use a single player in the spot six times – it means you can only use a RB there six times. Or a QB. Or a WR. You get the point. I’ll be issuing reports each week to help teams keep track of their flex spot usage.

- Remember that the standings/prizes are not determined strictly by head-to-head record – but by a system called Power Rankings that takes three different scoring measurements into account (h2h record, total points, and breakdown). This scoring system, along with everything else you might need to know, is explained in more detail in the ALACS FF intro post. I will be posting your league’s Power Rankings on your league home pages, as well as a composite ranking of all three divisions' standings on the ALACS Website.

Lastly, thanks to everyone for being patient with the draft process this year – we obviously had extreme difficulties using Fantasy Auctioneer, and I appreciate most of you being able to tolerate that. ESPN’s draft rooms ended up working smoothly, and we’ll be using them in future years so we don’t run into problems like this again.

Good luck this year.

Goldmania

On Sunday, August 10th, Dan Goldman clinched the third competition of the 2008-09 ALACS season by winning the PGA Majors Game despite a thrilling Sunday run from Kyle “Hot Karl” Davis and his pony for the PGA Championship, Sergio Garcia. Final standings for the PGA Majors Game can be found here.

Goldman finished the four major championships with a cumulative score of 157.357 points; Davis finished with 142.567 points, with a 3rd-place finish from Sergio netting him 35 points. Had Sergio finished first, his effort would’ve been worth 50 points…and it would’ve given Kyle Davis a 0.210 point victory in the PGA Majors Game. Given Goldman’s commanding lead going into the final major, it was as exciting a finish as dedicated PGA Majors Game-followers could’ve hoped for.

FINAL STANDINGS – PGA MAJORS GAME
1. Dan Goldman, 157.357 ($105)
2. Kyle Davis, 142.567 ($50)
3. Brandon Seroyer, 136.682 ($24)
4. Mike Duin, 119.895 ($10)
5. Logan Morrison, 107.33
6. Mike Lazar, 107.137
7. Sean Stokke, 104.767
8. Mike Mary, 95.262
9. Alex Rosenbloom, 92.347
10. Joe Simich, 90.289
11. Andy Popp, 84.84
12. Teddy Bergeron, 77.925
13. Jordan Spektor, 67.887
14. Mike Rennard, 65.405
15. Joe Nelson, 58.427
16. Chris Platt, 57
17. Tim Hokit, 55.437
18. Steve Duin, 42.952
19. Bobby Weinberger, 33.122
20. Andrew Blood, 25.122
21. Conor McAvoy, 6.25

Goldman’s victory moved him into 3rd place in the ALACS Standings – a frightening prospect to every other ALACS participant, given that Goldman is currently neck-and-neck with PBA Commissioner Fred Schreyer for 1st place in Fantasy MLB and is the two-time defending champion of Fantasy NBA.

Target Acquired

Ladies and Gentlemen of the ALACS: Meet Public Enemy #1 (at least for this weekend). The profile you're staring at is that of two-time Fantasy NBA defending champion Dan Goldman, who also happens to have an overwhelming lead in the PGA Majors Game. The rest of the ALACS will need a lot of help to overtake Goldman this weekend.

Follow the ALACS competition live here: PGA Majors Game Standings and Scores.