# SDMB Big League 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 30, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632 "2010-07-30T23:18:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/81 "2010-09-06T22:51:20Z")
Do you guys have any idea who to put together in divisions? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/82 "2010-09-06T23:31:16Z")
Do you guys know who everyone’s favorite teams are? Similarly, where does everyone live? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/83 "2010-09-06T23:35:22Z")
Arizona Cardinals Phoenix, AZ ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/84 "2010-09-06T23:35:44Z")
I’m a Chefs fan from KC, living in Indy. Alternatively, you could throw all the new people into their own division, and split everyone else out. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/85 "2010-09-06T23:42:21Z")
Packers fan. St. Louis, MO. I’m a Pisces too if that will help. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/86 "2010-09-06T23:54:03Z")
Together we probably know most of the favorite teams without needing a roll call. Looking at the player list in the OP here’s what I know off the top of my head: Cobra Kai (Boozahol Squid, PI) - ??? Donte’s Torino (Taber) - ??? No Use For A Name II (RetroVertigo) - ??? (I think maybe in the NFC East) Frosted\_Lightning - ??? We Do HGH (Stringer) - ??? Curry Porkrinds (tds1273) - ??? Antonican Druids (Oakminster) - ??? Team Ed Gruberman (It’s Not Rocket Surgery) - ??? Kid\_A - ??? Unrelated Siblings Uncle Brother Walker) - ??? Stinkers (Stink Pot Fish) - ??? The Gusterrhoids (Justin\_Bailey) - ??? Browns - Exploding Pancakes (SenorBeef) Cardinals - Phoenix Redbirds (dalej42) Chiefs - Scissor Me Timbers (Munch) Eagles - Fightin’ Quakers (Furt) Eagles - Quentin’s Jammers (Jules Andre) Giants - Varlos’ Zzzzzz Giants - Court Jesters (D\_odds) Packers - Hamlet Ravens - Master Baiters (mhendo) ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/87 "2010-09-07T00:09:25Z")
We tried finding criteria like that last year, but with the draft a day away I’m not sure if there’s time to figure that all out. Then again, maybe I can rearrange divisions even after the draft. We ended up having one division that was all giants fans, and one division full of people from the all-pro league, with the other two just whoever was left over. Towards the end of page 1 in [last year’s thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=525903) people started chiming in with favorite teams and locations to try to figure out how to do divisions. I think we have 14 people returning from last year and 6 new people. To match up team names with SDMB names, we’ve got Returning players: Curry Porkrinds = tds1273 Court Jesters = D\_odds Exploding Pancakes = SenorBeef Frosted\_Lightning = Frosted Glass No Use For A Name II = Retrovertigo Phoenix Redbirds = dalej42 Return of Ryan Leaf = Mhendo Scissor Me Timbers = Munch The Brute Squad = Unknown The Gusterrhoids = Justin\_Bailey Unrelated Siblings = Uncle Brother Walker Varlos’ Zzzzzzz = VarlosZ Up by Three = Taber New Players: CMFD = Charles, not SDMB, from our other leagues Evil Monkey = MTRG Garcon’s Cedillia = Unknown Hamlets Out of Ideas = Hamlet Hey There Fancypants = Unknown Not Sure = Unknown Sizzurp Sippers = Unknown Whoever is labelled as unknown, please post who you are. I may have missed a post in the thread if you already said who you were. ---
**Author:** ![MTRG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@MTRG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTRG)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/88 "2010-09-07T00:41:47Z")
I’m from Pittsburgh Need I say more? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/89 "2010-09-07T00:47:28Z")
I’ve mentioned it before, but I wanted to bring it up again - last year’s divisions didn’t guarantee you played everyone in your division. If the schedule can be rejiggered without calling NASA for coordination assistance, that would be one thing to make sure we do. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/90 "2010-09-07T00:47:54Z")
Damn crash when I tried to post. I’m The Brute Squad, live outside Baltimore and am nominally a Ravens fan, and I prefer Star Wars over Trek. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/91 "2010-09-07T00:48:51Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I’ve mentioned it before, but I wanted to bring it up again - last year’s divisions didn’t guarantee you played everyone in your division. If the schedule can be rejiggered without calling NASA for coordination assistance, that would be one thing to make sure we do. Varlos does that for the dynasty league. Does it take a lot of time? It seems like it would take a lot of time to run through the various matchups, but maybe he used a spreadsheet script or something. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/92 "2010-09-07T00:49:30Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I’ve mentioned it before, but I wanted to bring it up again - last year’s divisions didn’t guarantee you played everyone in your division. If the schedule can be rejiggered without calling NASA for coordination assistance, that would be one thing to make sure we do. To that end, **VarlosZ** has experience setting it up (has done it twice so far) and would probably have some good tips on how best to do it. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/93 "2010-09-07T01:10:03Z")
If you just want to guarantee that every team plays every other team from its own division once, that shouldn’t be too hard to do manually, though I don’t know if you can change the schedules after the draft, and we likely don’t have enough time to do it now, before the draft room opens. (Wouldn’t want to get half way through a change and then have Yahoo lock in an unfinished schedule that temporarily has teams playing rematches, for instance.) ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/94 "2010-09-07T01:11:17Z")
> [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > and I prefer Star Wars over Trek. I wants me a piece of dis’ guy here. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/95 "2010-09-07T01:15:09Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#): > > we likely don’t have enough time to do it now, before the draft room opens. You’re thinking of the keeper league, which drafts in an hour. This league doesn’t draft until tomorrow night. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/96 "2010-09-07T01:15:39Z")
Oh, wait, this is the Big League, the draft isn’t tonight. In that case, yeah, we have time. Unfortunately, I don’t know how much help I can be. If you wanted to set up the schedule for a 12-team, 3 division league, I’d be all over that, but this might be different. Dinner time, back later. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/97 "2010-09-07T01:46:21Z")
Anyway, the ease of rescheduling will largely depend on how Yahoo auto-sets the schedule. Just look for two teams that you want to play each other but which as yet do not, then find a week in which you can put them together while taking their old, respective opponents for that week and putting \*them \*together without causing a problem. It’s possible you could wind up in Rubik’s Cube land, hopelessly lost, in which case you can do what I did last year and have someone leave and then immediately rejoin the league, which forces Yahoo to auto-generate an entirely new schedule and pulls you back to something decent. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/98 "2010-09-07T04:52:57Z")
For some reason, I can’t access my Big League team, Team Ed Gruberman. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/99 "2010-09-07T05:59:42Z")
It’s not showing up on the league page, either. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632/100 "2010-09-07T12:15:04Z")
I’m from St. Louis. 49ers fan. There is a schedule generator that I use in my pay leagues at footballguys.com. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-2010/548632.md?page=6)