Monday, January 23, 2012

Events

There are 302 events in the Olympics.  That means there are 302 gold medals handed out.  There will only be 10 events for your fantasy Olympics, so I needed specific criteria to narrow it down.  There are different ways to narrow it down.  Instead of doing that in this post I will save that for later.  Here is a (working) list of event groupings

*Classic style
I feel this is needs a brief explanation: The classic events will fall into three basic criteria:1. competitive balance 2. popularity/TV time and 3. historical relevance

*Team events/tournaments

*Pool Side

*Track and Field

*Ladies Night

This list will expand and the groups of 10 will be known.  Hold on to your seats, only 185 days to go!

Can you make yours??


You only get to pick ten for fantasy olympics...it ain't easy, someone's gotta get cut for your dream team!

Rules-The Basics 2013 update

*15 Events
*15 picks per team
*You don't have to pick every event
*Snake Draft
*Scoring

*15 Events

Each league may be different, you and your friends can decide on which events you want to do, but our experience of last Olympics says 15 events is the perfect number.  It gives all competitors a chance to do research on 15 events, any more and it would be hard to keep up with all of the competitions going on.  15 events gives you an opportunity to do the research and it gives everyone the oopportunity to watch the events you've picked.


*15 picks per team

With 15 events, it mkakes sense to have 15 picks each. 

*You don't have to pick every event

Fantasy olympics is much different than football or baseball.  In football a running back can score by rushing or receiving, in baseball they can score by hitting homeruns or stealing bases, in the olympics your pick can only score in that event (ex: michael phelps can only score in swimming the 100m, not in diving).  Now, when  you pick events to watch, some are based on strength of competition, while others are picked due to tv time(this will be discussed later in depth when I discuss choosing events). If Men's basketball is one of your events than it will be hard for everyone to get a basketball team, as soon as USA is picked no one will want to pick another team.  So instead teams can opt to not pick a basketball team and pick two (or as many as the want) from an event with a wider field (ex:marathon). 

*Snake Draft

For those of you that have never had a fantasy draft (which I'm assuming is very few, if youre in deep enough for fantasy olympics than you're in too deep already) here is a sanke draft: 10 guys, 10 picks per round.  The guy picks last in round 1 (pick 10) he picks first in round 2 (pick 11). If you need more of an explanation of that, try a mock football or basketball draft

*Scoring

Basic scoring is:

Gold- 5 points
Silver- 3 points
Bronze- 1 point

Thats a July update for the 2014 winter Olympics.

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2012-The end is near!!!

The blog has been pretty light so far, but if you want to win your fantasy Olympics this year, then you gotta start early.  The Summer Olympics start on July 27th, we only have 185 days to go.  In the coming months I will be unveiling a bunch of different ways you can create your own fantasy Olympics game amongst friends.

Please share the blog with friends, I would love to hear peoples feelings about certain rules and scoring system.  I am going to establish the basics, but over the next 6 months I will be blogging many different options, so stay tuned!