Rules:

Weigh-in Day: Tuesdays
Initial Weigh-in: Tuesday January 19
Regular Season: 13 Weeks
Playoffs: 4 weeks
All contests will be 1 week in length

2 Divisions of 14 players, each person will play each other person in their division once.

Result Points:
Win = 3 points
Loss = 0 points
Tie = 1 point
Forfeit Win = 1 point
Forfeit Loss = -2 points

12 of the 28 players will make the playoffs. The top 4 players (top 2 from each division, based on standings points) will have a bye in the first round. The remaining 8 players that will make the playoffs as wild cards will be (in order):

The next 4 highest standings points (regardless of division)
The 4 highest cumulative percent weight lost (regardless of division)

The division winners will be the top 2 seeds (sorted by standings points)
The 3-4 seeds will be the second place division finishers (sorted by standings points)
The remaining 8 qualifiers will be sorted by standings points

All ties on seeding will be broken using cumulative percent weight lost. If there is still a tie, a coin will be flipped.

Competition Basis: % of Weight Lost per week.

Weekly Weigh-in Deadlines: 11:59 PM Tuesdays (Central Time)

Weigh-in Process: Send me a private message with your weight. I will not publish weight, just percentage lost each week. Please be as exact as possible (if your scale goes to tenths of a pound, please do not round it when you weigh in).

Missing a weigh-in will result in a forfeit loss for the week ending on that day. If both players miss in their head to head matchup, both players will get a forfeit loss, not a tie. If you miss your weigh-in on Tuesday, you may weigh-in later in the week, but the weeks will always end on Tuesday.

For example, you weigh-in on Tuesday January 19. You are out of town on January 25-27. You weigh-in on Thursday the 28th. You will have forfeited the January 19-26th matchup. The January 26th-February 2nd matchup will use your weigh-in on the 28th as your initial weight, and your weigh-in on the second as your ending weight.

If your opponent does not weigh-in (which awards you a forfeit win), the forfeit win can be upgraded to a win if you lose a higher percentage than the average percentage lost among competitors in completed matchups.

If you do not weigh-in at all, you will forfeit the match-ups that you missed the ending weigh-ins for. You will get a result for when you do finally weigh in, but your weight loss will be divided by the number of weeks you missed. So if you weighed in at the end of week 1, but not again until the end of week 3, you will forfeit the week 2 matchup, and your week 3 weight lost will be divided by 2.

Standings and results will be posted after all weights have been received, likely Wednesday evenings.

Standings



Playoff Seeding:
1) ClairtonPanther
2) JOwl
3) CaryNCDuke
4) MrSaturdayMorning
5) niusfactuary
6) AlmadenMike
7) JMUDunk
8) IAH
9) miko33
10) gdunn
11) georgia_tech_swagger
12) boroeagle2



First Round:

niusfactuary advances due to boroeagle2 forfeit
gdunn advances due to JMUDunk forfeit
georgia_tech_swagger (-0.63%) beats AlmadenMike (-0.58%)
IAH (-1.03%) beats miko33 (0.29%)

Quarterfinals:

MrSaturdayMorning (-1.52%) beats niusfactuary (-0.82%)
gdunn (-0.16%) beats JOwl (0.41%)
CaryNCDuke (-2.12%) beats georgia_tech_swagger (-0.53%)
IAH advances due to ClairtonPanther forfeit

Semifinals:

MrSaturdayMorning advances due to IAH forfeit
CaryNCDuke (-0.87%) beats gdunn (0.33%)

Championship:

CaryNCDuke (-1.75%) beats MrSaturdayMorning (-0.97%)

Schedule and Results


Week 1 average lost of our completed matches was -0.87%, so everyone who went up against a forfeit claimed a legit win.
Week 2 Average was -0.96%. Sorry JOwl. You still get an FW though.

Week 3 Average was -0.66%. Everyone who went up against an FL ended up with an FW this week.
Week 4 Average was only -0.18%. MU ATO and ClairtonPanther got wins.

Week 5 Average was -0.26%. firmbizzle and Graybeard both get wins, everyone else got an FW.
Week 6 Average was -0.58%, so miko33 gets a win.

Week 7 Average was -0.67%. Eagle4Christ, MrSaturdayMorning, and ClairtonPanther all got wins.
Week 8 Average was -0.48%. MrSaturdayMorning got a win.

Average lost for Week 9 was only -0.18%. JMUDunk and HeartofDixie both got wins.
Week 10 Average was a mere -0.05%. gdunn and miko33 both got wins.

Week 11 average in matchups without a FL was -1.13% so only ClairtonPanther got a win.
Week 12 average was -0.53% so MrSaturdayMorning and Lucy got wins.

Week 13 average was 0.19%. gdunn, CaryNCDuke, and ClairtonPanther got wins.

I meant to put a link to this thread in the PM I sent out, but I forgot. Hopefully everyone can find their way here :)

Good luck everyone! I turn 39 on Feb 9th and will officially have 1 year to get down by the big 4-0. Look forward to this being a fun way to kick start my loss of weight!

230.

Great way to kick off my vacation! Discipline.

(01-19-2016 09:23 AM)BluueTiger Wrote:  Great way to kick off my vacation! Discipline.

Well if it's your vacation you definitely don't want to worry about losing weight this week. You may as well just wait a week and start strong on week 2.

Says the guy who's playing you in week 1.

I'm so losing this week. Spending all week on the left coast on business.

Thanks for setting this up. Hopefully I can refrain from drinking beer now that football season is over because that is a big part of my downfall.

(01-19-2016 09:48 AM)niusfactuary Wrote:  

(01-19-2016 09:23 AM)BluueTiger Wrote:  Great way to kick off my vacation! Discipline.

Well if it's your vacation you definitely don't want to worry about losing weight this week. You may as well just wait a week and start strong on week 2.

Says the guy who's playing you in week 1.

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(01-19-2016 10:32 AM)boroeagle2 Wrote:  Thanks for setting this up. Hopefully I can refrain from drinking beer now that football season is over because that is a big part of my downfall.

My deal with my wife is that if I work out, consume coffee, water, and the food she makes, then I can have a beer or so. Otherwise, what was the point of the craft beer of the month membership she got me for Christmas?


My current weight is 194.6.

17 of 28 people have checked in. Division 2 needs to pick up the slack!

I'm gonna start b!tching now.

What kind of loaded schedule is THAT? I'm the road team for 6 straight weeks, right n the middle of the season!!!

It's rigged. Rigged I tell ya!

(01-19-2016 03:51 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  I'm gonna start b!tching now.

What kind of loaded schedule is THAT? I'm the road team for 6 straight weeks, right n the middle of the season!!!

It's rigged. Rigged I tell ya!

Home team automatically gets a 3 pound loss advantage.

Will this season end before Memorial Day weekend?

(01-19-2016 10:50 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Will this season end before Memorial Day weekend?

It should!

So miko33 wanted to do this game but posted after I closed sign-ups. Right now 5 of our participants have yet to submit an initial weight. 2 of those 5 actually haven't been on the board since the contest started, so they haven't received my PMs. The other 3 have but haven't weighed in. I'm going to give everyone until the end of the week to either contact me, but if I haven't heard from everyone by then, how does everyone feel about miko33 subbing in for one of the no-shows?

Of the 5 that haven't showed, 2 are from Division 1 and 3 are from Division 2, so I think he'd end up in division 2, but I would choose who he replaced randomly if necessary.

Also, I'm considering changing a rule for the "Forfeit Wins", since we may have some people who completely no show for the entire contest, the people that are going against them would know this ahead of time (except for this week). So people could treat that as a bye week (but also keep in mind cumulative weight loss will factor in for the playoffs).

But, what if we said that you could get a regular win if you lost a higher % than the average of the competitors in actual games that week? Does that sound fair to everyone? This would also make it more likely that people will try during those weeks they are playing no-shows.

I'll let everyone weigh-in (pun intended) below.

I am ok with that.

I am ok with the bye week, or if you want to adjust the schedule to account for the 4 missing people.

I'm okay with however you want to work it.

As FYI, if you are trying to cut out the sugar but you still want to go to Cracker Barrel: The grilled trout with steamed broccoli and a salad is really good.

Hubby helped me out for my vacation by packing pistachios and cashews in my bag. Nice snacks while driving.

I didn't go full cold turkey no sugar, but I did significantly cut it back.