Your Chance To Participate In A New Football Phenomenon (Sandbox Simulations) - Page 59

**Rain Man** · 08-08-2011, 02:01 PM

I apologize if the mods think this is soliciting, and I guess it is, but at the same time it's beta testing a new product developed by long-time planeteers, and it's free.

cdcox and I have been developing a new football game for the thoughtful fan, where players build franchises and compete against each other. A description is below.

If you're interested, we're offering the game for free in Year 1 to Chiefsplanet members, with the goal of both giving the system a dry run and also hooking you like Phillip Morris. You can go to www.sandboxsimulations.com to sign up, and use the access code 6Lanier3.

Here's the overview:

Build and manage a full 53-player roster over multiple seasons, as an offseason activity to give you year-round football

Select your personnel to match your offensive and defensive scheme. Every position matters – even your blocking tight end.

Realistic and accurate simulations of league games based on head-to-head matchups against other teams in your league.

This is essentially a new concept in fantasy football that attempts to simulate as closely as possible the management of a real NFL franchise over a multi-year period. Unlike regular fantasy football, every position on the offense and defense contributes to your success or failure. On special teams, the punter, kicker, and kick returners matter.

In Sandbox Football you will build a team – an entire 53-man football team – via an initial draft, and will maintain it year after year in annual rookie drafts, trading periods, and free agency. You compete against teams in your league. In the first year of the game, before the start of the NFL season, you will build your roster by drafting veterans and rookies through separate drafts, and through trades with other teams in the league. Your roster is frozen at the beginning of the NFL season. During the real regular NFL season, you can focus on your traditional fantasy games and perhaps keep on eye on your Sandbox roster as our statistical models build the data on player performances. At the end of the regular NFL season, the Sandbox season begins. There will be 16 games in the season. In real time, the season will run about 8 weeks (2 alternate reality games per week).

Game outcomes will be simulated based on the performance of individual players during the just-completed NFL regular season. The simulations, developed by a PhD statistical expert, estimate how individual players will perform in the context of your alternate reality team competing head-to-head against other teams in the league and with the specific team that you have built. The simulations will consider the offensive and defensive schemes that you select. So you can build your roster to support a power running game or a high-flying passing attack. You can run a 3-4 or 4-3 base defense. You can run nickel formations or four-wide receiver sets. You can rotate your DL to keep them fresh.

The game is more about building a team than playing video games. So this isn't Madden, but you will have the ability to tweak your game plan to take the best advantage of your roster and the weaknesses of your opponent. Injuries are a factor in the game. If a player is unavailable during weeks 3 through 6 in the NFL, he is also unavailable during the same weeks in the alternate reality season. So roster depth matters. The game simulations are based on the most advanced statistics and the latest research regarding what matters in winning an NFL game. But, the outcomes of the games have a random component, just like real NFL games.

The calendar for the alternate reality league year will look something like this:
• Jan to Mid March: Alternate Reality regular season and playoffs.
• Mid-March to the beginning of NFL season: Roster building through trades, veteran draft (first year), free agent drafts (2nd year and beyond), and rookie draft.
• Beginning of NFL season to end of regular NFL season: Alternate reality league is dormant, but the NFL players are generating their performance stats for the up-coming AR league.
• Rinse and repeat.

Copyright Sandbox Simulations, all rights reserved.

We're still finalizing the cost structure, but this won't be an expensive game to play at all. It might range from a few bucks a year to $50 per year, depending on a few factors.

Year 1 will require a couple of days of drafting with rather high intensity, but we've got it set up where you can put your draft list together and do customized and automated drafting if you like.

So...go! Now! Time to get ready for the draft!

brorth · 08-12-2011, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patteeu

I'm going to violate your copyright for this outrage:

Sandbox Simulations...

coming soon.

There, I did it.

No, you didn't

Quote:

The spelling of the names clearly shows these are two different companies.

Branden Albert's Huge Balls · 08-12-2011, 11:59 AM

Damn, nice pick. I wanted that guy.

Anyone want to trade down?

**patteeu** · 08-12-2011, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brorth

No, you didn't

The spelling of the names clearly shows these are two different companies.

You got me.

BTW, cdcox and rain man, in addition to the spelling issue brorth pointed out, it's "copyright".

Branden Albert's Huge Balls · 08-12-2011, 12:39 PM

you trollin

cdcox · 08-12-2011, 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patteeu

You got me.

BTW, cdcox and rain man, in addition to the spelling issue brorth pointed out, it's "copyright".

All spelling errors are mine. Rain Man has already fixed a few.

I thought I had fixed the copyright thing, but I guess not in that I had to throw up today.

**bevischief** · 08-12-2011, 05:31 PM

What happened to the web site?

kstater · 08-12-2011, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bevischief

What happened to the web site?

GoChiefs lost the draft so he went all anonymous on it.

**bevischief** · 08-12-2011, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kstater

GoChiefs lost the draft so he went all anonymous on it.

Branden Albert's Huge Balls · 08-12-2011, 05:55 PM

If I can't have Larry Johnson NO ONE WILL

Branden Albert's Huge Balls · 08-13-2011, 03:09 PM

Any updates?

cdcox · 08-13-2011, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Red 5

Any updates?

The database is finally fixed. SQL is a real pain. It took me several hours to figure out the syntax of one of the queries--I was starting to get nervous that I wasn't going to be able to figure it out in time.

I want to write some code to add a few more administrator functions before I reopen the site. Look for it mid-day tomorrow with the draft clock starting Monday morning.

kstater · 08-13-2011, 06:35 PM

What did you decide the last pick was in League 1?

cdcox · 08-13-2011, 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kstater

What did you decide the last pick was in League 1?

Chad Ochocinco by the Overland Park Chiefs.

Branden Albert's Huge Balls · 08-13-2011, 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdcox

Chad Ochocinco by the Overland Park Chiefs.

What pick # was that?

Last I saw was Tyson Alalu

**bevischief** · 08-13-2011, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Red 5

What pick # was that?

Last I saw was Tyson Alalu

2001.

08-08-2011, 02:01 PM
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