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Tinykin (XB1)

A great, no-threat puzzle/platforming/exploration/adventure that takes inspiration from Pikmin/Overlord with much high QoL improvements and very accessible. I'm very impressed with the the open-endedness of each level and how easy it is to view the entire layout with visual cues to help you find new paths or important items.

OLBs
T.J. Watt - 3 / $23.58 mil / $4.71 mil
Pernell McPhee - 3 / $18.90 mil / $3.69 mil
J.J. Krause - 3 / $9.54 mil / $1.65 mil
Matt Milano - 3 / $9.54 mil / $1.65 mil
Anthony Chickillo - 3 / $9.54 mil / $1.65 mil
Kyle Williams - 3 / $7.98 mil / $1.32 mil
Edgar Jones - 4 / $10.64 mil / $1.76 mil
Elandon Roberts - 4 / $10.24 mil / $1.68 mil
Jaime Justice - 3 / $4.68 mil / $600k
Curtis Ambrose - 3 / $4.35 mil / $510k

MLBs
Clifton Thompson - 3 / $28.86 mil / $6.66 mil
Sam Crooks - 3 / $27.15 mil / $6.09 mil
Austin Zeppuhar - 3 / $21.96 mil / $4.38 mil
Darryl Miller - 3 / $18.51 mil / $3.24 mil
Kevin Minter - 3 / $18.51 mil / $3.24 mil
Joey Kaufman - 3 / $16.80 mil / $2.67 mil
Corey Nelson - 3 / $16.80 mil / $2.67 mil
Brock Hayden - 3 / $15.06 mil / $2.10 mil
Quincy Gamble - 3 / $6.90 mil / $840k
Barry Stradling - 3 / $6.12 mil / $780k

CBs
Larry Stanley - 3 / $21.24 mil / $4.02 mil
Monte Davis - 3 / $13.59 mil / $1.38 mil
John Nelson - 3 / $12.78 mil / $1.32 mil
Eric Rowe - 5 / $19.95 mil / $2.10 mil
Mike Hayes - 5 / $17.20 mil / $1.85 mil
T.J. Carrie - 5 / $17.20 mil / $1.85 mil
Casey Hayward - 5 / $17.20 mil / $1.85 mil
Tony Lippett - 5 / $17.20 mil / $1.85 mil
Marcus Eubanks - 5 / $7.45 mil / $900k
Chris Mills - 4 / $5.96 mil / $720k

FSs
J.J. Wilcox - 3 / $9.78 mil / $1.68 mil
Trent Ford - 3 / $9.78 mil / $1.68 mil
Rob Jackson - 3 / $9.33 mil / $1.56 mil
Barry Church - 3 / $9.33 mil / $1.56 mil
Lous Delmas - 3 / $9.33 mil / $1.56 mil
Alex Odom - 3 / $9.33 mil / $1.56 mil
Devin McCourty - 3 / $9.33 mil / $1.56 mil
Micah Hyde - 4 / $11.60 mil / $1.92 mil
Williams Sylvester - 3 / $3.09 mil / $390k
Brad Holland - 4 / $4.52 mil / $560k

SSs
Clayton Fejedelem - 2 / $9.06 mil / $900k
Landon Collins - 2 / $8.20 mil / $860k
Josh Jones - 2 / $7.76 mil / $840k
Kenny Vaccaro - 3 / $10.38 mil / $1.23 mil
Darwin Thompson - 3 / $9.72 mil / $1.20 mil
Baccari Rambo - 3 / $9.72 mil / $1.20 mil
David Suggs - 3 / $9.06 mil / $1.17 mil
D.J. Swearinger - 3 / $9.06 mil / $1.17 mil
Randall Manson - 2 / $2.94 mil / $380k
Rashaan Gilbert - 2 / $2.80 mil / $340k

Ks
Dan Carpenter - 3 / $4.92 mil / $750k
Aldrick Rosas - 3 / $5.46 mil / $750k
Cedric Grier - 3 / $4.89 mil / $720k
Jason Myers - 3 / $5.25 mil / $720k
Ryan Succop - 3 / $4.80 mil / $630k
Sam Ficken - 3 / $4.56 mil / $630k
Chris Boswell - 3 / $3.60 mil / $540k
Zane Gonzalez - 2 / $2.58 mil / $360k
Byron Kelly - 1 / $700k / $40k
Willie Wright - 1 / $660k / $30k

Ps
Brandon Fields - 3 / $5.13 mil / $960k
Matt Haack - 2 / $2.64 mil / $540k
Bradley Pinion - 3 / $3.66 mil / $600k
Ryan Quigley - 3 / $4.14 mil / $540k
Justin Vogel - 3 / $3.60 mil / $540k
Jacob Richardson - 3 / $4.71 mil / $540k
Cameron Johnston - 2 / $2.26 mil / $360k
JK Scott - 2 / $2.22 mil / $340k
Tiki Dickey - 3 / $2.88 mil / $330k
Richard Griffith - 3 / $2.64 mil / $270k

The deadline to submit offers for the first period of free agency will be 11:59 PM ET on Tuesday, September 20th

OTs
Morgan Moses - 3 / $50.49 mil / $14.5 mil
Ju'Wuan James - 4 / $63.84 mil / $18.4 mil
Jeff Zeigler - 3 / $45.78 mil / $13.1 mil
Kelvin Beachum - 3 / $39.66 mil / $11.2 mil
Marcus McNeill - 3 / $37.56 mil / $10.5 mil
Reggie Youngblood - 3 / $37.56 mil / $10.5 mil
Andre Smith - 3 / $37.56 mil / $10.5 mil
Thomas Herring - 3 / $35.52 mil / $9.96 mil
DeRon Doss - 4 / $10.28 mil / $1.44 mil
Dewayne Wagner - 4 / $6.36 mil / $720k

Gs
Branden Albert - 3 / $28.50 mil / $5.97 mil
Kelechi Osemele - 3 / $28.11 mil / $5.82 mil
Kevin Zeitler - 3 / $27.72 mil / $5.70 mil
Rodney Hudson - 3 / $27.72 mil / $5.70 mil
Jeff Allen - 3 / $27.30 mil / $5.55 mil
Phil Loadholt - 3 / $25.41 mil / $5.16 mil
Cedric Dockery - 3 / $25.41 mil / $5.16 mil
Wes Schweitzer - 3 / $25.41 mil / $5.16 mil
Isaiah Larsen - 4 / $4.64 mil / $560k
Bruce Harry - 3 / $3.18 mil / $420k

Cs
Ethan Pocic - 2 / $10.0 mil / $2.30 mil
David Andrews - 2 / $9.16 mil / $2.06 mil
Travis Frederick - 2 / $8.76 mil / $1.94 mil
Wes Williams - 3 / $13.14 mil / $2.91 mil
Cameron Erving - 2 / $8.34 mil / $1.82 mil
Graham Glasglow - 2 / $7.92 mil / $1.70 mil
Brandon Linder - 3 / $11.22 mil / $2.34 mil
Nick Martin - 3 / $9.99 mil / $1.98 mil
Cortez Powell - 3 / $3.24 mil / $390k
Ray Payton - 2 / $2.22 mil / $220k

DEs
Rich Hopkinson - 4 / $34.64 mil / $8.00 mil
Stephon Tuitt - 4 / $34.64 mil / $8.00 mil
Paul Freeney - 3 / $20.91 mil / $4.53 mil
Johnny Stegall - 3 / $19.23 mil / $4.05 mil
Kyle Johnson - 3 / $14.16 mil / $2.58 mil
Muhammad Wilkerson - 4 / $16.64 mil / $2.80 mil
Gaines Adams - 3 / $10.77 mil / $1.59 mil
Olivier Vernon - 5 / $15.15 mil / $1.85 mil
Lonnie Nash - 4 / $6.28 mil / $720k
Eugene Kelly - 4 / $5.72 mil / $600k

DTs
Amobi Okoye - 2 / $20.26 mil / $3.70 mil
Beau Allen - 4 / $22.92 mil / $4.44 mil
Mike Daniels - 4 / $22.92 mil / $4.44 mil
B.J. Raji - 3 / $17.19 mil / $3.33 mil
Terrance Knighton - 3 / $17.19 mil / $3.33 mil
Ego Ferguson - 4 / $20.68 mil / $4.04 mil
Arthur Jones - 3 / $13.86 mil / $2.76 mil
Matt Kroul - 3 / $13.05 mil / $2.55 mil
Rusty Nystrom - 4 / $7.08 mil / $880k
Dexter Richardson - 4 / $5.16 mil / $480k

QBs
Jimmy Garoppolo - 4 / $38.52 mil / $9.24 mil
A.J. McCarron - 4 / $28.16 mil / $6.12 mil
Jimmy Clausen - 3 / $19.56 mil / $4.11 mil
Matt Ryan - 3 / $19.56 mil / $4.11 mil
Jake Locker - 4 / $26.08 mil / $5.48 mil
Sam Bradford - 3 / $19.56 mil / $4.11 mil
E.J. Manuel - 3 / $18.0 mil / $3.63 mil
Derek Carr - 3 / $18.0 mil / $3.63 mil
Cody Kessler - 5 / $13.4 mil / $2.15 mil
Sean Mannion - 5 / $11.6 mil / $1.85 mil

HBs
DeMarco Murray - 3 / $29.43 mil / $6.51 mil
Tevin Coleman - 4 / $37.0 mil / $7.40 mil
Melvin Gordon - 4 / $37.0 mil / $7.40 mil
Giovanni Bernard - 4 / $34.56 mil / $6.88 mil
Matt Forte - 3 / $24.09 mil / $4.77 mil
Le'Veon Bell - 4 / $32.12 mil / $6.36 mil
Isaiah Crowell - 4 / $29.68 mil / $5.84 mil
Duke Johnson - 4 / $29.68 mil / $5.84 mil
Joe Brown - 4 / $4.96 mil / $640k
Mel Kiper - 1 / $1.03 mil / $10k

FBs
Dennis Sabbatini - 3 / $3.75 mil / $690k
Alec Ingold - 2 / $2.52 mil / $380k
Joey Isoefa - 2 / $2.40 mil / $340k
Leslie Evans - 2 / $2.40 mil / $340k
Craig Moss - 3 / $3.54 mil / $480k
Anthony Lewis - 3 / $3.51 mil / $450k
Danny Vitale - 3 / $3.30 mil / $420k
Clyde Johnson - 3 / $3.45 mil / $390k
Doug Linton - 3 / $2.79 mil / $270k
Emmitt Freeborg - 1 / $780k / $40k

WRs
Brandon Marshall - 3 / $26.13 mil / $4.44 mil
Martavis Bryant - 4 / $30.48 mil / $5.16 mil
Tavon Austin - 4 / $30.48 mil / $5.16 mil
Allen Hurns - 4 / $26.08 mil / $4.40 mil
Marques Colston - 3 / $19.56 mil / $3.30 mil
Davone Bess - 3 / $19.56 mil / $3.30 mil
Derrick McPhearson - 3 / $19.56 mil / $3.30 mil
Jordan Matthews - 4 / $23.88 mil / $4.00 mil
Ian Shelton - 5 / $12.50 mil / $1.80 mil
Elliott Newton - 2 / $4.42 mil / $620k

TEs
David Njoku - 3 / $17.82 mil / $4.05 mil
Travis Kelce - 3 / $17.22 mil / $3.69 mil
Jace Amaro - 3 / $10.65 mil / $1.77 mil
Tate Casey - 3 / $9.93 mil / $1.59 mil
Austin Sef-Jenkins - 3 / $9.93 mil / $1.59 mil
Ladarius Green - 3 / $8.61 mil / $1.29 mil
Larry Donnell - 3 / $8.07 mil / $1.20 mil
Jermaine Gresham - 3 / $7.56 mil / $1.11 mil
Antoine Keenan - 2 / $3.30 mil / $520k
Lance Brown - 4 / $4.96 mil / $560k

Free Agency

See all those players in the free agent sheet? Now is the time to attempt to sign them to your team ahead of the preseason. I say attempt because you are in theory competing against the other 31 teams for the services of all available free agents.

Unlike the three offseason events involving signings, the base/desired deal that I will eventually list may not be enough to sign them, and more likely will not if it is one of the premier free agents available. If you do intend to seek out one or more of those players, you will probably want to send out a custom offer in excess of what they want, whether that means years, total money, signing bonus, or what's usually the case, a combination of the three.

You may not offer a contract to a player that goes beyond their age 34 season unless the base deal already extends beyond that. If a free agent is 31 right now and wants a two-year contract, you may go as far as four years because that would take him through his age-34 season (31, 32, 33, 34). If another free agent is also 31 and wants a five-year contract, you can offer him those five years but no more than that. Any player 28 and under is not affected by this rule as the max contract length, seven years, will take them through their age-34 season or younger.

Not every free agent is up on the sheet. I would estimate that somewhere around 20-30% of all free agents are there. The free agent sheet just lists the Top 8 and Bottom 2 at each position. If there's a certain kind of player that you are looking for that either isn't or don't know if they are on the sheet, feel free to ask me, and I will get back to you if such a player fits that description.

There will be three periods of free agency, each subsequent period spanning fewer real life days than the previous one. Here are the tentative real life days each period will last:
1st - 7 days
2nd - 4 days
3rd - 1 day

Here are some sample contract offers that I will accept, including to more simple approaches:
4 / $10.00 mil / $3.00 mil
3 years default + $2 mil total salary + $500k signing bonus
2 years default

When you give me an offer, you are offering my consent to offer the player the closest deal that he will consider, meaning that if you offer 4 / $10.00 mil / $3.00 mil and he will only consider it when it is 4 / $11.00 mil / $3.40 mil, I will offer him the latter. If that does not sit well with you, then you have the simpler options I previously laid out or you can explicitly say not to offer the contract unless he will consider those exact terms.

When you PM me the offers, I want you to include a header that says "[Your Team]'s Offers" so that I don't accidentally open them. In addition to being the commissioner, I am also in charge of the Orcas, so there could be some conflict of interest. Thus, the best way around that is for me to not open those PMs until the deadline for the current phase has passed. I have default PM settings, so you can tell if and when I open a PM of yours. Out of fairness, I will publicly reveal my offers once the deadline has passed and before I open up any PMs.

Under no circumstances may you ask me if so and so player will consider a certain deal or anything of that nature. You may ask me general questions regarding free agency but nothing that goes against the spirit of it or give you a competitive advantage. If you do have a question and use the PM system instead of the topic or Discord, make sure that you are clear that you are asking a question, or I might not open it out of fear the PM will contain contract offers. There is at least one user that violates that and sends me a PM that has no indication of containing offers but lo and behold, it does. Please make our 17th season the first where I don't run into that problem.

There are two types of contract offers that I will immediately discard:
1. Any mentioning of the word maximum pertaining to total salary and/or signing bonus
2. A massive one year contract (possibly two-year contracts depending on the situation)

The first one I have actually received in the past. I threw it out because it is both unfair in the laziest of ways and also impossible as you can go quite high in total salary, and I do not want to spend 30 minutes inputting a single offer.

The second one is also unfair to teams with lots of cap space to maintain artificial flexibility for future seasons by using up a lot of cap space this season and then sign that same player next season to an uncontested market or below-market contract in the following offseason in a process they can repeat as many times as they can/want.

Also due to fairness, any cuts you wish to make during free agency must be done well ahead of time to give other users enough of a chance to make a bid on their services:
- 96 hours prior to the end of Period 1
- 48 hours prior to the end of Period 2
- No cuts allowed in Period 3

Most users should have been told when they signed their rookies in the spreadsheet, Discord, or via PM of their cap space and roster holes entering free agency. If I did not, feel free to consult the roster sheet and compare with the roster requirements listed in the first column or ask me what your holes are. Should free agency end with there still being holes on your roster, the AI will fill those holes for you. You do not have to be under the salary cap at the end of free agency. I will give users several days after free agency ends to do so.

One big thing that I want to add is that many positions are very sensitive to starting status relative to their rating. QBs, HBs, FSs, CBs, and several other positions have expectations to start when they are around 82 or above. If you desire to sign someone at 82+ and are not expecting them to start for you, I highly urge you to offer them a contract no longer than 2 years in length. It is possible that they might demand a trade after just one season, but attempting to sign them to a 1 or 2 year deal will significantly reduce the financial penalty you would be dealt with if having to move on from them while they are still under contract.

Excellent game to customize it to your every whim! It really sucks trying to trigger everything to reach its conclusion though

It is still Kazooie then Blast Corps

Toy

Diablo

Lots of enticing options for me this week. I'm probably going with one of Giants/Rams/Bengals/Broncos/Bills

9/15
Chargers at Chiefs

9/18
Dolphins at Ravens
Jets at Browns
Commanders at Lions
Colts at Jaguars
Buccaneers at Saints
Panthers at Giants
Patriots at Steelers
Falcons at Rams
Seahawks at 49ers
Bengals at Cowboys
Texans at Broncos
Cardinals at Raiders
Bears at Packers

9/19
Titans at Bills
Vikings at Eagles

Week 1 was quite the doozy as more than half of our field was eliminated, leaving us with 32 heading into the second week. It took us until Week 5 last season to get down to that figure.

Official Rules
1. Choose one team to win each week
2. If your team wins, you move on. If your team loses or ties, you are eliminated
3. You cannot select a team more than once in a season
4. lolrams
5. You are free to change your pick as many times as you want, but you are locked in once the team you are currently on kicks off
6. Never forget rule #4

Alive (32)
ArkOfTurus - Ravens
awesomestevr - Chiefs
Camden - Ravens
Corrik - Eagles
crazyisgood - Ravens
Crescent-Moon - Commanders
Eddv - Steelers
FFDragon - Baltimore Ravens
Fiop - Ravens
Football - Chiefs
fortybelowsummer - Ravens
foxhead - Ravens
greengravy - Ravens
Jukkie - Saints
KCF - Dolphins
KingButz - Ravens
KommunistKoala - Ravens
MartinFF7 - Ravens
masterplum - Ravens
MaxedOutRyu - Bills
mccheyne - Ravens
Mewtwo - Ravens
MZero - Commanders
notdave - Ravens
plasmabeam - Eagles
pronouncemyname - Ravens
Ringworm - Bears
StifledSilence - Ravens
UltimaterializerX - Ravens
Whiskey_Nick - Ravens
Wicklebee - Chiefs
ZeroSignal - Ravens

Spreadsheet for the current and previous seasons
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J0NVtelpQtD0NiC4LzTbWPPw9nh5WCIgyh3x_tGu0Pc

We go from 78 to 32 after week one, and three of our last four champions have been eliminated.

LIMBO sucks. INSIDE is great.

Cat Girl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche (PC)

I definitely prefer horizontal shumps to their vertical counterparts, but this one was just okay. Spongy enemies and lackluster weapons made it a bit of a chore. I really only saw it through because I knew going in it was only an hour-ish long, and I found the obliviously moronic lead to be endearing.

Last reminder from me

I wouldn't get too hung up on categories. I often see people really stretch or completely miscategorize them.

roughly two hours until signing up for this season is closed

Less than 12 hours for anyone not signed-up to select a team from the Broncos/Seahawks game as well as anyone currently on the Broncos wanting to change to the Seahawks

Broncos/Seahawks is now the only available game

KCF0107 posted...

There are six instances of a team being backed by a single user. Five of the six won (Bills, Dolphins, Saints, Bears, Steelers), while the other is the Packers who are still in the first quarter.

Single-user teams went 5-1, though the Bucs, Cowboys, and Seahawks are still available

We are already down to 40 users, though I still want to point out that it isn't too late for those who haven't to sign up.

Should the Seahawks defeat the Broncos tomorrow, we will lose at least eight more. Well, I guess technically it could be less if people switch over.

I finally gave a committed session to Everhood. I thought once I reached the land of doors as I like to call it, it was going to be an open-ended adventure, but I eventually realized that was not the case. I last found all of the mushrooms in the forest/swamp area.

I did ultimately lower the difficulty to easy, or whatever is right below normal, and that feels right to me. Unlike other genres, the specific skillset needed for rhythm games is something that I have seemingly always lacked, so I tend to play them on lower difficulties. I remember my one and only time I played a Guitar Hero game, and I struggled to pass on a song I was very familiar with on easy.

There were two OT games in Week 1 last season. Ravens/Raiders were the other.

There are six instances of a team being backed by a single user. Five of the six won (Bills, Dolphins, Saints, Bears, Steelers), while the other is the Packers who are still in the first quarter.

While people can still sign up for the SNF and MNF games, we have gone from 77 to 59 with one person hanging on the Bengals/Steelers result.

MZero also selected the Commanders

For the seventh time in the past 10 seasons, we've had overtime in Week 1. I'm surprised that people still say no to that bonus question tbh.

Hit the mark on the Dolphins, but boy did I underestimate the Bears, or it might be more accurate to say that I underestimated the offensive struggles of the 49ers.

I join MaxedOutRyu in moving on to next week, and outside of Ravens/Jets, all the other active games are by 10 points or less

Wild Arms
DKR

The answer to the poll was OTs with six. QBs, WRs, and CBs landed in 2nd with four each

Reminder that 14 games take place tomorrow

Klonoa
Paper Mario

Bilbo
Hoban
*abstain
Hercule

I again played Everhood just before going to bed, and that was a mistake. I had trouble concentrating and got my ass handed to me in the next two sections.

I would have voted for Mordin if I saw the topic

MaxedOutRyu is the first user to guarantee themselves a spot in Week 2

Spider
Stitch

Bowser's Fury (Switch)

Another great Super Mario game that happens to be stuck behind an annoying gameplay loop.

Symphony
Oracle of Seasons (Ages doesn't deserve the satisfaction of my vote!)

I'm sorry, Frank Drebin struggled against Q of all characters?

Doc
*abstain
Brock
Apollo

I guess I am in the minority for thinking of motorcycles when I see the name, "Yamaha"

The platform section is not wrong. It clearly states original platform, and what they listed is correct.

Escape Academy (XB1)

Great puzzle game. I was close to needing no help, but the library did me in.

Not only did I get the monkey off my back and make a deep run, I actually co-won the league. I'm ready to be a Week 1 homer like many others do year in and year out. Plus, Miami always has New England's number in Miami.

Dolphins

I realized this was close to the max posts, so I made a new topic:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80156702

Feel free to keep posting in here until it reachs 500 if you wish.

It is simple. Just post each time you beat a game throughout the year and the platform you played it on. Do not hesitate to add some discussion in regards to the games you or others beat.

At the bottom of this post is a link to a Google word doc that you are free to edit to immortalize your gaming accomplishments. Feel free to tinker with your color, font, and/or bulletpoint/numbering options, but do know that users are supposed to be in alphabetical order.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yIYIV88xVcdQR4Ixqah8TgNAiHzdtZgYEUpGdenAJwI

I haven't played since the other day, but when I went to play some Everhood before going to bed, I was stuck on the damn mushroom melody puzzle and just called it a night once that was finally over lol.