Fantasy Eating League 2007
Update: The full Fantasy Eating League website and group can be found here. Download the score card and keep up on your favorite team members!
Welcome to the 2007 Fantasy Eating League! We decided that it would be fun to have teams made up of the top IFOCE eaters that would compete against one another throughout the year. The IFOCE recently announced that they would be using a new scoring system to award points to the top 10 finishers in every competition. While this doesn't necessarily mean that judging will be more objective, it DOES mean that they're at least dedicated to scoring the top ten finishers, which is a big improvement.
Teams will accrue points throughout the year by competing in competitions. Teams will get points for every point a team member earns from the IFOCE. Additionally, points can be earned and deducted in the following way:
Positive Points
Setting a new record: +5 points
Setting a personal best record: +1 point
Breaking an established record: +10 points
For every five competitions an eater competes in: +10 points
For every 20 pounds or 100 units of food consumed: +5 points
Negative points
Reversal of fortune: -5 points
Finishing outside the top 10: -1 points
Teams!
After submitting their top 45 competitive eater team wish list, the captains had their choices narrowed down to the following teams. The lowest-ranked captain, Dave "Mega Munch" Shoffner, was given his first choice. He chose Pat Bertoletti, who was then crossed off all the other wish lists. The next highest-ranked captain, Steakbellie, then got his first choice after Pat, and so on until all five captains had a team of 10 eaters. They now have the opportunity to trade any team members amongst themselves. This first open trading session will end on Friday, February 2nd, at which point the teams will be set until the next trading session (TBD). Teams may also be allowed trades later on if a team member retires or new rookies emerge.
Trading will take place over at our Google group page, so feel free to check in on the progress.
Once teams are set, team names, logos, shirts, and websites may emerge! (I mean, one can only hope.)
Mega Munch (Captain)
Patrick Bertoletti
ChipBurger Simpson
Arturo Rios, Jr.
Frank Wach
Jim Hammer Hamrick
Chris Abatsas
Jim Reeves
El Toro Jimenez
Paul Barlow
Kevin Ross
Eric Steakbellie Livingston (Captain)
Timothy Janus
Sonya Thomas
Seaver Miller
Micah Collins
Yellowcake Subich
William Myers
Andrew "Skinnyboy" Lane
Russ Keeler
Pete Davekos
Brian Seiken
Hall Hunt (Captain)
Joey Chestnut
Crazy Legs
Pat Philbin
Ron Koch
Larry The Legend McNeil
Marco Marquez
Brickhouse Braunstein
Kevin Carr
Kevin Lipsitz
Todd Yeates
Erik the Red (Captain)
Takeru Kobayashi
Rich LeFevre
Joe LaRue
Jed Donahue
Jason Erb
Tim Brown
Juris Shibiyama
Sam Vise
Molly Zakarian
Pat Bruss
Justin Mih (Captain)
Bob Shoudt
Juliet Lee
Dale Boone
Loren Yarbrough
Allen Goldstein
Mongo Federighi
Don Lerman
Paul Sakelarides
Pete Miernicki
Donovan Busta
Note: if anyone is included here that doesn't wish to participate, please let us know and we'll remove you from the game. Also, let us know if we spelled your name wrong or there are any other changes to be made.
I'm on Justin's team, it's Pete Miernicki. No big deal these crazy Polish names.
Why am I not included in this?? I plan on attending many contests this year and already have an appearance in 07.
Great job Liz! What wonderful initiative you exhibit! There's a heck of a lot of work in all this just to keep up with things. (Those teams look fairly evenly matched, by the way.) Again, nice job!
hi liz for points are the first 2 contests included or just ones from now on?
Points will be counted for the first two competitions. In fact, if any of you competed in pretzels, but didn't finish in the top ten, let me know (you lose a point, but the contest will count towards your overall contest count and your pretzel number will count towards your units of food consumed).
Nathan: I don't know why you weren't picked first round, but it was their mistake because you would have brought in a couple points already! During trading this week, they are allowed to recruit new people, so maybe you'll have your chance yet.
one more liz are you keeping point totals for everyone and can we verify the count by seeing it somewhere online?
Yes, I'll be keeping track of everyone. I think I can load excel spreadsheets onto the Google group page, so anyone can see the progress or report errors or corrections. This will be a lot of work, so I will definitely welcome eaters' help if I miss something.
i am sure that an eater who feels their points are not right will make their case to you.
Will post-contest after-party behavior and beverages consumed count??
Only towards general team spirit ;-)
Steakbellie...I will do you proud......Great teams
hi, my name is pat bruss and i am on Erik the Red's team. I just got 3rd int he Midwest Chili Chowdown in North Canton Ohio on sat, the MC dubbed me Dr. Delicious. I broke the previous record of 7.1 lbs of chili in 5 min by eating 7.9lbs in 5 min but two other guys beat me. This was a personal best for me. I also won a hotdog eating contest at my school University of Cincinnati by eating 24 hot dogs and buns in 10 min. Thats a personal best and the record. I hope Erik can get some point from these contests.
Liz:
Your obviously a IFOCE patsy. Someone told me to look out for you because you are an elitist spy for the the blue shirts. Your arrogance is ubelivable.
Why wouldn't your BS league include independent Eaters..Oh, that's right, it's a BS fantasy league just like the Shea's
Look, I WISH I was being paid for any of this, believe me :-)
And I think you are right, that if this were a true fantasy league it would be broader and include independent eaters and non-IFOCE contests. I really do think that would rule, because that would be a great way to include everyone and see how all eaters would be pitted against each other (since it doesn't happen in real life). Before the IFOCE unveiled their point system, I didn't know how I would go about scoring or keeping track of anything, since the whole idea of fantasy eating relies on having a lot of information available to me. So, I'm using IFOCE eaters because I know I'll have standardized information to work into a score card that is already quite a feat to manage.
Anyway, this is a test venture and I'm starting out easy. If this is a success, maybe we can go bigger and better next year.
Arnie, and we all know that last comment was from your sorry ass. Liz went out of her way last year to cover your pathetic pickle title in which you beat a bunch of losers and you have the audacity to call her an IFOCE patsy? Its Seiken not Seikan you DICK!