ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ HELLO BROOKLYN]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ HELLO BROOKLYN]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
RULES FOR FANTASY AMERICAN CROSSWORD PUZZLE TOURNAMENT
- There are no more than 8 owners in any given league. Drafting order is decided upon by casting lots.
- Owners draft teams in a snaking order, that is to say, the first round goes owner 1, owner 2, and so on down to owner 8. The second round begins with owner 8, then owner 7, and so on back to owner 1.
- Teams shall be made up using the following rules: No roster may have more than 5 A contestants and a minimum of at least one B, C, D and E contestant. A roster must be made up of players from different geographical regions (as assigned by the twisted geographical demarcations used by the ACPT) with no more than one region representing two contestants. Rosters shall be made up of 13 starters and 3 inactive backups.
- The deadline for finaling your lineup as well as the trading deadline for the tournament is no latter than the start of the fourth puzzle.
- Scoring shall be done as follows: Once the tournament is done, the final ranking of each contestant is their final score. The sum total of all active 13 starters shall be the basis for that roster’s score. If any contestant on the owner’s roster wins the A division, 15 bonus points is deducted from their roster score, 10 points for having the B division winner and 5 for the C. The lowest roster score in the league wins.
- An owner gets to retain the rights to no more than 2 contestants for the 2010 ACPT.
MOCK 2009 FANTASY ACPT DRAFT
- Tyler Hinman
- Trip Payne
- Howard Barkin
- Al Sanders
- Ellen Ripstein
- Kiran Kedlaya
- Stella Daily
- Scott Weiss
- Anne Erdmann
- Katherine Bryant
- Jon Delfin
- Francis Heaney
- Amy Reynaldo
- Will Johnston
- Doug Hoylman
- John Beck
- Todd McClary
- Ron Sweet
- Doug Peterson
- Dave Tuller
- Peter Gordon
- Leslie Billig
- Frank Longo
- Eric LeVasseur
- Brian Olewnick
- Don Bixtler
- Joshua Kosman
- Elaine Lippman
- Dan Katz
- Robert Mackey
- Susan Hoffman
- Emily O’Neill
- Richard Kalustian
- Adam Cohen
- Arnold Reich
- Michael Sharp
- Greg Pliska
- Dan Feyer
- Judy Cole
- Kari Knutson
(This post is dedicated to Dan Okrent, crossword enthusiast, former New York Times ombudsman, and inventor of rotisserie baseball. Dan, if you read this blog, me and my old roommates loved you in Ken Burns’s “Baseball.” And while we’re here: I’m completely dumbstruck that you didn’t mention the fantasy baseball thing in Patrick Creadon’s film “Wordplay.” Priorities, dude.
Also, thanks to Joon Pahk, Mike Nothnagel and Gil Falcon for helping me iron out the rules).
POSTSCRIPT: For all ACPT-goers: come on over and say hey/buy me and my wife a drink/punch me in the face/etc., preferably before the Tournament starts. But, I guess if you catch me when it’s all done, you can tell me what you really thought of my puzzle. Either way, it’ll be nice to put some faces to names.
POSTPOSTSCRIPT: I will be live blogging my thoughts on the whole Tournament through my Twitter feed. So please, don’t be shy, and sign on up.
Wish I was gonna be there to buy youze guys some punch and join a league.
And if I did, my first pick would maybe not be from yer list: Patrick Blindauer? (Unless he’s moved up? Not sure how the divisions woik…) Last year, for example, Patrick Blindauer (275) and Benjamin Tausig (455) were in E. So if someone had, say, Tyler, Trip, Al, Ellen and Tausig they’d be much worse off than if they’d had Blindauer and an average set of As. Most of yer points will come from yer average solvers, so picking the right Es and Ds (and rookie Cs, who have maybe the best (anti-)growth potential) is crucial.
Maybe those of us at home can play meta-fantasy, where we draft fantasy owners and win points for their drafting coups, argument wins, and the like…
Oh, and thanks for the puzzle, and enjoy!
@Seth: Intriguing points on the fantasy ACPT stuff. Who knows how it’ll play out? It reminds me of a another fantasy baseball story, something that happened like five years ago in a friend’s league. The guy with the first overall pick in the draft picked Dontrelle Willis. Good times.
ALLEGED partner in anarchy.
Go Al Sanders. Get’er done, your window of opportunity may be closing.
feyer at #38 is a massive steal. he’s #2 on my “big board.”
I’ve been working your puzzles too long: my first answer right off the top of my head for “Spring break souvenir” was STD!
I will be sad about my results if I finish 28th, since I have been practicing guessing as well as speed. Last year I was 30th with 2 mistakes, and I didn’t practice guessing then.
OK I can’t be sad. I have to laugh. Dammit I finished #28, exactly as you predicted!
Damn, looks like I’m going to be bargain-priced next year… dropped down a bit on the list.
And yeah, you underestimated the Feyer factor there. That guy can solve just a bit.
Good times, good times. See ya next year.
Yeah, Dan Feyer at the 38th pick would have been a steal.
Wait, was I drafted? I had a decent season this weekend.
Yay for outperforming expectations!
Not an expectation, a mock draft! Just because you pick LaDainian Tomlinson first doesn’t mean you think the Chargers are going to win the Super Bowl.
Dave Tuller’s on your list twice.
Next year, you’ll have to figure in my tendency to make an idiot mistake on a Maura puzzle. Barring that, I would’ve been right about 25, though….nice peg.