Steinbrenner World Blog

I know I've mentioned it in at least one other post, but awhile back I started a forum thread that I named "WSTN." Below you will find the transcript of the first post...I haven't been great about updating it for the trivia stuff, but have been fairly good at posting other stuff that everyone might find interesting. I am going to try to be better about posting the trivia info there, but if anyone has any other ideas or things they might want to contribute, let me know. For now, though, enjoy the introduction to WSTN  (as well as the following posts!): "Recently, thewheaties took over from zeustis01 as commish of the Steinbrenner World and instituted a weekly trivia contest based on a mix of real-world sports contests (such as NCAA Football and MLB) and some questions about the goings on in Steinbrenner. We have been looking for a place to track picks/results etc. and it recently occurred to me that a rebranding of our world would be a good time to try again on ...

As I mentioned in the Week 4 Trivia Results post, I have set up the trivia contest this week as quiz on Google Forms. Hopefully that means that you will receive an email with your results at the end of the week...but to make that happen, you need to put your email in. As a result, I have put questions asking for both your email address and WIS username...since we haven't really done the same method twice yet, please let me know if you aren't a fan of this format and we can go back to a previous iteration of the answer distribution. Relatedly, I will make sure to put everyone's answers to the trivia on the WSTN forum thread so that those of you who want to track your success (and others) in real time can do so. Good luck to all! -Ellis (bruinsfan911)

With the OT thriller on Monday Night Football, our Week 4 trivia contest concluded. Due to the format that results from linking a Google Form to a spreadsheet, it's a bit difficult to display all of the results in a screenshot like I did last week. Instead, I will put a summary of the results below and you can feel free to reach out to me to find out what you got right or wrong if you happen to be the curious type. This upcoming week, I am going to try to set up the Google Form as a "quiz" so that you will get your results via email once it's been "graded" aka scored...but for now we'll have to settle for the summaries. Here's how the week turned out: 1. AllStarInc, 60 points t-2. goodtymes31, 56 points t-2. scoop015, 56 points 3. torobounty, 52 points I would also like to take this opportunity to give thewheaties another shoutout for a solid performance (52 points, would have tied for 3rd) but since he has graciously decided to remove himself...

As promised, the next round of trivia is available here . You have until noon on Saturday to fill out the form without penalty, and while late entries will be accepted any "freebies" that you might get by virtue of filling it out late will be discounted. For example, if you don't fill our your entry until 4pm Saturday afternoon and enter in the results of the early CFP games as a "guess", I will be able to tell that's what happened using the time stamp and rather than fully disqualify you those questions will simply be marked wrong. Since this post is going up on Thursday night, you have approximately 36 hours to fill it out before you're in jeopardy of having any penalties. Good luck to all, and let either myself or thewheaties know if you have suggestions for how to make the contest more accessible and/or ideas for potential future trivia questions! I will be working until Saturday evening, but at that time I will update this page so that all picks...

My apologies for missing Week 2 and part of Week 3...I was so busy in real life that all my blog efforts were concentrated on trying to get this page linked to the World Chat. Now that that has been accomplished, I would like to touch on a couple of things: all future trivia contests will be posted here in the shape of a Google Form and secondly that I will spend the rest of this post detailing the results of Week 3 as well as the season-to-date totals. First things first, the Week 3 results: ...from the preview that I'm able to see, it appears that the screenshot I just tried to put in may be a bit blurry. If that's the case and/or you can't read it for another reason, here are your top three finishers for the week: 1. Goodtymes31, 64 points 2. Dawlog & scoop015 (tie), 52 points 3. sonofthebear, 44 points Factoring in the Week 1 scores and the Week 2 totals provided to me by thewheaties, here is what I have for season totals through three weeks: Agai...