12 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Rich, I was looking for my picks. I can't remember if I made them. Since i can't see the choices, I assume that I already did.

Yes, if you can no longer vote, your picks are in.

Just now, ddanger said:

I voted, and it's telling me that I can't vote??

It registered your vote

Picks this week need to be in by Thursday @ June 11

You will likely still see the error after making your picks this week, I haven't had time to look into it.

Same with making the number of people who voted visible. Right now I can see them, so it might be a quick permissions fix, but will dig into it when I can find the time.

One more thing for me to dig into, is properly embedding these spreadsheets. If you click this link, you can see the results and what you've picked. But I will also include a screenshot for now.

Google Docs

MBB 2026 Pick 'Ems

2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Of course, I pick Stevens of the Riders & they have a bye week. Can I get a mulligan?? ;)

Did you want the Lock of the Week thread?

16 minutes ago, Bomberman said:

Should I reenter my picks having received the error message on my 1st try?

Nope, got your picks

As I investigate this more, it looks like the culprit might be a bunch of bots hammering the site until it gets overwhelmed and needs a reboot.

I'm experimenting with different ways to block them. Let me know :

• If you still experience the site slow or hanging

• Some of the things I'm trying is putting a challenge in front of weird URL's the bots seem to be hammering on but that a person wouldn't normally visit . If you start seeing a challenge screen to prove you are human on something you do often, let me know what that is, and I can see if some of the rules can be relaxed.

This may be playing whack-a-mole for a little while.

Curious if anyone has seen a slowdown or the site hanging today. I think I’ve tracked down the problem, but wondering what other people’s experience has been.

I see both @Stickem and @Goalie voted. When do you guys see the error?

8 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

Having only 3 games opening week is a dumb move.

@Rich I voted...but it's telling me I don't have permission to vote in this poll, or see the poll results.

I can see your votes. As long as you didn't get the error the first time you voted. I'm the only one who can see who voted for what.

Pick 'Ems are back this year.

How do they work?   Each week you pick the winners for all CFL games (including playoffs).  You get one point for every correct pick.  Whoever has the most points at the end of the year wins a $50 gift certificate at the Bomber store.

Picks will be done through the polling system.  Polls close at game start of the first game of the week.  I will accept picks for games that have not started yet through PMs if you are late getting them in.

Picks this week need to be in by 6:30PM Thursday, June 4th

If you want an idea of what it takes to win it all, and who your competition might be, here is list of the top winners over the last decade.  Quite a few recurring names in there.

Google Docs

Historical Pick 'Ems Recods

I wonder who the broadcast team for DAZN will be. Will they use TSN guys or will they need to hire their own talent? Not that the TSN broadcast is a gold standard or anything, but if they need to hire a whole crew for one game a week, how bad will they be?

Current pricing for Dazn is $35 a month ($25 a month if you want to commit for the whole year). Through some gams on YouTube, will you need to pay for a YouTube subscription as well?

I've tweaked a few settings. It seems to be better the times I've checked it, but curious if others are still seeing it slow.

7 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

Anyone else having issues with this site/app loading?

I've seen it, haven't been able to diagnose it yet. Continuing to monitor.

I think it depends on where you are in your team evolution. If you are young and growing and still don't high expectations, you play the young guys to get them experience, okay with more mistakes as you don't expect to really compete and will take the higher draft picks.

If you are in a win now mode, like the Jets thought they were based on last season, you will want more veterans to make the push.

Should the Jets have adjusted earlier and played the younger guys this season? I'm sure there is an argument for that the day they decided to trade away assets before the trade deadline.

4 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

Predicting 50 years from now is an amazing feat of AI. I mean to know how rosters shape up in 2071 with players not even born yet is downright amazing.

AI will be controlling the gene pool by then.....

1 hour ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Fair but it’s seems a lot of assumptions are in play here. Like, do we know for a fact that Chevy believed LS has hit his ceiling and had him pencilled in as a 3rd pairing D moving forward and do we know what the number LS and his agent weren’t willing to budge from to re-sign to determine whether keeping him made sense or not?

We don't, but doesn't stop from speculating or saying what you'd be comfortable paying for him. And when you are looking to compete with free agency, it tough if you aren't going to give term or money to entice the player to sign now. Hard decisions to make in a cap world.

3 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Great lets develop him, power thru his learning curve to come out the other side but wait lets trade him away for some pucks, sticks and tape when he's finally hitting his stride.

Or we made off like bandits, great job Chevy?

Question is how much would you pay him to be a 3rd pairing defensemen? Its not just about developing and keeping him, at the free agent stage, the number has to make sense.

1 hour ago, WinnipegGordo said:

When I open a thread I need to scroll past the 1st posting to click to advance to the last page.

Not a big deal, and I am not sure if that can be changed since the threads' titles are a part of the 1st post of each thread.

I see. I’ll take a look.

An alternative is clicking the blue dot for a thread that has unread posts. It will take you directly to your first unread post.

I use this all the time, I only see the first post on new threads.

3 hours ago, WinnipegGordo said:

Any way to put the page listings above the 1st post of a topic instead of below it?

Saves a bit of scrolling if its a topic I am revisiting.

Not sure what you mean by this.

Here are the videos for the above posts. Curious if embeds are working for anyone else? I past the URLs and the board coverts them for me.

On 2026-02-05 at 1:00 PM, Noeller said:

Awesome - that's great news.

I agree with others about the font size as well. This is a (pardon the pun) little thing, but the Dot/Star to the left of threads that, when you click it, takes you to the first new post, is so small that I can't quite get it. I've been just pinch-zooming in to make it bigger, which is fine, but if there's a way to increase the font of everything that'd be stellar.

Otherwise, I'm always glad to upgrade to the newest and best versions of stuff....

The star for new threads is bigger now. I can make it bigger yet, but balancing useability to aesthetics. Happy for feedback on if everyone wants it bigger.

I've also enabled embedding from youtube, x, facebook, instagram, etc. If there are others that don't seem to be working or you would like added, let me know.

7 hours ago, Noeller said:

I use the app exclusively... Never had a giant ad at the top before. Hoping there's some kind of block available.

Ads are disabled on mobile. Google is so aggressive in how they want to display ads, if I let them do what they wanted, there would be interstitial ads between every post.

8 hours ago, 17to85 said:

No. This insistence that everything needs to be an app can **** all the way off.

4 hours ago, Jpan85 said:

There is an app?

Its not really an app. Web Apps are still the website, you can just add the site as if it was an app on your phone. It is purely a convenience thing, if you don't want to use the browser with all the other sites and tabs you have going on in there, you can have a dedicated window for it on your phone. If you prefer to use it though the browser, continue to do that.

You don't go through an app store or anything like that. If your phone supports it, there should be a header when you visit on your phone asking if you want to "install" it, then the website will be an icon you can access directly on your phone.