TecmoBowl-vs-RBI.com

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Finally pimped on the front page of dee-nee

Analytics says this is doing alright......50 total visits(in 17 days) referred from dee-nee's front page. 
4.26 pages per visit (site avg is 3.32), and 4:06 average time spent on site (site avg is 3:15). 

Various Wiki referral sources combined have gotten me more traffic, but not a single one(RBI or Tecmo) has been able to trump my visits from Dee-Nee's homepage.

Dee Nee forums referral(this threads link) has been tops in time on site at over 6 minutes a visit.  Overall, the page visits and time spent on site are improving weekly. 

[Turd]

I can't believe I didn't think to install google analytics on my RBI site...I had been wondering about a good way to track visits...cripes. Good call, Brad.

BTW, you up for a game some time?

[Gantry]

I can't believe that people actually go to the dee-nee homepage. 

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Gantry, can you stick the sites addy on the links page as well?

Decided to finally research what exactly the damn "bounce rate" is.  Means its the percentage of people that visit the site and view only the 1st page they come across then leave.

Sitting at 41.22%.  Eh, over 55% success in multi-page views.  According to wiki though thats not all that great.

Google.com analytics specialist Avinash Kaushik has stated:
"It is really hard to get a bounce rate under 20%, anything over 35% is cause for concern, 50% (above) is worrying."

Time to give the homepage a little facelift.

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Snazzed up the homepage.  Kept the 2 seperate columns but added a few pics to give it some color.   

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Paging Darky...paging Darky.  Nate and I got through weeks 6 and 7 last night.  Posted brand new analysis and standings on the Season 4 page of the site.  5 weeks of games remain.  lots of playoff seeding to be determined yet. 

I thought Nate reached for Minnesota(5-2) taking them so early in the draft, but I was wrong.  Biggest surprise this year.  Only loses have come against NY(6-1) and SF(7-0)  Very similar to Washington last season shutting out 7 of 12 opponents en route to a 9-3 record.  The WR run teams can deal when they play elite defense.   

NY finally lost a game as the Bears won 7-3 @ Chicago.  SF pummeled Seattle in back 2 back weeks and has scored 107 points in the last 3 games. 

Hapless Dallas behind some serious kick return antic of Dixon all season long is a respectable 3-4.  LA(1-6) has the worst scoring offense and defense.  Me thinks I have them figured out down to a science.     

[Darky]

Paging Darky...paging Darky.  Nate and I got through weeks 6 and 7 last night.  Posted brand new analysis and standings on the Season 4 page of the site.  5 weeks of games remain.  lots of playoff seeding to be determined yet. 

I thought Nate reached for Minnesota(5-2) taking them so early in the draft, but I was wrong.  Biggest surprise this year.  Only loses have come against NY(6-1) and SF(7-0)  Very similar to Washington last season shutting out 7 of 12 opponents en route to a 9-3 record.  The WR run teams can deal when they play elite defense.   

NY finally lost a game as the Bears won 7-3 @ Chicago.  SF pummeled Seattle in back 2 back weeks and has scored 107 points in the last 3 games. 

Hapless Dallas behind some serious kick return antic of Dixon all season long is a respectable 3-4.  LA(1-6) has the worst scoring offense and defense.  Me thinks I have them figured out down to a science.     

Damn, LA is 1-6? How do you have them figured out? I was never the biggest fan of LA. I'll check it out the new analysis soon enough. This is getting exciting to follow.

Minnesota is scrappy from what I remember.

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Damn, LA is 1-6? How do you have them figured out?

The "defending LA" scheme is now up on the Tecmo strategy page(clear at the bottom).  As for figuring them out...You can know what to call, and know which defender to be, but the bottom line is 40+ games of repetition vs LA within the scheme is really paying dividends.  Nate keeps drafting them, so I see them 12 games a season.  Should they become my team next season, I may have initial success.  He rarely plays against them, and he will need to work out the bugs.   

recent additions
-blog page discussing how the game is still changing after all these years with our defensive strategies
-tecmo teams page where they get ranked 1-12.  eventually this page will be massive.

-Turd informed me that the tables I snatched from dee-nee's homepage have the CL/CR mixed up compared to the RBI manager.  Those tables eventually need to be cleaned up with a better font anyways. 

[Turd]

Actually, not with RBI Manager, but with NW's editor. Either way.

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weeks 8 and 9 of season 4 have been played and documented on the site.  Made a long ass list of season records that might fall in the final 3 games.  Overall it's been a pretty monumental season....both good and bad.

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Nate and I recorded an audio podcast about the "top 10 named games" a while back.  Just loaded a 5 minute snippet to youtube covering #2, the "Bo Jackson will not beat me" game.  I'll embedd the video on the site next.  Nerdery at its finest!

hopefully this gets me some traffic from youtube to the site

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still neglecting the RBI sections.     nate and I will just have to start up a RBI league to gte me motivated to do more with that. 

Added another short video to the site's podcast page.  The Giants pull off the greatest goal line stand ever in the #7 named game.  Nate was nice and animated, but we did a shitty job of actually mentioning the teams involved.  Dah-Nah   

Played 2 more weeks of Tecmo.  Season 4 page is updated with standings and analysis.  The final week is planned for friday along with the consolation/invite playoffs.  Not much intrigue as all the #1 and #2 seeds have already been determined. 

The real playoffs will be held on sunday.  we'll make some videos of the ordeal and probably make a championship game commentary video as well. 

[Darky]

Nate and I recorded an audio podcast about the "top 10 named games" a while back.  Just loaded a 5 minute snippet to youtube covering #2, the "Bo Jackson will not beat me" game.  I'll embedd the video on the site next.  Nerdery at its finest!

hopefully this gets me some traffic from youtube to the site

I loved this! Sounded like some radio sports talk show.

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Google analytics says yesterday i got 14 visits from the forums at "Something Awful.com" 

based on what i know about that place, somebody thinks my site is a real piece of crap.  Awesome!  The forums cost $9.99 for a membership(WTF?) so I can't bask in the hatred.  RBI pages were combed over pretty good by those people.

[Turd]

I got hits from there a while back. I wish I could see what was written.

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Tecmo season 4 championship game makes its way onto YouTube.  Realized i fucked up and wasn't recording the 1st 3 quarters, so it begins early in the 4th with a 0-0 tie. 

Defense was stellar by both parties all game long.  This bitch goes deep into OT to decide the champion.  I recorded commentary over the videos to breakdown the action.
9 OT posessions in this epic battle.  I've been involved in some defensive struggles, but this one takes the cake.

Parts 1-3

[Darky]

Tecmo season 4 championship game makes its way onto YouTube.  Realized i fucked up and wasn't recording the 1st 3 quarters, so it begins early in the 4th with a 0-0 tie. 

Defense was stellar by both parties all game long.  This bitch goes deep into OT to decide the champion.  I recorded commentary over the videos to breakdown the action.
9 OT posessions in this epic battle.  I've been involved in some defensive struggles, but this one takes the cake.

Parts 1-3

Awesome! Listening and watching part one right now. You have a good radio voice Brad.

[Darky]

BTW Brad, do you guys have 4th down rules? Do you have to punt on forth down when you are in your own territory? Or can you go for it no matter where you are?

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BTW Brad, do you guys have 4th down rules? Do you have to punt on forth down when you are in your own territory? Or can you go for it no matter where you are?

You can go for 4th down anywhere.  Are you referencing the game?  Nate/Giants faced a lot of 4th and short from around his 30 all game long.  Not converting that against the 49ers is suicide.

[Darky]

BTW Brad, do you guys have 4th down rules? Do you have to punt on forth down when you are in your own territory? Or can you go for it no matter where you are?

You can go for 4th down anywhere.  Are you referencing the game?  Nate/Giants faced a lot of 4th and short from around his 30 all game long.  Not converting that against the 49ers is suicide.

I'm on part two of the game now. Was just a general question. That pick you threw at the end of the 4th was huge! Nervous? hahaha