Attention Outlaws, the well know forum staple in the Fantasy Football community is back at Sports Outlaw! The original "Close Call" series will start the 2008 series at SportsOutlaw on Tuesday, June 3rd. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this series, here is how it will work:

• Several times a week I will start a new "Close Call" thread. Each thread will ask a simple question, if you had to choose on draft day between these two players, who would you pick. Simple as that.
• The players chosen for each match-up will be players of the same position that has a similar ADP and value is seen as similar by many. ADP will be based on the ADP report at Fantasy Football Calculator (ADP - Fantasy Football Calculator) The value in these threads comes in the discussion. Give the reason why, debate it, back it up with facts, throw those stats around. If everyone does this, we will have a series of great player debates that will be a great tool that will help you evaluate players come draft day for your league.
• The player with the most votes will be the winner of that "Close Call". Threads and results for the series will be tracked in this master thread through the summer.
• For each selection use the following scoring format to base your selection on. Note there are no ppr's.
  • 6 pts Ru/Rec TD's
  • 4 pts pass TD's
  • 1 pt 25 pass yds
  • 1 pt 10 ru/rec yds
  • -2 pt Fumble lost
  • -1 pt INT
• Each Pick should be based on a re-draft set-up
• So, Starting June 3rd, be sure to check for this exciting feature here at Sports Outlaw. If you have any suggestions for match-ups you would like to see post them here, I will try to work some of them in.

Past Close Calls:

• Close Call #1 - Clinton Portis, RB, WAS *vs* Marion Barber III, RB, DAL
• Close Call #2 - Marques Colston, WR, NO *vs* Steve Smith, WR, CAR
• Close Call #3 - Reggie Bush, RB, NO *vs* Laurence Maroney, RB, NE
• Close Call #4 - Larry Fitzgerald, WR, ARI *vs* Braylon Edwards, WR, CLE
• Close Call #5 - Donovan McNabb, QB, Phi *vs* Matt Hasselbeck, QB, Sea
• Close Call #6 - Frank Gore, RB, SF *vs* Larry Johnson, RB, KC
• Close Call #7 - Plaxico Burress, WR, NYG *vs* Brandon Marshall, WR, DEN
• Close Call #8 - Antonio Gates, TE, SD *vs* Jason Witten, TE, Dal
• Close Call #9 - Edgerrin James, RB, ARI *vs* Thomas Jones, RB, NYJ
• Close Call #10 - T.J Houshmandzadeh, WR, CIN *vs* Chad Johnson, WR, CIN
• Close Call #11 - Jay Cutler, QB, Den *vs* Eli Manning, QB, NYG
• Close Call #12 - Michael Turner, RB, ATL *vs* Darren McFadden, RB, OAK
• Close Call #13 - Roddy White, WR, Atl *vs* Chris Chambers, WR, SD
• Close Call #14 - Chris Cooley, TE, WAS *vs* Dallas Clark, TE, IND
• Close Call #15 - Ryan Grant, RB, GB *vs* Maurice Jones-Drew, RB, JAC
• Close Call #16 - Terrell Owens, WR, DAL *vs* Reggie Wayne, WR, IND

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I just totally jacked this idea

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No problem at all, this series in entering it's 8th year, a college series is a GREAT addition!

Hey Miller, is there any way to find out who voted for who on these? I love "Close Calls" and remember being able to get this info previously, but can't now.

I just have to remember to mark the polls as public when I make them. I will try to do this on the ones going forward. Thanks for the reminder.

Here's another reminder Miller.

lol, damn, I'll remember one of these days.

I have an interesting one for you: Ricky vs Ronnie.

Are you joking?? The idea is that it has to be a CLOSE call.

Um, you been paying attention to Fins camp at all? Ricky's been acting like it's '02. The guy has just been a flat-out beast. Brown on the other hand is injured and I don't know whether he'll play like he did last year. If he does it becomes really interesting. Just depends on what you believe, really.

Not going to be a close call, but makes for a great topic:
Dolphins Running Back situation

Interested to see your opinion in that thread.

Really good thing you're doing here with the "close calls". Very helpful insight. How about LJ vs Gore?

This ones turning out to be a NOT so close call.
Here's a close call I'm interested in Cutler/Delhomme

How about Edgerrin James vs. Thomas Jones?

Would be interested in seeing Ted Ginn Jr in a close call with someone.

Ted Ginn vs Roy Hall

Yeah.......

IDEA...

Cotchery vs Coles

Bradshaw vs Washington - with all the bradshaw love maybe not good for this site.

Cooley vs Clark

Cotchery.

You should make this one:

Close Call: Draft any Dolphin, or go ahead and forfeit.