NFL Football Pick'em

[Rick52]

NFL Pick'em

You have one 'bye' week. If you miss a week, you won't have an 0/16 counted against you, as the bye week will be applied to it. However, if you miss two weeks, you won't have another bye week to cover the second week, and you'll get an 0-for in that and any further missed weeks.

If you are able to pick for all 17 weeks, the bye week will be applied to either your worst week (% wise), or any particular week you so choose.

Standings Before Bye Weeks are Applied
Yue..............161/256 62.9% (12-6)
Insane man.......161/256 62.9% (11-7)
Cipher27.........159/256 62.1% (12-6)
Crosshair........159/256 62.1% (12-6)
TheDukeOfBoston..158/256 61.7% (12-6)
cartman125.......154/256 60.2% (12-6)
*Alu.............143/240 59.6% (10-6)
Rick52...........152/256 59.4% (13-5)
James89..........151/256 59.0% (11-7)
smashbro14.......150/256 58.6% (12-6)
Quagmire.........147/256 57.4% (12-6)
Gabby Jay........147/256 57.4% (10-8)
BigDaddy.........147/256 57.4% ( 8-10)
Freakish.........145/256 56.6% (11-7)
*Dan_Dunn........129/240 53.8% ( 7-7)
*Velocity........119/240 49.6% ( 9-6)

Monday Night Records shown
* indicates the use of the bye week
(#) at the end indicate weeks missed (after bye)

The following is after everyone's bye week, if unused, is applied to their worst week of the season. Seedings and such are determined from these standings, not the above ones.

FINAL STANDINGS
01) Yue..............157/243 64.6% (12-6)
02) Insane man.......157/243 64.6% (11-7)
03) Cipher27.........153/240 63.6% (12-6)
04) TheDukeOfBoston..153/242 63.2% (12-6)
--==TOP FOUR GET FIRST WEEK BYES==--
05) Crosshair........153/243 63.0% (12-6)
06) cartman125.......150/243 61.7% (12-6)
07) James89..........146/240 60.8% (11-7)
08) smashbro14.......145/240 60.4% (12-6)
09) Rick52...........146/243 60.1% (13-5)
10) Alu..............143/240 59.6% (10-6)
11) Quagmire.........141/240 58.8% (12-6)
12) Gabby Jay........141/240 58.8% (10-8)
--==BOTTOM FOUR DO NOT MAKE PLAYOFFS==--
13) BigDaddy.........140/240 58.3% ( 8-10)
14) Freakish.........139/240 57.9% (11-7)
15) Dan_Dunn.........129/240 53.8% ( 7-7)
16) Velocity.........119/240 49.6% ( 9-6)

Congratulations to Yue who, thanks to the Monday Night tiebreaker, wins the NFL Pick'em Regular Season!

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NFL Football Pick'em Playoffs

Wild Card Weekend
FIRST ROUND BYES:
01) Yue
02) Insane man
03) Cipher27
04) TheDukeOfBoston

(* indicates winner)
05) Crosshair: 95
12) Gabby Jay: 79 (*)

06) cartman125: 73 (*)
11) Quagmire: 106

07) James89: 59 (*)
10) Alu: 102

08) smashbro14: 138
09) Rick52: 80 (*)

Divisional Round
01) Yue: 73 (*)
12) Gabby Jay: 94

02) Insane man: 89
09) Rick52: 85 (*)

03) Cipher27: 101
07) James89: 67 (*)

04) TheDukeOfBoston: 56 (*)
06) cartman125: 60

Conference Championship Round
01) Yue: 36 (*)
09) Rick52: 63

04) TheDukeOfBoston: 106
07) James89: 85 (*)

The Super Bowl
01) Yue: 9 (*)
07) James89: 30


Congratulations to Yue who won the Pick'em Playoffs.

[Rick52]

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Standings updated. Close race for the final spots, as well as the #1 seed (which went down to a tiebreaker).

The playoffs will be handled in the following fashion:

The top 12 seeds will face one another head-to-head, top 4 will get byes for the first week. In this way, there'll only be 2 left come time for the Super Bowl.

Each round, people will not only pick the winner of each game, but also the score. Chances are, they won't get the score right, so they'll gain points for each team depending on how close they were. For instance, if they thought Chicago would score 23, but they actually score 30, that's 7 points added to that person's score. If you get a pick wrong, the point difference for the two teams in the game you got wrong is doubled. So, using the previous example, you now get 14 points tacked on instead of 7 if you picked Chicago to lose but instead they won.

The winner of the match is the one who has fewer points.

First round matchups are as follows:
(1) Yue, (2) Insane man, (3) Cipher27, and (4) TheDukeOfBoston have first round byes and do not need to pick this week.

(5) Crosshair vs.
(12) Gabby Jay

(6) cartman125 vs.
(11) Quagmire

(7) James89 vs.
(10) Alu

(8) smashbro14 vs.
(9) Rick52

(13) BigDaddy missed the playoffs by a single game after the bye weeks were applied. (14) Freakish wasn't as close. (15) Dan Dunn and (16) Velocity, again, were ghosts the last two weeks.

You must pick, and decide on a score for the following four games. They must be in before Saturday:

Kansas City
Indianapolis

Dallas
Seattle

NY Jets
New England

NY Giants
Philadelphia

If there are any questions as to how this works, feel free to ask.

[Scruffy]

What on Earth is the Monday night tiebreaker?

[Rick52]

How well you did picking Monday night games. You did one better than Insane man in that department.

[James89]

Kansas City- 30
Indianapolis- 28

Dallas- 20
Seattle- 27

NY Jets- 17
New England- 27

NY Giants- 17
Philadelphia- 31

I'm not too confident with the scores I went with.

Damn it I already have a change of heart.

NY Jets- 20
New England- 24

[smashbro14]

Whoo! Redskins vs. Lions. The two best teams in the last 6 years!

Indianapolis- 37
Kansas City- 28

Dallas- 31
Seattle- 21

NY Jets- 24
New England- 20

NY Giants- 34
Philadelphia- 10

[BigDaddy]

Wow, if I wouldn't have started picking the Chiefs and Packers in every game (I think I started doing this in Week 3 or so), I might have made the playoffs. :D

[James89]

Sorry for all the changes Rick. Use these.

Kansas City- 28
Indianapolis- 34

Dallas- 20
Seattle- 27

NY Jets- 17
New England- 27

NY Giants- 17
Philadelphia- 31

[Alu]

Kansas City - 34
Indianapolis - 30

Dallas - 21
Seattle - 17

NY Jets - 14
New England - 24

NY Giants - 10
Philadelphia - 24

[Captain Obvious]

Sorry didn't read that I got a bye

[Harris]

Kansas City - 27
Indianapolis - 35

Dallas - 24
Seattle - 13

NY Jets - 13
New England - 24

NY Giants - 31 (Just a gut feeling on this one... I'll probably end up regretting it.)
Philadelphia - 24

[Quagmire]

Kansas City 35
Indianapolis 42

Dallas 24
Seattle 28

NY Jets 28
New England 27

NY Giants 21
Philadelphia 27

Sorry Giants...I love ya...but i got to change it to philly, espically since i heard that Shockey is not likely to play

[Gabby Jay]

Kansas City - 38
Indianapolis - 41

Dallas - 17
Seattle - 21

NY Jets - 21
New England - 27

NY Giants - 13
Philadelphia - 17

[cartman125]

Kansas City-28
Indianapolis- 42

Dallas-20
Seattle-27

NY Jets-14
New England-24

NY Giants-10
Philadelphia-20

[Rick52]

All that's left are my picks:

Kansas City 31
Indianapolis 24

Dallas 10
Seattle 24

NY Jets 14
New England 21

NY Giants 20
Philadelphia 24

[James89]

So far I got 31 pts and Alu has 66. Looking good so far.

[smashbro14]

I'm beating Rick 34-48. If Dallas wins, I'm in VERY good shape :).

[James89]

Since I am a nerd, here is everyone's scores after the KC/Indy game.

crosshair- 31
james- 31
smash- 34
cartman- 39
quagmire- 46
gabby- 48
rick- 48
alu- 66

[Alu]

unless dallas wins, I'm pretty much out of it already...

[James89]

Updated after that crazy a$$ Cowboys/Seahawks game.

james- 37
cartman- 45
gabby- 51
crosshair- 55
smash- 56
quagmire- 57
rick- 61
alu- 76

[Rick52]

Those would be correct. Allow me to rearrange those scores in terms of matchups:

Crosshair: 55
Gabby Jay: 51
The Dallas game really hurt Crosshair, as he lost more points in that game than anybody else. Conversely, Gabby Jay was nearly spot on with his pick of that game (21-17 he guessed, instead it was 21-20). Who knows what'll happen tomorrow given their picks for those games.

cartman: 45
Quagmire: 57
Quagmire has both New York teams winning tomorrow. For him to win this matchup, he'll probably need both of them to pull through unless something else screwy happens.

James: 37
Alu: 76
Unless some pick changing is made, this matchup is pretty much done, as their picks for tomorrow's games are similar.

smashbro: 56
Rick: 61
What's keeping this matchup close is not only the fact that I was super close on how many Indy would score (off by a single point, though I was way off on KC), but also how badly smash was off with Dallas (picked them to win, and was off on their score by 11). He, too, has both New York teams winning tomorrow, but he has the Giants winning 34-10. So, basically, his accuracy on that game will determine the winner of this matchup.

[smashbro14]

... thank you so much for telling me that I had the Giants winning. I'm guessing we are allowed to change our picks, so if we are, then I'd like to change mine to:

Eagles: 34
Giants: 10

I don't know why I had those mixed up before...

[Quagmire]

Quagmire has both New York teams winning tomorrow. For him to win this matchup, he'll probably need both of them to pull through unless something else screwy happens.

I changed my pick to the Eagles...back on the 3rd...i guess i should have just made another post

NY Giants 21
Philadelphia 27

[smashbro14]

Okay, on account of the Patriots scoring when they shouldn't have, and this game was really won by like 7 points, I need 27 points more than Rick in the last game. So I have to change my score to...

Giants: 31
Eagles: 28

It's the only way...

I made it by like 7 minutes. Whoo!

[Rick52]

Updated scores after the Patriots win:

Crosshair: 71
Gabby Jay: 66

cartman: 60
Quagmire: 101

James: 48
Alu: 91

smashbro: 106
Rick: 79

I think I've got all that right.

[James89]

Mine and your scores differ by like one point Rick.

james- 47
cartman- 59
gabby- 65
crosshair- 70
rick- 78
alu- 92
quagmire- 99
smash- 104

[Rick52]

You sure on that? Mine look pretty right from how I set it up on the file I'm using to record all of this. Using the right final score (37-16)?

Edit: ~Split~ (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=519362)

[James89]

Yea, I was using 37-16. I also did it in my head, so I could have messed up there. I'll recheck them again.

james- 47
cartman- 59
gabby- 65
crosshair- 70
rick- 78
alu- 90
quagmire- 99
smash- 104

Only change I got was Alu.

[Alu]

Updated scores after the Patriots win:

Crosshair: 71
Gabby Jay: 66

cartman: 60
Quagmire: 101

James: 48
Alu: 91

smashbro: 106
Rick: 79

I think I've got all that right.
I may already be out of it, but at least I won't have the worst overall score for it...goddamn Cheifs...they alone made me lose this week really...

[Rick52]

Yea, I was using 37-16. I also did it in my head, so I could have messed up there. I'll recheck them again.

james- 47
cartman- 59
gabby- 65
crosshair- 70
rick- 78
alu- 90
quagmire- 99
smash- 104

Only change I got was Alu.
From the looks of it, everyone in your field is a point closer to the real scores than my field. I've checked my thing twice over and haven't found anything yet...

[James89]

I'm an idiot. For some reaosn I was using 36-17. Sorry for the confusion.

[Rick52]

I was nearly spot on with the Eagles game. I had it going 24-20, and that game ended 23-20, easily the closest guess of this first round.

I'll get those final scores shortly.

Final Scores for the Wild Card Weekend:
05) Crosshair: 95
12) Gabby Jay: 79

06) cartman125: 73
11) Quagmire: 106

07) James89: 59
10) Alu: 102

08) smashbro14: 138
09) Rick52: 80

Divisional Round Matchups are as follows:
01) Yue
12) Gabby Jay

02) Insane man
09) Rick52

03) Cipher27
07) James89

04) TheDukeOfBoston
06) cartman125

You'll be picking scores for the following games:

Indianapolis
Baltimore

Philadelphia
New Orleans

Seattle
Chicago

New England
San Diego

[James89]

This round should be much better than the Wild Card round was.

[Harris]

Well, looks like I'm out. Great season guys, and good luck to those who are still in it. :)

[Captain Obvious]

I guess I will go first.

Indianapolis 31
Baltimore 23

Philadelphia 21
New Orleans 24

I my be crazy about this one.
Seattle 35
Chicago 14

New England 24
San Diego 28

[Gabby Jay]

Indianapolis - 17
Baltimore - 27

Philadelphia - 24
New Orleans - 35

Seattle - 9
Chicago - 20

New England - 27
San Diego - 34

[Scruffy]

Indianapolis 33
Baltimore 27

Philadelphia 20
New Orleans 23

Seattle 17
Chicago 20

New England 34
San Diego 23

Edited for boldness.

[Rick52]

Indianapolis: 24
Baltimore: 27

Philadelphia: 14
New Orleans: 28

Seattle: 17
Chicago: 23

New England: 27
San Diego: 21

I have a feeling on the Pats game... the Patriots seem to like to win in games like this, you know, games where very few people think they'll win.

[Quagmire]

Im out which is fine...not sure how Rick did the scoring...reminds me of golf, who ever has the lower score wins...oh well

[Insane man]

He took your scores you had written down for each game and how ever many points you were off that was the score. But the score was doubled in a loss so if you picked the jets over the pats and had the scores as 24-21 which you wwould be off 8 for the jets and 16 for the pats which would be 24 but you picked the jets who loss so the score would then be doubled.

Indianapolis - 17
Baltimore - 20

Philadelphia - 28
New Orleans - 24

Seattle - 10
Chicago - 28

New England - 28
San Diego - 31

[James89]

Indianapolis - 17
Baltimore - 24

Philadelphia - 27
New Orleans - 31

Seattle - 14
Chicago - 31

New England - 27
San Diego - 24

Stupid me, I only bold one, lol. O well, you know who I got to win.

[TheDukeOfBoston]

Indianapolis:17
Baltimore:21

Philadelphia: 20
New Orleans:28

Seattle:20
Chicago:26

New England:30
San Diego: 27

[cartman125]

Indianapolis: 27
Baltimore: 17

Philadelphia: 17
New Orleans:28

Seattle: 14
Chicago:20

New England: 30
San Diego: 27

[Rick52]

Scores after the Colts 15-6 win (oh boy...)

Yue: 39
Gabby: 46

Insane man: 32
Rick: 60 (those Colts keep screwin with me the hardest)

Cipher: 33
James: 40

Duke: 34
cartman: 23

[TheDukeOfBoston]

Yeah, that sucked for us all. If the Nawlins-Philly game has a scoreless 4th, though, I can get through the night with barely more damage.

[James89]

I need the Eagles to get a FG and the Saints to get a TD. I would be ahead by 6 over Cipher if that happens.

[Scruffy]

I was trying to change my pick to the Eagles, but by the time I got around to it, the game had begun. Guess it's a good thing that I didn't.

[Rick52]

Midway point analysis:

Yue: 47
Gabby Jay: 54
This is a close one thus far. The more points Seattle scores, the higher the advantage for Yue, but the Pats-Bolts game could very easily decide this one.

Insane man: 46
Rick: 71
IM was the only one to pick the Eagles (lost 14 pts), but I picked a horrible score (lost 11 pts), so I'm still really behind, which peeves me really. I basically NEED the Patriots to shut down LT and the Chargers, which is possible given its the Patriots, but still not that likely.

Cipher: 39
James: 47
Cipher is the lone man taking the Seahawks. That will most likely decide this match.

Duke of Boston: 39
cartman: 31
Since these two have the EXACT same score for the Pats-Bolts game, Duke will need the Bears and Seahawks to score a lot of points to get the win.

[James89]

As long as the Bears win I am in good shape. Although Grossman does scare me, I am kinda confident.

[TheDukeOfBoston]

I need Chicago to win with a minimum of my score, or higher, and I win.

Edit: If I'm doing the math right, I think I've just squeaked out the win, no matter how the rest of the Chi-Sea game plays out, though I may be wrong.

[Rick52]

No you are correct, sir.

Scores after three games:

Yue: 61
Gabby Jay: 76

Insane man: 61
Rick52: 82

Cipher: 87 (lost 48 points with his 'Seahawks 35-14' pick)
James: 61

DukeOfBoston: 44
cartman: 48
(Have the exact same score for the final game, so this is done.)

[Gabby Jay]

Damnit, if Kaeding would have made that Field Goal, and then SD scored a touchdown to win the game in OT, I would have had that game almost perfect. Oh well. I lost to the #1 seeded man. Best of luck all.

[Rick52]

I'll get to the scores in a minute, but first...

....BWAHAHAHA! I AM CAPTAIN COMEBACK! GO PATRIOTS!

Final Scores:
Yue: 73
Gabby Jay: 94

Insane man: 89
Rick: 85

Cipher: 101
James: 67

Duke: 56
cartman: 60

Next Rounds Matchups are:
1) Yue vs.
9) Rick52

4) TheDukeOfBoston
7) James89

Games to pick for next week:
New Orleans
Chicago

New England
Indianapolis

[James89]

I lucked out with Cipher's Bears/Hawks pick. One more win and I am in the Super Bowl!!!

[Rick52]

I'll start it off this week.

New Orleans 20
Chicago 24

New England 27
Indianapolis 24

[Scruffy]

Pats: 90
Colts: 3 (Vinatieri FG BABY!!)

Chicago: 27
New Orleans: 24














Srsly though...

Colts: 30
Pats: 28

[Captain Obvious]

I lucked out with Cipher's Bears/Hawks pick. One more win and I am in the Super Bowl!!!
Good luck I was think about changing the score but I didn't (Stuuupid Seahawks.)

[Rick52]

Duke and James are running out of time to make picks. If they don't hurry up, we'll have a playoff pick'em champ two weeks early. :-\

[James89]

Damn it, I guess its time. Ive been putting it off for as long as possible. I really cant decide between the two game, but here it goes.

Nawlins- 31
Cha-town- 24

New England- 24
Indianapolis- 27

Let me just say that my pick for the Colts/Pats games isnt what I really think. No smash, our "discussion" last night didnt change my mind. I'm only picking the Colts cause I know Duke will pick the Pats. So if the Colts win, I have a better shot at winning. I think the Patriots will win the game, but just incase they dont, I have the Colts picked.

[TheDukeOfBoston]

Let me just say that my pick for the Colts/Pats games isnt what I really think. No smash, our "discussion" last night didnt change my mind. I'm only picking the Colts cause I know Duke will pick the Pats. So if the Colts win, I have a better shot at winning. I think the Patriots will win the game, but just incase they dont, I have the Colts picked.

Well played.... well played, indeed. But if we're gonna play that game.....


Saints- 31
Da Bears- 24

Patriots- 27
Colts- 24


It all rests on the Pats and Colts :devil:

But that was my honest Bears-Saints score going in. Saints win in a fairly offensive game. But now it so much more fun.

[Rick52]

Update after the NFC Championship game:

Yue: 22
Rick: 21

James: 64
Duke: 64

So yeah, it's gonna go down to Pats/Colts for all of us.

[James89]

Damn I knew I shuld have picked the Bears.

[Rick52]

Final scores:

Yue: 36
Rick: 63

Duke: 106
James: 85


So, this sets up the finals. To pick the score of Super Bowl XLI:

The top seed, the guy who has been tops throughout the entire year: Yue.
The hot guy, who's been stellar in the postseason: James.

Pick on.

[James89]

I was both right and wrong about the Pats-Colts game, lol.

[Scruffy]

Colts
Bears

Score TBD at a later time.

[James89]

At least I know I didnt get here by come fluke, I went 8-2 during the playoffs (technically 7-3 since I though that the Pats would win,) had the least amount of points in the wildcard round, and the 2nd least in the divisional round. Conference round I blew, but all that matter is I am in the Super Bowl.

I'll have a prediction probably the Saturday before the Super Bowl, but my early indiciation is the Bears over the Colts.

[James89]

OK gala, adjust your score approiatley. Theres no sense in waiting any longer to post my prediction. Here it is.

Bears will beat the Colts 28-25. Urlacher will be named MVP with 15-20 tackles and a few memorable plays. Grossman will have a good game. Manning will play good too but will have a turnover that gives the Bears the deciding points.

If I call all of that right, then I'm just awesome

[Scruffy]

lol I have no clue on the score. Urlacher will be stellar in this game but the game will be run by his inability to be everywhere. The Bears frontline will start to falter and a long drive by the Colts capped off by a Vinatieri kick will seal the deal. Hester will be big and Berrian will catch one deep for a TD but Wayne and Utech/Fletcher/Klecko will all make the big plays for the Colts that are needed to win.

Colts: 28
Bears: 25

[Rick52]

Suffice it to say, Yue won. I'll have the exact score in a few minutes.

Edit:

Yue: 9
James: 30

Congrats to Yue, who was top man in Pick'em all year long.

[Scruffy]

Well, I'd just like to say that I was fortunate that my team did so well this season. If I had been a fan of somewhere like Detroit or Oakland, I don't I would have won this season.

[James89]

Ehh, o well. I own college, so HA! Congrats Yue/gala.

[Scruffy]

Ehh, o well. I own college, so HA! Congrats Yue/gala.

Mateen Cleaves and Koy Detmer owned college, so HA! ^_^

lol jk. Glad you tried for the upset because it had come down to closer score... doubt I would have won.

[James89]

I figured you would pick the Colts, so might as well just make it straight up Bears win I win and Colts win you win.

And lol at your college joke.