Region won Week #4.
The Vikings beat the Packers Monday night 30-23. That left Region, Fox, Cowdoc, Spendius and JPinMilw tied for the week at 12-2. The 1st tiebreaker was the player(s) closest to the winning team's score. Region, Cowdoc and Spendius were just one point off at 31. Fox and JP were 14 and 3 points off, respectively.
The 2nd tiebreaker was the player(s) closest to the losing team's points. Region and Cowdoc were off by 2 while Spendius missed by 8.
Since Region and Cowdoc had each said the game would end with a score of 31-21, I ended up looking at the final tiebreaker - one which did not involve the final score of the game. The week would go to the player who was lower ranked in the standings. Quirky but effective. Region was 20th while Cowdoc was 17th after Week #3. And that, as the saying goes, was that.
There were many other good performances this week. In fact as a group we finished with a winning record of .751 - beating the .718 in Week #3 and the .708 in Week #1.
Johnboy, Tico, ElStud, Fbaezer, Rhyss, Jespah, Wandeljw, EhBeth, Liontamerx and Mis Cowdoc turned in 11-3 scorecards. Maporsche, Ragman, JPB, Imur, Clubber, Mysteryman and George checked in at 10-4.
Panzade, Edgar, McGentrix and Alex managed to go 9-5. Osso, who was the epitome of consistency at 12-4 in each of the 1st three weeks, mustered only an 8-6 this time.
The experts on ESPN matched our range, with the best guy going 12-2 while the worst guy was 8-6.
Congrats to Region on the win and to most of the rest of us for a darn good week of picking. Keep up the good work.
@realjohnboy,
realjohnboy wrote:
Region won Week #4.
The Vikings beat the Packers Monday night 30-23. That left Region, Fox, Cowdoc, Spendius and JPinMilw tied for the week at 12-2. The 1st tiebreaker was the player(s) closest to the winning team's score. Region, Cowdoc and Spendius were just one point off at 31. Fox and JP were 14 and 3 points off, respectively.
The 2nd tiebreaker was the player(s) closest to the losing team's points. Region and Cowdoc were off by 2 while Spendius missed by 8.
Since Region and Cowdoc had each said the game would end with a score of 31-21, I ended up looking at the final tiebreaker - one which did not involve the final score of the game. The week would go to the player who was lower ranked in the standings. Quirky but effective. Region was 20th while Cowdoc was 17th after Week #3. And that, as the saying goes, was that.
Plus, Cowdoc is taller, so I think that reinforces your decision, RJB. Well done, as usual.
On to the standings after 4 weeks!
1) McGentrix hangs on to a share of 1st despite a lackluster week. He is at .792;
1) ElStud is also at .792 and moves up from 2nd;
1) Spendius pops up from 4th to join the .792 gang;
4) Ehbeth has another solid week and climbs up a notch from 5th at .726;
4) Tico, at .726 also moves up from a tie for 5th;
6) JPinMilw is at .717 and he jumps all the way up from 16th;
7) Maporsce is one of a big group with .710. He was in 5th last week;
7) Johnboy moves up from 8th;
7) Osso drops from 2nd. The agony of defeat;
7) Wandeljw climbs a notch from 8th;
7) Liontamer makes the same move as Wandeljw;
12) Ragman is one of several at .694 and was in 8th last week;
12) JPB was also in the group in 8th last week;
12) Fox had a nice bump up from 17th;
12) Fbaezer was in 13th;
12) Cowdoc also moved up from 17th;
17) Clubber is at .677 and dropped from 13th;
17) Region was in 20th last week which turned out to be fortuitous;
17) Miz Cowdoc stayed where she was last week;
20) Panzade is in sole possession of 20th down from 13th;
21) Imur at .629 stays in 21st another week;
21) Rhyss moves up from 24th;
21) Jespah does the same;
24) Edgar slips from 21st with a .613. He had a really rough Week #2;
24) Mysteryman slides from 21st. He had 2 bad weeks at the beginning;
24) Alex moves up a bit from 27th and, like Detroit, is on the mend;
27) George stands at .581 but will soon make his move.
The best ESPN expert would, alas, be in 1st here at .774 while the worst, at .629, would be in the tied-for-21st group.
@Ticomaya,
ok Tico, you hold Spendius down while I figure out a way to distract him.
@ehBeth,
Do it right and you wouldnt have to hold him down.
A little teasing goes a long way to distract a man...LOL
I note that conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is part of a group interested in purchasing a majority share of the NFL St Louis Rams.
@ehBeth,
Sheesh e. Could you not hold me down and distract me yourself?
@jpinMilwaukee,
jpinMilwaukee wrote:
Hey RJB,
ESPN has a picking game that we could all sign up for. We can create a group so that we are all in there and then just make the picks everyweek. It would certainly be easier for you as all the tabulations are done for you each week. Just a thought.
We talked about that option a couple of years ago when we had 1/2 the players we have now. The notion expressed by several folks then was that they didn't really care enough about the thing to go to the trouble of joining an ESPN or Yahoo league. We would have lost a few players which was not acceptable to me. So we stuck with doing it "in house."
Also, we had a bit of an issue then with players coming in a few minutes late. Not a problem so far this time around.
Finally, there is the banter. Sure enough, we can check our rankings on ESPN and then come back to a thread on A2K onto which someone has transferred the stats. That could work.
Banter has been a little slow in getting started this year but it will pick up. Ehbeth has spoken about Beduin costumes, Cowdoc might talk about inserting his arm deep into cattle, Edgar could mention a hurricane-less season in Houston and Spendius will be Spendius.
We could revisit that next season if player-ship continues to grow.
@realjohnboy,
I can always be trusted to divert a subject to apparent inconsequential tangents.. a favorite sport of mine, not to be annoying but because it's the way I think. I enjoy this thread not more than the yahoo games, but differently than the yahoo games, and would like to keep it going unless RJB flags from the work and no one else picks up the sceptre or helps.
@ossobuco,
I'll help. I think the standings should be displayed in reverse alphabetical order.
Here is the schedule for Week #5:
Sunday, Oct 11th, early games:
Cincinatti @ Baltimore
Cleveland @ Buffalo
Pittsburgh @ Detroit
Washington @ Carolina
Dallas @ Kansas City
Tampa Bay @ Philadelphia
Minnesota @ St Louis
Oakland @ NY Giants
The late games:
Atlanta @ San Francisco
Houston @ Arizona
New England @ Denver
Jacksonville @ Seattle
Sunday night:
Indianapolis @ Tennessee
Monday night:
NY Jets @ Miami
(final score in that one)
Green Bay, New Orleans, Chicago and San Diego get the week off.
@realjohnboy,
I've been studying that schedule today with some puzzlement. I seem to have score-suicidal tendencies showing up in week 4 and 5.
@realjohnboy,
As we while away the time before the games I would like to ask why the away times are listed first. In England, and throughout the sporting world, the home team is always listed first. We don't see the visitors as guests.
We would have Baltimore v Cincinatti rather than Cincinatti @ Baltimore.
And a mere 16 week season.
I'm convinced that American sport is designed to make as many blokes as possible look good with the least effort and the maximum hullaballoo.
@spendius,
spendius wrote:
... I would like to ask why the away teams are listed first. In England, and throughout the sporting world, the home team is always listed first. We don't see the visitors as guests.
We would have Baltimore v Cincinatti rather than Cincinatti @ Baltimore.
Why did the British wear fancy uniforms and march in straight lines while the colonialists wore casual wear from L.L. Bean and fired from behind rocks and trees?
@realjohnboy,
Because government ministers owned military uniform manufacturing plants I should imagine and we marched in straight lines to avoid looking like a rabble. And on the other point because we don't consider bushwhacking gentlemanly.
That the colonists won is due to a desire on our part to be rid of the burdens and risks.
@spendius,
Did you know that Hessian prisoners were held in my back yard some 235 years ago? Absolutely true.
@realjohnboy,
There's a good chance then that you're descended from one John. I gather they settled there and married into the families which had spare daughters.
