realjohnboy wrote:Too late to make any change this week, Pan. in the choice of tiebreaker. No time for pouting.
You get points for the sensitive side, RJB.
Good afternoon. The early games are probably pretty much over. I wouldn't know. I was told that I had no excuse, no excuse at all, to avoid raking leaves.
So I have no idea how the ten early games have or will end up. This is (to my mind) amusing though. I did a little matrix thing and discovered that, for example, pan differed from the other five players by a factor of 2.4 while at the other extreme, kicky came in at 4.0 from the other players. I think that means that kicky is out of step with the rest of us on this week's picks.
And oh yes, pan: all six of us have selected Pitt in tonight's game and Seattle on Monday night. That means that (because the Den-SD game is the tiebreaker) we can crown this week's winner late this afternoon! We can finish cooking this puppy before suppertime.
I've got pan and kicky @ 7-3 with willow and rjb @ 6-4. Fbaez and Pdid are @ 5-5. Could be interesting in Wash and KC win.
Akkk....another late afternoon swoon. Who woulda thunk the Redskins?
who wouda? realjohnboy chose the Skins. The contest here comes down to KC. If she/he finally gets it right, willow wins. Final results in a few minutes, I don't know nothing about opiates in Cville, pan.
I can officially declare that WILLOW is this week's winner. Willow, rjb, pan and kicky finished the afternoon games tied at 9-5 (Pdid was at 8-6 and fbaez had a bad day, ending at 6-8). We all have Pitts and Seattle so nothing will change.
There were 37 points scored in the Den-SD tiebreaker. Willow predicted 48, rjb 51, pan 53 and kicky 54.
Congratulations, willow. You finally made the KC thingee work.
Will I see yall again next week, week 14? I hope so. -rjb-
****! I knew I should have gone with my gut on that Giants game! I'll be back next week. I have to win one of these damn things!
Once again good work rjb.
My impressions of this week.
The NFC sucks. Green Bay was embarrassing. 4 teams 5-7 and still in the hunt.
I goofed on the Atlanta game because I forgot that TB plays Vick real tough.
Carolina and John Fox are amazing.
My Skins finally won.
Way to go Willow!
Point well taken, pan, re TBay & AtL. I showed my very colorful spread-sheet of our picks to one of my employees. Andy follows the NFL far more closely than I do. He immediately focused on that game, saying the Bucs know how to play the Falcons.
So we didn't appear to have a very good week as a group here on A2K. But when I was putting together the matchups for next week (using the ESPN site) I see that our A2K players who ended up at 10-6 were right in the middle compared to the experts who pick for ESPN.
Coming up in a moment: Week 14 for Dec 12/13.
I'm not trying to rush you by putting this up early. I'm in the retail business and things are a bit hectic.
Which is good. So far the holiday season is looking promising.
WEEK 14:
And as usual the format is...
Chicago (record of 5-7)(Streak of W1) @
Jacksonville (6-6)(L3)
NYGiants (5-7)(L5) @ Balt (7-5)(L2)
Indy (9-3)(W5) @ Houston (5-7)(L1)
Cleve (3-9)(L6) @ Buffalo (6-6)(W3)
New Orleans (4-8)(L3) @ Dallas (5-7)(W2)
Oakland (4-8)(L1) @ Atlanta (9-3)(L1)
Seattle (6-6)(L2) @ Minn (7-5)(L1)
Cincy (6-6)(W2) @ New Eng (11-1)(W5)
Those are the 8 early pm games
Six late pm games
NYJets (9-3)(W3) @ Pittsburgh (11-1)(W10)
Miami (2-10)(L1) @ Denver (7-5)(L2)
Detroit (5-7)(W1) @ Green Bay (7-5)(L1)
TBay (5-7)(W1) @ San Diego (9-3)(W6)
St Louis (6-6)(W1) @ Carolina (5-7)(W4)
San Fran (1-11 (L7) @ Arizona (4-8)(L3)
The Sunday night game features
Philly (11-1)(W4) @ Washington (4-8)(W1)
and Monday night we end with
Kansas City (4-8)(W1) @ Tenn (4-8)(L2)
As the tiebreaker we will indeed go with the Monday night game: KC @ TN
Please be sure you make a pick in each of the 16 games and predict the total number of points in the tiebreaker. The deadline is kick-off time on Sunday (about 1 pm ET).
New players are always welcome! -rjb
I like to try, as the moderator, to get my picks in as early as I can. An appearance of fairness issue.
Si I have Chicago, Baltimore, Indy, Buff, Dallas, Atlanta, Minnesota and New England.
Then I have Pitts, Denver, Green Bay, San Diego, Carolina and Arizona.
And in the after-my-bedtime games Philly and (are you ready for this, willow) KC with a total of 33 points scored in that game (on a cold and rainy night--or is it a domed stadium? No idea).
I think I'm going to try a new strategy this week. I'm going to wait and see what Panz picks, then I'm going to pick all the same games and pick one point less than him on the tiebreaker total.
LOL....the tiebreaker has really cost me Kicky.
Damn, now I'm under .500 in my fantasy football
But anyways...
Jaguares de Jacksonville
Cuervos de Baltimore
Potros de Indianapolis
Bills de Buffalo
Santos de Nueva Orleans
Halcones de Atlanta
Halcones Marinos de Seattle
Patriotas de Nueva Inglaterra
Jets de Nueva York
Broncos de Denver
Empacadores de la BahÃa Verde
Cargadores de San Diego
Carneros de San Luis
Cardenales de Arizona
Aguilas de Filadelfia
Jefes de Kansas City 44
hmm...johnboy searches for his A2K NFL Pickers' Rulebook...and then realizes why he can't find it: it doesn't exist. Never has and never will.
I reckon that there would be no rule against someone editing his/her pick-list up until the 1 pm deadline. If the QB for my Steelers gets run over by a bus on Thursday, or if a blizzard moves into TN, I might want to change a prediction. I've got no problem with that. But right now I do this with a yellow highlighter and a red highlighter. If I have to go out and buy a green one and a blue one to keep up with changes...jeez, they're 99 cents each.!
Play your little mind games, kicky and pan, but don't make this too much more complicated for me than it is. I'm just a dumb red-neck from Virginia, after all. -johnboy
Hehehe...I was just messing around.
Tomorrow is Friday. Please think about posting your picks. Thanks.
Jacksonville
Balt
Indy
Buffalo
Dallas
Atlanta
Seattle
New Eng
Pittsburgh
Denver
Green Bay
San Diego
St Louis
Arizona
Philly
Monday night
Tenn--40 points
Chicago
Baltimore
Indy
Buffalo
Dallas
Atlanta
Minn
NE
Pittsburgh
Denver
Green Bay
SD
Carolina
Arizona
Philly
Tennessee 39
