Philly
Miami
Indy
Baltimore
Nawlins
Minnesota
Cincy
Da Bears
Atlanta
St Loius
Seattle
San Diego
Pates
Denver
Dallas
Pitt (55)
Sweet. We not only get Kicky but Liontamerx resurfaces.
Gus might think you can't miss a week.
So off we go in Week #2 with a record number of 18 players picking the full schedule of games.
We are unaminous in picking Indy over Houston. And we are equally divided in 3 games: NYG @ Philly, Carolina @ Minn and Pitts @ Jax.
There are 5 games in which 17 of us picked the same winners while one of us went the other way. Jespah is alone in picking Oakland over Baltimore. McGentrix has Cleveland over Cincy. Edgar has Detroit over Chicago. JPB has Tampa Bay over Atlanta and Jespah (again) has Tennessee over San Diego.
Also marching to their own drummers are Child of the Light and Fbaezer who are the only two players having the NYJ over NE.
Recall the math here. I take the number of people who are in the majority on each game and sutract the number of people in the minority. And those in the minority get "stuck" with that number of Deviation Points.
Last week McGentrix, Region, Sublime and JPinMilw had very low scores, meaning they rarely disagreed with the majority. This week Region, JPinMilw are joined by Cowdoc, Tico, Chiso and Lion. They had Deviant Points ranging from 6 to 0.
At the other extreme (again this week) is Jespah who racked up 62 points, way ahead (or behind) McGentrix and Fbaezer who were at 36 and 44, respectively.
We should know a lot a lot about how smart Jespah and McGentrix are when I check in at 4:30 or so.
ossobuco wrote:Gus might think you can't miss a week.
No, osso, Gus is miffed with me for enforcing the rules that I laid down at the beginning. Sin Loi, or something like that.
Our sermon topic today, after the early games (that included two games going into overtime) is: The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth
Brothers and Sisters, after 9 early games, Osso and Johnboy, who combined have a knowledge of the NFL equal to a chipmunk's, are each 9-0. Region, Cowdoc and George have only one mis-pick each.
And, brothers and sisters, if you live by the sword, you will die by the sword. Fbaezer and McGentrix each have four wrong picks so far. Several others have 3.
Well, something will happen that all the rest of the games today come out the opposite of my picks..
I used to follow football quite a while ago; I didn't recognize most of the player names when you started this game this year, RJohn, or even know what some of the new team names were, but I did recognize some coach names. This is in contrast to my absolutely complete stupidity about soccer when I participated in the World Cup game that FBaezer set up. Hard to learn a game with no tv... whatever were they talking about? Fun though.
Ai yi yi, I should have stayed with my luv'd city, San Francisco. Slaps self.
Also, how'd all these games get to be finals already. When I was watching the espn live casts, they took forever. I go to the grocery store, come back, unload car, etc., and there's a batch of finals.
I have to get re-used to NFL football timing.
The games to me, osso, seemed to take forever today. I have my red and green highlighters ready but I have learned to never make a mark until I see the "Final" score come up.
14 games over with and Osso, Region and Johnboy are at 13-1. (region and johnboy had SF, osso). Cowdoc and Chiso are, perhaps, still in the chase at 12-2.
Region and I have Dallas; Osso has the Skins. Cowdoc and Chiso have Dallas.
Now THAT seems to bode ill to me...
AND there are a bunch of folks at 11-3 with two games left. Edgar, JPinMilw, Sublime, Jpb, Tico and Liontamer.
This should be an interesting week.
Ok, it's 3-0 right now. I say, if TO scores a touchdown he runs out to midfield to make amends for the time he did it as a visitor with the Eagles.
Washington way behind in 4th quarter. This may be one I can't arrange by my wiles. Schniff.
Edit, now it's worse (re my pick) and almost over. Oh, well.
The pack thickens...
Narf. Who knew I could pick any of this stuff?
The Pats are gonna give me an ulcer.
How the hell can I pick 11 out of 14 and not even be in the goddammed race here?
You're all cheaters!
So Dallas did a pretty good job handling Washington. Just the Pittsburgh-Jacksonville game left.
Johnboy and Region are at 14-1 (a fine performance) and they both have the Jaguars. So if they are right, each will finish at 15-1. Johnboy has 46 and Region has 54 in the tiebreaker. I am pretty comfortable with that scenario.
Osso is 13-2 and she has Pittsburgh. So if the Steelers win, the three of us end up tied at 14-2. She has 45 in the tiebreaker, which kind of boxes me in.
CowDoc and Chiso are also at 13-2 but since the both have Jacksonville they are out of contention to win the week
So far, through 15 games this week, the 30 teams have scored a total of 580 points. That's an average of 19 per team. In the Stupid Game game (or whatever I called it) Edgar and Osso look to be the favorites, predicting 620 and 624 respectively.
I'll do the schedule for Week 3 in a bit. Thanks for playing.
The Schedule For Week #3:
1 PM (ET) or so on Sunday:
Carolina (0-2 for the season) @ Tampa Bay (0-2)
Washington (0-2) @ Houston (0-2)
Tennessee (0-2) @ Miami (0-2)
NY Jets (1-1) @ Buffalo (1-1)
Jacksonville-(1-0/playing tonight) @ Indy (2-0)
Green Bay (0-2) @ Detroit (0-2)
Cincy (2-0) @ Pittsburgh (1-0/playing tonight)
Chicago (2-0) @ Minn (2-0)
4 pm or so:
Baltimore (2-0) @ Cleveland (0-2)
St Louis (1-1) @ Arizona (1-0)
Philly (1-1) @ San Francisco (1-1)
NY Giants (1-1) @ Seattle (2-0)
Sunday night:
Denver (1-1) @ New Eng (2-0)
Monday night:
Atlanta (2-0) @ New Orleans (2-0)
Pick the winners in those 14 games (bye weeks start this week so four teams are off) and predict the total number of points that Atlanta and New Orleans will score in the Monday night game.
As usual, the deadline for making all of your picks is kickoff of the first game.
New players are more than welcome to join in. Knowledge of the NFL is totally optional.
Ack! This looks to be hard..
Carolina
Washington
Miami
NY Jets
Indy
Green Bay
Cincy
Chicago
Baltimore
Arizona
Philly
Seattle
New Eng
Monday night:
Atlanta (39)
Whooo... this is a much tougher week.
