NFL 2006-The Road To New Orleans

Still using quixotry AKA the Giant Wheel of Randomness.

WEEK #12

Miami @ Detroit Detroit
Tampa Bay @ Dallas Dallas
Denver @ Kansas City Denver
Cincinnatti @ Cleveland Cincy
Jacksonville @ Buffalo Buffalo
Pittsburgh @ Baltimore Baltimore
New Orleans @ Atlanta Atlanta
Carolina @ Washington Carolina
San Francisco @ St Louis St Louis
Arizona @ Minnesota Arizona
Houston @ NY Jets Houston
Oakland @ San Diego Oakland
Chicago @ New England Chicago
New York Giants @ Tennessee Giants
Philadelphia @ Indianapolis Indy
Green Bay @ Seattle Green Bay

+ Total points in that last game. 32

This week's selection was: first name in the alphabet for the matchup, as written by RJB.

The late games are over.

Who was it, brothers and sisters, who sent pm's to Kicky asking him to come back? PM's that asked him gently to come back but later pm's that suggested that we may know someone in Brooklyn who might come "visit" him if he didn't play. And there was some public harrassment here on A2K, also.
So Kicky made his picks and he is at 12-2. Well done, sir. Panzade stumbled a bit in the late games, ending along with Child at 10-4. Everyone else is doing fair to in one case really badly.
By my calculation, Kicky will win the week.

It was you, Silly, on some other thread, and so on.

I did NOT send the pm threatening to have his kneecaps broken. I am too much of a Virginia gentleman for that.

This game is rigged... An honest player has no chance.

I believe you've jumped the gun with that calculation. Panzade and Child are still in it.

WEEK #12


Detroit
Dallas
Kansas City
Cincinnatti
Jacksonville
Baltimore
New Orleans
Carolina
St Louis
Minnesota
NY Jets
San Diego
New England
New York Giants
Indianapolis

Seattle (35)

kicky, the Dallas pick was pure genius...I concede

Det
Dal
KC
Cincy
JAx
Balt
NO
Car
SF
Minn
Jets
San D
NE
Gmen
Indy
Sea-39

I just figured that Indy hadn't been blowing people out all season, and they had to lose to somebody...genius had nothing to do with it. But, I will accept your concession.

And, by the way, with that last Jaguar touchdown, I am officially the winner of the office pool for the second time this season! Another hundred bucks! Sweet!

Week #12:

Miami
Dallas
Denver
Cinci
Jacksonville
Ballymore
Atlanta
Washington
San Fran
Arizona
NY Jets
San Diego
Pates
NY Giants
Indi
Seattle (27)

Miami @ Detroit Miami
Tampa Bay @ Dallas Dallas
Denver @ Kansas City Denver
Cincinnatti @ Cleveland Cincy
Jacksonville @ Buffalo Jacksonville
Pittsburgh @ Baltimore Baltimore
New Orleans @ Atlanta Atlanta
Carolina @ Washington Carolina
San Francisco @ St Louis San Francisco
Arizona @ Minnesota Minnesota
Houston @ NY Jets Houston
Oakland @ San Diego San Diego
Chicago @ New England New England
New York Giants @ Tennessee Giants
Philadelphia @ Indianapolis Indy
Green Bay @ Seattle Green Bay (35)

Here is how the 18 players finished in Week #11. Let me know if there are any errors. I called Kickycan the winner prior to, I believe, the Sunday night game based on the number of correct picks and the choices in the last two games. He said I was premature in my declaration. I don't think I was, unless I scored someone wrong.

Kicky wins the week with a nice tally of 13-3. Well done.
Panzade, in his first appearance of the season finished at 10-6 along with Pantalones, Child, Chiso and Queen Jespah of Randomness.
George, JPinMilw and Sublime did okay at 9-7.
Johnboy, Osso, Liontamer, JPB, Cowdoc, Fbaezer and Tico broke even at 8-8.
Region, at 7-9, suffered through his third losing week in a row.
And poor Cjhsa gets the "There but for the grace of God go I" award for suffering through the worst week of anyone this season: 3-13.
The best ESPN guy was 12-4 while the worst was 8-8.

Someone had to counterbalance Kicky.

Miami
Dallas
Denver
Cincinnati
Jacksonville
Baltimore
Atlanta
Carolina
San Fracisco
Arizona
NYJets
San Diego
New England
NYGiants
Indianapolis
Seattle (35)

all indicated with no confidence

Here are the standings through Week #11. That will be followed in a separate post by a rules interpretaion for scoring the rest of the season.

1) Kickycan (.678) (3rd last week)
2) Cowdoc (.669) (1st)
3) Chiso (.653) (2nd)
*) Panzade (.625) (First time playing this year)
4) Child of the Light (.619) (5th)
*) Best ESPN Guy (.613) (5th)
5) Pantalones (.606) (8th)
5) JPinMilw (.606) (6th)
5) Region Philbus (.606) (4th)
8) Sublime (.603) (7th)
9) Liontamerx (.585) (9th)
10) Osso (.581) (10th)
11) George (.563) (13th)
11) JPB (.563) (11th)
11) Realjohnboy (.563) (11th)
*) Worst ESPN Guy (.538) (14th)
14) Tico (.525) (14th)
15) Jespah (.519) (17th)
15) Fbaezer (.519) (16th)
17) Cjhsa (.452) (15th)

Miami
Dallas
Kansas City
Cleveland
Buffalo
Baltimore
Atlanta
Carolina
St Louis
Minnesota
NY Jets
San Diego
New England
Tennessee
Indianapolis
Seattle (1) Going with the Prize is Right strategy.

This week, I think I'll be anti-deviant.

[double post]

The Rules for the rest of the season (first draft).

I mentioned before that I have never bothered to lay down any rules for this game. Here is Rule #1 for the remaining 6 weeks of the season:

1) All picks MUST be in by the kick-off time of the 1st game of the week.

And here is rule #2:

2) Players wanting to be included in the YTD standings must make picks in four of the remaining six weeks' games AND they must pick all of the games scheduled for each of the weeks (minus one game each week).

Pretty complex, huh? Here is the logic, if anyone is interested.
The YTD standings for each player is derived by dividing Correct Picks by Games Picked. The problem that arises is if a new player comes in and has a great week and hence ends up with a high winning percentage. Take Panzade as an example. He went 10-6 (.625). If he has another few good weeks he could overtake folks who have been faithfully playing all or most of every week. Despite the text of Rule #2 above, I hope that Pan will abdicate if his score gets out of control.
Kicky has picked in 150 games. Four more weeks would put him at around 210 vs 256 for the good boys and girls who have picked every game.
Is this reasonable?