Sab's NFL Pick'Em Game: Week 1

[sabotai]

Here we go again.

The Rules

Scoring (Changed a few scoring rules)

You make final score predictions for 4 games per week. For each point you are off by, you receive 1 point. Like so

You make the prediction: Oakland 10, New England 21

Let's say the final score is: Oakland 7, New England 10

You are off by 3 for Oakland and 11 for NE so you get 14 points.

If you guess the wrong winner, you receive another 10 points. If you get one score right (say Oakland does get 10), you get a -5 bonus. If you get both scores right, you get -15.

For each week, the Monday Night Football game is required. You can predict on any other 3 games. Make sure you get your predictions in before the start of your ealiest games. Once kickoff happens, the game becomse off limits. No exceptions.

Standings

After each week, we add up the points from the 4 games.

The season standings will be based on total points. The lower, the better. If you miss a week, you are assigned the average point total multiplied by 1.5

[Radii]

woohoo! I'm glad to see this again this year :)

[Lorena]

I want in

[sabotai]

The MNF game this week is Philly at Atlanta. Everyone must predict for this game. You can choose any 3 other games to predict. Just post your predictions in this thread.

[gottimd]

Once we post, are they set in stone? Lets say I pick a team and find out Saturday that their QB and RB are out, can I edit the picks as long as it is before the game(s) started for the week?

[kingfc22]

Woot. I love this game. Thanks Sab.

[sabotai]

Once we post, are they set in stone? Lets say I pick a team and find out Saturday that their QB and RB are out, can I edit the picks as long as it is before the game(s) started for the week?
Yes, as long as the last edit time stamp is before your earliest game. If something happens before the MNF or the late Sunday games after the ealry games have started, make a new post and I'll change it.

[Dutch]

I haven't played this before, do I just submit my scores to you via PM and then you keep the yearly tally of scores?

[sabotai]

I haven't played this before, do I just submit my scores to you via PM and then you keep the yearly tally of scores?
Nah, just post them here in this thread.

[DeToxRox]

Eagles 28 Falcons 17

Lions 24 Packers 14

Cardinals 21 Giants 10

Patriots 35 Raiders 28

[Logan]

EDIT: I'm going to forget to do this constantly. So in the interest of not wanting to come in dead last, I just won't play. Good luck guys!

[Raven]

Rams 27 - 49ers 10
Panthers 24 - Saints 13
Bengals 27 - Browns 7
Falcons 21 - Eagles 17

[RendeR]

Bengals 24 - Browns 10
Falcson 24 - Eagles 31
Raiders 20 - Patriots 17
Cardinals 28 - Giants 16

[Lorena]

Philadelphia 24 Atlanta 21
San Diego 17 Dallas 10
Pittsburgh 27 Tennessee 14
Indianapolis 21 Baltimore 10

[gottimd]

Pittsburgh 24-Tennesee 17
St. Louis 27-San Francisco 10
Washington 17-Chicago 13
Philly 27-Atlanta 24

[Butter]

Denver 24, Miami 13
Arizona 16, NY Giants 15
Indy 38, Baltimore 13
Philadelphia 23, Atlanta 21

[Ryche]

Washington 21, Chicago 10
Minnesota 35, Tampa 20
New England 38, Oakland 28
Philadelphia 21, Atlanta 17

[kingfc22]

Chicago 10
Washington 24

Denver 20
Miami 13

Dallas 17
San Diego 27

Philadelphia 28
Atlanta 24

[Draft Dodger]

Jacksonville 18 Seattle 13
Atlanta 14 Philadelphia 10
Indianapolis 27 Baltimore 3
Pittsburgh 13 Tennessee 0

[JeeberD]

Washington 24 Chicago 13
St Louis 31 San Fran 10
Dallas 20 San Diego 17
Philly 24 Atlanta 21

[TroyF]

Denver 26 Miami 10
St. Louis 42 SF 14
Dallas 24 SD 14
Philly 28 Atlanta 20

[Warhammer]

STL 34 SF 17
ATL 27 Philly 17
Wash 17 Chicago 10
Pats 38 Rayduhs 24

[Radii]

New England 30, Oakland 17
Washington 16, Chicago 6
San Diego 21, Dallas 10
Philadelphia 24, Atlanta 20

[Subby]

PHI 24 ATL 31
WAS 28 CHI 10
NE 31 OAK 24
STL 31 SF 3

[duckman]

Oakland 16
New England 20

New Orleans 17
Carolina 24

Dallas 16
San Diego 13

Philadelphia 31
Atlanta 21

[Lathum]

NE 27
OAK 17

ATL 17
PHI 21

DEN 14
MIA 6

STL 31
SF 10

[Coffee Warlord]

NE 24
OAK 17

CHI 31
WAS 9

STL 41
SF 10

PHI 21
ATL 10

[timmyw3]

Pittsburgh 21 Tennessee 9
Buffalo 27 Houston 16
Detroit 31 Green Bay 20
Washington 13 Chicago 6

[Masked]

Phi 27
Atl 17

Pit 24
Ten 13

SD 24
Dal 16

Ind 28
Balt 20

[RainRaven]

Detroit 28
Green Bay 24

Phi 21
Atl 17

Chicago 17
Washington 7

St Louis 35
SF 10

[Raiders Army]

OAK 35
NE 27

CHI 10
WAS 13

TEN 17
PIT 16

PHI 24
ATL 27

[Dutch]

New England 20
Oakland 17

Jacksonville 28
Seattle 24

Tampa Bay 28
Minnesota 14

MNF
Atlanta 27
Philadelphia 16

[TazFTW]

St. Louis 35
San Fran 13

Dallas 27
San Diego 17

Green Bay 24
Detroit 16

Philadelphia 27
Atlanta 24

[ThunderingHERD]

PIT 23
TEN 10

CAR 27
NO 24

SD 32
DAL 14

OAK 35
NE 28

[TazFTW]

PIT 23
TEN 10

CAR 27
NO 24

SD 32
DAL 14

OAK 35
NE 28
One of your games has to be the Monday night game.

[sabotai]

Thanks for the catch Taz.

HERD, replace the PIT-TEN, CAR-NO or the SD-DAL game with a prediction for Atlanta vs. Philly. (Not NE-OAK since that game already started.). Do not edit your above post, however. Plase make a new post with your prediction and the game you are replacing. (PM'ed you in case you don't see this.)

[ThunderingHERD]

Whoops.

<s>PIT</s>
<s>TEN</s>

PHI 24
ATL 17

[duckman]

One of your games has to be the Monday night game.
I didn't do it on mine either. Fixed.

[sabotai]

I didn't do it on mine either. Fixed.
I trust you so I don't think you would have changed your OAK-NE prediction, but in the future, if a game you predicted has already started, do not edit your post. Just make a new post with the change.

[duckman]

I trust you so I don't think you would have changed your OAK-NE prediction, but in the future, if a game you predicted has already started, do not edit your post. Just make a new post with the change.
My bad. If you want to verify, you can look in the OAK/NE thread. I have the same prediction posted there as well.

[duckman]

dola...

Here you go: http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/showpost.php?p=892677&postcount=30

[Radii]

New England 30, Oakland 17



Woohoo!

[timmyw3]

Looks like I forgot to read the rules too. I didn't have the NE-OAK game in my original picks so here's my new set:

Pittsburgh 21 Tennessee 9
Buffalo 27 Houston 16
Washington 13 Chicago 6
Atlanta 20 Philadelphia 19

[sabotai]

Seattle 20
Jacksonville 10

Carolina 24
New Orleans 13

NY Giants 21
Arizona 10

MNF
Atlanta 20
Philly 24

1 day left.

[gottimd]

Bump for some last minute entries

[Vince]

MNF
Atlanta 19
Philadelphia 24

Pittsburgh 24
Jacksonville 16

Green Bay 27
Detroit 17

Houston 10
Buffalo 17

[General Mike]

NYG 27
ARI 21

KCY 38
NYJ 31

SEA 13
JAX 20

PHI 26
ATL 16

[Sublime 2]

MNF:
Atlanta 23
Philadelphia 20

St. Louis 34
San Francisco 17

Houston 21
Buffalo 13

Denver 17
Miami 9

[gottimd]

Pittsburgh 24-Tennesee 17
St. Louis 27-San Francisco 10
Washington 17-Chicago 13
Philly 27-Atlanta 24
God, I am horrendous. By my calculations, I have 64 pts going into tonights game. With 30 coming from the damn Rams game alone. I never learn my lesson, never go with the "for sure" winner of week 1, it never pans out.

[Butter]

I took a bath on this one too... freakin' Broncos and Cards. I need to pretty much nail Monday night to climb back into the race.

[Warhammer]

If my count is right I have 53 points, not including the game tonight. Dang 10 pt. bonus for getting the wrong team....

[Raven]

Rams 27 - 49ers 10
Panthers 24 - Saints 13
Bengals 27 - Browns 7
Falcons 21 - Eagles 17


I think I got a 55 so far. Getting two games wrong really hurt me, but did manage to nail the Bengals score to get 5 points back.

[Radii]

New England 30, Oakland 17
Washington 16, Chicago 6
San Diego 21, Dallas 10
Philadelphia 24, Atlanta 20


I'm not happy about the Chargers, but compared to a lot of scores here it looks like I'm off to a pretty decent start. Tonight I get to do what I do best... root for the Falcons to lose... and I should be in good shape after week 1.

[gottimd]

I'm not happy about the Chargers, but compared to a lot of scores here it looks like I'm off to a pretty decent start. Tonight I get to do what I do best... root for the Falcons to lose... and I should be in good shape after week 1.
You are probably in the lead going into tonight. I have you at 39 points (31 from the DAL/SD botch)

[sabotai]

Haven't counted the points yet (doing that now), but the week looks bad for me too. The one game I did guess right, I was WAY off on the points (NYG-ARI game).

[gottimd]

Haven't counted the points yet (doing that now), but the week looks bad for me too. The one game I did guess right, I was WAY off on the points (NYG-ARI game).
You might be in last with 86 pts so far.

[sabotai]

The standings going into the MNF game


Name Total
Dutch 30
timmyw3 34
Radii 37
Draft Dodger 44
Masked 50
Warhammer 53
Raven 55
Dodgerchick 55
duckman 55
General Mike 59
gottimd 64
Ryche 67
Subby 67
JeeberD 70
RendeR 71
Raiders Army 73
DeToxRoxDVHStyle 75
TazFTW 75
Lathum 82
Coffee Warlord 82
ThunderingHERD 83
sabotai 86
RainRaven 92
kingfc22 93
Sublime 2 103
Butter_of_69 105
TroyF 105

Vince, there's a reason you're not on the list....Pittsburgh did not play Jacksonville this week. Do'h. I'll figure out something.

Double check your score! I am not a computer like QS, I will make a mistake here and there. I'll post your points breakdown if you have a dispute.

[sabotai]

That Stl-SF game really hurt a lot of people.

The week's worst prediction so far: kingfc22. His Denver-Miami prediction earned him 51 points.

The week's best prediction so far: Radii. His Oakland-New England predictions earned him -2 points.

[JeeberD]

I can live with middle of the pack...

[Draft Dodger]

way cool

[gottimd]

Philly is gonna win 27-24, getting me -25, pushing me to the top.

[Draft Dodger]

I'm guessing my score got better?
:)

[sabotai]

I'm guessing my score got better?
:) Just a little.... :)

I think this is the first perfect score we've had in this game (Playoffs 2 years ago and the first half of last season before the board went down for a month and killed the game).

Good job.

EDIT: king had a perfect score in the game I did for the playoffs a few years back. But that was before I did any bonus for exact scores. :)

[Draft Dodger]

I can't tell you how many times I thought about switching to the Eagles before kickoff. Glad I left it alone.

[sabotai]

Without a doubt the worst week ever of Sab Pick'em. Usually the average is in the 60s, maybe low 70s, but this is easily in the 80s, maybe even 90s.

Great news for those who did good because it gives them a huge lead, but good news too to those who did bad because mostly everyone else did bad too. It looked like the easy picks...were the hard ones. St. Louis and Denver games killed people yesterday (ther Giants game hurt several people too), and this MNF game did even more damage as most people picked the Eagles. Just a brutal week.

[Radii]

Tonight I get to do what I do best... root for the Falcons to lose... and I should be in good shape after week 1.



grrrrrrr.

[Warhammer]

I got 73 total, but I guess I shouldn't really complain.

[gottimd]

I think I ended up with 101 for the week. A retarded chimp with scurvy could've picked better than me.

[Lorena]

8 out of 27... I can definitely live with that. Not bad for a chick eh? :D

So do we post week 2 here, or will there be another thread?

[gottimd]

8 out of 27... I can definitely live with that. Not bad for a chick eh? :D

So do we post week 2 here, or will there be another thread?
Plus your 31 points for the monday night game, still better than me though. Sab usually starts another thread.

[sabotai]

And the Standings After Week 1


Name Total
Draft Dodger 29
Dutch 49
timmyw3 49
Radii 67
Raven 69
Warhammer 73
Masked 80
Dodgerchick 86
General Mike 87
Ryche 91
duckman 93
Vince 97
Subby 98
Raiders Army 100
gottimd 101
JeeberD 101
DeToxRoxDVHStyle 106
Lathum 106
Coffee Warlord 109
ThunderingHERD 110
RendeR 112
TazFTW 112
sabotai 116
RainRaven 117
Sublime 2 124
kingfc22 131
TroyF 139
Butter_of_69 140

Like I said, by far the worst. I don't we've ever had more than 3 or 4 over 100 let alone half of the people. Only week 1. Plenty of season left. timmyw3 and Dutch had great weeks, but that perfect score for DD catapults him into the lead.

[Lorena]

Plus your 31 points for the monday night game, still better than me though. Sab usually starts another thread.

Ahh... okay. This is my first time and didn't know... thanks for the heads up G :)

[Vince]

Sab, I see you made a decision regarding my submission -- I'm ok with whatever you decide. Looking back, I think that I was probably thinking about Pittsburgh/Tennessee, but it could very easily have been Seattle/Jacksonville. I'll take whichever got me more points, just for being a dumbass, if you'd like :)

[kingfc22]

Week 1 was painful.

Congrats to DD for the perfect score. I am no longer the only member of that club. ;)

[sabotai]

Sab, I see you made a decision regarding my submission -- I'm ok with whatever you decide. Looking back, I think that I was probably thinking about Pittsburgh/Tennessee, but it could very easily have been Seattle/Jacksonville. I'll take whichever got me more points, just for being a dumbass, if you'd like :)
That's what I did (gave you the one that gave you more points).....dumbass. :)

Which, btw (for everyone still reading this thread), will set the precedent for when this happens. I'll apply it to the game which gives the most points, so make sure you double check your predictions.

And, fwiw, the average for the week was just over 96.

[Dutch]

timmyw3 and Dutch had great weeks, but that perfect score for DD catapults him into the lead.

Beginner's luck gets the credit for my score.

[timmyw3]

Beginner's luck gets the credit for my score.

Ditto

[Draft Dodger]

Beginner's luck gets the credit for my score.

Thritto