QuikSand
01-09-2012, 11:50 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, here are the results from our latest iteration. My insincere apologies for the delay in assembling responses, but the good turnout is encouraging overall.
Anyway - here's the rollout:
1. Who will be the first non-quarterback player selected in the 2012 NFL draft?
I had hoped there might be a decent spread here, but the mocks seem to have narrowed the field, especially for IWS purposes...
29 - Matt Kalil
16 - Justin Blackmon
Trent Richardson, Ryan Kalil
2. How many points will Alabama score in the national championship game?
This was a deliberate ploy on my part - breaking this into two questions was intentionally designed to pull people away from the repeat score, but the 6/9 remained a strong entry, bowing to the power of the expert IWS meta-players out there.
11 - six points
10- ten
8 - seventeen
4 - fourteen
3 - thirteen, twenty-eight
2 - twenty, twenty-one
seven, nine, sixteen, twenty-four
3. How many points will LSU score in the national championship game?
9 - nine points
7 - twenty
5 - ten, thirteen, fourteen
3 - six, seventeen, twenty-one
various
As an aside, I'm intrigued by the meta-IWS strategy of numerou people sending in the same score for both teams. Certainly a viable way to play the IWS game, even if 6-6 or 10-10 are both impossible outcomes... which I find kind of cool in a strange way.
4. What player will gain the most total yards rushing over the course of the NFL playoffs this year?
Eliminator, but might have been a great question without RR
37 - Ray Rice
2 - Frank Gore, BJGE, Michael Turner
Arian Foster, Pierre Thomas, Isaac Redman, and presumably in an odd twist of team cap management Maurice Jones-Drew
5. How many passing yards will the NFL leader in the category have next year?
Also an eliminator, but the sort I am okay with. Stupid loves him some round numbers, the rounder the better. Forget that, and you're properly cooked here.
36 - 5,000
2 - 4,800, 5,100, 5,200
4,000, 4,900, 5,106, 5,500, and whoooooooaaaaa nellie 50,000
and no I don't care that the 50,000 number is obviously a decimalized brain fart, the comma reinforced the intention
6. Forecast the total number of NFL Superbowl rings that will eventually be earned by these three players: Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, and Robert Griffin III
Love this question, especially the winning answer. I think the meta-answer here is zero, since it's just tough to settle on any specific number... but one shouldn't overlook the power of suggestion... THREE quarterbacks, list ends with the roman numeral three... and voila, winner!
19 - three rings
12 - zero
6 - one
5 - two
4 - five
four
And so, we have our annual embarrass-and-flatter-a-thon rollout...
TACKLING DUMMIES
Grover 40
PurdueBrad 3,072
Dodgerchick 16,095
Dutch 25,056
britrock88 38,628
PackerFanatic 85,840
PRACTICE SQUAD
Chief Rum 129,024
CrimsonFox 187,920
shorty 244,644
Pyser 269,952
spleen1015 386,280
gstelmack 456,192
Glengoyne 463,536
claphamsa 547,200
MINSAL VETS
cartman 1,094,400
bhlloy 1,113,552
MizzouRah 1,225,728
mauboy1 1,225,728
Kwhit 1,274,724
SPECIAL TEAMERS
B&B 2,201,796
RPI-Fan 2,317,680
Raiders Army 2,505,492
JeeberDMack 2,549,448
Coffee Warlord 2,781,216
Toddzilla 2,897,100
panerd 3,244,752
MIJB#19 3,244,752
Crapshoot 4,036,626
Logan 4,859,136
Sublime 2 5,871,456
Karlifornia 6,393,600
digamma 7,725,600
wade moore 8,439,552
Subuirban Rhythm 9,657,000
STARTING LINEUP
Desnudo 10,275,048
Danny 11,588,400
Vince Pt II 11,588,400
butter_of_69 12,787,200
RonnieDobbs2 15,412,572
General Mike 16,197,120
HIGH AFFINITY VETERANS
Racer 17,614,368
TRO 22,945,032
Radii 23,176,800
PAGING DREW ROSENHAUS
nilodor 36,696,600
EagleFan 40,087,872
Scoobz0202 40,087,872
EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS FRANCHISE TAG
sterlingice 45,890,064
Nicely done, perfect score!
Anyway - here's the rollout:
1. Who will be the first non-quarterback player selected in the 2012 NFL draft?
I had hoped there might be a decent spread here, but the mocks seem to have narrowed the field, especially for IWS purposes...
29 - Matt Kalil
16 - Justin Blackmon
Trent Richardson, Ryan Kalil
2. How many points will Alabama score in the national championship game?
This was a deliberate ploy on my part - breaking this into two questions was intentionally designed to pull people away from the repeat score, but the 6/9 remained a strong entry, bowing to the power of the expert IWS meta-players out there.
11 - six points
10- ten
8 - seventeen
4 - fourteen
3 - thirteen, twenty-eight
2 - twenty, twenty-one
seven, nine, sixteen, twenty-four
3. How many points will LSU score in the national championship game?
9 - nine points
7 - twenty
5 - ten, thirteen, fourteen
3 - six, seventeen, twenty-one
various
As an aside, I'm intrigued by the meta-IWS strategy of numerou people sending in the same score for both teams. Certainly a viable way to play the IWS game, even if 6-6 or 10-10 are both impossible outcomes... which I find kind of cool in a strange way.
4. What player will gain the most total yards rushing over the course of the NFL playoffs this year?
Eliminator, but might have been a great question without RR
37 - Ray Rice
2 - Frank Gore, BJGE, Michael Turner
Arian Foster, Pierre Thomas, Isaac Redman, and presumably in an odd twist of team cap management Maurice Jones-Drew
5. How many passing yards will the NFL leader in the category have next year?
Also an eliminator, but the sort I am okay with. Stupid loves him some round numbers, the rounder the better. Forget that, and you're properly cooked here.
36 - 5,000
2 - 4,800, 5,100, 5,200
4,000, 4,900, 5,106, 5,500, and whoooooooaaaaa nellie 50,000
and no I don't care that the 50,000 number is obviously a decimalized brain fart, the comma reinforced the intention
6. Forecast the total number of NFL Superbowl rings that will eventually be earned by these three players: Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, and Robert Griffin III
Love this question, especially the winning answer. I think the meta-answer here is zero, since it's just tough to settle on any specific number... but one shouldn't overlook the power of suggestion... THREE quarterbacks, list ends with the roman numeral three... and voila, winner!
19 - three rings
12 - zero
6 - one
5 - two
4 - five
four
And so, we have our annual embarrass-and-flatter-a-thon rollout...
TACKLING DUMMIES
Grover 40
PurdueBrad 3,072
Dodgerchick 16,095
Dutch 25,056
britrock88 38,628
PackerFanatic 85,840
PRACTICE SQUAD
Chief Rum 129,024
CrimsonFox 187,920
shorty 244,644
Pyser 269,952
spleen1015 386,280
gstelmack 456,192
Glengoyne 463,536
claphamsa 547,200
MINSAL VETS
cartman 1,094,400
bhlloy 1,113,552
MizzouRah 1,225,728
mauboy1 1,225,728
Kwhit 1,274,724
SPECIAL TEAMERS
B&B 2,201,796
RPI-Fan 2,317,680
Raiders Army 2,505,492
JeeberDMack 2,549,448
Coffee Warlord 2,781,216
Toddzilla 2,897,100
panerd 3,244,752
MIJB#19 3,244,752
Crapshoot 4,036,626
Logan 4,859,136
Sublime 2 5,871,456
Karlifornia 6,393,600
digamma 7,725,600
wade moore 8,439,552
Subuirban Rhythm 9,657,000
STARTING LINEUP
Desnudo 10,275,048
Danny 11,588,400
Vince Pt II 11,588,400
butter_of_69 12,787,200
RonnieDobbs2 15,412,572
General Mike 16,197,120
HIGH AFFINITY VETERANS
Racer 17,614,368
TRO 22,945,032
Radii 23,176,800
PAGING DREW ROSENHAUS
nilodor 36,696,600
EagleFan 40,087,872
Scoobz0202 40,087,872
EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS FRANCHISE TAG
sterlingice 45,890,064
Nicely done, perfect score!