King's NFL Pick'Em Game 2011: Week 1

[kingfc22]

The Rules

For those who played in the past, the rules are all the same and are detailed later in this post under the scoring section.

Predictions:
Predict the final score of 4 games, 3 of your choosing and the Sunday Night game. You can choose any 3 games as long as the game has not started yet. So if it's 3pm EST and you haven't posted your predictions, you can still predict for the late games and Monday night game(s).

Double check your posts. If a score is accidentally left blank, I will count as a prediction of 0. If you predict for a game that doesn't exist (put the wrong team names), I will simply discount the prediction and treat it as if you only predicted for 3 games instead of 4 (penalty described below). I do not have time to check every prediction. I'm simply copying and pasting them into a text file to be typed into a spreadsheet later. So make sure you check them!

If you forget to predict for the Sunday Night game, and predict for 4 random games, your best prediction for that week will be disqualified.

If you feel the need to change something, please create a new post. I know there is a time stamp on edited posts, but generally I just go to the end of the thread every time I check and input predictions. I might end up missing your edits if I already put in your predictions. So if you want to correct something, make sure you make a second post to ensure that I will see it. The best way to do it is to just post your changed score. You don't have to repost the games that are staying the same.

If any of your games has started, you can still make changes to a later game's prediction by just doing what I said, just make a new post with just the changes to the later game.

Very important: If you edit a post that contains predictions for games that have already started, and I had not entered your previous predictions, all predictions for games that started before the time stamp of the edit will be disqualified. So, and I'm stressing this for a reason, if you want to make changes, create a new post!

Scoring:
You will receive 1 point for every point you are off by in both scores. So if you predict:

Colts 31
Giants 10

And the final is

Colts 28
Giants 14

You will get 3 points for the Colts score, and 4 for the Giants score, for a total of 7 points.

If you predict the wrong winner, you will get a 10 point penalty. So if you predict:

Colts 19
Giants 17

And the final is

Colts 20
Giants 24

You will get 1 point for the Colts score, 7 points for the Giants score, and 10 points for predicting the wrong winner, for a total of 18 points

If you predict a correct score, you will get a -5 bonus. So if you predict

Colts 24
Giants 21

And the final is

Colts 27
Giants 21

You get 3 points for the Colts score, -5 for guessing the correct score for the Giants, for a total of -2 points.

And, if you should get both scores right, you will get -20 for it.

Lowest score wins.

Penalties:
If you miss a week, you will be given the Average score for the week * 1.5. So, if the averages of everyone's score is 70, and you miss the week, you will be given 105 for the week. So if you miss a week or two, you are not out of the game. Every year that I have done this, everyone has missed a week or two, so don't sweat it if you forget once or twice. Everyone does. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

If you have one of your predictions disqualified, you will be given 1/4th of this for each DQed prediction (rounded up). So, if you have one prediction DQed, using the above example, you would be given 27 points for that game (comes out to 26.25, round up to 27).

Past Results
2003: Winner: Silver Owl; Second: kingfc22; Third: MikeVic
2005: Winner: Warhammer; Second: gottimd; Third: duckman
2006: Winner: Vince; Second: gottimd; Third: tucker rocky
2009: Winner: Radii; Second: masked; Third: Vince
2010: Calculations coming...

[kingfc22]

SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (mandatory pick)

Dallas @ New York Jets

[sabotai]

DAL 17
NYJ 21

NO 24
GB 30

NE 27
MIA 20

PIT 21
BAL 24

[Suburban Rhythm]

DAL 13
NYJ 23

ATL 24
CHI 16

TEN 16
JAX 13

HOU 30
IND 14

[ntndeacon]

Car 10
Ari 31

NO 24
GB 34

Buf 13
KC 24

Dal 26
NYJ 33

[fpres]

DAL 24
NYJ 28

NE 31
MIA 21

IND 17
HOU 31

MIN 20
SD 30

[cougarfreak]

Dal 13
NYJ 16

Car 10
ARI 21

ATL 20
CHI 13

NE 27
Mia 20

[Lathum]

Jets- 20
Cowboys-17

Pats-35
Dolphins- 21


Eagles- 31
Rams--17

Steelers-14
Ravens-13

[Radii]

Eagles 27
Rams 20

Texans 24
Colts 20

Chargers 27
Vikings 14

Jets 24
Cowboys 17

[JSmith44]

Jets 27
Cowboys 20

Browns 20
Bengals 13

Titans 24
Jaguars 13

Cardinals 20
Panthers 10

[tucker rocky]

Eagles 30
Rams 20

Colts 23
Texans 20

Bengals 13
Browns 24

Vikings 17
SD 30

Do what is needed king, was unable to get back to change my submission.
Forgot about the required pick.

[hoopsguy]

DAL 13
NYJ 24

CIN 9
CLE 27

CAR 9
ARI 20

NE 24
MIA 16

[TroyF]

Falcons 27
Bears 17

Eagles 31
Rams 20

Colts 13
Texans 30

Panthers 13
Cardinals 24

[RendeR]

Troy and Tucker you have to pick the Dallas Jets game, its required.


Dallas 23
New York Jets 27

Carolina 10
Arizona 31

Indianapolis 20
Houston 28

New England 34
Miami 17

[kingfc22]

SEA 13
SF 24

CAR 10
ARZ 27

MIN 17
SD 34

DAL 20
NYJ 24

[Masked]

Ind 13
Hou 28

Dallas 13
NYJ 17

NE 30
Mia 17

Min 14
SD 27

[Vince, Pt. II]

NYG 27
WAS 13

CAR 9
AZ 17

NE 27
MIA 10

DAL 23
NYJ 24

[TroyF]

Forgot about the Jets/Dallas requirement

Scratch my Cards/Panthers pick (game hasn't started)

Jets 10
Cowboys 27

[RendeR]

Originally Posted by RendeR

Dallas 23
New York Jets 27

Dallas 24-Jets 27 == (1 + -5) -4 total points

Originally Posted by RendeR

Carolina 10
Arizona 31

Carolina 21-Arizona 28 == (11 + 3) 14 total points

Originally Posted by RendeR

Indianapolis 20
Houston 28

Indy 7-Houston 34 (13 + 6) 19 total points

Originally Posted by RendeR

New England 34
Miami 17

NE 38-Miami 24 (4 + 7) 11 Total Points



-4 + 14 + 19 + 11 ==== 40 For the week. *edited to correct a math error*

[kingfc22]

Awesome turnout for week 1!!!

This was the most participants we've ever had since I can remember.


Week 1 scores:

fpres	28
kingfc22	37
renderr	40
radii	50
masked	54
lathum	58
troyF	59
jsmith44	68
sabotai	75
suburban rhythm	77
hifirevival	78
cougarfreak	90
vince	90
hoopsguy	94
ntndeacon	95
tucker rocky	106

[Radii]

Originally Posted by HiFiRevival

35 + 25 + 1 + 17 = 78 (I may not be cut out for this)

Hah don't worry, almost every one of us will have at least one week where we will be wishing we could score 78.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Oof. Thought the Washington game was going to kill me (it did), but NE/Mia and AZ/Car were almost as bad.