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The pool password is: freegolf

Here are the rules:

- Straight up picks, select who you think will win each game, no points.
- Best record for week wins that week.
- Tie breakers settled by total points of MNF game.

Best record at season's end. Wins gift card.


< Message edited by TeedoffinVA -- 09/04/07 5:40:07 AM >

Cool. Stickied.

Says I need to contact the league commissioner to get an invite.

ID is mp_on_gh

same here.

I'm in.  [sm_hump]

I'm in. Thanks for running this, Teed.

If anyone is procrastinating, don't forget the games start on Thursday (2days!), so sign up and make your picks ASAP.

Question:

MNF is a double header.  Tiebreaker = MNF total points both games combined?

Tiebreaker is for the 2nd Monday Night Game.

Oooh!  Thanks Teed.  Glad I asked.  [sm_thumbsup]

74 is a skosh high for Cardnial, 49ers.

OK got in this time

bump for Burzooom and Dolf Imfo.

In.

Thanks Teed!

im in.  lots of tough calls (coin flips) this week .

I'm in.

That's interesting that they show the stats on how others have picked while you're selecting your picks.

I wonder if that tends to make people go with the crowd on games where they're undecided.  It would be funny to see how a Pickem player would do if they always sided with the majority.  Sort of a control player that might end up beating 2/3 of us.

MIA 37%-WAS 63%  [sm_shock]
DET 66%-OAK 34%  [sm_shock]

I don't know where they get those percentages from.  They were present when I was the 1st one to submit pics.
 

Ah, ok, it explains the stats on the side:

"The statistics shown are the picks for all players across all office pools on CBS Sportsline that use the same setup as your pool.  Therefore, if your league uses spreads, the statistics shown reflect users from other pools that also use spreads.  If your pool does not use spreads, the statistics shown only use pools that also do no use spreads."



That makes sense.

Come on TNT, S. Bowers, and E. Frakes get your pics in.  You only have 4 1/2 hours left!!!  I would hate for you to miss the 1st week.

Ungh.  I've picked an unusually high number of road teams.  That's usually a recipe for disaster.

Ungh.  I've picked an unusually high number of teams from Green Bay.  That's usually a recipe for disaster.

[sm_anon]

I'll let you know at the end of the season. Just call me sheep, oh wait please don't.

Hmm, another theory, which I might have thrown out there last year, would be to follow the betting line every week.

Here's something worth noting.  There are two games where the CBS Sportsline majority differs from the betting line.  I would  assume that the bookies would have the edge over the sheep, but in my case, I followed the sheep this time.

Kansas City   (72%)
Houston -3   (28%)

Detroit     (66%)
Oakland -2  (34%)

Don't the bookies just align the spread to reflect the gambling sheep's beliefs?  But I bet gamblers know more about the games than a bunch of people in a free pick'em pool with no spreads. 

BTW, I went with the bookies. ;D

 ;D

3 people took NO
 [sm_shock]

I picked NO initially, but wussed out.  ;D

I like this change for this year.  If you miss an early Thursday game, you don't lose the entire week.

wtf ????  [sm_shock] >:( >:( >:(
teed... you setting me up for an 0-fer???


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lmao.  I like the Cowboys chances in the DET-OAK game.

In my Gary Coleman voice, "what ju talking bout aske?"

Hey...I don't control that....I'll try to see what's up?

cbs sportsline  down for anyone else?

I did but can get on now.

yeh, just refershed it now finally

libtard, dolf, walfredo and I should be tied at the top following the end of the early games
 [sm_shock]

are you FGISon?

*fudge* off.  ;)  ;D

 [sm_beertoast]  Congrats on a big Packer win spacetard.

SgifOn   you mean?

anyways, good to see the golhos crowd crushing figs early on at least

not an anagram?

 [sm_thumbsup]




 [sm_shock]  No luv for Tampa Bay, Tampa bay!  0 picked.   [sm_laughing]

no   "No Figs" ;)

i had to tell myself not to pull that trigger
i already had GB pulling the 'minor' upset, and the total coin flip on det/oak and car/stl

not that I think TB is very good (garcia will help, but 6-7 wins would be about the best they should manage), but that seattle is on a MAJOR decline.

oh yeah, that would make more sense.

You can't win 'em all without winning the first one.  ;)

i'd put something up against that...  ;)

10 pts not too bad.  so much for hoping for an upset from ATL.  :sad3: and wtf happened with the beagles?

Andy Reid is 3-6 in opening games. That was the easiest *upset* pick of the week.  :-X

The Ravens-Bengals picks in our pool are kind of interesting.

The sportsbooks have the Bengals as 2.5 points favorites, and the CBS sportsline stats show the overall picks as 67% Bengals and 33% Ravens.

But our pool has an exact 50/50 split with 15 picks for each team. 

freakin' Ravens [sm_anon]

[cabbage patch smiley] stroh tops the leader board! [/cabbage patch smiley]

Kickin' that ass!

 :watchingyou:

 ;D

ugh, prickbee wins on the tie break

good job libstrohtard

it gets you SFA so no big deal
I lost 5 freakin' games on the last or next to last play.
How's that for *feces* luck?

guess it offsets your win last year  ;)

LOL
that is if you thinks that I got all the luck my way the whole year  ;)

long long way to go btw
what alias are you under?  :-X

just read this whole thread and you'll get my id  ;)

thanks i got it
that's 5 mins of my life I would like back though  ::)

ROFL!  You're in the wrong building.   ;D

i did come in the back way,if that is any consolation  :'(

IIRC, I was tied for the lead after one week last time too, and finished somewhere near the bottom of the pack. 15 more weeks and many, many games left.

Make your freakn pics!!!

What's the deadline?  Sunday kickoff?

5PM SST.

 ;D  LOL  I succumbed to the pressure.  Pretty easy this week.   8)

Since we're a pretty big football crowd with some strong allegiances..........

We should have set this up where you pick all the games as normal (free picks), but you have to take your club each week to win.  Kind of like a handicap/equalizer/wild card.

Poker analogy:

Each week, you gotta pick your club.  That's your down/hole card.  The rest you pick, and see how they play out...the flop/river.

You may have a bad hole card:  Queens vs. Pat.s          = 2.
You may have a good one:        Queens vs. The Pack    = A.  [sm_devil]

Right now I am teh sukk.  I behind in 4 5 current games.  >:(  [sm_headbang]

everyone's behind in the NO/TB game.

i thought they would regress this year, but not that bad !
jeebus.

lmao @ the carolina koolaid drinkers following their win over stl following a ton of stl choke turnovers.

LMAO @ all those NO idiots.  [sm_anon]

LOL.  i was one too.  when the steelers blew them up in the preseason i saw it as a big negative on the aints, but i really figured they could win a shootout against the bucks
 [sm_shock]

browns all star offense (which steelers destroyed!)  putting up 41 on the bungles   roflcopter

Great Googly Woogly.

Damn, Señor SgifOn kicking some azz. [sm_shock]

Talk about upsets.... there were 6 games in which the entire pool went with one team.  of those, 3 were complete upsets.   [sm_shock]

1st place going into the sunday night games
 [sm_shock]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/features/talent


golfhos / figs  players absolutely stuffing the espn experts

crazy!

[sm_shock] i only see 2 at the time of the post
(oakland could make it 3 right now...)

or not.  nice miss  janikrapski

Incredible. I almost turned the tv off. [sm_shock]

http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/gamecenter/gamelog/NFL_20070916_OAK@DEN

donks running wild on the deflated raiders

 8)

Eagleone can still catch you this week with a Redskins win!

as bad as the beagles are, they should still take the skins out tonight at home.

I sure hope so,and with over 37 total points so I can win some $. ;)

you need it after those 3 "sure things" ?  ;)

congrats eagleone.....   the beagles indeed suck incredible amounts of ass.

hey mcchunk, nice pass into middle coverage when westbrook had a sure 1st down / TD in the right flat   you *bunghole*!
 >:(

hey now!
I said I would be laying low in weeks 2 and 3 as the are suckers weeks.
and I was correct. ::)
btw, I was 2/4 as I picked your *feces*sburg Steelers to cover and my Upset Special (Ariz)won.
not bad for not wanting to bet.
btw,I am 18-11 picking all the games vs.the spread so far this year.
how are you doing with the spreads,huh? ;)

i haven't bothered trying.  i wouldn't mind doing it for fun.  that said,  pete crisco is ahead of you !  66% (however he's only 62% straight up  so... ummm... lmao!)

lmao
I am doing better at straight up,but not as well as you,Mr.aske.
Keep it up ;D

I usually end up just under 60%.
Last year I finished 13th at bigguy which is pretty good.

This week is even worse/harder to pick 4 winners,as I predicted,but I will give it a shot  :o

Don't forget to make your picks!
(libtard)

[sm_oops]

Thanks for the reminder. I am teh sukk at this *feces*.

You're 3 games out of first place *fudge*tard.

 [sm_hide]

Yeah, but I made some pretty stupid picks this week, so I'll expect it to not hold.

afternoon started ok (9/10 earlies) but deteriorated quickly.  fortunately very few people took jax or nyg.

 [sm_shock]

still kicking "espn expert" asses by at least 1 game / week
 ;D

Gawd.  I'm a bottom dwelling piece of *feces*.  >:(

LMAO @ Steely.  MNF aggragate score = 892.  :-\  Romo and TO are no Brady/Moss.

We are a pair of prognosticating gurus. They way I'm going I couldn't pick the brunette out of the cheerleading squad.

Next week looks like a tough week to pick.  :-\

you sure? about 4 of them look like coin flips but the rest (barring some week practice injuries or something) look easy.

I don't know.  I found myself agreeing with the percentages of the other sportsline players and that always makes me uneasy.

HAIL!

I'm making my move this week and picking up one game. [sm_devil]

KILL!

godddamn  panthers !   argh.
i'm taking you out next week, walfredo.  [sm_devil]

Riding right in the middle of the pack. Pacing myself, waiting to make my move.

Who the *fudge* picked Miami over NE?

Choppers?

well, i'm either gaining or losing  1 POINT  against walfredo this week.

pretty uniform picks across the board

 [sm_shock] @ Sucky McSuck Suck with the SF over NYG pick and 821 MNF pts. ;D

 ;D I figure Franny is due, and you know Peyton..........

congrats walfredo,   you made up another point of ground on me this week  :sad3:

I told you so. [sm_headbang]

well walfredo,  LOL,  it's a 1 game split again this week
 [sm_disgust]

lol @ spuzzmeister's MNF pts  ;D

MIN pulls this out, I'm kickin' ay bodys ass!

not with that jets pick you aren't.
 [sm_devil]

I just can't catch up on sgifon.  8)

Best I can do is tie this week. That's what I get for two lousy weeks earlier.

Oh my Lions and Bears. [sm_disgust]

Wow!!!!   [sm_shock]






I suck.

Not as bad as me [sm_anon]

Pacing myself. It's a marathon not a sprint.

my main  concern is to at worst maintain my performance through the 2nd half.    it would take some seriously good play to catch up to me if i do.

Well done campy, on the MNF points total.

*fudge*in' Packers.  Good job Favre.  *fudge*in' Packers.

Make your picks!

I see SgifOn is pushing the deadline, most likely waiting on those final few injury reports on questionable players.


I hope all ya'll took the Queens this week.  You better get on board.

in at the gun. sorry, can't take the queens.
 [sm_shock]

9 in the box against peterson until jackson proves he can burn man coverage will be the story of the day.

well, walfredo and I differ on 3 picks this week.
(of course , they are 2 total dog games and the "game of the century")

Willie's tired of suckin' hind teet!
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Looks I goofed up this week.  Went to look at my picks under "Make Picks" after the deadline had passed, I accidently hit save picks, and it erased all of my picks and I am now unable to resubmit my picks. :punchballs: [sm_banghead] :yield:

F*********************ck!

was too late this week. Oh well hope the worst does pretty good.

That sucks.  It looks like you're in some limbo state with all your picks marked as n/a.

So far tnt is ...............


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looks like wishbone ain't gonna help ya out much

another week at the top.
 8) 8)

Just imagine if you had picked the Queens.   ::)

pwn3d.
 [sm_shock] :bricks:

I thought the Colts had that one too.  They outplayed them most of the game.


Surprised you picked Jax with their *feces*ty ass QB and all.   [sm_devil]

it WAS  against  the aints.... (and their *feces*ty defense)

Kind of what I was thinking with the SF/Atl game.

Went out on a limb, and picked some upsets.

We'll see.  I need to get something going. Maybe make or break time here soon.

well either i just pissed away 1 point in the car/atl  game  or i will look like a genius
 :sad3:

you all really think CAR with some bum off the street coming in after vinny greenhead rolls his achilles up again  is good enough to win ?
 ??? :o

 [sm_shock] libtard give up?

Nice call with the Rams

horrible week, but through the early games i gained 1 on my closest competitors.
 [sm_devil]

 >:(

 [sm_sumo]

wow, i feel traumatized,  yet somehow my lead widened .
 [sm_shock]

I feel violated myself, I blame Adrian Peterson (even though I picked the Packers) and the f'n Rams.

I forgot to make my pics before leaving town on Friday.  :sad3:

you picked the right week to feck up.

btw, anything above 86 correct through week 10  is  beating pete crisco.   LMAO.

[sm_disgust] 80. At least I don't get paid for it.

Argh.  I'm tied with prisco. :sad3:

So as I look over this weeks games for some reason I have this overwhelming urge to pick the Bills.

And no I have not been drinking, at least not today.

Last week I went with some upsets, but just didn't pick enough.

Not a problem this week.  I'll come out of this week either looking like a football genius, or crash and burn.

Either way.

Looks like you didn't do it, but Eagleone did!  [sm_shock]

I like the Bills against the spread, but I don't see them pulling off the win.

should be some more opportunity for separation or gap-closing this week at the top.
 :sad3:

well, at least 1 point gained today

would gladly trade it for a steelers win though
 :sad3: :sad3: :sad3:

Prisco picked Buffalo against the spread. Look how that turned out.

oops. :sad3:

take anything pete does, and do the opposite.


ka-ching.

damn, lots of folks didn't make picks.  And 'fredo is in the weird limbo state with "n/a" picks.

 [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock]

Time for me to make my move.

Hmm, maybe it's a rolling deadline, and picks can still be entered for the remaining games.  I'm not able to view anyone else's picks except for the GB-DET game.

WTF?!?!?!????????????????????????????!?!?!


I went in and changed my pick in the Tennessee  game  and my 3 points for yesterday disappeared .

 >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(


I know I picked  on time, and correctly all 3 of yesterdays  games.


Bull*feces*.

Now I'm stuck in  "N/A"  land with Walfredo.
 >:( >:( >:( >:(

 :sad3: :sad3: :sad3: :sad3: :sad3:

now i will lose the contest

Bummer.

I know you picked it because I looked this morning to see if anybody missed a game.

Isn't he the one you're tied with?

exactly,  not like ANYONE will/would  miss those 3 games yesterday,  yet now I'm getting a 0/3 on them .

well him, bishop, and mooney    are all within striking distance of me,  and now  especially so.  [sm_disgust] [sm_disgust] [sm_disgust] [sm_disgust]

i hate you cbs sportsline.

shouldn't it offer a warning about losing prior game points if it ALLOWS you to edit your picks for the later to be played  games ?

 [sm_disgust] :sad3: :sad3: :sad3:

Well, it shouldn't allow a loss of games already picked and played at all.

It will be interesting to see what happens, seeing that you 2 are marked as n/a, where the others say no picks made.

Worst case I see is if bishop, and mooney gain those 3 games on you, and a lucky pick somewhere.

They won't pick up 6 games on you.

Ill, fix this. I actually checked standings yesterday and Aske was 3-0.

libtard     [sm_shock]

Badassss.  [sm_sumo] [sm_headbang] [sm_wave]

Why the *fudge* does someone who can't even get their picks in get such a gracious score as the lowest number of correct picks?  That's *fudge*in' bull*feces*.  I got no shot at trying to make enough ground on the leaders, but I can't gain any separation from the *fudge*s who said piss on it on week 3?

*fudge*ed up.

Week 11 and 12, you're off *fudge*in' the dog, and you pick up over a 50% blind land on the field. 8 correct games?  I'm trying to pick my ass off, say in week 4, when nobody did great, and end up tying the schmuck that forgets it's *fudge*in' Sunday?

spuzz currently sitting on 2 / 10 in the early games ?
 :o

and then there were two...
 [sm_shock]

:punchballs:  another *feces* week. 

well, i get to see if i can hold my 2 point lead in week 17.
 [sm_hide]

 [sm_thankyou] [sm_beertoast]

Congrat.s Aske.  Well done.

 [sm_beertoast]

Package sent to the winner.  Congrats Aske.

and thank you all for participating.

Well played, Aske. [sm_thumbsup2]

Dys....you can "un-stickee" this topic if you like.  Thanks for your support and again thx for creating this great site.

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