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Who will win the Super Bowl?

Who cares? 41 36.61%
 
That AFC team. 29 25.89%
 
That NFC team. 5 4.46%
 
Hahaha, not the Packers! 25 22.32%
 
See Results. 9 8.04%
 
Total:109

Thought we can't change MNF picks? Rol?



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ljigga said:
Thought we can't change MNF picks? Rol?

I believe you can, so long as you don't predict the same margin of victory as anyone else.



MTZehvor said:
ljigga said:
Thought we can't change MNF picks? Rol?

I believe you can, so long as you don't predict the same margin of victory as anyone else.


Ah ok, makes more sense



I have lived as a warrior. I have died as a god. Having suffered the ultimate sacrifice, I have been denied release. I...I will defeat Olympus. I will have my revenge

--Kratos

Burek said:
MTZehvor said:
While I hate losing a pick, I really wouldn't mind seeing Philly lose after the way their fans acted today (egging a bus).

I find it very interesting how the first news is a couple of eggs thrown onto a bus. For an European, it is so benign to what happens before our football matches between heated rivals:

 

 

Well, things worse than eggings would happen except the police usually escort team buses to the rival stadiums. I know for sure the Broncos had to have police escorts in Kansas City. Same happens in Oakland. San Diego loves Denver so much, more than half of their attending fans during Denver-SD games wear Broncos gear, so we get a long with them just fine. There is actually a lot of fights, stabbings and shootings involving fans. It is just that the NFL does not go around reporting it on the front page all the time. 



RolStoppable said:
MTZehvor said:
ljigga said:
Thought we can't change MNF picks? Rol?

I believe you can, so long as you don't predict the same margin of victory as anyone else.

You can even predict the same margin as long as that won't result in a tie with someone else. An exception can be made when the player in question isn't in the run for a top 5 position, because a potential tie won't change anything in the weekly results.

In practice, yesterday Kenology submitted a NO by 7 prediction after the late bunch of Sunday games had ended. That's the point where the no-ties-allowed rule triggers, because any earlier would make it a nightmare for everyone involved (way too many scenarios for how a week could play out to account for, on top of several not submitting their picks until a few hours before the deadline of the early Sunday games). The other two people who had NO by 7 were myself (but I was one game ahead already) and ljigga (was tied with Kenology up to that point, but had a different SNF pick, so a tie was ultimately not possible either).

The existence of this rule is due to it being a preemptive strike against superchunk who would check the spreadsheet religiously. Suppose a scenario where two players are in the run for first place in the weekly results, one could easily choose to go for a tie to get a guaranteed 6 PP instead of either 7 or 5. It would also be recorded as a first place in the standings, and the amount of those is the first tie-breaker step when two players have the same record and the same amount of PP. Such a scenario (or similar) makes settling for a tie an appealing proposal, but I am not allowing such a cheap strategy. While the vast majority of players never even considers to play the system, I still had to be prepared for the potential that a few would try to do it.


Thanks for clearing it up rol



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Last minute change for Bears to NO. I think NO will win by 16. I think they still got something to prove. The bears got all of next year to prove. Plus the Bears are not even very good at home.



cheshirescat said:
Chris Hu said:
Burek said:

The rumor mill has picked up about, as they now say, "inevitable L.A. relocation". I've been reading on it the past few days. Of course, the frontrunners are Rams and Raiders, both seeking a comeback to LA. But now there is a possibility of them joining forces and going 50/50 on a new stadium - Meadowlands style.

Then there is a rumor that to spoil that deal, Chargers might join the relocation talks, as two teams close to SD might draw away fans from the Chargers...

For me, exciting talks, and it seems that 2016 at the latest, LA will certainly get at least one team.


Well hoping the only get one team another one needs to relocate to San Antionio. 

No, what'll happen is the raiders go back to LA, the initial wave of enthusiasm leads to great attendance for the first few years, and then when the raiders continue to be, well, the raiders, the stands will be emptier than. . . well, a raider home game.  Then they'll ship out to San Antonio after threatening to leave over another new stadium deal, then a couple years after they're gone the people in LA will once again realize they don't have an nfl team and act like it's the greatest injustice in the world and bitch and whine until another team ships out to LA for them to not support, and thus the cycle will continue ad nauseum as it has for the past, oh, entire existence of the nfl.

LOL I could see that happening, also Las Vegas will probably get a team eventually but first it looks like the will get a NHL team.



I guess the Saints want to win their division after another wrong pick for me.



The feeling of going 13-3 in a week and still losing a game in the standings.

Sigh



Funny how the ESPN guys are trying to hype up Saints.