Can't believe the way this game is going, every single player on the Lions is playing like absolute garbage.

Someone please tell these Raiders CB that they need to look back for the ball. Gonna get called for PI every time if you don't.

Things are getting a little crazy around here due to preparations for the incoming hurricane (I live in NC atm), so the weekly prediction update might take a bit longer than I had hoped. If you're curious as to how you placed, all the results have been updated on the google doc.

I heard earlier that it's been upgraded to Cat 5. I hope you and your loved ones come out on the other end OK. Here in Okie-la-homa, we deal with tornado season every year, so I know what it's like.

Regarding the spread, I pretty much broke even.

I do apologize for this being later than hoped. The past few days have been nuts. Here is the prediction box for week 2.

Since this has been posted so late, if you want, you can simply opt to not predict the Thursday night game (BAL@CIN). It won't be counted for or against your percentage.

Because there's less time for people to see the new box and make predictions with it. Lots of users already struggle with getting Thursday picks in already, and reducing the window of time for them to see and enter a prediction isn't fair to others.

I'm going Ravens anyway.

I think you're sticking people in a binary "die hard vs. don't care" box. This is admittedly largely my intuition, but I get the sense that at least some of the people who have participated in these threads in the past rely pretty heavily on the thread itself as a reminder to make predictions. They're not so aware of their prediction status at all times to go look up who's playing and then predict it themselves.

I think there may be some confusion on what exactly this is. If you don't pick the game here, you don't get a free win. The game itself just doesn't count. And you can't decide to just not have your prediction count if it turns out to be wrong; if you pick incorrectly, then you get it wrong, end of story. If there's any dilemma here, it's choosing whether your confident enough in a prediction to risk a loss for the chance of a win, or if you'd rather have neither.

In short, if you pick the game and get it wrong (or right), then that result is added to your total. There's no takebacks if you do make a prediction. Conversely, if you don't make a prediction, you just don't get anything. The game doesn't go into your total. You'd just have 15 games predicted for that week, and your percentage would be calculated as (Correct Picks/15).

Beyond that I certainly don't plan to make this a recurring theme. Things have been crazy around here due to the incoming hurricane, and barring any further tropical storms it shouldn't be happening again.