I achieved my best record yet, even better than when I won the whole thing in a ~32 person league. In fact the top 8 this year predicted better than everyone that year. Pretty amazing.
The most interesting thing for me is that I didn't watch a single NFL game this year.
@Rol
"Much of this season has been coined by very similar sets of picks which made the standings from week to week quite stale, so I've pondered to introduce a hero pick rule next year. Simply put, going against the grain will come with the benefit of not only gaining a game on the majority of the league if it works out, but also a tie-breaker point for the standings. The hero pick would apply to every game where under 20% of players go against the odds, so in an example like this year's 12 players, a game would qualify for a hero pick as long as only 1 or 2 players disagree with the majority. There wouldn't be a weekly limit on hero picks either, so it would be possible to earn multiple such bonus points."
Another thing I thought about was when people had sole possession of first place vs when multiple people get first place, it is the same points. For example Level1death here had sole possession of first place, it's great. But 8 out of 17 weeks, people tied for first place. I feel like sole possession of first place is slightly more impressive than tying for it, and can lead to sameish picks of course. That might be tooting my own horn of course because of the 9, it was me (2), Level1Death (2), Castor, Angelus, Chris Hu, Noname and hatmoza. The winner himself Shaunodon had 5 #1 weeks tied with others.
Just a thought though, doesn't really matter to me.