Trailing all season I’ve bee pretty relaxed…now with a slim lead I’m feeling the cloud of second guessing coming to play with my picks. I’ve also had to stop reading everyone’s picks to not bias my decisions.

San Diego (see above)
Chicago (In a pursuit position, cannot waiver this week)
Tennessee (Brian Sipe coming off the bench for the Browns?)
NYGiants (Damn, they’re good, better even, without Plaxico)
Minnesota (Culpepper, you found a team that considers you a starter talent finally, a winless team)
Green Bay (Packers are desperate as Favre’s Jets jersey now outsell Rodgers’ jersey locally)
New Orleans (Hard to pick this one…the Saints will be gunning for survival…just changed my pick before finishing this sentence)
Indianapolis (I think the real Colts have arrived)
Miami (Effectively a road game for both teams in Toronto…was going to pick Buffalo all week, now going with Phins)
New England (Seau and Colvin are back? Grogan, paging Steve Grogan, please come in to play QB)
Denver (KC jumped them once, but not twice)
NYJets (Kinda hope the Niners win though for my wife’s Pat’s sake)
Arizona (Feeling like a loser? Take a Rams and call me in the morning.)
Pittsburgh (Time for a revisit of three Super Bowl match-ups)
Baltimore (Another tough one…Ravens are home but the Redskins are too…sorta)
Tampa Bay (Wow, a really good MNF game on paper…sweet!)

Thank God for #‘s, or I would only recognize Whisenhunt & O’Keafer.

Too bad I’m stinking up the joint…

Hey Guys,

I haven’t played this with you guys, but I’m in the Fantasy Football league (ranked 7th I believe), and wanted to just say how cool the prize is, as well as the winning PCT% you guys have been putting up. Hawkwind, you should be doing some Vegas bets!

How’d you come across the awesome swag CG?

Playoff tickets
I just wanted to let you guys know my account manager called and told me that I have the option to buy extra playoff tickets if I’d like before they become available to the public. If anyone is interested send me an email and we’ll work out a deal where you just pay for your tickets and parking.

CHI – I’ve given up on Jacksonville
TEN – Will play strong after last week
NYG – Philly’s high from last week comes to a halt
MIN – wins w/out starting tackles on D
GB – fighting for a wildcard in cold Lambeau
ATL – this is one of New Orlean’s off weeks
IND – hot streak continues
MIA – if buffalo can’t beat SF at home…
SEA – my upset of the week
DEN – revenge from earlier in the season
NYJ – ends SF’s playoff dreams (if there was such a thing?)
AZ – First division title in 3 decades!
PIT – Millions of Dallas fans shed tears simultaneously as the thought of no playoffs draws near
BAL – Defence wins despite the presence of many fans from next door
TB – Game of the week (yeah that’s right, Dallas & Pittsburg fans)

i guess i forgot the minnesota game.. which was really weird how i missed that one. i went to be really early that wednesday night, and didn’t wake up till really late that thanksgiving day. i even missed the yahoo pro pickem which i usually do before i post them on here.

it actually helped me bcuz i think my percentage would’ve dropped me.

One of the first rules we came up with (around Week 2 or 3) was to qualify for the Pick’em Championship (and associated prize swag) a member had to pick at least nine weeks of games. Later on we had to define “week picked” as the entire slate of games for that week, allowing for an occasional error of omission (one game a week).

The week after your first picks I mentioned in the Weekly Pick’em article:

Good job “rook”, but there’s still eight weeks left to go! We’re now past the point of entry for any additional players as a total of nine weeks of picks are needed to qualify for Cardinals-related prizes at the season’s end. May as well throw this out into the increasing “Pick’em Player’s Handbook”, tie-breaker on percentages is number of weeks picked as seen above with AJ and Red’s ranking.

Since you jumped in on the last possible week you had to pick the remainder of the NFL schedule to be in the running. bclairao, for example, started late and has skipped some weeks too, but he has to only pick twice more out of the four remaining weeks to qualify.

Another tactic that people could use is to purposefully not pick a week or two and try and ride out their high prediction accuracy to hope no one over takes them or leaders may drop behind them. An autographed football with Adrian Wilson and Matt Leinart’s “John Hancocks” (among others) on it may bring out the strategist is us all.

You can keep picking for the sake of bragging rights for eight weeks’ worth of picks.

Sorry I’m getting all “Roger Goodell-like” on you. After the season is over we’ll toss some ideas out on how to potentially retool the Pick’em league for next year. I’ll also put together the “RotB Pick’em League Official Player’s Handbook” for reference since this year we’ve been forced to adapt the rules as the season progresses, like how to deal with a tie from a couple weeks back.

Chi
Ten
NYG
Min
GB
NO
Indy
Mia
NYJ
NE
Den
AZ
Pit
Bal
Car

Must have gone into credit card debt shock.