RotB Playoffs Pick'em: Wild Card Weekend
by Hawkwind on Jan 4, 2010 11:57 AM MST
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With the regular season having finished up Bezekira finds himself brandishing some NFC West Champion prize swag and bragging rights for the whole off-season. Competition was tight in RotB Pick'em and fun to follow along with, so why stop with the regular season? With some Cardinals' <<sips Kool-aid>> Super Bowl 44 swag on the line, it's time to introduce the RotB Playoffs Pick'em format.
- The entire weekend's bracket of games must be predicted before the first game's kick-off time. To qualify for the "grand prize" the entire NFL playoff schedule must be picked; miss a single game and you're disqualified.
- Pick a winner and final score.
- Pick'em Points are awarded based on a correctly picked winner and how close your predicted score is to the actual final score.
- Whoever has the highest Pick'em Point total after the Super Bowl is the winner.
Pick'em Points are assigned as follows:
- Correctly picked winner earns 50 points minus the difference between your predicted score and the actual score. An exact score match earns a 10 point bonus.
- Incorrect picks earn 20 points minus the difference between your predicted score and the actual score.
For example, if you pick the Cardinals to beat the Packers 6-3 and the final score is 26-13 Cardinals, you'd earn a total of 20 Pick'em Points (final score is 30 points off the predicted score). If you had picked the Packers to win 21-17 in the same scenario, you'd earn 3 points (17 points off the respective teams' scores but wrong winner). Clearly the closer you are to reality the more points you earn with even a close incorrect pick giving you enough points to keep you in the running over the course of the playoffs.
2009 Season Wild Card Weekend Schedule
| Away | Home | Date/Time (ET) | Network |
| NYJ | CIN | Sat., 4:30 PM | NBC |
| PHI | DAL | Sat., 8 PM | NBC |
| BAL | NE | Sun., 1 PM | CBS |
| GB | ARI | Sun., 4:40 PM | FOX |
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I'm curious who will pick the Packers.
Bengals – 24-13
Cowboys – 27-17
Patriots – 17-10
Cardinals – 31-28
What? I didn't break it, I was just testing its durability, and then I placed it in the woods becuase it's made out of wood and I just thought he should be with his family.
Revenge of the Birds
I'll pick the Pack! (That's directed at you Andrew602)
Jets win 17 – 7
Eagles win 35 – 28
Patriots win 24 – 7
Packers win 35 – 24
I like this...
Jets 21-13
Eagles 27-24
Ravens 13-10
Cardinals 31-27
We all bleed Cardinal Red, but most of us don't recognize it!
Jets/ bengals jets win 24/14
Eagles/cowboys cqwboys win 28/17
Patriots/ravens patriots win 17/10
Cards/packers cards win 31/24
The Devil Birds just got cha
by DaCards on Jan 4, 2010 4:46 PM MST via mobile reply actions
Wild Card Match-ups
J-E-T-S / Bengals Jets win 19- 9
Eagles / Cows Eagles 23 – 21
Ravens / Pats Ravens 16- 14
Packers / Cards Cardinals 27 – 24
WildCard Weekend
Bengals 27-13
Eagles 24-14
Ravens 17-14
Cardinals 34-24
Until spring training starts - let's go Cardinals and Suns!
Wild Card Picks
NYJ – 24 – 14
PHI – 31 – 17
BAL – 13 – 10
ARI – 31 – 24
"There are preachermen on TV in a suit and a tie, they tell you to send your money to the Lord, but they give you their address" Hank Williams Jr.
Sweeping the regular season and the playoffs?????
Jets 20-17
Eagles 21-20
Ravens 24-17
CARDS 27-20
Be careful....to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
oh man, this could be embarrasing for me
Jets 20-13
Dal 27-24
Pats 24-17
Pack 31-20
Playoff picks
Jets/Bengals: Jets; total points 34
Eagles/Cowboys: Cowboys; Total points 52
Ravens/Patriots: Ravens; Total points 45
Packers/Cardinals: Cardinals; total points 52
2. Pick a winner and final score.
Give me a final score for Sunday’s games and I’ll deduct 10 points off the Saturday results to keep you in the running. Otherwise your picks will be DQed.
Picking the Jets and 37 points gives a much different result than saying Jets win 27-10 (49 versus 43 points).
Don't waste time or Time will waste you.
PLAYOFFS?!?!
Jets – 42
Eagles – 56
Pats – 45 (24 of them come from cheating)
Cards – 60
Section 135, Row 35
2. Pick a winner and final score.
Give me a final score for Sunday’s games and I’ll deduct 10 points off the Saturday results to keep you in the running. Otherwise your picks will be DQed.
Picking the Jets and 37 points gives a much different result than saying Jets win 27-10 (49 versus 43 points).
Don't waste time or Time will waste you.
Wild Card Round
Jets/Bengals: Bengals win 24-17
Eagles/Cowboys: Eagles win 31-28
Ravens/Patriots: Ravens win 20-17
Packers/Cardinals: Cardinals win 27 -24
Section 102, Row 18
Shirts with random triangles...
Bengals – 27-7
Cowboys – 26-17
Patriots – 23 – 10
Cardinals 96 -3 (haha kidding) but I do pick Cardinals 35-20
Cincinnati 17-13; high of 22° and snow flurries and two strong denfense.
Dallas 23-21; ‘Boys playoff loss streak finally ends and Jerry Jones’ plastic surgery-altered face freezes in a permanent gloating smile.
Baltimore 21-18; a beat up Patriots will be even more beat up after this contest.
Packers 31-23; picking against the Cards guaranteed a victory during the regular season, hope it works in the post season.
Don't waste time or Time will waste you.
Wildcard Picks
Jets@Bengals-Bengals Win 13-7
Eagles@Cowboys-Eagles Win 41-31
Ravens@Patriots-Ravens Win 20-16
Packers@Cards-Cards Win 31-20
E-Fudd Checkin In
CINN 34
DAL 46
NE 43
GB 45 (following Hawk’s Logic)
by Drullin'OverDaCards on Jan 6, 2010 4:54 PM MST reply actions
2. Pick a winner and final score.
Give me a final score for Sunday’s games and I’ll deduct 10 points off the Saturday results to keep you in the running. Otherwise your picks will be DQed.
Picking the Jets and 37 points gives a much different result than saying Jets win 27-10 (49 versus 43 points).
Don't waste time or Time will waste you.
Picks
Jets win 24-17
Cowboys win 30-21
Patriots win 17-14
Arizona win 28-27
are you kidding me? playoffs? we're talking about playoffs?
jets 27-10
eagles 24-20
pats 31-20
packers 34-31 (too many injuries)
I don't feel good about these at all.
Ochocinco 31-21
Philly 24-21
NE 38-14
ZONA 31-7
Life's too short. Be a fan. Orlando Magic, Arizona Cardinals,Tampa Bay Rays and of course "the U"! What a winning combo.
WILD CARD PICKS
CIN: 24-14
PHI: 31-28
BAL: 17-10
AZ: 34-21
Rules Lawyer Statement:
I apologize for not tabulating everyone’s picks before the start of games Saturday, I could have caught some errors ahead the games.
Some of you picked total points scored rather than a final score. Originally the rules stated “pick a winner and final score” and most of you did that. Some went Vegas on me on picked under/over. That’s not the same thing:
Saying the Jets win with 37 total points scored would be one off the total points of 38 for a Pick’em Point score of 49. Saying that the Jets win 27-10 (same total points) yields a different result as the Jets 27 is three off the actual 24, and the Bengals’ 10 is four off the action 14. 3+4 = 7 which is subtracted from 50 to give a Pick’em Points of 43. Got it?
Don't waste time or Time will waste you.
Mr. Hawkwind did you edit your post and change the rules?
Before you answer, as the rules skater of the group (a badge I still proudly wear) and pursuant to the Arizona rules of civil procedure regarding disclosure, I will disclose that I have a print out of your original post of the rules.
I would have sworn the rules originally said you could pick total points for the game, but if you hit that exact you did not get the 10 bonus points.
A conspiracy perhaps to eliminate poor drullin’ from another contest. The only thing I could win on this site was the “Caption This” segment which has apparently been discontinued. Woe is me!
I wonder if I could file for injunctive relief.
Oh well, guess I’ll just have to wait until next year to lose miserably in this particular contest.
Wespectfully submitted, E. Fudd (Wabbit Hunter Extwaowdinaire)
P.S. Don’t forget I cawwy a gun.
by Drullin'OverDaCards on Jan 11, 2010 11:01 AM MST up reply actions
The ORIGINAL rules...
…stated as above. After a couple people posted total points I adjusted the text to allow for it without running it through the Rules Lawyers Guild. Upon tabulating the results I realized that the two variants were not compatible and edited the rules back to the original format and posted the option for the three total point pickers to pick scores for Sunday and I’d grandfather the Saturday results in with a slight tweak.
Frankly I shouldn’t have done anything to accommodate people that couldn’t understand the rules (25 out of 28 people did) and just told them “tough shit” after the fact. Well, I guess I am now. Sorry guys. I should just let people get in on the action this week but once again I’d be accommodating and be performing a disservice to the folks that posted the correct format.
Don't waste time or Time will waste you.
+1 on you never should have changed the rules.
No worries, but, it actually screwed me that you did adjust the rules.
You must have adjusted the rules late on the 5th or on the 6th. I read the adjusted rules and enter my picks on the afternoon of the 6th based upon the adjusted rules using the total points format since it appeared to me the obvious way to out score the exact score method. I assumed this was just an available strategy twist like skipping a week during the regular season pick’em. Then sometime after I enter my picks, you unadjusted the rules and I get DQed. It’s actually kind of humorous. I should get an E. Fudd award.
By the time you asked me to change my pick format, I was heading to the stadium from our ski house in Show Low, AZ, for some serious tailgating.
Once again E. Fudd’s strategy backfires. Imagine that.
I HATE THAT WASCALLY WABBIT!
by Drullin'OverDaCards on Jan 11, 2010 1:57 PM MST up reply actions
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