Board 8 > Board 8's Other NFL Picks League 2017 - Super Bowl

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Rules:
1. The final two players will face off in the Super Bowl, with the winner claiming this year's crown
2. Picks must be submitted by game start time, and will be posted as soon as the game is started
3. Good luck.

Spreadsheets:
Records:
goo.gl/rmdcb9

Week by Week:
goo.gl/MyDTQ1

Locks:
goo.gl/FLFQrk

Remaining Players:
Standings:
(5)theawesomestevr 169-87 [320]
(10)Ashethan 163-93 [130]

Official Tiebreaker rules:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS654SUsTu0k_MEItWT5TNh53FhUUT9VOdYqd3QwqDjEdjfhi2YpdHXi_LuA7o2fvqVroFPSceaOPt3/pub

What you are picking:
1. Which team will win -- and by how much?
2. Pick a Spread that will make your team win in the event you both pick the wrong team (Ex: Jets +3.5)
3. How many points will be scored in the game
4. How many passing yards will be thrown in the game
5.How many rushing yards will be rushed for in the game?
6. What will the greatest point differential be in the game?
7. What will the longest field goal be in the game?
8. What time will the first score be made?

NOTE: If there are no field goals, the field goal tiebreaker will be skipped.

Quick explanation:

Scenario A: Both users pick different teams.
Whichever player picks the correct team wins

Scenario B: Both users pick the same team, and are right.
Whichever player is closer to the score difference wins (over or under)
Next tiebreaker: Points scored in the game
Next tiebreaker: Total Passing yards
Next tiebreaker: Total Rushing Yards
Next tiebreaker: Highest Point Differential
Next tiebreaker: Longest Field Goal
Next tiebreaker: Time of first score
Final Tiebreaker: Higher Seed wins

Scenario C: Both users pick the same team, and are wrong
Whichever player has a lower spread that still wins
Next tiebreaker: Points scored in the game
Next tiebreaker: Total Passing yards
Next tiebreaker: Total Rushing Yards
Next tiebreaker: Highest Point Differential
Next tiebreaker: Longest Field Goal
Next tiebreaker: Time of first score
Final Tiebreaker: Higher Seed wins

Scenario D: One player does not send a pick, the other sends a wrong pick
The player who sent a pick wins

Scenario E: Neither player sends a pick
The higher seed automatically wins

(5) theawesomestevr
vs
(10) Ashethan

Philadelphia Eagles vs New England Patriots

I will need a volunteer to take our picks. Preferably someone who can post the picks as soon as the game starts.

Best of luck to theawesomestevr.
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Stat of the day:

It took 162 games predicted correctly to get into the playoffs this year.
Last year, 162 would have been 3rd place
two years ago, 162 would have been 1 game ahead of 1st place.
Three years ago however, it wouldn't have gotten you into the playoffs.

Here is the standings of the combined last 4 years (for everyone who made picks every year)

(1) davidponte 669-352-2 [1100]
(2) foxhead84 664-357-2 [1260]
(3) Stripperiffic 659-362-2 [960]
(4) Camden 658-363-2 [1180]
(5) Ashethan 653-368-2 [900]
(6) WweJth 649-372-2 [880]
(7) MitsuruKirijo 640-381-2 [900]
(8) Silvstedt 639-382-2 [880]
(9) Dancedreamer 636-385-2 [1010]
(10) theawesomestevr 624-397-2 [790]
(11) Runemistress 623-398-2 [720]
(12) KCF0107 617-404-2 [840]
(13) BlueCrystalTear 616-405-2 [1040]
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Ashethan posted...

(13) BlueCrystalTear 616-405-2 [1040]

am I really that bad at this? >_>
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You're only .8 games per week off from the leader. And only a game behind KCF who won the Super Bowl last year. To put it in perspective if you were just .8 games behind the leader for this year, your record would have been 164~ wins.
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Still need a volunteer.
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I've made it no secret that I'm not watching the game, but I'll volunteer if nobody else wants to. Just do the same thing as last year and put "Open on Sunday" somewhere in the subject line. I have it set so only my friends can see when I've read PMs. I will change that since I'm friends with one but not both of you.

I may post them an hour or so before kickoff since I don't even know what time that is. I care that little >_>

Ashethan posted...

You're only .8 games per week off from the leader. And only a game behind KCF who won the Super Bowl last year. To put it in perspective if you were just .8 games behind the leader for this year, your record would have been 164~ wins.

That's almost one game a week. I just don't like being at like 61%. Maybe I shouldn't be so ballsy with some of my LOCKs if I care to do this next year... which I might not tbqh. The NFL has become too rigged to keep my interest.
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Ashethan posted...

(1) davidponte 669-352-2 [1100]

This only further confirms that I'm great at picking winners but terrible at picking tiebreakers.
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I can't guarantee to be available at the start of the game as was desired out of any volunteer.
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We'll send our picks to BlueCrystalTear. Thanks for volunteering. Game starts at 6:30 PM EST/5:30 PM Central
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I'll send my pick early Sunday Morning.

@theawesomestevr I'm guessing you've seen this topic?
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Confirming I have seen the topic. Will send picks shortly before game time most likely.

Bump for tomorrow.

Sent my picks earlier. Three hours~ until game time. Then roughly four hours later hear everyone bitch about how bad the commercials were, how unfair the game was, and then tomorrow we can all get back to waiting for the NFL Draft and do it all over again come late August.

MOCK DRAFT SEASON STARTS SOON!

Actually, I'm thinking of running a mock draft prediction league. Maybe just for the first two rounds. Not sure if anyone's interested. I'd start it about a month before the draft.
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I'm not interested in a mock draft prediction league, personally. I'm not really interested in the NFL at all anymore. They've done a great job killing any motivation I have to watch.

Anyway, it is time. It is within 5 minutes of the scheduled kickoff, so here we go...

Ashethan:

1. Going Crazy, and saying Eagles by 3
2. Eagles +10.5
3. 59
4. 455
5. 175
6. 17
7. 48 yards
8. 1st quarter 10:05 remaining

theawesomestevr

1. Which team will win -- and by how much?
Eagles by 6

2. Pick a Spread that will make your team win in the event you both pick the wrong team (Ex: Jets +3.5)
If the Eagles don't win this, I won't care about football for a long time. :( Uhh, blehhh, I'll say +3.5

3. How many points will be scored in the game
49.... Nah, scratch that. I'm going with 52 for Super Bowl LII.

4. How many passing yards will be thrown in the game
600

5.How many rushing yards will be rushed for in the game?
168

6. What will the greatest point differential be in the game?
13

7. What will the longest field goal be in the game?
a 55-yarder by Elliott

8. What time will the first score be made?
12:37 in the 1st quarter

Good luck to both of you!
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BlueCrystalTear posted...

If the Eagles don't win this, I won't care about football for a long time. :( Uhh, blehhh, I'll say +3.5

That was supposed to read "If I need this" but I forgot what I had actually typed. >_> Whoops. Good luck to anyone wanting to see the Eagles win. God be with you all.

theawesomestevr posted...

BlueCrystalTear posted...

If the Eagles don't win this, I won't care about football for a long time. :( Uhh, blehhh, I'll say +3.5

That was supposed to read "If I need this" but I forgot what I had actually typed. >_> Whoops. Good luck to anyone wanting to see the Eagles win. God be with you all.

I changed it because I thought your second PM was correcting that part as well. My bad.

I REALLY hope the Eagles win this, too - if they don't, the NFL is forever dead to me, and I will remember it as a staged event akin to WWE wrestling.
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Okay, so let me figure this out. I am so bad with the spread math...

1. If the Eagles win by 4 or less, Ashethan wins.
2. If the Eagles win by 6 or more, theawesomestevr wins.
3. If the Cheatriots win by 6 or less, the awesomestevr wins.
4. If the Cheatriots win by 8 or more, Ashethan wins.
5. If the Cheatriots win by a touchdown exactly and the total score is 55 or less, theawesomestevr wins.
6. If the Cheatriots win by a touchdown exactly and the total score is 56 or more, Ashethan wins.

...I think?
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Going Crazy, and saying Eagles by 3

Eagles by 6

Not crazy enough.
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Congrats theawesomestevr for winning the Super Bowl!

Seriously surprised I wasn't the only one taking the Eagles there. Good job.
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I just realize I confused put a 6 where it should have been a 5. Eagles had to win by 5, but they won by 8 so yeah, Stevr wins. (Other than that typo, was everything correct there?)

Congrats to you, Stevr! Well done. This means you can watch next year, right?
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Ashethan posted...

Congrats theawesomestevr for winning the Super Bowl!

Seriously surprised I wasn't the only one taking the Eagles there. Good job.

Thanks guys. I honestly was leaning Patriots earlier in the week (I picked them last year in a yearly playoff prediction thing against the Falcons for whatever that's worth). I decided some time yesterday I think that I was going to ride with Foles.

Can't take too much credit because I expected the Eagles' defense to play way better than they did, but I did believe Nick Foles was going to have a good game, but man, he had an awesome game.

Congrats to the Eagles and their fans (well, the not steretypical Philly fans at least >_>).

BlueCrystalTear posted...

I just realize I confused put a 6 where it should have been a 5. Eagles had to win by 5, but they won by 8 so yeah, Stevr wins. (Other than that typo, was everything correct there?)

Congrats to you, Stevr! Well done. This means you can watch next year, right?

Thanks! I also picked the Eagles +3.5, so if they lost by 4-10, then Ashethan would have won that tiebreaker, but the points tiebreaker was correct I believe. Oh, and thanks for taking our picks and posting them!

I'll be honest though, I just really wanted Foles/the Eagles to win, so this was just icing on the cake.

As far as a draft prediction thread, it wouldn't surprise me if there's enough people on the board that would be interested, but I know I've never been good at or cared too much about draft orders. I still might participate anyway just for the heck of it if you do one though, Ashethan.

I knew I was going to pick the Eagles. Took the Eagles at work too. Thought it'd be really close. WAY underestimated the passing yards though. Figured it'd be a fairly high scoring game (thought not this high scoring) Figured the score would be 31-28. Was only off 10 for the Eagles, and 5 for the Patriots.

As a Giants fan, I'm okay with this result. Every NFC East team has a ring. And Brady doesn't get #6. Age has to catch up to him sooner or later.
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